Heartbreak Hotel: This Place Hotel

Chapter 5: Fire With Fire

The night seemed to be filled with an aura that I had grown to become used to over the past few months. One that did not faze my heart one tiny bit. An aura that couldn't shaken my soul no matter how gruesome it could be.

One would be frantic with their hearts racing, and pulse pumping. Maybe even caught with an adrenaline that may leave them feeling dizzy beyond belief. That wasn't me. It never was. Growing frantic was no use to me at all. That was the job of the others who didn't know how to handle such emergency. It was the job of those who wasn't used to this happening often like I was. My job was to be the strong one, always. No matter how tough things gotten. I had to be the tough one.

No matter what.

I had no intention of switching the role with anyone else, either.

I sat there with two of my most trusted body guards, Miko and Malik, as I watched curiously while Justin explained to the police what happened. Normally, I would be right there along with him, but I knew the process so well that I didn't feel like reliving the moment again. It was pointless. I knew what they were going to say. That maybe Nikki should go seek some mental health treatment, and of course Justin would deny that. It was never anything that was discussed, sadly enough. I knew all too well that she needed it, but Justin believed that he was the only one who was able to make decisions for her. Of course, Nikki wouldn't make the decision herself. Even though I believed she knew that wasn't herself. The same cheerful girl that we all had grown to love had began to fade away sometime after De's tragic death.

There were red and blue lights flashing in my perithial vision as I stared at the hard ground, scraping the heel of my boot to make a new sound for my ears to listen to.

"Hey, Miko." I heard Jojo's voice say over all the noise. I lifted my head up to meet her tired and worn face. Jolene was on the verge of turning twenty-seven, but she looked like she was pushing through her forties to me. Her face had wrinkles forming around her eyes, the lines of her forehead, and her mouth from years of frowning. Seriousness and stress was speeding her aging process significantly. "What happened?" She asked me with a frustrating sigh.

I breathed in through my nose and exhaled through my mouth. Letting my head roll over to the side as I tightened my laced fingers. " She did it again," I said, almost in a mumble. " Another one. "

Jojo's complicated, brown eyes immediately began to roll her eyes towards the night sky. " Another one? What did she try to do this time?"

"She..." I swallowed the lump growing in my throat as my eyes fell upon her condo in a distance. " She tried to drown herself. Justin found her unconscious under the water and he had to revive her." Slowly, my vision began to blur as the tears began well up in my eyes. "She's in a coma. They took her to the hospital thirty minutes ago."

"A coma?" She asked herself, running her hands though her thinning blond hair. "God Nikki, we don't have time for this!"

She chewed her bottom lip as she glanced around at all the people who were there viewing the scene. "We don't have time for this, Li." She shook her head from side to side, as she began pacing back and forth. "A coma?"

"Yes, a coma."

"When will she wake up?" Her eyebrows began to crease and furrow in frustration and concern. She was beginning to look twice her age.

I shrugged my shoulders. I had no energy for giving her a smart attitude as I normally would.

"Did they say whether or not she could survive this?"

"I don't know, Jo." I whispered. " I just got here, no one told me more than I already know." What I knew, were just things I had over heard.

At that moment, she threw her hands up and allowed to fall at her sides. "We have to drop her." She mumbled.