Hannah's Point of View

"What is it, Hannah?" Ms. Greene said looking at me curiously along with Jules.

I knew what I was about to say would mean a whole lot was going to happen. It could end with me heartbroken. I didnt even fully know if this was me talking or some sort of ghost appeared in my head. I also didnt know whether it was the right decision. But one thing I did know was I wanted to have this baby. No matter if I lost everything, at least I would have this baby.

"I wanna keep it. "

Ms.Greene and Jules both looked at me wide-eyed.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Jules said standing up from her chair and walking over to me. I didn't know if she was going to slap me or hug me.

"I'm sorry Ms.Brown, but what are you talking about"

"I don't want to have an abortion. It feels wrong. The father doesn't even know I'm pregnant let alone about to get rid of it. It's just wrong. Yeah, I might lose the only person that made me feel so special and like I actually mattered in this world, but it's better than feeling awful and guilty inside knowing the father didnt even get a chance to say goodbye. "

While Ms.Greene looked at me understandingly, Jules rushed up and hugged me, way too tight,

"Oh my god, thank you, thank you, so fucking much, You don't know how much I wanted you to have this child girl. The thought of mini you going shopping with me when you don't want to is so freaking cool. Oh god, I love you so mu.."

"Woah Woah, slow down there. I just found out I'm pregnant and that I'm keeping it. What did she say, about two weeks, I can't even see it yet."

"I know I know, but I'm just so excited," she said squeezing me even tighter until eventually, I felt like I was going to faint, so I pulled her off. She looked at me and held my hand,

"And I promise, no matter what Al does, I'm always going to be here, okay, so don't worry about that"

"Okay, thank you, Jules."

"Okay ladies, since there will be no baby removing tonight, I suggest you come back in 18 to 20 weeks, so I can see your progress. Other than that, let me wipe this off and you can leave" she said grabbing some wipes and wiping off the stuff on my stomach. I pulled my shirt down and hopped off the bed. Jules grabbed her purse and handed me mine. Then Ms.Greene lead us out of the room and back in the waiting room,

"Thank you for your time, Ms.Greene, I'm so sorry for the waste."

"It's no trouble at all Hannah, I go through this all the time. Here's my card, in case anything happens or you need anything call this number," she said handing me a black card with her face, number, and email on it

"Thank you "

"No problem, you guys take care"

"You too," I said as we walked out of the hospital. Then I got a call from David, or devil number 2 I should say.

"Hey shrimpy, you still looking ugly as usual huh?" he said over the line as I and Jules sat down on a nearby bench waiting for another uber.

"Seriously, you don't even know what I look like right now. Well unless you're stalking me, I know you tend to do that to people"

"Trust me, your no one I would stalk, but Jules on the other hand, oh yes I woul..."

"And I'm gonna cut you off right there, you can talk to her about all that shit another time, and way far away from me. Anyway, what do you want?′

"Your boyfriend wants us to go Capone Industries, take a look at recent and old clients, workers, you know people that can r...."

"Yeah, yeah, I know to find an artist than can redesign the hotel he wants, I've been informed, I'm on my way there now"

"How are you getting there?"

"I don't know Jules has another case in L. A so she has to go home and pack, shes taking a separate uber, I think ill get to catch the bus or take an uber too"

"Tell her to call me, and no"

"No what?"

"You're not catching the bus and she's not getting in her own uber, ill send two drivers over to pick you guys up, one will take Jules to her house and the other will bring you here got it?"

"Yeah I got it dipshit, just as controlling as your brother, ill see you in a bit, bye"

″Hurry up" he said hanging up the phone.

Not even 5 minutes later two black hatchbacks pulled up to where I and Jules were standing.

"Wow, your boyfriend cares about you, geesh," I said staring at the cars.

" Yeah I guess, bye I probably won't see you until after the case is over, so probably Tuesday or Wednesday, okay?" she replied hugging me and getting in the car.

