She picked up the phone and decided to try Carla once more.
"What do you want?" Carla asked angrily, not knowing why she picked it up. Her caller ID didn’t lie.
"Please talk to me Carla. You know I had no clue you were with AJ. You KNOW that," Traci said calmly.
"I know," she sighed, knowing her friend was right. "But I can’t stop thinking about what Vin told me he saw."
"You’ve talked to him? He was just here but he is gone now," Traci said sadly.
"Yah I have talked to him and maybe there is something you should know too,"Carla said, not knowing if she wanted to go through with it.
"What?" Traci said, suddenly feeling sick.
"Well I am not surprised Vin came over. Did he act weird or anything?"Carla asked. This was going to be rough, but she felt Traci had a right to know.
"Kind of. I mean we were about to - well you know and I stopped him. I don’t understand why he would even want me now after what I did," Traci said.
"Let’s just say that he decided to get you back. He was with his ex, Traci. Like a few days after he visited you in the hospital. And also, AJ is in the hospital. Vin hit him pretty hard and he had a concussion," Carla explained knowing it would be a lot for her to take but she had to know.
"Oh my god! That fucker!" she yelled and then thought about what he had seen her doing with AJ.
"You can’t get that mad. At least you two weren’t together when you did it to him. And he has been pretty depressed. What is he supposed to do? He needed comfort," Carla said.
" I don’t know. What are you doing? I hear noise," Traci said, not even asking about AJ. She was afraid to but she was seriously concerned about him. Vin was a big guy and she could see him knocking her out cold.
"Packing. I’m out of here. I am not going to stay with someone who did that to me," Carla replied.
"Carla, please don’t leave. Come stay here with me at least, for awhile. Don’t just leave the state. Stay here while you decide what to do," Traci said.
"A week is all I am here for. Then I am going to stay with my sister in Arizona, until I can figure things out," Carla said.
"Well then stay with me for a week," Traci tried one last time and Carla agreed.
"I know I probably shouldn’t ask you this, but I need to go see AJ. It’s my fault that he is in the hospital and I just want to see him once more," Traci asked.
"Well, you know where he is. Same place you were. I can’t go - not now," Carla said.
"I understand. Girl, I am so sorry," Traci said, her eyes tearing up. She had hurt two of the people she loved so much.
"I know you are," Carla said. They hung up and she continued packing.
She found so many memories and didn’t know what to do with them. Throw them away or leave them with AJ? There was no real way to understand what and how everything had happened.