Things I Do for LOVE.. [on hold]

Chapter 31. C

*Ness POV*

Who the hell was calling me at this time?! I was pissed. My phone kept on ringing. “Babe, move over please.” I whined removing Blake’s arms around me. If you were thinking, we just finished… you know.

He murmured something that I didn’t catch up. I kissed his cheek lightly and grabbed my phone from the night table. “Hello?” I groggily answered.

It was silent then there were scratching noises after. I heard a scream. A girl’s voice and it immediately woke me up. “Lou? Luthien!” I called for her but she didn’t reply as the muffled sound of scratching kept on going. I was in panic mode on what was happening to my best friend.

“Blake, wake up. Listen to this!” I hissed as I slapped his arm repeatedly to wake him up.

“What babe?” he murmured sleepily. I put my phone in loudspeaker and started to get dressed. We need to find her now!

“Drake!”  we both snapped our heads to look at each other as soon as she screamed followed by a crash. Again there were a lot of scratching sound but that voice of hers was not a joke.

“We need to go to Drake’s fast! Dial Adam’s number on my phone Babe, I’ll get the car ready.” Blake said so fast but I nodded my head and did what he told me to do.

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When we reached Drake’s mansion, their guards were sprawled on the ground. “Shit. This doesn’t look good.” Adam muttered behind me. “I called Drake earlier and it seemed like their doing fine.”

“I don’t know. But since this morning I was waiting for Jay’s message. The only thing he sent was the address of where he was heading.”

“Guys, we need to calm down. Let’s just hope my best friend’s still there. Alright?” they both nodded.

We climbed out of the car as a maid ran towards us, “Please help! I couldn’t call an ambulance! The lines and electricity had been cut off!” she panicked.

We followed her and there we saw the expensive furnitures broken, a messy entertainment room and a trashed balcony. We heard someone groan from the entertainment room as we ran towards it.

 “Guys…thank God you’re here.” it was Drake.

“Dude! What the hell happened here?” Blake started as I noticed his arm was twisted painfully. He had a black eye and his lips were swollen and bleeding.

“Matt came with another guy. They took Luthien with them…” he replied weakly.

“Alright, we’ll deal with them as soon as we brought you to the hospital.” Adam said as he observed the place.

“I’ll stay with Drake at the hospital. You two look for our friends, alright?” I offered as Blake and Adam helped Drake to stand up from the ruined couch.

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“He’s gonna be alright. He broke his arm but we fixed it. He just needs to get some rest and keep this cast on his arm.” Dr. Grey told me as Drake and I thanked her when she walked out the door.

“What the hell happened Drake?” I asked him and slumped on the chair next to his bed.

He sighed and started, “I invited Luthien to my place since she was said to stay in their apartment alone for last night. I don’t feel good about it. I never thought that that son of a bitch will come after us.”

“Matt, came after you two? Then you said he had someone with him?”

“Yes. They beat the crap out of me until I fell unconscious.” He sighed. “I shouldn’t have invited her to my place.”

“Hey, don’t blame yourself. You’re just worried about her safety.” I soothed him as he clenched his uninjured hand. “You like her, don’t you?” I asked with a smile. I actually appreciate Drake being worried about my best friend and I was grateful he was there to protect her in a while.

He kept on starring on the window pane and answered a plain, “Yeah, I do.” He admitted it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“So what’s your plan?” I asked further.

“I’ll get over it.” He started, “Eventually. Because I know, deep inside those stubborn heads of Jayden and Luthien, they’ll get back together.”

I smiled with that and I can’t help but be proud of Drake. He had this coming and he wasn’t even being selfish in taking advantage of the situation. I guess buddies were more important than girls. “That’s good to hear, Drake. I know you’re feeling the same things you felt with Quinn, but I believe there’s that special someone for you out there. You just haven’t met her.” He snorted and faced me making me tilt my head on my left. “What? It’s true.”

He chuckled, “This conversation is so mushy.”

“But you can’t deny that you’re expecting that someone to be out there.” I teased as we both laughed.

As soon as we sobered up, I heard the familiar ringtone of Adam on my phone, “Yeah?”

“Uhm…we kind a need you here at the ER.” Adam said hesitantly.

“Why? What happened? Is Blake alright?” I asked in panic as Drake watched me cautiously.

“He’s fine. But Jay and Lou…just get down here alright? Drake can take care of himself.” Adam snapped. “Dude! Calm the fuck up!” I heard him say as I cut the line.

“What’s that about?” Drake asked curiously.

“I-I need to go down to the ER. Adam said they need my help. Are you gonna be fine alone?” I asked. I started fixing my things. I grabbed my jacket and phone.

“Yeah, of course. My mom’s coming over…what happened?”

“It’s Jay and Lou…just…just keep your phone with you and I’ll call you or come back here. Okay?” I replied as I walked to the door.

“Alright, keep me posted Ness.” He agreed and I can feel the worry and frustration in his voice. I knew he badly wanted to come with me. It’s about Jayden and Luthien after all.

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Ones I reached the ER I was confused. It was so busy and bloody in that area of the hospital. It was crazy! Then I spotted the tall handsome brunette. My man, Blake. “Babe, what happened?” I asked and kissed his cheek glad that he was fine and away from being hurt.

He shook his head with sad eyes, “It’s Jayden and Luthien. I don’t know if we were too late babe, but I hope we’re not.” He replied grimly hugging me tight.

“Oh, God. Babe, where are they?” I asked worriedly. What could’ve happened to my best friend and Jay?

“Jay’s still here at the ER. The nurse had to sedate him because everything that’s happening right now wasn’t even helping him a bit. He refused to be checked up but then gave in.”  he sighed. “He was badly beaten. He also needs rest and a whole lot of morphine.”

I rubbed my man’s back, “How about Lou? Where is she?”

Blake swallowed hard and looked down on the floor crushing my nervous heart. Don’t tell me…”She got shot, twice.” Then I felt my eyes started to water. Oh my God… “They brought her to surgery as soon as she arrived here. I’m sorry babe.” He trailed off.

I swallowed the forming lump in my throat. “She’s going to be fine. She’s strong.” I said, calming Blake but more like myself. “I’ll call her family you call Jay’s. okay?”

Blake nodded and I kissed his lips softly. I went out of the hospital to release a shaky breath I had been holding since I found out my best friend had been shot. I dialled Ireth’s number. It was not her time yet, I knew she will survive this. She was my tough best friend. “Ireth, it’s Ness. I need you to come here at the hospital.”