Chapter 3: Confrontation
Jess soaked and drenched as he limped his way to the dinner wanting to make some commotion with Luke's customer as he walked through the front door of the dinner. Luke quickly noticed and wanted to apologize however Jess glared made him to do stand there otherwise. Jess quickly walked upstairs as he took his pants off glad that the bandage was not soaked but slightly wet. He went to the bathroom and took a towel to dry off taking his sweater off in the process.
"Damn this is a terrible first couple of hours in this pathetic excuse for a town!" Jess said as he trembled as he felt his knees give away to the pain that his leg was causing. Jess swiftly looked himself on the mirror which glared back at him. This was him something he needed to accept. He wasn't one of those people who go around wanting to help- he just needed to look out for his own sake. He knew he had some bad expressions with some people already and didn't really give a shit. For all he cares he stole the money rather than borrow at the time for short time relief which was true so he guess he did really steal the money- talk about bad karma. Jess carefully checks if his bandage was making the wound uncomfortable which at the moment wasn't.
It took Jess a few moments to put on dry cloths due to the fact he was still struggling with his legs. He had experience this kind of pain before however it was like something indescribable when it happens and Jess hated the pain that surge to his body and at times he also love it. Maybe it was because of his past or maybe it was because of how he got the wounds that scared his back, chest, maybe his legs- some unnoticeable to the naked eye like the wound that use to scar his neck a few years ago.
He looked at the book in his back pocket and noticed that it was presently wet so he set it off to the window hoping it'll dry. Slowly and carefully Jess took out a cigarette which was also currently wet drying it by making the lighters flame touch the white portion of the cigarette till it was dry than lighting and inhaling taking a big drag. Within seconds Jess was sitting near his bedside taking out one of his books that were dry and reading it thoroughly making a note in the margins once in a while as he took more drug of his cancer stick forgetting the day event.
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Luke knocked loudly at Lorelei's back door.
"I just pushed him in the lake!"
"What? Okay am I missing something here?" Lorelei asked as she drank some more of beloved coffee.
"Jess I pushed him in the lake. There was a confrontation that involve Taylor claiming that Jess stole some money from the charity fund to help repair the bridge but it turned out a mistake but not before I had my own confrontation with Jess and Jess was being impossible! This is bad!"
"Depends can he swim?"
"His fine- wet but fine. It's just I lost it. I don't know how you do it I am so far over my head I can't see my own hat!"
"Try turning it around."
"God how could I be so stupid taking up this responsibility. What was I thinking! Why did I say yes to this."
"Because you saw a kid in desperate need of some help and you thought you would throw him a line."
"But me raising a kid! I don't even like kids their always sticky you know like they got jam on their hands even if their isn't jam in the house somehow they always have jam on their hands! I'm not the right guy to deal with that I have no patient for jam hands!"
"Okay slow down first of all Jess is sixteen or seventeen his probably over with the jam stage in his life and second of all you can do this if you want to you totally capable but you can't just buy a bed with some sheets and expect things to do itself it takes more than that. That will not work!"
"I swear I'll kill Liz!"
"Hey Liz is not the point anymore Liz is not here Jess is here however and you need to figure something out and solve it and try to figure some bonding thing or something that will get you and him to understand each other prospective. What about you and Jess goes to dinner in my house tonight at least it'll do something about dinner and meeting other people in town."
"Okay thank you Lorelei you don't know how much I appreciate it is there any way I can pay you back or something."
"Well I did miss Danish day…" Lorelei says drifting off.
"Tomorrow come to the dinner."
"But tomorrow is not Danish day."
"Just be there" Luke said frustrated and left through the front door. "See you at nine."
When Luke arrived at the apartment he noticed that Jess was sitting on the floor leaning on the side of his bed smoking a cigarette.
"Okay we got the patch, the gum, some kind of tapes, Shines orbs, some health books, and several picture of diseases of lungs to hang on the fridge." Luke said throwing each item on the bed near Jess. "Pretty huh? This is done." Luke said as he grabbed the cigarette Jess was smoking.
"Hey" Jess said making a comment as Luke threw his cigarette out the window noticing the book was also there avoiding it and throwing it near the streets instead.
"You will go to school, you will come home, you will work at the dinner until closing, you will do your homework, and then you will go to bed. Weekends are for chores and some approved outings. Poultry and other stuff like that all discussable. You will not steal" Luke said pausing a little knowing that Jess didn't steal at least at the moment however not wanting to have his authority vanish continues. "You will graduate from high school."
"You can't just…"
"I can just" Luke stated firmly. "I am not just letting you fall off the face of the earth you will not drift I won't let it happen now I don't know if this is the right way to handle this but this is the way it's being handle and that my friend is the end of this discussion! And by the way we will have dinner at Lorelei's tonight!"
Jess stared at Luke with a glare that can kill. He got up from where he was sitting wincing a little from the pain that his legs was causing him grabs his jacket and headed out the door.
"Where are you going!"
"Out!" Jess stated also as firmly as Luke.
Sighing a little Luke states, "Well at least I asked."
Luke looked at the time noticing it was only six thirty.
"I hope he gets here before dinner at Lorelei's." Luke mumbles to himself.
Please do comment since I like comments and what people thinks about the story thus far and I really appreciate that someone is actually reading it. Yes I know that the episodes already had the dialogs but I just want to get all the things I think important done so I can go on with my life and write something new and not bored people that rather just watch the TV show. Well after a couple more of repeated events that already I promise I'll write something worth your while if you choice to continue reading. Thank you!
