In the Wave

Chapter 13 In the Past

Third person's P.O.V

As Jessica walked into the hospital room, she had a feeling that something was seriously off mostly due to the fact that her friend was covered in bandages from head to toe, her friends that were usually happy and upbeat, were all dark and gloomy. 

"Oh my, Kate, what happened." She asks the rest of her friends as she looks up at them all. They all just turn their heads away in response to her question.

Suddenly Cody spoke up in a very angry tone.

"She was out on her morning run." Right then he stopped talking and left the room to calm down.

Jessica's P.O.V

I looked over at Alice, looking for an answer or explanation to what happened to Kate.

"She said she was on her usual morning routine out for a run, but her usual route was  under heavy construction, so she decided to go a different way, one she'd never been before, and that's when," she stopped as she started to choke on her sobs as tears that started coming  out streaming down her face like lava right after a volcanic eruption, before she continued. 

"When some guys blocked her into an alley, they...they." I now realized what she was trying to say. I felt awful, I know it wasn't my fault, but I just felt like I could have stopped this had I been with my friend. Memories started to flood my mind about why I learned to fight, maybe I should teach my friends to prevent this from ever happening ever again.

[Flashback to two years ago when Jessica was 14]

I woke up super happy this morning. It was such a nice day outside, and yesterday my mother promised me I could go surfing with her today, before she has to fly out to Malibu for the surfing championships. As soon as I got dressed, I bolted straight down the stairs and right to the kitchen. As I sat down at the breakfast table my mother put a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch in front of me then poured milk into it.

"So mom, I know your super busy and stuff, but we're still going surfing today right."I ask her.

"Yes, we are still going surfing sweetie, now eat your food." She says causing me to hurry up and eat straight away.

"Oh wait sweetie, before we go surfing I have some stuff I have to do, so I think we'll just go later on in the day. Is that okay?" She asks me as I nod.

"Yeah that's fine, I needed to go for a tea run anyway, since we're out. So that's fine." I say as I put my bowl in the dishwasher after rinsing it out. I then made my way up the stairs to my room grabbing my jacket and twenty dollars. I gently slid down the railing on the banister landing right at the bottom perfectly before heading to the store for some tea.

As I was running I passed by lots of people when suddenly something pulled me into an alley, I turned and saw three men surrounding me, but as I tried to scream a hand cam over my mouth.

"This is gonna be fun." One of the males said as he placed his hands on me taking off my clothes piece by piece. As tears filled my eyes. 

[End of Flashback]

I felt my eyes becoming damp with tears that were trying to flood out. Remembering what had happened, the whole reason I took a self defence class in the first place. Funny how two days later we learned that my mother died in a plane crash on her way to the surf off's. The thoughts made tears start to form in my eyes, but luckily for me nobody even noticed.