Jade's p o v
Why can't you just be normal Jade?
Dress a little more colorful talk a little sweeter
Why can't you stay out of my business mother?
Cause your my daughter and I have every right to
You have no right!
The latest fight played around in my mind as I drove around this unfamiliar neighborhood in the pitch black midnight air.
Cat's text message was cryptic at best but her words didn't look like her normal text which worried me she seemed scared.
I hated neighborhoods like this the houses were so close together you couldn't even tell who's front porch ended where one started.
Every corner was lined with dark hooded figures pacing back and forth my skin crawled my mind raced why was Cat here? Was she okay? She had to be scared hell I was scared and nothing scares me.
Pulling up to the cafe I breathed a sigh of relief as Cat came up to the vehicle she wasn't bouncing she wasn't happy but I couldn't see her face in the pitch blackness of the night.
Kitty are you okay?
Please don't ask questions Jade
Her weariness and sharpness stunned me. I didn't know what to make of it.
Okay can I ask if you need to see a doctor?
What's that suppose to mean?
Just that your walking very slow and you look like your in pain.
Please Jade don't ask any questions I just want to go home and shower and lay down
Okay Cat whatever you say
I watched her as she laid down in the backseat and made the instant choice to head straight to the hospital something was wrong and I was going to get answers.
Pulling up at the emergency entrance I was meet by two staff members with a stretcher slowly lifting her out I laid her on the stretcher she didn't wake.
Handing my keys to the valet parker attendant I followed them inside.
Hours went by as doctors and nurses came in examining her while I held her hand she was in and out of the awake stages never fully understanding what was going on but no less scared.
Rape they said the words but my mind didn't fully comprehend what the doctor was saying Virginal tearing bruising bleeding.
She was drugged ghb they found a large amount in her system enough to cause blackouts for days.
Who would do this to her?
If Freddie had anything to do with this I swear I was going to kill him.
By the time we got home it was almost six the next morning. I called us off of school as I helped her inside the bathroom to shower she flinched at every touch but I didn't let it stop me holding her naked in the shower skin to skin kissing her swollen checks and red eyes. Scrubbing her body with soap and shampooing her hair washing her so gently while the tears fell from both our eyes. She stayed silent.
She lay against me in bed the fan blowing on us as her body shock from tears my mind raced with questions.
Who sent Cat there? Why was she there? Why didn't she tell me I would of gone with her. Who did she trust? Who broke her trust? Who would do this to sweet innocent Cat, did she know them?
Where the hell was Freddie?
He was suppose to protect her love her be by her side.
My blood raced and burned but my pounding head lured me into a restless sleep.