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CHAPTER 2.

The sky became gray and cloudy as the temperatures fell that night. Jake was at an annual party which always took place on the night of the night before Spring Break officially began.

He had gone with Alexa, no surprise, considering that she went almost everywhere he went outside of school. It was no burden for him, though; he loved spending every minute he could with her.

The night rolled along. Both Jake and Alexa found the opportunity to unwind and have some fun refreshing and relaxing.

Somewhere amidst the hours of chatting with people and just enjoying the event, Jake received another bizarre text message.

It read:

RESTRICTED

U have something I want.

U have something I need.

I always get wat I want.

"Who's that from?" Alexa asked, coming up to him from behind.

"Uh, nobody," he replied, "just some random person."

Before he could slide his phone shut, Alexa noticed another message in his inbox.

NATALIE

thank u so much, Jake 3 I'll meet u at 6.

"Jake," she said, "when were you with Natalie?"

"Uh, just this past Tuesday," he answered, "why?"

"I'm just asking because you never told me you were meeting up with her," she added, her tone becoming a bit more confrontational, something that was very rare in her case.

"It's no big deal, baby," he asserted.

"Who else was with you?" she continued.

"Nobody," he admitted, "but really--"

"So it was just you and her?" she asked, pushing his arm off of her and turning around to face him.

"Yes, but Alexa, just listen. I was--"

"What could you have possibly been doing with her?"

"I'm trying to tell you, but you won't listen!" he said.

At this point, both of their voices had begun to raise, and it caught the attention of some of the others at the party, including Corinne and Alex.

"I'm really not interested!" she said at him, "the point is that you were with her without telling me!"

"God, Alexa, I don't have to tell you about every little thing that I do in my life!" he responded back at her.

"You do when it involves you being alone with another girl!" she shot back.

"You're such a little brat, Alexa!" he yelled at her, escalating the dispute, "It pisses me off so much when you get like this!"

"And you always make me cry!" she answered, tears, indeed, welling up in her eyes, "you're such a jerk!"

"See, this is why I would rather spend an hour with her when she's upset about breaking up with her boyfriend than a few minutes with you!" he said in a hurtful manner.

To this, Alexa had no response. Instead, she walked back around to the front of the house, on her way home. As she left, she started to cry. Corinne followed her.

Jake stood there. By now, almost everybody at the party had stopped talking and taken notice of the whole ordeal. There was silence.

He realized that the best course of action was to take his leave. He slipped through an opening in the crowd of people who had gathered around the two, trying not to look anybody in the eye as he left. On his way out, he passed by Alex who gave him a concerned look. But she did not follow him, feeling that nothing she could say would help.

On his way home, his cell phone buzzed in his pocket.

1 NEW MESSAGE

He opened it.

RESTRICTED

I am getting closer to her.

I will get what I want.