This chapter might be a little upseting. I kinda cried writting this. but I know your all strong so I know you'll enjoy it.
Jake pov
Previously; when we last saw jake and his compainions they were facing troube with 2 troubed teens.
Now back to the regular show...
One of them reached down to my chest and yanked my locket off, luckily the chain didn't snapp of
"Hey give that back!" I demaned.
"Oh let's see what's in here" He said opening my locket and looking at the photo of my parents inside it.
"Awww are these your parents little boy" His friend said in a mocking baby voice.
"Yes now give me back my locket" I said holding out my hand. The boy handed the locket to his friend and took out the photo of my parents and me.
"Hey you wanna see a trick?" He asked. He pulled out a lighter and lit the spark. "And now I will make this photo vanish" He help my photo up to the lighter and burned it.
"Aaahhh!" I yelled as it burned down and dissapered into black fire soot.
"TA-DA!" He said taking a bow while his friend applauded.
"That was mean!" Timmy said to them.
The biys look to timmy with mean faces. "Yeah so what?" The boy said taking a step closer as timmy took a step back.
"So..Nothing" Timmy said backing up.
"That's right nothing" He said.
"I think this one needs to be taught a lesson too" The other boy said. He walked over to timmy and stole the glasses right off his face.
"Hey give those back I need those" Timmy said trying to reach out to grab them. The second biy set them gently on the ground and just like that smashed his boot against them. I could hear the glass crack and shatter.
"What? what happened?" Timmy said not seeing what had happend.
"Here go your glasses" He said putting them back on timmys face. The left lens was totaly gone with only a few shard chips still in place and thr right lens had a crack in it.
"I can't wear these you ruined them" Timmy complained.
"Actually I think you look better like that" The second biy said as he and his friend laughed. Then both of them grabbed me and timmy by the arms and pushed us backwards into the mud puddle beside us. I wiped mud iff my eyes and they were laughing and high fiving. Gwendalin looked to us and them and grew a bad glare
She walked right up too them. "I think you too better apologize to my friends" Gwen said sternly. Both boys looked to each other and laugheed out loud.
"Oh look the little damsel is standing up for her boyfriends" The first boy mocked.
"Excuse me what did you just call me" Gwen said with anger in her voice.
"Damsel, like damsel in distress, which is what you are" The second biy said poking her head. I saw gwen clutch her fist and huff and puff, turning hot fire red. I had a bad feeling something was about to go down.
"Alright you both asked for this"
"Oh what you gonna slap us with those girly hands of yours or..." Before he could finished gwen delivered a hard punch to his cheeckbone, he went falling back on the ground and sttod there holding his cheek in shock at what just happened.
"Oh you're in for it now missy" The other boy said.
"Bring it!" She tells him. The boy went right for her and gwendaline ducked right under him and rolled between his legs, she got up behind him and kicked him hard in the back, you could actually hear his backbone crack under the force.
"Ohh that had to hurt" I said flinching.
"What? what had to hurt? what's happening?" Timmy asked wanting to know but I was too preoccupied with what was happening to notice.
The boy fell forwards and crashed with a thud to hurt to move and get up again. When gwen wasn't looking the first boy got back to his feet and held fist fist up ready to get payback.
"Gwen behind you!" I warned her. She looked and dodged his fist just in time, she grabbed his arm and yanked it forward sending him into a flip in mid air and landidng with a crash righ next to his friend.
"Who's the damsel in distress now" She said to them, all they could do was moan in pain. Gwen walked over and took my locket from the boys hand and then helped me and timmy to our feet.
"You guys alright' Gwen said handing me my locket back.
I wiped mud off my face and shirt. "Fine. But you were amazing" I said still shocked at what I saw.
"Thanks, Its just something I learned from my mum before she abandoned me" Gwen said wiping a tear from her eyes.
"Sorry about your picture though" She said. I opened my locket and the picture was really gone.
"That's alright I'll get over it" I sighed.
"And timmy sorry about your glasses" She said to him.
"No worries" He said but he was tunred away from us. I tunred him around so he was facing us. "Oh uh, no worries I can still see through this lens, mostly" He confessed.
"Well then I guess no harm done" I smile.
"Don't be so sure about that" We heard soneone say. Those boys had gotten back on their feet and were madder than ever now.
"You got lucky last time but now, your all gonna pay" He said walking towards us.
