Sinfully in love

How will I?..

POV: Jewel

"Sherrif?" I asked him as he again left me alone. He is mentally absent from this conversation. Hayley and I got here 30 minutes ago, at the hospital. I sat and watched Hayley and Hunter talk in the corner for 15 minutes about something, they didn't tell me shit. 

Now Hunter is with me and I've been trying to make him speak for the past what seems like an eternity. Every time I ask him about Ezio, he either looks away or blanks out. "Yeah?" He said in a low tone. 

"Hunter, you better stop making me anxious. Talk to me, tell me now." 
"What should I even tell now?"
"How is he? Why did you call us here so suddenly and why are you nervous? and sad??!" I asked yet again.

"It's just...." He stopped in between again. 
"Hunter fucking Cohen you better not play me right now. Tell me."
"Just ask Hayley please...." There it was again, a mixture of guilt, sadness, and grief, on his face. 
"Hayley is not fucking here! And you are not talking so should I go ask the doctors now?!!"

"Hey hey...Calm down please, love." He said, holding my hands. "Ezio's condition got worse-"
"Yeah, no shit sherlock. If it didn't, you would be talking!"
"Listen to me, Jewel!" He shouted at me. "Ezio's heart...I mean he said the nerves around his heart are affected by the chest bruising he had." I listened to him. 

"He had a piece of glass in his chest, they removed it and thought it didn't do much damage. Turns out that the heart nerves are damaged and now they can't be restored..." Oh lord...

"Does it mean he can't be cured?" I asked him.
"What do you think?" He said as slow tears fell from his eyes. "How will I tell Donato, Jewel?! I failed him-" He said and rested his head on my shoulder. 

"What? Don't say it like it's your fault. It wasn't your fault, Hunter." I said, trying to comfort him. He grabbed my shoulder tightly and cried silently into it. 
"He will go off the dark end, Jewel-What would I do-?" He said while his breath hitched. 
"Nothing will happen, Sherrif. First, you calm down, then we can calm Donato down..."

I said and he cried out till my top was visibly wet. I didn't mind the wetness but this situation is so damn hard to even breathe in. Donato, Hunter, both will be broken as Ezio goes away. Hayley...I don't know about her, how she will react to this, Ezio always disrespected her. 

Hunter pulled away and wiped his eyes. I left a soft kiss on his cheek and hugged him. "Where did Hayley go?" He asked. 
"She is in the fire exit, talking on the phone," I said to him and got a nod in return. 
"I'll just call-"

He stopped and looked behind me. I turned and saw Donato enter the lobby. He came to us and Hunter stood up and went towards him. 

POV: Hunter.

"Why did you bother me?" He said before I could even say hey. I was taken aback by that question, Why would he even ask that?
"Pardon? Don't you want to see Ezio?" I asked him then took my time to notice him. His hair was all messy, he reeked, truly reeked of alcohol, and also something different...weed? Then his jacket had some white powder on it. 

"What happened to him?" He asked but with a normal look, not even caring about his condition it seemed. 
"He Uh-"
"Hunter? Can I talk to you? For a moment?" Hayley's voice made me turn around. She glanced at Donato then looked back at me. I moved my gaze to Donato who didn't give her any look. 

I went to her as she stood at the fire exit door. "What ya got?" I asked. 
"If you can get his damaged car, we might get a clue." She said. 
"How even? Jesus!"
"Listen, I doubt that Xavier would go for Ezio. Like I am no one to Ezio." She said. 
"Hayley, everything that happened in the past few weeks, could not be brought together by coincidence," I said.