Stay Strong, Never Surrender

Trouble maker

I wake up in the back seat of Jaspers Jeep. Whilst I'm yawning I feel a heavy weight on my lower body, I look up to see Jaspers head on my waist, hugging me close. I glance at my phone which seems to be glowing. Trying not to wake Jasper up, I slowly get up, leaving Jaspers arms falling to the floor. I get out, instantly hit by the icy winds, Andre that I've got 3 missed calls from mum and a missed call from Diana. I dial mums number.

This is going to be hard.

"Hi mum, it's me." I say with the most cheerful voice I have.

"Where are you? Your curfew was 1, and right now it's 7:30 in the morning." Mums sharp voice stings my ears.

"I er- am at Diana's house. We had a single girls sleepover." I say, trying to be confident.

"You left with Jasper, who by the way is your boyfriend and defeats the "single" girls sleepover, and now your at Diana's." Her voice is getting very high pitched.

"Yep. And Jasper had to suddenly visit his sick uncle and cancelled on me, so that's why I was with Diana." I try to convince myself and mum.

"Uh huh. And you couldn't even call or text me once to tell me these sudden change of events?"

"Phone died, just borrowing a charger right now." I say, but sighing, I know she doesn't believe me at all.

"Funny that, cause Diana just called to ask if you were home, she wanted to talk to you about how the date went."

Caught red handed.

"Ok, so I lied." I mumble.

"Tell me where you are, who your with and how fast your reaching here before I tell you how long your going to be grounded for." I groan.

"I'm with Jasper and we kind of- accidentally slept-"I began, feeling nervous.

"Oh-no. No no no no no. You've lost your innocence, did you use protection, oh Emilia, I swear if you- " my eyes are bulging so much, I think they might pop from my eye sockets.

"Stop! Mum, we slept under the stars, in a park, by accident. There was no intimate actions which took place. I can assure you that I still have my innocence." I yell.

I can hear a sigh of relief from the other side.

"We'll come home this instance! You are definitely grounded for 2 weeks." Mum says, but I can hear her more relaxed. I end the call, whilst jasper slowly grabs my waist.

"What's this about you still having your innocence?" He softly whispers in my ear. I turn around to see him and smile at his bed hair.

"The truth. Why you planning something?" I teasingly grin.

He shrugs.

"Perhaps." He says with a dirty wink in his eye, I hit his arm and he laughs. Then suddenly the humour has all left from his face and he pushes me to the back of the car, his chest touching my chest. I want to yell at him as the metal handles of his car jab into my skin, but something about the way he is listening intensively makes me stop.

I stop breathing altogether, not taking any chances.

He looks down at me.

"Stay here. I'll be back." I nod, feeling very giddy.

"Oh and baby, please breathe." He cheekily smiles, but it doesn't reach up to his eyes like usual.

I let out a gust of air as he leaves. I peep into the window of the car, seeing two very large men who didn't look very welcoming. Jasper starts talking rapidly, with a look of regret in his eyes.

However they didn't seem to agree to what Jasper was saying, and ended up punching his jaw.

My heart stopped beating for a moment.

I felt an urge to forget my fears and run up to him, but I knew this wouldn't help. So I stayed there wandering what to do.

When he came back, he had a cut on his jaw.

"Em, I'm so sorry, I need to explain-"

I placed a finger on his cut and cringed when I saw him wince. I immediately let my hand drop.

"Take me home Jasper." I say, already making my way to the passenger seat. He looked at me, like he wanted to say something, but decided not to.

The journey back home was silent, and I couldn't have been more grateful. I needed time to fully grasp what I saw. My boyfriend, got beaten by two scary men. This only meant one thing, he's in trouble.

But if he's in trouble, that meant I'm in trouble.