"Any last words runts" the second boy said cracking his knuckles.
"Just one" I said stepping forward to them I cleared my throat and tunred to my friends. "SCRAM!" I announced as we all turned and kicked up tiny pebbles as we charged away from them.
"COME BACK HERE YOU 3 RUNTS!" One shoutd to us and they both started chasing us.
We kept running and running as fast as we could and those guys were still on our trail. We ran through the night, feeling our hearts pounding like they were about t pump from our chests, till we had to stop and catch our breath.
"Do you think they're gone?" I said huffing and puffing my breath out.
"I think so, but we need to hide somewhere before they catch up to us" Gwen said breathing heavily.
"Here let's hide in here" I said walking over to a tall building. It was old and half broken and the windows were all boarded up, I broke off a piece of a loose board so the hole was big enough for us to slip through it.
"We can hide in here for a while" I tell them. The inside was big and hollow and totaly empty there were piles of sawdust and wood chippings everywhere in every corner. We weren't sure when it happened but after a while of walking around in the dark we somewhow wandered up the creaky old staircase 40 stories up right through a door that lead to the rooftop.
"Whoa how'd we get up here so fast?" Timmy said walking around the narrow roof.
"Hey guys look at this" Gwen said she had made her way over to the edge of the roof looking down. We made our way there to and looked out to the far ground below.
"Wow we're really high up" Timmy said in amazment.
"Yeah and everyone look like ants from up here" I said looking down at all the little moving specks of gnomes walking along the night streets.
"Hey look over there?" Timmy pointed. I looked down to the direction his fingers pointed and I saw what he saw. Down below the building There were a group of constrution workers right outside the bottom of the building they looked as throught they were dragging boxes in and out one by one. I saw the last worker drag two lone thick wires behind him as he joined the rest of the constrtion workers behind a large sheild wall.
"What do you think there doing down there?" I asked getting a bad feeling about this.
Down with the constrution wokers...
"Hurry up with those loads of dynamite, we gotta demolish this building in a few moments" Said one of the head workers as the others went back and forth carry in stacks of dynatime one at a time.
"All done sir" Said the other workers as he and the rest joined him behind the brick wall to protect themselves of the blast.
"Stand clear of the building!" He yelled to warn everyone to watch out. He pushed down on the plunger and there was a loud boom insde the buliding alongs with a burst of flames.
The entire building from bottom to the top went up in bursts of flames and the whole buidgong began to topple over and burn to a crisp.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" There came 3 loud screams of terror.
"What was that?" One of the workers asked looking around for who screamed.
"SIR LOOK UP THERE!" another worker said. They all looed to see 3 little kids trapped on the rooftop of the burning building.
"HEEEELLLLLPPP!" One of the kids scremed.
"Oh my GOSH!" QUICK SOMECALL CALL THE POLICE!" He shouted.
"How'd those kids even get up there?" One constrution worker asked.
Back with jake
Looking down to the constrution workers we were so occupied by them that we didn't see what was about to happen. Just then I felt the building shatter and shake and there was a faint boom that got louder and louder every second.
"What's that noise?" Gwen said feeling the loud vibrations.
"I've got a bad feeling about this" Timmy said. Just then there was a loud rumbling and we all turned around to the door where we had come in far from us then...
BOOM!
A large wave of flame and fire cracked through the door and blinded us in a wave of heat and burning fire.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" We all screamed. Black smoke and ash soon blinded us as we balked away to the very edge of the roof where the fire hadn't spread yet. I felt gwendaline grab my shoulder as I grabbed onto her hand, but I couldn't feel timmy anywhere.
"Guys where are you?" I could hear timmy call but the smoke was to thick to see him.
"Timmy where are you?" I said guididng tammy backwards until we reached where the air was clear. Without realizing it, I backed up right into timmy who was standing on the very edge of the building. I bumped right into him and he let out a loud scream.
"AAHHH!" I heard him say.
"Timmy?!" I said hearing him but still didn't see him. "Timmy where'd you go?" I called.
"AAAHHH TIMMY!" I hear gwendaline shreik. She was looking over the edge with her arms extended, I looked over and timmy was dangling by his finger tips over the edge dangling for dearl life.
"TIMMY!' I yelled in horror.
"WHOA HEEEELLLPP!" He screamed.
