Hannah’s P.O.V
Jimmy wanted me to talk? So talk I will.

“Where do I fucking start?” I finally asked “Zack, you are hands down, the biggest, most selfish, idiotic, ridiculous, moronic, arsehole I have ever met in my entire life and you ruined one of the best things I had, other than Matt, she was the only other person I loved, Andrew? No, he ruined my life, held me back, made me think I was happy with him, but Matt AND Erin, they’re different,” I took a deep breath before jumping out of my seat and throwing myself at him, grabbing the collar of his shirt and backing him against the wall “You are the sole thing ruining my life,”

He grabbed me and threw me away from him, I would have fallen into the table if I hadn’t caught my balance.

“How the fuck am I ruining YOUR life?!” He roared “You’re the one stealing my girlfriend, she is falling in love with you, don’t you fucking see that?! Because I saw it, and I made her choose, but I am so in her head that I didn’t really give her a choice, did I?” His eyes only got darker, his voice got low and he stepped so close to me I could feel his breath on my face “I knew she would chose me, push you away,” He smirked and then, a moment later, that faded “But in the process of fucking with her I pushed her away and I lost her too,”

“Guys, get out of here, take James with you,” I demanded, my eyes never leaving Zack’s face.

“What?” Matt asked “No fucking way, we all know what he’s capable of and I’m sorry but you’re not strong enough to fend him off,”

“Oh what is he really going to do to me?” I snapped, turning my head quickly to look at him “Kill me?” I slowly turned my gaze back to Zack “No,” I shook my head slowly “He’ll just slap me around a little to scare me like he did with Erin, tell ‘em Zack, isn’t that how you managed to persuade her to leave me?”

“She was never with you,” He snapped defensively.

“But she did love me!” I yelled “And don’t you dare tell me that she didn’t, because she showed me, she showed me once that she did and that was enough… enough to ruin me,”

“We have to find her,” Jimmy said, coming over and placing a hand on my shoulder, comfortingly.

“Hannah wants to fucking find her, she misses her girlfriend,” Zack teased and I didn’t hesitate to punch him square in the nose again “You stupid bitch!” He yelled, once again holding his face, blood pouring between his fingers “You have got to stop doing that,”

“At least I miss your girlfriend,” I smirked “You’re not exactly grieving your dead relationship, are you?”

Before anyone said anything else my phone signalled an alert from my laptop in my bedroom and I ran upstairs, finding Jamie sitting on my bed, texting someone frantically.

“What is it?” Zack asked, coming up behind me, holding some material to his still bleeding face, I didn’t bother to hide my smug smirk.

“I got her,” I smiled “She’s at Johnny’s Bar,”
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I’d cleaned myself up, washed Zack’s blood off my hands, changed into a tight fitting red top that hugged my curves perfectly, black skinnies, black boots and threw on my leather jacket to finish the outfit while my hair was pulled back into a low bun with wisps hanging free to frame my face.

“Bring her back?” Zack asked from the kitchen where Jimmy was stitching him up, apparently I’d actually broken his nose.

“You know I will,” I promised as I scooped up my keys and headed out the door.

I was already walking towards my car when Matt called my name from the front door, I turned around and saw him jogging towards me.

“Wait up,” He said as he reached me, when he stopped, he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck “I know a lot is happening, and I know you… love E, but please, come back to me, I mean, if we’re still a… thing,”

“Of course,” I smiled, stepping onto my tiptoes to reach his lips with mine “I’m always going to come back to you, E and I just have a few things we need to work out, some things we have to get off our chests and then… well I don’t know, maybe if Zack was as chilled out as you then we would all be happy,”

“You know I don’t mind sharing you,” He smirked sexily “But I want to be able to watch sometimes,” He winked, turning me around, slapping my ass and sending me towards my car.

“You’re a pervert, Sanders,” I called over my shoulder.

“You love it though, Sanders,” I stopped in my tracks.

“What did you call me?” I asked.

“Well,” He smiled adorably, stepping closer to me again “You said you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with me, right?” I nodded “Well I can see it too, and maybe one day you will be a Sanders,” I stared at him in complete shock, my mouth hanging open and my eyes wide “Go get our girl,” He smiled, opening my car door for me and ducking me into the car and shutting me in.

What the fuck just happened?
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I got to the bar and headed inside, I hadn’t been here since… I got stabbed to be honest, I didn’t even know if there was a job for me still here, maybe I’d find that out tonight, but this wasn’t about work, this was about Erin.

I looked around the dimly lit, slightly smoky bar, the music filling my ears as Metallica played with many others throughout the building, when my eyes finally landed on her, slumped in a chair at the bar, a beer bottle in her hand, I swear, my heart skipped a beat… as ridiculous as that is.

“Hey stranger,” I said, sitting my arse on the stool beside her making her jump slightly, but her eyes widened and her smile spread when she realised it was me.

“Hey,” She breathed, turning on the stool to face me while I signalled for a drink “What are you doing here?” She asked.

