Chapter 11.
Randy, John and Jessie had made it back home from the mall. On the way home Jessie had been preoccupied with her thoughts. She was still in shock over what happened. They got home and John and Randy went upstairs to clear out Jessie's room so they could start painting and hopefully be done before the furniture got there a week later.
It took them almost 30 minutes but they managed to get the stuff out of the room and to John's game room which he barely used. They toyed with the idea of putting it all outside but thought it might rain. John and Randy carried the paint cans upstairs and John also brought up a tarp to put on the carpet so it wouldn't get messed up. After they got everything situated John and Randy went and changed out of their good clothes.
They both just put on old shorts seeing as it was hot in the room and messy work. They set to work painting the blue all over the walls and ceiling like Jessie told them. Jessie was going to do the stars herself. She sat down and talked to John and Randy as they painted then the paint fumes started to get to her.
After she couldn't take the stench anymore she went downstairs to watch a bit of TV. She flipped around and saw that Tom and Jerry was on, she left it on that. Tom was currently flinging Jerry into a wall. When she saw that Jessie's mind flashed back to what happened to her and she couldn't stop the tears from falling down her cheeks. She sat there lost in thought crying her eyes out.
"Sweetie are you ok?" Jessie heard from her side. She felt someone shake her but she didn't respond. She just kept crying. She heard motion around her and was vaguely aware of another person coming and kneeling in front of her.
"Babygirl look at me. Come on babygirl its Daddy. Look at me Jessie. Come on" when she heard John's voice she snapped out of her thoughts and she saw that he was kneeling in front of her, tears in his own eyes. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his chest and cried her eyes out. She cried for what seemed like hours before she finally got herself under control.
"Sweetie, sweetheart what was that all about? You were so out of it. You had me scared badly" Randy said from her side. She looked at Randy and noticed that he had tears in his eyes also.
"I was watching Tom and Jerry and I remembered that everyday before mom would go to work she would wake me up, fix me a bowl of cereal and we would watch Tom and Jerry". Of course this was a lie but for some reason she couldn't tell the truth. She didn't want them to know that she let a guy take advantage of her because she was too stupid to realize what was going on. She felt bad about that. She should have done something. She should...
"Awww babygirl. Listen I know its hard right now. I mean it's only been a bit over a week since it happened. No one would expect you to be over it in that short amount of time. But you just gotta remember you can lean on me and Randy if you need to, we're here for you" John said giving Jessie a big fatherly hug. She hugged back and gathered the energy and strength from him.
"Ok well we're done painting. Your room is officially Night Sky blue. Now all you have to do is do the stars. I have to admit I can't wait to see the finished effect, I bet its going to be unlike anything I've ever seen before" Randy said getting a look on his face that reminded Jessie of a little kid at Christmas waiting to open his presents.
"Well why don't we order some pizza for dinner" John said and the phone rang. He walked to the kitchen to answer it. Randy and Jessie sat on the couch and finished watching the episode of Tom and Jerry. When the credits started rolling John came back into the living room, a frustrated look on his face. "I have to leave tonight. They want me to go do some press appearances, autograph signings, and a few interviews. All before the house shows. This so sucks I mean I wanted to spend time here with you" John said sitting down beside Jessie and looking her in the eye.
"It's ok John, I understand you gotta do what you gotta do" Jessie hugged him, and gave a bright smile to let him know she was ok with it. He hugged her back and kissed her on the forehead and went upstairs to pack.
"Let's order that pizza now. Just cause John's leaving don't mean we don't gotta eat" Randy said patting Jessie on the leg and getting up to order the pizza, he stopped before he stepped into the kitchen and looked back to Jessie "by the way what do you like on your pizza? I'll eat anything on it so whatever you want is what we'll get".
"I want sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, anchovies, Canadian bacon, and extra cheese" Jessie rambled off, feeling her mouth watering at the prospect of eating a delicious piece of pizza with all of her favorite toppings on it.