"Don't worry timmy I got you" I reached dwon my hand leaning far over the edge, Using his free hand timmy grabbed onto my hand and let go of the building now really dangling for life.
"WHOA, WHOA!" He yelled swayng back and forth a little.
"Don't worry I got you!" I tell him trying to hold my grip on him. I see him smile and I smile back, but that was until there came another loud rumble as the building crashed down again a few floors lower making us all bump in the air, I unwillingly slid forward and began to fall off the building.
"AAHHH!" Me and timmy screamed as we fell but I felt my legs catch onto something. I looked up and saw gwendaline had grabebd my legs just in time and was now holding up me and timmy.
"WOO-HOO WAY TO GO GWEN!" Timy shouted happily.
"You can thank me when we get out of this" She said back.
"How are we gonna get outta this one" Timmy asked dangling in my arms. Before anyone could say anything eles the flames started to surround gwendaline, still barely ontop of the roof now.
"Uh-oh!" I heard her cry in horror.
"Hang on gwen we'll get out of this...I hope" I mumbled staring to cry myself.
The flames had burned another lower floor and the building dropped again, this time the flames nearly blew up in our faces.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH, HHEEEEEEEEEEELLLPPP!" We all screamed as we felt the building burn down another level or two.
"DON'T WORRY KIDS HELP IS ON THE WAY" We heard someone say to us. I looked down and could see that there was now an enourmous gatering of people all shouting and gasping at us. From within the crownd there were a few police cars scattere here and there.
"REAMIN CALM WE'LL GET YOU DOWN" A police gnome called using his mega phone.
"We're trapped in a burning building, with only seconds before we all fall to possible certain death and they want us to remain calm" I heard timmy say. I would've said something but I was too scared to say or do anything.
All I could think abotu now was just getting out of this and going back home to where I belonged. After all this there was no chance I would ever find my real parents and I really could care less about that right now all I wanted right now was just to go back to the family I had and forget about all this that ever happened.
With jake's adopted parents...
After weeks of not hearing anything about jake the police had said that they had to give up the search on jake and that his parens should just accept th fact that jake was nowhere to be found and that the had finally just about given up all hope, they didn't want to give up, but it had been far to long and there was no use in jake returning, they were just going to have to accept the fact that he was gone. When mum had given up hope she becmae a total wreck; she did nothing but lie in bed and cry and weep all day. Eating tub after tub of Ice cream and chocolate and all the sugary sweets she could get her hands on.
She was on the couch in her bathrobe eating away at a bag of chips and listening to sad music over the televison
"Honey are you alright!" Dad said walkig up to her.
"Shut up!" She said harshly throwing chips to him.
He sighed and sat with is wife as she scooted away a little. "Sweeite I know what you're going through right now but.."Dad tried to explain but mum pushed him away.
"Look I know what you're going to say to me but don't even bother, because the truth is you don't understand, you don't know how it feels for me to have my little boy taken away from me and all alone and lost somewhere. Jake means too much to me and now he's gone forever. So whatever you think you can say to cheer me up, I'm telling you right now it ain't gonna work!" She snapped back and went back to slouching.
"That's just the hurt of loss your feeling right now, you'll get over it" Dad said calmy patting her cheeck
"Go away, please" She said looking away from him.
"I'm going out for a while, I'll be back soon. I love you" Dad said blowing her a kiss.
"Whatever!" Mum grumbled slouching and stuffing junk food in her mouth. She went back looking to the slow sad classical music on the television unti this special news alert popped up.
Breaking news, The rescue of 3 small children from a burning building is taking place in the downtown area" Said the news reporter. "We now go live to this vidoe capturin the event"
Then there came a clip of jake timmy and gwendaline all dangled above the building as flames screaming and yelling and flaring in the air.
Mum stood upright when she got a glimpse of the purple gnome boy in the video.
"Jake, can it be!" She said moving closer to the television.
"HELP, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP US!" Jake screamed in horror.
"Jake, that is him! Oh my baby is alive!" She cried in delight. But it soon died down when the buidling burned down more and she was jake and his friends fall right over the edge and nearly fall lower.
"Oh I have to get down there now!" She said. She threw off her robe put on her clothes and ran out the door. Since dad had taen the car she needed the next best thing.
"TAXI!" She called as a cab pulled over to her. "Downtown and step on it, my baby needs me!" She demened.
