not in the same way || c.h.

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Brenna's POV*

"You said you had stuff to tell me. What was so important that you couldn't tell me right away." I said which made him a sigh and shake his head at me.

"I was waiting so I could actually know that you were listening to me." He said and held my hand in both of his.

"Alright well spill. Not like I can go anywhere." I said and shifted in my very uncomfortable hospital bed.

"Well there's two things. I'll start off with the short story first." He said and I nodded my head for him to continue.

"I found my sister. Apparently she was in Baltimore for school and eventually got a job there. She's doing really well actually. She's working on getting transferred to here so I can see her more. I talk to her every single day. I told her about you and she helped me a shit ton with this whole thing. She said she's gonna come up here in like a month or so and she wants to meet you when you're better." He said happily with a huge smile on his face.

"You found her? How?" I asked excitedly and sat up in my bed which caused a really intense pain in my stomach but I ignored it the best I could.

"It's a really long story, and not really important honestly. But I found her and you'll love her I know you will." He said and smiled widely at me.

"Probably. What's this other thing?" I asked eagerly.

"Well basically Niall knows a detective. And apparently he's been trying to find my dad and the gang for years now but hasn't gotten any leads. I guess they were having a drink one night and it somehow came up in conversation, I don't know that part. But they came up with a deal. And the deal is if the six of us tell him everything we know, then we won't suffer the same consequences they will. So we told them everything and they found them, killed the ones that tried to kill them obviously, and locked the rest up for life in prison." He said which made my eyes widen and my jaw drop.

"Is your dad dead? Or is he in prison?" I asked.

"Prison. He can't get out for the rest of his life along with tons of others. You're safe now. No matter what happens you're safe." He said softly and squeezed my hand while I felt a giant weight get lifted from my chest.

"Thank you." I said sincerely and smiled at him.

"Don't thank me. I got you into this mess, the least I could do was get you out of it." He said and took a long pause.

"There's just one thing though." He said and looked away from me.

"What?" I asked worriedly.

"Since I've done some pretty horrible things, they can't just let me go. So we agreed that if I did a year of jail time that it won't be put on my record or anything and everything will be fine." He said which made my heart sink.

"You have to go to prison? For a year?" I asked and he nodded his head.

"What about the guys? Do they have to go?" I asked.

"Well they haven't done the same horrible things that I have, they were mostly just the clean up crew. So they get away with six months of community service and some other stuff." He said with a sigh.

"Are you going to the same prison as the rest of the gang? That doesn't seem like a good idea." I said with concern.

"No they're all at a different one, they made sure of that so there were no problems. It's just a year, and you can visit whenever you want." He said and gently placed his hand on my thigh.

"When do you have to go?" I asked softly.

"They agreed to let me go once you were all better. So about a month and a half or so. I told them I wasn't going until I knew you were 200% better." He said which made me sigh of relief.

"Do you have to go?" I asked.

"Unfortunately I do, but again you can visit me whenever you want." He said reassuringly.

"Okay." I said and held his hand with mine.

"Does your stomach still hurt?" He asked after a little while.

"A little yeah." I said and shrugged my shoulders.

"Lie down, do you want something to eat or drink or anything?" He asked and I just shook my head as he helped me lie down so I was more comfortable.

"I'll go see if there's anything for you to eat." He said and tapped my leg before starting to walk towards the door.

"I said I didn't want anything." I said with a laugh which hurt my stomach a little bit.

"I know but you haven't eaten so I don't care." He said and headed out the door.