Hunter & Julie

Scene 24

He  walked through my door and happiness filled my chest. But then rationally anger emerged. I held on to my IV although in actuality I didn't truly need to operate normally.

But when I needed him he wasn't here, and that was my biggest fear and he made it a reality.

"Julie baby"

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

He made me curse! I almost never curse.

He walked up to me. "Where are Marc and Tyler?"

"In Tyler's room, they are coming tomorrow to pick me up to eat."

"Wait, why are Tyler and him together?" He asked.

"If these are the things you wanted to ask me go to 5A and find out for yourself!"

I huffed and walked past him to make my way to the kitchen. He suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me close. It felt blissful but I snatched my arm away. How does he think what he's doing is okay?

"Baby, don't do this" he whispered.

"I didn't do anything! Don't make me sound like the bitch! You left me!"

"I didn't mean to hurt you, I was just upset that you lied to me. And after my anger over that blew over I was just scared that you would realized...you're to goo-"

"Stop it Hunter. You think that you would just give me a sob story and then I'd bend at your will?"

"No I hoped that you would understand that even if I fuck up or you fuck up that I'll love you until I'm no longer breathing! With or without yours in return!"

"The reason I didn't tell you I was hurt-"

"Dying"

"Dont- the reason I didn't tell you was because before I met you I was okay with that fact. I welcomed death as it would naturally come."

"Julie, please, I can't hear you talk like that"

"I don't care because you're the reason I'm alive Hunter. You the reason I might do the heart transplant. Cause I want you! But you brought my worst fears to life when you left me."

"You should have just trusted me"

"How can I trust you when you're hiding stuff from me?"

"Because I am not"

"Then explain this!" I pulled the picture of him and rose out from my side draw and held it up with my shaking hands.

He gulped and said "there's more to me and Rose that you don't know. But I don't look at the picture because I miss her. I look at that picture because of what happened to lead me to that picture."

"What happened?" I asked putting the picture down seeing that he was getting angry.

"Julie" he begged but I wasn't taking it.

"I almost died because of your reaction to that stupid picture I deserve to know why!"

He looked at me and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Julie before I begin I must give you a disclaimer.." He sighed and looked down.

"Go on then" I  said sitting up in front of him.

He held my waist and it felt so comfortable that although I wanted to punch him I didn't.

"When I was young I was rebellious and an asshole-"

"Was?" I quirked.

"If you want to hear the story you can't do that" he said looking into my eyes deeply scowling a little but behind that he just looked at me in a way that made me listen.

"Okay"

"As I was saying I was even more of an asshole. I was always smart but I didn't want to be. I hated my parents for pretending they were happy in their marriage so I swore of dating. I smoked, stole, and used people to my advantage.

I met this guy Elijah one day when I was buying some pot-"

I sucked in a breath when I remembered the times I took pot for medical reasons to numb the heart pain when it was at its worst and how much I hated the feeling of being physically there but emotionally detached.

He looked at me wearily but continued.

"We clicked and he introduced me to     drunk and not remembering how they got there, I would fight anyone who blinked too much in my face and mess with a lot of girls"

"What! I thought you said-"

"I'm a virgin Julie, that doesn't mean I haven't done things"

I wanted to hate him. I wanted to hate him really badly but what did I expect? He was Hunter Black. Bad boy  specialist .

"I didn't mean it like that, I mean if I could take it back to have you be my first in everything I would."

"Just continue" I needed closure.

"Well one day Elijah and Jess went to do something very very bad" he huffed as wondering if he should go on. "Well they made me drive to the orphanage where Elijah's mom worked. And Elijah had a gun"

I sucked in a breath again. He didn't.

"I didn't know he had a gun I just thought he was going to get something but Jess and him had bigger plans. Since that orphanage was where his ex girlfriend was he was trying to get his revenge on her for leaving him. But he went to far..."

"Did he...kill-"

"He almost did. And he used one of the kids as bait, he wasn't gonna kill the kid but then Jess started to get excited by the situation and actually hurt the girl and then..."

"Then what"

"Elijah felt guilty and he surrendered himself to the cops but Jess, Jess was just getting started. He beat up Elijah's mom and some older kids. He stole money rip some pictures while all this was happening there I was asleep in my car. And then Jess jumped in and said 'I did this for freedom'

'Did what?' I asked him and then I was dragged out of the car and beaten by the cops.

They arrested us and Jess said I was in on the whole mess. I was town royalty and Jess thought that with me we could get out and after a few days my father pulled some strings and got me home. Jess on the other hand had to stay 18 months and Elijah got out in 10 based on his cooperation"

And me, I got sent to America in one of our vacation homes. And I hated it. I hated being lonely, and scared and lost anytime I fucking walked out. I started managing some of our business here but after a few weeks I hated it even more that I started getting drunk more. My father and mother decked to move here for a fresh start and so that I didn't fuck things up here to.

I got to school and started doing the same mess but when I bumped into Ben and Marc they started to set me straight and we became very close. And then I met Rose, and you know how that turned out but that picture is a reminder that I will never be good for you Julie, I'll never a perfect guy and I want to be good for you Julie, so fucking bad and it just pisses me the fuck off"

I sat and thought about this and placed my hand back on his. " I don't want perfect Hunter, although I'm going to make it hard for you...I want you. No one else. Its easy to say you'd die for someone, but I want to live for you Hunter. I want to have a fucking wonderful life with you"

"Then let's do that"

"You make it sound so easy"

"Because as long as you love me, it is"

I smiled at him and he gave the same smile back and laid a soft kiss on my mouth. Maybe I won't have to do this alone.

Maybe Hunter Black is just as broken as me.