Unity

I wanted to see Sierra.

Ace and I were laying in bed together, his arm wrapped around my body as I lay on his chest. "Ace?" I whispered, struggling to sleep because all I could think about was Sierra. He made a hmm noise in the back of his throat, sounding half asleep. "Sierras in the hospital."

"What?" He mumbled, slightly wiggling beneath me. I lifted my head to look at him in the dark, wisps of moonlight were seeping through my blinds enough to illuminate the side of his face enough for me to make out the frown on his face. He rubbed at his face tiredly, his head dropping back down onto the pillow.

"Sierra took an overdose because Axel died." I whispered again. He wriggled from beneath me, completely turning away from me. I sat up in the bed, pushing my hair out of my face. "Ace." I knocked his arm with my hand but he barely moved and I waited for a few seconds. He started to snore and I realised he probably hadn't even heard what I'd said.

I lay back down thinking it better to just go to sleep but began thinking of the letter that Axel had left for Sierra and wondered if what he'd wrote could possibly make her feel better. I tossed and turned a few times before giving up and sliding out of bed. I shimmied on a pair of jeans, tiptoeing around the bed in attempt not to wake Ace. I stilled at the door peering over my shoulder to make sure he was still asleep. He snored loudly and I took my chance to slip out of my room.

I hurried next door, taking in a deep breath as I entered Axels room a sharp tinge in my chest at the sight of his empty bed. I had to admit he hadn't really spent many nights in the apartment with me once I'd left high school but knowing that he would never step foot inside of here hurt me deeply. I felt emotional as I tried to hurry myself in his room, I wanted to get in and get back out before I started to cry.

The letter was hidden beneath a pile of socks but I managed to find it, another piece of paper hidden beneath it with a post it note stuck to the top. My eyes darted across the top of the note, reading his messy handwriting.

For Ava.

Everything I have is half yours and half my sons.

I peeled off the post stick note reading the paper and realised he'd wrote his will. My tears burned my eyes, he really had left me and Noah everything. He'd paid off the apartment which meant that he owned it, he also had bought a house a few roads away and wrote beside that it was for me to have as my own. I hadn't realised how much Axel owned until seeing it all on a piece of paper. None of this all mattered to me, I'd rather he still be here and I have none of this.

I wiped my tears away putting the piece of paper back hidden beneath his socks and closed the draw with sierras letter in my hand. I took one final look at his empty room, my heart dropping at the sight and closed the door behind me. This time when leaving my apartment I made sure to bring a jacket with me, I picked the puffer coat that had been Axels. It comforted me oddly enough and I wasn't sure why.

The walk to the hospital was longer than I'd anticipated and I was terrified the whole way, it was nearly two in the morning and this town wasn't exactly the safest but I'd made it there in one piece. I'd just been walking through the entrance when I bumped into Ronan, he'd been by the coffee machine absentmindedly staring into space before he's eyes automatically managed to sort me out from the crowd.

"Ava?" He questioned, picking his cup up from the machine before heading in my direction. I waved at him, an awkward smile on my face as I approached him. "What are you doing here?"

I shuffled between my feet nervously shifting my weight. "I wanted to see Sierra." I admitted, it caused a small smile to tease at the corner of his lips. "Axel wrote her a letter before he died and I thought it might make her feel a bit better."