Chapter X

The next two weeks passed uneventfully for the most part. Sherry found herself constantly preoccupied with thoughts of Jake, and he found himself stuck with thoughts over her. They both wondered what they were doing, what they were thinking, when was the next time they'd have an experience like what happened in the detention room again.

Those were the thought that preoccupied Sherry as she changed out of her gym clothing with a small smile gracing her face. A lot of her thoughts had become about Jake Muller, it was really very silly. She wondered what his favorite color was, what his favorite show was, what he liked to listen to… things that meant so little and yet meant so much. But he did not occupy all her thoughts.

Her father was not getting any better, his vomiting had stopped but now he had a cough that waked her throughout the night. She was forced to give him shots to try to alleviate his pain but worried that they were not strong enough. Sherry made a mental note to bring this up to her father when she got home.

Jake had also started calling her Supergirl, she found the nickname confusing at first and had told him so. He quickly clarified when she had asked him by saying, "you brought me my apple, and the teacher kicked me out for laughing after she asked if I was on drugs."

He's so weird, Sherry laughed mentally as she made her way to the lunchroom. It was on this day that something changed between her and Jake Muller.

"Hey! Sherry! Wait up!"

The familiar voice caused a shiver to travel down the length of her arms; she turned slowly and watched him approach. Steve.

"Hey," she smiled slightly as he stopped in front of her and cast her a shy smile, "how are you?"

"I'm good, what's up with you?"

She shifted awkwardly, "not much, just school and homework. I've got no life." He grinned at her playful humor, "is there something you needed? I don't mean to sound rude but I just need to get moving."

"Well, I was wondering if maybe you'd like to have some lunch with me today. I mean I know that you sit with Sheva, and Chris and all of them but I thought that maybe you'd like a change of pace. Maybe I could show you around the town a bit and we'll get some pizza? Something quick and easy?"

She smiled, that was so nice, and it was hard not to be kind to him when he stared at her with such a shy gaze, "well I'm not sure I mean I usually have lunch with them like you said, but maybe I can take you up on that some other day?"

"Well today is the only day I could do it, come on," he grinned at her, "please? I promise it will be worth your while. They'll survive without you, come on."

Sherry sighed, "Steve, I don't know I mean… where will we go exactly?"

"We'll go to this really nice spot, there are always a lot of people there and you actually can see the lake, people usually go there to have lunch. It's really cool," Steve smiled.

She sighed, "okay. I'll text them and tell them," he grinned and towed her towards the exit.

…

When Jake first approached the lunchroom it was with excitement boiling in the pit of his stomach, he wondered what new fact he'd learn about Sherry today, what new way would she astound his understanding of her.

The girl was consuming his every thought. He tried everything to get her out of his thoughts, but nothing worked. Everything reminded him of her, whether it was an apple, a song, a funny joke, it all led back to thoughts of her.

As Jake let his eyes skate past the flirtatious looks of the female's in his direct line of vision he let them settle where Sherry was supposed to be. But she wasn't there.

Sherry was always there with Sheva before him and the guys arrived, and yet he found Sheva sitting alone and staring at them with the same confusion. Maybe she's just late; Jake reasoned as he approached, she'll be here. God I'm pathetic, freaking out like a little bitch.

Sheva and Chris who were on better terms greeted each other with the usual kiss, Sheva pulled away first as Chris grinned like a devil and plopped down beside Jake.

He wanted to ask Sheva where Sherry was but figured that she was just as confused as he was.

"Have you seen Sherry?" Sheva asked him with a frown, "she was in first period but she's usually not late."

"Maybe she got stuck in a class… you know how those teachers are," Chris guessed and shrugged.

"She's got gym with me before this, that wouldn't happen," Jake pulled out his phone, "I'm going to ask her."

He looked up Supergirl in his contacts and quickly typed out, the crew is asking for you, why aren't you here yet?

As they waited for a response Sheva and Chris made small talk with Jake and Billy.

"So you know about how I wanted us to have like a get together, outside school?" Chris stuffed his mouth with fries and swallowed like a crocodile, "I'm thinking this weekend we kidnap Sherry since she's the one that is always stuck inside her house and we get her over to my place. We can have a sleep over or something, just watch shitty movies and laugh."

