The Strange Good Girl

Chapter Twenty-Two: Different Nightmare

Lisa awoke the next morning alone. Looking around she found her clothes in a pile at the foot of the bed. She quickly got dressed and headed back for her house. When she got there she noticed that the truck the kids left in her driveway was gone. She found Jason sitting in his room staring at the picture of his Mother.

She sat next to him on the bed. "Hey. Are you hungry?" He shook his head. "Did you move those kids truck?" He nodded. "You can drive?" She tried to imagine him behind the wheel of the truck and he shrugged. "Ok... well I'm going to eat and do some work on the computer today." He just simply stared back at her unresponsive, but she could see something was bothering him. "Are you ok?"

He stared back at her wishing he could explain to her. Last night he had a nightmare, but it wasn't his usual nightmare about his Mother, this time it was about the girl. In his nightmare the boy from the day before came by again and the girl kissed him and they left together and never came back. He knew the girl really liked him and even kissed his deformed face to reassure him, but that didn't mean that she wasn't capable of wanting someone else over him.

"Jason what's wrong?" She searched his eyes and he wished he could tell her. There was no way he could think of to show her so he pulled her close and hugged her tight. "Ok I need to breath." He released her.

She gave him a strange look and he pointed to him then to her. "Yes we're together and your point is?" He huffed obviously annoyed that he couldn't properly convey his message. "Whatever it is that you're so worried about stop worrying. I'm not going anywhere and I won't let anyone take you away from me, or me away from you." She stood and kissed him on the mask before heading into the kitchen.

The rest of the day seemed to drag on for him as he watched the girl work on her computer. There was an obnoxious noise coming from the girl's bedroom and she ran past him. The noise ceased and he followed her into her room to find her sitting on her bed talking on her cell phone. After a few minutes she hung up the phone. "Wow that was just sad..." She looked up at him and he cocked his head to one side.

"It was Cody, the boy that delivered the groceries yesterday. He was wondering if I'd go to the movies with him the next time I'm in town." She laughed and noticed he tensed up when she mentioned his name. "Don't worry I told him no if you were paying any attention, and besides I don't plan on going into town unless I absolutely have to." He still stood staring back at her. She went up to him and ran her hand down his muscular arm and took his hand in hers and lightly kissed it.

This made him relax a little, but he continued to stare into the girl. "Oh come on, I can't believe you're still jealous of him! Why on earth would I want to be with a boy like him when I have you? I'd be bored to death with him!" She smiled up at him. It made him feel better for the moment, but it barely diminished his fear of losing her to someone else. "What am I going to do with you? You freak out over the strangest things..." Her phone began to ring again and she let out an exasperated sigh before answering it.

"Hello?" There was a loud response he couldn't make out. "Yeah you're off by like two months and who is this?... Oh I'm sorry, Hi Aunt Lauren..." She started talking away. After a moment she put her hand over the phone. "I'm going to be awhile so why don't you go do something." She shooed him out of her room.

He stood in the hallway and was thankful that at least it wasn't that boy calling her again. His stomach grumbled and he decided to make himself some dinner. It took him a few tries to figure out how to work her stove since it was different than the one he used at the camp. When he was halfway through cooking the pork the girl joined him in the kitchen. "You know how to cook?" He nodded. Of course he knew how to cook how else could he have survived all these years on his own.