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Chapter 6: Jess's POV

I sighed. "What am I supposed to do...?" I muttered, thinking.

Jack sat next to me, "Why don't you start by telling the truth?" he suggested.

"Jack-"

"She doesn't want to talk to you," Kai interrupted, "just leave her alone."

"You don't know what she wants," Jack snapped. "And she'd rather talk to me than you."

The two cousins glared at each other and Kai said, "Come on, Jess. I know what to do." He started to pull me out to the clearing.

"Uh, I think I'll be the one to help her." Jack said, pushing Kai away from me.

I stepped back from each of them.

"I can take care of myself," I told them sternly, "I don't need any help!" I turned and ran down the path through the forest.

Jack's POV

"Great, now look at what you've done." Kai said, crossing his arms.

"Me?! You're the one that got all grabby and 'I-know-what-to-do,'" I protested, "How long were you two together anyway?!"

"What does that have to do with anything?" Kai asked.

"Just answer the question!"

"Three... months... but I still know more about her than you ever will!"

"Yeah well...' I looked around, "Hey, do you know how to get out of here?"

"Yeah. But no way am I leading you out." He ran the same way Jess did and I ran after him.

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After about ten minutes, I had lost Kai.

"Great... now where do I go...?" I said to myself as I looked around the woods. I started to walk west.

"You'll walk off a cliff if you go that way," A girl's voice said.

I turned around. "Ok... I'll go north," I started walking north.

"You'll land in a lake if you go that way," The voice said.

"Well then which way should I go?!"

"Well you're coming from the South, you can't go North, and you can't go West... which do you think you should go?"

"Alright, where are you?" I crossed my arms.

"Look up." the voice told me.

I looked up and, sitting in a tree, was Kim, smirking at me.

"How'd you get here?" I asked her, climbing up next to her.

"I saw Kai and followed him," she replied, "Jess ran past here a few minutes ago. I tried to talk to her, but she looked like she was crying. What did you do?"

"Me?! I didn't do anything! Kai started it!" I sat on the branch.

"Stop blaming your cousin, Jack! You knew Jess wanted to be alone, you knew she didn't want to talk to anyone. Yet you took her out and tried to get her to open up again!"

"This isn't my fault, Kim!"

"It's just as much your fault as it is Kai's!" Kim snapped.

I looked at the ground below. "Can we just get out of here?" I asked stubbornly.

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When we got back to town, Kim went to shopping while I went to the Great Wall of China. I looked around and spotted someone sitting on the edge of the Wall, crying. I walked a few feet closer and could tell that it was Jess. I was going to yell to her but remembered that she just wanted to be left alone so, I left.

Jess's POV

I was sitting on the edge of the Great Wall, crying once again. I felt someone watching me and looked around. I saw Jack walking away. I sighed. I should've gone to the police the minute DB told me about his plan. I should've gone to them before that. Long before that...

I shook my head at the memory and looked at the ground below the Wall. I wanted nothing more than to make DB pay for taking my parents away from me.

He tried to break me, get me to help him. He thought that by hurting me, he would make me want to hurt others, make them feel my pain, but I didn't want that. I wanted to help the other people in my situation, not make others hurt because of what was done to me.

Drake Baker will never hurt anyone ever again.