Brendon's POV

My heart was pounding against my ribs. My brain didn't seem to be able to properly process what I just heard. Emma's mom didn't take her own life? 

I quickly fished out my phone and started recording carefully hoping they wouldn't see me. 

"It was smart of my dad to push her off that lighthouse" Jesse argued. "No it just made things more complicated" The bald guy said. "I don't see how! My dad didn't deserve to be tortured by your stupid boss, my dad did as he was told, he thought he would be free about killing her but you dragged me into this and you made me set Emma up and pretend she killed Russel, just because that guy left the gang, went to prison and when he got out, decided not to join again, it doesn't mean you kill him, you all are f*cked up" Jesse said, he looked so mad.

"Well guess what? You're even worse than we are. You're one of us and you always will be" The bald guy said pushing Jesse then dropping 2 packets of what I suppose is money and walking away.

I had to tell Emma, after all these years of blaming herself for her mom's death, she needs to know the truth. I tried my best to stay silent and waited for Jesse and the guy to leave so I can go to Emma- no wait, I'm going to go to her dad first. 

After waiting a couple minutes, I slowly crept my way out of the small hiding place and walked back into the club and quickly found my way out of there. 

Slamming my door shut, I twisted the key, starting the car's engine. I pulled out of where I parked my car and sped down the street heading towards the hospital. 

I quickly burst out of the elevator the second the metal doors parted. Running past people and nurses, I quickly got to the room Emma was staying in. I gasped for breath, putting my hand on the handle.

After a couple seconds of trying to catch my breath and slow down my heart rate, I pushed the wooden door open and beautiful familiar blue eyes stared into my eyes. "Are you okay?" Emma asked, "You look pale like you've just seen a ghost" She continued as I nodded. 

"I'm fine, I just need to talk to your dad" I said, looking at her dad. Her dad nodded and walked out of her room with me. We walked down the hallway a little so Emma wouldn't hear. I told him everything I heard when I was eavesdropping Jesse and the bald dude, and showed him the video I took as well. Emma's dad looked like he just watched someone getting skinned. 

"My wife... she didn't leave us.. she- those bastard WHO ARE THEY" He shouted out angrily, slamming his hand on the wall. A few people turned to look at him as they walked by. "I have no idea, but we have to find out, I'll get Theo to help me, can you tell Emma?" I told him. "No, I have a few friends that can figure sh*t like this out, I'll take Theo with me, you tell Emma and stay here with her, protect her and take good care of her Brendon" He said, grabbing my shoulders as I nodded. He pat my shoulder and darted down the hallway after taking Theo's number.

I took a deep breath. I slowly walked back to Emma's room and pushed the door open, carefully closing it behind me so it wouldn't make a loud noise slamming shut. "Hey beautiful" I whispered, sitting down next to her on the hospital bed. "Hey, uh is everything okay"  Emma asked. "Um yeah, kind of, you're dad is just busy right now, he will be back soon" I said. Before Emma could say anything, I opened my mouth to talk. 

"There is something I have to tell you" He says as Emma's eyes slightly widened. "Uh okay?" She said, awkwardly looking down than at me. "Your mom.. you know how you think she committed suicide?" I started, with no idea how I was going to tell her. "I know she committed suicide, but why?" She asked. "Because okay so earlier remember how I got a text and suddenly left?" I said as she nodded. 

"Well, it was Jesse's phone and the text I got seemed really weird, basically, Jesse was supposed to receive some kind of payment, so I followed him and I heard some things..." I said stopping. She knit her eyebrows. "Continue" She mumbled. "Well first things first, you didn't kill my dad, you were set up. By Jesse. And uh you're mom didn't commit suicide, it was a homicide, she was murdered Emma, by who? By Jesse's dad. But his dad got killed afterward, and I'm guessing your mom was forced to write a suicide note before he pushed her off the lighthouse..." I said, staring into Emma's baby blue eyes that slowly became darker and more vibrant. 

She stared back at me unable to move or talk. Then a teardrop slowly escaped her eye and rolled down her cheek. "You're lying" She whispered, barely loud enough for me to hear. "Emma.. I- I'm really not lying" I said, placing my hand over hers. She instantly pulled away. "No, my mom knew she was going to die before I even left to go to school." She muttered. "I know it doesn't make sense but your dad and Theo went to figure it all ou-" Just then, someone burst inside as both Emma's and my head turned to see who.

Becky walked in holding some snacks. "What did you do? Brendon you stupid sh*t why is Emma crying?" She yelled angrily at me running towards us, leaving the food on the table. "No, no Brendon didn't do anything" Emma said as Becky quickly wrapped her arms around Emma.

