(Alaric's POV)
I walk up the steps to the porch for the fourth day in a row. There's no way they can't be home four days in a row. They must be ignoring me.
I knock on the door waiting for anyone to answer. I would be fine if Giovanni even opened the door. I just needed to know if Gianna's okay. I need something right to happen.
"Just open the door. I know you guys are in there." What am I even doing? I'm standing here, knocking on the door of a mourning family. I'm such an idiot. I should just leave them alone.
After feeling hopeless for the fourth time in a row, I start walking back to my car. When I'm about to enter my car, Hailey, the twins mother, pulls up in the driveway. Her eyes meet with mines as she parks her car.
She looks tired. I can see the dark bags under her eyes. I don't even know how she's driving right now. She looks weak and brittle.
When she gets out her car, I'm shocked to see her storming towards me with wild eyes. This weak woman seems to tower over me with her anger and I actually cower away from her in instinct.
When she's close, she stops in front of me and I almost feel like I'm in the clear, but then, her hand comes flying down on my face and I feel my cheek sting.
"Ow," I say, not knowing what I did to deserve a slap.
"What the hell are you doing here," she asks me.
"I came to see if Gianna was ok. I'm sorry if I'm intruding. I know that I'm being selfish, bothering your family in your time of mourning. I can go if you want."
She scoffs at my answer.
"Oh, now you want to see her? Why didn't you come earlier when Gio told you to?" I raise my eyebrows in confusion.
"What are you talking about? Gio told me to stay away. I've been coming over here for the past four days and no one has answered." Her face pauses, probably thinking over her anger. Something clicks for her and I see her give me a look of sorrow.
"Gio didn't tell you anything?"
"Tell me about what? What's going on?"
"Oh, honey. I'm so sorry I hit you. Goodness, I need to have a word with that boy. I don't know what's gotten into him." She looks like she's on the verge of tears.
"Where's Gianna," I ask her and the look she gives me makes me afraid to hear the answer.
"She's not here, honey. She's in the hospital." Now she starts crying and she looks like she just wants to collapse right here in the driveway. My assumptions are right because I see her slowly falling down. She doesn't touch the ground because I catch her.
I hold her in a hugging position, close to my chest, as she cries.
"I'm a horrible mother. I kept myself locked up in my room crying over my husband, and I completely forgot I had children that just lost their father. I'm so selfish and it's all my fault she's in the hospital."
"It's okay, Hailey. Just tell me what happened."
"I can't even bring myself to say it. Just go to the hospital. I'm so sorry, Alaric. I can't stay in the same room as her right now. I'll just make everything worse."
"Are you sure you don't want to go back? You'll just stay here and be worried about her. I'm sure she'd want you to be there. You wouldn't make anything worse." My head is just spiraling with all the ideas of what could have happened.
That asshole told me to stay away and I had no idea Gianna was in the hospital. I have no idea what pain she's been through or if she's ok. If the baby is ok.
"No, I'm going to stay here. You go. I'm sorry." She pulls away from me and goes inside her house. I hop into my car and speed off to the hospital.
Damn it! I just needed one thing to go right. This whole world is just going to shit and I have no way to control it. I should be used to not being able to control things. There's not been one thing in my life that I have ever been able to control.
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"How can I help you," the lady behind the counter asks me.
"Can you tell me what room Gia-" I cut off my sentence off when I see Tarry and Giovanni standing in front of a room. "Nevermind," I tell the lady and she goes back to her computer.
I walk towards Tarry and Giovanni. Giovanni spots me first.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away? What are you doing here," he has the nerves to say. Tarry seems to be holding him back and he sends me a sympathetic look.
I can't remember when was the last time I saw Tarry. Maybe graduation. He has no idea the world that all of us live in. I'm sure Giovanni just gives him a summery, leaving out the parts that include the supernatural world. One day he's going to have to tell him everything about the supernatural world if he wants to fully have his mate in his life.
"Gio stop yelling at him. He has no idea what's going on and you can't keep him away from the truth," Tarry tells him.
"I should've been the first one to know that she was in the hospital. I know you don't like me right now, Gio and you've turn cold since your fathers death, but I have a right to know what's going on with my child."
At the word child Tarry and Giovanni lower their heads. Giovanni seems to soften at the mention of my child. What the hell is going on?
"Go ahead and see her then. She should be up," Giovanni says and walks off to the exit of the hospital. Tarry chases after him.
I hesitate in front of the white door. I don't think I want to find out what's wrong, but I know I have to face it.
I open the door and see Gianna laying in the hospital bed. Her eyes are open, but she just stares forward at the wall in front of her. She turns to see me at the door, but ignores me and goes back to staring at the wall.
I walk over slowly to the hospital bed she's lying in. She continues to act as if I'm not here. I sit down on the little space that's left on the bed and it doesn't catch her attention. I look at her, not knowing what to say, but she talks before me anyways.
"I lost the baby."