"Yes ma'am" The driver pulled off and drove as fast as he could.
"Don't worry jake I'm coming for you" She said to herself.
Back to jake...
I was so terrifiedright now. I was only moments away from certain death and dragging my two new friends aong with me. I flet so guilty that I let all this happen if it wasn't for me none of this would be happening.
"How long before you think they get us down" Timmy said.
"It better be soon, I don't think I can hold you guys much longer" Gwen was starting to get weak from holding us and I could feel myself slwoly slipping from her sweaty palms.
"Hang in there guys I know we'll get out of this soon" I tried to make this better for them and me.
I saw them both grin underneath all that terror they were feeling and once again that monet was short lived. Seonds later there was an extra loud thump as the fire burned down multiple floors at once and the remaning of the bulidnigncrashed down with an even harder bump, this time it sent gwen over the edge along with timmy and me and we all went falling while still hanging onto each others limbs.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" We all screamed heading closer to the ground. I closed my eyes waiting for the moment we hit the gorund but then felt a spring as we all went bobbing up and down like a bungee cord.
"Don't worry guys I got it covered!" Gwen shouted. She had caught onto a flag ple that stuck put from the building and grabed a frim grip on it, now she was only holding on of my legs while the other hung freely in the air.
"Nice save gwen!" Timmy said readjusting from the moment of horror.
"Thanks but I don't think this pole will hold us very long" She informs us. The pole was already starting to bend from our wiehg and it looked like a crack was forming.
"This ain't good...HELP, HELP, HELP!" I screamed repeatedly.
"Don't worry we're coming" I heard someone say. We all looked down and saw that the firedepartment was here now and they were sending the ladder up to get us.
"Yes we're saved!" I cheered as timmy and gwen did the same. The firefighters were only a short distance away. Timym tried to reach out to grab their hands as they did the same. The building began to his and ratte and the fire now grew double in size.
"LOOK OUT IT'S GONNA BLOW!" Someone called out. We all flinched in fear as the remaininsg structure of the building finally explded all the way. The blast pushed us right off the pole and we went shooting through the ari a few feet, we had all let go of each other on impact and went free falling at our own speeds down to the ground below. I didn't see where timmy and gwen had gone but I was still falling I closed my eyes and got ready for the end. I let out on more scream as the ground came in range, but then I felt myself land ofn something smooth and rubbery as I bounced back up in the air and then right back down again. I opened my eyes and was now laid out on a large tramploine mat that they had placed down.
I stood upright and felt around my body. Not a crack or chip to be felt. "I'm alive!" I gasped and cheered.
"Hey little man you alright" I looked over and saw a firge fighter coming onto the trampoline with me.
"I think I am" I tell him.
"Well let's get you down from here" he grabebd my waist and carried me down the ladder to the ground.
"He's alright!" The firegnome announced,The crowd that had gathered cheered and rejoiced in my safety.
"You sure your okay little fellow" The fire gnomes asked once more.
"I'm good it's my friends I'm worried about" I tell him. "Hey where are they?" I wondered looking around for them. "Timmy!?Gwendaline!?" I shout worried something happened to them.
"JAKE!" I hear timmys voice. I turn around and see them getting a lift down off the firetruck ladder. I sigh when I see their okay and I run right to them.
"Guys you're okay" I said group hugginh them.
"And you too?" Gwen whispered in my ear.
"Were all safe" Timmy said as we laughed and continud to hug.
Then a police gnome and detective came walking over to us. "You kids alright?" The detctive said
"Yes sir we're all good" I tell them.
"Glad to hear it" He smiled
"Wait I've seen you 3 before" The cop said looking closer to us and then gasps. "It's you 3 the 3 missing children. we finally found you" The officer said as other cops ran to our side.
"You sire it's them" Another officer said
"Take a look" The officer said showin the 3 pictures of us. They all look from the photos to us until it was confirmed.
"Yep it's them alright, you 3 had us all worried and puzzled trying to find you" The detctive said. we all just grinned and nodded
"Your parents must be worried sick over you" One police gnome said.
"Actually we don't have parents" Gwen said pointing to her and timmy. "We belong at the orphanage, that's where we live" She finishes.
"I see, well we better get you 3 back to where you belong then" They said walking off. The 3 of us stayed together looking at each other with sad faces.
"Does this mean we have to go back to the orphanage now" Timmy rubbed his hands slowly
"Looks like" I answered.
