Trigger Warning
Attempted s****l assault is part of this chapter.
I walked quickly to the toilets and in through the door to the first booth that was open, I had stayed longer than I thought when I sat for a while, Dylan really had not had it easy, neither with Lorraine or his mom, and the whole bit with his dad and Marnie… I smiled when I thought of her, I understood why Dylan thought she was annoying, she was his exact opposite in almost everything except that they seemed to be exactly as stubborn. I got up and pulled down my skirt and stepped out of the booth to wash my hands when my smile died out when I saw Parker away at the door.
Fuck.
I knew that he wanted me, I saw it, where he stood and blocked the door for me the horny bastard.
“Parker.” I said his name cold as he licked my body with his eyes that had been so kind before, I assumed that the alcohol made him braver than he was when I finished washing my hands and dried them quickly, I wanted to go back to Dylan, now.
“Dylan was right that you are the hottest girl in town, hotter than Lorraine, I understand why he chose you over her.” His voice was sluggish, just where you could hear that he was so drunk that he said exactly what came into his head.
I was completely frozen inside, I knew what he wanted just by looking at his pants where the bulged was, I looked at him in contempt, how did he dare to do this?! Dylan was his friend for a long time, I did not intend to stay a minute more in here with him.
I walked forward two steps but no longer towards the door as he smiled at me like I had agreed that he was going to f**k me already, f*****g i***t.
I looked angrily at his stupid face, why did he want to ruin his friendship with Dylan by hitting on me?
“Move the f**k away.” I said the words icy cold as I stood with my arms crossed and tried not to tremble at the anger that filled me quickly as he just looked at me like I was joking with him and did not move an inch.
“If I get a kiss, I'll let you go.” he laughed like he had said something funny when I raised my eyebrows at him, was he f*****g joking with me?! I stared at his intoxicated eyes which had a hard time focusing, I would not touch him even if someone paid me to do it.
“No f*****g way.” I said the words angrily as his eyes darkened like I had insulted his ego.”
“don’t pretend to be so f*****g snooty, you said you had f****d someone other than him just a while ago, but you can’t give up a single f*****g little kiss? He got bigger, got up like he was not going to give up when I shook his head at him, never in my f*****g life that I was going to let him even put a finger on me.
“I did, but I would never f**k you Parker.” I said the words mockingly and he jerked back angry, and I quickly pulled away, I want as much space as possible as his eyes were pitch-black now, I had insulted him, and he was not going to let me get away with it.
“Parker, I'm going to scream.” I said the words nervously as he approached me, and I started to run out of the bathroom behind me when he laughed at me and said entertained.
“They are out smoking, scream all you want to b***h, you might even like it.” I backed into the wall when he smiled cunning at the fact that I was trapped and I covered my arms over my belly, I was terrified that he would do something that hurt the baby, he was drunk and didn’t give a s**t about anything, even if he would hurt me.
“Parker please… I'm pregnant!” I looked at him pleadingly now as he shrugged as he did not care and said coldly.
“What the hell do I know if it's even Dylan's kid, I might do him a favour if I f**k the s**t out of you.” He snickered and started to open his belt as I sank to the floor and pushing myself back desperately that I could so he could not reach me and looked up at his excited face, he liked this, I saw it.
“Dylan will kill you!” I said the words grimly as he did not even listen anymore and I closed my eyes, if I could just get past him, I could escape but how? he was broad and strong, I would not have a chance against his raw strength which was certainly worse because he was drunk and angry.
“Relax, it will be easier for you… or if you want to struggle, I like that too ...” I was already shaking then he pulled me up hard and held me in the wrists straight up like I was an animal hanging when I took charge from the wall behind me and kicked him straight in the chest.
he stumbled backwards and lost his grip on me obviously surprised at my counterattack, I gasped in anger, disgusting f*****g bastard!
I spat at his face where he was lying down now and moaned at my kick in his groin, I kicked him hard once more in the ribs and ran out before he would get up again and finish what he had started.
I stared stressed at the tables that was empty when I heard that he was on his way up cursing at me.
He was really pissed off about what I had done, and I ran towards the exit where I knew Dylan would be, I just wanted to get out of here, away from that bastard who pretended to be Dylan's friend.
