No Reason But Us

Chapter 59 : Please, Not You

Leon and Eva were having a romantic dinner. They were enjoying their evening by just talking and eating a premium grade rib-eye steak. "What if have our wedding on The Plaza, New York?" Leon suggested to his fiance. "The ballroom is magnificent and iconic."

Eva gave it a thought while chewing her food, and took a sip of wine right after. "True," she said. "It is, I saw it the last time we had tea there with Odette, but I don't know. As magnificent as it is, I don't picture my wedding there."

"Alright, so what do you have in mind then?"

"I like the idea of ballroom though, but not in the city. I would love a garden wedding."

Leon smiled, glancing at how this woman before him feeling excited to tie-the-knot. "A garden wedding. Sure, we can have that and I know a perfect place for that."

Suddenly, Eva's phone rang, then had a strange look on her face once she read the caller I.D. "Rita?"

"Why would she be calling you?" Leon asked.

"Let's find out." Eva answered the call. "Hello, Rita. Is everything alright?.... Wait, slow down. I can't understand what you're saying... WHAT!?... Okay. Okay, we'll be right there."

"What's wrong?"

"It's Odette. She's been shot."

From that news, Leon just froze in his seat.

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In the nearest hospital, the college kids arrived. Everyone were hurrying to get Oddey out of the car to get inside the emergency ward. Gage carried his Juliet over his threshold. "We're here now, Oddey. You're gonna be okay. Stay with us!" he said frantically. "HELP! HELP! WE NEED HELP!"

E.D nurses came to them with a stretcher and placed Oddey there, and rushed her to a room. Gage, Felix and Rita followed them at first, but then they were stopped since the trauma team had to do their work.

Once Oddey was there, the doctors and nurses began to do whatever they could to save her.

It was nerve-wracking when a close friend and someone you loved was fighting to stay alive. Rita was inconsolable, so Felix held her to be her rock even though he was also just as devastated.

As for Gage, he felt helpless with his clothes soaked with Juliet's blood. All he could do was stand outside the ER with the couple as they waited anxiously if whether or not Oddey would make it.

"How did this happen?" Rita weeped. "Who would do this to Bestie?"

"Maybe a mugging gone wrong. Maybe a creep was in the area," Felix responded since he too tried to fathom how that could happen.

"No," Gage spoke, seething with anger. "I don't think it's either one of those."

"What? What do you mean?"

"I know who did this. I have to go. Call me if something happens." The Romeo ran out to the main entrance.

Felix and his girlfriend became confuse that he decided to leave at time like that. "Wait, where are you going?" he called out to his buddy, but it was too late. "Gage!"

Gage got into his car, and drove away to get to his house. While on his way there, all he could think about was Oddey and how irate he was feeling to the person who did that to her.

Moreover, it made think why she had to lie to him during their relationship. It all made sense to him, and the only think he had to after was to get home as fast as he could to confirm his suspicions.

When he got to his parent's house, Gage just went inside. "Dad! Dad!" he shouted, then looked around for his father. "Dad!"

Eventually, Marie came down the stairs after hearing her son holler from the master's bedroom. "Gage? You're here," she said.