Tattooed Tears (A Jack Gilinsky Fanfiction) ❤︎

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*Jack's POV*

It's been 6 hours. I have been in the hospital, wandering around in the same room for 6 hours. I've asked almost the whole staff to tell me how Dani is. I tried to lie and say she was my fiancee. That didn't work. I even bribed 3 nurses to get me in to see her. I was almost kicked out for bribery of a nurse if that is even a real thing. 'Confidential information' they said, only for the family to know. Well if only family members could know, then why aren't they telling her aunt who is here sitting right next to me?

I finally met Dani's aunt. You know, it's important because it's like meeting her parents. But it's not.

Belle, she told me to call her, is as much of a mess as I am. She has mascara-stained cheeks and her hair was a tangled mess. She kind of looks like Dani. I know she's her aunt, but I could see a similarity in bone structure. 

Dani's aunt told me all about Billy. I didn't tell her that I knew, even though I did tell her over the phone. I think her talking about this helped her get out her feelings.

She told me basically everything Dani told me. She said that she has no idea how he found her all the way over here in Omaha. I sat and listened to her. This was about the only time I wasn't up and pacing. 

Johnson, Phoebe, and Sophia are all here. They don't know what happened exactly. I didn't tell them. All they know is someone jumped her.

Phoebe and Sophia are on the floor with some hospital sheets and pillow, trying to sleep. They've been up and pacing, worriedly for as long as I have. I went to some nurses and asked for some pillows and blankets for the girls. They finally fell asleep. Yes, it's hard enough that they're stressing about their best friend, they need to sleep and rest. 

Johnson is sitting upright in a chair, tossing and turning, trying to sleep. We're all, obviously, not going to school tomorrow, since it's 1 in the morning. The hospital called our school and explained. They understood.

Belle and I were the only ones awake. I don't see a point in sleeping. First of all, there's no way I would be able to, and plus, why would I need sleep? Every time I close my eyes I see that bastard's face. I see him spitting at her, stabbing her multiple times, hurting her. I can still feel her body shutting down in my arms. I cannot close my eyes. I don't want to. 

I went to the bathroom about an hour ago to splash some water at my face. Honestly, I looked like a madman. My eyes were bloodshot from crying, my face was pale, and my hair was sticking up in 1800 directions. 

Some nurses brought up some food for all of us. They brought apple juice, orange juice, cheerios, chips, bread, anything really to get us to eat. 

No one touched any of the food.

We've all been in this hospital waiting room for 6 hours, scared, sad, hopeful, hopeless. Belle broke down 4 times. I hugged her and told her it was going to be okay, even though I didn't even know it was going to be myself. 

Dani was torn up when I got there. Scrapes on her face, multiple stab wounds in the stomach and on the leg, she was a mess. I cannot tell Belle that it's going to be okay when she didn't even see what Dani looked like. She would never be able to sleep again if she saw her niece like that.

I was going to go crazy in this waiting room. So I left. I got up, telling Belle to call me if Dani wakes up. I needed to go somewhere and do something.

I raced out of that hospital waiting room, ignoring the many stares of people in the hospital. 

I went to my jeep that Johnson brought here with the girls. I rode in the ambulance with Dani. I still can't get the image of her holding my hand, trying to speak, but unable to.