Breaking Down

Chapter 55:

Pretty typical of my Bipolar disorder, the minute I came down from my Cameron Nash high, I lost time. I closed my eyes one second and we were pulling into my parent's subdivision the next.

My Dad and Cameron were swearing at each other angrily and Cameron had me pinned down in the backseat again. I don't even know what I tried to do this time. The arguing back and forth was too loud. My head was pounding from the overwhelming noise.

"Will you both just shut up? You're both wrong." Uncle Aiden's face was purple as he pulled into the driveway.

My Mom ran out of the house before he could even throw the SUV into park. Jax was right on her heels. Little dude looked like he was relieved to see me. I felt extremely excited to see him again too. I loved that stinking little punk and his weirdness.

"Riley, don't. Stop." My Dad tried to yell when she ran straight for my door. She ignored him when she saw me. She had tunnel vision. I could see her desire to get to me plastered all over her face. She was a little ball of emotions when she got to the car.

Mom pulled it open before anyone in the car could stop her. I broke free from Cameron and pushed past her to get out. She hit the ground on her butt and slid across the pavement.

Jax looked down at her and then back at me with his mouth hanging open.

"Hey, Jax." I paused a second and nodded at my brother.

"Hey, Jessa." He said, pulling his brows together pondering over what just happened.

I waved at him and took off running as fast as I could down the street.

I heard footsteps pounding against the hard pavement behind me. I didn't even need to look back to know which one of those idiots was chasing me. It was the same person who had been chasing me my whole life. Was he ever going to learn his lesson?

On paper, Cameron had the advantage. He was taller than I was and had to run a lot to stay in shape for work. The only thing I had going for me was the sheer adrenaline rush that came from being an unbalanced nutcase.

I tried to turn on my turbo boost when I heard him gaining on me. I was in a high-speed foot chase with a police officer. It was like a bad episode of Cops, except instead of the chubby cop chasing someone he would never catch, I was being pursued by a blue Adonis.

I was walloped from behind and brought down to the ground with a thud. I rolled around and fought with him, trying to break free. He tried to grab my arms and was failing miserably.

"Jessa, seriously." Cam said, panting hard as he held me down to the ground.

"Boop." I said, pressing my index finger to his nose and pushed it like a button. I was laughing hysterically when he looked stunned. The power of a good nose booping was priceless.

I heard footsteps headed our way and I watched as everyone had finally caught up to where we were lying in the middle of the street. They were hovering over us as I was pretending to be a wiggle worm. I was trying everything I could to squirm out of Cam's grasp.

"Should we call an Exorcist?" Jax asked.

"She's not possessed." My Mom hit my brother on the back of the head.

"It would probably be easier if she was." Cam said, fighting against me as I did my best to try to escape from him. He had put one of his academy moves on me when I was distracted by Jax. I couldn't break free if I tried.

"Cheese Puff, can't you just handcuff her or something?" Jax kept going.

"I like handcuffs." I screamed. "Please, Cami, put me in handcuffs. I've been a very bad girl. Punish me."