Kim POV
"Why not?" I asked full with anger. "Why not! Why can't I just stop thinking about everyone else and just focus on me and my needs without getting beat back down again? Why do I always need to be the one who gets hurt? Why can't I just get what I want for once-?"
Jared put his hand on top of my mouth to shut me up. He looked into my eyes and giving me the I-can-see-into-your-soul look again, before saying softly, "You don't think I want this too? I am seriously kicking myself right now for stopping this" really? "But you're mad and angry, and vulnerable. I don't want to hurt you. Tell me what happened; tell me so I can make it better. Let me help you."
I stared at him. Was he for real? Did he seriously want to help me? I heard in tenth grade that he had a bet that he could do more virgins than Paul. Was that true? Was he still doing it? Cause if he still was then he's wasting his time with me. Psft, like I'd ever tell him what happened. I could risk getting the cops into this or even getting Ben away from me. Ben.
"Ben," I said with is hand still on my mouth. I pulled his hand off. "I need to go get Ben." I quickly got out off his lap and out the door without looking back to see if he was following. I walked to the playground that Ben would wait for either me or Sarah to come and get him.
I saw him with a little brown hair girl hiding in the shade of the playground, digging. I walked up to them and Ben spotted me.
"Hey Kim," Ben called over. I ducked my head down underneath the slide so that I could fit inside. "Hey Benny, who's this?"
"Jade meet my sister Kim and Kim meet Jade my wife."
We'll this wasn't weird at all.
"Hi Kim!" Jade smiled and waved her dirty hand.
"Uh, that's cool," I said. "So what you guys digging up there?"
"Were trying to look for babies," Jade said.
I think God hates me for some reason.
"Why are you looking down there?" I asked, might as well get all the information before explaining right?
"Well, I and Jade were talking about how many kids we wanted. She told me she wants 40 and I said that was impossible because God can't give you that many. And then she told me God had nothing to do with it because-"
"When you get married a baby is born buried under the ground," Jade finished.
"And I told her she was wrong! Because the only way to get a baby is getting married and then a bird flies across the sky and drops down a baby for you," Ben said. "Tell her I'm right Kim!"
"Er...then what happened?" I asked avoiding the question.
"So we got married and then waited for a bird. But nothing happened," Jade said with an evil look on her face.
"So we started digging, but I still think the bird is coming! He's just in the middle of this storm were about to have!" Ben said loudly back.
I heard a loud howl of laugher behind me. And guess who it was. Freakin' Jared! God please let this guy take a hint!
"Jade, is your mom or dad around?"
Jade shook her head. "I haven't seen them since yesterday morning."
"Do you have an older brother or sister here to pick you up?" I asked.
"Nope."
I stared at her, confused.
Jared stepped in, "how did you get to school then, Hun?"
"I slept here last night."
Both of us went quiet for a sec before I asked, "Do you know where you live, Sweetie?"
"249 Hulk Street."
I blinked. That was all the way on the other side of town.
"Um, Kim, could I talk to you for a minute? Over there?" Jared asked pulling me up.
"How about you, kids keep digging. We'll be right back."
Jared pulled me to the benches, but we didn't sit down.
"Every morning me and my dad watch the news and today there was something really... disturbing on," Jared said, hesitating.
"I love your interest in the new Jared, I really do. But we've got to find out where her parents are. Right now," I said.
"No listen," Jared urged. "This morning there was a piece on this couple named the Jamiesons. Apparently, they were in the huge debt and borrow money from a loan shark but they didn't pay it off in time and they, err got murdered. They were found in dead that night."
I gulped really hoping that whatever was about to happen, wouldn't. "What that got to do with anything?"
"They had a missing daughter."
"Jade," I managed to choke out. "Oh God, this is bad. What are we going to do?"
We went silent for a bit as the dark clouds rumbled above us.
"We should take her to the cops," Jared said.
"No, she can't go there," I said loudly. "They'll make her go to an orphanage and she probably move from family to family – No Jared, I won't let that happen."
"Okay, let's take her to my house."
"Jared, are you nuts? You parents will freak out! They'll for sure send her away!" I was being to sound hysteric.
"I promise my parents won't say anything. They won't do anything. I swear," Jared said, wrapping his arms around me to keep me from shaking. "They aren't like that. I trust them."
I sighed. "I guess we don't have any other option." I pulled away from his warm body and walked back over to them.
"Hey, Jade? You wanna come home with us? You must be hungry, we could get you something to eat too," I asked.
She seemed hesitant.
"And Kim could tell you both where babies come from," Jared said coming up behind me.
"Okay!" she said. I turn around and gave him the death stare.
He laughed it off easily, followed by, "Come on guys, it looks like it's about to rain."
"... and that's how babies are born," I said. I was proud of myself. I gave a good explanation about how babies came after a proper marriage, when both the mommy and daddy wanted kids so they would ask God politely and give each other a hug and a baby would be created in the mommy's stomach. I even told them about the whole nine months process but I said that the doctor would do some magic and the baby would appear, so I wasn't exactly the best explainer. But I think that my explanation subtly taught them about how to properly have a baby without any of the bad parts.
But then they started talking about how they wanted to become a doctor because it would make them a witch/wizard. I let that go though.
