This Broken Beautiful Thing (4 page)

She
is supposed to be Harleys best friend, she knew my plan to propose tonight but instead of taking my mind off what my father was doing I ended up doing the same thing to my beautiful Harley.

When I walked out of the room and saw my stunning girl standing there all dressed up with tears and make up running down her face, I knew I fucked up a beautiful thing. My heart broke as she looked at me with
hatred, she is so perfect….she was too good for me and I was trying really hard to be good for her but I was bound to fuck up…and I did just that.

When she said she didn’t want me anymore I knew it was true, I knew that I would spend every day of my life try
ing to make it up to her. I needed her, she made my life brighter and happier. As she walked away I knew I lost my most precious treasure…her.

 
“Dude, what is wrong with you? You fucked up a real good thing! Dammit dude, what the fuck?” Brent says as he follows me into the bathroom shaking his head, he leans against the counter and he watches me with the same disgusted look. I’m sitting on the end of the bath with my head in my hands, tears falling down my face.

“I know Brent
, I fucked up…I know.”

“Harley is perfect
man, you ruined all that to hook up with Ashley? What were you thinking? Do you realize how many guys have wanted Harley, you know how hard they’ve tried to get with her too?
Really hard
but she turned every- single- one- of them down, that girl was so in love with you man. You’re my best friend and you know you are like my brother but man….you don’t deserve her…she deserves way better.” Brent says.

I want to yell at him right now but I know
every word out his mouth is true. I can’t tell you how many times the guys from the team have told me how lucky I am to have Harley and here I am fucking everything up.

“Brent
don’t you think I know that? I fucked up okay! Are you going to sit there or are you going to help me find her?” I say as I get up then head out the door to find my girl not waiting for his reply.

Brent decides to drive
since he’s only had one beer, we see ambulance lights and two police cars overtake us, I have this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. We head near the main street where I spot a large Black SUV with the front is damaged, I follow the glass and rubble lying all over the road and I see Harleys little white car lying on its side against a tree all banged up. Brent races his car towards where her car lies and skids to a stop forgetting that the cops are already assessing the scene by the black car. I run out and look through the front window but can’t see anything, Brent climbs on the car and looks inside and tells me she’s not there. I start to panic, this is all my fault…

T
he cops are asking us questions when I spot a tall big guy coming out from behind the tree where Harleys car was, he’s holding Harleys little body in his arms. Her legs have blood running down them and the side of her face is covered in blood and scratches. I move in her direction, calling her name out but the cops stop me, the guy cradling my girl to his chest looks over to me and gives me an obnoxious glare then pulls Harley closer to his chest and kisses her head with his eyes still on me.

I want to rip his head off for touching my girl. I see the paramedics rush over to her and they place her on the soft
grass, she’s not awake.

The big guy heads in my direction with a determined look on his face, he stands just behind the police officer that was restraining me, “Don’t you dare go near her
, do you understand me?” he says.

“Who the
hell do you think you are? She’s
my
girlfriend,
you
better stay the hell away from her! I should be there with her
not
you!” I yell at the arrogant asshole.

“Your girlfriend?
” He scoffs, “I don’t think so buddy especially after she caught you fucking her best friend. I guess your loss is my gain because
I’m
the one that’s going to look after that beautiful girl and
I’m
going to treat her the way you
should have
treated her.” He shouts back at me filled with that cocky attitude, okay he might be bigger and a little taller than me but he doesn’t scare me at all. I’m not going to let this dude take what’s mine and Harley
is
mine.

“That’s never going to happen,
we’ve known each other all our lives, she belongs with me…she’s mine!” I bellow as I move toward him but Brent stops me.

The guy doesn’t even flinch
, he stands there looking at me with a cocky smirk, “Nah…you got that wrong again
kid
…she’s mine now. You better stay away from her, if you don’t…I will come after you, and I will be more…hands on.” he says as he grins at the cop, winks at me then backs away. This guy makes my blood boil.
Who the hell does he think he is?

He has balls threatening me in front of the officer like that but the officer doesn’t do anything, he ignores the comments the guy made. These damn bikers think they
’re high and mighty and the police accept it. The bikers tend to run the towns around here because most of them have inside contacts in the police force, most cops are afraid to go against the biker clubs since these clubs are known for their brutality.

I turn my attention to the paramedics who are now pe
rforming CPR on Harley. My heart hurts as I see them pounding on her chest and pumping oxygen into her.

“Please be okay Harlz…please.” I whisper as I continue to watch them try save my girl. Brent watches too and puts his hand on my shoulder showing that
he’s there for me. We see them stop with the CPR and her eyes are open, that
guy
kneels down next to her and holds her hand while he runs his hands through her hair. She lets him do it and it pains me to see it, I can’t even imagine how she must have felt to find me having sex with Ashley.
Oh God, what have I done…?

We hear the rumble of motorbikes and about a dozen or
so bikers head toward the scene. The huge guy that was leading the troop stops and jumps off his shiny bike and runs to where Harley is lying on the grass. He kisses her forehead, “Who the fuck is he?” I say out loud and the cop decides now is the time to speak up.

“That’s
Grimm, don’t let him hear you talk like that ‘bout him, kill you on the spot.” The old guy says as he turns back to look at “
Grimm
” who’s now talking to my girl with a soft expression on his face. Grimm starts walking toward us, he stands in front of the cop and I can see they know each other well.

