• Ch 23:
    Jake, I sighed at the name. I would see him soon. I put my car into ignition and sped to his house. I coughed a little and turned on the radio to see if some music would take my mine off Jake and for a second it did. I was humming to the toon and before I knew it I was there. I grabbed my purse and closed the car door shut. I ran to the old wooden door upfront and I took a deep breath before I wrung the bell, I would be in a lot of trouble soon. I tapped my fingers against the side of my thigh impatiently. The door opened, it was Jake. My mouth fell open. I whispered,
    “Oh my goodness…. “
    I stared in disbelief.
    “What have I done?”
    His face was down right pale, he had shadows under his eyes. He smiled weekly. His back was crouched, and I saw him swaying as if any moment he was about to colapse. I immediately put my arms around him.
    “Oh Jake!” I hugged him tightly.
    “Im so sorry!”
    He coughed and looked at me. “No its not as bad as it looks trust me.”
    “Don’t lie to me.”
    I wrapped my arms around him and carried him a little to the sofa so he could rest. When he sat down he exahled. He titled his head back slowly and stayed there. I watched him in horror. He could barley even walk! His body didn’t move, only his chest, and his heavy breathing. I stared at him, and in 2 minutes he was asleep. I half smiled, well at least hes getting some rest. I wrapped my arms around him and leaned on his shoulder. He didn’t wake as I cuddled next to him, he probably wasn’t getting any rest. I wonder why. I rubbed my hand up and down his warm and smoothe face. His breathing was slowing down even more. I chuckled. Then I put my hand down and wrapped my arms around him once more and closed my eyes. I was starting to fall asleep when I heard a huge booming sound.
    “YOU!”
    I eyes flashed open in an instant. Oh no. This must be Jakes Dad.
    Jake shook his head and rubbed his eyes with his hands. It only took him a second to figure out what was going on. He got up immediateley and stood infront of me.
    “Dad please don’t do this.”
    “What are you talking about!” his dad screamed.
    “Look at you son! You’re a mess! Because of this stupid girl who gave you this!”
    “First of all she didn’t give this to me, I couldve given it to her for all I know, and second of all shes not stupid!”
    “Watch it! You do not talk back to me.” Jakes fathers face was red from screaming.
    The next noise made me flinch from Jake.
    “DAD! Stop this now! This so called…”
    He put quotation marks in the air with his hands.
    “ ‘stupid girl’ your talking about is the girl that I love! Your overeacting Dad! Look at yourself! I got sick so what?! Ill be fine before you know it!” He said furiously.
    “I am NOT overreacting son! What if she has some other virus next time! What happens if she has a virus or some sickness that could kill you! Do u see wear im going at!?”
    Jake took a deep breath then exhaled. He looked at the floor.
    “Yes, yes I do.” He whisepered.
    “Then you agree with me?” His father asked.
    I then came closer to Jake. I started crying, I was breaking this family apart. His father was right, this was all my fault. I cried softly on Jakes shirt.
    “I will take this into concideration.” He said more camly. “ But listen for a sec. I would do anything for this girl right here. I love her dad.”
    “You don’t know who you love son your just a teenage boy!”
    “Dad you said you would listen.” He reminded him.
    His Dad calmed down then said, “Continue.”
    “I love her. And I would do anything I can to make her happy. You love mom. You would do anything for her too. I feel the same way about Jessica. Shes….” He looked down at me crying and wrapped his arm around me. “Shes everything to me. Don’t be mad at her, what was her crime? For kissing me? That sure doesn’t deserve punishment. All I want is for her to be happy.”
    His Dad closed his eyes and sighed.
    “If you feel about her that strongly. Then okay son, I understand.”
    He let go of me and walked across the room and hugged his dad. They both smiled. I hadnt realized that Jakes mom had been watching all of this in a little corner.
    Jake then walked to his mother and hugged them tightly. Then he came up to me and smiled,
    “See? Everyone's better now. Don’t cry.” He said soothing me.
    I chuckled he was acting as if I was some little girl, he laughed too, but then he coughed in a rough voice.
    “Oh Jake sit back down please before you give me a heart attack” I said.
    “Watever makes you happy.” He said smiling weekly.
    I helped him walk to the sofa again and like he did before he sat down and rested his head backwards on the sofa and started sleeping. His parents watched him smiling.
    “You go ahead my love, don’t worry” said his mother. I smiled and nodded in appreciation and wrapped my arms arouond him once more and slept on his comfy shoulder.
    The last thing I heard was,
    “Oh, don’t they just look so cute.”
    “Yea, ya they do.”
    Then I dozed off to sleep…….
