Syn's Deep In My Blood - Book 2

He Said, She Said

"You heard this? I think I heard a scream." Emily asked Jimmy when they finished one more of their making-out sessions. Her senses got really heightened when she was on heroin.

Emily looked around. She had a squeeze on her chest like something was about to happen. Everyone was talking more than loudly as she searched for Jess with her eyes. She wasn't there.

"You're too high. You are hearing things, babe. Come back here." Jimmy pulled her to his lap with lazy words and a dirty smile, but she stood up promptly.

"I gotta find Jess..." Emily walked towards Zacky and touched him on the shoulder, stopping right in front of the corridor that led to the bunks. "Hey, where's J? I can't find her anywhere."

"She said she was going to the bathroom and..."

The loud conversation lowered down a bit, and they heard a bump followed by a desperate scream for help. Zack's eyes widened when he recognized the voice, and he didn't let a second pass to run towards the bathroom way, pushing Emily and everything that could possibly be in front of him.

"JESS!! Where are you??" he shouted and opened the bathroom door with violence. It was empty. Emily was just behind him with all the other ones that weren't too stoned to care. "JEEESSS!!!"

He didn't wait for her to reply. He was already pushing the last door violently with his arm and shoulder as Emily was trying hard not to cry.

"ZACKY! HERE!" they all heard her again, and Emily couldn't contain her tears anymore. She was too afraid of what might be happening in there. Zack only had one thought in mind: to kill the person that might be hurting his woman.

With that, he had enough strength to give one last rough push on the door, and it finally broke. He was blind with rage when he saw that man he thought he knew on top of his girlfriend on the bed, her skirt lifted, her blouse ripped in the front, and the fear she had printed on her watery gray eyes, all at the same time.

"GET OFF OF HER!!" Zack's brain was shut down when he jumped on him and tossed Daron away from her with just one left punch in the nose. "YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF SHIT!!" he took off his own jacket quickly and placed it around Jess, who embraced him strongly and hid her face on his chest out of shame.

"HEY! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, DUDE!" Daron screamed, trying to control the blood coming down his split lip. "WE WERE JUST HAVING FUN!"

"YOU MOTHERFUCKER, SHE'S MY GIRLFRIEND! You don't even know what you're doing... Did he hurt you?" Zack lowered his voice, checked Jess' body, and when she signed she wasn't hurt, he carried her away from there.

"WHAT? I DIDN'T KNOW SHE... FUCK... YOU COULD'VE WARNED ME, BITCH!" he still dared to shout. Weren't her screams enough of a warning?

Jimmy had to hold Emily back and take her outside. She was fighting hard to disentangle from his arms and go after the prick she once called an idol, calling him all the possible names she remembered, but especially not that one this time.

Zack held his temper not to get back there and smash that asshole's head in the ground and just pretended he didn't hear anything he had said as he took Jess outside. Taking her out of there was his priority. He felt her whole body trembling on his arms and ran faster to get to the street. He took the first cab that appeared, and they drove away.

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Zack observed Jess from a distance as she was lying on the bed in a fetal position after having a shower, helpless. He knew she wasn't sleeping, she wouldn't, and he wouldn't, either. But he was choking on that deadly silence that surrounded their room. He wanted to ask her so many things. He wanted to make her fright go away, he wanted to hold her so bad and tell her everything was gonna be alright, and she'd just have to say one word, and he'd be going back there to end that man's life if she wanted him to. But no, he didn't have the right words to soothe her again. He never had.