Chapter 28
I haven't spoken to Jacob in days. Quil and Embry been calling and telling me about how I'm his imprint and how it was a simple payback for Mr. Howard taking me to the store but that really hurt my feelings for him to pull such a stunt on me. Who does that? It was already doubt in my mind and the rest of everybody put in my head. I shake my head when I hear Mr. Howard clapping loud on the chalkboard with his piece of chalk.
It brings me out of my thoughts along with everybody else who wasn't paying attention to him. It's almost Halloween and the weekend. I just want Halloween. Damn you, Jacob. I glance at Bella before looking back at the chalkboard. I know she had to know or something but I can't be mad at her. It's all on Jealous Evil Jacob. I sigh going back to watching Mr. Howard teach.
God, I hate being pregnant. I'm hungry now. Hungry and tiredness. I'm the diamond not him. The classroom intercom goes off. Oh, the intercom. The whole class looks up at the intercom while I just sit playing with pencil. One more class than I can go home and eat. I'm brought out of my thoughts by the whole class gasping and I look at Mr. Howard who's trying to calm the class down.
"What happened?" I ask Bella. "Um...Casey died." She sadly say. I shake my head. This world needs to stop with the killing. "Do you think because of?" I ask her. "I don't know." She say while I looking at one of the female students running out of the classroom with another girl following behind her. They must be her friends. I sigh putting my head on the desk. I block out of what Mr. Howard and the rest of the class talking about.
I reach into my pocket for my cellphones. "Let's not start taking out phones." Mr. Howard say to us. I put my phone back into my pant's pocket. I guess I'll talk to Jacob later. "I guess you'll have to ask your dad what happened." I say to Bella. "Yeah, I'll have too." "Class is almost over in a couple of minutes." I say looking at the clock that's hanging over the chalkboard. Ten minutes to be exact.
"Can we be dismissed?" I hear a male student ask Mr. Howard. He sits at his desk with his shirt opened showing his bare chest making me blink twice. "No, you cannot." He answer while the whole class looks at me grinning. "You think something is funny, Lacie?" Mr. Howard asks me. "No, I just always talked to Casey in the Nurse's offices. She always friendly and nice to me. I don't know who would something like this." I say shaking my head looking at my book.
I close my book feeling sick. Mr. Howard always putting me on the spotlight. "There will be counselling offered for you students." He say speaking to the class. I need to get out of this school. This is too much. "You talked to her, right?" Bella asks me. "I didn't talk to her. I did that day before the doctor's appointment but that was days ago. She's not my friend. I seen her three times since meeting her. Two during the Nurse's visit than at the clinic and that was it." I say shaking my head.
Bella looks at me weirdly. Are you serious? "You think I had something to do with what happened Casey?" I whisper to her. She shake her head shrugging. "Wow, Bella." I say shaking my head. "Maybe upstairs?" She asks me. "I'll have to check but I haven't been up there since getting pregnant. So, I have to wait on them." I say while noticing Mr. Howard staring in my face while talking to a student.
The bell rings. "Oh, Thank god." I say packing up my books while Bella shake her head in disbelief. "I don't know what, Bella. It's been over the news about the bear attacks or missing people. I'll try after I check with Jacob." I say putting on my book bag. "Okay." She say walking past me while I look at her leaving out of the classroom waving good bye to Mr. Howard. He waves back and turn his attention to me. I just shake my head pushing in my chair and leaving out of the classroom.
I don't even see her in the hallway either she has quick feet or she already went to class. I sigh and head towards the Nurse office to talk to Nurse Miller. I need counseling. I walk into the office to see the office filled with students. I guess everybody needs it too. "Have a seat." Nurse Miller say helping a student. I take off my bookbag and sit down in a chair.
"Here about Casey?" A male student asks me. "Yeah. It's kind of packed. I'll come back later." I say getting up from the chair and exiting out of the nurse's office. It's too many students. I better hurry up to class. I'll text to Jacob to pick me up if he can or meet me at the house. I can't believe Bella would suspect me. I walk past Mr. Howard's classroom where I see him looking at me. I sigh picking up speed before I'm even later.
