Quickly I gained my vision. Yep, it was Austin, General Harper and Jonathan that were in my room. I understood why Austin and General Harper was here but my biggest question was why Jonathan. He didn’t do shit to save me. If anything he was the reason my stitches were once again ripped open.
I cleared my throat to make them realize I was awake. They all jumped at least four feet in the air. Boys.. I raised myself but was denied by Jonathan.
“No. Stay down Gracie.” He said as his face faded with happiness and made a look like he was worried.
Hopefully by the look on my face told him I don’t want his fucking pity. I want to get better and I would have if he hadn’t mostly tell Derek about my stomach. That asshole.
“Gracie you just woke up. We don’t want you to push your strength. I mean with you fainting anyway.” Austin said as he try to break the tension.
I grimaced at Austin. How dare he stand up for Jonathan! Jonathan was getting laid while my life was in some crazy person’s hands.
“Acuse me but the last time I remember I’m not happy with Jonathan.” Grinding my teeth together I knew that everyone in the room gets that I’m pissed.
“Wait. What? Why are you mad at me, Gracie?” he said with a fake innocent face.
I knew that face was a lie. He didn’t care what happened to me. All he cared about was getting a piece of ass. The sad part about that is that he was that type of man.
“You are a freaking asshole. You weren’t even there to save my ass. No, it always has to be about you getting in a girl’s fucking pants. Now leave my room.” I screamed, “NOW!”
His face turned white as he got caught in the lie. The carmel brown eyes looked at me with a hint of pain within them along with tears. Before I could look away a tear slid down his cheek.
“Leave please.” I asked quietly.
In a second he was up off my bed and walking out the door. General Harper and Austin just stood there looking at me as if they couldn’t believe what had happened.
“Gracie..” Austin started.
“Please I need to be alone for a while. I’ll let someone know if I need them.”
They both looked at each other and nodded towards me and started leaving. As Harper walked out, Austin came back and kissed me on the forehead. He walked away and then turned back to look at me. Then he was gone.
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I sat there in my bed trying to figure out why everything was fucked up and was the way it was. A part of me screamed that something wasn’t right, that I was wrong. Then again I know that I’m right. I have every right to be pissed at Jonathan.
The night’s sky started breaking as the light of the sun started bursting through the horizon. Clouds were barely noticeable. There were drops of water on the screen. Must have been from last night after I fell asleep. I don’t remember it raining but who knows what I don’t remember.
Two birds were on the window seal. I wish that I was a bird, I could fly away and not have any worries. I could just continue fly even travel all over the world. Man, why did God make me a human?
Knock, Knock.
I looked up at the door to see my General. Not knowing actually what to do I just nodded. He will tell me if I did something wrong with the way I noticed him. As if I just did the regular, he came by my bed and sat in the chair.
For a moment he was completely quiet. We both stared out the window looking at the world and the beauty of it. I wish that it could have stayed like that.
“Gracie?” he started with a hint of worry in his voice, “Why did you go off on Jonathan? What did he do wrong?”
I froze. Not knowing exactly where to start from, I just started.
“General he wasn’t there to save me. My teammate. The guy that is suppose to have my back and is my partner out there on the battlefield. He wasn’t there to save my ass. He owed me. I saved his ass when I didn’t have to.” I stated.
Quickly I turned away from him. I knew that the tears were threatening to fall. I knew that they couldn’t or General would find out the truth of why I was pissed. I was more of the fact upset if you think about it.
“Gracie. You think Jonathan wasn’t there to save you?” he asked.
I nodded.
“Ha. Gracie that is funny. Jonathan is the one who ran the whole game. The moment he walked into your room and you weren’t there, oh man did he flip.” he chuckled for a moment before continuing. “He ran all over the base trying to find you. Then he thought maybe you went to the store. So he asked the guards. The second they showed him the tape of you walking out with Derek, he called everyone to look for you. More than 75 people were out there looking for you. Jonathan was the one that found you. He was the first person to scream for you. Then once he got Austin there, he got up on the Hardware Store there on fourth street.”
I nodded knowing exactly where he was talking about. I didn’t at the moment want to question why it was Jonathan that looked for me first. I didn’t want to do that in front of someone.
“He got out his AR-15 sniper rifle. He killed Derek not anyone else.” he started once again, “Gracie trust me when I say that he was pissed. The moment he got the shot and was able to take it, he took it. There was no way for him not to.”
Before I could look away the tears were falling. He saved me, yet I was a complete bitch to him. There is no way he will forgive me. Not now. I turned away to look out the window. I hated myself for what I did.
“Gracie look at me,” he said. I looked up and waited for what was next. “Don’t cry because you know the truth. Be happy that you know it now.”
General got up and started walking towards the door. I knew I had to ask the one question that was still a mystery to me.
“General?” I asked. He turned around to looked at me. “Who catched me before I hit the ground?”
He was quiet for a second. His eyes were glistening with tears.
“Jonathan was the one who caught you. He was there when you were being worked on by the doctors and he was by your bedside for about twelve hours before you woke up and went off. Though that didn’t make him leave. He was outside your door until you fell asleep. Then he came back in but left again before you rose.”
He started walking towards the door again. I knew he was right to a point. During my sleep I could feel someone brushing the hair off of my face and holding my hand.
“Grace?” I looked up. General poked his head through one more time. “Don’t be hard or angry or even mean to Jonathan. His life has been turned upside down since you have took the bullet for him.”
With that he was gone. All that was left were my thoughts and tears.