I was faster than I had ever run in my whole life when I turned around and saw that he came out of the toilet, he wanted to kill me, I saw it when I was just about to tear open the gate when it opened and Dylan came in, laughing over something and I threw myself hard in his arms and wrapped my arms around him.
my heart raced hard against my chest, and he barely pulled me loose confused only when I did not want to let go and his eyes turned carbon black when he first looked at me where I was sweating in terror, then at Parker who had his pants open with his belt still hanging loose so you could see his hard on from a long distance, I turned my head away nauseas.
Matt and Tammy just stared frozen at Parker and the anger had subsided in him when he realized he couldn’t get to me anymore and began to button his pants like nothing had happened and laughed like everything had been a joke.
I was still shaking, it still hurt like hell where he had held me in my wrists, I cried uncontrollably from seeing him standing there and looking so f*****g cocky like he had not just tried to r**e me.
Dylan suddenly let me go and Parker still laughed like he could talk himself out of it all, the cowardly bastard! I angrily wiped away my tears as I sobbed hard several times before I got control of myself.
Dylan was already at Parker who looked scared shitless now and before he had time to say anything Dylan had dropped him with the first blow.
His head hitting hard on the floor making me flinch, but that didn’t stop the monster that Dylan was righty now sitting down over his chest and continued to hit him hard over and over again, I squatted down and cried even more with my hands over my head when Dylan had not stopped yet and Tammy started screaming now like she had woken up to life and Matt rushed forward and pulled away with difficulty Dylan who shouted cursed at Parker who was unconscious at this point and blood poured from him everywhere… I felt sick and vomited on the floor in front of me all the juice I had been drinking before I looked up at Dylan who was on his way back to me and I cried even more when he pulled me up from the floor and into his arms, he was bloody, his whole t-shirt was drenched and his knuckles were destroyed, torn, bloody.
I wanted to vomit again but I had nothing left as he caressed his one hand over my hair several times until I dared to look at him, he looked devastated, completely f*****g devastated and I just felt so guilty over what had happened, if I had stayed away today they could have still been friends, Parker would not even have had the chance to r**e me if I had been home in bed.
“I’m sorry Dylan…” I said each word slowly as I was still crying forcefully, and he just smiled overwhelmed at me before he lifted me up in his arms as a child and I put my arms around his neck hard like I was afraid to let go taken about him.
“What the hell was that happened here?!” Tammy's voice sounded accusing like it was my fault that this had happened, maybe she was right when I hid my face in Dylan's chest and refused to look at any of them, neither Tammy, Matt nor the unconscious Parker.
“I f*****g warned him. I said she's mine.” Dylan's voice was cold and hard like he did not have a single feeling in him right now except hatred as I still hid when he turned around and went out with me through the gate without saying a sound more to them and I pushed myself harder against him, I never wanted to let go of him again, never again ever.
He carried me all the way back and I recognized his apartment on the familiar scent that I could know anywhere without even looking up as he laid me down on the bed we had shared once upon a time and lay down next to me and pulled me hard in his arms, I almost clung to him at this point, all I could see was Parker's f*****g smile when he thought he was going to f**k me inside the toilet.
“Did he hurt you? Did he touch you?” His voice was soft and comforting now as I shook my head and he exhaled like he was nervous about my answer.
“He grabbed my wrists, hanging me from the ground like a f*****g animal going to slaughter…” Dylan raised up one of my wrists gently and saw that it had bruises already where Parker had held me and put it down again and looked like he wanted to go back and do end of Parker once and for all.
I did not want that, no matter how much I wanted to see him dead, I did not want Dylan to go to jail for killing him.
I saw the horror on his furious face, what would happen now? Parker looked bad, the little I saw, and I looked terrified into his eyes that only stared overwhelmed at me when I was terrified that he would go to jail, what if Parker died? I stared at him like a wild animal as he put his hands on my face, they were smeared of blood, and I fluttered my eyes at his warm sore eyes that just looked at me lovingly.
“You're okay, you're okay Jen.” He said the words several times as I just stared blankly into his eyes until I breathed normally again as I had not even noticed that I was hyperventilating until he had made me calm down.
“What happens if he dies? What happens then Dylan!?” I shouted the words as he just smiled at me like it did not matter and I looked scared at how calm he was where he laying next to me now face to face on the bed, I could not live without him, I just couldn’t.