Randy came back a bit later and sat beside Jessie "sweetie I got a call while I was on the phone to the pizza place" Jessie's heart dropped when Randy said this, he noticed her expression and calmed her fears "don't worry babe its nothing bad it was Mark he and Maven are gonna be in town for the week and he wanted to know if they could crash here, I told them it was ok, if your not ok with it though I can call him back and tell him".
"No that's ok I'm cool with it, where are they gonna sleep though" she asked looking at Randy, he thought for a minute and his face lit up when he got an idea.
"You can double up with me, one of them can take John's room and the other can sleep on the couch" Randy said looking proud that he came up with it. Jessie shrugged ok with the decision. They sat there in silence watching cartoon, which always seemed to be on. All of a sudden Jessie had a thought, she turned to Randy.
"When are they gonna get here" Jessie said. Randy looked at her with a 'oh I left that part out huh' expression.
"Later on tonight, they should be here in like an hour or so" Jessie nodded and turned her attention back to the TV.
A bit later the doorbell rang. Randy got up and went to answer it, he came back with the pizzas. He had gotten 4 of them. Jessie's mouth watered at the smell, Randy took them to the kitchen and yelled out to Jessie "Hun whatcha want to drink". She told him soda and he came back with 2 plates of pizza and 2 sodas "don't tell John we ate in the living room he'd have a conniption". Jessie nodded and laughed. A few minutes later the doorbell rang again and Randy groaned, getting up. He was only gone a few seconds and had company with him when he came back. Maven and Mark said hi to Jessie and Randy told them about the sleeping arrangements. They groaned and played paper, rock, scissors to see who would get the couch. Mark lost. He sat his duffle bag by the couch while Randy showed Maven to his room.
"So how ya been dollface" Mark said going to grab some pizza and a soda. He got them and sat back down on the other side of Jessie. She felt a small flash of panic when he sat kinda close to her but rationed that he wouldn't do anything to her.
"I've been ok I guess, nothing out of the ordinary really" Jessie said looking at him, he smiled at her and nodded his head. She finished up her last piece of pizza as Randy and Maven made their return. Randy came back around to his spot and was about to sit when Jessie put her plate in his face.
"Will you get me some more pizza?" She asked, a puppy dog look on her face. He groaned and stood back up.
"Your lucky I love you so much, I wouldn't do this for just anybody" he said, going toward the kitchen with her plate. He came back about the same time Maven did both wielding pizza and soda. Randy handed her one of the plates he carried and one of the sodas. She took both and smiled at him in thanks.
"Oooh, lets watch a movie" Randy said getting up. He walked over to the movie cabinet and started calling out what movies there were. Quite a few were vetoed before Randy called out something Mark and Maven liked.
"Amityville Horror it is" Randy said "Jessie this is ok right you don't have a problem with scary movies do you" Jessie shook her head and Randy put the movie in the DVD player. He and Maven switched places so Randy wouldn't have to walk far when they switched out movies. Maven went and sat in Randy's spot beside Jessie and she felt a flash of panic again. She wished it was still Randy sitting there, she knew Randy wouldn't do anything she wasn't so sure about the other two. She shook her head 'I'm being stupid' she thought to herself. With that she turned her attention to the movie. Michael had just gone into the bathroom at night and he was washing his hands, he heard a noise in the bathtub and pulled the shower curtain back. There was a woman sitting in it, dead, with blood oozing out of her. Jessie jumped really bad and landed pretty much in Maven's lap.
The three men looked at her and she blushed. She went to move off Maven's lap but he held on to her and told her to stay in case she got freaked again. She shrugged and went back to watching the movie. When the movie was over Randy got up and put in Scream. Jessie had seen it lots of times before so she didn't pay that much attention. She was getting tired so she laid her head on Maven's shoulder. Within minutes of the movie, at the 'what's your favorite scary movie' part to be exact, she was asleep. Maven looked down and saw that Jessie had fallen asleep "Randy" he whispered, Randy looked over at him questioningly "she's asleep" he said gesturing to Jessie. Randy got up and grabbed Jessie from Maven's arms and took her up to his room so she'd be more comfortable and so Maven's arm could regain circulation.
