I'm in Love...with a Rockstar (MCR)

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Truth Revealed

I sit on the bed for hours, reading and rereading the two notes and staring down at the engagement ring in the blue velvet box. Mikey finally gets to the door and begins to bang on it, yelling for me to come out. When I don't, he gets the key and unlocks it. I don't stop him. He takes the notes and the box from my hands and reads them, his face solemn. When he finishes, he looks at me, sorrow in his eyes.

"Did he?"

"I don't know." I swallow. "I hope not."

"Do you know how to find out?"

"No."

"Lizzy, or...his mother maybe."

"No." I say again. "I don't want to know. I can't know. He told me to keep it. I can't, Mikey. I can't keep it. It's....it's too....I just can't."

"You want me to sell it?"

"I dunno."

"I will," He kisses me. "If you want me too."

"I don't know." I purse my lips.

"Are you sure you don't want to find out?"

I freeze. I don't know. Half of me does, but the other half tells me that it's better not to know the truth. The truth only hurts, it never helps. "No."

"You're not sure."

"Be there with me."

"What?"

"When I call Lizzy. Be there with me, in case of bad news."

"Okay. Alright, I'll be with you."

~Later~

I lay on the couch, my head up against a pillow my phone in my hands, Lizzy's number typed into the blank. Mikey sits in the chair across from me, waiting for me to do something. The box and notes are lying on the table. My thumb hovers over the send button.

"Are you going to-"

"Shut up." I interrupt. I rub my temples, trying to decide what to do. Involuntarily, my thumb presses the send button. My eyes widen and I pull my phone to my ear instead of pressing end.

"Hello?

"Lizzy?"

"This is she."

"Liz, this is Pierce."

"Hey girly."

"Um....I have to ask you something."

"Okay, go for it."

"Is Jared okay?"

The other end of the phone falls silent. My hearts throbs in my chest, beating faster with each passing second. I swallow and flit my eyes towards my husband.

"Lizzy?" I ask, afraid of the answer. "Is Jared okay?"

"Pierce....I....." She says.

"Lizzy....please tell me he's okay. Tell me he's alive."

"Pierce, I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you. But after the crash you were unstable and....and I...." She stops.

"Lizzy?"

"He committed suicide, Pierce. I'm sorry." The other end goes dead.