Jake smirked despite his tension at Sherry not being in front of him, "I guess that's a good idea. But we should try to warm her up to the idea Chris."

"Well I don't mean literally kidnap her," Chris laughed, "I just think we need to get her out some, that girl doesn't leave her house except to go to school."

Jake frowned as his phone vibrated and quickly pulled up the text, I'm with Steve, I was just going to text you since I don't have anyone else's number. He asked me to go to lunch with him, I figured I might as well, he was being really nice. Hope it wasn't any trouble.

What the fuck? Jake cursed angrily and hunched over his phone as his friends stared at him with confusion.

What was she thinking? Didn't we warn her about him? What was she doing? Fuck, fuck, fuck! Sherry where are you? He didn't want to have his message sound as angry as he felt, and he hated feeling this strange annoyance. It was a tightening at his chest, what if that motherfucker tries to do something with her? And what if she doesn't stop him. The thought annoyed him, I shouldn't even care.

"Jake what's going on?" Sheva's voice was displaying all the worry on everyone's mind.

"She's with Steve Burnside," He glared at the phone and waited for the text message.

"That fucker, he just can't take a hint can he?" Chris shook his head and glared at Jake, "where is he, we have to go get her. That kid isn't normal."

"I'm waiting for the text but she's not fucking answering-

"Give her a second, Jesus," Sheva shook her head, "so goddamn impatient."

A few seconds later the text came, we're at some place where Steve says people meet up for lunch, we can see a huge body of water- there's a bunch of people around. It's really very nice.

"She's at the Boardwalk." Jake stood up and Chris did too, Sheva was already storming towards the exit and Billy was on their heels, "I'm going to kick his ass," Jake fumed.

…

"So this is where everyone has lunch?" Sherry smiled as the cool wind chilled the heat on her forehead. Steve grinned at her, "it's really very nice. Jake and Sheva never mentioned it though." If this is where everyone has lunch why is it that they'd never mention it?

Sherry and Steve strolled lazily down the boardwalk. There were quite a few people around them, and while Sherry did not know exactly where it was that they were walking she did not worry, there were a lot of people around them. He couldn't try something even if he wanted to.

"So tell me about yourself," Steve smiled curiously at her, she shrugged.

"There isn't really much to tell, I moved here for a change and I live in an apartment. I like to read, and I don't like seafood." Jake also hates seafood, she thought offhandedly. He hadn't replied to her last message at all.

"Why did you move here exactly?" Steve asked, when he noticed the knitting between her eyebrows he backtracked, "obviously if it's personal you don't have to tell me."

"I'd rather not talk about it," she smiled, "so where are we going exactly?"

"Meeting up with a few friends of mine, you should get to know them, they're really nice, I think you'd like them."

She stopped walking then and frowned, she didn't like that. Jake had told her about Steve's drug habits… "I'm not sure that's a good idea. I mean I'm really not a people person and while I appreciate your wish to have me… meet people. It's just not something that I—

"Oh come on," Steve grinned at her playfully, "just a meet and greet. You're kind of like a celebrity here you know."

This made her curious, "why would I be a celebrity around here?"

"Well," he shrugged sheepishly, "you're really pretty and sweet… it's different."

She blushed slightly and shook her head, "it's really not that different – people here just tend to be a little blunter then I am with their words." Again the wind stirred, her hair whipped left then right, "I'm going to get going. I can find my way back to the school. Thanks for showing me around, it was really very nice. Thank you."

His face darkened and suddenly his voice became annoyed, "are you kidding me?"

Sherry blinked, confused, "no?"

"I take you out here and I want you to meet my friends and you have to be all rude and just desert me here?"

"I just want to go back to the school," she tried to keep her voice level, "I didn't want to come in the first place, I was supposed to be with everyone else right now but I came because I wanted to have lunch, you now tell me that we're actually going to be meeting your friends-

"You're being so rude."

Her heart stuttered and she jerked back, "excuse me?"

Steve shook his head, almost sadly, "I thought you were different but you're just fucking rude—

"I…" she blanched, unsure of what to say. Had it been rude to deny meeting his friends? She supposed it could be, maybe she was being a bit unfair? She swallowed tensely, regretting this so much more than before, "I'm sorry… I didn't think that it was that big of a deal."

