Reaching for Happiness

Chapter 38

*Marvin's POV*

I was sat in conversation with JB. He'd disappeared earlier, said he was meeting someone. Aston still wasn't back.. He'd been gone half an hour. I wouldn't be surprised if him and Chloe had found a quiet room somewhere to get some action. After all, they hadn't seen each other since the start of the tour. Someone knocked on the open door. I looked up to see Sara stood there, with a worried expression.

'Yeah?' I asked.

'It's Chloe..' she started. She explained that Chloe had wheeled herself to close to the top of the stairs, and fallen down them. She'd been rushed off to hospital.

'FUCK, I have to go see her!' I said, jumping up and running out the room. Nikki was calling after me, but I couldn't stop, I had to make sure she was okay; she was like the sister I never had.

I rushed to the hospital, driving through red lights and staying over the speed limit for most of the journey. I pulled up outside, not bothering to pay for a parking ticket, and sprinted inside. As I headed over to the front desk to ask where Chloe was, I saw Aston sat in the reception. I ran over to him, and noticed he was crying.

'Ast, where is she?' I asked, panting slightly, out of breath from all the rushing around. He looked up at me, before pointing towards a door. His eyes were all red and puffy, so he'd obviously been crying for some time. I was confused to why he wasn't in there with her, but I needed to be in there. I pushed the doors open to see her laid on a hospital bed, her eyes closed and her chest slowly moving up and down. She was surrounded by monitors, each making little beeps occasionally.

'Can I help you?' a doctor asked me. Well, I assumed she was a doctor.

'I'm a friend of Chloe's.. Am I allowed to see her?'

'Yes. She's asleep, but you can sit with her' she smiled. I pulled up a chair next to Chloe's bed and sat down. I held her gentle hand in mine, stroking my hand over hers. Her fingers twitched, and her eyes slowly opened.

'Marvin?' she asked, squinting her eyes slightly.

'Oh babe, I'm so glad your okay!' I sighed, leaning over her and kissing her forehead gently.

'I'm not okay Marv..' she said, a tear rolling down her face.

'Babe, what's wrong?' I asked her, concerned.

'I could lose the baby' she cried, her tears falling faster. I didn't know what to say, so I pulled back her covers, kicked off her shoes and climbed in next to her. I pulled her into me as she sobbed into my chest.

'Is that what the doctors told you?' I asked her, once her tears had almost stopped.

'They said my womb got damaged in the fall, so the baby could be premature, and I could lose it' she sniffed.

'Does Aston know then?' I asked her. Surely he did..

'No' she replied bluntly.

'Chloe, you have to tell him! You need to help each other through it!' I told her.

'I don't want to see him'

'Why?'

'He.. He..' she stuttered. 'He slept with Sara' she said, her tears staring again. What the fuck? He slept with Sara? How could he do that to Chloe, when they have a baby on the way.. I was fuming, my blood was boiling. I threw the bed sheets back and stormed out of the room. I saw Aston still sat where he was before, his face in his hands. I marched over to him and grabbed him by his collar, pulling him up. He looked shocked.

'Don't you EVER hurt Chloe like that, you hear me?' I said harshly through gritted teeth. Before I knew what I was doing, I threw my fist towards his face, knocking him to the floor. Before I could swing at him again, two security guards rushed over to us and pulled me away. They calmed me down before letting me go back to Chloe. She was sat with her knees up to her chest, clenching her small bump. I couldn't believe Aston would actually do something like this.. I thought he'd changed. I guess I was wrong..

'Chloe, babe, I need to go back to the O2. We have a gig..' I told her. She looked at me and nodded, smiling slightly. I noticed she had fresh tears down her cheeks. I walked over to her and squeezed her tightly in my arms.

'I'll be back later' I said, kissing the top of her head and leaving her alone in that room. I wasn't sure how we were gonna manage this show tonight. I'd be trying to stop myself from swinging at Aston the whole time, that's if he even turned up. Tonight was going to be one interesting performance...