Broken Down And Built Back Up
Chapter Nine: Cousin Cody And Leaving
Last On Broken Down And Built Back Up:
*Sexual Reference*
Moans escaped my mouth as he kissed a sensitive part of me, then he kissed his way up to my mouth, and finally, we were kissing passionately. I was waking up, I could feel it, but I didn't want to wake up for once in a long time. It was actually a dream, and not a nightmare, and instead of being forced into having sex, I was actually being made love to. He made me feel so wonderful, loved, not scared, angry and sad.
I opened my eyes slowly as I felt his arms tighten around my waist.
I turned a little in his arms, then let out a sight of relief when I saw that his face was perfectly emotionless and that he hadn't awoken. I kissed the tip of his nose and turned back to sleep.
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JACK
When her lips made contact with my nose, I tried my hardest not to wake up and freak her out.
She turned back around in my arms and her breathing picked up. I loved having her in my arms and I loved how she called out my name in her sleep, and for the first time, it wasn't because she was terrified, it was because she was dreaming with me, and that felt great.
I smiled, pulling her closer to me and burying my face in her silky hair.
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KIM
I turned a little in Jack's arms as the alarm clock went off. It was about an hour after my latest dream and I wanted to go back to sleep, but I had to wake Jack up first. His arms were still wrapped around my waist in a slightly protective manner. I brushed his hair out of his eyes and smiled sleepily at his peaceful features.
"Jack," I whispered. "Jack, wake up, please. It's time to go to school, hon. Wake up."
Jack only tightened his arms around me and buried his face in my back.
"Jack, I know you don't want to wake up, but you have to go to school. You just have to, okay? Only a few more weeks and then school's gonna be out. Wake up, Jack, wake up."
"I don't want to. I'm going to stay here with you. You know, your hair smells like strawberries."
"Thanks, but don't try to distract me. Get up and get out of here before your mom comes in here, kills me, and then kills you."
"I have a good attendance record, one day won't hurt me."
"Yes, but you're studying for final tests, so it's important that you go. Plus, if you don't, good luck studying alone in the afternoon, then tomorrow, and Sunday. You know how lonely and boring studying on your own can be."
Jack sighed and looked up at me, his eyes half-opened looking like zombie.
"You drive a hard bargain," he finally said.
"I know."
"Can I just sleep in a little more? Pleeeeease?"
"I don't care what you do as long as you get your butt up before school starts. You'd have to skip your morning shower if you sleep in for a couple more."
"I took three showers yesterday. I don't think I smell so bad that I need another one, but I can still take a quick one and sleep in."
He sat up, letting go of me and stretching as I followed suit. When the duvet dropped from Jack's chest was when I noticed that he didn't have a shirt on. It's not like I'd never seen a guy shirtless (hellooooo! I'm pregnant!), I was just surprised.
I looked away as he yawned, wondering how the heck had I not noticed before he was shirtless.
"Jack?" I asked.
"Yeah?"
"Where'd your shirt go?"
"Tell you later," was his response as he laid his head on my lap, eyes closed as he yawned again, and rubbed my belly.
I blushed.
Again with the intimate, sweet gestures—what was wrong with him? It was only making me like him more than I already did. That was not supposed to happen, okay? Boy best friends are not to crush on, Kim, they're there to help you, and be friends with you. Don't think of him as anything more that your best friend, Kim, or you're going to end up breaking your own heart.
The alarm clock went off after a few minutes of Jack going back to sleep, breaking me out of my thoughts.
Jack got up, groaned and stretched out. (Thankfully, he'd remembered to keep his pants on-last time I saw him in boxers, when he came into my room because of a nightmare, I'd totally wigged out.)
Jack muttered sarcastically something along the lines of, "First, mom, now, Kim. What would I do and where would I be without my women?" as I fell back into the pillows.
"Jack?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you mind if I stay here?" I asked, my voice thick with sleep. "In your room, I mean. I don't want to go back to mine...it feels so cold and scary in there...I promise I'll make your bed and everything."
"Sure, I guess. Just make sure that when you get up you actually make the bed-Mom gets really mad if I don't do that."
"'Kay," I said and fell back to sleep.
Fifteen minutes or so later, the opening of the bedroom door woke me up.
I was surprised that I was so comfortable in a bed once again...
Suddenly, I fell a pair of warm lips on my cheek, and his smell overpowered my nose.
"Good luck, Kim," Jack whispered, "and have a good day. You deserve it, you pretty girl."
A minute went by and he was gone, leaving me puzzled, and out to face the sharp, painful memories that came with sleep on my own.
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I try to work out a math problem, but my concentration doesn't last long. I'm sitting in the kitchen table, with my math notebook and textbook, trying to do the work that I would have been doing had I been in school.
I take in a deep breath to clear my head, and put my hand on top of my stomach. I don't know if it's just me, or if my stomach actually grows bigger and bigger everyday. It's amazing to witness it and know and feel that there are actually two little people growing inside me. Two little people who depend on me, expect me to take care of them, protect them and love them more than anything else in the world.
The very though of being their mother makes me excited. I'm excited to know that I will finally have somebody—actually, two little persons-who won't leave me and will love me back as much as I love them. Maybe I feel that way about them because everyone in my family has turned their backs on me and left me alone. The future with my twins in it seems so bright...then I actually come back down to Earth and make myself wake up and smell the rotten roses that are my life.
I know that no matter what, I will love my babies with all of my heart, even if other people see them with different eyes and have different opinions about them. To me they are so innocent that the facts that their father did rape me, their father is my brother and their half-father, half-uncle doesn't affect me or the love I feel for them.