I'm sitting on the couch watching the news talking about Casey's murder while Jacob's in the kitchen fixing him something to eat. He had to come over and I am so mad at him. I been watching the news since I came on and he gave me that look. It rocked the whole town. She was a beloved student and passionate about being an Artist. She was a junior and in so many club. Who would want to murder her? I shake my head confused.
Jacob keep looking at me every chance he gets. "So, what the news is saying?" He asks from the kitchen. "She was murdered, Jacob. I couldn't hear where though. You think I had something to do with it?" I ask turning in my seat to look at him. "Nope, I know you wouldn't." He say looking in my face. "I'm not killing nobody and risking my future in jail. I have a baby to think about." I say flipping the channel again to another station.
They all saying the same thing. "I'm sure the cops will be on their way to question us." I say resting my head on my hand. "We have nothing to hide. Are you hiding anything?" He asks me. "I'm not hiding nothing. I don't have anything to hide and they can search the house and take whatever they want. I didn't even know her till I met her in the nurse's office." I say scratching my face.
"Cheif Swan will probably call you to the station." "I'll be ready to answer any question. Is Sam going to be there?" I ask him. "What Sam has to do with this?" "I don't know. He's always on my back about things and I think it's kind of funny. This town is going to hell and I don't know why but I'm sure it's connected or something." I say laying on the couch.
"What you have to do with it?" I ask him. "To show you support." "I don't need your support in how you treated me a couple of days and basically walked over me. Did you kill her?" I ask him. "I didn't kill her." "Yeah, yet you're standing here in my kitchen which is in my house after you pulled that cruel joke on me or was it? So, what do you want? You said your bit and there's the door." I say pointing to the door.
He walks to the sink. "I see you need help. I'll be sure if I am called down to the station because you and Bella don't know what you're talking about to make sure I bring up your name. Now leave out of my house. You said your crap. Get out." I say pointing to the back door. He turns around to face me. "Did you have something to do with Casey?" He asks.
I just look him in the face and we just stare at each other for a few minutes. "I'mma say it again." I say getting up off the couch. "You spent days acting childish and as soon as we go visit about our baby you so called played that joke on me concerning Casey then you have a nerve to walk into my house and make food asking if I had something to do with her murder or whatever it is. You just like Bella. She ain't offer me no words or whatever. Jacob, get out of my house. I am done dealing with you and your moods. It's time to grow up and go join your imprint in hell." I say walking to him and opening up the back door for him.
He doesn't move. "What I do in my life is none of your concern. Damn, not the pack concern. I ain't seen none of them in weeks nor have none of the girls have called to check up on me or anything only Bella has. We're not friends no more and unlike them I have something going on in my life and you can run and tell Sam that. I don't second fiddle to nobody and take your sixteen year old self out of my house. It's over and done. We have nothing left no more and you blew it." I say pointing to the back of the woods.
He open his mouth to say something. "Jacob, get your ass outta my house. I'm sure your imprint is fine and it was not her. This was the last and finally time that I'll let you in my house. Now, look at you." I say as he stands there. He looks me in the face. "I am not yours and who told you that acting that way was going to strengthen or make me beg. You blew it. I am not your imprint and you made it damn clear in how you acted. Tell Bella. She can kiss my ass and don't call nor text me. Get out or I'll call the police. One last time." I say pointing again.
I wait on him to leave out of the house. I close the door. I don't have nothing to say to him. I walk back into the living room and sit on the couch to turn the TV off and walk upstairs leaving him in the kitchen. Oh, What is going on? I rummage through my dresser looking for my sonogram picture that was given to me from the clinic. I already took my prenatal pills. So, I don't have to worry about that.
I hear Jacob walking into the bedroom. "You did not leave out my house?" I ask turning around to face him. "I made a mistake." He finally say. "A mistake from how everything been going on and you pull this type of stunt to rip my heart out? It wasn't a mistake, Jacob." "I have a problem with your closeness to Mr. Howard." "He's nothing but a teacher who's only trying to get me to come to class. I'll be having him next year too. I'm having your baby, Jacob." I say shaking my head while closing the drawer.