"Aww okay, now I'm going to be extra lonely"

"Hannah, just try to make so more friends, please"

"Yeah yeah, whatever, bye, "I said hoping in the back seat of the car that was for me, Jules closed her door and I closed mine. When both cars drove off and went there separate ways, Jules messaged me,

Bestie:

Text me when you get home okay? and call me so we can talk about my daughttttterrr.

Me:

Okay, and Jules one please stop bringing "It" up, I could lose the love of my life, and you already making me regret my decision.

Bestie:

Okay, okay, I'm sorry, but seriously text me when you make it home okay?

Me:

Okay

Just then I heard the driver unlock the door and saw I was at Capone Industries already. I quickly threw my phone in my bag, stepped out of the car, and walked inside the building. I hadn't been here since the day I thought Al was cheating. I hadn't quit and he hadn't fired me. I just stopped working there. I know I should have gone back after we got back together, but I didnt want all those jealous women staring at me like a fish in a pack of dogs. So to avoid some of that I have been working as a waiter again. They posted an ad saying they have a free waitress job available. So I figured why not. Thankfully not at my same old waiter job, but a nice and respectful restaurant. The pay is average, but I don't mind.

Now as I'm walking down the hall finally reaching Al's office, I pull out my keys about to unlock the door, but the door flies open by itself, and I bump into David, half scared to death.

"Jesus you scared me," I said holding my hand against my heart and walking into the office, David following behind.

"How the hell did I scare you?"

"I don't know bitch, if someone came out of nowhere behind a door you'd lose your shit too"

"I don't know about that"

"How did you even get in here" I replied throwing my purse on Al's desk and sitting in the chair. I forgot how tall he was and how short I was because I couldn't see anything. I had to sit on my knees to see David and the computer at his desk.

"In case you forgot, your not the only one with a key shrimpy, and get up"

"What no, I want the big chair"

"Um no, I'm older so yeah, I'm getting the big chair go sit on the couch or something," David said trying to push me off the chair.

"NO, I'm his girlfriend so don't you think I should get it?" I said pushing him back. Was I pulling the girlfriend card? yes, yes I was. And I will gladly do it again.

"So, I'm his best friend fucker"

"Fuck you, you know how to settle this, I'm calling him, see who he'll choose"

"Bet, you do that, in fact, facetime him"

"Hand me my purse," I said not taking the chance of losing the seat. When he gave me my purse I grabbed my phone and went to Al's contact, pressed facetime, and waited for him to answer.

"Watch," I said as he finally answered,

"Hey, babe, calling to look at this sexy body of mine. Trust me I have been thinking about you in the sh....″

"Baby David's here"

"Oh, hey bro, what's up? what did yall do?"

"I'm hurt you automatically guess we did something but we do have a problem," I said making the phone to where Al was able to see us both.

"What?"

I had to get into a full character. I made puppy eyes and went to work,

"David won't let me get the chair, he keeps pushing me and hitting me. Could you tell him that I'm supposed to sit in the chair please?"

"You did what? Motherfucker I swear to god if you don't let my woman sit in that fucking chair you won't have an ass to sit in that chair, you got that?"

"Yeah man, I got that," David said glaring at me as he replied to Al

"Good, now get to work, I have to go, ill talk to you later sweetheart," he said hanging up. I put the phone back in my purse and threw it on the couch. I got back to my position, sitting on my knees in the chair and beaming proudly up at David as he walked away, back to the couch.

"Aww, don't be mad David, this kind of stuff happens to you regularly, you be fine"

"Shut up, short ass"

"Un-huh, stay mad, now let's get to work, I'm already getting tired."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I think there are some files in my old office. When I was his assistant I kept everyone in files so they should be already on my desk. They're separated in folders, so pick up the folders that say, designers, and bring them in here so we can go over them, got it?"

"Yeah," he said getting up and walking to the door,

"And don't look through anything else, or ill kick your ass myself, "I said as he walked out, leaving the door open.

