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 short when she saw Steve, Carol, Tommy, and Nicole all surrounding Jonathan just a few spots away. Jenna rushed over as soon 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 of Will being missing.

"Hey, man," Steve approached Jonathan.
"What's going on?" Jon replied, looking around at everyone skeptically.
"Yeah, Steve, what's going on?" Jenna crossed her arms over her chest as she stood next to Jon.
Steve blew her off and focused solely on Jonathan.
"Nicole here was, uh," Steve said, "Telling us about your work."
"We heard great things," Carol snarked.
"Yeah, sounds cool," Tommy added in.
"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 took a few steps back, trying to get out of the situation entirely.
"Oh, no?" Steve tilted his head to the side slightly.
"Hey," Jonathan and Jenna yelled in sync as Tommy snatched Jon's bag from his hands.
"Please, give me my bag," Jonathan's voice started to shake, "No, just..."
"Man," Steve started to back up with a devious smile on his lips, "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 stared at Jenna for a moment, debating if he should just give it up and not make things worse, but he realized he was already in too deep. He kept going.
"Here we go," He started to dig through Jonathan's bag, "Ah... here we go. Oh, man."
"Let me see," Tommy eagerly said as Steve was rummaging through the pictures he'd been looking for.
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 kinds of pictures. Ever. He was a good person. She figured he just got carried away a bit when he saw the party.

"Jon," Jenna gulped before turning to him, "What. The. Hell. This is going a bit too far."
"Jenna I-" Jon started to say 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 questioned, visibly confused.
"This creep was spying on us last night," Carol glared at Jonathan in pure and utter 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. Jenna managed to slip the photo of her from the stack and she tucked it in her pocket.
"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 about this later, got it?"
"Jenna, I'm so sorry," Jon whispered back, "I promise to talk to you about it."
Nancy looked at the photos of herself and looked over at Jonathan in a mix of shock and disgust.

"See," Steve said, clicking 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 him. Just take the pictures and leave him alone."
"I can't believe you're actually defending this, Jenna," Steve scoffed, "I mean, there's pictures of you too in here."
"I'm fully aware, Steve. I'm not a fucking idiot. But I know Jonathan and he's not a bad person and definitely not a pervert. I'm not defending what he did, but you're taking this way too far. Take the pictures and leave because I guarantee this was a one time thing. Just leave him alone. You have what you came here for."