Chapter 7

                                    

                                          
(Y'all, I'm shook after episode 5. LIKE WHAT?!?!?! Anyway, if you haven't watched episode 5 yet go watch it. This chapter had spoilers in it!! I was going to make this 1 whole chapter, but decided to split it into two.)


                          
         A day later we are back at the hospital with Caroline. I had some more energy in me since I took a couple days off of what was happening at the moment. 
                          
    "Dad, where's Chucky?" Lexi asks. "I threw him away.." he says. Shit. Me and Lexi run to find Jake and Devon. We found them sitting it a random hallway. "Cmon, follow me." I say to them. They follow me and Lexi until we were in an eerie type of room with a big metal box in the middle. It was full of... Needles and syringes. Gross.
                          
     "We're in this together." Lexi says. "Together." Devon says. "That's what I said." Lexi says annoyed. 
Jake grabs a broom and a bucket and throws some yellow gloves at Lexi. "Eww no, there's like 7 different diseases in there." Lexi says crossed. "Didn't you say 'together'" Jake asks. "Ugh, fine." Lexi says as she put the gloves on. 
                          
     "3,2,1. Go!" Jake says as he jabs the end of the broom in the metal box. I stand beside Jake while he's standing on the wobbly bucket. He keeps jabbing while Lexi is digging aggressively through the bags of syringes. I watch the bucket shift even more under him. I knew this would happen. Jake falls and I immediately put my hands out in front of myself quickly catching him. I gently lay him on the floor being careful not to hurt him. I sigh in relief as he looks up at me, smiling. We lock eyes and stare at each other for a moment until finally getting up. 
                          
     After that we decided to give up and head back home since we have school in the morning and boy was I excited... 
                          
  THE NEXT DAY:
                          
     Jake, Devon, Lexi, and I walk into biology. Sitting down in our seats the teacher starts to talk about Oliver. Me and Jake both look at each other with guilty expressions. 
                          
    "You might even feel guilty." Ms.Evans says. I sigh and put my head down trying to clear my mind after everything. I hear a knock on the door and look up to see Mrs.Evans standing in the door way. "Give me one moment." The teacher says. She walks outside of the class room as me Jake, Devon, and Lexi get up out of our seats and I pull out a notebook. 
                          
     "Where do you think he's going to next?" I ask.
"More like what he's going to." He says. "What are we going to do about Junior?" I ask. We look back at him and he looks at us confused. We quickly look away thinking. "We tell him." Devon says. "No, it's to risky." Jake says. 
                          
    "Alright kids, less chatting, more working." The teacher comes back in telling us. After class was over me and Jake were walking in the halls together. We end up at Olivers lockers. "Its all my fault." 
                          
     "Jake stop." I tell him. "W-what?" He says confused. " close your eyes." I say. He hesitated for a moment before closing them. "Now think of everything you're feeling.. deep down in your gut." I say to him. He tells me all these things he's feeling. I'm and I know deep down it's really what he feels. "And I know I can do something about it, but somethings not letting me." He says finally ending. "It's okay Jake. Don't you feel better now." I ask. "Ya, I do actually." He says.
                          
      We look at each other for a moment before I reach my hand our and touch his hand. He put his fingers in between mine. It's feels like our world around had stopped and it was only us in the moment. He's finally excepting how he feels. 
                          
    We get to Jakes families house and sit in his room for awhile. We were both doing homework and just chilling. "I'm going to the bathroom I'll be right back." I say. I walked out of the room and was on my way to the bathroom before Junior came behind me. "Hey Alex, could you meet me in my room real quick?" A little bit sus. 
                          
      "Sure." I say. I walk behind him and into his room awkwardly. "So?" I say. "What's going on? You guys are being so.. so secretive for the past month. I just need to know. What is it?" He says. "Well, i and really disclose that inf-" I try to say before I was cut off by Junior putting his hands on my waist. Is he really trying to seduce me to give him answers, eww. "Please." He looks down at me. I tilt my head and look up at him. "No." I say plainly. He gives me a mad look before saying, "FINE. Ugh, I never liked you anyways. Now get out." He says. 
                          
      "Asshole." I say. "What did you say?" He says in a cocky tone. "I SAID you're an asshole, dumbass." I say. I feel his fist go in contact with eye. I put my hand over my eye and stumble out of the room. "No, wait. I didn't mean to I'm sor-" he says, but didn't get time since I was already out of the room. I quickly get to the bathroom and stand in front of the sink. I release my hand from my eye to see it had already formed a mark. And I big one. What am I going to do now? 
                          
     I quickly rummage through the cabinets to find some kind of makeup to cover it up so it's not noticeable. I find Brees makeup bag and quickly grab some random foundation out of it. I put some on my finger and lightly tap my face. That hurt. I sigh and walk out walking to Jakes room. I walk in and he looks up at me. "What took you so long?" He asks. "Oh, umm, Junior just had to ask me something." I say quickly. "Ohh..why, he barely even knows you're here half the time."  he says slightly confused. "Ya, he just wanted to know why we were being so suspicious in biology today. That's all." I say half lying. After that, We ended our homework and put our school stuff away. 
                          
   "JUNIOR, JAKE, ALEX. DINNER IS READY COME DOWN!" I hear Bree yell from downstairs. Me and Jake get up and race each other downstairs. And of course I won obviously. 










                          
Word count: 1117
                          
Date published: 11-10-21