While he was gone I decided to look through the clients Brick had saved on his computer. Since I had done most of the filing there were only the clients he had before I arrived. I spent about thirty minutes going through some of them and couldn't find one designer, artist, or even someone closest to what he said he needed. I decided to grab a snack but remembered David.

Where is he? I sent him in there almost thirty minutes ago, how long does it take to get one file?

I made my way to my old assistant's office and peeked inside. When I looked inside I saw David holding many papers in his hand and looking at them shocked.

"What the hell are you doing? it shouldn't take this long, did you find anyone?"

he looked up surprised and jumped a little but then grabbed some files, the papers in his hands, and walked past me, back into Brick's office. I wasted no time and followed right behind him. When he was in Brick's office, he folded the papers in his jacket pocket and sat down on the couch.

"Hey, whats is up? Did you find anyone?" I said running inside and sitting on the desk.

"Yeah, I did, now go home, so I can look at them"

"Seriously? then why didnt you just say that? instead of acting so suspicious. Let me see them."

"No I got it, I'm going back to him out there anyway, so ill just give it to him when I go back tonight, plus you have this whole company to run until he comes back, you don't need the extra work right sis?"

Sis? ok now I know something is up. He only calls me mean names, something is fishy.

"David, what did you find in there? were you going through my stuff? What aren't you telling me?″

"Nothing, calm down, I have to go give these to Al. Thanks, Hannah, ill tell him you helped, catch ya when we come back, shouldn't be longer than a week. Oh and tell Jules to call me, and text me when you make it home alright? peace,″

he said grabbing his suitcase, keys, phone, and running out of the office. He had been talking so fast by the time I realized what he said he was already out the door. I damn sure wasn't going to rush after him, after all, David was weird so I didnt put anything past him.

"I'll just ask Jules later," I said as I sat back down and got started on the things that needed to be done here.

Al's Point of View

I was sitting in my hotel suite, looking through old emails that might help me, when my door burst open with an out of breath David.

"What th....."

"Bro, I gotta show you something, I found it. Were getting this hotel. You're going to famous, even more than you already are. Trust me not just the California is going to know you, the whole world is."

That struck my interest and made me get up from the pile of mess on my bed.

"What are you talking about? What did you find?"

"So I was looking threw shrimpies desk t....."

"Why the fuck were you on my girlfriend's desk, her office at that?"

"relax, she told me to go get some files that might help us or something like that, wasn't paying attention."

"So did you find anyone?"

"No, I found something way better," he said reaching in his jacket pocket.

He pulled multiple papers out of his jacket and smiled at me like I understood what he was talking about.

"So? Papers? everyone has papers motherfucker, how the hell is that gonna get me famous or whatever?

"Oh, I didnt turn them around, my bad," he said standing next to me and turning the papers around.

″Woah"

The papers were not just papers. It was art. It was exactly what we needed. It was unique. Like someone had only taken a second to draw, but also like it had taken forever. It was beautiful. They hadn't made a full design but yet they did. Abstract. Their drawing was composed but still all over the place. I knew whoever it was had a gift. It was the only thing we needed and wanted. Everything Mickey had said. I finally understood what he meant by aesthetic, and unique. That was what this was.

"Whos are these? We need them here now." I said to David still holding the papers, and barely containing my excitement.

"This is the trippiest part. You'll never guess who this belongs to. I swear you hired her for the wrong job."

"No, don't tell me, Jessica?"

"No fucker, Shrimpy, Hannah, your fucking girlfriend"

I stopped staring at the papers and instead stared at David in shock.

"Bullshit"

"Not kidding bro, shrimpy is a fucking artist"

"Wow, can't believe I never noticed"

"That's it?"

"Yeah, it's cool, not that big of a deal I," I said trying to appear nonchalant.

This time David was the one that looked at me in shock.

"Are you fucking kidding me right now?"

I tried to keep my face neutral, but I couldn't handle it anymore.

"Nah, I'm just fucking around bro, WERE GONNA BE RICH," I said grabbing his hands and jumping up and down like a kid who just heard they were getting ice cream.

