Chapter 4: Zeke
I turn around and there are the two people Devina hates most in the world. I haven't seen them since the last time I was in this hospital with all of the Kingston family. The night of Devina's mother, Elizabeth's death and the day we decided to adopt Lucas. Devina and her siblings were never that close. Lucinda and Mark were always in Devina's shadow and never came out of it. Her parents treated her like a princess while Lucinda and Mark were always just there. After Lucinda and Mark left, even before Elizabeth died, they were distant and I didn't even meet them till the Parker Foundation Fundraiser for an important cause that I don't currently recall. Their relationship was normally formal and cold. It got worse when Elizabeth actually died because they had yet another reason to hate Devina.
She looked so angry right now. She was holding Lucas gracefully around his upper body. Her eyes didn't leave her siblings. Two other people were with them, I suppose is their plus one to this roller coaster of hell. I touched her shoulder and she didn't even flinch. All of our friends stood behind us as if we were a untied front.
"I said, what the hell are you doing here?" Devina spat at them.
"Mom huh?" Lucinda begins taking a few steps toward us.
"X, can you take Lucas to the car. We need to handle some business here." I say and he waits at my side for Devina to relinquish Lucas. She doesn't even move. I step toward her and whisper into her ear "Devina, Lucas doesn't need to hear any of this. Let him go with X."
She finally turns her back to her siblings and kneels down in front of Lucas. "Honey, I need you to go with Uncle X. He's going to take you home. I have to talk to these people." She says and turns her attention to X. "You have a key right?"
"Mom, who are these people?" Lucas asks. I guess he didn't recognize them from the very few pictures Devina puts up from his family. All the pictures are of my family, our friends and a few of her parents and herself.
"These are some people that you haven't met yet." I say before Devina has a chance to. "They're not important though. We'll meet you at home okay?"
"X?" Devina says. "I'm trusting you with my child. Wait, on second thought. Marcella. Go with him."
"Okay." She responds while taking Lucas out the door. Jelly, Xavier and Will follow them. Skylar, Derek, Theo and Trisha stay behind and wait for us. We wait for them to fully exit before resuming the conversation. We all sit in chairs across from each other and jkust stare at each other for a minute.
"Cut the shit." I finally say. "What the hell are you two doing here?"
"Well Ezequiel. I didn't know that a senator could have such a mouth on himself." Lucinda says and Devina glares at her.
"Answer the question."
"We are here for the wedding." Mark finally says which really pisses off Devina. She tightened her grip on my hand and her face looked like she was about to burst.
"Well, you are all officially uninvited to my wedding. So you all can go to wherever you belong now." I say and stand up. "We don't need you in our lives." I start towards the door and then something stops me. There was a hand on my shoulder that belonged to Mark.
"wait." He said which made Devina blow up. Oh shit.
"What the fuck do you want now? Do you want to apologize for leaving him? Do you want to make amends after eleven fucking years!" She says realizing her hand from mine making her way slowly but surely through Mark to Lucinda. "What is the shit of you coming to my wedding? You have no fucking right! Who the hell do you think you are? Both of you think you are that extraordinary that you can walk in and out of my life whenever you please?"
"Devina calm down…" Mark says while putting his hands out.
"Shut the fuck up Mark. You moved to California for a reason. You have no reason to be here! Why don't you do you and the brown haired bimbo a favor and stay where you belong."
"Devina, let's not get angry. Let's just talk about this calmly and rationally." Lucinda says never leaving her chair.
"Calmly? Rationally? What fucking drugs are you smoking? You want me talk calmly, you should've come about eleven years ago when I was an eighteen year old college kid that was pushed into the damn adult world. You think you're so high and mighty. More like Cocky and pretentious. News Flash! Dad bought you that nose for your sweet sixteen and I will make you get another one if you even think about coming near my wedding."
"It was your decision to take on Charles!" Lucinda finally screamed back. Wrong move considering that Devina was just got started going off on her.
"You wanted to make him an orphan. He is our blood. Or my blood considering you don't have a heart or a soul."
"It was your choice Devina. Whether you like it or not, you decided to become his mother." Mark yelled at her. I had to stand by and watch because I knew she could handle this by herself. It was her fight; she had to be the one to charge.
"It doesn't even matter now. I am his mother and you two are nothing. Lucinda why don't you go back with Wilbur to your life in wherever the hell you live and Mark, go back to California. You two don't belong here." She says and I am so proud of her for walking away.
"Devina, don't turn your back on me!" Lucinda yells at her while pulling her hair. Very bad choice, considering the fact that Devina is a trained fighter. She turned around and got a grip on her arm which she quickly pulled to a direction which it wasn't supposed to go. She pushed her to the ground; Lucinda was face down while Devina had a lock on her elbow which she had her four inch heel on.
"Okay Lucinda, you want to play hard ball? I'll play hard ball." Devina said while putting more pressure on her shoulder. We all just watched them as Devina put more and more pressure on her which made Lucinda scream louder and louder with every passing second.
"Someone do something." The woman Mark brought finally spoke. She moves towards them, but Mark pulled her back.
"Mary, I wouldn't do that. Devina can take on at least five people at the same time. You might end up with a dislocated shoulder."
"We can't just watch them." Lucinda's husband finally spoke.
"Do you want to do something? I suggest not. I might go after you then." I say with a dead serious face. I mean it. If I can't hurt one of those two, I'm going to release all of my anger out on someone. He quickly looked at the floor and decided to chance it. Wrong choice. I tackled him and he fell to the floor. "Damnit Wilbur, I warned you."
"My name is Walden." He says trying to breathe.
"Zeke, we have to stop this." Theo said and I looked at him. Damn, I never get t have any fun. I get up and I walk near Devina. I slowly touch her shoulder and she doesn't even look at me.
"Devina." I whisper softly into her ear. "Come on babe. Let her go."
"She's going to tell him. I can feel it."
I move my hand towards hers and she finally looks at me. "Let's go home." I say and she looks back at Lucinda who is now a dark shade of red. She releases her and she quickly moves to her husband.
She walks to Mark who wont look her in the eye. "Go near my family and I'll kill you." She says and walks away. We walk to the door and I make sure that Theo and Trisha are behind us. Skylar is with Derek checking out their wounds which shouldn't be that extensive.
"Devina, Zeke. Whether you like it or not, we are your family." Mark said and Devina stops.
"Not anymore." She says and we disappear through the doors. We walk to the car to which Arthur had already started one he saw us leave the hospital. Devina went in without a word and we all followed.
"Home Sir?" Arthur asked moving into the drivers seat.
"Yes Arthur. Thank You." I said and he rolled up the partition. The car began to move and we all sat in silence. I put my arm around Devina and Theo and Trisha were just looking their phones, avoiding eye contact with us.
"Skylar is going to meet us at the house. She's gonna wait for Derek's shift to be over in about half an hour." Trisha said finally looking up from her phone. "I don't have any appointments this afternoon, so I'm free."
"Okay. Thanks Trish." Devina finally said. "Bitch made me bruise my knuckles." I looked at her hands and it was all red. I took her hand and she looked at me. Our eyes said everything, we didn't need words to understand that we don't even know what to say. I kissed her forehead and we all sat until we got home.