Just Can't Let Her Go

Chapter 19

{NOT THE END!}

Chapter 19

Get Away

Alicia was deep in thought, everything in her telling her something was off about Harry. There had to be something not right with him. Her medical experience should have given it away right then, but love overshadowed logic.

When they got back home she entered slowly, and cautiously. "Harry, I'm exhausted. I'm going to bed. Sleep on the couch." She instructed, not pleased with him in the least. She didn't want his company at the moment. Harry frowned, taking deep hurt from her sharp words. "O-okay, goodnight. I love you..." He frowned as he walked to the couch and stripped down to his boxer briefs. "Mhm... I love you." She mumbled, and left him there. Retreating back to the bedroom.

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Alicia couldn't sleep, having too much on her mind. Instead, she waited until she heard Harry snoring deeply from the living room. She got a little curious about Harry's painting while she had been searching the confines of her mind for answers. She slowly rose to her feet and pulled the bottom of her spandex shorts down into place. Tiptoeing softly down the hallway, she grabbed the knob and turned it right.

The door opened with a slight creak, causing Alicia to cringe until Harry let out another snore. She stepped inside and couldn't believe her eyes. It was anything, but paintings.

Picture of her plastered all over the walls. Pictures of her walking in the hospital, her at the park, at restaurants, even ones that were meant to have Drew in them. Harry had evidently photo-shopped himself in the majority of them. She was flabbergasted, he even had a map of the route she took to work and back home again.

Scared and just in utter shock, she hastily ran down the hallway. Passing the sleeping man on the couch and heading to the front door. Alicia saw his keys on the side table and picked them up. Sliding on his jacket before exiting their apartment. "He was fucking stalking me. Oh my god. He's mentally ill, no, no, no, I love him though. Maybe he just... it can't be true." She muttered to herself as she got into his car and drove back to her own nearly empty apartment.

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Somehow Alicia had found someway of getting sleep, and had managed to bustle off bright and early to her job. As soon as she could she went to the psychiatric ward and reported Harry. They promised to pick him up for involuntary time. She knew in her heart this was what was best for him. Her love for him didn't end though. She planned to come visit him anytime she could with baby news, and everything. When he got out, then they could finally be happy together. Everything could be happy.

~Later that Day~

Harry had been taken by force to the hospital. He had no say so in the matter, as he was seen as a threat to society. He begged for only one thing though as they got him all signed in and put in a room. "Please, please god let tell Alicia I'm here. Please, I need to see her." He begged. It was killing him to know that now for the next seven months she would be on her own. All alone with his baby. She could easily just move on with her life, and that would drive Harry to suicide. No doubt about it.

Following Harry's wishes one of the nurses told Alicia her boyfriend had been assigned to a room. Alicia rushed immediately down to Harry's room. Being able to get in because of her position at the hospital. Harry had bleak white walls with absolutely nothing in his room other than a bed to sleep on.

He looked different in his hospital clothing, more pale and less appealing to the eye. But still yet, Alicia ran over to him and enveloped him in a warm hug. She sat on his lap, since he was already sitting on the foot of his new bed. "Harry, baby, I'm so sorry. I-I had to, its what's best for you." She whimpered in his ear as he held her tightly to himself. "I know. Please promise me though that you won't forget me. I love you. I'm crazy, I know that, but I truly love you Alicia. I can't live without you and our baby." He told her. "Harry, I won't leave you. I you too much. I'll take care of our apartment, and come visit you everyday. I thought of a name, Harry." Alicia told him, trying her best to comfort him with her words. His bloodshot eyes met hers' for the first time since he'd been put in the ward and he started to tear up. "Tell me." He requested softly, brushing loose strands of hair back behind her ear. "Astrid, I want to name her Astrid." Alicia answered, leaving the middle name up to him. "I love that, its so unique and beautiful. Her middle name can be... Skye." Harry suggested, feeling proud to be able to interject his feelings. "Then its settled, Astrid Skye Styles." She agreed, and placed a gentle kiss on his lips.

Alicia wanted him to know more than anything that she did still love him. That he was all she desired, and she only did this to him for his benefit, and Astrid's. Hopefully time would fly by, and he would be out before she knew it.

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