NO reason to stay

11

Hunter

I have been waiting for this moment ever since I walked out of that hospital. Everything is much more complicated than she thinks. I have no intention of keeping the money she has worked for. I want her to sit down with me so I can clarify the whole situation. I figured out this would be her reaction but I thought she would be willing to hear me out. Dean was involved with her picking this apartment as I knew she began to date Brad I had to do something about it. Dean has always had my back and during this summer he has shown me. Emma has no idea of the summer I have had to keep her safe. I don't want to tell her I was protecting her as if she had to thank me because I chose to do it. She is mine and will forever be mine.

"Emily. Please." I ask once again as her eyes look over my shoulder. She quickly looks up and snaps,

"Don't call me that!" I see things aren't going as I wanted them to go. I can't do anything about it, just wait until she comes around.

"I can't talk with you now." She says turning around as she presses the elevator button. I slowly walk up to her and add,

"I want you back," She gets in the elevator as do I. I am not leaving her like this. I want her to hear me out one way or another. She slowly swallows and says.

"You are unbelievable." Instead of pressing the seventh floor she presses the ground floor as we both begin to go down. I look into her eyes hoping our eyes will lock with one another's. She looks up from the floor into my eyes. It has been so long since I have seen her pure green eyes. I get closer to her leaving just a few inches away from us. I always feel comfortable around her and somehow knowing that she doesn't feel the same way makes me hate myself. I lean my arms on each side of the wall behind her.

"Let me explain." I insist once again as the elevators doors open. I look over at the lobby and see Brad walking up to the elevators. I look back at Emma still inches away as she stiffens and pushes me away. We both step into the lobby to find Brad stopping in front of us.

"Good to see you, Wilson," I say walking past him as I pat his back. "Emily, we will soon catch up," I say walking out of the building.

"Wish I could say the same," Brad adds looking back at me. He wraps Emma under his arm as her head rests on his chest. I can't bear to turn around and see her under another man's arm instead of mine. I walk over to Peter and say making sure they all hear me, "Don't let this man into this building more than once a week and that's being generous." With that, I leave the building leaving the three of them standing speechless.

Dean promised me he would keep a close eye on Emma for me. I remember the day he phoned up and told me she had started dating Brad. The pain I felt was so raw and unbearable. I felt like someone had come and ripped my heart into a hundred pieces. I know Brad and he is a good guy so I wasn't worried about him hurting her, but I didn't want him touching her the way I touched her.  Seeing Brad now come into my lobby was a bigger punch. I knew they came together to San Francisco but seeing it with my own eyes was more painful. When Emma was in the hospital I had to pay off our debts to the gang leader. They knew that Emma was alive and had no intention of keeping it that way. To keep her safe I had no choice but to join them. My first tasks were dealing drugs but then things got complicated. I was dealing with some of his regular guys and everything went downhill. He threw a punch at me, I managed to dodge it and that made him frustrated as he continued to throw punches at me. I threw one back making him fall onto the concrete floor of the parking lot. From that day on I was the one who would fight for the gang. I then found out that the guy who first threw the punch at me was paid off by the gang leader to see my capacities and that's when I left the gang. After three months.

 I decide to head over to my new favorite place in this city to clear my head.

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