Chapter 23

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Ella's P.O.V

I woke Jack up around 6 because we needed to get ready for dinner. He stretched his arms and sat up. "Goodmorning" He chuckled. "Where are we going again?" He asked. "Providence, I think I've been there" I say. "Me too" He gets up and we both go to get dressed. I put on a matching two peice top and skirt and black heels (picture above). Jack put on light grey pants and a white button up with the sleeves rolled. "Oh yes papi" I giggled and started on my makeup. 

"Ah mhm, that's my name" He  wrapped his arms around my waist and rested his chin on my shoulder. I rolled my eyes and worked on my eyeliner. "How do you do this shit" Jack chuckled and stepped back. He looked at me for a bit and I shrugged. I left my hair down and walked out of the bathroom. "Hm? Yes?" I did a little spin. "Definitley yes" He smiled. and got up from his bed. "You look so good" He smacked my ass and I blushed. 

We got in the jeep with Natasha and Diego and drove to the restaurant. We pulled into the parking garage down the street and walked to Providence. Cinthia and her on-again-off-again boyfriend Lucas were already sitting at out table. "Cinthiaaa" Tasha and I smiled and we all hugged. I laughed and sat down. We were talking about whatever when Diego got up and then down on one knee. "This is cliche, but Natasha, I'm so in love with you" He smiled "Wanna make me the luckiest guy and marry me" He opened a small box with a ring in it. "I-I- uh" I saw panic flash on Natasha's face. "I'm sorry" she let out a breath. "What..." Diego's face fell flat. "I can't.. I'm not-" Tasha stuttered. 

Tasha ran out one way and Diego the other. "Well, that was sad." Cinthia raised her eyebrows. We decided to finish dinner before Cinthia and I went to find Natasha and Jack and Lucas went to find Diego. After we split the bill Cinthia and I began calling Natasha but we already knew exactly where she went. Her call went to voice mail. We took Cinthia's car to the club and ran in. "Tasha!" I yelled when we saw her at the bar. We started walking quickly to her. She had her head down and a drink with her. "Ell! Hey you haven't been here in so long!" I heard Sammy shout. "Not right now Wilk" I stepped toward Natasha. 

"What happened there?" I asked as I sat down next to her. Cinthia sat on the other side. "I-I'm not in love with him. I love him. Just not as my husband, not as my boyfriend" She shook her head. "Ohhh shit" Cinthia whispered. "Can we go back to our house?" Tasha sat up. "Yeah, okay." We nod and pack into the car. When we get there and walk in Diego, Lucas, and Jack are already there. "Fuck" Tasha face palms as they look up at us. "Hi" she says and sits down in front of a crying Diego. "I don't know how to say this- I just... I'm n-not in love with you" She looks down. 

He breaks down again. And of course Natasha starts crying too. "Uh Sammy just texted me" I mumbled. "Want me to beat his ass?" Jack looks up from the scence before us. "Nates in the hospital, we gotta go" I grab our keys and we all squish into the jeep. Tasha in the trunk, Cinthia, Lucas, and Diego in the middle, Jack and I in the front. I shook my knee nervously. "I'm sure it's not too bad, Nates alwats in sticky situations" Jack reasurred. I think mostly for himself.

I mean, Skate was one of his best friends and one of mine too. He'd been nothing but good to us all. We pulled up to the hospital and all ran as quickly as possible. Sammy had texted me his room so all of us, nicely dressed and some crying, washed into his room. Nate was hooked up to a series of tubes and IV pins. "Hey, pals!" He weakly smiled. "What happened?" Natasha gasped and avoided eye contact by staring at the wall. "Well, after about one and a half lines of coke this guy though why not fight a gang leader and now were here" Sammy said from the chair next to Nate. "They can't pull the bullet out until the coke wears off" He nodded toward the wrapped wound.

"Gonna be a badass scar" Nate nodded. I chuckled. "I bet" Lucas added. Even though Cinthia and Lucas had only met Nate like once or twice they came for the moral support. "Hey why are these kids crying" Sammy looked in between the awkward space of Natasha and Diego. "I purposed" Diego lifted a hand. "I said no" Natasha glances up. "Oh shit, it was a nice ass ring too, that sucks" Nate says. "How'd you know?" Tasha looks at him. "I went ring shopping with him, I know what you like after like 3 years of working together." Nate shrugs and all of the tubes do too. Natasha started crying again. But I knew it wasn't because she said no, it was because she said no due to the fact she was in love with Nate. 

"Oh fuck" I mumbled. "Natasha, hall?" I slowly back out. Natasha follows. "You couldn't say yes because you're in love with Nate." I state and cross my arms. "I- well, yeah, I have been for awhile and I don't k- I just couldn't lie to Diego anymore." She shrugs. "Well, let's focus on Nate getting better, than your love life" I smile and so does she. Right after we came back in a nurse with a stretcher came in too. "It's time for surgery" She says. "Alright, good luck Nate" Sammy stands up. Jack, Tasha, and I say our goodbyes. "Don't let them chop your dick off" I say to lighten the mood. "I'm like a lizard, just grows back" Nate tells me. We all laugh and they load him onto the stretcher and out the room. I lean into Jack.

"He's gonna be alright" Jack wraps his arm around me. "Hey, Ell, can we talk in the hall." Sammy scratches the back of his neck. "Ha, no" Jack laughs. I kiss Jack. "I'll be right back" I tell him and go into the hall. "I'm really sorry about everything, I do have a ot of feelings toward you. But I know you're happy with Jack. Just know I'll be here when he messes up" Sammy keeps his eyes locked on mine. "It's okay. I'm glad you respect Jack and I's relationship." I say and walk back in. "He was just apoligizing" I tell Jack and he grabs my hand. 

We wait about three and a half hours. "I feel like it really shouldn't take this long" Natasha says anxiously. "Me too" I look at the time. It's almost 12. "I'm sure it's fine" Sammy says. We wait about another 35 minutes before a sweaty doctor comes into the room. "We have terrible news, Mr. Maloley didn't make it. With cocaine still in him plus the surgical drugs, his heart couldn't take it" The doctor announced. I swear my heart dropped into my uterus. My legs went numb. "We tried everything we could, I'm sorry for your loss" The doctor said it so rehersed and then left so swiftly. We all were silent crying for a bit before I started to hiccup through my cries. Jack wrapped his arms around me and I bawled into his chest while we bawled over my shoulder. 











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