I felt something cool on my forehead, I slowly opened my eyes. I looked around no one was there. I had a cold clothe on my forehead. That's weird, I swear I just had a dream that Jake knocked on my door, it seemed so real. Maybe I hit my head or something. Suddenly I saw Miley walk into the living room.
"Oh good you're up."Miley said smiling a bit."You were out for about two hours, I wasn't sure to call the hospital or not." She gave me a quick kiss on my forehead.
"I'm fine what happened did I hit my head? I had the weirdest dream about Jake. He came here, and I saw him. It seemed so real." I said rubbing my head.
"That's because it was real." A familiar voice said. I turned around, it was Jake! I felt light headed."Please don't pass out again Lilly."
"Jake? What, how, why? You're dead?" I gasped.
"Thanks Lilly, glad to know you're happy to see me." He smirked.
"God no! I'm so happy to see you!" I said ecstatically."But how are you alive? I mean I went to your funeral and everything."
"Did you see my body in the casket?" He simply asked.
"Uh not that I remember, wasn't it a closed casket?" I said unsure.
"Mhm." Jake said."I never died, I was taken hostage, but finally escaped."
"How, who took you?" I asked feeling dumb after asking my question."I was Doug wasn't it."
"Yupp, Doug."Jake said angrily.
"This is great."Miley chirped in."We need to call your family, and Jackson of course!"
"Jackson? How is he.. is he.."Jake said softly.
"He's single."Miley said filling Jake in."He still loves you, a lot." Jake smiled a bit at this.
"I should tell you what happened though, then we can call everyone." Jake said frowning.
"Right." Miley and I said.
"Well it all started years ago. I kept getting strange phone calls, but thought nothing of it. I didn't want to worry everyone over something that was probably nothing. But soon I felt like people were watching me, following me. I figured I was just paranoid, but I was wrong. One day, the day I went "missing" my car broke down on the side of an abandoned road. I decided to take that road because of all the traffic on the highway. Of course I had no service, so I couldn't call anyone. A little while after I broke down, I heard noises. I thought it was just animals, but soon two people jumped out of the woods and attacked me. One man was about 6 feet tall, with an eye patch and the other was was about 5'1, a very chubby man who had a scar over his left eye."Jake went on.
"Do they work for Doug?" I asked.
"Yeah they do."Jake said looking up at me."The big man grabbed me, while the small one fixed my car. He got in it and rolled it off the cliff, which was about 30 feet away from us. I'm guessing they messed with my car earlier seeing he fixed it so easily. Then the big man took out a knife and started stabbing me. They spread the blood everywhere to make it look like a crime scene. When they were satified, they dragged me into their truck. Of course I thought this wasn't going to work, someone would have to realize that I was kidnapped. But the police gave up searching for my body, they told everyone I was targeted for being gay and was beaten to death. That the people who killed me threw my body down the cliff, which went into the lake with my car."
"I should have known." I said getting angry."They never found your body, I shouldn't have stopped looking."
"Lilly, it's not your fault. They had good evidence of what they thought happened to me." He said putting his hand on my shoulder, comforting me.
"What happened to you after that?"Miley asked frowning.
"They kept me locked up most of the time, rarely fed me."Jake said. You could tell that he had been through a lot, he looked awfully skinny and had scars everywhere.
"Sometimes they let me out to help clean up the place where they lived and let me outside sometimes to haul lumber. They said if I tried to run, they'd shoot me." He said."But once I noticed they forgot to lock the cage, now this happened about three weeks ago. When everyone went to sleep, I snuck out. I was able to grab a map, real quick. But it was hard to find my way out of the woods. They almost caught me three times, luckily I was able to hide. After struggling for a couple of days I found a highway, and hitched hiked back here." Jake said quietly.
"I don't get it, why did they take you?" I angrily asked."You did nothing to them."
"They did it to get to you Lilly, they wanted to break you."Jake said looking me in the eye."They know we are best friends. Their plan was to kill me, they were going to kill Miley too, awhile ago though, while you were back in high school. They knew what was going on, but they found out Miley broke up with you, and decided that hurt you enough."
"Sorry."Miley whispered.
"It's okay." I smiled at her.
"He isn't done Lilly, he knows where you live now. It's only a matter of time." Jake said frowning.
"He can't hurt us, we'll get the police to follow us wherever we go."Miley confidently said.
"You can't always trust the police Miley, Doug's people are everywhere." Jake frowned."They have some fucked up cult where they held me, a little village."
"What?" I asked feeling disgusted.
"Doug brain washes people Lilly. They have a whole society where they kept me. They all dress the same, they have different Holidays that they make up. They have arranged marriages, you have 40 year old men marrying 13 year old girls Lilly. It's so fucked up."Jake said angrily.
"How can no one know about this?"Miley said sounding outraged.
"I don't know."Jake said frowning.
"Come on lets take you to Jackson's, after you can call your family." I said.
"Hey guys." Jackson said opening the door. "Come on-Jake?"
"Hey Jackson."Jake said smiling.
"What? How-you're dead?" Jackson's voice squeaked.
"I'm alive." He said smiling again. Before Jackson could make a fool of himself even more Jake kissed him. Miley and I smiled. We sat down for an hour and let Jake explain what happened to him.
"That asshole." Jackson repeated throughout most of Jake's story.
"Hey Lilly, we have that meeting, maybe we should go and leave them alone for a bit."Miley whispered in my ear.
"Oh right good idea." I agreed."Hey guys Miley and I have a meeting that we have to get too, we'll call you guys later?"
"Yeah defiantly." Jake said getting up to hug me.
"I'm glad your back." I smiled.
"Glad to be back." Jake said smiling.
"Hey sorry we're late." Miley said to Ms. Adams.
"It's quite fine sit down." She said looking upset. We were currently in her office, for some reasons all the blinds were closed.
"Is something wrong?I asked.
"Unfortunately yes."Ms. Adams said rubbing her forehead."Somehow word got around to the students about you know."
"What how?" Miley asked.
"One of the parents recognized you, Oaken? Do you know him?"She asked.
"Oliver, that ass." I whispered.
"I'll take that as a yes." She said rolling her eyes."For now I will keep both of you hired, but keep a safe distance from one another. I might be able to deny this for now, but once the press hears this I can't promise you anything. You may leave."
The car ride home was uncomfortably silent. I tried to start a conversation several times, but she gave me one word answers. When we got home and went right inside and locked herself in our bedroom. I frowned, looked like I was spending another night on the couch.
Hey guys, sorry for the kind of long wait. I was sick for the past two weeks and my computer has been acting weird. And thanks so much for all the reviews, I deffintly wasn't expecting a lot. I'll try to update soon.