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My mind is going a thousand miles per hour. Why would he hide stuff from her? She always knows everything, even the stuff dad doesn’t tell Jensen or me.
“What’s going on Jensen?”
“Well, we all know that she has some issues with Gregory, dad just didn’t want her to worry…”
Silence stretches through the line. I feel like I am going to choke on my own heart as it’s risen up into my jugular.
“Is he…”
“He is not abusing her. They just keep fighting and he is not home most of the time. She is in the process of hiring a nanny.”
“Okay. I mean, not okay, but I understand. I just want to hurt the bastard. I’ve hated him from the day I met him.”
“Same. Anyway, she said she is happy dad saw her for who she was and picked us over her, as if it was ever in question, but again, she is sad because of you. She is also sorry she didn’t have the time to call while running a store and taking care of a baby all by herself. We need to do better to keep her in the loop.”
“I will call her. I just…you know how I get once mom’s birthday is around the corner.”
“I’m sorry, Noah. It’s my fault,” he says, his throat closing up.
“It was never your fault. It was the doctor's fault.”
Once Jensen was out, the doctor and nurses turned their backs to mom, and didn’t notice her bleeding out on the table. Once they did, she’s already lost so much blood… It was too late to save her. I know the burden he carries, but it shouldn’t be that way. I know the hurt he lives with day after day. I know why he spends every free moment of his day in the gym lifting weights and punching bags. I know, but I never say I do. I never say it, because I know for a fact it would crush him.
“Thank you, Noah,” he says in such a small voice, it reminds me of stormy nights when we were kids, when he would crawl in my or Tia’s bed to stay safe. “I wanted to ask one more question, though…”
“Mmm?”
“Did you hear from her? Christine, I mean.”
“No, dad didn’t either. Why? Is she reaching out to you?”
“Well, she texted. It was something like ‘you will remember me, all of you will, and you will be sorry for telling your brother about me’.” he says in a more feminine tone, but there is no humor present. “I couldn't reach her after that message, she blocked me everywhere.”
“Je l’ me zezaš!?” I squeeze through my teeth. “Did you tell dad?”
“Ozbiljan sam. And yeah, and Tiana. That’s how I found out she had no clue what was going on. I am honestly scared of what that crazy bitch might do.”
“I will let you know if I hear something.”
“Okay, I gotta go now, I have a class. Tell Ronan I called. Love you, bye!”
The line goesbeepbefore I even have the chance to respond. I take my watch off and place it on the desk in the corner.
What in the actual fuck?
I sit down in the middle of the floor, surrounded by the heaps and heaps of different brands of drum sticks. Scanning the room, I can’t shake this awful feeling off. She reached out to a barely adult Jensen, thinking that he is the weakest one. We can’t protect him when he is out there all alone.
***
I don’t notice Sky and Ice once they get back to work. I don’t register inhaling my doughnuts and large mocha. I don’t know how many hours went by whilst I was thinking over every single interaction with Ronan’s God forsaken mother. What if she tries to hurt her? What if she tries to take her away?
Loud honking snaps me out of my thoughts. I lift my head up to look through the window of our storage room, but it’s pitch black.
What time is it?
I grab my phone to check, and I’m met with four missed calls from Ronan and a few messages. Last one from five minutes ago. At 22:15.
I’m outside.
