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Chapter 28

Layla's Pov
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My phone rung for the hundredth time and I finally decided to pick it up.

"Hel-" my greeting was cut off and a million words slipped out of Eric's mouth.

"Devin, he- Heisinthe hospital." There was a long pause, and a big gasp of air. "A bottle of pills, unconscious, he's here I'm scared."

"Woah woah Eric slow down." I tried to make my voice steady, I could hear Eric breaking down on the other end.

"Devin he's in the hospital."

At that I hung up at looked at Nel.

"Take me to the hospital. Now." He quickly dropped his vanilla ice cream cone and grabbed my hand leading me to his motorcycle.

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Devin's unconscious Pov/ Flashback

"Mom?" I whispered down the stairs.

No one answered, I continued to walk down the stairs and found my Aunt Cathy standing there with a smile.

"Devin let me show you something upstairs." With one hand she grabbed me by the wrist and the other hand was behind her back.

She took me to a room with my brother, my brother was crying. Something I never ever saw. He was strong unlike me. Cuts covered his face and chest. Now that I noticed he was shirtless and his pants were across the floor.

"Shane, what happened?" He looked up from his hands and his eyes looked angry.

"You aren't going to do the same thing with my brother!" His voice turned into a loud booming yell.

But my Aunt Cathy punched Shane unconscious leaving him knocked out cold on the floor.

"You won't tell anyone about this right Devin?" She continued to smile at me.

"Yes Aunt Cathy."

And then she slowly closed the door behind her.

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Layla's Pov
I ran through the doors of the hospital and up to the lazy nurses sitting in the front.

"Devin! Devin Summers!" I nearly yelled.

"Calm down ma'm" she said clearly ignoring my urgency.

"I'm no ma'm. I'm 17. I need to see him now."

"Only family sorry." She put down her clipboard and continued her 'important' conversation.

Oh my god. This Bit-. Forget it. I ran down the hall passing all the glass rooms looking for Devin. I needed to make sure he was okay.

"Devin!" I yelled throughout the halls.

Patients and doctors looked at me. But I didn't care I needed to find him.

At the end of the hall I saw him through the window. Running to the door I opened it and my heart started to flutter like the first day I met him. I dropped my black backpack at my feet and walked over slowly to Devin.

His light brown hair was tousled and his eyes were tightly shut. My hand reached for his face, tracing my thumb on his cheekbone.

I inched my face closer to his and kissed him. This my I put my whole heart and soul into the kiss. Every bone in my body shivered with joy and I just knew that I loved this self-destructive boy, since day one.

"I love you Devin Summers...." I let my sentence linger but instead of a response. Devin opened his eyes....