He sighed and ran a hand through his reddish hair, "no, I'm sorry, I've been so stress-

"Sherry!"

The voice was coming from behind her. Steve's eyes narrowed and she turned quickly. She hated to admit it but she felt a surge of relief at the sight.

Jake was coming towards her with Sheva, Chris, and even Billy beside him. He was walking the fastest, making him the first in the line they created.

"Jake!" She called back happily, but the smile died away as she took in his dark expression and the fact that his hands were in fists. He looked very annoyed; he was not even really looking at her as much as he was looking at Steve.

People stared with apprehension as Jake Muller marched against the crowd and to her. She realized quite suddenly what was going to happen, "wait, Jake, no! No!"

Jake almost brushed past her but she placed two hands firmly against his chest and tried to stay between him and Steve to the best of her ability.

"I'm going to rip your head off," Jake sneered above her at Steve. Sheva stared at Sherry with a disapproving stare and Chris placed one hand on Jake's shoulder, holding him firmly there while Sherry shook with fear. Are they so easy to anger to the point of violence?

"So you called backup?" Steve glared at Sherry as she turned to face him.

"No, they just…" she turned to look at Billy with confusion "what are you all doing here?"

"You told us where you were," Jake said through his teeth, his crisp blue eyes burned at Steve and she stared at him with a bit of apprehension, "and I knew what he was planning almost instantly."

"What are you talking about?" Her eyes widened up at him, it made his anger flare. Steve knew how to pick them, "Jake, answer me…"

"He was going to introduce you to his little buddies and try to get in your pants like he does with almost everyone else," Sheva glared at Steve who was staring at Jake.

"Does it really matter?" Steve retorted, Jake breathed so hard underneath Sherry's hand that she worried he would have a panic attack, she realized only then that she was still touching him, jerkily she removed her hand, "if she's as virginal as she looks she won't go along with it. Or what do you think I'd rape her?"

"Yes." Chris responded and came in between Sherry and Steve. He towered over him, it was almost frightening, "I know that you have a bunch of little pills in your pocket, I'm not as stupid as you might think. If you try to fuck with one of us again I promise you your fingers are going to be in casts before you can blink. Stay the fuck away from us."

Jake looked down at Sherry who was staring at her feet wide eyed and emptily. She looked lost, embarrassed perhaps. It only made the feeling in his chest flare up even more.

She shouldn't be feeling like this. And she wouldn't be feeling like this if she had just listened to me! "Let's go," he commanded and placed his hand on her back as if it were the most natural thing in the world. She jumped slightly but allowed him to turn her around and lead her away from Steve. Chris, Sheva, and Billy followed.

Steve laughed loudly, "She's probably not even that tight, Jake! You should have let me have a test run before you tap it!"

"Shit," Chris grumbled, knowing what was going to happen next.

"Jake!" Sheva cried out as he turned and started storming towards Steve.

Sherry turned just at the moment that Jake threw his arm back and let his fist rush forward. She heard the connection and then the gasps of the people walking by as Steve collapsed backwards onto the boardwalk, crying out, clutching his nose. Red liquid leaked from between his fingers and Jake stood above him.

"Don't you ever come near her again, I'll fucking snap you in half you piece of shit!" Jake yelled down at him.

"Jake!" She ran over to him and took his gloved hand in hers. He looked down at her snappily and then back at Steve who was clutching his nose furiously and shuffling backwards away from the taller male, "Jake look at me, please?"

Slowly he turned his glare down to her, she tightened her hold on his hand, "what?"

"Let's go, let's just go back to school, okay?"

He nodded stiffly.

Sherry towed him hastily away from Steve who was getting help from bystanders. The walk away from Steve Burnside was silent. No one said anything to her and she didn't say anything to them. She could still feel the waves of annoyance flowing off of Jake's shoulders and because of his she opened her fingers to release his hand hesitantly.

When she let his hand his eyes flickered with a look of annoyance and perhaps impatience. They all crammed into Chris' seat and remained silent for the most part.