Timmy and gwen look to each other."So I guess this means this is tha last ime we see you again. I guess this is goodbye then" Gwen said whining.
"It's not really goodbye, it's just 'so long for now' we'll see each other again" I reassured them.
"Really? you think so?" Timmy said with hope.
I smile and nod. "I know so. How about one more group hug" I extend my arms as we all group hug once more. I hear them all softly whimpering as I do it made me sad toleave them but we couldn't run away again. now that they'd found us they'd never let us eave again.
"Alright you 2 lets get you back to where you belong" The police gnome said taking timmy and gwen to his police car.
"I'm sorry we couldn't find your parents jake" Timmy said to me.
"It's alright I'm sorry I dragged you guys into all this" I said with a frown.
"What are you talking about we had a great time." He said with a smile.
"You did?!" I asked confused.
"Yeah because of you me and timmy got to explore the whole city and see things we never had before. Even with all the day comings we endured it was the best adventure we'd ever had, and it's all because of you" Gwen said hugging me form the car window. Even though she said she didn't relly feel that way about me I still liked her as a true friend.
"You're the best friend we could've asked for?" Timmy said fist bumping me.
"So are you guys" I said to them.
"Maybe we could meet again some day and have another great adventure." Gwen said
"I know we will" I tell her.
"So long jake" Gwen said blowing me a kiss.
"Take care mate" Timmy said.
"I'll never forget you guys, ever." I waved to them. The police car drove off ith them shortly after as I stood in the middle of the streets looking at the flashing sirens till they were nothing but a small speck of white light.
"Hey kid" A detective yelled making his way over to me.
"Yes" I said backing away.
"Come with me, there's someone who wants to see you" He said as I walked slowly behind him from a distance. I followed him around a firetruck and there I see my mum weeping into a handful of tissues and talking to a police officer.
"Mum!" I yell happy to see her. She looks in my direction and her face lights up as soon as her eyes meet mine.
"Jake!" She yelled as I ran towards her.
"Oh jake" Mum shreiked as I made my way over to her. She ran and started to hug and kiss me repeatedly.
"Mum..can't breath" I gasped trying to loosen her grip, but she was holding too tight.
"Oh my precious boy I thought I'd lost you forever!" he said letting tears drop on me. "Why did you ever run away like that?" She cried looking to me.
"I-I just wanted to see if I could find my real parents and just see what they were like so I ould..Have a real family" I sighed looking away from her.
"But jake you have a family...you have us" She said turning my cheecks so I would look to her.
"But your not my real family. I love you guys and everything but, sometimes I felt as though you didn't love me as much as I though and I was beggingin to feel I had caused you a lot of trouble and you guys didn't want me around anymore" I started to cry.
"What would make you think that" She said.
I shrugged. "I don't know, I just felt it be better for you all if I wasn't in your life anymore, I mean you see how brad treats me, he doesn't even like me and he's your real son and I'm just your adopted son" I sniffled wiping away tears.
"Adopted or not, I always though of you as my real son, you've been more of a son than brad has because your special. You're the way you are and I love you because of it" She said holding my shoulders.
"You really mean that." I said.
"Of course I do. I love you sweetie" She stroked my cheeck slowly
"I love you too mum!" I cried going in for another hug.
"I guess it was kinda stupid for me to leave you. I just wanted to find my real parents but, I never should've left in the first place. I went all around this city looking for them to see what they were like and if they wanted me around"
"I'm sure your real parents would want you around"
"I doubt that"
"Why?"
"If they really wanted me around, I'd still be with them right now and I wouldn't have put you all through this, but I guess they didn't love me at all, if they didn't want me as a baby they won't want me now" I said crying. I looked down to the locket around my neck and got a little mad.
"I never want to see this ever again!" I said yanking it off breaking the chain and tossing it in the grass.
"Hey come on now" Mum said picking it up for me. "Your parents gave you this cause they love you, it's the only thing you have of them. Don't you want to keep it to remind you of them" She held it up to my face.
"Why would I want to keep something that was gigven to me by the very same peole who abandoned me" I snapped back to her."If they don't care about me then why should I care about them or anything they gave me" I snatched the locket away from her and tossed it away again I walked away from her shortly after.
"Jake!" Mum said as I kept stomping away. I was feeling a great deal of anger towards my real parents now and to myself.
