Blackheart Forever (Cody Culp)

Chapter 22

Cody's POV

It's been a week and Jess still has'nt woke up.
A couple hours ago I gave her some more blood, and now I'm leaned against the door frame with a beer watching over her.
"How is she?",someone said and I looked beside me to see Shay, her best friend staring at Jess.
"The same", I shrugged and tilted my beer back.
She sighed and walked toward the bed, sitting beside Jess.

"Alright look here, bitch", she said, and laughed so I cracked a smile."Your scarin us...real bad, and we want you to come back. We need you... your the only pair of balls we got next to Cody...and he literally has them and he can't get his head straight still."
I laughed and rolled my eyes at her, shifting the weight of my feet.
"Bottom line, we need you...I need you, the group does...Cody needs you...so just come back to us alright?", she said.
After that, she stood up and nodded to me once before walking out.
I turned back and looked at her.

I set down my beer on the desk and walked over to her slowly, then sat down beside her on the bed.
"Look I know you probably can't hear me...but if you there...I miss you...I want and need my best friend back...but if you can't I understand", I sighed and closed my eyes."If you to...you can go..I dont wanna keep you here if you don't have to be...if you need to... go."
After that, I kissed her forehead, then stood up, grabbing my beer off the table and walking out.

Jess's POV

I watched him walk out and down the hall, then I sighed, turning back to myself and shook my head.
"You have to come back from this", I said to myself...literally.
I walked towards me and sat on the bed.
"You have to...you have to fight this", I said."They need you...they need me...so just wake up..please", I said.

I sat there for a while, and nothing happened, so I sighed and leaned over the side of the bed with my head in my hands, and then all I saw was white, and I was gone.

Cody's POV

We were having a party tonight, which felt a lot different without Jess...she was always so much fun-
I stopped myself from thinking about that, and made a B-line for the bar.
I walked up there and leaned on it, swallowing the lump in my throat threatening to make me bawl, and I shook my head.

"Hey Cody, what can I get ya?", Buzz said.
Buzz has always been out bartender for the hangout.
"Give me the entire bottle of Crystal Head", I choked out and he gave me a look.
"You sure you wanna do that?That shit will kick your as-"
"Did I fuckin stutter?",I growled up at him.
He gave me a sad look, but shook his head and went under the counter to grab it then handed it to me.
I took the lid off, then chugged half the bottle down and leaned my back on the bar.
"You alright man?", he asked putting a hand on my shoulder.
"Yeaaa man I'll-I'll be fine", I waved him off, then drank some more and after that I walked off into the crowd of people, but I did'nt remember anything after that.

Angel's POV

I watched from across the room, taking a drag from my cigarette as Cody staggered across the room of blaring music and loud people, downing his entire bottle of Vodka.
I shook my head at him, lowering my cig and blowing my smoke out.
He never does this.
I'm just as upset about Jess as he is.
Maybe even more if that's possible.
I mean, she's the only mother figure I've ever had.
She is my mom.
And there's a good chance I could lose her.

I shook my head at myself, then walked away from my friends, ignoring them as they called me back and I walked outside the hangout, sitting on the steps.
I breathed in, but it came out as I shaky breath and I wiped a few tears away angrily.
It's not fair!!
I looked to the right of me, at the trauma quarters of the entire Blackheart hangout-where Jess, was then looked away, taking a drag of my cig and letting another tear fall.
"Well, well, well...look who we have here", someone said from the shadow of the wall.
I looked up and was face to face with the one and only asshole-Hector.
I could feel Jess's knife she gave me in my pocket and I was so tempted to flip it out and stab him until he could'nt move but I did'nt.

"What do you want?", I growled and took another drag.
"Oh nothing, was just out, thought "huh maybe I'll go see how my ol pal Cody's doin", he smirked and I glared at him."And now that I'm here, I thought, "why don't I take out another Culp huh?"
And with that, he reached down, grabbed me by my throat then slammed me up against the wall.
"God dammit!!", I growled and his grip only tightened on my neck.
"What was that?I could'nt understand you-let me squeeze a little harder huh?",he laughed, then his grip tightened even more and me clawing at his hand did'nt help.
"Oh what's this?",he said as he reached into my pocket and grabbed Jess's knife then flipped it open and my eyes widened.

All of a sudden out of nowhere, I saw someone hold up and gun to the side of Hector's head and he froze.
"Drop the knife- and Get.The FUCK. Away. From. My . Son.", they growled then Hector dropped the knife to the ground and they hit him over the head with their gun and he fell to the floor letting me go.