Escape ~ S.Harrington

9} Perverted Pictures

    Jenna walked out of school towards her car so she could go straight to the meeting place her brother gave her, but stopped herself short she saw Steve, Carol, Tommy, and Nicole ganging up on Jonathan. Jenna rushed over right as she noticed in hopes of helping Jon out. He was already going through a lot and didn't need to deal with more crap on top.

"Hey, man," Steve said to Jonathan.
"What's going on?" Jon replied, looking around skeptically.
"Yah, Steve, what's going on?" Jenna asked as she walked up next to Jon in support.
Steve completely ignored Jenna and got into the zone in hopes of tearing a riff between Jon and Jenna.
"Nicole here was, uh," Steve said, "telling us about your work."
"We heard great things," Carol snarked.
Tommy added in, "Yeah, sounds cool."
"And we'd just love to take a look." Steve continued, "You know, as... connoisseurs of art."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Jonathan said as he started to walk away.
"Oh, no?" Steve replied.
"Hey," Jonathan and Jenna yelled in sync as Tommy snatched Jon's bag right from him.
"Please, give me my bag," Jonathan said, warily, "No, just..."
"Man," Steve started to back up, "he is totally trembling. He must really have something to hide."
"Steve," Jenna intervened, "Just give him his bag back. I thought we talked about you being less of an asshole. Guess I was wrong."

Steve heard Jenna and debated giving Jonathan his bag back, but he was in too deep now. He had to go through with his plan.
"Here we go," he said as he started to dig into Jonathan's bag, "Ah... here we go. Oh, man."
"Let me see," Tommy eagerly said as Steve was rummaging through the pictures.
What could be in those pictures to cause this big of a problem?

"Dude!" Tommy exclaimed.
"Yeah," Carol scoffed, "this isn't creepy at all."
"I was looking for my brother," Jon defended.
"No," Steve corrected, "No this is called stalking. Mmm-hmm. Here, Jenna, look. This is what your so-called 'new best friend' was up to while we were trying to have a normal party night."

Jenna took the photos from Steve and was shocked to see pictures of Nancy taking her clothes off in Steve's room through the window and pictures of everyone just chilling by the pool. There was one zoomed in photo of Jenna by herself that she actually kinda liked that she put to the back so she could sneak it in her pocket later. She never in a million years thought that Jonathan would take these kind of pictures. Ever. She believed deep down that Jon had good intentions behind these photos, but got carried away when he found the party.

"Jon," Jenna said while she turned to look at him, "What. The. Hell. This is going a bit too far."
"Jenna I-"Jon started before he got cut off by Nancy showing up.
"What's going on?" She asked, having no clue about the situation at all.
"Here's the starring lady," Tommy told Nance.
"What?" She asked, confused.
"This creep was spying on us last night," Carol said while looking towards Jonathan with pure disgust, "He was probably gonna save this one for later."

Carol handed over the photos she had in her hand and snatched the ones from Jenna's to give to Nancy.
"What the fuck Jon?" Jenna whispered to her friend, "What was seriously going through that head of yours when you took those? We need to talk later about this, got it?"
"Jenna, I'm so sorry," Jon whispered back, "we'll talk later."
Nancy looked at the photos of herself and looked over at Jonathan in shock and disgust.

"See," Steve says as he clicks his tongue, "you can tell that he knows it was wrong, but... man that's the thing about perverts... it's hardwired into 'em. You know, they just can't help themselves."
"Ok, now you're crossing the line Steve," Jenna defended, "I know it was wrong, but he is not a pervert. You barely even know the guy. Just take the pictures and leave him alone."
"I can't believe you're actually defending this, Jenna," Steve tells her, "I mean, there's pictures of you too in here."
"I'm fully aware, Steve, but to be clear, I'm defending Jonathan, not for his action of taking the pictures, but as being my friend and I know for a fact that this was just pictures getting taken out of hand. Yes, I do believe it was wrong and fully inappropriate for him to take them in the first place, but I also believe Jonathan is a good person and this was one time where a passion got taken too far."