"HELL YEAH," he said jumping with me.

After a while, I stopped jumping because I was getting out of breath, along with David. Now it was awkward because we were holding hands, and I didnt like that at all.

We both stared at each other and immediately dropped hands.

"Yeah, I'm just going to go puke now,"

I said sarcastically walking back to my bed.

"So now what, do we tell Mickey, start designing, what?"

"Well, the first thing is to beg Hannah. There is no way she will agree right away. I need her to redesign this whole hotel and run the company, imagine all that stress. But you know what ill have to find someone else to run it while I'm gone, I need her to focus on this. So the first thing was doing is convincing Hannah"

"Alright, I'll talk to Jules too," he said going and sitting on one of the chairs.

"Jules?"

"My girlfriend, Hannah's best friend"

"Oh,blondy, Girlfriend? since when?"

"Since, YOUR girlfriend got us back together. Turns out we were mad at each other for no reason really. It was like a week or two after you left, we all went out, to teach Hannah how to drive, finally, she basically helped us out, but after that, it went weird when she almost puked on my fucking coffee, but she made it to the bathroom thank god. Now I and Jules are finally a thing"

"A thing? What was it you told me, never thought id hear you say that word? Hell, your more of a whore than I was, so I don't think you'll keep her that long."

"Fuck you, You were always the biggest whore and you know it, I'm more of a family guy, so she will be staying asshole"

"Sure whatever you say, "family guy" But what do you mean she puked, did she eat?"

"I don't know, she was talking, and then she made this weird face like she was about to shit herself and ran to the bathroom. I'll ask Jules what happened, or you know what, try asking her yourself"

"Myself, no, then she definitely won't tell me, just ask Jules for me alright?"

"Yeah I got you"

″Alright then get the fuck out of my room and go back to Cali, I need to get this shit done fast, there are investors left and right and if I don't hurry up Mickey and Sarah are bound to choose someone else"

"I was just about to go back anyway, but not tonight, you got me all the way fucked up if you think I'm flying back out there again after only being here for less then two fucking hours, ill go in the morning, peace," he said stealing a water bottle from the mini-fridge and walking out.

When he left I decided to take a shower.

After about an hour, I had taken a shower, had three tacos and a sprite, and was now wearing my grey sweatpants, no shirt, and my hair still wet. I got on the bed and removed all the junk and placed them on the desk. Once I was settled under the blanket and turned the lights off I grabbed my phone off the nightstand and checked it. I had 3 miss calls from Hannah and 15 messages. Some from random numbers, some from Capone Industries, and some from the people that I had found to help design in case David didnt find anything. I decided to ignore the rest of them until the morning and answer Hannah instead.

Ms.Clumsy(Humpty Dumpty):

8:05 Am

Hey, good morning baby, I know your busy, I just wanted to say I love you and hope you don't forget about me out there, also I woke up this morning with cheese in my hair,geesh you will never believe the time it took to get that out, anyway love you, bye

3:30 pm

Hey, brick, I know you just face timed me, but I wanted to tell you we made it to the movies love you, rock it!!

9:10

Okay, I finally made it home from your office. (sorry, Jules and David told me to text them when I made it home, so I just sent it to you too) I'm so sorry but I and David weren't able to find anyone to help you, but I promise we'll try again tomorrow. For some reason, David walked out in a hurry and was acting all weird and suspicious. But anyway, with your company, it's running smoothly. I wanted to tell you something but um nevermind. I love you and hope you call me or just leave a little text in the morning, goodnight brick.

God, I love this woman. I don't know what I would do without her. But there's something wrong with her. I can feel it.

Me:

Hey, Humpty dumpty, I'm glad you got home safe, I don't know if your up, but you don't have to worry about finding someone, I found someone perfect for it, and they're so fucking talented. Call me in the morning ok? I love you

There was something that she wasn't telling me, I knew it. I just don't know right now, but I'm going to find out.