“I take the punishment.” His voice was so calm now that I felt terrible, I would die, switch off if he disappeared, I just knew it.
“I can’t be without you…I just found you again…” I started to cry again when he just smiled tenderly at me as I gasped for air again and looked foggy at him through tears, why had I had to get there?! I would have stayed away! I cried louder as he pulled his hands over my hair and just comforted me with his touch, caressed me over the face and over the arms down where parks had touched me feather lightly like he did not even have his fingers there.
“You can.” He smiled consolingly as I pulled closer and he caressed my cheek as I shook my head, no I couldn’t, he did not know what had happened when he was gone, I looked scared at how he took my one hand and kissed it gently.
“No, I can’t…” I kissed him longingly, like I would never see him again and his smile was the most beautiful in the whole world as he kissed me lightly back and he looked tenderly into my own scared eyes.
“Yes, you can Jenbabe…” he said the words sadly and I closed my eyes when I cried, I did not want him to go to jail for something that was my fault.
“If I had only been home, he would never have been able to try and…” I stopped when Dylan's eyes were black again and he took my hand and hugged it safely in mine as he stared seriously into my eyes.
“It was not your fault Jennifer, don’t ever f*****g say that.” I closed my eyes, it felt like it was my fault no matter how I thought about it.
“It was my fault…” he sighed heavily, and I looked confused at his answer, nothing was his fault, he had just wanted to defend me. I looked flickering at how he looked at me with guilt in his eyes like my own and I shook my head.
“No…. no… nothing is your fault, you just wanted to protect me, no one will say it's your fault baby…” I talked quickly tried to make him understand that I would never accuse him of anything.
Never.
He sighed heavily like he did not believe me either and I put my hand on his cheek, I would never blame him for what happened.
“I knew how Parker is like… he has done something similar before but nothing like this…” he was silent now and I looked confused at how he was crying now in front of me when I pulled his tears away from his cheek.
“I left you there with that bastard, even though I knew he was looking at you, I should have punched his lights out right there on the spot before he…” he sobbed until now and I cried myself to see him cry where he lay in bed with me.
” What the hell would I have done if he had succeeded?!” I cried more from seeing him suffer when he looked at me devastated with his beautiful grey eyes that I could always drown in.
“But he did not, I kicked that bastard, straight in the chest when he thought he had me.” I laughed of all the things I could do right now that he looked at me proudly again and I laughed and cried at the same time about what had happened.
“That's my girl…” he smiled proudly, and his eyes beamed behind the crying as he pulled me into his arms again and we sobbed quietly until we stopped, and I lay heavily on his chest.
“Dylan I'm scared…” I said the words out into the darkness as he caressed my hair like he always did when we were together, and I heard he was scared he also on how his voice was heard in the dark that had lain in the room.
“Whatever happens, we will make it through, together.” he stroked his hand over my hair again and I closed my eyes, I did not want to be afraid, but I was terrified what I would do without him if he got jailed for this.
“How should I be able to manage like if you are gone? How will we be able to survive being without you?!” I grabbed his hand to my baby bump, he sighed like he was just as afraid of what it would mean if he disappeared.
“You have to.” His answer was so simple that I wanted to cry again.
I breathed in the air of all the hatred I felt for everyone who was against us, everyone who said we could not be together, all those who tried to put a stop to me wanting to be his.
“Dylan, let’s get married.” I said the words firmly, no more waiting, never that I would hesitate again because I was scared.
“Okay.” He said the word so simply that I felt my heartbeat hard against my chest and I got up from him and looked at his calm face that looked like an angel here in the room where it felt like no one could reach us.
“I mean now, right now.” He just looked at me like I was crazy when I nodded and he laughed still teary eye and sat up next to me and I kissed him hard before I laughed again, I didn’t want any dress, no f*****g cake and pretend to care about colour or themes, I wanted him.
We got out of bed and quickly pulled off the bloody clothes as I stood there and looked at his body as I always wanted when he washed off the blood inside the bathroom and yes quickly pulled with a wet towel away what had come on me and brushed his hair quickly when he came in with one of his mother's dresses and I looked happily at it, it was light blue and had long beautiful elements of flowers towards the bottom of the skirt I quickly pulled it on, it fitted good on me even if you could see that it was snug around the stomach where our baby was.
