The Move

Chapter 30

Calum's POV

"Adam, you fucked up this time." I shoved him against the wall.

"Yeah, sorry about hurting your, oh wait, you're nothing to her, yet you still protect her like she's 'your girl'. Let's face it, I will always get the things you love, including your little sister, if I have to." He made a wise joke and I punched him dead in the jaw bone.

"Hit me all you want, it's your fault she left and if you keep me waiting for my money, then I will take your sister.. She's leverage to me, so either get me my money or you know what will happen." He pushed me off of him and walked to his car.

"God dammit." I said kicking the drum set and ripping the skin.

When I walked out of the band room I could feel the anger boiling up.

"Mali.. Oh shit!" I ran to my car and drove as fast as I could. "I swear to god if he or anyone lays a hand on her I will kill anybody."

I jumped out of my car when I reached my house, leaving the keys in the car, if anyone was in my house they will not live to see tomorrow.

When I got close to the house I could see the door was open.

"Fuck! Mali?!" I screamed as hard as I could when I burst into her room.

"Nice of you to join me." I heard that smug voice I had been repeating in my head for the last hour.

"Where the fuck is she man, your business isn't with me, it's with my mum so leave me and my sister alone." At this point I could just imagine pounding his head against the wall.

"Oh, about your mother." He grinned and I swear to god that grin was so big he looked like he could be a Jim Carrey Character.

"What the fuck man." I kicked my mums door in.

"Mum?" I ran to her bed to find out Adam or one of his goons shot her.

I couldn't be weak anymore. I walked over to Adam and he impaled me in the back with a dagger.

"Better luck next time, you won't be seeing your sister for a while." He laughed and walked out of my house.

He left me there, laying in the hall, bleeding half to death. It's ironic, you know, I've always been the one to stab people in the back and now, I'm laying here meaning nothing to Tori, Vanessa, Luke, Mikey, and Ashton. I've lost them because of my selfish ways. I should've died years ago in that crash.i don't even know how to live anymore.

I have to do this for her, I have to do this for Tori.. She's never lost faith in me, but she meant it when she said goodbye, I could hear the quavering in her voice. Nothing could change her mind now, nothing can save me.

I could feel myself bleeding out, nothing I could do to stop it.

"I'm sorry Mali." I said as tears fled out of my eyes.

That was it, that was the last thing My dad had said 17 years ago when He was was the one drinking and driving, it was my fault for the crash he was just trying to come and see my mum in the hospital when she gave birth to me.. he killed that guy and he had killed myself. Maybe I deserved to die that day.. Not my dad, none of this would have happened if I did.

I was getting dizzy and shortly, I couldn't breathe. This must be it, this must be the end of my story.

Tori's POV

Luke had spent the entire day showing me around and I couldn't help but love the fact that he took this whole day off from his life just to make sure I was okay.

We went to the diner that we had our first date at and he took me to his safety place to relax. It might have been a drive-in movie theatre but none-the-less I couldn't be in a better place with anyone else.

When we got done we started to drive back but as we were stuck behind many people we over heard a conversation about a shooting over on 43rd and once Luke heard the address he froze and I swear, his face was as white as a ghost.

"We need to make a detour." He said when we finally got out of the lot.

"Can you explain to me what's happening?" I questioned.

"I'm sorry." He said as we got on the freeway.

"Fine, be that way." I said leaning back in my chair and putting my headphones on.

It took me a total of two minutes to realize what had happened.

"Calum's mom?!" I screamed, which made Luke jump.

"I'm sorry Tori.." He said pulling into a hospital.

I didn't even bother to wait for him to stop the car. I jumped out and immediately went to the front desk.

"Was a anyone by the last name Hood admitted?" She could hear the panic in my voice.

"Right this way sweetheart." She told someone to cover for her as she took me into a room with two beds in it.

"Ms. Hood is being treated for a gunshot wound to the Abdomen and Mr. Hood is being treated for multiple stab wounds to the back." She said but regretted it when she saw my face change.

"Mr. Hood? Oh my god.. Calum." I said as my eyes began to water.

"I'm sorry ma'am, if you would like to wait here, they'll be out soon.. In the meantime, can I get you anything?" She asked sweetly.

"Can you just leave.. Please?" I tried to be as nice as I could but damn, I can't loose him.

I waited for 3 hours until I was woken up by a nurse who treated Calum and his mom.

"Here's water and a sandwich, you've been here for awhile and I've heard you were crying a lot so you need to get rehydrated." He said smiling.

"How can you smile?" I said.

"You remind me a lot of myself but I see a great deal of my brother in you, he was a great guy, he had a son and his fiancé lived out of state." I interrupted him.

"Was..?" I stated a little to clammy.

"He died 17 years ago in an accident, that's what made me want to become a doctor, I wanted to save people's lives." He said.

"Where did your brother live before?" I said trying to lighten the conversation.

"It's odd but Wisconsin actually." He said.

"Oh no way, I lived there, I just recently moved to Texas. Where in Wisconsin did he live?" I asked.

"West Allis actually." He slowly said.

"This must be a coincidence because I use to live in West Allis." I said laughing nervously.

"You wouldn't happen to know his fiancé Karen Roel?" I almost fainted.

"That's my mom.. When did he die..?" I said skeptically.

"September for my dad's birthday, he came because he was planning to tell everyone about the engagement but unfortunately he never got the chance." He said.

"That means you're my uncle.." I said just as the doors opened and Joy was rolled in.

"Oh my god, was there a little girl found?" I said getting up.

"No, just the man and the woman." He said helping her get in the bed.

"I have to go find Mali." I said getting my sweatshirt and leaving.

I got my phone and texted Luke.
'T; hey we need to go to Calum's house we need to find Mali.'
'L; I'm coming.'
'T; I'll be out front.'
'L; alright.'

It took 4 minutes for him to come.

"Let's go." I said, and like that we were gone.