    CH 24:
    I opened my eyes slowly. I felt stiff. I closed my eyes for five more minutes then opened them again and looked at my watch. I had been sleeping for two hours. WOW. That was long. I guess im still kind of sick too. I got up slowly so I wouldn’t wake Jake. I walked around the house looking for Jakes parents. They werent anywear. I looked through the parents room to see if there was some number I could call. And I found it in Jakes Dads wallet. Though I felt bad looking in his personal privacy. There was a buisness card. I walked down to the kitchen and called the number that was on the paper.
    Jakes Dad picked up,
    “Hello I am Daniel Garcia who am I speeking to?”
    “Oh hi, its me Jessica.”
    “Oh hello, how was your nap?”
    “Very comforting.” I said smiling.
    “But umm…wear are you?”
    “We had to go to the Market to get some groceries but there pretty far away. We are sorry we left you there. But we will be back in an hour and a half.”
    “Oh okay then Mr. Garcia, thank you.”
    “Bye”
    “Bye”
    Then I hung up the phone. I got my purse and tiptoed to open the door. I wouldn’t want to wake him up. I opened the door and the alarm went off. DAMMIT!
    Jakes eyes popped open and saw me smile sheepishly. Then he ran to the alarm and stopped it with quick movements.
    He yawned,
    “It seems you were trying to escape?”
    “No of course not, I just didn’t want to wake you.” I said.
    “Well then you did a really bad job at it.” He chuckled.
    “Yea I know.”
    “So wear are my parents?”
    “There not here.”
    “Oh.” He said smiling wickedly.
    “Is that so?”
    I rolled my eyes and smiled, “Yes it is.”
    “Don’t think of any ideas.” I said.
    “To late” He smiled playflully.
    “Come on get back to the sofa and rest for a while longer, you would have still been sleeping if it wasn’t for me.”
    “No its okay, I would rather be dead tired and spend time with you then to just sleep.”
    “Exactly my point, go to bed. Come on ill help you get upstairs.”
    He coughed a little. When we got upstairs I layed him down on his bed, he looked awful.
    “Ugh I knew you were trying to act less sick than you really were.”
    “I just want to spend time with you, and you wont let me because im sick. That’s such a stupid reason.”
    “Jake im sick too you know.”
    “Well it sure doesn’t seem like it, I haven't heard you cough not even once since you got here.”
    “I guess I heal a little faster than you do.”
    I pulled the covers over him as he smiled.
    “I feel like im some small kid getting tucked into bed by my mom” he said.
    “A very hot mom that is.” He said winking at me.
    I rolled my eyes, “Do you want anything.”
    “Some water please.”
    I ran downstairs quickly, eager to get back up and talk to Jake again. I put some small ice cubes in the cup and some water. I ran back upstairs in a rush and gave it to Jake. The problem was I ran so fast that I spilled some on him by accident.
    “Oh! Im so sorry!”
    At first he flinched at the coldness then just smiled.
    “Don’t worry people make mistakes.”
    “I’ll go get a towel.”
    “Are you kidding? This shirt is soaked don’t bother to get me one ill just change shirts.”
    He got up from the covers and went to his drawers. He found a striped shirt then layed it on the bed. He took off his shirt.
    “Wow” I said smiling.
    “I know im pretty hot aren’t I?” He said playfully.
    I giggled, “Yea got that right.”
    “Well….” I said looking at different sides of the room.
    “You don’t have to put on a new shirt. You can keep your shirt off around me you know.”
    I heard a noise, the doorbell had wrung.
    CH25:
    “That’s impossible, its been like what? Half an hour? How can your parents be here?”
    He put on his shirt, “Yea well I for sure need to put on my shirt now. Come on lets go open the door for them.”
    I walked downstairs holding Jakes hand. I felt safe. When I opened the door it was nothing of what I expected. Four teenage guys at the door with bathing suits.
    “Hey Jake my man! How are you doing?”
    Jake groaned in annoyance. All four guys gave him a hug. Jake whispered to me,
    “These are my neighbors, they get invited to my house whenever they feel like it apparently.”
    “Oh” I whispered.
    “Are you going to invite us in or not?”
    “Come on.” He said clearly unhappy. All four guys stormed across the house. Jake and I watched them open the door that led outside to the pool and all of them jump in without hesitation.
    “Ugh im sorry.”
    “Don’t worry about it.” I said giving him a kiss on the cheek. He smiled.
    We walked outside and a small tan boy said,
    “Hey Jakaru you coming in the pool?”
    “I kind of have a guest here and my names not Jakaru.”
    All four guys looked at me. Some smart alec said,
    “A very hot one too.”
    “Shutup.” Jake said.
    “Oh im scared” He said sarcastically.
    A really ugly looking one with messed up teeth asked,
    “So you coming in?”
    Jake whispered to me, “You want to go in the pool?”
    “Not really but just jump in before they annoy you to death.”
    “But are you going in too?”
    “I guess.” I said kind of dissapointed I had been looking for alone time with me and Jake but I guess not.
