Chapter 9- Walking away
Harrison High School-
They arrived at Nikki's school and sat in Bobby's car.
"I found this picture of Nicole," Jerry said passing it around in Bobby's car.
"This must be Troy," Angel said looking at the guy in the photo with his arms around Nikki.
Angel handed it to Jack but Bobby intercepted.
"You don't wanna see this Jacky, this is some freaky shit," he said as he and Angel laughed.
"Shut the fuck up man, don't talk bout my niece like that," Jerry said grabbing the picture back.
"Well what are we doing sitting in here ladies? Let's go ask some fucking questions," Bobby said as he got out of the car.
They walked to the back of the school where they found a bunch of teenaged girls and older guys smoking.
"Hey anyone wanna tell me who this guy Troy is?" Bobby yelled, holding up the picture, a gun was in his other hand.
Everyone started to run in different directions. Angel caught one of the older guys; he tried to scoop up his stash before he ran.
"What's your name?" Bobby asked the guy.
"Why should I tell you?" he smirked.
"Because if you don't I'm gunna light your dumb ass on fire or shot you. Which one do you think sounds more painful?" Bobby asked as he grabbed the gas can from jack and held it over the guy.
"Iight iight," the guy yelled. "My name is Jared. What the fuck do you want?"
"Watch your mother fucking mouth pretty boy," Angel said still holding him down on the snow covered ground.
"Let him up Angel. I think he gets the idea," Bobby said.
Angel let go of him but they walked over to near by benches and sat him down.
"Do you know this guy Troy?" Jack asked holding up the picture.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. What's it to you white boy?" Jared asked laughing in Jack face.
Jack was about to punch him until Bobby grabbed his arm.
"You better be careful," Bobby started to say, "my little sister here can pack a mean punch."
"Answer the question," Angel said to Jared.
"Yeah, I think I know him," Jared said sarcastically.
Angel slapped him in the back of the head and then Jared said," Fine, yeah I know him. I ain't telling yall nothing else,"
"Fine I'm ok with that," Bobby said motioning Jack to give him a cigarette.
"I don't have any," Jack whispered.
"Jack give me one of your fucking cigarettes," Bobby silently yelled.
"I quit," Jack yelled back.
"What the hell do you mean you quit?" Bobby asked getting impatient.
"I don't have any cigarettes or a lighter," Jack said.
Bobby cursed under his breath and then he held up his gun to Jared's head.
"Whoa, man hold up," Jared said in a panic.
"Where can we find him?" Angel asked.
"I don't know," Jared squealed as Bobby turn of the safety.
"You got less then five seconds to answer my brother's question," Jerry told him.
"I really don't know where he is," Jared screamed.
"Five… four… three…" Jack counted as Bobby held his pointer finger tight on the trigger.
"Wait!" Jared yelled, "Sometimes he hangs down at the old skatin' rink."
"That wasn't so hard was it?" Angel snarled in his ear.
"How old are you any way?" Jack asked.
"Twenty-five," he said as Angel picked him up of the bench.
"Nice chattin' with you," Bobby said as they started to walk away.
Angel punched him in the face before leaving. They got back in the car and discussed the new information they had received.
"What is Nicole doing dating a guy my age," Angel said.
"Probably had no choice," Bobby said.
"Remember back in the day every senior girl dated a man almost twice her age," Jerry said.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"It's just the way things were," Jerry said.
"You think Troy's twenty-five?" Jack asked Bobby.
"I don't know Jacky, but I wouldn't be surprised," Bobby said to him.
"Are we going to tell Nikki about this?" Jack asked anyone who was listening.
"No, not until we get this little punk," Jerry said as Bobby drove off.
Mercer House-
Sophie answered the door when she heard Bobby's car pull up in the driveway.
"Where did you guys go?" Sophie asked Angel when they all got into the house.
"We had to take care of some business," Bobby said to her blankly.
"What kind of business? I don't like da sound of dat," Sophie yelled after Bobby as he walked to the kitchen.
"Come here and make me some comida ahora chica," Bobby said mocking her Puerto Rican accent.
"Angel he's doing it again!" Sophie said dragging him into the kitchen with Bobby.
"Look man it's ok to make fun of Jack, but lay off my girl iight?" Angel said to him.
Jack walked into the kitchen before he went to see Nikki who was still sitting on the couch.
"Jack tell me something, how do you feel when Sophie calls you Yak all the time?" Bobby asked.
Sophie threw dirty rag that was sitting on the counter at bobby.
Jack grabbed a beer out of the refrigerator and walked to the living room.
"Hi," Nikki said to him.
"Hey," Jack said back to her.
Jack still felt embarrassed from that morning when Nikki saw him 'up.' It didn't bother her but she was still embarrassed that she yelled at him the day before in the hospital.
"Jack, I sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you yesterday," Nikki said sitting up on the couch making sure she didn't irate the stitches on her stomach.
"I didn't mean to just storm off like that," Jack told her as he sat next to her on the couch.
She smiled up at him the way she did the first time he met her. It wasn't a completely happy smile, it had some sadness to it, but that's what made her beautiful.
"Jack?" Nikki said.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"I'm really sorry," she said as her eyes began to tear.
"You already apologized for something that was my fault," he said.
"No, not for that," she said as tears began to roll down her face.
He took the back of his hand and wiped it across her face. She lay back down on the couch slowly and Jack followed her by leaning in to kiss her on the cheek. He leaned back but she put her hand on the back of his neck to lean in again. They kissed passionately for the first time. Jack thought she tasted like cake. Her kisses were sweeter than anything he had ever tasted.
All of a sudden Angel, Sophie, and Jerry walked into the living room.
"You two should take that upstairs," Angel said to Nikki and Jack.
They broke their kiss and sat up.
"Nah, I think yall need to not do that," Jerry said, kidding.
"Isn't that so cute Angel?" Sophie asked him as she held her hand out for him and batted her eye lashes.
"Yeah baby, it's beautiful," Angel said taking her hand and leading her upstairs.
"Where you guys going?" Jack asked them.
"Grown folks business," Angel yelled from the top of the stairs.
"What I miss?" Bobby asked joining them in the living room.
"Nothing," Jerry laughed winking at Jack.
"Nah, is someone having sex in Ma's house?" Bobby asked Jerry but he looked at Jack and Nikki.
Then they all heard bumps and sighs coming from upstairs.
"Yeah, but don't worry it's not these to," Jerry said as they all laughed at what was going on up stairs.
Ok so I will stop now,I said I was going to stop at chapter 8, but my homework was getting on my nerves so I decided to keep on going. Tomorrow I will sumbit two more chapters. 02/08/06