Abused And Used

Chapter 11

I woke up the next morning in bed to find that Matt is nowhere in sight. Not next to me where he should be, cuddling with me and breathing on my neck to know that he is there. I sighed.

I got up and went into the living room and found that he was not in there either. Where is he? I checked everywhere and still found him nowhere at all.

A knock on the door suddenly interrupted my thoughts, I went and opened it and Jay stood in front of me.

I crossed my arms and said, “What do you want?”

He walked in, clearly not caring if I wanted him here or not.

“Now that is not a very nice greeting”

“I don’t care what is and what is not. What do you want?” I asked him.

“It’s Matt.” He says.

“What’s Matt?”

“He had an accident. He dumped his car.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, he went completely crazy and started drag racing me down Center Street. I simply did not even want to, but he started tailing me, getting right up on my bumper. He even put a dent on the side of my door.”

“Wait-what?”

“You need to come with me. You are the only one he would want to see, and I thought I could come over here and take you to him”

Without further questions, I grabbed my coat and lock up the apartment behind me.

“Where is he now?” I ask, once we start driving.

Jay turns up the music-some song by Theory of a Deadman- and then he takes a bunch of turns, leading us down the too the main drag. I already got lost.

“Where is he now?” I repeated once again, talking over the music.

“The hospital. The guy was racing me and got carried away. He plowed his car right into the tree.”

“You did call the ambulance right?”

“Yeah, I called them, don’t worry. He was banged up pretty badly though.”

“Why were you guys racing? I have not told him anything about this situation you and I are in. There is no way of him knowing and there is no way he would drag race you, I know Matt”

“The guy went crazy” he repeated.

“Yeah, but why? I mean, there always has to be a reason.”

“Apparently not for him.”

“But that makes no sense, Jay!” I sigh. “That’s not like Matt at all”

“Have you not seen his temper yet?”

I did not want to answer that, because I knew the answer to it. I have seen his temper last night, he got so angry and how he said he did not want me or the baby, my life crashed before my eyes when those words left his mouth. I knew deep down that those words were not true and he did not mean them.

I glance out the window, watching as Jay takes another turn, pulling out onto the highway. I hope we get there soon, I need to be there for my Matt just like he was there for me, and I cannot let him down.

“What hospital is he at?” I ask Jay, noticing how we keep getting further and further away from Matt’s apartment. Shouldn’t the hospital have been closer than we have been driving?

“Maroon.” He turns up the radio even louder.

“Why Maroon?” I say over the music.

Jay shrugs. “It’s where the ambulance took him, I guess. The EMT guy said there are more people on staff there than the other hospitals and they would be quicker at taking care of him”