Kevin paced in front of his phone worriedly, glancing back and forth between his watch and the phone. Finally he decided he needed to call Brian.
"Hello?" Brian said groggily.
"Shawn's Missing." Kevin blurted quickly.
"WHAT????" Brian exclaimed shooting up in bed.
"My son, Shawn is missing... He didn't come home last night. His work called me and said that he never showed up today. I am worried about him. He won't answer his cell phone and hasn't called home."
"Damnit!" he cursed himself as Leighanne sat staring completly bewildered by Brian's actions. "I am so sorry...I never should have said anything to Marie...I will find Shawn." Brian promised feeling the most haunting deja vu ever.
***SomeWhere Else***
"Devon, man, you have to help me. I am going nuts trying to figure this thing out." Shawn mumbled into his cell phone.
"What can I do for you? I mean I have no idea how I could help you." he responded feeling helpless. Shawn had been explaining the situation with Marie and it had totally shocked Devon.
"Has Brian ever talked about Marie before? I mean I have never heard about her and it's just kind of odd."
"No, but we found out dad had a baby room right off the master bedroom, which was the little girl's room. I haven't heard the whole story yet...All I know is the girl's name was Nicola Marie and she was taken away when she was just about 1 1/2 years old. Other than that I have no clue. I don't know who the mother was, I don't know why she was taken away, I know nothing."
"Well, I'll call you back later, Don't tell any body that I called you Devon. I will seriously kick your ass if you go blab this to my dad or yours."
"I won't tell, jeez, Shawn you know you can trust me. Listen I will go find out what is up with this Marie thing and I'll call you back."
"No, I've got my phone off. I'll call you." he rejected the idea quickly.
"Um ok. Well just call me back some time tonight or tomorrow. We'll figure this out ok?"
"Ok, well I have to go. Later Dev." he said as he hung up the phone.
***Later***
Brian had just finished explaining the truth to Devon who sat and listened in utter amazement. "Damn, so that's why Shawn can't be with Marie..." he mumbled to himself.
"What??" Brian demanded, knowing he heard Devon say something about Shawn, who was still missing.
"Nothing. I am going to go to Hazel's..."
"You sure as hell are not until you tell me what you just said. You understand that Shawn's father, mother, your mother, myself and many others are worried sick about him..." Brian roared.
"I'm sorry dad but....."
"But nothing Dev...Please? Just if you know something, anything, tell us...if you have spoken to him, tell us...we just want to know he is ok...Please?" softening his tone as he pleaded with his eldest son.
"Alright, he called, and he said he is fine...but I promised him I wouldn't tell anything. I've already broken that promise but I can't say anything else."
"Thank you Dev, You can go be with Hazel now." Brian said as he walked quickly out of the room. He headed straight over to the phone and called Kevin.
"Shawn??"
"No, Kev, it's me, Brian. I was just talking to Devon."
"Does he know something?"
"He said Shawn called him and said he was fine. Devon wouldn't say anything else because he said that Shawn told him not to tell anyone that he had called."
"Damn that boy!" Kevin cursed angrily. "Thanks for calling Brian. I'll see you later. But I can almost promise you won't see Shawn with us....his mother is going to kill him." Kevin said not wanting to be the person that told Kristin the news about Shawn.
"Well good luck man. Talk to ya later."
***Later***
"Hello?"
"Dev, it's me...Did your dad tell you anything else?"
"Yeah, you'll be glad to hear this."
"Well don't keep me waiting man, tell me what's up?" Shawn said hurriedly.
"Dad said that..."
"Devon, Is that Shawn? If it's him, tell him I'm going to kick his butt clear to the moon." Kevin's bass voice boomed loudly.
"You damn snitch!! I told you not to tell anyone Devon! I thougth I could trust you...tratior!" Shawn exclaimed.
"Devon, it's him I can tell, Give me the phone..." Kevin demanded.
"Wait, I can expla...." Devon rushed but he was too late, the dial tone sounded almost deafening to his ears as he sank in defeat.
"What did he say??" Kevin demanded angrily.
"Don't get mad at me! YOU are the one that scared him off. He would have come home if I had gotten to finish telling him what I was explaining to him." Devon shot back as he felt all his frustation coming out. His eyes burned with anger.
But Kevin didn't back down. "What were you telling him that was SO important?"
"I was explaining about Marie.....He never heard the whole story.....and that is what he is doing, he is out trying to find exactly what I could have told him." Devon said a stonily cold set on his face. At this Kevin did back down slowly striding out of the room.
'Now Brian has some explaining to do.' Kevin thought feeling a mix of emotion and the strongest were worry and pain.
"Kevin, What happened? You are as pale as a ghost!" Leighanne exclaimed as she saw him coming down the stairs. She walked over and took his arm to gently guide him to the couch.
"where is Brian?" his voice pained and serious.
"He is outside playing basketball with Brad. What's wrong?" she repeated, her voice full of concern.
"Nothing, I have to talk to Brian." he said as he housted himself off the couch and headed outside to Brian's full size basketball court. "Brian I need to talk to you." Kevin said sternly as he walked up to the court.
"Ok, Um Brad, work on your free throws. I'll be right back." Brian said walking off the court toward Kevin. "What's up Kevin?"
"Did Shawn come talk to you ever? Did he ever hear about Marie?"
"He came, but.....listening was not one of the things he did." Brian said remembering that day clearly.
"Listen Old Man, I just want to make sure you knew what a jerk you are. I can't believe you did that shit to Marie. You never even went to find her!! save your breath, I don't want to have anything to do with you. Pops thinks I am over here to listen to your B.s. I only came because he insisted. But thanks to you I lost the only girl I have ever really cared about!" was what Shawn had said. But Brian most certianly wasn't going to get Shawn into more trouble by telling Kevin what he had said.
"Damnit..."Kevin cursed under his breath realizing that if he had just kept his mouth shut when he had gone up to Devon's room, Devon could have explained everything to Shawn and maybe he would come home...but at least Kevin now knew what Shawn was doing, and that he was really ok.
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