𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐲

XXIV. I'm So Sorry.

AFTER DELIVERING the tape to Shoupe, the group of teens were now back at the Chateau where the boys were celebrating, "ladies and gentlemen, Ward Cameron, King of the Kooks, is going to jail!" JJ said and Pope cheers, "goodbye! Goodbye!" He says as Jake just laughed. "Adios! He out of there! Adios!"the Heyward boy then goes on.

"Woah! Woah!"

As the boys go on, cheering and being excited, Sarah rushed in and asked them if they can head over to the Camerons' place on Figure Eight. When they get closer, multiple police vehicles zoom on by, "shit." Kie says, glancing at the three boys seated together. "Oh, my God. Can you please hurry? I need to be there for Wheezie." Sarah asked John B. "You think I wanna miss this?" He says, making the Cameron glance over at him.

When they arrived, John B parked the van and all of them quickly rushed out, going over to the fence. "Holy shit." Kie says as JJ came up to Pope's side. "Pope, I can't see, bro." He pulled him back. "Okay, well, now I can't see." Pope whispers back to him. The cops were running towards the docks. "Screw it. I'm going over." John B says, then hopped up.

"Right behind you." JJ says as Jake turns to Kie. "Help me up." She said and he quickly kneels down a bit and holding his hands together. "Come on," he says and she steps up onto his hands, then jumps over. "Thank you." He says as Sarah then stepped up next, "thanks Jake." She said quickly before Pope, JJ and Jake now jumped over the fence.

In front of the house, Sarah rushed towards her step-mother and her younger sister. "Wheeze. Wheezie," she says. "What's going on? Why are the police here again?" The younger girl says, embracing Sarah. "Go inside. Don't come out." Sarah tells the girl who turned around, running over to the door by their step-mom. The group of teens now head over to the docks, "dad!" Sarah called out. "Hey, hey. You gotta let us through." John B tells the police.

"That's Sarah Cameron. Let her through!" Shoupe shouted. "What are you doing here, Sarah?" Ward shouted to them. "Dad! What are you doing?" The blonde shouted as the other four teens just follow behind her. "Vic, you gotta get her out of here! She can't be here right now!" The Cameron man on the boat shouted. "Just come on in, and you--you can talk to her!" Shoupe shouted to him.

"Sarah, I'm so sorry, baby. I can't!"

"What are you doing? Dad, no, no!" Sarah shouted when she saw the anchor being lifted up. "Ward, this ain't gonna end the way you want it to!" Shoupe shouted as police boats came towards the big yacht. "You don't want her seeing this." He shouted next.

"No, dad, don't leave! Where are you going?" Sarah shouted. "I love you!" Her father merely shouts back. "Hey! Damn it, Ward!" Shoupe shouted. "Dad, no!" Sarah cried out. "Turn it around and get back here!"

"Please don't leave!" But then as the police boats are closer, the boat exploded. Sarah gasped, everyone on the dock bracing themselves. After the explosion happened, they all stood in shock, as Sarah began crying. "No. No. Dad. Dad!" She screams, sobbing and gasping. "No! No! Dad!"

Jake looked over at the girl who turned to John B, seeing the look on her boyfriend's face. Jake looks at Kie, who's holding a hand to John B's back. Topper came running to Sarah, grabbing the crying girl. Kie looks at Jake, tears brimming at her eyes as the boy just looked down, not sure how to react.

Sarah had stayed back to be there, with her family, as the others loaded up into the van and it's just quiet. Complete silence. Jake turns to John B, he's seated behind him, "can you drop me off at home?" He's the first to break the silence and John B just nods.

"Yeah... of course, Jake."

At home, Kie turned in the passenger seat just to look at him, but he doesn't as he hopped out, saying later to the four. Jake walked in and saw his mom seated at the couch as Evie was crawling around, playing with her toys. He walks over, "oh, hi Jake." His mom said and he kneeled down, looking at Evie who looked up. He smiles at the way she got excited and crawled closer to him. She lifted her arms up and he immediately picks her up.

He caressed the back of her head as he hugs his little girl. "Jacob, is everything okay, hon?" His mother, Marienne, asked worriedly as she sat up and he looks over. "Sarah... uh, her dad died." He says and she just held a hand over her mouth. "What?" She says, shocked. "Yeah... uh," he got up and sat on the end of the couch. As he explained what happened, he just looked down at his daughter.

He looked over and saw the look on his mom's face, the woman looking away. She had so much guilt and worry on her face, it made him grow anxious. "Mom?" He says and she looked at him right away. "You... you know how I don't like to talk about your father?" She asked, her voice kind of breaking.

"Um... yeah." He says and she sighed. She got up suddenly, walked towards her room then returned, holding something. He grabbed the polaroid, it was a polaroid of a man laying on a bed, he had a smile on his face. "That's your dad." She explains and he looks up. "Oh, my God, I'm Asian?" He asks sarcastically and the woman rolled her eyes.

She couldn't help but laugh at the same time, sitting down next to him. "Um... he lives in Figure Eight." She said and he looks at his mother who looked away, pushing a stray hair behind her ear. "He owns the Yukimura Autoshop... they recently opened up like three more locations across America. His father left it to him. And... the letter he sent me... kind of implies he'll leave it to you next." She explains and he quickly stood up, Evie still in his arms. "What?" He simply says.

"When--when did he send this letter?" He asked her and she looks up at him. "When you... when you were four... I think? When he came back from the school his dad sent him to." She explained and he just furrows his brows. "And this whole time, since then, what? You let me believe my dad didn't wanna be in my life? I barely knew anything about him. You let me think he was just some asshole who left you once you got pregnant. You never told me any of it." He says, sounding angrier by the second and she let out a sigh.

"Because... I didn't want you to leave me here." She explains and he scoffs, looking away. "I wouldn't. I would have agreed to seeing him sometimes if he wanted to see me too. You just automatically assumed I hate the Pogue life and not wanna come back here?" He asked him, sounding more upset than angry.

"Jake, no, that's not what I'm saying." She says right away and he looks down. "All I can say is it would have been nice to have him around. I wouldn't have moved out and go live with him on Figure Eight, just because he had a better job than you." He said, sighing. "I'm going to grandma's." He walked towards the door.

"Jake--" "save it. I'll see you later."

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

  

authors note
i was gonna write that marienne keeps it from him at least until the end but i decided against it bc... well idk angst?

+ i'm just gonna start updating everytime i wake up bc i just woke up and i was like "i need to update loverboy" ALSO check out my tiktok @/kyrieswriting.wp if you wanna see edits about this fic and other fics i have :-)