Emma soon started sobbing as Becky rubbed her back. "I thought it was all my fault, she was happy, I was right, she didn't want to leave me, she didn't want to leave us" She muttered as she pulled away from Becky. "Uh wha?" She said, raising her eyebrow at me. I explained everything, also showing her the video I took. Becky was furious. She didn't stop cursing and said she had to go help Emma's dad and Theo look for those f*cktards. She gave Emma a tight hug then left.

Of course, not before threatening to bury me alive if I don't take care of Emma, not that it scared me, but I swore on my life to take care of her then Becky left. "Hey Brendon?" Emma mumbled. "Yes?" I asked looking at her, examining her red face and puffy eyes.  "Could you hold me please?" She mumbled, bursting into tears again. "Of course" I said, as she moved a little to the side. 

I moved over next to her, kicking my shoes off and going under the blanket. I opened my arms as she laid her head on my chest. I pulled the blanket on top of us and wrapped my arms around her like my life depended on it. 

I slowly moved my hand down her back and back up a couple times before I started playing with her smooth hair. Careful not to touch the bandage wrapped around her head though. Soon, I heard a few quiet snores as I smiled to myself. She was absolutely adorable. I wish she could see that. 

I kissed the top of her head and held her closer and tighter to me. "I'm sorry for everything, I really hope you'll forgive me. I love you Emma" I whispered. 

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Emma's POV

I squinted my eyes open and shut them tightly again when the bright light flashed in my face. I rubbed my eyes and slowly opened them again, trying to adjust them to the bright light of this damn hospital room.

I inhaled through my nose to take in the scent of Brendon's shirt and smiled wearily. I snuggled closer to him and I felt his arms wrap around me a little tighter. "Morning beautiful" Brendon said with a husky voice that gave me butterflies. 

I felt my cheeks heat up. "You're cute when you blush" He teased as I smacked his arm, causing him to chuckle. A doctor walked in and gave me a disappointed look. 

"Uh sorry" Brendon muttered and carefully got off the bed not to hurt me. "How are you feeling Emma?" He asked, as Emma shrugged. "I feel alot better" 

"Well, everything seems fine now, you can go home later on this afternoon. I'll prescribe some painkillers just in case your head hurts, make sure to get lots of rest and don't move around so much for a couple days" The doctor said as I smiled. "Thank you" I said as he nodded, giving Brendon a short nod and walked out of the room. 

"I can't wait to get out of here" I said excitedly to Brendon as he smiled. "Me neither, I can't wait to take you out on a date" He said winking. "Who said I was going to go out with you" I asked raising my brow. I tried to act chill but my heart was hammering against my ribs so fast and hard I thought my ribs would shatter any second now. 

"You know you want to" He said, flashing me his beautiful, absolutely irresistible smile. "Me? No, why would I want to go out with someone who doesn't even have the balls to ask me out like a gentleman?" I said with a playful tone, crossing my arms over my chest.  

Brendon instantly went down on one knee and held my hand with both his hands. "Ms. Emma Graces, will you give me the honor of being your date tonight?" He asked as my heart literally melted. 

"Are you like messing with me or are you serious" I whispered. "Of course I'm serious" He said, kissing the back of my hand. A chill going down my spine as his lips made contact with my hand. "Then, I guess you'll have to wait and see, if you come by my house at 7 and I'm not ready for the date, well you know my answer then" I smiled as he nodded hesitantly. 

I felt so much better that I wasn't the killer. That it wasn't my fault both my mom and Brendon's dad died. It was still hard to process the fact that I had thought my mom committed suicide for over 5 years, blaming myself for her death- just to find out she was murdered.. thinking about it made my blood boil, I wanted to kill everyone and anyone who was responsible for it. I already know Jesse's dad was the former murderer but he was forced to and works for someone who wanted my mother dead. I wanted to kill him. But I didn't have to apparently since he already died a long ass time ago. But whoever sent him to kill my mom- I would do anything to stab him a billion times. 

I think I kind of understood why Jesse has always hated me. But then again it's stupid because it wasn't mine or my mom's fault his dad was killed. I also didn't understand what my mom did to get the guy to want to kill her. My eyes watered at the thought of how scared my mom must have been, I wish she had told someone, like my dad or the police, she could have avoided her getting killed. All those years, I could have been happy growing up with an amazing mother- they were all taken from me. A shock spread throughout my body starting from my heart and the pain stayed in my fingertips. 

Brendon must have noticed something because his facial expression changed looking worried. "What happened? Are you okay? What's wrong?" He asked as I shook my head. "I'm fine sorry" I said, the pain slowly leaving my fingertips. I hate those electric shock feelings I get when I'm anxious or stressed- which is like always. 

