That jerk is my husband

Chapter 7

    Twenty minutes later I was already sitting on the train and I doubted my decision for a moment. Maybe I should have hear him out before I leave, but what is there to explain? The situation was clear, they were half naked in her dorm room, giggling and having fun. I was a fool to believe him when he said he will stay with me and love me till the end of our lives. It turned out that he is still that jerk who he was when we first met. I just wish I could see it earlier. We even got married and it was just a few months ago. Maybe I am cursed and everybody will leave me or betray me eventually who I love. First Josh, then dad and now Ryan. Maybe I will be better off alone, but now I am pregnant with his baby who needs a father and I will never take that away from him or her, nor from Ryan to experience fatherhood. I just need this few days for myself to decide what to do with my life in the future. I won’t let anyone fool me again and break my heart. 

    It’s already dark outside when I got there. I was so deep in thoughts that the three hours drive to Santa Monica felt like half an hour. I grabbed my bag and climbed down from the train. There were just a few people around and the station was dark and creepy. I hurried to get out of there as soon as possible.

“Hey sweetheart, do you want to have some fun with two gentlemen?” Someone asked from behind me and I turned my head without stopping to see two guys drinking on the bench. I didn’t answer, I just started to walk faster to get away as far as possible from them.

“Where are you going sweetheart?” The other one asked and they burst out laughing. ´Please God, just let me survive this. I won’t leave from home ever again.´ I should have stayed and kick Ryan’s a*s instead. I was scared and shaking because this two men looks scary and dangerous. They aren’t gentlemen for sure as they said, they are far from it. They wore dark pants and leather jackets and I can smell the alcohol on them even frome here.

    They were walking behind me and as faster I walked, the faster they followed me. 

“We just want to chat with you.” One of them said and they were close now so I started to run and dragged my bag along with me. They started to run too and I arrived to a long flight of stairs and tried to take two steps at once. One of them got really close to me and tried to reach out to me when I stumbled and lost my balance. I rolled down the stairs and I felt unbearable pain all over my body what I never felt before when I reached the bottom. Especially my head hurts because I hit it hard into a step and I think I have a few broken bones as well, but I couldn’t evaluate it because I blacked out from the pain a few seconds later.

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*** A third person’s POV ***

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    The two creepy guys stood next to Mia -with a panicked expression on their faces -who was laying motionless on the bottom of the stairs. She rolled down minimum 5-7 meters from a long flight of stairs and now she wan unconscious, her head was bleeding and she had a lot of cuts and wounds all over her body. Her arms were sill around her belly, trying to protect her baby from the fall.

“Is she dead?” The taller one asked from his friend.

“I think so, look...” he pointed towards her belly. “I think she is pregnant.” The smaller one said and they looked at each other in terror.

“Sh*t, what do we do now Joe?” The tall one asked. 

“What do you think you i***t? Take her stuff and let’s get the hell out of here before anyone can see us.” The smaller guy, who was named as Joe told his friend angrily. “And Billy, don’t leave anything behind.” He added and looked around if there were any CCTV cameras what could record them.

“Okay.” The guy named Billy said and grabbed Mia’s bag from the floor and searched her pockets as well. 

“Now let’s go.” Joe said and started to walk away, but Billy just stood there looking at Mia with a frown.

 “What are you waiting for?” He asked impatiently.

“We can’t just leave her here.” Billy said and looked at Joe. “Let’s call her an ambulance at least.” He said and took his phone out of his pocket.

“Whatever.” Joe said and walked further away. Billy finished the call in a few seconds with only mentioning the address and saying ‘accident’ and hung up the phone before running after his friend.

    Mia was still unconscious when the ambulance arrived. They run towards her body when they noticed her by the bottom of the stairs.

“She could have fallen from the stairs.” One of the ambulance doctor said. “But she landed in a strange position with her arms around her belly.” He said and lifted one of her arms gently.

“She is pregnant.” The other doctor said with wide eyes. “She protected the baby instead of herself when she fell.” He said and pulled out the stretcher from the ambulance car.

“Let’s lift her and place her on the stretcher. One-two-three..” he said and they lifted her up onto it and  pushed Mia into the ambulance car right away. 

“Did you find her ID to call her family?” One doctor asked the other, while they hurriedly drive away towards the hospital.

“No, she had nothing with her, what is strange. Do we know who called the ambulance for her?” The other one asked. 

“No, the dispatcher said it was a strange call and they just said the address. Maybe it was a robbery what didn’t end well and they didn’t want to leave her there.” 

“Yes, that’s possible.” They tried to find out what happened to her and who she is when they finally reached the hospital of Santa Monica after ten minutes. They told every necessary information to the doctor who came to help them and they pushed her towards the emergency room. 

“She has a c***k on her skull because she was protecting her baby instead of her head what most people do reflexly. She has a broken arm, a twisted ankle, concussions of the brain and we needed to put her left shoulder back to its place. She is in a coma and she will be for an unknown time.” One of the doctor said to the other when they finished her check up with sweaty forehead.

“This poor girl.... it was a huge fall, but luckily she is alive and her baby as well.” The other one said and they nodded along. “Does someone knows already who she is?” He asked his colleague.

“No, not yet, I hope someone will look for her soon, otherwise we need to wait till she wakes up.” he said and they left the room.

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“Just credit cards and thirty dollars cash.” Billy said disappointedly to Joe when he checked Mia’s bag and wallet in Joe’s kitchen. He throw the cast onto the table and try to find some information about her.

“What can we do with that? All that trouble for thirty bucks?” Joe said angrily and kicked into the chair next to him.

“Mia Collins from Los Angeles.” Billy read from her ID card. “She is nineteen years old.” He said and looked up to his friend. “Do you think she is loaded?” he asked Joe and pulled out a photo from her wallet, a photo of Mia and Ryan standing in the front of the Camaro with ‘me and my husband’ written on the back of the picture. 

“I think they are.” Billy said after looking at the photo. “He is her husband.” He said and turned the photo towards Joe.

“Yes, they are.” Joe said with an evil smirk and snatched the photo out of Billy’s hand to take a closer look.

“Wait.” Billy said when he noticed the advertisement in her bag. “She came here for a vacation alone, dude. Her phone is off so her family must have been looking for her.” He said and showed the piece of paper and her phone to Joe.

“You know ,you can be smart when you use your head for thinking.” Joe said with a smirk. “Ask your friend to find her husband. We need his telephone number only.” Joe said and Billy nodded and stood up from the table.

“I will call you later.” He said and left the house in a hurry to start with their plan. Billy and Joe lives from shady busniesses and stealing so they always look out for opportunities like this one.