I try to imagine what my friends would say when and if they ever found out...The only ones I could ever count on to actually be there for me would be the guys from the dojo, because I know that everyone else would just shun me. I want to see them really badly and join them on whatever crazy adventure they're on, but logic is holding me back—that and the fact that there are missing posters of me everywhere. At least that's what Jack told me.
The truth is that in the end, I'm going to end up being an outcast, who will be struggling to scrape by, study, and be a mother of two. I still haven't told my family about anything going on with me, and Jack, his mother, and my savings aren't going to be able to keep my head above water forever.
I need to do something, but at the same time, I feel as if I'm stuck in the middle of something, not being able to move forward.
Well, I mused, at least I'm away from Aaron, and he can't violate me anymore. He can't touch me or my little ones, or make me do anything I don't want to.
I closed my eyes as images assaulted me.
Him. Touching me, calling me things, trying to get me to drink alcohol, ripping my clothes from my body, the way he said my name with lust, the way he called me the same thing Jack had called me last night...
"Kim?"
I took a huge breath in and opened my eyes. Jack was staring down at me worriedly.
"Are you okay?" he whispered as he knelt down in front of me.
Jack cupped my face and rubbed his thumb across the top of my cheek.
"I don't know," I whispered back, my voice cracked. "My world's crumbling down, Jack, but, tell me, what's new?"
"You know, I really hate to see you sad, Kimmy," he said and took ahold of the hand I had on top of my stomach, intertwining it with his. "You're...you're my best friend...Kim, you are a really special person to me. I want to see you happy again. I want to see you smile and laugh and threaten the guys on a daily basis. Heck, I'd do anything, anything to get you out of this depressing state you're in."
He looked up at me with such admiration and love (I think) in his eyes that I wanted to lean down and press my lips against his, to show him all that I felt for him, but something held me back.
Jack kissed my tummy and buried his face in it.
"I care so much about you, girl. You're driving me up the wall, down, and up again."
"Jack, I care about you too. A lot... Can I ask you something?"
He looked up at me with those stupid, cute brown eyes full of love (?) that I couldn't seem to look away from because they had me under their spell. I couldn't believe I was stupid enough to fall for them-more specifically, for him. My best friend. Gosh, what was wrong with me?
I couldn't believe I was going to be so bold as to ask him what was going through my mind.
"Jack, I'm just going to straight out ask you this. Why are you acting like-"
Somebody knocked loudly on the front door, cutting me off.
"Dammit," I said, and looked back down at Jack as he chuckled and kissed the back of my hand.
"Jack! Bro! Open up, man! It's Cody!"
I frowned as Jack stood up.
"Jack? Who's Cody?"
"My annoying cousin," he said, rolling his eyes, disgust clear in his features. "Let me warn you, he's pretty weird and hits on every girl he sees, so watch out."
"'Kay," I said and got up. "I wanna see if he has any resemblance to you."
"Okay."
He walked ahead of me and turned to me before he opened the door. He mouthed something and made some funny faces.
I laughed and nodded.
"Dude!" Cody said to Jack immeadiately after he opened the door. "I thought my butt was gonna fall off, man! I-" Cody's eyes landed on me. He smiled weirdly after checking me out, then moved Jack aside. "Well, hello, beautiful. Name's Cody. Cody Coleman. Who are you, m'lady?"
He made a grab for my hand, but I quickly snatched it away from him.
"Hi," I said, then looked at Jack, who was still wearing an annoyed look on his face. He held my gaze and smiled.
Throughout the afternoon, about three or four hours, Cody took the liberty of asking me out at least ten times. He was kind of cute, but seriously, get to know me, then ask me out. I'm pretty sure the only thing the boy knew about me was my name.
Cody is sandy-haired, brown-eyed, has freckles and a cute smile. He has skin that's slightly tanned and is very charming, but even if I wanted to, I don't think I could ever like him as more than a friend.
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"Kim?" Cody asked me as I stopped staring at my dinner plate.
"What is it?" I replied, slightly annoyed.
"Kim, do you-" he started, before Jack interrupted him.
"Cody, enough!" Jack said, mad. "She doesn't want to go out with you, and if you repeat that darn question once again, you're gonna regret it."
That got everyone's attention. I looked at Jack, shocked at his outburst, then at Cody as he began to talk again.
"Chillax, Jack, you're blowing things out of proportion. I get it." He winked at me. "See?" Then he said something that I couldn't hear, but it made Jack mad.
"You know what?" Jack said. "I've been patient enough, Cody! Enough is enough! Respect others and their feelings, alright?"
Cody smirked and Jack got up, his fist flying towards Cody's face.
"Jack!" I screamed after my shock. "Jack, stop!"
My words were said to deaf ears, so I made a snap decision.
'I'm sorry' I mouthed to Jennifer and left.
I ran upstairs and grabbed my backpack from the floor of my bedroom. It was an emergency backpack I'd prepared. It had money and everything else I needed. I ran back downstairs after I wrote a note that explained why I was leaving, because I was getting in his way, and exited the back door after I was sure nobody saw me leave.
I hope it's for the best...
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Hey, emeral here! I hope you enjoyed that :). There is a LOT of drama coming up for this story, so I'm very excited about that.
The next chapter of this story was inspired by another hurt/comfort and romance story here in the Kickin' It fandom, it's called Save Me, and though it's a bit confusing at times, I thought that it was great, and guess what? You should totally go read it :).
Remember: These two upcoming weeks are my last two weeks of summer, so you might as well take advantage of that.
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