This Crazy Life

Chapter 29

Mahogany's POV:

After Gracie left we could hear shouts in the other room. I saw her stumble into our room clutching her face. What the hell happened? I don't want to go over to Nash's room becuase I'm kind of afraid. I decide to call him instead. 

"Hello?"

"Nash, I just saw Gracie stumble into her room, holding her face. What in the hell happened?"

He sighs. "Taylor slapped her. She was apologizing and he just snapped and slapped her. He was holding some sort of nail thing in his hand, just playing with it. It cut her cheek open. He's freaking out over here, guys. He can't believe he did that he feels horrible. And someone needs to go over and check on Gracie, she looked so sad and hurt."

We hang up and I fill in the others on what happened. Shawn looks extremely pissed off.

"I'm gonna give her some time to calm down and then I'll go check on her. I can't believe Taylor did that to her face, it was just a kiss." I say, I feel so bad for Gracie.

"Well you know Taylor has a really short temper, Nash and Cam should have seen that one coming." Jack J states. 

"Can we please just stop talking about this, I feel sick." Hayes asks. We all feel sick over this whole thing. It feels like the family is all torn up and I hate it. Gilinsky orders pizza and we eat together. No one really says anything. What is there to say?

About and hour and a half later my phone rings. "Hello?"

"Mahogany, it's Gracie. I really need to talk to you." I can hear her sobbing on the other end of the phone. 

"Ok, hold on I'll be over in a sec." She hangs up and I tell the boys I'm going to check on her. I'm a little worried. She sounded really serious on the phone, like she has something to tell me.

I knock on the door and she opens it. Her face is blotchy and red from crying and her right cheek is soaked in blood. I immediately wrap her in a hug. 

"I'm so sorry, Gracie. I'm so sorry he did that to you, I'm so sorry." I say and take a seat on her bed.

"I deserved what he did to me. I'm not even mad at him, not even a little. It hurt me, but I would have slapped me too. I can't believe I kissed Shawn. I ruined everything." 

"Kissing Shawn was wrong, and it did hurt Taylor, but that doesn't give him the right to turn your face into a bloody mess! It was just a kiss, and everyone overreacted to it. Everything is going to be fine, Taylor and Shawn will calm down eventually and the family will be back to normal." I smile at her, trying to cheer her up.

"Mo.." She starts, using the nickname that Matt gave me a few months ago. She clears her throat and starts again.

"I'm sick Mahogany." I don't doubt it, she doesn't look particularly healthy, especially right now.

"Well why don't you lie down for a bit? I get sick at these events all the time, and after what you've been through this week I'm not su-"

"No, I don't mean like that." She gives me a sad look. "I mean I'm the kind of sick you can't fix. I have lung cancer, I.. I'm dying." Gracie chokes out the sentence and tears immediately stain her cheeks.