"I should have broken his fucking leg," Jake growled out, staring out the window with his arm tossed over the back of Sherry's seat, she sat quietly.

"It's good that it didn't get too far," Sheva disagreed, tossing Sherry a sympathizing smile through the rearview mirror, "Sherry and I wouldn't have enjoyed pouring alcohol over your wounds guys."

Chris tossed her an indignant glare, "you think he would have landed one hit on me?"

Sherry choked back a laugh, she knew what Sheva was doing. She loved poking fun at him, Jake looked at Sherry's reflection in the window with annoyance, she doesn't get how serious this was.

"Chris," Sheva's hand found his thigh and she squeezed, Chris' teeth gritted, "I know he wouldn't have landed one," her smile was delicate, "he would have landed a couple.,"

"Oh that's bullshit!" Chris disagreed as Sheva laughed, "I would have taken him down in two seconds!"

"You know I'm just kidding," she leaned over and kissed his cheek gently. Sherry smiled, happy to see them back to normal.

"You better be kidding or I might have to go back and prove myself, can't have my woman thinkin' I'm a pussy," Chris grumbled halfheartedly and then smiled cheekily at Sherry in the rearview mirror, "Sherry – this weekend do you want to come over my place and watch a couple of movies?"

She looked down at her hands, "I'm not sure. I mean.. I will see what I can do."

"Alright, no problem."

When they arrived at school Jake didn't say a word to her and just stalked off. It made her heart clench. He didn't even look at her; Sheva noticed too but didn't say anything and waved at Sherry, heading towards her class. Chris and Billy waved goodbye as well and left to go to History.

When school was over Sherry didn't bother to look for Jake or anyone else. She just started heading home instantly. There was a strange urge within her to text him, but she knew that when people were upset they needed time to cool down. And she didn't want to look like an idiot and ask if he was angry, maybe he wasn't.

Back at school Jake mounted his motorcycle. He had been waiting for her for the past twenty minutes and there was no sight of her. He even texted her and she did not answer. Is she walking or something? Why wouldn't she text me back? She better not be walking in this fucking heat.

With annoyance he let the motorcycle roar to life beneath him and started steering it with ease. He would wait for her at her house then and ask her what in the hell she was thinking.

The ride over to her home took less then thirty minutes. The entire time all he could think about was the sight of Steve standing so close to her. Admittedly it wasn't very close, but it was too close. He needed to be football fields away.

Finally Jake reached the front of her apartment; he lingered there with a heated stare as he waited impatiently for her to show up. He knew she couldn't have been at home yet. He pulled out his phone, she still had not answered him. He sent another, Are you home? Did you walk?

And then that comment about having sex with her. It had made him boil, just the thought now forced him to pull out a pack and smoke the annoyance away. Still it lingered.

He couldn't stand the thought of someone else touching her. He had already envisioned what it would be like to be buried in her small body, or what it would be like to have her moaning his name, he loved the idea of her belonging to him and belonging to her.

He waited for at least fifteen minutes before he caught sight of her turning the corner and searching her pockets for her keys. He stood up from his bike and watched her.

She raised her head when she found the keys and stopped walking for two seconds, just staring at him with confusion. Then very slowly she walked towards him and nervously played with the keys.

"Hi Jake," she murmured and stopped in front of him.

"You didn't answer my text," he blew the smoke out of the corner of his mouth and away from her, she frowned.

"Are you stressed or something?"

He ran a hand through his short hair with annoyance, "stop avoiding my question. Why didn't you answer my text?"

"I didn't even see it," she defended herself and pulled out her phone, when she saw then she shrugged, "sorry."

"You shouldn't have gone out with him without telling us-

"I didn't realize that I was a child that needed to tell you guys everything I did and with whom I did it." Her eyes became a bit annoyed.

"He's an asshole."

"I know that, and I won't be hanging out with him ever again. Now," she licked her lips, "what are you doing here?"

His eyes darkened at her, "why didn't you text me and tell me you were walking home?"

Her eyes flickered nervously towards her door and then down to her feet, "you walked away from me like if you were angry at me."

"I wasn't… fuck," he ran a hand through his hair nervously, "it's not like that. I was just annoyed at the entire situation; he just annoys the hell out of me."

