The Strange Good Girl

Chapter Twenty-Three: Loved

"Damn it Jason give me my keys!" Lisa screamed as she glared up at him holding her hand out. Jason shook his head and held the key tightly in his hand behind his back. He glared angrily down at her and she put her hands on her hips.

"You know what fine. I'll call Cody and he'll come pick me up." She began stripping out of her wet clothes and picked up her cell phone off of the bed. Before she could dial Jason grabbed the phone from her and crushed it in his hand. Her eyes went wide, she knew she had gone too far. It was the only thing she could think of to say in order to get him to give her the keys, but she now regretted it as she saw the hurt and anger in his eyes. Now standing in only her soaked underwear she quickly backed away from him ending up on her bed with her back against the battered head board.

"I'm sorry! I was just kidding!" The girl screamed as he gripped her violently by the shoulders causing her to hit her head on the headboard. He was furious as he remembered back to his dream he had about the boy taking her from him. "Jason you're hurting me!" He released her shoulders and put his hands on either side of her head against the headboard trapping her. Staring into her she whimpered beneath him.

For the first time she was truly afraid of him. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!" His mask was a mere inch away from her face now and she could feel his hot breath against her skin. "What do I have to do to get it through your thick head that I don't like him?! He isn't you, I love you!" There she finally said it, the thing that was on the tip of her tongue for the past few weeks, but was too afraid of what his reaction would be. His hands fell to his sides and he took in a deep breath as his eyes searched her face.

She had said the words that no one but his Mother had spoken to him before. Love, he knew what it was but couldn't bring himself to believe that she had really spoken those words to him. He felt her hand trail up his neck. Before her hand made it to the edge of his mask he pulled away from her sitting on the bed and stared questionably back at her.

Seeing the look in his eye she could tell he didn't believe her. "Jason..." She reached for his mask and his eye watched her hand closely. Slowly she lifted his mask and put a hand on either side of his face. Touching her forehead to his she looked into his eyes. "I love you." After placing a light kiss on his crooked lips she replaced his mask on his face.

There was a noise of keys clanking and she looked down to see that he had set her car keys between them on the bed. "It's ok, I don't need to go I can go another day." He shook his head and placed the keys in her hand.

He sat idly on the bed as the girl finished removing her wet clothes and put clean dry ones on. He still didn't want her to go, but knew she'd need to go into town eventually and would rather have her go now. As he examined the broken pieces of the girl's phone on the floor he watched her out of the corner of his eye as she put makeup on to hide her scar.

She couldn't help but look over at him every few moments, as she got ready. She wished she knew what was going through his mind. It bothered her that she didn't get much of a reaction out of him when she told him she loved him, but knew he probably didn't know how to convey his feelings to her.

"You're sure you want me to go? I can wait and go tomorrow if you want." He shook his head. The sooner she went the better. He stood and went into the living room and she followed. He leaned against the wall and she rested her head on his chest.

"I promise I won't take too long." Ignoring that he was still soaking wet she looked down to his large bare feet and smiled to herself. Standing on her tiptoes she kissed him on his mask. Taking one last glance at him she left through the side door.

He exhaled loudly once she was gone and slowly walked down the hall to his room to change into some dry clothes.

Lisa was not happy to be back in town again and was thankful that the store she chose was practically deserted. She made sure that she got enough bras and underwear to last her awhile and even bought a small sewing kit just in case. She even bought a few new clothes for Jason as well. When she walked past the lingerie section she almost grabbed a few things, but then realized they would be completely pointless and get ripped to shreds anyways. Jason was better at being gentler with her but seemed to be getting more and more violent on her clothes.