After Randy put Jessie upstairs he came back down and they watched the rest of the movie. After the movie it was going on 11 pm so they decided to go to bed. Randy brought Mark some blankets and a pillow and made sure Maven was settled in with everything he needed before going to his room. He stripped down to his boxers and slid in beside Jessie, noticing that she snuggled into him as soon as he got in the bed.
About 1 am Randy was woken up by an ear piercing scream. He opened his eyes and saw Jessie sitting in the middle of the floor in his room, rocking back and forth, screaming. She had this look on her face that was as if she wasn't there. Randy heard thunderous footsteps and Mark and Maven both barged into his room. They saw Jessie in the state that she was in and looked at Randy as if they were saying 'what do we do'.
Randy got up out of bed and slowly made his way to where Jessie was, he kneeled beside her and gently put his hand on her shoulder and whispered her name. She shocked him by shoving him backwards. Since he was unbalanced he flew backwards and almost crashed into the bed. Mark came around behind Jessie and wrapped his arms around her, not enough to hurt her but enough to where she couldn't struggle "Jessie honey it's me, its Mark. Babydoll calm down ok, its ok its ok" finally Jessie slowly stopped struggling and started to look around, she saw Maven standing at the door way with a shocked expression on his face and saw Randy laying on the floor looking at her with a shocked expression. She felt arms around her and gathered that it was Mark.
"What's going on" she said looking around. Mark slowly let go of her and scooted around to the front of her. He made sure she was ok before speaking.
"Sweetie you had like the worst nightmare I have ever seen anyone have, you got like this superhuman strength and shoved Randy all the way over to where he is now" Jessie looked over at Randy and saw that he was leaning against the wall, looking over at her with an unreadable expression. She thought he was mad at her and got upset, she couldn't believe that she had pushed Randy like she did. She got upset and started crying, she felt like shit. She looked at Randy through her tears and kept saying "I'm sorry" over and over.
He came over and wrapped his arms around her and calmed her down "It's ok sweetie It's ok I'm ok I'm a wrestler remember I can take it. Anyways you were in a weird dream like state thing you didn't know what you were doing I don't blame you for it I'm not mad" when Jessie heard him say he didn't blame her and that he wasn't mad she started to calm down. "Sweetie what made you react like that?" Randy asked stroking her hair, as her head lay on his chest. Jessie didn't want to tell anyone anything yet. She couldn't bring herself to bring it up.
"I had the nightmare again" she said softly. Randy sighed and kissed her forehead. He picked her up and carried her over to the bed. He sat her on it and stroked her hair and kissed her forehead. In a few minutes she was out like a light.
Randy got up off the bed when he knew Jessie was asleep and he, Maven, and Mark went downstairs to the kitchen. Randy got them all a coke and they sat at the table. They sat in silence for a few minutes before Maven spoke up "what was that?" he asked "I've never saw someone react like that. What happened to her"?
"How she came to live here is because she was in the car with her mom when a drunk driver hit their car. Her mom was killed instantly. Apparently from what I read in a letter that her social worker sent me was that Jessie was gathering up things to bring with her to wherever her foster home would have been when she came across her birth certificate and saw John's name in the space for father" when Randy finished he took a long gulp of coke and sighed, looking out the window to the dark night.
"Man that has to be a real shitty way of finding out who your dad is" Mark said looking at the table. His heart went out to the little girl. He hadn't known her that long but he was beginning to think of her as a little sister, maybe even a daughter.
"Yeah and then the nightmares began. It's the same one each time. She relives the car crash and then she tries to get help for her mom and John who she dreams is in the crash too and she comes across this guy who's on his cell and she begs him to help them and he turns around and its the guy who hit them and he smirks at her and she wakes up. I think there's more to the story though. I think there's something she's not telling. The other day when we were at the mall she went to the bathroom and she was gone quite a while. I don't think John noticed but I did and when she came back she had this fake smile on her face. It was like she was trying to convince people she was ok" Randy finished up his coke and threw the can in the trash "anyway I'm gonna go up and try to sleep the rest of the night. I hope to God that she sleeps the rest of the night".