"Oh, well, it was my mistake then. I'm sorry," she mumbled awkwardly, then let her eyes go up to his intense stare, "I have to get going… thank you for coming and clearing things up, I assume that's why you came here, right?"

He swallowed and nodded, "I'll see you in school on Monday."

She nodded, "I'll see if I can make it to Chris' little sleepover."

Jake smirked, "he's got some issues."

"He's sweet," Sherry smiled and laughed, "even when Sheva loves pushing his buttons." She bit her lip nervously, "I'm really sorry about today."

"It's not your fault," he shrugged and walked towards her door, leading her. Casually he leaned up against the wall and watched her struggle with the keys; her hands were trembling, "are you okay?"

"Yeah," she mumbled, "it's just his comment… I didn't think it'd make you so angry that you'd punch him."

"He crossed a fucking line." He stated fiercely. Sherry finally opened the door and then stood in her entrance, looking at him nervously.

"I live on the second floor," she smiled.

"It looks nice from here," he observed, noting the glossy white tiles. Then his eyes made their way down to her, he leaned against the door frame and smirked down at her as she blushed, "I'll see you this weekend hopefully."

"Y-yeah," she stuttered nervously, "bye Jake."

"Bye," he smirked. She turned and he held the door open, watching her as she made her way up the steps, trying to look away from her ass but failing miserably, great, now I'm fucking hard again. "Oh, Supergirl?"

"Mhm?" she turned from where she was and stared down at him as he leaned forward to see her at the top of the stairs, he had a dark look on his face, it made her shiver.

"I don't like seein' guys looking at you like that, next time I might not stop until someone is in the hospital; let's make sure that doesn't happen, don't talk to assholes… except for me."

She blinked and tried to resist a goofy smile, but failed slightly. He chuckled darkly and shut the door, leaving her at the top of the stairs. She heard the motorcycle roar to life and then move away from the apartment building.

Jake is jealous? I think Jake is jealous. He doesn't like it when guys look at me like that, he likes me? Does that mean he likes me? Who cares! He has some sort of interest in me right?

She broke out into a small happy dance, jumping and twirling in a circle, dangerously close to the stairs.

The rest of the day neither could keep a grin off their face. Not even as Sherry almost burned herself cooking dinner and texting Jake. Not even as Jake's knuckles protested against him texting her, and not even as his flesh burned at the alcohol he poured over the wounds from the punch he threw at Steve Burnside.

It was all worth it.

That night as Jake played with Chris online through the Playstation, and Sheva scolded Chris for not shooting the right enemy in the background, Jake couldn't stop thinking about what Sherry could have been doing with Steve. What if she hadn't said no to him? What if she had let him touch her? The thought of Steve's skinny fingers on her made him sick to his stomach.

"What the fuck! Keep your head in the game you asshole! You suck!" Chris raged over the headset as Jake shot him by mistake.

Eventually Jake and Chris won and he turned off the system. He went to the bathroom and started showering. Not shockingly he found that she was in his thoughts. Gritting his teeth he wrapped his hand on his erection and imagined her there with him, kissing him and encouraging him to take her with soft words and nips at his neck, his hand moved faster up and down his stiffened cock. He imagined burying himself inside of her and having her scream with ecstasy under him, pleading with him.

"Fuck!" He hissed out as he came. Jake pressed his forehead to the tile and moaned as his entire body went rigid and the image of her faded.

That was the moment that Jake Muller knew that he wouldn't stand the sight of someone else with her. What the fuck is wrong with me? I shouldn't give a fuck about her! She's nothing to me...

And yet the idea of her moaning under someone else made him numb all over.

He wanted her to himself.

Well... Damn!

So that was chapter 10 :) I hope you all liked it! As you can see I don't really want to start this immediately with insane fights and insanely quick interests, he feels jealousy, but even Sherry is like 'this doesn't mean he likes me,' but she does realize that he is jealous. So, they are still in a bit of an awkward stage. This is not going to be a story where he is in love with her after knowing her for three weeks, that is just... no. XD Don't expect passionate declarations of love after a month. Expect realistic silent jealousy.

So please REVIEW! It makes me so happy. This was also the longest chapter, so please tell me what you think!