Back Together (Jake and Rowan)

Rescued

Rowan's POV

     I said, " Zoe."

   She smirked and said, " You mean to tell me you didn't recognize me after all these years, and here I thought we were friends."

  I said, " We USED to be friends in elementary school, Until you kept pranking Hailey."

  She said, " You used to think it was funny."

  I said, " That was until you drove her to the edge, and almost died. Your parents pulled you out of school because of it, and we never seen you again."

  She said, " No, that isn't how it went. I did pull pranks on Hailey, only because I was jealous of how close you two were. I wanted to be the one that was your best friend, and I figured a few pranks wouldn't hurt, and you thought it was funny. Then, I pulled the last straw and rubbed into her face that I have both of my parents, and Hailey only has her stuck up mother. Hailey ran away, and almost ran into the street. I pushed her out of the way, and got a broken arm because of it. After that, you told the principal, and he told my parents. They pulled me out of school, and shipped me off to a stupid boarding school for troubled kids in England!"

  I said, " How was I supposed to know that they would send you to a boarding school? I told the principal because my best friend almost died because of you! You never told me that you pushed her out of the way. You told me you got the broken arm because of falling down the stairs. My dad found out about the pranks, and the incident. He told me I should tell the principal, and do the right thing. We knew you shouldn't be at the school, if you were going to continue to prank Hailey."

  Zoe said, " I never had a sister. You were the closest thing to a sister to me."

  I said, " Why did you kidnap me?"

  Zoe said, " You killed my cousin."

  I said, " I didn't kill anyone."

  Zoe said, " You don't remember him? My cousin is Dunbar, and you killed him."

I said, " I didn't kill him. He killed himself in front of me."

  She said, " Thats what I keep hearing, but Does anyone know the truth? How you, Hailey, and Elisia drove him to kill himself?"
 

  I said, " Do you really think I don't remember that? How if I did something different, he would be alive?"

  She scoffed, and said, " I doubt that."

  I said, " Check my boot. There is a side pocket on my right boot."

  She walked closer to my, and checked my boot on my right foot. She unzipped the pocket, and pulled the picture out. 

  She stood up, and showed me the picture of Dumbar. She said, " Why do you have this?"

  I said, " Because I think about that day more than you know. I always wondered what would have happened if I had been nicer to him or something. That maybe he would still be alive."

  She said, " You really cared about him?"

  I said, " Yes, and that is why I carry the photo around. If you really want revenge then tell me why not let me live with the memory of him killing himself in front of me?"

  She said, " That is a lie. You never cared for him!"

  I said, " I did care about him. I tried to talk him down from it, but he wouldn't listen."

  Before she could speak, the door opened and cops came inside the room with flashlights, and guns pointed at Zoe. 

  The one cop said, " Hands up! Get on your knees!"