In The Wave

Chapter 19

Jessicia’s P.O.V.

After running for a while Zane and I stopped at a park to catch our breaths. 

“You know you're pretty f..fast, I had a h..hard time keeping up with you.” I am still out of breath.

“Well I should be fast, I’m on the track team at my school.” he says already having regained his breath.

“Oh really what school do you go to?” I asked him.

“I go to Seacoast high.” he says.

“Wait a second, that's my school, but how come I’ve never seen you around?” I ask him.

“Well it is a big school, what grade are you in?” he asks me.

“I’m a junior, I tell him.”

“That’s probably why we’ve never seen each other. I'm actually a senior.” he says.

“Then it makes sense we’ve never seen the other around before.” I say.

“Hey you know what this could be the start of a wonderful friendship, what do you say, how about we hangout Monday afterschool?” He asks.

“Sure I’d like that.”

“Okay then give me your phone.”

“Why?” I ask

“So we can make better plans.” He says.

“Oh yeah here.” I hand him my phone and he hands me his.

“Now we should probably get you home.” He says.

“Just me, what about you? I'd assume your guardian would be pretty worried.” I tell him.

“They would, except that I live alone.”

“Oh, well sorry for assuming.”

“It’s fine but we should get you home, your mom is probably really worried, you have been out a while.”

“Oh well my mom is dead and my dad is at work, it’s just my sister at home, alone. Oh My god I should really get back to her before she burns the house down.” I say, then we both run back to my house.

When we got inside there was light smoke like something was burning. We saw a fire in the kitchen, Zane shielded Juliet from it, while I put a lid on top of the burning pan, the fire then went out.

“Jules, how many times do I have to tell you not to cook without SUPERVISION!” I yell at her.

“You’ve told me a lot. Wait babe, what are you doing here?” she says, directing her attention to Zane.

“Wait bAbE?” I question them.

“Oh Jessicia I didn’t know your last name was Maverick, uhm you see Juliet is my girlfriend.”

“Julie, when the hell did this happen?”

“Well it started just a little after school started?”

“Unfucking believable, school started in AUGUST, it’s f*****g JANUARY 3rd you’ve been dateing for half a year without f*****g telling me, even I was gonna tell you that I got engaged, but you don’t even tell me you have a boyfriend, I see where the sisterly bonds are!”

“I was gonna tell you, but you’ve had a lot on your plate lately. I didn't want to bother you with it.” Once she finished that sentence I ran upstairs to my room. I slammed the door to my room and sat against the headboard of my bed while hugging a pillow. I saw my door open revealing Juliet, she came and sat next to me, resting her head on my shoulder, as I rested my head on her head.

“Look I’m sorry I know I should have told you, but you were going through a lot, and I didn’t want to burden you.”

“No I’m sorry I sorta overreacted. The truth is your right. I've had a lot to deal with lately, and I haven’t always been easy to talk to I guess, I just wish you would’ve told me.”

“Well I told you now.” She said, I laughed and shook my head at her.

“Speaking of relationships, when did you get engaged, and to whom?”

“That is a long story for another time.”

“Sum it up then.” she said with a blank expression on her face.

“Well long story short, Alexander followed me to Greece. I went on a date with a psychopath, he shot Alex, then I stitched him up, but before he was shot he proposed, and I said yes, that’s about it.”

“Wow, we really have a lack of communication.” she said.

“Now that you mention it, yeah we do.”

“We can just blame it on dad,” She said, before leaving the room.

Alexander’s P.O.V.

I was at the warehouse constructing a plan to help my friends out of the tough situation they were in. Then I abruptly heard the voice I was waiting on. 

“Alexander Cruz, it’s been a while.” Nate says, causing me to turn around.

“Thanks so much for coming, Nate, I really need the help.” I said while shaking his hand.

“Oh don’t mention it, it’s the least I could do for the kid who saved my life,” he replied.

“Kid, if I recall I’m only a few years younger than you.”

“I know but you're still a kid nonetheless.” 

“Whatever.” I said before showing him the plan for how everything would go down, well how I hoped it would anyway.

“It’s a pretty risky plan, but since you have me here to back you up it should be solid enough in case anything goes wrong.” Nate said.

“Well I don’t plan on letting anything go wrong.” 

As we were almost ready to leave I decided to stop by Jessicia’s house to tell her what was going on.

Once I got there I rang the doorbell. I heard footsteps, then I saw her open the door.

“Hey Alexander, what’s up.” She said when she saw me.

“Jess, I have to tell you something and I don't really have a lot of time to tell it to you, so here goes nothing. Jonas and Dominic are in trouble. I sent them on a mission and they got caught so I’m on my way to go help them. It's a pretty risky plan, so I want you to know in case anything happens to me I love you.” As soon as I finished my sentence I kissed her on the lips gently brushing her hair away from her face.

“You sure do know how to say your goodbyes don’t you, but who said I’m letting you go alone.” She said, picking up her jacket.

“No you can’t go, it's too dangerous!” I tried to tell her.

“If you think I’m gonna let my fiance go into a dangerous situation without me you’ve got another thing coming, because I’ll be damned if you go and get yourself killed like the i***t you are. I’m coming and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about that, you hear me!” She told me in a very demanding tone.

“Got it!” I told her slightly scared, yet impressed and mildly turned on. “Well that was arousing.” I whispered to myself.

“What was that?” 

“Nothing!”

Once we got in the vehicle we started driving there. I loaded my other pistol and handed it to Jessicia.

“Thanks, but I can handle myself.” She told me softly.

“I know you can, that's why I’m giving it to you.” I replied with the perfect star wars reference for that moment.

“Did you seriously make a movie reference at a time like this?” 

“Maybe, but in all fairness it was the perfect situation!” I said defending the comment I had made. She rolled her eyes at me and refused to take the gun, instead she pulled out a taser.

“I think I’ll just stick with this.” she said then put it back in her jacket pocket.

“Fine, but please try to stay by me the whole time, I don’t need or want you to get hurt.”

“Aww is someone worried?”

“Yes, have you not been paying any attention?”As soon as that comment left my mouth she pushed me a little to say that I was annoying her.

After a while the car started to slow down before finally coming to a stop. I explained the plan again then we all got out.

Jessicia’s P.O.V.

Once we had made it almost to the door of the building we saw two brawny guys guarding it, while Alexander was trying to decide what to do I just tazed both of them, they fell to the ground in pain, then Alexander ran over to them and knocked them out. He opened the door and everyone followed him. The group slowly split into four teams. I followed Alexander to the basement while one team took the ground level and the other two teams took the second and third floors.

Alexander’s P.O.V.

As my team and I made it down the stairs to the basement there was blood all over the walls, and what we saw before us left us horrified.