Jake
I watched her sleeping in the chair by the window. Her makeup had rubbed off and her half bruised face was exposed. Why does she bruise so easily? I guess she's just weak. I sat up and the consequences of my drinking binge crashed down on me. My head pounded, my body ached and my stomach talked, but didn't speak nice words. Hung over… I definitely am.
I started remembering the reason why I even got drunk. It was because of Clare. She was gone out with her friends and not picking up the phone. I watched her from afar. She purposely missed the call while she was talking to her ex…
In that instant I forgot about my throbbing head and upset stomach. Revenge is what I wanted. I threw a lamp at the window, causing the window to break. Clare jumped up, confused and still half asleep. Before she could move out of her spot I grabbed her and held half of her body out of the window. She loves this window so much then she can go right through it.
"What I'm not good enough for you to sleep beside?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Fucking cheating bitch! I saw you with your friends… ignoring me yesterday!"
"I wasn't cheating! Please! Please! Let me go."
"Okay."
I let one of her arms go. She was closer to falling. She shrieked out and one or two people started to gather below. I slung her back inside and I pulled the curtains down to keep the onlookers out of our business.
"I cannot believe you! I cannot fucking believe you!"
"Jake please, don't…. I love you, you know that! Please! Believe me."
Clare
Jake kissed me hard. The blood from my mouth covered his lips but he didn't seem to mind. He pushed me back on the bed and he started ravishing my body. He ripped off my clothes and kissed my breasts while squeezing them too hard. The cuts on my belly from the window's broken glass stung and throbbed but I didn't cry because I knew if I did he'd only get angry at me. He pushed into me in the roughest way. The sex was too hard and too horrible. I didn't orgasm, I didn't even get close instead the entire time I had to keep from crying. Not only about the fact that he tried to toss me out of a tenth story window, but because of the pain.
The only thing that kept me from screaming and letting the waterworks flow was the thought of me and Eli making love. It was passionate and he was gentle. When Jake is on top of me I just mentally take myself back to one of the many night Eli and I spent together and it helps me cope with the pain. Memories of happier times are the only bullets I have to bite. I was glad when it was finally over. He collapsed on top of me and kissed me. He didn't even notice that I wasn't kissing back. That's because he doesn't care about me. I think he just wants me around for his personal pleasure or to be a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in his life. He says he loves me, and I know he truly hates me. That's okay though because I hate him too. If I didn't think it would get my family murdered, I'd kill him. He'll probably kill me first though.
When he finally got off of me he went back to sleep. I went to the bathroom and as soon as the shower was running I let out the cry I'd been holding in since I woke up hanging halfway out of a window. When I couldn't cry anymore I put on jeans and a tee shirt and I fixed myself some tea. I noticed that the mail had arrived. I picked it up and there was a letter for me…from the school. The only thing I could make out was the big Suspended indefinitely written in bold letters right after my name. I'm expelled. I've been trying so hard. I can't make it to my classes always because…I'm too injured or too tired and I've been trying so hard to keep up with my work. I guess trying wasn't enough. Jake has officially shattered my dreams. I feel like I could just die. I dropped to the floor, temporarily in a catatonic state while I looked at the letter over and over again. I've been kicked out of school…..
I put the letter in the trashcan and I let it burn. The fire grew and it caught the drapes, all I could do was watch. I don't even think I really wanted to put it out or call for help. I just wanted to let it burn me and this demon to a crisp. That didn't happen though. He came from the back and scrambled to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. When it was all out he turned to look at me. I looked right at him, knowing what was going to happen to me.
"Dumb, crazy ass bitch!"
He rammed me in the stomach with the butt of the fire extinguisher. It hurt and I just knew I had some broken bones but I refused to let myself scream so he beat me until I did. Kicks, punches even breaking vases and other glass decorations over me. The cuts from the glass only hurt for a while and then like the rest of me, they too became numb.
By the time he was done there wasn't a room of the apartment that didn't have my blood in it. On the walls, my bloody handprints told a horrifying story. When he was done with me he went to class… I guess he was able to keep his grades up because I have to do his homework.
Eli
"You're Eli right? I'm Jake."
"Jake… Hello."
"Look I just wanted to say that just because I and Clare are dating, that's no reason for us not to be friends."
"Where is Clare?"
"She's under the weather today…she ate some cherries and she's allergic."
"She's not allergic to cherries. They are her favorite. She's allergic to kiwi."
"I meant Kiwi…cherries on the brain I guess. So we should get drinks later."
"I actually have plans."
"Hot date?"
"No… not really. See you around."
Something is really not right with this guy! He comes up to me out of the blue and just wants to be friends… that's not normal and his story about Clare's absence isn't normal. I went to my apartment where Adam was on the computer.
"Adam I need your help."
"What?"
"Look up Clare's registration status."
"More hacking?"
"Please!"
He looked it up and under her information it showed her grades and then the worst… she'd been indefinitely suspended… Expelled. She got kicked out of college. Clare was a study bug…Ms. Dean's list in the flesh. Now I know something is wrong. I just wish I could prove it. I got ready for dinner with my aunt and her husband… Adam is coming along too of course. For the moment, we are both totally lifeless.
When I got to my Aunt Winnie's house it smelled like chicken and other spices. I guess she really did cook. When I went into the dining room she was there with my uncle Chris and my dad. Both of them plastered on fake smiles when they saw me.
"Hey guys!"
"Well hello college boy, and Adam Wadam pudding pie!"
"Hi Winnie."
"Sit! Sit! Eat and let's talk."
"Okay."
The food was good but there was an eerie tension in the air like they knew a secret that I should know but they didn't want to tell me. Maybe it's a RCMP thing or something?
"Adam, has Chris ever showed you his collection of preserved organs?"
"No… But I'd like to see it."
"Come on… I'll show you."
Once Adam and Chris were gone my dad and Winnie both turned to face me.
"Eli we need to ask you a few questions."
"Oookkaaay… Is this why you've been acting all weird?"
"What do you know about Jake Martin?"
"He's an ass hole and I know something isn't right about him but I can't prove it!"
"Eli… Your dad and I want you to stay away from him."
"Winnie did you lie to me last night?"
"No…he doesn't have a record but it would behoove you to stay away from him."
"Don't worry, I will. That is why I declined his attempt to be my "new best friend" today…. What a crock!"
"What did he say to you?"
"Said he wanted to be friends and he invited me out for drinks."
"Eli who all knows what….I do for a living?"
"Only Adam. Not even Clare knew."
"Okay… Just watch your back okay? I want you to have this."
My dad handed me a loaded gun. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I had to blink twice just to make sure the piece of fire filled metal was real.
"Dad, why are you giving me a gun?"
"You might need it."
His words were odd and haunting which leaves me to believe that something is wrong with Jake and I was right. This bastard is as crooked as a question mark but they probably have to keep his crimes classified. I just have to get Clare away from him somehow.
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