VERONICA.12:30 PM
She was laughing.
She looked beside herself with happiness.
Every time she was with her kids, she couldn't help but smile, even now as she was teaching both Ethan and Lucas how to bandage their own wounds. Elisa sat beside them, watching, and every once in a while hed reach over and brush her hair back. They were in pain, all three of them, Ethan, Lucas and Elisa, but they still listened carefully, watching as she showed them how she wrapped her arm with one hand.
"Lucas, you're a natural." Lauren laughed.
"Of course." Lucas puffed out his chest, wincing once but still holding up his bandaged hand with pride. "Ethan, having trouble?"
Ethan ignored him and tried to focus on wrapping neatly. Giving up, he sighed and held out his hand to Lucas. "Do it for me."
"What? No!"
"Teamwork, remember! Right, Elisa?" Ethan grinned and I could see the same look in his eyes that Lauren had whenever she was up to something.
"Right!" Elisa threw her fist up. "Come on, Lucas."
"Mom!"
Lauren just shrugged. "Are you really going to let your brother suffer alone? He's useless without you."
"Hey! Don't give him a big head!" Ethan hollered.
Lucas grabbed his arm.
"Ouch!"
"You big baby," he muttered to his brother, laughing.
Finally, Lauren glanced over to me. Kissing Elisa's forehead, she got up, and I wished she hadn't. I wished she had just stayed in that moment with them for another second, another minute; the closer she came to me, the farther into hell she was.
"Ethan knows how to tie it," she muttered more to himself than to me, glancing over her shoulder. "He knows but he just wants Lucas to feel good about himself. I think I overreacted to Lucas. Ethan loves his brother, and I don't think anything can ever change that."
I said nothing, just stared at her, my heart ringing in my ears. She was going to kill me for hesitating but I- I knew what would happen when I said the words.
Finally, she turned back to me. Her eyes looked me over once, her body tensing up as she saw my face. "Vero. What is it?"
Fuck.
"Veronica—"
"Mila.-" The moment I said her name, her green eyes widened. "She was shot, I don't know how bad but Olivia was screaming and shes in surgery."
Lauren took a step back from me, a small smile on her lips as she shook her head.
"What are you talking about? Camz went to take a shower. We are all having lunch—"
"Lauren."
"Don't fucking play with me, Vero!" She grabbed my throat, slamming my back up against the elevator doors. "Don't joke like this, Veronica. I will kill you!"
"Lauren!" Lucy screamed, running over to us. I wasn't sure how I had missed her standing thereactually, that was a lie. For the first time since Id met her, she wasn't important right then; Lauren was.
"She's at Merry West," I whispered.
She just stared at me for the longest time, her grip never loosening, not even once. Again she shook her head.
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Heartless People
Fanfiction(Camren gip) Book 1 (completed) & Book 2 (completed) & Book 3 (completed) & Book 4 (completed)