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Chapter 35: After Party!

  With our grand entrance, we prance into the reception happy and dancing along to the music. I spot Maria and Moira so I walk up to them excited to see them. 

"Hi, Moi Moi!" I scream as she hugs me tightly.

  I've missed her so much, regardless of how much Karen was brainwashing her before, Maria snapped her back into my little Moi Moi. I hug Maria and we talk for a bit about how they were doing since the adoption.

  After a while, I introduce Chris to them both and they both fall in love with him through conversation. Esteban comes over and kisses Maria on the forehead, and I am shocked. 

  "What the hell is going on here?"

"Esteban and I are together..." Maria says casually.

  I scream and hug them both because they are so cute. They both were practically my second parents, and now they're dating, small world.

"Love is in the air tonight," I replied.

  Both Mom and Dad dance together, with their parents, and I stand and watch with Jace, Jazlynn, and Chris. My grandparents have no rhythm at all, so just watching them try to dance, is funny and sort of cute to see. 

"It is now time for the Garter and Bouquet Toss! So all you single ladies and men to the floor!"

"I'll catch it if you do..." he whispers, I smile and at first I'm confused why he wants to even play but I just walk to the floor with him. 

Jazlynn has them both do it at the same exact time and it's completely chaotic. For the men, it took nothing, but the single ladies think this is a football field. Mom plays around and it makes me even more annoyed, please just throw the damn thing. She finally throws it and I don't make an attempt at all to move to the front. These women are tackling each other so much the bouquet flies to me randomly. I look over and see who caught the garter and... ew, it's Zane. 

"Oh my god!" Mom yells, and I am honestly thinking the same thing. 

"We need a chair for Karmaa and-" Jazlynn says awkwardly.

"For Angelina and her fiance Zane!" I yelled, I pushed the bouquet of flowers into her arms and she accepts them. 

Chris hugs me from behind and we both walk back to our table and watch what's going on with Angelina and Zane. At first, Zane looks as if he doesn't even want to touch her, and that's embarrassing on her part, like dude, you are her fiancé you have touched her before. My Abuela comes up to us to ask us, what feels like a million questions. 

"You both look so happy together, Mija!"

"Thank you, Abbi..." 

"Estas saliendo ahora?" she asks. 

I can tell Chris doesn't know exactly what she says but looks for me to fill him in. 

"She wants to know if we are dating," I replied, We smile at each other.

"It hasn't been official-" I said. 

"Bien Bien," she says before she hugs us both tightly. 

 I know Chris and I had like a realization of feelings earlier, but I wonder when he'll properly ask me to be his girlfriend, you know. Jace comes over and grabs me to dance with him. He warns me about Zane drinking a lot and I ignore him. I don't want to think about him because frankly, I don't really care what he does.

*7:00 PM*

 After all of the dancing, eating, and cake cutting, the wedding reception is officially coming to an end and I can already see Jazlynn happy about it. Mom and Dad are talking to some reporters about the wedding. There are still a ton of them left outside wanting to get pictures and details and it's draining. I walk in the back to get some air because it is extremely hot in the venue. 

"Karmaa!" Zane yells. 

"What the hell is your problem yelling my name like that," I replied, he is super drunk right now.

"So... y-you really had sex with him? Angelina told me about it,"

"Zane... your drunk. Let's go inside and get you some water okay?"

"No...fuck that! You said you were just friends... and now you fucked him?"

"What I do, is none of your concern anymore, okay. You need water because you are drunk."

I walk closer to him to help him from stumbling all over the place. I smell the liquor and it stinks badly. I reach for his arm to go around me and out of nowhere, he pushes me hard to the ground. 

"Zane!? What the-", I murmur while getting up. He punches me twice in the jaw and I hear a crack. I hold my jaw but he doesn't stop. He throws me into the concrete bench, where I hit my head hard. I get up and give him my best fight in me. I tried to kick him in the balls but he catches my leg and throws me again, but into a big vase. The vase breaks and pieces of it shatters into my right leg. He passes out, and I lay on the floor bleeding, broken, and unable to talk. I need help... SOMEBODY HELP ME! 

*MEANWHILE INSIDE*

"Where is Karmaa?" Chris wonders.

Jazlynn, Jace, and Chris walk to my parents to find me but they are still doing an interview. Angelina approaches everyone with worry. 

"Does anyone know where Zane is? I went to the bathroom and he was gone when I came out..."

Chris looks at Jazlynn wondering if we are together, but Jazlynn shuts down his worries. He's right, Jazlynn... he is with me, somebody please find me. 

"Hold on, one moment..." the interviewer says. She looks at her phone and her eyes widen with fear. 

"Are you okay miss?" Dad asks her. Everyone stands to look at her, awaiting her response. 

"A photographer I know took this video from outside," she murmurs, facing her phone towards them. It's me being thrown into the vase outside. Chris runs as soon as he knows it's me while everyone else gasps at the video. Jace and Dad follow him quickly to find out which part of the place I am at. This place is extremely big, so finding me maybe a bit of a challenge, but they need to, and fast. 

Oh... shit! Zane is starting to wake up, PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME!

 My jaw is broken, and I can't run like I would want to. I cry on the floor just hoping he doesn't touch me anymore, I really need help.

 Mom lets the photographer who took the video come inside and direct her to where he thinks I am in the building. Jazlynn spots Jace, Dad, and Chris so she gets their attention to follow her and my mom. 

 Zane gets up and stumbles everywhere. He notices me on the floor, and the look in his eyes says he is not done with me. 

"I loved you..." he yells and kicks me in the stomach. 

"I almost died for you..." and kicks me again. 

"And you have sex with him!" he yells but this time, he kicks me directly in my face. 

Chris burst through the doors and tackles Zane down. I lay on the floor crying and not able to speak or move. Everyone looks at me in shock. Jace and Dad run to stop Chris from killing Zane while Mom and Jazlynn try to figure out what's wrong with me. 

"Angelina call 911 and find Dr. Millie!" Jazlynn yells. 

Angelina is stuck in shock looking at me and can't seem to snap out of it. 

"NOW! RIGHT NOW!" Mom yells with extreme anger.

Mom can tell something is wrong with my jaw so she cries and covers her mouth. She tells Jazlynn not to remove any of the pieces from my legs because it can damage something if they just pull it out. Millie runs outside, and it's about time. 

"What the fuck happened?!"

"Zane..." mom cries, caressing my head. She moves her hand from my head, which has a pool of blood inside. 

"Guys! She is losing too much blood! We need to get her up and to the entrance now!" she screams. 

  Chris and Jace pick me up off the floor slowly and I groan and cry loudly. They both carefully rush me to the entrance but every movement hurts. Slowly sound begins to fade from me and now I can't hear a thing. 

  I'm broken, he broke me.