“I came to talk,” I said truthfully “And to bring you home,”

“I cannot go back there,” She protested.

“And you don’t have to… yet, but you’re not doing this alone, you need us just as much as we need you,” I told her “But please, we need to talk first,”

“What did you do to Zack?” She asked. How did she know?

“How did you know?” I asked.

“Whenever he does anything you’re the person to beat him up,”

“I broke his nose,” I admitted.

“Broke his nose as in… punched him in the face and made it bleed again?”

“No,” I chuckled, taking a gulp from my beer “Broke his nose as in, made him bleed, broke the skin and started to create two black eyes, he was getting stitched up when I left,” She laughed, loudly.

“Good, thank you,”

“Anything for you,”
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Matt’s P.O.V
Hannah had left the house to go to the bar and talk with Erin, I personally thought that it would do the girls good to talk together and be away from the house, even if it was only for a few hours, it was better than being cooped up in here… anything was better than being cooped up in here.

“So…” Jimmy trailed off, we were once again standing in the kitchen while James was on the phone to someone “What’s the deal with this James guy?”

“He’s Hannah’s brother?” Johnny asked rhetorically.

“Not what I meant but thank you short shit,” Jimmy teased, reaching over and punching his arm “But I mean like, do we think he’s got something going on like Sarah and he’s going to blow us up, shoot us with bullets, tranquilisers or stab us?”

“I doubt he is going to do that, Hannah said they hadn’t talked in years but you all saw how happy they were when he got here,” I smiled widely “That big goof wouldn’t do a single thing to hurt his baby sister,” I told them.

“Maybe you should go in there,” Zack suggested “He looks like he is getting pretty angry,” He nodded towards James who was looking pretty angry, yeah, and sure, I was a big guy, but so was he.

I sighed loudly and walked into the room, just catching the end of James’ conversation.

“No, Isa, I cannot come home just now, yes I’ll be back before it is time,” He growled into the phone “It’s only five months, I’ll be back before you know it,” He looked up and noticed me standing there “I need to go, I gotta talk to Hannah’s boyfriend for a second, alright, yes I love you too, bye,” He hung up his phone and shoved it into his pocket “I don’t want to think about how much that phone call just cost me,” He chuckled.

“Mind if I ask what that was all about?” I asked, gesturing with my hand towards him.

“Alright,” He sighed, sitting down on the sofa, I sat beside him “Don’t mention this to Hannah because I just got her back and I don’t know how she is going to feel about this since I never mentioned it before, but, I have a girlfriend back in Scotland, I’m planning on asking her to marry me… she’s pregnant,”
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It was around 3am, the bar would have closed about half an hour ago, nobody called to ask for a ride home but all six of us were waiting in the living room for the girls to come home, we all knew it would be any second now that they stumbled through the door. And stumble through the door they did.

Right on cue, Hannah and Erin were holding onto each other for balance as they stumbled through the door, Hannah’s hair was now completely down and waving down her back, her makeup was sweating off and both of them reeked of alcohol, mainly beer and JD, there was no mistaking that smell.

“Hey,” Hannah whispered to Erin, stopping both of them dead in their tracks when she noticed all of us sitting in the living room, obviously waiting for them “I think they heard us,” She whispered again, trying to stifle a laugh.

“Shit,” Erin whispered back, they obviously didn’t realise that they were both barely whispering “We are in trouble,”

“Hey ladies,” Jimmy spoke up “Have fun tonight?”

“YES!” Hannah yelled “We did so many shots,” She laughed.

“And we danced!” Erin announced “So much!”

“I’m sleepy,” Hannah pouted to Erin.

“MATT!” Erin yelled.

“Yes, E?” I chuckled.

“Take our love to her bed and join her please? I wish to also be carried to bed also,” She turned her gaze to Brian, I heard Zack growl, but from what I had been told before, she ended things with him so she was free to do as she wished once again.

“As you wish,” I said “My love?” I asked Hannah when I walked over to her.

“My prince!” She giggled, holding out her arms to me, but I bent down and scooped her up bridal style “Enough with the wedding shit Matt, I wish for you to take me to bed and ravish my body,” She almost sang the end of it, like in Scream.

“Whoa!” James said loudly, holding up his hands “Big brother in the room here,”

“Well I’m grown up now and you won’t be in my room,” She teased.
Brian walked over to Erin and scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder and followed Hannah and I upstairs.

“Wait!” Erin yelled, making Brian and I stop, Brian was just ahead of us so Erin was facing me and Hannah “Take one step back,” She slurred, Brian did as she said and she was now face to face with Hannah and lowered her voice to a whisper “Whatever happens in the morning, I meant everything I said,” With that, she leant in and gave her a small peck on the lips, small and tender.

I walked into Hannah’s room and closed the door behind me, by the time I got her into bed she was sound asleep, snoring ever so slightly. She was going to be hung over like fuck in the morning… or whenever she crawled out of her bed.

Notes

TAKE THAT!
Some more drama from me!
Stay tuned for what happened in the bar and the morning after from E later!!

- LMV x