Chapter Thirty-Seven

The layout to his house was much different to ours, when you walked into his house it was immediately in the living room. Not that I could see much of the living room, it was full of papers, photos and scraps of paper. I walk forward and pick up a photo that was laying on the floor, it was of our group smiling at the lake, but someone had been cut out. I look away from that photo and find where the face had gone, on his main wall stood millions of photos of Justin's face and Justin stuck on the wall. "I guess someone's been playing arts and crafts" I say walking towards the wall of Justin, this must have taken Reece hours. "I needed that man out of all the photos of happy memories I have, how dare he even try to make happy memories with me after what he did" he growls from behind me, I turn to look at him pointing up at the wall of Justin "I was gonna throw them away but that wouldn't be good enough, I need to have his face there as a constant reminder of what he did to my sister!" he says throwing a plastic water bottle and the wall of Justin, it rebounded and flew down the hall. "Reece, I get that you're angry and want revenge, which I promise you you'll get. But going about it this way and putting all that mental strain on you isn't healthy" I say hinting at him to take the wall of Justin down, not gonna lie it was starting to get creepy. "I don't care about my health right now, all I care about is making sure that douche bag pays for hurting my sister. This is why it's great you've come to visit, I did more digging into your mum and found out where she lives!" He exclaims taking me by the arm and leading me into the kitchen, which was also a total mess as like the living room. "Now I know it's gonna be hard for you to see her but I'll be with you, the sooner you see your mum the sooner she can take the town back and the sooner, I can rip that man apart" he growls shuffling around all the papers, I give him a sad look walking over and moving him away from the papers, not that he wanted to move. "Have you gotten any sleep since I last saw you?" I ask moving him fully away from the counter, he looks back at the papers than at me shaking his head "then you head up to bed and get some rest, I will sort all this out and we can have a proper talk when you wake up" I say but he fights against me trying to move. "No Erika you don't understand, we know who hurt my sister so we need to make him pay" he says fighting to get back into the living room, thankfully he was tired so it was easy for me to stop him. "We will make him pay but you're no help to anyone being this exhausted, you can take a break and let me take charge while you sleep" I say looking up at him smiling a little, he takes another look at his work before nodding. I watch him walk up the stairs and hear the door close, at the same time something on the counter catches my attention. I walk over taking the photo in my hands a bit of sadness creeping it's way in, my mum was stood with a man and a bunch of young guys. They were all smiling standing outside of a house, at the bottom Reece had wrote something. Jodie and Cole with Cole's sons, Luke, Raymond and Charles. So dad was right, she did move on and have a family, while leaving her own thinking she was dead back home. Now that one definitely stings. A few hours had passed, Cody mind-linked me asking what I was doing at Reece's. I explained what he was like so Cody came over to help clean, he was also quite horrified at the Justin wall. We had finished cleaning the living room, Cody was just hanging things up that Reece had pulled down. I was picking up the papers and photos that were sprawled all over the counters, I was placing another pile into the box when the photo from before falls out. I look down at again with a sad look, she looks so happy and full of life there, kind of ironic right? I always thought she was happy when she was with us, but she never looked that happy. Cody walking into the kitchen snaps me out of my trance, I send me a little smile picking more stuff to put in the box. He walks around the counter and looks down at the photo I was staring at, once he does he pulls me closer to him wrapping his arm around me. "It's just hard, how could she just pick up and leave her entire family and let us believe she died?" I ask looking down at the ground as I spoke, Cody doesn't reply but holds me tighter "I get that her and that guy were mates but that didn't mean she had to run off, she could have told my dad that she didn't want to be with him anymore and left" I continue staring down at her photo, the person I was looking out looked like my mother but really wasn't. "When you do go speak with her, you know I'll be with you every second of the meeting" Cody says still holding me tightly in his arms, I nod but take another look down at the photo in front of me. "There's two other people that need to be there when it happens, Ethan and my dad" I sigh looking up at him as I spoke, he looks down at me giving me a look "I'm not saying to let them in the pack because we all know what my dad would do, I just need them to be at the meeting with my mum, without anyone crossing borders" I say knowing how unreal and unrealistic that sounded. "We just need to get them and your mum at the border at the same time" he says looking down at me with a smile, was he coming up with an ingenious plan? That was my thing! "You're gonna go and have a chat with your dad and Ethan, don't worry the border guards will be three to protect you. While I go have a chat with your mother to bring her there, it'll be easier for me as they're aren't any emotions there" he says picking a piece of paper up with her address, I just look shocked he would even offer. "You'd do that?" I ask looking up at him surprised, he looks down giving me a look. "Of course, I'm not doing it for her and definitely not your father, but for you as you're my mate, this is really effecting your happiness and I can't let that happen" he says while I just place a kiss on cheek, he said back there how was he able to bag me? But in actual fact how did I bag him? "Divide and conquer" I smile while writing a note for Reece when he woke up, I didn't want him waking up and us not being here. Oh did you think we were talking about doing this tomorrow? Oh no, there's no time like the present. Family reunion time!