LUCI

26 - Perturbed

Perturbed

~ feeling anxiety or concern; unsettled ~

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"Please wake up soon. I miss you" I whisper to him as I sit by his bed for the 9th day in a row without failure. Every morning I get up and sit next to his bed for hours before one of the boys  drags me to bed. The arrogant bitch has the audacity to be in a coma after getting shot twice, avenging me. 

How inconsiderate.

He looks like a fucking vegetable lying there. He's so pale and it makes me want to cry every time I see him. It doesn't even look like him anymore. He looks so weak unlike the big bad mafia boss I've come to know and apparently love. The doctor told me that he should wake up in the next week or two. His body needs to heal.

"Em, come on. It's not healthy to sit here and look at him all day" I hear Nico's voice next to me. I just move my head slightly to look at him. I have nothing to say. I feel lost right now. I haven't been home in almost two weeks. I can't be bothered to mope around in the house by myself so instead I mope around in the even bigger house with people. "Em, he is going to be okay. He needs to rest and you need to eat. Come on" He says taking my hand. He pulls me up and leads me out of the room. 

Just outside the room are four guards watching over Luci's room. Since he's been like this, the whole atmosphere in the compound is off. Business is still being taken care off, Nico and Santos in charge, but it seems weird. Eerie almost. Everyones mood is different. None of the men joke around anymore. They just get on with their jobs and then they go to sleep. There is no more drinking, no more laughing, no more fun. Luci needs to wake the fuck off before we fall apart. 

"What do you want to eat?" Nico asks as I sit down at the massive family table. 

"Whatever you can cook" I shrug. There are more important things on my mind than food. In the back of my mind there is constantly a thought of what to do with my parents. Everyday someone gives them food and water but that's the only luxury that they get. 

"I think you should make that pasta thing you always make so well" Santos says as he enters the room. Alex following behind him. Nico mumbles something under his breath and I swear I feel the air in the room stop. Something is different now they're back from the cabin. I don't even think it's the fact that Luci is in a coma at the moment. It's like something changed when we lost all contact with them. It's just not the same. 

Nobody says anything for a while. The entire time Nico is cooking the room is silent. You think you accidentally farting in a lesson when you were in high school was awkward then you are very wrong. This is the definition of awkward. None of them can look me in the eye.

"Okay what the fuck is going on" I shout as we all start to eat the delicious food Nico prepared. 

"w-what do you mean?"  Alex stutters. A dead giveaway that he is hiding something. He always did that as a child. He hates lying which means he stutters. 

"Cut the crap" I roll my eyes. "All of you" I tell them, eyeing every single one of them. All them avoid my eye contact which makes me more mad. They look at each other and have some sort of secret conversation.

Santos lets out an extremely over the top sigh before talking to me, "Uh well your mother had a command of sorts otherwise there would be more shooting after Luci was shot" 

"Oh please do explain" I say with hatred laced in my voice. I hate that I keep getting left out of everything they do. 

"Your mother, um, sort of wants you to, um, take a, um-" 

"SPIT IT OUT" I shout at Santos and the other two start laughing a little.

"A pregnancy test" He says extremely quietly. My jaw instantly drops. Why! I'm defiantly not pregnant. Not a chance. We've always used protection.

Except for that once time. 

Although we did get the morning after pill. I remember it now. I started screaming at Luci and then he kissed me to shut me up. He then calmed me down and told me that we would get the morning after pill the next day.

Except we never did. Fuck.

"Thats why we've all been really awkward around you. None of us wanted to tell you." Alex mumbled.

"Why would the she devil think I'm pregnant?"I ask.

"Apparently you looked like she did when she was pregnant. She said you looked pretty bad when you were staying with them" The way he said staying made me laugh. More like held in a cell against my will although I did voluntarily go to them.

"Well of course I looked like shit, they beat the shit out of me" 

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My apologies that its a mega short chapter. Like I said a few chapters ago there is a lot happening in the next few chapters, even though the story is coming to an end. We've had one major thing happen now we have two more. You could probably guess at least one of them :)