Chapter 6 Cassie: The Argument
I was at home when Jake called, actually I was in my barn, tending to a poor badger that got attacked by a coyote. It is strange, we have had a lot of injured animals lately. I mean we always have injured animals but almost all of them seemed to have been attacked by another animal, not hit by cars or poisoned by farmers like usual.
"Cassie," my mother called from the porch. "You have a phone call, it's Jake." She said 'Jake' in sweet voice, putting emphasis on his name. She's always embarrassed me and teased me about him since I was little, and now that we've been officially a thing for a few years now she won't let me hear the end of it. She's even started to call him one of her kids, even implying that he and I will get married as soon as we turn eighteen. She even joked with my dad and I saying that she approved of Jake and my dad said that Jake didn't even have to ask his permission to marry me, he just had to let him know so they could plan the wedding. I swear that my parents are going to drive me crazy.
"Thanks." I said calling back. Weird, Jake doesn't normally call this late, unless something is wrong.
I walked over to the house, went in the door to grab the phone from my mom. As soon as I held the phone, she walked out of the room. That's actually good, even though we talk in a sort of code so people don't overhear our conversations, it's good not to have people around.
"Hello?" I asked into the phone.
"Hey Cassie," Jake said, his voice was filled with sorrow and sadness. "I need to tell you something."
"What?" I asked a little leery.
"Homer was attacked by a wolf this afternoon." He said this with almost no emotion whatsoever, he was almost stoic. He must have been so upset that he was keeping it inside.
"What happened, Jake, tell me."
He told me.
"It's going to be okay, Jake." I told him reassuringly.
"No!" He yelled, with an awful harshness in his voice. "It's not going to be okay. Homer could die, do you not understand that? How is that okay? What kind of person are you? You know, I don't know why I'm even talking to you. You have never been there for me when I've needed it the most!"
"Never been there?" I said back. "I have always been there, for you and everyone in the group. How dare you say that."
"Oh, don't all act all high and mighty with me, Cassie!" He yelled. "You know I'm telling the truth. You are a terrible person, you never want to hear the truth. You're so weak, I don't even know why I'm even with you!"
"What?" I demanded. "What do you mean by that?!"
"You know exactly what I mean!" He said. "We are over, we are done. Relationship wise and friendship wise. You are no longer my girlfriend and you are no longer welcome in the group with us! We're breaking up!"
"You can't do that." I shot back.
"I just did. I'm the leader aren't I?"
"You're no leader!" I shot back as I hung up the phone. I was never speaking to him again.
My mom noticed my frustration, and like any good mom, she came over to hold my head in her hands as I wept the night away.
"It's okay, it's just teenage drama, everything will be fine." She said. She always says that to me when something is wrong.
"The world's not over"
If only she knew, knew that it could be. Without all of us together, we don't stand a chance.
