Chapter
twenty one
A couple of minutes later, Shane and Cassandra walked
back to where they left their friend and boyfriends, only to find
Ellie sitting there, waiting for them.
"Where'd Jay and Sean
go?" Shane asked, adjusting her backpack on her shoulder.
"Oh,
Sean said that he was gunna meet you at The Dot and Jay's waiting
outside for you two so that you can get a ride from him there."
Ellie said, standing up and putting the book that she was reading
back into her bag.
"What about you, are you coming with us?"
Cassandra asked.
"No. I have band practice, and then I gotta
head home to make sure that my mom's taking her medication."
Shane and Cassandra both just shrugged and then hugged their friend,
and waited until Ellie rounded the corner and was out of sight before
they both sighed in unison and headed out to the front parking lot,
where Jay was waiting for
them.
once
they were out in the bright sun light, they scanned the parking lot
for Jay's bright orange civic. But when they finally spotted it,
Shane nearly cried at what she saw.
Jay was leaning up against the
hood of his car, and Alex was resting her hands on his chest, kissing
at his neck and cheek. Then, though it was barely noticeable, Alex
spotted the cousins and smirked, moving in to kiss jay. And little
did Cassandra and Shane know, but Jay was fighting her off. And as
Alex's lips moved across Jay's, Shane's eyes widened and welled
up with tears, but she didn't let her cousin see.
Taking a deep
breath, Shane turned to Cassandra, "Cass, we're heading to The
Dot by ourselves, then we're gunna ask Spinn for a ride to Jay's
place, I'm moving out." With that, Shane stormed back into the
school, not letting any of her tears fall.
Spinner
had gratefully given them a ride to Jay and her's house, but he
didn't stay for fear that he might get fired.
"I can't
believe that he'd actually do that!!! That fucking bastard's
cheating on me!!!!" Shane said harshly as she threw her clothes
into her backpack and in the suitcases that had been put into her and
Jay's closet.
After her rant about useless males, and cheating
boyfriends was through, Shane sat down on the bed that she had shared
with her boyfriend, completely out of breath.
Then the tears that
she had been holding back for so long. Finally she just let them go.
Cassandra sat next to her cousin as she cried, totally oblivious to
the fact that an old, black jeep Cherokee had pulled into the drive
way.
"whats going on in here?" Sarabelle asked from the
doorway, quickly advancing on he best friends. Shane took a
deep breath and stood as she wiped the tears from her eyes and
cheeks.
"Sara, sorry that you had to drive all this way with
T.C. and Jake, but we're gunna head over to Cassandra and Sean's,
then when these couple of weeks of vacay are finally over, I'm
heading back to New York with you." Sarabelle simply nodded and
hugged her best friend. They sat there for a couple of seconds, and
then they walked out to the jeep and headed out to Cassandra and
Sean's house. Little did they know, but Jay was heading up the
street to try and catch them before they left. But he didn't get
there in time. All he saw when he arrived at his house was that all
of Shane's stuff was gone, and he saw the black jeep driving away
from his house, and that was the last Jay Hogart saw of Shane
Marsters.
