The Girl Who Lived

Regret

 I looked at him long and then I kicked him hard in the shin. He was surprised at my ‘outburst’ and gawked at me, I walked out of the closet and went home. I skipped the rest of the day; there was only about an hour left in school. I didn't want to be near him at all, I just wanted to be left alone. Of course, he didn’t know what I meant by me kicking him in the shin so he followed me anyway. I started to run to lose him, but he ran when I did. I went into a*****e, he followed me. I was so creeped out by him following me. I turned and he was there. I left the store, and as always he followed me. He followed me home, he then said when we got there “ I’m sorry I thought you liked me, I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” I turned to him and looked at him and said “ I barely know you” and he looked at me and said, “seriously, who do you think helped you when you ran away?” I looked at him and said “that was you?” he looked away from me and said “Yea and I went to jail for you!” I turned him around and said, “I didn’t know that was you.” My adopted dad just then got home and walked up the steps gave Jake the stink eye, then he kissed my head and pointed to the house and said “5 minutes until your mom gets home, then we have to talk about why you skipped last period got it” I said “yes I’ll be in, in 4 minutes” 

Jake looked at me and said, “Why don’t you run again?” I look at him and say “they adopted me.” He looked at me, and smiled and said: “whatever I don’t care about, run away with me!” I looked at him and said, “I barely know you.” He stared at me and turned and started to walk away, as he was walking he said “ just tell me you want to go, at school and I will leave with you just give me the word and we will be gone. Got it?”

 I said, “Yes, I do.” I turned and went into the house, I didn’t know if I should tell anyone about him or not. I decided not to. When I got inside I knew I was in big trouble, My ‘dad’ looked at me with a mad look and my ‘mom’ looked disappointed. My dad walked up to me and smacked me across the face, I turned around and walked out of the room, I didn’t want to talk with anyone. “ Mary, where on earth do you think you're going?” I didn’t answer, I just walked out of the house. I ran down the street after Jake, he was still walking away. I called his name, he turned around and was surprised to see me. Then he asked what happened, I was crying well sorta crying I didn’t actually cry, I said: “he smacked me, but it doesn’t matter he does it all the time”. He looked at me and said “Yes it does matter it’s wrong he should be behind bars!” and I just looked away and said “if your offer still stands, um I would like to take it” he looked at me and said, “meet me at midnight outside your house okay?” Not sure if he should let me go back there. I said “okay!” And the next thing I know I’m being hugged by him and said I won’t let him hurt you. I nodded and I was about to leave but before I did I kissed him on the cheek and said thank you. I turned to walk away, but he turned me and kissed me for real. I kissed him back. We broke apart after we heard a door slam and my ‘father’ looking at me. I was terrified to go back into that house, when Jake made me look at him again and said “if you don’t want to go back into that house then don’t we can sneak in later and grab your things if you want” and he meant it and I said “I don’t want you to get into trouble.” He looked at me and said okay but if you don’t want to go back into that house then come with me now if you want unless you want to wait until midnight? I looked at him and back at my ‘dad’ and said ‘now please.’ He took my hand and we ran, we ran for a good 20 minutes until we heard a cop car behind us. We stopped and the cop said “what do you two think you are doing? Mary, your father is worried sick, are you trying to kidnap her?” And I said: “No, I am 18 I can go and do what I want. I am a legal adult”. “Well you are trouble Mary, I don’t want you to skip town. Who would I go to when I have a bad day?” the cop asked Jake looked at him and said “what the f**k are you talking about” and I said “I’ll tell you everything just please get me out of this town. Please.” And Jake looked at me a second longer and reached for my hand and ran with me to his car. In his car, he told me to get in and I did.