Chapter 12: Safe
I was still driving at around 12:45 in the morning, but by this time, I was suffering from blood loss and exhaustion. But I didn't know where to go. Suddenly my vision blurred more than it had before, I knew I couldn't stay on the road much longer if I planned to survive. So I went to the one place that I felt safe.
"Mrs. Kent, Mr. Kent! Clark!" I cried out as I pounded on the door of the Kent farm. No one seemed to be waking.
"Someone please!" I cried. Tears were streaming down my face with the raindrops, stinging the cuts I had from shattered liquor bottles.
"Please!" I screamed. Then I heard Shelby bark, and like clockwork, Mrs. and Mr. Kent were at the door.
"I'm so sorry to bother you but—" I started.
"Juliet, honey what happened to you?" Mrs. Kent said worried. She opened the screen door and ushered me into the kitchen where she examined my injuries.
"Is everything okay?" Mr. Kent asked seriously.
"He… he—" I tried to choke it out, but I was still in shock, plus I was freezing to death and crying even harder then before.
"Mom? Dad? What's—" Clark came down the stairs, but stopped when he saw me sitting there.
"Juliet?" He whispered slowly. Then he continued to walk down the steps until he was standing right in front of me.
"What happened to you?" He asked worried.
"I told you we were breaking up for our safety, when really, it was just yours." I managed to whisper. Clark looked at me, almost scared.
"Juliet, lets get you cleaned up. Do you have anymore clothes?" Mrs. Kent asked me.
"Yea in my car, I'll go get them." I said before trying to stumble out of the kitchen.
"No, Clark, you got get them, Juliet go upstairs and take a hot bath. Jonathon, help her." Mrs. Kent ordered. Mr. Kent helped me up the stairs and into the bathroom.
"Mr. Kent." I said before he left. "I'm sorry you didn't think you could trust me." He looked confused and I shut the door.
After the bath, and after I put on some pajama bottoms and a sweatshirt, I went downstairs, where the Kent's were conversing. Clark was the first to notice me. They all looked eager for an explanation. So even though I was exhausted, I sat down and told them everything.
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"You didn't tell? Even after all the constant threats?" Mr. Kent asked me.
"I told you, I wouldn't betray Clark." I said quietly. It was silent for a few moments before Clark spoke.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He said, in a tone which was a mix of sadness and anger. I couldn't tell which.
"Because I thought I could handle it! And I was wrong, apparently!." I replied, trying to match his tone.
"You didn't want to betray me and yet you were hiding all of this from me? I could have helped! I could have prevented all of this from happening to you!" He told me, now I knew it was anger. I stood up from the barstool and looked at his seriously, trying to place daggers in my eyes.
"Don't be so full of yourself! You couldn't have prevented this anymore than I could have!" I told Clark, getting rather upset myself. "Clark you have so many amazing gifts. But that doesn't mean you can do everything!"
Clark just stared at me for a while. The Kent's even excused themselves and went to bed before either of us spoke.
"I'm sorry." Clark finally said. "I shouldn't have been so upset. But Jules, when I saw you, so hurt and so upset, I got angry. I shouldn't have taken it out on you."
"I'm sorry as well. I shouldn't have tried to he the hero. I just didn't want you to get hurt." I told him. "I still love you, you know that right?" He smiled at me.
"Yea I know. I love you too." He came over and held me. I rested myself in his arms.
"Hmm, the place where I finally feel safe." I whispered.
"I'll never let anything like this happen again." He whispered back. I smiled and yawned. Clark picked me up and carried me upstairs. But I was asleep before we even reached the room.