Sincerely, Yours

18 ~ love

MARCO'S POV

I catch Riley in my arms looking at her for a moment, "can someone go get a nurse?" I scream trying not to kill Juliet's brother, I met him and never liked him. The nurse runs in with a gurney and I lay her on it while stroking her cheek. "Andrà tutto bene Bambina," I said not knowing it was going to be okay myself. (translation, it's going to be okay.")

I followed them to a room, "she has a pulse breathing is shallow let's hook her up to a nasal cannula 100% please let's get an EKG and admit page psych and cardio." "Is she going to be okay?" I frantically asked, "Sir you can't be in here." The doctor demands, I take a step back so im out of the room but can still see her.

I can barely breathe im so scared for her, I realize I can't help her and walk over to Eli's room to find Juliet and Noah arguing, and Juliet holding the cat. I take the cat out of her hands, "get him out of here before I kill him." I say with my jaw clenched. Juliet pulls his arm trying to get him out of the room, "I didn't do anything." He muttered.

I felt like I was going to blackout with rage, everything went black before I felt my fist hitting him across the face. He stumbled out of the room while Juliet held him up. "Marco," Eli yelled at me. "What? He raped Riley he's lucky I don't kill which I might." I say before walking back into Riley's room, she was awake sitting up.

"tesoro siamo due metà di un tutto ti amo," I said while walking closer to her and kissing her on the forehead. "I don't know why I passed out, is he gone?" "Yeah he's gone, they say they're discharging you soon your fine, permission to kill him?" I ask, "As much as I want to say yes no." Her words make me groan, "Fine." The doctor comes in with discharge papers, "you are free to go, the cause of your faint was anxiety."

Riley stands up, "knew it." She takes the cat from my arms, "we are going home." He gave the kitten a small peck on the nose, "you guys are cute together." I smiled at her, "Do you want me to stay with you tonight until I have to leave?" "No see you whenever you come back," she places a soft kiss on my cheek. "Are you sure Bambina?" I ask, "I'll be fine Marco." I watch her as she walks out the door all the way until I hear the elevator ding.

RILEY'S POV

Before I collapsed I ordered everything I need for the kitten so when I got home it was waiting for me. I took the bag inside and I see Chase on my couch, "Riley what am I supposed to do? Aria doesn't love me, and mom is gone?" He asks, "and is that a cat?"

"Yes this is Maybel, and what you do is fight until you can't fight anymore." I say while unpacking the bag, "Aria is coming here with Elijah, I wanted to talk about the baby." There's a knock on the door after his words. He opens it.

"Elijah, Aria what an unpleasant surprise," I repeat the same words I said before. "Riley, are you seriously gonna keep this up?" "Aria are you really gonna keep sleeping with men who have a significant to my life?" "Is that a cat?" Elijah laughs, I ignore him and walk into my bedroom and put the cat on my bed. "Stay here," I demand of the cat before walking out into the living room.

I grab a pen and paper, and then sit on the couch, "What's the custody agreement?" I ask, "I'm thinking every other week and spending holidays together?" Aria suggested. "That's fine," Chase said visibly irritated. I write it down on the paper and then draw two lines, "Sign your names." I hand them the paper, "can I talk to you?" Elijah asks.

We walk over into the kitchen, "I heard you might need to be set up, I have a friend if you need someone to sleep with." His words infuriate me, "What did you just call me, did you just call me a whore Elijah?" I ask trying not to nut punch him, "you slept with me Elijah, you were just a fling to try and forget Marco, whom I love so quit it just forget it." I scream before walking away.

"Are you guys done here?" I asked annoyed, "Can I talk to you?" Aria asks and then goes into my room without my permission, I follow. "What Aria?" She takes my hand and places it on her belly, "That's your niece kicking, you can be mad at me all you want but it's costing her." I smile when I feel another kick, I remove my hand and hug her. "Im sorry," I say while still hugging her.

"Okay I have to go but ill come back later or tomorrow." She says before walking out of my bedroom, I pick up Maybel, "We're going to be okay even without your da- Marco." I say before walking out of my bedroom "I'll be back later I just came here for your words of inspiration," Chase says before walking out of the front door. I stare at the floor already bored out of my mind.

There's a knock on the door, and I groan before opening it. "Bambina im sorry, I need to be here with you," he let himself in. "God Marco I hate this, more than anything." "Hate what?" "How I feel about you, it feels like I cannot breathe without you and I don't want to, god why is this happening." I say while running my fingers through my hair, "Breath Bambina." He pulls me closer to him, "I cant because you're going to leave tomorrow and I- I" I needed to say it but I couldn't. "You what?"\

"The last person I said this to was him." I take a deep breath while pacing in the living room, "I- I love, never mind." He grabs me and pulls me close to him and begins stroking my hair. "It's going to be okay Bambina," He kisses my forehead. "What do you wanna watch?" I ask while sitting on the couch, "every twilight movie, sex, and then repeat." He sits next to me and places his hand on my thigh.

He turns on the movie and I couldn't watch it, I just wanted to watch him, forever. "I think I'm falling in love with you," I said before laying my head on his shoulder.

Ive read hundreds of novels and watched hundreds of movies, and all of them say the same thing, love is the center of the universe and the key to our hearts. It could help us heal, and survive. I thought they were brainless asshole's trying to break me more than I've been broken, I thought they were made to make us chase something that isn't real, I never thought I would find it or that I wanted to until I met him. Right now I love him the most in this world and I never thought I could.

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