SOS: Ship of Secrets✔️

6-Josie

I kissed my fiance's cheek before helping him pack. He smiled gently before folding his clothes.

"I'll miss you so much. I'm sorry that we have to postpone the wedding. This trip was just so last minute. I promise that I am going to make you my wife as soon as I get back."

I smiled at him. I wrapped my arms around him.

"I already feel like your wife."

Malcolm kissed me gently.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

He folded the last shirt and closed the suitcase.

"I should get going. I'll see you in a week."

I hugged him once more and he left.

I decided to take a quick shower and got dressed.

I saw that I had a missed call from Lilly.

I was about to call her back when there was a knock at the door.

"That must be Lilly.", I said to myself.

I opened the door and met the eyes of my former family.

"What the hell? How'd you find me?"

Neal pushed passed me and walked inside my home. Everyone else followed him as well.

"Nice place. Must've cost a fortune.", Rocco stated.

I looked at Jennifer, who had a huge smile on her face.

"Why are you here?"

"We needed to see you."

"Why? How did you find me?"

Before anyone could answer, there was another knock on the door.

I opened it to see Lilly.

"Now is really not a good time."

She looked passed me and saw my visitors.

"Neal?"

I looked back at Neal, who waved awkwardly at her.

"How do you know each other?"

"He said that he was your family, so I.. I, um, I-"

"You gave out my address? Are you fucking serious? There is a stalker after me and you gave out my address."

"Stalker? You got messages too?", Joey said.

Lilly stepped in my home and closed the door.

I turned around and looked at him. This is the first time I've actually seen him since I left. He looked the same.

"Yes."

I took a minute to think about all of the texts that I've gotten over the last week.

I looked up at the boys and cocked my head to the side.

"I thought you guys broke up."

"We all got texts, so we all came back."

"Where's Jesse?"

Everyone went silent.

"Oh my god. Is he dead?"

"No! Jesse's not dead.", Joey said as he patted Neal's shoulder.

"Whoever this person is took him."

I sat down on the couch to process this.

"So, we're all going to get taken?"

Jennifer and Lilly came and sat on both sides of me.

"Honey, we are going to be fine. I won't let anything happen to you.", Jennifer said.

Lilly wrapped her arms around me.

"We're safe as long as we stick together, okay? It can't take all of us.", Rocco assured me.

I looked up at him. He was taller than when I last saw him. He now had a small scruffy beard forming.

"Where's Malcolm?", Lilly asked.

"He had a last minute business trip. He'll be back in a week."

Jennifer looked at me.

"You can't stay here alone. You should stay with John and I. We have plenty of room.", Lilly said.

"No. I'm fine. It's just a week."

"Josie, you're not safe.", Rocco spoke.

"And now you people give a damn about me? I didn't need you then and I don't need you now."

"You ungrateful bitch. We saved you from the system. We gave you a home. We gave you our last name. We did our parts, but it wasn't enough for you.", Joey yelled.

Before I could respond, we heard a loud boom and then the sound of a car parking.

We looked outside and saw that a car exploded.

"My car!", Jennifer yelled.

Everyone's phone went off.

Get in the van.

"What the hell?", I said before going to look out the window that overlooked the backyard.

"Oh my god."

Everyone came to the window to see three people wearing masks were standing by a long black van with shaded windows.

Everyone looked frightened. Lilly grabbed me tightly.

Another text came through.

It was a video of a bomb with a timer. It was counting down from 4 minutes.

"There's a bomb in the house.", Rocco said.

"How'd he get in my house?", I asked.

"I think that question is irrelevant. We have to go.", Neal said.

"Are we really getting in that van?", Lilly asked.

I grabbed her hand.

"I don't think we have a choice. If we could manage to escape before the bomb went off, they would just track us down again."

We walked out the back door.

Two of the people got in the van, while one of them opened the van door and closed it after we were in.

We all sat in a row while one of our captors sat in front of us with a gun pointing at us.

"If any of you try anything, if any of you try to escape, you'll all die in the back of this van."

We all gulped in fear.