"You sure?" He asked. "Yeah, I'm good I promise" I said, forcing a small smile. Brendon sighed. "If you say so" He said, sitting down on a chair next to me.

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Becky clapped excitedly as I stared into the mirror. "You look so hot oh my god" Becky yelled, jumping up and down. "You sound more excited about my date than I am" I laughed as she rolled her eyes. 

I looked at my outfit. For once I didn't absolutely hate what I looked like. I wore a pretty floral dress that came up to right above my knees, a few bracelets, and my mom's blue crystal necklace. I wore a thin black cardigan above because of my scars. ]Becky curled the ends of my hair loosely and did my make up too. 

The bell suddenly rang as I quickly put my vans on and walked out of my room and down the stairs. I pulled the front door open and Brendon's face instantly broke into a smile which made me smile. 

"You look.. beautiful" He said, looking at my outfit then at me. I blushed when suddenly a a bright light flashed in our faces. We both turned to look at Becky who gave us a sympathetic smile. "Oops.. oh shut up, I couldn't help it, you guys are so cute" she scoffed but smiled after. 

"Well have fun!"She said, walking away to the living room. I smiled at Brendon as he walked out of the house and I followed behind him. He opened the car door for me as I raised my eyebrow. "Brendon? Being a gentleman? What drug are you on?" I asked as he rolled his eyes. 

"Thank you" I said with a chuckle and got in, as he closed the door and went over to the other side, getting into the driver's seat. "Okay, this is going to sound weird but here, put this blindfold on" He said, handing me a black blindfold as I knit my eyebrows. 

"Uh why?" I asked. "Are you taking me to the woods to kill me?" I asked. "No I would never, it's just its a surprise" He said as I nodded and took the blindfold, putting it on. 

I felt Brendon intertwine his fingers with mine as I smiled. The car started moving and I laid my head back against the car seat and decided to just wait and see whether he was going to kill me or not.

After what seemed like forever- which in reality was probably like 5 minutes, Brendon got out of the car and a couple seconds later, I heard the door of my side open. Brendon held my hand and helped me out of the car. 

"I swear if you lead me into a wall I'm going to kill you" I threatened as Brendon chuckled. After a few steps, Brendon removed the blindfold and my jaw dropped when I saw the surprise. 

We were inside the lighthouse, there were a bunch of fairy lights hanging on the walls and on the stair railing. 

Brendon held my hand, lightly dragging me up the stairs. When we got to the top, I realized there was a mini table and 2 chairs, with a large cute bowl with strawberries dipped in chocolate along with 2 plates of waffles, drizzled with what smells like Nutella. 

"This is amazing oh my god, I love yo- it, thank you" I said excitedly, wanting to slap myself for almost messing up there. "Anything for you" He smiled. 

I took a seat as he did the same across me. "You are surprisingly a lot more romantic than I thought you would be" I said. "You know what they say, don't judge a book by its cover" He said. "No, I'm joking, you're right I'm not romantic, I had to get Becky and Theo to help me, I just wanted to I don't know.. be better for you?" He said, biting his bottom lip.

"Shut up, you don't have to change anything for me" I said as he pursed his lips. "I'm not good for you though, I'm horrible, I hurt you so many times and I hate myself for it but I'm selfish and I want you... I just can't let you go Emma" He said, for the first time he sounded sincere.

My heart was beating so fast I was slightly worried Brendon could hear it. "But... why do you want someone like me?" I asked. "Because you're you. Weird as it sounds, I like look up to you, you're so strong despite everything you've been through and are going through now. I f*cked up so many times yet you were kind enough to forgive me every single time, even though we both know I don't deserve it. If you give me another chance, I swear I'll make up for everything, I'll be better, I'll protect you, take care of you and do whatever it is I have to do to make you happy. You make me feel things no one else has ever been able to make me feel. I could go on and on about the things I love about you, I could even write an entire book about the things, but for now, I guess what I'm trying to say is- you stole my heart and I want you to keep it" He confessed, his cheeks turning a light shade of pink.

I tried to open my mouth when he started talking again. 

"You may think you're this weak, ugly girl who is unworthy of love and will never be loved but guess what? You're wrong because" He paused, staring into my eyes. 

"I love you" 

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AND that's it for this chapter :) For everyone out there who ship Brendon and Emma, well you're welcome lol. As you can tell, the story is nearing its end, I'm not completely sure of the ending yet though, or if I'll have some kind of sequel but yeahhh.

I also want to say thank you so much for all the votes/ comments, they all mean so much to me. I'm sorry for all the grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes and idk just the shitty/ boring parts of this story, hopefully I'll find the time to edit and fix everything.

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Ilysm

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