I smiled happily as he put on his black jeans and a dark blue shirt that fit perfectly on the muscular body and I put on my boots and jacket as he took my hand after he put on the denim jacket and we went out in silence to my car and I sat in the passenger side and gave him the keys, I did not want to drive now.
He smiled and took them tenderly out of my hand like he caressed it at the same time and started the car and drove out on the road and out towards the town hall where we stopped, it was only afternoon yet and I looked into his wonderful eyes that just loved me and no other.
“I love you Dylan Hopper.” I smiled nervously as he smiled just as nervously back at me and caressed my hand with his fingers.
“I love you, Jennifer Ann Thompson.” I am moved by how he had said my name, like he could tell the whole world that I was his in the way he said it.
We said nothing more and went out of the car and took each other's hands and walked inside, I swallowed nervously and looked ahead, I was so happy that I could die here when he held my hand and wanted the whole world to know that I was his.
We went in and up to the counter, the woman just looked at us like she did not care and pulled out the form that we had to fill in and he paid for the fees when she turned around and printed out the marriage certificate and put it in front of us, I kept his hand and looked happily at how he wrote his name on the paper and I trembled writing my name and the woman smiled faintly and said congratulations when she scanned the certificate and gave us a copy to Dylan who looked at it and then at me, my heart was racing hard in my chest, there it was black on white.
-congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Hopper. The woman smiled more involved now like she saw how happy we looked, and I nodded at his shocked face as he looked up at me as he did not believe we had just become husband and wife for real.
“Can you please take a picture of us?” I saw in amazement how he handed over the phone to the woman and stood next to me and put his arm around me, I smiled happily when she took the picture and gave it back and he quickly put it down in his jeans.
I stood up to him, I did not feel nervous anymore as he put his arms around me, and we looked into each other's eyes in what felt like an eternity when he just smiled happily at me, and I felt every breath I took became easier for that he was near me.
-so how does it feel Mrs. Hopper? He said the words almost amused as I laughed at the memory of our third day together when he had asked me for the first time if I wanted to be just that.
“It feels like I've been waiting for you my whole life.” I said the words quirky as he laughed making it sparkled within his grey eyes and he pulled me closer, and I could hardly breathe as he touched his lips with mine and time stood still for a few seconds like lightning crackling over a summer night.
I still had my eyes closed when we stopped and I looked up at him, where he stood now, my husband. I almost cried knowing that when he stroked his hand over my cheek and kissed me again, this time it was longing, hungry and passionate.
I felt dizzy as he pulled away and I looked longingly at him as he smiled secretly and placed his hands behind his neck and unbuttoned the cross around his neck, I cried when he buttoned it around mine and dragged his fingers over the chain down my neck where his mother's gold cross was hanging again, like it never had left me.
“So the whole world knows you're mine.” he said the words so tenderly and warmly that I could hardly feel happier when he took my hand and I laughed even though I cried this was the happiest day of my life.
“I've always been your Dylan, always.” I wiped away my tears with my free hand as he kissed me again and we took each other's hands and started walking down the town city hall slowly on its stone stairs and laughed, I loved him so much where we went newlyweds in the January afternoon which was dark and cold but to me it felt like I had finally woken up, that my life with him would finally start.
“I love you Jennifer Hopper. He said my new name tenderly and loud, I trembled to hear it as we sat in the car and he drove us back to the apartment slowly as he never wanted our ride to end where I held his hand in the dark and studied his profile, God what I loved him… more than anyone would understand.
Even though we fought, we screamed and were unfaithful, I was never surer that he was the one I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.
“I like it…” I laughed, Jennifer Hopper. I closed my eyes quickly and smiled, I never wanted this moment to end when we sat here and nothing in the whole world could stop us, it felt like.
He turned into the parking lot and turned off the engine and we didn’t move, I looked at him as he smiled stupidly back at me and I pulled his hand to my mouth and kissed it softly, he was mine and no one else's.
He got out of the car and around me where he opened the door and helped me out before he without waiting for me pulled me up in his arms and I laughed as he went up the stairs with me in my arms and I drowned in his eyes, I never wanted this to end, just that it was him and me forever.