Rebelle House

21. Broken Enough.

Rushing to the floor of the hospital I'm on, Ronan gets a nurse to take him there seeing Will, Aero and Chad outside as I'm laying back in bed with a nurse reattaching the IV drip back into my arms.

Clearing his throat, fixing his hair, he gives Aero a look then Will, completely ignoring Chad.

The nurse gets done now walking past all four letting Ronan in, having him close the door for more privacy.

"Ayla, you said you had something to tell me?" Sitting, thinking this was a confession of some twisted love he made up in his head that I might have for him despite all that he's done, it wasn't. So when I told him I was pregnant, he dropped his hands from touching mine, now being appalled by me,"That...that can't be..." He gets up pacing, turning away from me now livid. I looked down then back up at him, "You were the last one. Will didn't–" He puts his hand up to have me stop talking trying to understand what I was telling him.

Facing me now, he scoffed, "You want me to believe it's mine? Mine? You're an escort! A slut! A whore! You practically fuck for money Ayla! I–I can't even–why would you lie like that?" He now holds my face, "Don't lie and tell me the truth...tell me you love me and that's why I'm here," Caressing my face I touch him to make him stop but he backs away seeing I'm sincere, "D-Don't touch me–if you do–I–I'm going to collapse," Now breathing heavily almost hyperventilating, he now storms out having Will enter.

"He took it well," He says, being sarcastic but seeing that I'm numb, zoned out, broken.

Taking the chair that was there, he pulls it up to the side of the bed where I'm laying, touching my hand and holding it.

"You're not those things he shouted...Ayla," He had me look to him but I shook my head exhausted from crying so I yanked my hand out of his, bawling up into a fetal position, holding the hospital blanket to my chest.

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Chad has Will give me some space going back to the Jorn's where Paul was cleaning up his bike and Daniel watching in the lawn chair.

"How'd it go? Is she alright?" Daniel asks.

Aero goes inside without saying anything while Chad sighs sitting in the other lawn chair beside him, "A lot of everything is going on," Picking at the cup holder that's built into the chair, Paul tosses him a cold beer.

"When will she be getting out?" Paul now asks drinking.

Will then answers, "After they make sure the baby is alright," Taking the crate that was there, Will sits but Paul spits out his beer.

"Excuse the hell out of me–the baby?"

Daniel looks to Will, "Is it yours?"

Sighing, Will shrugs, "We won't know until it hits nine weeks, if the baby makes it that long they said."

Paul looks around like he's being punked, "How the hell did this happen? And if it's not yours then?"

Chad speaks up, "Aero or Ronan."

Daniel gasps a little but then nods, putting two and two together, "Figured."

Will and Paul look at him, "Figured?" Both say at the same time.

Nodding, Daniel says, "You two didn't notice the tension between the two?"

Paul now hits Daniel on the arm, "Don't be stupid Danny," As he says that they hear something break inside.

Going in from being outside, they see Aero had broken a plate cutting his hand, "Damn it!" He yells while now putting it under water before blood could drip everywhere.

Trying to hand him a rag to wrap it, Aero just has an outburst not being himself saying, "I'm fucking fine! Fuck!" Taking a dish towel that was there he wraps it going upstairs to his room now slamming it.

"What's got his boxers in a twist? Was he hoping it was his?" Paul says, narrowing his eyes confused.

"When has Aero ever cared about a person? Especially a girl? You know his rule," Daniel says while getting water from the fridge.

Chad, intrigued, asks, "What rule?"

Paul now sighs, "Some bullshit when mom died. He saw how much it destroyed Pops when she passed. He made a vow he wouldn't get close or love like Pops did. Some cold hearted tactic I guess."

Nodding, "That's why he was being a douche back at the hospital."

Jaw twitching, Will shrugs, "Rule or not he shouldn't have said what he said."

"I'll go talk him down the invisible ledge he has himself on," Paul sighs going up to Aero's room seeing him sitting on the bed with his head in his hands.

Knocking, Paul enters while leaning on the door not fully walking in.

"What's going on? Why the whole bruting thing?"

Aero now looks up at Paul, "She reminds me too much of mom. How Pops–" Shaking his head he sucks his teeth angry at himself for even making room in his head for thoughts of Ayla, "And now she's knocked up? With mine or Will's baby? Fucking weirdo Ronan Baker?" Paul folds his arms to his chest, "So, what I'm hearing is you putting up a front that you don't like this girl but you do?" Aero now stands pacing back and forth, "No–I can't. I won't." Paul nods, "But you do," Looking at his brother, Aero sighs heavily.

Chad now comes up to the Jorn's room knocking as Ayla wants to be brought to the house, tired of being in the hospital.

"She said she's discharging herself...needs someone to pick her up...kind of asked for Aero."

Paul raises an eyebrow, "Well, go figure your feelings out because I have a feeling Will has," Patting Aero's back, he leaves now seeing Daniel talking with Will.

Chad and Aero follow behind getting to the living room having Will look up, "She wants to talk to you, so don't screw it up," Aero goes taking Chad's car he made Paul go get on the account he doesn't like riding motorcycles.

If Aero could he would ride his bike to the hospital but he wanted Ayla comfortable enough coming out of the hospital.

A thought he didn't think would cross his mind but it did almost instinctively.