Chris was on another "business" trip, so I decided to go over there to check on her. I also needed to get a outfit from my room at her house because I was going to dinner with James and our friends.

"Chloe, can you come here for a minute?" I hear my mom asks as I grab a long black and white skirt out my closest.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" I ask her dropping the skirt on my bed as I walk to her room.

"I found this." she says handing me a letter envelope full of papers.

"What is it?" I ask taking the papers from her.

"It's letters addressed to your father like hate mail or something." she tells me looking confused herself.

I unfold one of the letters and start reading.

Dear, Anderson

You trying to protect your brother won't work this time. You're getting yourself into a world of trouble, and your not going to like where you end up...

Who said this? It doesn't even make sense honestly. Whatever this is it couldn't have soely been about my uncle.

"Mom, do you think we should go to the police?" I ask her confused on how we could solve this without any help.

"To tell them what?" she asks looking at me with confusion.

"I don't know." I tell her shrugging my shoulders.

"The police never helped any of us through this whole situation." she says with a frown playing on her lips.

"Mrs. Anderson?" A guy in a suit asks at our front door.

"Yes, and who might you be?" my mother asks the mysterious guy.

"I'm Detective Wilson." he says holding out his hand and my mother shakes it briefly.

"Not trying to be rude, but what did you want?" she asks him bluntly.

"Um, we found a body and we have reason to believe it's your husband." he says and my mother looks at him confused.

I looked at their interaction not really understanding what he was saying.

"You must be joking; I just seen him earlier today." she says looking at him with pleading eyes.

"I'm sorry ma'am." he says and my mother closes the door and heads up the stairs.

"Mom, where are you going?" I ask as I try to put the pieces together.

"This can't be real; this is a nightmare." she says as she stops in the middle of the stairs.

"We will figure this out I promise just give me the letters." I tell her holding out my hand for the rest of the papers.

"I know I'm supposed to be the one to keep us together, but honestly I think you are the one who has been doing that." she says giving me the papers and leaning in for a hug.

"You are a strong woman, and you have been doing an amazing job don't think any less of that." I tell her wrapping my arms around her and kissing her cheek.

"I love you Chloe." she says letting go of me.

"I love you too mom." I say walking out her room door with all the letters in my hand.

I wasn't going to read them right now; I will save that for later when I'm at Penny's apartment.

I went back to getting my clothes. I pulled out a white dress with a hole that exposes the belly button. I put back the skirt I pulled out, and picked some white ballerina flats out.

James will be picking me up in less than thirty minutes, so I had to hurry and get dressed.

I slipped on the dress and grabbed my lotion. As I was moisturizing my skin my phone lit up with a text from Melissa.

Mel 😍👭: u ready??

Me: not yet 😩

I answered back trying to keep my phone from slipping out of my hand.

Mel 😍👭: I need help should I wear my flats or heels?

She asks not even a minute later making me laugh a bit.

Me: what outfit r u wearing??

Mel 😍👭: black pencil skirt and white blouse

She says as I walk into the bathroom to tame the beast: my hair.

Me: those cute black wedges u have

I tell her mentally picturing her outfit.

Mel 😍👭: thanks sis I'll see u later

As I looked at my hair in the mirror I began to panic. My hair was everywhere and it did not look pretty.

After spending a minute of freaking out I decided to put my wild and nappy curls into a bun. I got my brush and rinsed it in water. Once the brush hit my hair it slicked back nicely.

After a few minutes passed by I was done fixing my hair to my liking. I was walking out of the bathroom when my mother spotted me.

"Oh my gosh you look so beautiful!" she squeals coming over to inspect my outfit more.

"Thank you." I say with a genuine smile.

"Where are going dressed up all fancy like?" she asks with a smile playing on her lips.

"I'm going to dinner with James, Penny, Melissa and few others." I tell her truthfully.

"Is something special coming up?" she asks and I begin thinking about it and realize Prom is in a month.

"They start selling prom tickets soon, that's all I can think of." I tell her and she smiles like a Cherishe cat making me laugh.

"I can't wait to go dress shopping with you, I mean that is if you want to." she says with almost pleading eyes.

"Of course I do." I tell her and her smile brightens and I laugh to myself.

"Yay!" she says happily like a school girl.

"I'm going to get the rest of my things before James gets here." I tell her and she nods as I walk off.

I get to my room and put on my shoes. I check the time and see that James should be here in a little less than five minutes.

"Mom, I'm going to be downstairs until he gets here." I tell her as I walk down the stairs with my belongings.

"Okay, have fun and I'll see you later." she says loud enough for me to hear.

James told me he would be here at a certain time and right now it's a minute till then.

I sit on the bottom step, and get on my snapchat to play with the filters. After about five minutes of taking random photos there's a knock on the door.

I get up to see it's Penny and not James.

"What are you doing here?" I ask her confused.

"Well, hello to you too." she says still standing in the doorway instead of coming in.

"Aren't you going to come in?" I ask her curiously.

"Nope, I'm here to pick you up." she says and I look at her like she lost her mind.

"What are you talking about? James is coming to pick me up." I tell her.

"He asked Jesus and I to let you ride with us because he has to do something." she says and I pull out my phone dialing James number.

"Why didn't he tell me this himself?" I ask myself, but Penny thinks I'm talking to her.

"I don't know, but let's go before we're late." she says pulling me out of the house.

"Damn Penny; this isn't tug of war." I tell her as James phone goes to voicemail.

"Sorry," she says as we walk to Jesus' car.

"Hey C." he says as we get in the car.

"Hey," I say putting my seat belt on kind of annoyed.

"You alright?" he asks as he puts the car in reverse backing out of my mom's driveway.

"Yeah, but why did James ask you and my sister to let me ride with y'all?" I ask him to see if his story would match up Penny's.

"He had something to do; he will be there though." he says as we are on the road to the restaurant we got reservations for.

"Why didn't he tell me that?" I ask them trying to figure out what was going on with my boyfriend.

"I don't know must have slipped his mind." Penny says and I shrug looking out the window.

I'm not stupid I know something is going on, but for now I'm going to chill.

After about twenty minutes we arrive at the place, and I notice that the whole squad is here. I also noticed James car was here too.

"Anderson." Penny says to the waitress at the counter when you walk in.

"Right this way." she says leading us to this long table where no one was sitting.

That's weird because I could have sworn I seen James, Matthew and Cody's car.

"Where is he?" I ask myself looking around for everyone.

"Turn around princess." I hear James say so I turn around to see everyone with a sign in there hands.

Cody and Melissa's sign had the words will you. Jason and Heaven's sign says go to. Matthew and Violet's says prom with. Last but not least my sister and Jesus said me with a question mark.

Altogether they had made the sentence Will you go to prom with me? James was standing there with a single red rose trying to figure out what I was thinking.

"What do you say princess?" James asks looking at me as the people in the restaurant's eyes were on us both.

"Of course I will, but don't ever do that again." I tell him as he smiles pulling me into a hug.

"I can't promise you that babygirl, but I can promise you that I will always do my best to make you happy." he tells me and I can't stop the goofy grin playing on my lips.

"Pinky promise?" I ask getting out his embrace and holding out my pinky.

"Pinky promise babe." he says locking his pinky with mine.

The people who were watching our encounter started to clap.

"Now that she has said yes let's eat!" Heaven yells walking over to her seat making us all laugh.