"Doesn't change the fact that you're going around with Mr. Howard and he's always hanging around you." He say shaking his head. I look at him like he's stupid. "You're too close to him." "He's only my teacher and he's married with personal problems of his own, Jacob. I am not into him like that. He's a teacher and it's his job to help students left and right." I say walking to him and grabbing his hands.
Both of them ready to break them for the crap he put me through. He looks me in my eyes. "I'm not going to feel sorry for you because you put me through hell and you ruined my day. It was supposed to be our day to go see about our pregnancy and I couldn't even talk to the doctor nor listen to what he was saying because of what you pulled. Tell me straight. What you wanna say?" I ask him.
"That's how you made me feel everything Mr. Howard was around you or you talked about him." He say. "I can accept that but we're supposed to talk this through. He has a wife and I doubt he'll leave his wife for me a high school student who is pregnant and might I add is failing his class." I say shaking my head. "You made me feel like crap." He say and I let go of his hands.
"I understand that I hurt your feelings but I see that you don't want to see my side of how you are and who you hang with. And, mostly how easily you can up and leave me. You and your friends spent days and weeks telling me about Bella and Paul then for Embry and you to question me about being the I word. What is it you don't understand because it's two different things and you're very smart, Jacob." I say shaking my head in disbelief.
He gonna make up some crap. "You're my imprint, Lacie. I don't know who she was at all." He say making me want to hit him in the face. "Obviously, you need time to grow up. Are you okay?" I ask him. "I'm okay." He say. "Okay, Jacob. That was the last straw. I'm tired and I got school tomorrow. Get out my bedroom. You're stressing me out." I say pushing him out of the bedroom and closing the door. Either she was or not. She's dead now. Jacob, you need help.
A murder that rocked the town and the school. Who was Casey Turner? A nice girl who was about to graduate to go off to college and someone ended hers and her baby's life. I heard they questioned the ones closet to her before branching out to her acquaintances, teachers, neighbors, and mostly every student who ever talked to her.
Next day in school was just as silent and moody as possible. Someone took a girl's life away when she did nothing. I say it was the boyfriend. In this case when it comes to a murder of a pregnant teenage girl, it's always the boyfriend or you can add the jealous friends but I wouldn't know because I'm not her friend nor know anything about but she'll be on the news for weeks to come.
I can't even enjoy my green tea at the cafe without hearing crying or hearing about her murder. The whole cafe. The whole shopping center was filled. There's a murderer on the loose and it's no evidence of what happened or who might've had a hand in her passing.
So, with any murder in a small town. It's a curfew of seven o' clock or before it gets dark. Anybody is a target to this killer and I want someone to put hands on me. I'll fight back and I might even snap a neck or two. No one is bold to put hands on me especially a random killer.
I haven't seen Embry nor Quil in weeks since that break in. He think he gonna keep coming into my house whenever he pleases. God, I'm still mad at him. She is his imprint or not. I don't know what I'll do but for him to easily throw her in my face and got me wondering if she's having his baby or not. It's all coming out now. It's no trust and it's nothing but pick it up and move on with my life. I should've known when dating a sixteen year old boy who enjoys life way too much and is nothing but jealous.
I shake my head waiting on Nurse Miller to finish with her work and for the school bell to ring to let me know the last class of the school day is over. I'll be staying after school for a couple of minutes to talk to Mr. Howard and show him my sonogram. Since learning about his wife and child, it's been kind of weird lately. I don't know what to think but I'll still show him about the baby. I'm sure he'll be happy to know everything is okay.
"It's sad about Casey right?" I ask Nurse Miller. "It's very sad." She say. "And, to think I was just talking to her like three days before it happened. She looked so happy and I don't know what happened." I say shaking my head and opening up my book bag to show her the sonogram picture of the baby. "Did you go to the doctor's?" She asks looking at me.
"I did and I want to show you the picture of the baby. He or Sarah is happy." I say handing it to her. She takes it and looks at it smiling. "The baby's healthy?" She asks. "She or he is healthy. I could barely hear the due date because I was so mad at Jacob at the time." "You did not hear it?" She asks. "No, I did not." "Are you pregnant?" She asks as I hold out the sonogram for the picture.
