Heartaches

Chapter 30

By Kellyq

As soon as Misty walked out of Kiryu's room, Carly followed her to her limo. The beautiful model opened the door when Carly finally caught up.

"Misty, wait!" she called out. The older woman turned and smiled. "I ...I uh…have a few questions." Misty nodded her head. "Are … are you friends with Jack?" Misty's expression changed a little. "Right. Stupid question. My other one is … well it's not really a question … I went to your web site last night and it said that your brother – Toby died … What happened?"

"He was in love with the wrong person," Misty explained, looking the other way, closing her eyes.

"He was in love with Akiza," came Jack's Southern crisp accent.

They both turned to see him walking up. Misty took hold of the door and slammed it, giving Jack a hard look. Behind Carly's thick spiral glasses, she watched.

"So ... uh ... what happened?" Carly asked.

She concluded that either something major happened to Toby or Akiza - Carly shivered at the thought. She didn't want to imagine Akiza with a knife in her hand.

"What is it that you want, Mr. Atlus?" Misty asked, avoiding the question about her dead brother all together.

Jack ignored her and turned his attention to Carly. "What are you doing next Friday?"

That grabbed Carly's attention right away. "N-next friday?" She stuttered, wondering if she heard right.

"Well, yeah," Jack said, not in the mood to repeat himself, especially with Misty watching his every move. "I'll even take you to go see a movie or something."

Her face lit up and she blushed, but then her expression changed when she realized something. "I .. would .... but ... I have no money."

Misty opened the door to her limo, sat herself down and reached for her purse. Jack and Carly watched her for a moment. Misty pulled out a 20-dollar bill, moved her purse off her lap and placed it beside her. She then shifted her hips, put her right hand on top of the car door and heaved herself up.

"Here, Carly," Misty said, leaning over the door and handing the money over.

"I was going to pay for the outing," Jack told her, giving her a look.

Misty ignored the comment. "You don't need to make it a cheap outing, Mr. Atlus," she scolded, glancing at Jack like he was dirt. "Carly deserves better than that."

With that, Misty stepped back, and sat back in her limo. Stupid bitch, Jack thought watching the limo drive off.

"I'll pick you up at 7, Carly," Jack said, snapping her out of her thoughts.

Carly nodded her head and let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. After a moment, Carly dropped to her knees watching Jack walk back into the hospital. He made it as far as the front desk before he heard Crow and Martha talking. He waited until he saw them.

"Where's Yusei?" Jack asked, walking toward them.

"He's with Kiryu right now. He's going to stay until we come back with some of my stuff," Crow explained, "then I'm going to stay here until we find out what's going on."

All Jack did was nod his head and made his way to the elevator. Once on the third floor, he made his way to Kiryu's room to see that he was half asleep and Yusei sitting on the floor. His damaged cell phone was sprawled out right in front of him.

Jack walked in quietly and knelt down in front of his boyfriend. Yusei paused what he was doing and shifted so he was on his knees as he leaned close to Jack's ear.

"I'm going to come home late," Yusei murmured.

"That's okay," Jack whispered back, "I'll just make sure that you'll be punished later."

A teasing smile made its way to Yusei's lips. "Sounds good to me," Yusei murmured again. He pulled back and kissed his boyfriend before Jack rose to his feet, turned and walked out.

To Be Continued ...