I heard mums footsteps as she tried catching up to me. "Jake, sweetie listen to me" She said kneeling down to me.
"Mum I really don't wanna talk right now. After everything that happened to me I don't want to talk about any of this ever again" I sighed moving away from her.
"And are you surether's nothing I can say too..." She started again but I cut her off.
"I'm sure. I just wanna go home and forget all of this, please mum" I begged wanting to just go already.
"If you say so" She grinned and kissed my forhead.
The car ride home was long and silent. I looked out the window the whole time watching the raindrops splatter on the outside. Mum kept looking to me every chancee she got. I knew she wanted to tak about it, but I didn't and I knew she would learn to respect that.
When we finally made it home I opened the door and ran right upstairs before my dad or brad could see me and say anything to me.
"JAKE!" Mum yelled when she saw me run upstairs.
"Leave me alone!" I called back slamming my door. I was really angry and upset and hurt right now and I was taking it out on my mum, I knew it was wrong but I needed to let it out on someone even if if was the woman who cared for me.
back downstairs...
Jake was so dissapointed I'd never seen him so hurt before. He was being really mad and sour lately but that was just out of rage, I feelt so bad for him I wanted to talk this out with him but he just didn't want to and I needed to respect that.
Just then dad walked into the house. "Hey honey I'm back" He said kissing mum. He stepped back and saw I looked a little upset. "Something wrong?" He said.
"No but I have good news to tell you" I said showing a smile. I had gone into a little though thinking about jake up there so sad and unhappy.
"Well..." He said wanting to know.
"Oh right um, good news is...Jake came back!" I smiled hard.
He dropped his mouth open and froze. "Realy, he came back" He said grabbing my shoulders.
"Yes he was on the news and I saw him so I ran down there to get him and brought him back home" I explained still happy.
"Yes, he retunred!' Dad picked her up and spun her a little. "So where is he?"
"Upstairs in his room, but I wouldn't go in there if I were you" I tell him
"Why?" He asked.
"He too depressed"
"About what?"
"Everything that happened to him while he was gone"
"What happened?"
I shrugg. "He didn't want to talk about it"
"Well were just going to have to go up there and ask him to talk about it" Dad said walking upstairs, I followed him to jakes room but the door was locked.
"Jake open the door" Dad said, but there was no answer. "Jake!" He said knocking on it.
"Dear he's probably sleeping" I whisper to him.
"Go away!" They hear jake's voice yell.
"We're not going away until you talk about what you did" Dad said sternly.
"I don't wanna talk about anything!" He said back
"We do, so open up" Dad said again.
"NO!" Jake yelled back.
"Jake open this door right now" He demanded.
"No, you can't make me!" Jake snapped back. Mum and dad looked to each other a bit suprised, but mum knew jake was just talking out of anger.
"Open this door right now and I mean it!" Dad said knocking and yelling trying to break the door open.
"Stop it leave me alone!" Jake said back through all the knocking.
Mum stepped between dad and the door and pulled him back. "Richard, dear, let it go" Mum said softly.
"But he..." Dad started but was cut off.
"He's just talking out of anger. He's been through more than you could imagine out there on his own, you and I know how hard it is out in the city, and he's been through all the thigs that happen out there. You don't realize how he's feeling all scared, hurt, upset, miserable. He's just a child he doens't know things like we do, he need time to get over all this and if he doesn't want to talk about it we can't force him too" Mum tried talking to him about their sons current situation.
"But Nicole he..." Dad tried to say again.
"I know you just want to help him, but this is his decision and as his parents the best way we can help him is to just be there for him. He'll open up when he's good and ready too, but right now he's trying to cope with emotional distress and right now all we can do is giude him through that okay" She said hoping to calm him down.
Dad took in one long breath. "Alright we'll do it your way...for now" He said.
Mum smiled. "Good. Now let's leave him alone" Mum said etting jake have the rest of the night to himself.
The next morning...
It was the next day and jake was going back to school again after missing so much while he was gone. They drove right uo to the school and jake stood there in fear.
"You feeling okay sweetie?" Mum asked.
"I don't think I can go in there" I confessed.
"Jake it's school, you been here lots of times"
"But I've been missing for so long. What if noone recognizes me anymore" I said not wanting to go in.
"I know they'll all remember you. And besides don't you wanna see josh and tammy again, they've really missed you" She said.
