Best Friend's Keeper (Book Two)

Chapter 23

Mateo walks down the hall and finds Javier in a small empty waiting room, crying. "Javier," he says as he sits right next to him, "Levi's going to be okay." he says, patting his back.

"It's not just this." he says as he tries to regain his composure, "There's so many other things on my plate. I just got a call from my boss, he fired me from my second job, so I need to find another one to just barely pay all these bills by myself."

"Why are you paying bills by yourself? Why didn't you tell me? You're stilling living with Slyvia?"

Javier snorts and chuckles a little bit, "I don't know how I live with. She rarely comes home and claims that she's working."

"Mi hijo, she's working, you gotta understan-"

"Bullshit!" he shouts in anger, cutting him off, but then quickly calms down and regresses back into sadness, "I think she's gone back to her old ways." he says sadly.

"Don't think that."

"She hit me today." he adds as the tears well up in his eyes, "That one smack, reminded me of everything that happened before." he starts to sob.

"Javier I-"

"That's not even the rest of it!" he says loudly as he gets up from his seat. "Michelle won't let me see Angie. My own daughter, won't even get to see her father. This bitch got other niggas around my kid, doing God knows what!" He says as hit the hospital wall, shaking it.

"Calm down."

"And to top it off my cousin, my baby brother, is in a fucking coma, and if he never wakes up, I'll regret never making peace with him. I'll have to live with that for the rest of my life!" he shouts in anger and then quickly clams down "Tio," he says as he starts to cry, "I really really can't take this life shit. Sometimes I wish I could just go to sleep and not wake up."

"Don't you ever speak like that!" Tio Mateo shouts.

"I know! Uncle I know!" he cries, "I just can't right now. I'm at my breaking point. I'm just tired of failing the people that love me and the people I love. And it just hurts, if you could feel the pain in my heart, Tio you would understand." he says as he sobs.

"Son, I do understand. It hurts me to see you hurt you know that? If I could switch places with you right now I would." he says as Javier crouches down to the floor in tears, "Mi hijo, we're going to get through it. I promise you that. You know I'm here and I can't help you, unless you let me, Javier." he adds as he pulls Javier up from the floor, "I raised you like you were my son and whatever you need, I got it and if I don't got it, I'll steal it." he says with a smile causing Javier to laugh a little. "You know I love you right?" he says as he pulls Javier into a hug, "Nothing can change that." Before Javier get's to answer, they hear a piercing scream coming from down the hall, in the direction of Levi's room. "Shit, I forgot I left these two together." Mateo says as he quickly runs towards the room.

"Ahh Tio, you know Terah could kill Kristina right!" Javier shouts to his uncle as besides him. When they reach Levi's room, what was unfolding in front of their eyes, they couldn't believe. "Kristina stop!" Javier shouts, running over to them as he watches Kristina bang Terah head onto the seat of the chair several times. Him and Tio Mateo pull Kristina off of Terah, as she claws and hits them too. "Kristina, chill out!" Javier shouts.

"I almost killed that bitch!" Terah shouts as she tries to attack Kristina causing Tio Mateo to try and hold her back.

"How could you, with my fist breaking your face?" Kristina laughs as Terah screams and fights Tio Mateo to get to Kristina. "Let go of me!" Kristina screams to Javier as he retrains her.

"What the hell happened ?" Tio shouts.

"Kristina, what the fuck is wrong with you?" Javier adds, shouting at her.

Kristina stops fighting, "What's wrong with me?" she says quietly then suddenly pushes Javier away from her, "Because I'm finally standing up for myself, I'm wrong? Fuck you Javier." she says as she pushes past him. Right before she walks out the room she turns and looks at Levi on the hospital bed. "Fuck you too, for everything you put me through since I met you!" she shouts at his body with tears falling out of her eyes as she ran out the room.

"Kristina!" Javier calls after her but she was already long gone, "What the hell happened?" he shouts to Terah, "What did you do to her?"

"What did I do to her?" Terah says to him in almost a whisper, with the hurt written all over her face. "Look at my face, Javier!" she screams as he takes a good look at her bloody nose and mouth and large open wound over her eyebrow. "You watched her bash my head on a chair! And you have the nerve to ask me, 'What did I do to her?'" she yells as the tears pour out of her growing swollen eyes.

"Kristina would nev-"

"BUT SHE DID!" she screams.

"Kristina isn't lik-"

"Why the fuck are you covering for her?"

"Cause she's a good person!"

"And I'm not? Are you fucking her?"

"What?"

"Are you seriously choosing pussy over family? It must be fucking great!" she spat at him.

"Terah!" Tio Mateo shouts to silence her, knowing that she's gone too far.

"Who's side are you on!?" Terah shouts at her uncle.

Javier walks over to her and stands directly in front of her, "This is exactly why she fucked you up." he spat at her as her jaw dropped at his words.

"We all just need to sit down and talk." Tio says trying to cut the tension in the room

Javier stares at her intently with anger for a few seconds, "I need to go find Kristina." he says as he picks up his jacket off the chair and walks out the room.