    “Do you think your mom will mind if I use her bathing suit?”
    “Nah she wont mind.”
    So Jake went up to his room and changed into his bathing suit. While I was in Jakes moms room changing. When I got out I wrapped a towel around me and went to go see if Jake was done changing. His chest was bear which made my heart skip just one beat before I was able to compose myself. His chest was niceley toned, not to ripped it was perfect. His bathing suit shorts were black but in the ends there were flames.
    My bathing suit was a two piece it was a nice light blue.
    “Your not going into the pool with a towel are you? Cuz I was looking forward to seeing you in a bathing suit.”
    I giggled. “ Just for now.”
    “Oh okay.” He said smiling. I grabbed his hand as we walked back downstair and outside. The guys were playing basketball in the pool, there was a small mini basketball net.
    I dropped my towel and hanged it over the chair.
    Jakes eyes widen, watching me. He looked at my legs, then to my stomach, then to my chest, and when he got there I blushed a little. Then he looked at my face.
    “You look amazing.” He said still staring at me.
    I giggled. The guys in the pool were staring at me. Now that was uncomfortable. It was okay for Jake to stare at me that way, but when the guys stared at me it felt wrong.
    One of the tall guys were like,
    “DAM! Shes hot! Dood how do you get a babe like that?!”
    Jake became serious. He didn’t answer.
    “Come on Jess.” He said.
    I held his hand and we walked into the pool and sat on the last couple bottom steps in the pool. We watched the guys play. After the game was over all the guys talked to Jake and surrounded him. One guy was sitting next to me, very close I think I remmember Jake telling me his name was Shane. All of a sudden I feel something under my bathing suit, it was a hand. The guy grabbed my butt and didn’t even bother to let go. He just stared at me and smiled expecting me to reply in probably a perverted way.
    “OH MY GOD!”
    I punched the guy in the jaw and I got my towel and ran inside. I heard a lot of commotion.
    I heard the guy say, “Aw s**t that hurt!”
    As I ran I left water droplets all over the house. But I ran to Jakes room and locked the door. I curled up in his bed, getting it wet, and started crying. He violated me, he touched me in a way that I wasn’t use to, it made me feel embarrassed, and very uncomfortable, uncertain. I cried as the tears went down my cheek. I wrapped the covers close to me. I felt like a line has been crossed, crossed way to far. I kept crying for a while when I heard a knock on the door.
    “GET AWAY!”
    “Its me” Jakes voice said.
    I just kept on crying. I closed the curtains too so the others couldn’t see me.
    “Please let me come in Jess.”
    I knew he would make me feel better. But I know that if I see one of those guys, I was going to kill them. I kept crying as I got up and I opened the door, Jake was there with a worried expression. I shoved him in the room then I locked the door again.
    “Jess what happened to you!”
    He hugged me tightly though I was still sopping wet.
    “Please tell me.”
    I cried in his arms and he pulled me closer. I cried for half an hour and after that i started composing myself.
    “One of those guys grabbed my a** Jake! That’s what happened!” I bursted out crying in tears again. I saw his face turn angry with rage, but when he saw me again his face softened and hugged me. He kissed the top of my head, then my forehead. Then he slowly went down to kiss my lips. I smiled. How easily he could fix things with just a soft touch.
    “I love you Jake.” I said my voice still cracked from crying.
    He froze. But I just kept on crying in his arms. He comforted me. Told me it was going to be okay. He started coughing.
    “Go get a towel before you get sicker than you already are.”
    “No” He smiled.
    “Iv been dying for you to tell me that you loved me, I was worried that you had forgotten, but right now, nothing is going to make me leave.”
    He kissed my lips and smiled. We closed are eyes and he was on top of me. I wrapped my arms around his waist and brought him closer. Some water that was from his hair dropped down to my face but I ignored it. He kissed me more pationatley. I heard a deep groan of pleasure escape his throat. We both chuckled at the sound. He moved quickly so that then instead of him ontop of me, I was on top of him. His chest was still bare. My hands quickly touched his chest, eager to discover more skin. We both started panting. But as I remembered what happened earlier a tear went down my cheek again as we kissed. He only kissed me more eagerly. He was trying to make me forget of what happened, to try and fix things. It would work, for now. I thought of nothing of before I only thought of Jake and I. Jakes hands were on my back and he moved his hands up and down. I felt like if I was a cat being petted and instead of a purr, out of my chest came a groan of pleasure just like his had before. But mine was a lot louder than his. We both chuckled. Then a nock on the door.
    “What the heck are you guys doing in there? Jake are you having sex?”
    My face blushed red and so did his. But anger flushed through me too at the sound of a familiar voice.
    I unlocked the door and opened it with Jake by my side holding my hand.
    It wasn’t just any guy….. It was Shane.