She hands it back. "Whether I am or not. It's not up to you and it's between me and Jacob but the sonogram and doctor tells me that I'm pregnant." I say shaking my head putting the sonogram back in my bookbag. "But you do not know the due date?" She asks not believing me. "Well, let me think. We're in October and I conceived in August. So, it's sometime in May of next year." I say nodding my head.
She nods too. "Did you get your vitamins?" "Yes, I did. Those big horse pills that I have to take everyday. I don't want too but it's healthy for the baby." I say. "That's good to hear and how is Jacob taking it?" "He's happy. He wants a boy now. I don't want a girl he told me and I'm so mad because we was stuck on Sarah. It was always Sarah this and Sarah that. Now, I want a boy." I say shrugging my shoulders.
"What do you want?" She asks me. "I want a little girl and not a boy but it's just a healthy baby is all I'm asking for." "Is it still high risk?" She asks me. "I don't think so but we'll be going to a hospital to get a more professional opinion were the resources is more wider and not just a clinic. It was just a check up. I don't know yet until the final confirmation." I say nodding my head.
The doctor did not say anything and I was barely listening. I blame Jacob for that. I hear the school bell ringing. "That's the end of the school day." Nurse Miller say. I nod my head hearing the students walking and talking in the hallway. "You have somewhere to be today?" She asks me. Oh, because of the curfew. "I'm going to stay back and talk to Mr. Howard for a couple of minutes but I'll be home before the curfew." I say shaking my head.
"You have to be careful when walking to your car or to any place." She say warning. "Right, I still can't believe me about Casey but I hope her killer is caught and justice is served because no one should have their life taken." I say seeing her getting sad. "She was going off to college to be an Artist." "I heard on the news but I didn't know her but I'm sure she was a nice person. Well, I have to go." I say standing up and putting on my bookbag.
"Have a good day, Lacie and be safe." She say smiling. "I will and you too, Nurse Miller." I say walking out of the Nurse's office and seeing the students walking around talking. I notice some students still having a time accepting it and I start my walk to Mr. Howard's classroom and lean my head in to see him cleaning the chalkboard. He glances at me.
"How can I help you, Ms. Thorne?" He asks turning back to the chalkboard. "I just came to show you my sonogram." I say walking in and seeing the classroom is empty. I take off my bookbag and sit it on the desk. "Is the baby healthy?" He asks me. "Yes, he or she is. I'm due in May of next year. So, around this time. Boom." I say expanding my shirt while digging into my bookbag for the sonogram.
I look to see that his back is still turned. "Mr. Howard, did you see what I did? I did boom." I say playing with my shirt. "I didn't see it, Ms. Thorne." He say still looking at the chalkboard. Oh, he's in a mood. "I'm real sorry about Casey, Mr. Howard. No one seen it coming." I say walking up towards him and showing him the sonogram. He looks at it.
"Maybe this will brighten your day." I say pointing to the baby on the sonogram. I hold in a laugh while he looks at it. "Due in May?" "Due in May. I'm going to the hospital this weekend to have a full body check out to see if everything is well and good then we'll go from there." I say. He nods his head. I look at his cheek. "Is something wrong?" He asks looking in my face.
"I would not know because I was distracted at the time he was talking to me about the pregnancy and things." I say looking at the sonogram. "Congratulations, Ms. Thorne." He say. "Thank you, Mr. Howard." I say walking back to my book bag and putting it on my back. I put the sonogram in my pant's pocket. "I'm really sorry about Casey and I hope you feel better or something." I say walking towards the door. "Have a safe trip home and be careful." He say. "You too." I say walking out of the classroom and down the hallway.
"Be safe. Oh, I will." I say walking through the exit door and out of the school while feeling eyes on me. I shake my head. Can't wait to go to the hospital and have that check out without Jacob. He is no more after the stunt he pulled. It's no more and he can go about his life. I shake my head starting my walk towards the cafe. I need a green tea drink or a shake. Gotta eat healthy.