Love Does Exist (Ross & Heather Fanfiction)

Chapter 31 Great Loss

When we pulled up my drive way, there were three cars in the drive way. Mine, my aunts and my cousins. Dads was gone. Why were they here and dad gone. I had no idea what was going on. But my aunt was here, I hadn't seen her in over a year. "Come in with me?"

"I'll come back, I promise. I gotta go pick up food for the gang. Ten minutes?" I nod and go to climb out of the car. He grabs my hand, pulling me back in. He gives me a passionate kiss. "I love you."

"I love you." I speak with my eyes still closed.

"Be back in a few." I smile and climb out. I wave as he pulls out. Than I run up to the house, ready to see my aunt.

When I open the door, I shout out. "Aunt Bee? I can't believe you are here. It's been a long time since I have seen you." I round the corner to the living room, "how come you didn't tell....me....you..."

I look. My living room has more family than my aunt and cousin, they most have rode in together. But that's not what stopped my question. They all looked at me, with tears rolling down their eyes. I stopped where I stood. I took one step back. NO! I look around the room. "Where's dad?" Aunt Bee walks up to me, with a tear running down her cheek. "Where is he?!" I shout this time.

"Honey, can you sit down?" I remembered this from when I was younger.

"NO......NO.....NOOOO!!" I run for the door, grabbing my keys from the hook. I run to my car, Aunt Bee running after me. I start the car and pull out too fast. My tires screech on the pavement, leaving my tracks. I drive as far as I can until I can't drive anymore. My eyes cloud with tears. Coming out in puddles. I pull over, and curl over in the seat. It hurts. My insides feel like they are ripping out. I can't breath, my lungs feel hard as rocks. It felt like a million years sitting there next to the road.

I hear a knock on my car window, but I'm too weak to look. The door opens, and the seat leans back. I hear taking, but my ears are so clouded as well I couldn't make it out. Take me. Take me away I say to myself. I lifted out of the car, and back in, but I'm on arms this time. I can vaguely see the black sleeveless shirt. I clench it, and I start to bawl now. I can't stop, and I can't breathe. Ross lays his cheek against the top of my head and supports my limp body with one arm, and rubs up and down my back with the other. Either he already knew what happened, or he figured it out when he saw me like this. I tried to stop, but I couldn't. He just kept talking trying to calm me down.

He must have already known, because he didn't sing like most people would do. I was finally over relating music to death, and he wasn't going to bring that back. I'm sure he wanted to though. Eventually after crying it all out, I fell into a sleep. I could barely hear him talking on the phone. He was calling Riker and telling him to have Rocky meet us to pick up my car. That he was taking me home.

"No....no....not...home." He just kept rubbing and cradling me while he explained to Riker what happened. So he did know. He did come back, just like he promised. I kept saying my line over and over again. He told Riker to hurry than hung up the phone. I still was going. "No...no...no."

My head was starting to spin. I had no more tears left, but I was still sobbing so hard my chest was really starting to ache like no other. "My home...I'm taking you home. It's ok. You're ok. I'm right here." He kept repeating those lines over and over until Riker got there. He got out of the car, and Riker and Rocky came running. I could barely hear them talking. I felt Ross trying to put me down. I clung to him with all that I had. "Let's go home. We are going home." He whispered in my ear.

I couldn't hold on, too weak to fight. He pulled my hand lose and closed the door. I tried to cry for him, but I couldn't speak either. A few seconds later he opens the drivers door and gets in. I hear a car go past us, than a second, and he pulls out. I'm dizzy, and my head is spinning, I can't fight home. I can't tell where he is taking me. It sounded like he said his house, but I wasn't totally sure. I put my hand in the center console, and in a half second his hand is in mine. I needed to feel him, to know he was there. Slowly I drifted off, and the sobbing stopped. My eyes were swollen and puffy, so it didn't take much for them to fall shut.

When I came to, he was lifting me from the car. The sobbing started again. Rydel was at the door when we reached the house. "Oh My Gosh!" She reaches to stroke my face. I cling to Ross again. "Here, I'll get your door."

Next thing I know I am in the dark cool room and he laid me down on the bed. He laid down in front of me. The sobbing starts back full force when I am alone with him. He hold one arm under my head and the other around me rubbing my back. He kisses my head many times, and I keep my hold on his shirt. In the silence my body finds the tears. He keeps running and kissing my head. "This.....isn't.......real." I manage to get out.

He just keeps it motivational words, that aren't helping, but she still tried. Eventually the tears run out and it just turns into sobbing, and I'm back asleep again.