The cop asks him
, “How is she doing? Did you find out what happened? We wanted to wait for you to be here before we wrote it up.”

“Yeah my baby girl is okay
, just a lot of bleeding .They’re taking her to the hospital now, my guys will help escort her there. She says she skipped the red light when she hit Ravens SUV. Raven isn’t pressing any charges but if there’s any damaged to property you know where to send the bill.” Grimm says to the cop using an authority not even the police officer could have pulled off if he tried. This guy is massive, he towers over the cop and he doesn’t look to be too old, maybe in his late thirty’s early forties. I can see he’s packing beneath his leather jacket, his gun handle sticks out. He must be Harley’s father, no wonder she always kept quiet when it came to him.

They continue to talk about some meeting
Grimm was at in town while the paramedics take Harley away, I turn to Brent and we make our way to his car. We notice a couple other cars pull up. I see Ashley come out of one of them and start running towards us, heels clinking on the tar road.

“Is it Harley? Is she okay? Where is she?” she says
frantically as she comes up to me and touches my forearm.

“Don’t touch me! No
, she’s not okay, they’ve taken her to hospital.” I say bluntly walking to the car but she stops me again by saying.

“This is
entirely our fault, she shouldn’t have had to find out that way!” She wails and her voice only irritates me more. I don’t know how the fuck I managed to go through with hooking up with her.

 
“No I shouldn’t have laid a hand on you, you’re fucking disgusting! Can’t believe I did that to Harley.” I shout. She looks at me with disbelief.

“
You wanted it just as much as I did! Don’t act like you didn’t feel the tension between us? It was bound to happen Caleb. Don’t you see you and I are
supposed
to be together! I love Harley yes but I couldn’t stand the fact that she had you. You and I come from the same life, don’t you get it? We are meant to be together Caleb. I didn’t want to hurt Harley in the process but… now everything works out, we can be together without hiding anything. We can stay in that apartment you guys got…it’s going to be perfect babe.” Her smile infuriates me.

“
You are fucking delusional! I fucking
hate
you Ashley, do you honestly think I would choose you over Harley? You’ve fucked the whole school, you’re so fake and you irritate the living shit outta me. You planned all this? Well guess it didn’t work out all that well did it? Because you and I are
never
going to be together!  I made a mistake sleeping with you, a
huge
mistake and I regretted it as soon as it happened. I belong with Harley and not only did you fuck mine and hers relationship up but you ruined the only true friendship you ever had. She was the only real friend you had and she stood up for you when no one else did, even when the boys and I warned her to stay away from your no good slutty ass. You lost
that
Ashley! And for what? To be with me? Well
that
was one big fucking mistake! Stay away from me Ashley.” I yell at her as I walk away and jump into Brent’s car.

I look at her through the window and
see the realization of what she’s just done hit her and I see regret…the same regret surging through me.

CHAPTER 4:

I wake up and hear my fathers and Anna’s voice, they don’t notice I’m waking up so I keep my eyes closed as I listen to what they’re saying.

“
Ann baby, she’s coming with us, I don’t care what her mother says and it’s final. I’m not going to argue about this with you.” My father says in a harsh tone.

“
Grant please, we should speak to her mother first and let her know what’s happening to Harley, maybe Harley doesn’t even want to stay with us, it’s the right thing to do!” Anna argues with him.

“I don’t give a fuck what the
right
thing to do is, Harley is MY daughter and she should have been with us from the moment she was born. She could have fucking died, I’m not losing any more time with my baby because her mother is too selfish to let her go. Have you seen how skinny she is? I stopped at the house before I came to the hospital to tell Roxanne about the accident, the cupboards are all empty and the only thing in that fridge is beer! She won’t let her live with me because of the club but I
will
at least be able to feed my child and look after her. Harley is eighteen, she can make her own decisions now, if she wants to I’ve with us then it’s happening …whether her mother likes it or not!” My father lectures poor Anna and I don’t hear a reply from her. There’s no arguing with my father, he always gets his way.

Okay so I know there hasn’t been food in the house for a while now but I really don’t think I’ve lost
that much weight. Caleb mentioned it to me and so did Ashley but I didn’t really take notice, I’ve always been really skinny and I thought my curves were still there even if my clothes were a little looser than they were before… Luckily I’m skinny enough that the baby bump can hardly be seen through my loose clothes.

I
attempt to loosen the tension in the room, “Daddy, I’ll stay with you and Mom.”  I say with a rough dry voice.

I open my eyes to see my dad whip his head around and rush to my side along with Anna.
My biological mother is known as Momma and Anna is Mom to me. Anna smiles at me.

“Baby girl
, we were so worried about you! You’ve been out for a couple of hours, doc says the meds were pretty strong but didn’t think they’d have you sleeping
this
long. How are you feeling?” my father says as he looks me over and kisses my forehead.

“I’m feeling better, how’s Jace? “ I ask them.

“Jace is fine sweetie, he just went downstairs to get us some coffee so he should be here soon. All your
friends
are out there waiting to hear if you’re okay, want me to let them in?” Anna says and I know by the way she says
friends
, who exactly she is talking about….Caleb.

“No! Don’t!” I blurt out
and she raises her brow confused by my outburst. “I think you should just tell them I’m asleep, I’m guessing it’s late and they should… um… go home. Tell them you’ll let them know when I’m awake or something.” I beg Anna giving her a pleading look and she nods, kisses my cheek and leaves the room.