"I've missed them too but what if they forgot me and they found a new friend or something' I said fearing the worst.
"They're your friends jake I'm sure they'll remember you. Now go on already" Mum said. I got out the car and took slow baby steps one after another. I walked up the stairs and right to the door. I looked back to my mum as she honked and drove away.
I grabbed the door and froze in place for a moment. I took a deep breath in and out. "Okay, here I go" I creeked the door open and stepepd inside. Like always the hall was packed with kids, I fast walked my way in a staight line hoping not to be recognized until I made it to my locker. Around the corner from my locker I caught glimpse of tammy and josh, talking and laughing like always. I was almost afraid to go over there, for worry they might not remember me, but like mum said they were my best friends. I took a deep breath and walked slowly in a diagnol line right to them.
I tapped josh's shoulder and he and tammy tunred around to me.
"H-hey" I said waving a little.
"JAKE!" They both screamed enclosing me in a tight hug.
"Jake I can't belive it your alive" Josh said squeezing me to death.
"We though we'd never see you ever again!" Tammy creid holding me tightly. "We've missed you so much"
"So have I, could you let me go I can't breath" I starined as they released me. I caught my breath. "Thank you" I gasped.
"Where have you been?Why'd you run away?what happened to you?" Josh went on asking a whole bunch of questions really fast, It got so bad I put my hand over his mouth to stop him.
"Slow down josh I can't answer all these at once" I chuckled
"Sorry, I've just misssed you too badly" He said pushing my hand away.
"I've missed you both way too much too" I said smiling.
"So what happened, why'd you run away?" Tammy asked.
"It's a long story" I frowned rubbing my head. "Long, sad and painful" I whined.
"That's okay you don't have to tell us right now if it's that bad" Tammy said.
"If you guys wanna come over to my house I'd be able to tell you then" I offered.
"Sure but for now, lets just focus on the positive that YOU'RE BACK!' Josh said going in for another tight hug as me and tammy joined in. The whole day everyone congragulated jake on his safe return home all wanting to know what had happen to him in the first place.
Later that day at his house jake told his friends every thing that happened to him from start to fifnsh, It was painful to talk abotu but I fet comfortable telling this to them.
"Whoa and even after all that you're still alive, that's deep man" Josh said fascinated by all I encountered.
"You are so brave to have been through all that" Tammy said putting a hand to my arm. I shudder at the touch and smied blushing.
"I know it was intense but ther were some good things about it. I mean I did get to meet 2 new friends and have a great adventure, so I guess that's the silver lining" I shrugg looking at the positive.
"And how'd your parents feel about all this" Josh asked.
"I haven't really told them about it"
"How come?"
"I just don't want to talk it out with them, I mean they've tried a few times to get me to talk and I wanted to tell them but it never happened. I guess I'm to afraid of what they'd think" I sigh.
"But they're your parents, they probably wanted to help you. You really shoud talk this out with them" Tammy said.
"I will, my mum said when the time's right I'll know then to tell them" I explained and they shook in understandment.
"So to take my mind off this subject you guys wanna do something?"
"How about go to the movies" Josh suggest.
"Sure okay" Me and tammy agreed. "But first I need money" I said getting up and walking to my parents room. I knocked.
"Come in" They said.
"Hi sweetie" Mum smiled.
"Mum dad can I have money for the movies?" I plead
"Sure, Here you go" They both handed me money.
"Don't stay out too late" Dad said.
"I won't" I promised.
"And don't go running off again" Mum said reminding me.
"Very funny mum" I rolled my eyes and walked away.
Sure enough mum was right a few days passed after that and jake eventually felt better enough to tell his parents everything that happened. It was tough for him to come out with this but it made him so much better to talk and finally get it all out of his head. It fet wierd expessing all these feeings to them, especialy since most 11 yr old boys don't do that sort of stuff, but I had a softer side to me than other boys me age people found special about me. It might've been strange but at least I had loved ones helping me get through it
Wasn't that sweet and only a few more chapters left until the chapter you've all been waiting for. Yeah you all know what I'm talking about.
Until then tata =)
And for those f you who were dissapointed he didn't find his real parents yet, I have just one thing to tell you...DEAL WITH IT. but honestly he WILL meet his real parents it maybe in the next chapter (hint, hint) or the one after that but in time he WILL see them.