Jackson opens up his front door allowing me to walk in first, I send him a smile as a thank you before making my way into the house. As I walk in, I take a look around, but something was standing out to me, this house doesn’t seem like it really gets lived in. “Either you’re a clean freak and have to clean every section on your house constantly or, you don’t spend much of your time at home.” I say taking my sunglasses off now we were in the house, he throws his keys in a bowl by his door while shaking his head. “Your second guess is right, with the work that I do I’m never home. Especially, these last few weeks, my time has been spent with you.” He smiles walking into a different room for a second before emerging with a white board, does he really have one of those just laying around? “How lucky that you get to spend most of your time with me.” I say placing my hand to my heart, this alone makes him laugh as he places down the whiteboard which already had a map taped to it. “You’ve
I wake up laying on Jackson’s sofa, I look up rubbing my eyes to see I had a white blanket placed over me which did make me smile. Jackson must have not wanted to wake me up, I begin to look around, but I couldn’t see him anywhere. The board with the map was still where it was last time, in red ink sat writing but before I could begin to read what it says, I hear noise from what I’m guessing is the kitchen. Jackson was playing music where I could hear him singing, I shake my head sitting up more before a memory starts to fill my head. When I went upstairs the night my dad was taken and my life changed forever, I heard him singing in the kitchen whilst cooking. This does make me look down with a sigh a little, maybe if I had waited in the kitchen a little longer, I could have helped. Before I could dwell on that thought any longer, the singing gets closer and in seconds, a happy looking Jackson stood by the door holding food and wearing an apron. “Good morning, Ally, it’s great to s
Jackson and I were just leaving the office, he didn’t ask me what happened, but I would catch him sending me a smile. I mean the door to my mother's office was wide open, anyone that was in the general area of the door would have heard what happened. I’m having no part to play in my mum and her stupid suspected lover, trying to deceive my best friend. But I have to say, it was nice to see that someone cared enough about me to kick up a fuss. “So, what have we got planned for today?” I ask as we reach Jackson’s car, he unlocks it putting his hand to his chin like he was thinking. “How about we stay in your mother's house all day looking at the walls?” He asks jokingly as I open up his door, I let out a laugh as footsteps behind me begin to get closer to us. “Miss Carter?” A man’s voice says which makes me grow rather confused, I turn my head away from Jackson’s car to look behind me, where an older looking guy with his hands in his suit trousers was smiling over at me. “Who’s askin
The car ride from what everyone calls the base, was long and quiet. I could tell Jackson didn’t know what to say to try and make this situation any better, while I was trying to stop myself from crying over everything, I had told that man but also my mother. Everything I said was true, I have always felt that way even when I was really young. But I knew that I could never talk to anyone about it, my dad could just tell by looking at my face that whenever my mum would come home for a short period of time, I would feel so awkward and try to avoid her at all costs. But right after she left, I would start to regret it as I never had the chance to see her, and I threw it away because I was hiding. “Maybe this is a bad time to bring up Mario, but last night after you fell asleep, I was able to find a new lead.” Jackson says finally breaking the silence as we pull up at his house, I wipe my final tear from my eye before looking over at him with a smile. “It’s always the right time for the
I didn’t know what to say as I watched the man that kidnapped my dad, with the man that turned hulk on me checking into the hotel together. I mean I said what were the chances that Mario was there the month before Allison and Derek got engaged, but to see he was there with Derek! What in the heck is happening right now?! “We need a copy of this page in the book and that clip from the video, send it over to here as soon as possible.” Jackson says writing something down on a piece of paper and handing it to the man, he looks down smiling at Jackson. “Right away sir.” He smiles before turning and walking out of the room once again, once the door closes, I stand up from my seat and begin to walk around the room. “I just want to confirm something before I go off on what I think will be a tiny mental breakdown.” I say as Jackson looks down at his notebook in his hand before nodding his head. “Was that man, which was with Mario, the same man that is engaged to the missing agent and the sa
In no time at all, I was standing on Jackson’s shoulders attempting to pick the lock on my mother's office window. This wasn’t even the hardest part of Jackson’s amazing idea, we had to sneak into a base which is heavily guarded! We had to army crawl through a bush! “Would you explain to me again why we have to go through all of this trouble to send my mother an anonymous tip, I still don’t understand why we can’t just send her an email?” I say while still trying to wiggle the lock, this window is much harder to unlock than any door I have come across! “Like I keep saying, I work here so I know how things go. If we send your mother an email, it will most likely go to her spam folder where she will either never see it or brush it off as ridiculous. But now we’re placing the tip with evidence on her desk, she’ll know that we’re serious without having to know who we are.” He explains as I’m finally able to get some movement with the lock, at least I know it’s not a lost cause. “But ho
After getting showered in my new bathroom at Jackson’s, I had to borrow a set of his clothes as mine were still at my mother's house and the set I was wearing were covered in mud. I was wearing a pair of his jogging bottoms with my own vest top and his hoodie over the top, I was very comfortable is all I can say. I was making my way down the stairs as he appears out of nowhere from the living room, I won’t lie and say that I didn’t jump like ten feet from surprise. “I’ve been waiting for you to get down, I think I’ve just found another huge development.” He says taking my hand and pulling me into the living room, before I could even utter a single word. “Because of everything that we found regarding Derek, I just knew that I had to look into him more just in case something was screaming at us to find it and I think I did.” He explains handing me a piece of paper, I glance down and realise it’s what looks to be the deed to a piece of land that Derek owns. “I’m going to take a guess
I stand there dumbfounded on what I was supposed to do, I mean I knew somebody would be in here but not the agent that has been missing! Jackson stood there frozen in place, I also knew this was down to shock from seeing his sister, the one we were just talking about right in front of him after all this time. “Jackson, oh my god you’ve found me.” Allison cries once the shock had somewhat passed, Jackson takes a look at me to make sure I was okay before he rushes over to help his sister out of the chains. “I’ve been here for years, I never thought I would get to see you again.” She cries as he’s finally able to loosen the chains and she slips out. The first thing she does is wrap her arms around her brother, he soon holds her tightly as they cry against each other. I smile but did feel like a really obvious spare part, perhaps I should just take a seat so I’m really not out in the open like this. “You guys have to be careful of Derek, he isn’t what he says he is and actually works w