Jared was inside his huge house talking to his parents. He had been gone a while almost 20 minutes, but I couldn't expect anything less. I can't believe how I would have done this alone. I couldn't keep her with me because of my dad but what else could I have done with her. I turn around in my passenger seat to face the kids.
Jade was a pretty little thing. She had long brown hair and brown eyes just like every other girl in this town but she had something different. Her heart shaped head was always held proudly and her little hands made gestures as she talked. I could help but feel pity on her. At least I had one parent, but she had none.
There was a knock on the window, it was Jared drenched in rain. He gave me the signal to come in followed by thumbs up. We all got out of the car and ran up the Cameron's blue porch and into their heated house.
Jared's mother was a small thing; I was kind of surprised that Jared actually came out of her, but I could see the facial resemblance. Her long black hair was tied into a side braid. She wore jeans and nice dark blue shirt with some ear rings and a necklace. She was so beautiful it made me jealous. Heck, I don't even remember the last time I wore ear rings!
Jared's dad, however, was really big. He had glasses and plaid green shirt on with jeans and his hair was tied in a short pony tail. He looked kind of like an artist. He had his protective arm around his wife.
"Mom, Dad; this is Kimberly Jones and her brother Ben and this is Jade, err Ben's friend," Jared introduced. "And guys these are my parents."
No one said anything.
I cleared my throat. "It's really nice to meet you Mr and Mrs Came-"
"Please none of that Kimberly," Mrs Cameron said. "Call us Annie and Jonah."
I smiled. "And please call me Kim."
"Of course," she smiled back warmly. "Come on kids, let's go get food. I've made some Mac and Cheese." She took Ben and Jade by their hands and lead them deep into the house, which let Jonah, Jared and me standing in the foyer alone.
"So Kim," Jonah said casually. "Is your father, Mark Jones?"
"Yes he is, were you two friends?"
"We were in the same grade," Jonah explained. "Is he around? I haven't seen him lately."
"Off on business," I lied.
"Jonah? Bring the kids, Dinners getting cold," Annie called from the kitchen.
"Thank you so much for dinner, Annie," I said getting up with Ben. "But we really should be going." We had already decided that Jade was going to be staying with the Cameron's until they figured something out.
"Nonsense! Look outside it's a storm! You can possibly go out this late too," she said. It was 9pm. "How about you two stay the night? Tomorrow Jared could drive you two back to your place to get ready for school. How about that?"
Was she serious? Me sleeping over at JARED CAMERON's house? With him sleeping in the SAME HOUSE? I kind of just stared at her.
"She's right you know," Jonah added in. "It's really bad out there."
"Then it's settled, you two will be sleeping here tonight. Ben can sleep with Jared and Jade and Kim can share the guest room," Annie said.
"Annie-"
"Please stay Kim, we barely get any guest as it is," Annie pleaded.
I sighed. "Okay."
Ben and Jared gave each other a high five.
"Jared, why don't you show everyone their rooms, we'll clean up here," Annie said.
"Okay," He said, getting up.
"Thank you again, Annie, Jonah," I said.
"Don't mention it," she said with a wink.
I followed the kids and Jared downstairs to an already mad basement equipped with carpet, kitchen, pool table and fireplace.
"It's not much but-"
"Are you kidding?" Ben and I said at the same time.
Jared chuckled and opened a door. "Here's your room," he said to me.
The room was painted blue with small desk in the corner with a matching bed, dresser and a window that out looked his backyard.
"Wow," I said. Jade ran over and jumped on to the bed.
"The bathrooms down the hall on your left, if you wanna freshen up and my rooms on the right if you need anything," Jared said. "Seriously if you need anything, don't hesitate."
"Okay," I said. "Jared?"
"Yeah?"
I smiled. "Thank you, for everything." I said even though he probably didn't even know how much he was helping me by offering me a room for the night.
He grinned back. "Seriously don't mention it."
"Jared? How do you use the TV in your room?" Ben called from down the hall.
"You have a TV in your room?" I asked. He nodded. "I'm jealous."
This is where Jared's 'over confidence' butted in. He stepped closer. "You know I don't mind sharing," he said in a low voice while wiggling his eye brows.
I laughed and but my hand on his chest to push him away. "Night Jared," I said closing the door and I could have sworn he said, "Night beautiful."
I blushed.
I couldn't sleep, I was thinking about Owen and Rachel and how I hate both of the so much. How I wanted to strangle Owen for making such a joke out of me. It was eating me up, I couldn't stand it. I wanted to scream.
I looked at Jade, sleeping soundlessly and kissed her forehead before crawling out of bed and down the hall to Jared's room. I quietly opened the door and walked towards Jared's bed.
"Jared?" I whispered nudging the bump in the covers.
"Kim? What's wrong? Are you okay?" he asked sitting up in panic mode.
"Yeah everything is fine, I... I... just wanted to talk to you."
I was pulled into his lap, my head hiding in his shoulder as he rubbed my back. "About what, sweetie?"
"I want to tell you what happened today."
"Is that all?" he asked quietly.
I hesitated. "No, I want to tell you about my father too."
Hey readers! This chapter was really long I know, but the funy thing is that the whole where do babies come from incident actually happened with my brother and his friend (except the whole loan shark thing was made up don't worry ) Anyways I just wanted to tell you that the next chapter is gna be focused on Kim and her life maybe a little lemon in the end. But please review guys! My last chapter didn't get that many and I was really heart broken Thanks!
