"Bria and Kylie." Matt said the moment that Todd answered the phone.
He didn't give him chance to say 'hello' or to curse at him for ringing at 4am New York time, Matt just had to get this out.
"What?" Todd grumbled, expectedly sounding a little aggravated. The lack of sleep was finally catching up with him and now that he had finally got the chance to rest his eyes, so he wasn't best pleased for the wake up call.
"Bria and Kylie." Matt repeated himself as though it was obvious. "Jazmine's messing with you."
"You're going to have to explain yourself man because either I'm still asleep or you're making no fucking sense!"
"You said that you put your name on Aesha's birth certificate because Jazmine didn't want Jonathan Gibson finding out."
"Yeah?"
"Jonathan doesn't like girls under his name, so why the fuck are Bria and Kylie safe and sound? How have Liam and Cole Gibson got away with having girls and he hasn't tried to kill them yet?" Matt asked frantically, as he finally felt like he had made a breakthrough here. Since Todd had explained the situation regarding Jazmine's daughter, it all started to bring about even more questions.
Liam's daughter Bria was 22 years old and Cole's was 5. Matt had never really thought anything of it but now it all seemed a bit too suspicious. Jazmine had insisted she didn't want Jonathan Gibson finding out that Cole was the father of her daughter due to his sexist ways, yet he seemed to be holding back when there were two more additions to the family name.
There was silence for a moment, where it appeared that Todd was trying to make sense of what Matt was saying. Being woken up at 4 in the morning was causing his brain to take a little longer to process.
"I get what you're saying but why would that have anything to do with Jazmine?" Todd asked, not sharing Matt's enthusiasm for the theory he was suggesting. "If anything, that's got more to do with Cole and Liam than anyone else."
It was Matt's turn to fall silent while he considered what Todd was saying. He thought he had it, he thought he had the clue to all the answers but now he suddenly wasn't so sure.
"I guess but..." Matt began before Todd instantly cut him off.
"Have you never queried that?"
"What?"
"Bria and Kylie. Have you never asked Cole and Liam how they managed to get their dad to back off?"
"No." Matt answered honestly because until now, it had never crossed his mind. He knew that Jonathan had a tough time accepting Juliet into the family but he assumed a lot more of that was to do with Rebecca cheating on him. However, Jazmine's situation had ignited many more questions regarding the whole thing and it was creating even more uncertainty. "But now that you mention it, Jazmine has asked Jay before."
"Really? What did he say?"
"I can't remember, I wasn't really paying much attention, but I don't think he said a lot."
"For fuck sake Matt!" Todd stressed as he began pacing back and forth in the kitchen, overlooking the oddly quiet streets of New York.
One thing that always frustrated him about his brother was inability to naturally pick up on important details. If Matt didn't think things involved him, he would block out everything going on around him. As a result, he was missing the important things that could have actually provided them with some answers.
"What? It was their conversation! I wasn't part of it." Matt bit back as he noticed the anger in Todd's voice.
"Any conversation between gang members involves you. It doesn't matter if it's directed at you or not. How have you still not learned that? That shit is what we learn as kids..." Todd exasperated before quickly trailing off his sentence once he realised what he had said.
"Yeah, maybe if I was trained by dad I may have learned that." Matt retaliated, as tension filled the phoneline between them.
"I didn't mean to say that... I'm sorry."
There was silence for a moment and Todd was worried that Matt had ended the call. Even though the brothers had got past their differences, their past was still a sensitive subject. Those issues were never going to fade.
"What do you think is going on?" Matt finally filled the silence, yet purposely tried to move the conversation along.
He didn't want to think about it. He didn't want to dwell on something in his past that still brought him just as much pain. He had to remain focused.
"I don't know but it's getting fucking sketchier by the second. You need to find out from Jay why Bria and Kylie are safe, then we'll take it from there."
"But if he didn't say much to Jazmine then maybe he's trying to keep it a secret or maybe he doesn't even know..." Matt suggested, not wanting to believe Jay would be involved but knowing he had to consider all avenues at this point.
"You two have been friends for years. If he doesn't want to tell you, then we have a fucking problem."
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