Chapter 28
He pushed Melanie
off him and stared directly to where Amber was. Who the hell was the guy with
her? She was supposed to be moping for him and eating Ben & Jerry’s ice
cream. But his uncle was right like mother like daughter.
“Take me to dance
Ricky. I am getting bored here just watching you stare at your ex and her
totally hot date.”
He looked at
Melanie and without really wanting to dance; he pulled Melanie to the dance
floor. He wasn’t going to let Amber ruin his prom, she would pay just not yet.
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Deception, that’s
what she felt as she saw Ricky dancing with his date. She smiled as she saw
Baylee coming back with the drinks.
“You don’t have
to make so obvious. He doesn’t deserve you to feel like you are, he apparently
has moved on,” he handed her a cup of punch. He took a seat next to her and
held her hand in his. He wished he could make it so she didn’t feel like she
did.
She squeezed his
hand, “why don’t you dance with me? I’m sure that will make me happy.” She
smiled as he genuinely and gentleman like asked her to dance. He was so goofy
sometimes, but he was sincere and – he was right. Ricky did not deserve her;
she did not want someone jealous.
Just as she and
he made it to the dance floor, a slow song came on. He smiled knowing that now
he would dance really close to her.
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He kissed her
shouldeR, smiled as she turned around and kissed him. He didn’t know how to
describe the feeling he was having at the moment. But, it was a good one. “I
love you.”
She smiled and
kissed his lips, before she sat up and looked at the clock on the table. “Oh,
my god its 1:00 am and Amber is not here yet?” she suddenly felt a knot in her
stomach.
“She’s probably
still out with her friends and Baylee don’t worry.” Alex grabbed his phone and
dialed Amber’s phone. “Let’s call her just to be sure.”
Pamela nodded and
started to get dressed. Amber never went out and not call her at least once.
She ran to her room and checked her phone to make she hadn’t received any
calls. None. She walked back to Alex’s room, which was now up and getting
dressed too. She started to dial herself and only got a busy tone.
“She’s not
answering, let me call Baylee.” He now was starting to worry what if something
happened? But, before he could dial he got a text message, relieved when he saw
it had come from Amber’s phone. “She just send me text message,” he said he
opened the text: Amber is fine for now anyway… But I
have a question for you ALEX how does it feel to have someone you love not show
up? I will call with more details soon…..You’re in for surprise….. :) He felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured on him, who had his
daughter? He didn’t know how to tell his wife to be the news; he just felt like
dieing, he didn’t even realize he was crying till he heard Pamela ask him what
was wrong. He could hear the fear in her voice and when he tried to tell her
about the message he couldn’t. He just handed her the phone and put his hands
over his face, not wanting to experience her reaction.
She had to read
the message two times before it settled in, her daughter was not okay she was
being held hostage by some unknown person. “No, no no no this isn’t happening!
It’s a joke right? Who could want to hurt my daughter?” she fell to the ground
and started to cry. She felt Alex’s hands come around her and she asked the
inevitable, “who? Alex who would want to hurt us like this?”
“I don’t know
but, this is not going to stay like this. We have to inform the police and
Brian, because Baylee is with her… SH*T, why now, why?” he dialed the familiar
number and it was quickly answered: 9-1-1
what’s your emergency?
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“Amber? Amber?
Are you okay? Answer me Amber!” nothing, not even a moan; where was he and why
had he been tied and blindfolded for? This must be a mistake and soon they will
let us go. He thought to himself as he finally started to panic.
“Shut up, Amber is
not in here. It’s just you…” he said to the young man, lying on the floor. Man
he loved his job.
“Who are you? Why
do you have me here? I haven’t done anything to deserve this!” yelled in anger
Baylee as he tried to free himself, to no avail. He then started to sob, he had
so much to accomplish in life and now it may not even happen, “I don’t even
know you, Sir please let Amber and me go. I think you made a mistake…” then he
heard another mans laugh.
He started
laughing at the stupidities, this kid was saying. “Mistakes, I don’t make
mistakes kid… aren’t you Baylee Littrell, son of former Backstreet boy Brian
Littrell? I believe so. Now you’re right
I wasn’t planning to harm you, but you, how can I say this came in to the
picture as a bonus…? You’re the one that made the mistake kid, the mistake of
coming to Dallas and involving yourself with her, that bastard that is lying in
the next room!” he laughed even harder as he saw the effect it took on the kid
to know that he knew who he was. “Come on now kid, your just like them, you
think you’re the Sh*t because your famous. Maybe its true you could be the sh*t
but, then you come into the life of other men’s woman and just because your
famous she leaves a relationship with a normal man to be with the infamous.
You’re a low piece of sh*t, just like…..like AJ McLean. Stupid bastard
befriended me and then took away the love of my LIFE!” he drank his glass of
whisky and slammed to the wall, breaking to pieces. “Take care of him, make
sure he feels welcome. Ah, just don’t go overboard Blade or you will regret it.” With that he walked out the room and
started to the next room…
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“Stupid idiot!
What were you thinking doing this at this moment! And you all that listened to
him! I am the boss you understand me! Now we have to speed up our plans.” He
poured in a new glass more whisky. “Is she awake already?”
“Yes, uncle Vick.
I just checked her just a few minutes ago.”
He was starting to regret this, he thought it would be fun; all he
wanted was to scare her and him a little. That’s why he had called them and
told them to follow her. Sure his anger made him tell them to grab them and
give them a scare. But, now it was getting serious, seeing his uncle get angry
and almost kill Mike for listening to his orders made him realize that his
uncle wasn’t only looking to scare Amber’s parents but eventually kill one of
them or all… As much as he hated Amber and her choices he couldn’t kill her nor
could he witness a murder. He snapped out of his thoughts when he heard his
uncle call his name. What had he gotten himself into?
“Idiot you
started this so take the girls picture with her phone and send to her father!
Tell him he better not try anything stupid or she dies!” he handed him the
phone and followed him to the room where Amber lay.
She heard a door
open and quickly screamed, “HELP, please get me out of here!” She felt someone
in the room really close to her and then she heard the sound of his camera
phone. “Please, let me go. I haven’t done anything to deserve this.” She then
felt a familiar touch… “Ricky?”
“No, but your
close he is after all my nephew. So is Mike treating you ok?” said Victor as he
leaned close to her face. “You are just as pretty as your mom was back then.
Man she was one of the prettiest girls in my church. I was so happy when I
learned she liked me. Even happier I became when she accepted me as her
boyfriend. Everything was great I loved her! I tried to always keep her happy.
That was my only mistake you know. Because if I wouldn’t of done that your
mother wouldn’t of traded me for your infamous father! I trusted her that’s
where men go wrong. Never trust women… thank god I got that through Ricky…. If
not he would end up like me…? But enough about that - the good thing is that
now I have a chance to get my revenge. Looking at you so close now, never mind
you have some of your father’s features. It’s revoking to see that you have his
features. Don’t be scared Amber Jade Fernandez McLean, God your mother has no
shame naming you like that. I won’t hurt you…yet.” He kissed her on the cheek
and walked out the room followed by his gang.
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