Jenalyn: Crossing Lines (#4) [Complete]

Chapter 95: Hayden

Sunday, 12:01 P.M. EST

My entire body hurts. I feel that even before opening my eyes; It feels like I ran across the globe and right into a brick wall. And something just... doesn’t feel right. 

What the fuck did I do? 

I can’t remember... anything. Just that Dane was leaving me alone in the new apartment for a few days while he- ...wait. 

This doesn’t feel like the bed in the new apartment... 

I open my eyes, only to have to wipe them as I try to understand my surroundings and how I got here. 

A hospital? 

Just like that, bits and pieces of memories begin to float around my mind attempting to connect to one another. I grab onto a few of them, immediately reaching down to grasp my belly once I realize what happened.

I… I think I had my baby?

I remember Evelyn... and Rob... and the most fucking pain I’ve ever been in. I remember the drugs, and how they were all I could think about… That’s it though; I don’t remember anything else.

What the hell happened? And how did I end up here?! 

I’m crying before I can process that I am.

I didn’t even get to hold her! Or see her! I don’t care if she was gone already; I wanted to see what my daughter could have been!

A presence beside me stirs, startling me. I turn to see a lump of black fabric I immediately recognize as someone sleeping.Ty? 

What the-

“You’re up!” he says upon waking up to notice me. He immediately stands up and makes his way over to the side of the hospital bed where I lay. “How’re you feeling? You need me to call the nurse in?“

I don’t mean to cut him off, but I can’t help curiosity from overwhelming me when my memory of Ty being involved in any of this comes up blank. 

“H-how did you get here?” I stammer, my brows furrowed in confusion. 

He let’s out a small but weak laugh, offering me the bottle of water sitting on a small table beside the hospital bed. “You texted me,” he responds without missing a beat. “-and told me to meet you here. So... here I am!”

I sip the water bottle slowly, sure that if I go too fast, it’ll come right back up. I try to pull any memory of texting him to my mind, but nothing comes up. 

I vaguely remember something about my phone; I just can’t pull to mind what it is. 

“I met the ex, by the way...” Ty says after the few moments of silence I’d left between us. “He seems like an asshole. But I mean… I guess I’m thankful he brought you here. Is- is he who you’ve been staying with this whole-“

The ex?... is he talking about Dane? 

“Ex?” I cut him off. 

He nods his head, proceeding to go on about running into him outside or something. I can no longer pay him attention though, because my mind is rushing a mile a minute. 

Dane brought me here…? That means he probably did something horrible to my baby; Dead or alive... 

Tears are streaming down my cheeks again. I’m practically bawling as all of my feelings and emotions grow to be too much, and I overflow. 

“W- what’s the matter?” Ty asks in a panic, searching the sides of my hospital bed for a help button. “Are you okay?! Tell me what you’re feeling!”

How doesn’t he hate me? As far as he’s concerned, it was his baby I killed too! He shouldn’t have even an ounce of sympathy for me. I- I’m a horrible person…

“I didn’t mean to kill her!” I can’t help but cry anyway. “I’m so sorry I put you through that Ty! Y- you didn’t deserve-“

He cuts me off, his brows furrowed in confusion as he holds off on pressing the button to summon a nurse. “What?” he asks, looking at me as if I were crazy. “Kill who Hayden? What’re you talking about?!”

I really feel like I could vomit now. Crying so hard was not a good idea while I knew my stomach was so shaken. 

“McKaiden!” I cry. “The baby, Ty! I- I didn’t mean to-“

I falter off when my stomach threatens me again. Ty looks even more confused now; Have I been gone so long he forgot about the baby?! 

“Y- you don’t know?” he asks after a moment, an excitement in his voice that I wasn’t expecting. 

I manage to slow my crying. “Know what?” I ask him, the confusion now spread across my own face. 

His face lights up before he responds, his voice matching his face. “Baby, we have twins! Twin girls!” he exclaims before the excitement falls from his face and he grows more serious. “McKaiden isn’t out of the dark quite yet… but we’re going to keep hope! She’s strong!"

We... have... twins? 

Like, have them? Here? Alive? Dane just… let us go? Delivered us to Tyler?! 

Huh…?

And wait- did he really just fucking say twins?!