Hey guys! So, I've read that many of you are getting quite aggravated with the way Kyle is acting...how I can explain this to you, why he acts like...this, can't be explained quite yet. Please enjoy the seventh chapter of "Closer To The Edge"...
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CLOSER TO THE EDGE-CHAPTER 7
The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering.
JAKE'S PERSPECTIVE
"Please! It's an emergency! You need to get home, you need to, right now!" I screamed at Eli over the phone for the fifteenth time as I continued, "Kyle's going to drown your wife and you're having second thoughts? Get your ass over here!"
"O-okay, go inside Jake and check on her...go!" He screamed at me and I nodded, shutting my phone and tossing it to the floor as I rammed through Kyle's front door, only to see Kyle, sitting on the side of the pool with his feet up.
My heart, has never raced with this much fear in my life.
"Jake, buddy, what are you doing here?" He asked, sipping the lemonade in his hand.
I glanced around, looking beside me and all around me, not seeing Clare at all...which, only made my heart race faster and my knees buck. I took a deep breath and as I approached Kyle, I asked calmly, "Kyle, where's Clare?"
"I don't know," he said while taking another sip of his lemonade through his bendy straw.
"You don't know?" I asked, looking around the pool side nervously, my eyes trying to get a look at everything so that I could save her. But, the damage could've already been done by now.
Maybe I was too late...
I glared at Kyle, only to see the towel beneath him suspiciously covering whatever was underneath him. I gasped when I saw a limp hand sticking out beneath him and I quickly rushed to her, pushing Kyle over, causing him to fall on the floor.
"What did you fucking do Kyle?" I asked, turning Clare onto her back as he continued, "apparently she's not a very good swimmer."
"Oh shit," I mumbled, not knowing what to do because now I was mentally cursing myself for not taking that lifeguard course last semester. I didn't know how to save her, she was lying on her backside, her curls soaking wet with...blood?
I glanced down at my hand which was covered in blood from touching the back of her head. My eyebrows tightened together as I watched her chest remain still and my heart raced with fear that she could be...gone.
I heard the door shut and I breathed out in relief when I saw a running Eli, "I didn't do anything sir, I didn't-."
He rushed to her side as I stood and watched in alarm while he frantically searched for a pulse while pleading through heaving sobs, "Please Clare, I'm right here...it's Eli! Wake up! Please!"
"Jake, call 911!" Eli screamed as he started to do mouth to mouth on Clare...
ELI'S PERSPECTIVE
I can't believe this...
"You can go home now Jake, thank you...for everything you did today. You're a strong and brave kid," I told him, patting him on the shoulder as he nodded and asked, "Mr. Goldsworthy, do you know what's going to happen to Kyle?"
I took a deep breath and said, "Right now, my main priority is making sure Clare is okay. They said she's stable so..that's better than unstable, right?"
He smiled and said, "Please make sure that he gets the help he needs."
"I will Jake, but, I don't think you're going to be seeing Kyle around school for a while..." I reassured him and I said, "Speaking of Kyle, where is he? Did he leave when you came to my house?"
Jake looked down at his feet and said, "I'm sorry, I was just...I didn't try to stop him because I was worried about Clare and-," I cut him off while saying, "Relax Jake, you did what you had to do. It's time for you to go home."
Right now, my mind was so unstable that my hands were shaking violently...
After hours and hours of pacing the empty hospital hallways, tugging at the roots of my hair, clenching my fists in aggravation...my name was finally called out and I was allowed to see Clare.
"Before you go in Eli," the doctor told me, holding me back from going inside her room, "You need to know that Clare, because of the damage on her head, she might not remember certain things."
"What do you mean?" I asked through gritted teeth.
The doctor was overlooking her file as he said, "Well, since you reported that she fell into the pool in your backyard, when she hit her head on the edge...what would you expect?"
I nodded "Will she remember me?" I asked as my voice shook, in fear of the possibility of Clare not remembering me.
"Just go slow with her...that's all that I'm saying," he gave me a pat on the back as I slowly turned the knob to her door and entered.
Tears ran down my face as I covered my mouth with my hand, glancing at Clare who had a part of her head stitched up and her chest moving up and down slowly. I gulped and she whispered through parted lips, "Eli."
I smiled and grabbed her hand tightly, "I'm right here Clare, I'm right here."
"I'm so scared," she whispered, wrapping her shaking arms around my neck, pulling me closer to her. She comfortably snuggled her head in the crook of my neck as I sighed in relief, knowing that she at least remembered me.
"You don't have to worry Clare, you're safe," I whispered as her lip quivered against my earlobe while whispering, "I-I'll never be safe."
JAKE'S PERSPECTIVE
"How could you do that to your fucking mother?" I screamed at Kyle, kicking him in the shin as he fell to the floor and trembled beneath my every punch, my every hit and my every kick.
When I walked in on Kyle, he was sitting on the couch, eating popcorn and flipping through channels on the t.v...which, resulted something inside me snapping.
He groaned and I asked, "Does it hurt? huh?"
I took it upon myself to come back to the Goldsworthy household and help Eli and Clare out by teaching him a little physical lesson. Although he was bigger than me, he wasn't quicker than me.
"Stop it Jake," he groaned, clenching his ankle in pain as I laughed and screamed, "Did you stop when Clare begged you to stop? Did you?"
Blood started to trickle down his lips as I stumbled back in fear when he scoffed and said, "Of course she did...but, that's the best part...hearing her beg, like the whore she is."
"Oh, that's it!" I screeched, lifting him up on his feet by the stupid collar on his fucking shirt while slamming him against a closet door.
"What are you going to do Jake? Hurt me?" He asked, biting his lip as a smirk curled up on his lips and I smiled, "No...something that your parents should've done a long time ago."
Without a word, I slammed my knee into his dick, causing him to groan in pain.
He held his cock in both hands as he slid slowly down the wall. "You fuck," Kyle groaned and continued, "I thought you were my fucking friend...friends don't treat each other like this."
I continued to look at him with a disgusted expression on my face. I watched as he lifted his head, glaring into my eyes as he hissed through gritted teeth, "Now...you're just one of them."
END OF CHAPTER 7
DUN DUN DUN
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