14 History

Emily's POV

After finding the gun, I had to search the house. All day at work I worried about what Liam planned to do with it.

I search his laptop knowing it's most likely where I'll find information but all I can find is school and work folders. I suddenly feel an urge to check the school folder from the year I dated Bella. Three folders down and there was one named Higher History. Liam might be slightly smart but he certainly wasn't in history which is why he dropped it when he went into third year.

In the folder I find various word documents full of addresses, emails and phone numbers. Next to that is their names and subject #1,#2,#3 etc. The first two names stick out to me but I don't know why. Then suddenly it not me, they were in the news in the last month for dying from a gunshot and it was passed as suicide. Both of them were people that worked on the police force. I scroll down the list on each one searching for names of people I know but I don't find any. Until I get to the last document.

It's not like the others. This document had a name as the title. Bella Jenkins. I quickly send it to myself in an email and delete it. I can't look at it now, I don't know whats on there.

I need to find Bella.

Bella's POV

My mum answers the door as I check the window to try see who it is chapping this late at night. What I don't expect to see is a pacing Emily with a laptop in her hand looking more panicked than ever before.

I run past my mum and answer the door before she can get to it.

"Bella we need to talk, I figured out things about Lian and I don't know what it means of what the document with your name is it why he has a gun or... " Emily rambles on without taking a breath until she sees my mum behind me.

"Did you say gun?" She says ushering Emily to the table in the kitchen.

"Do you want anything to drink?" I ask being the only calm one there.

" Do you hAve any alcohol? " Emily asks innocently.

"No, trust me not a good idea" I let out a awkward laugh.

My mum looks at me with a concerned face again but I just make Emily a cup of coffee to substitute then look at the laptop.

On the screen there's pictures of the twins, of me and the house, All my medical history, meeting times for AA, school timetable for London and edinburgh, my family history and my new job times.

"Emily, what is this?" The calm leaves.

" I found a gun under Liam's bed this morning so when I returned from work I checked his laptop and found this . It's not the only thing though, I found a lot of peoples names,adresses and numbers, more specifically people who were said to have committed suicide and others. The documents were written before their death though. I think Liam caused them but I'm not sure why. You are the only person with a document like this though and I'm worried. " Emily says as quickly as possible.

"Mummy what is this women talking about?" Jade tiredly says from behind us whilst running her eyes.

Oh shit. I didn't realise that we were loud enough to wake either of them up.

"It's okay Jade. It's a book that I'm planning on writing , let's go upstairs and tuck you in okay?" I say lifting her and taking her to bed.

Emily's POV

"So she did keep the children?" I ask Alice in shock.

I knew Bella kept them but it was still a shock. Never in my life did I picture Bella as a mother, especially not with his kids.

"Yeh, i think it was a good decision though. Now I have two beautiful grandchildren."

"They look so much like her"

We sit in silence for another minute.

"Why did Bella say it was a bad idea to have alcohol In the house?" I ask Alice.

She moves around in her seat then tells me " You should ask her"

Bella's POV

"Why do you never tell us anything mum?" Jade asks as I tuck her into bed .

"I don't know what you mean Jade," I say caught off guard.

" In school all the kids knew things about their grandpa's and their dad's and Marcus and I were the only ones who didn't know. "

A year drops out of my eye at the thought of my dad. He's been gone out of my life for so long and I never once thought Jade or Marcus would want to know about him or who their father was. He's not their father though. He never will be. Until now I thought he didn't know they existed.

"When I was younger your grandpa passed away. He's in a better place now Jade. I promise you"

" And my dad? "

"Goodnight Jade" I say and walk out.

When walking downstairs I think about how much things have changed and yet how much hasn't. Then I remember the laptop and move faster.

"What are we going to do about it?" I ask Emily and my mum.

" Why are you even asking we need to go to the police! " My mum argues.

"No!" Me and Emily say in Unison.

"We can't. There's a reason why I didn't go to the police years ago" I say.

"Wait" My mum says and points at my stomach "That was him?!"

" I'm gonna kill him" She mutters walking angrily towards the door.

Emily runs ahead and stops her. She admits defeat and walks back.

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" She looks at me.

" We weren't too close remember? And anyways you had enough to worry about with shouting at me for drinking during my pregnancy and making sure I stayed sober even after it. You didn't trust me so what was the point in telling you? " I say calmly with a shrug.

"I would have cared!" She shouts.

Emily steps in, whispers something to my mum and walks away with her. After five minutes Emily returns without my mum and sits down next to me.

" We have a lot to talk about "