50 Shades Without You

Chapter 26

Ella's P.O.V

"What's wrong?" I say calmly but with concern. "You've been cheating on me for months? Giving him money for months? After everything I've done for you" Jack stalks toward me. "What are you talking about" I back up. "I know. I know you've been taking my money for months and giving it to David. You've been with him for months" He says a bit lower but still as angry. "Jack, I swear I haven't, you know I haven't" I tell him.

"He confessed Ella. The acts up. He told me you were planning to take my money and run off with him." He says, tears filling in his eyes "I saw the withdraws". "Jack, no, I'm not- " I reach forward for him and he screams "Get out of my house! You're a slut" without even looking up. My heart is pounding. "Take your stuff and go. I'll send you the rest when I feel like it" He says a bit more calm. I can feel the tears boiling out of my eyes and I'm running up the stairs. I come back down with a bag and Jack's still there in the same position. "I love y-" I say through gasps of air. "Shut up" He says and more tears spill rapidly from my eyes.

This is just a bad dream, this is just a bad dream. "Also, don't take my car. I paid for it" He snaps. It's just a bad dream, Ella. I take a few more deep breaths and leave. I don't know how to convince him other wise. I didn't do any of that but he's too angry to listen right now. I try to call Sam but realize he shut off my phone. We were on the same line, so yeah, he can do that. I walk for twenty minutes to Sammy's. I knock on the door and get nothing but a disgusted look when he opens it. "Sam- something happened I nee-" I say, still crying. "I heard, Ella. And it's really shitty what you did. Go somewhere else" He slams the door.

I walk to three different people's houses. Johnson's, Aaliyah's, and Nate's. They all told me they couldn't see me right now. They all knew what Jack thought had happened. I was shunned. I even called everyone's number I could remember on a pay phone. Nothing. No one cared. I didn't have anywhere to go so I just sat outside of a Taco Bell and felt numb. 

A car pulled in and I sat even more still. I didn't want to speak to anyone or for them to ask questions. Out popped.. David. The man who single handidly ruined my life. My heart grew furious and I snapped up, running toward him. He opened his arms like I was meaningto hug him but I punched him. Hard, a lot of times. But he didn't seem to hurt at all. "Why" punch "did" punch "you" punch "do this" I finally fell against his car, more tired than he. "Get in the car before you freeze to death" He says, satisfied with my outburst. "No, I rather freeze then go anywhere with you" I huff.

"Frankly, you don't have a choice. And I think you should let me explain some things"  David says and grabs my arms. He sits me in the car and I let him. He's right. I have no where else to go. That really sinks in.  I have no where to go. David gets in his side and says "First off, I did this for us. So you could finally see how much I love you" His voice sounds narcissistic. "I love Jack" I say simply. "You'll learn to love me. Some time" He adds. I cringe and he rolls his eyes. "Where are we going" I ask, emotionless. "Home. You can stay with me, seeing none of your "friends" will take you in" He almost laughs as he hold up figer quotations.

He disgusted me so much I didn't even want to be in the same car as him. "At least give him back the money.." I say quietly. "Oh yeah, you're probably wondering how I did that" He nods. "No, I figured it out" I say, annoyed. "Please, be my guest" He refers to what I know. "You've been in our house multiple times. You must've gotten into our office, wired my account to your phone- being that my password isn't hard, and taken money" I respond. "Nate taught you a few things" He chuckles. "Yeah" I feel tears well up when I think about the fact I might never see Alex and Natalia again. "You kept saying 'our'. Like you and Jack still shared everything. According to his last conversation with Nate, the divorce papers will be sent to you as soon as possible."

I don't know if I can describe heart break again. You know, the feeling of your whole chest dropping into your stomach. I've felt it so many times I didn't know if it was just my normal mood now. David was watching me drown myself in my thoughts. Maybe he felt bad because later that week he sugested something that changed me- my story. Changed everything I thought would happen the next few years. And maybe the thing I found out- the thing that pushed me to do this.. maybe that was the whole reason I did it. 

((I KNOW A LOT JUST HAPPENED BARE WITH ME, THE NEXT CHAPTER IS EVEN MORE SHOOK..SHOOKENING..?))))