Mental Institution

6

I've been sitting in the living room alone for the past hour. Lauren and Alex was sent to get some things for me from the mall seen as it is now apparently 'unsafe' for me to go out alone. It's 3pm now and I'm slightly worried about my dad. What if he finds out I 'escaped'? Ah, who cares? He never wanted to help me so why should I care.
Suddenly Jason comes in with what looks like... I don't even know what it looks like but I backed away suddenly causing Jason to sigh and roll his eyes. "I'm not going to hurt you. It's to take that ankle tag off so they can't find so so stay still" I nod my head feeling stupid and sitting back in my normal position and handing my ankle to Jason. He carefully takes off my shoe and pulls my sock down a bit. He carefully cuts the tag off before handing it to the man I seen in the alley 4 months ago the one who was talking to me. The man smirks before walking off to what I assume, destroy the ankle device. My stomach suddenly rumbles from no where.
"Were ordering at 8 so do you want me to ask Martha to make you something?" Jason asks. I nod before mumbling "Yes please" Jason leaves to go in the kitchen and a women around the height of 5 foot 1 came in. She resembled Alex more than Jason so I could tell she was their mom. "Oh. You must be Danielle. I'm Pattie. Jason's mom, It's a delight to finally meet you" She says bringing me into a hug. "Mom!!" I hear a boy whine behind me and I notice it's Jason. "Oh son I'm just greeting our guest" Pattie scolds. "Whatever" Jason scolds before handing me a plate with a sandwich on it. Jason sits down next to me and Pattie sits on the other side.
I eat my sandwich whilst we all talk. It wasn't as awkward as I was expecting and a few times Pattie threatened Jason with his baby pictures which Ii found extremely funny. Then Pattie said how excited she was for this baby. I found out that I'm due 2 days after Jason's birthday which is on March 1st.
Honestly, I from the news and the first meeting of Jason I would of never thought that him and his family could be this nice. Suddenly the door opens and in walks Lauren and Alex with a few bags. "These are all for you" Alex says whilst dropping the bags by the side of me. Lauren does the same before dropping down into Alex and cuddling into him. I wish I had what she had, a nice happy relationship but I guess I'll never get that now.
"So what's the deal with the people following me and Lauren?" I ask. Jason sighs before placing his elbows on his knees and running his hands through his hair then studying me. "Well when you grassed me up to the cops saying I was alive, the wrong type of people must of seen it and now you're their lead to me. I mean you claimed to be.. attacked by me and four months later your pregnant? That is no coincidence. The people following you had a device in Laurens car so they knew exactly who you were and they knew ever since you told Lauren you were pregnant two months ago" "Oh" I say. "But don't worry. You'll be protected in this house" Pattie says as she runs her hand along my shoulder. I smile at her before standing up. "I think I should put these away, Where's my room?" I ask politely "Oh yes of course, You'll be staying with Jason until your room is done. So Jason. Help Danielle to your room and help her put her things away" Jason groans before grabbing half my bags and walking towards the door. I follow him and as we get upstairs and to a door which I assume is his bedroom I ask him a question. "Why do you have your own room? I thought you had your own house" I question. "I do have my own house but that doesn't mean I always stay there. I mostly sleep here" I nod before walking in. "Wow.." I mutter. "Big right?" I look at him and he has a smirk on his face. I nod before Jason shows me to the closet. He has a walk-in one and half of it has been cleared for my things.
After 15 minutes of putting my things away I pick out an outfit to wear. I pick a long cream sweater with pyjama shorts. I put on fuzzy slippers and slip my hair into a ponytail before walking out of the bathroom to see Jason topless on the bed. I stare at him. I know what you're thinking, 'why are you staring at a man that raped you and killed your mom?' Well in all honesty I'm too scared to lash out on him.. I'm scared of what he would do. This is just the calm before the storm and trust me I'll break his heart, somehow. Some way, I'll hurt him emotionally as much as he hurt me.
Jason clears his throat "Done checking me out?" he asks. I roll my eyes and walk away from him. I hate arrogant people. You know people who think they're better than every one else. Like they're God's gift to Earth or something. Suddenly I'm slammed forcefully but gently into the wall opposite Jason's bedroom.
"Listen carefully. I'm only going to tell you this once. I'm the boss around here. You will respect me. Now, I don't give a fuck if the others are nice to you and you treat them how you'd like. With me you can't.. lets go over some rules shall we? Rule one? Always look at me when I'm talking to you or you're talking to me. Rule two, Never roll you're eyes and walk away. Rule three. Do not try to escape because I will find you and I will hurt every single bone in your body. You may be carrying my baby but I could care less. Break any of these rules and I will hurt you" With that Jason pushes himself off the wall and down the hall before looking at me "Oh and rule number four. Don't tell anyone about any of these threats or punishments in the future" Punishments? Well, one things for sure. I won't be getting on his bad side.
I quickly compose myself before walking down the stairs and to the living room where everyone is. "Hey, uh were ordering pizza and watching a mov-" The front door opens and in walks a youngish couple walk through the door. I notice Jeremy and Pattie gulp from the corner of my eye. Who are these people and why does everyone look so up tight around them? They can't be the boss' because that's Jason and his dad so who are they? They look strangely familiar but I can't put a name to their faces! "Uh. Mike, Elane. This is Danielle, she's going to be staying with us for a while" Pattie says calmly and softly as she stands up as if not to set anything off.
The women, 'Elane', looks at me before recognition crosses her face and she falls to her knees crying. "Jason, Take Dan out of the house for a few hours" Jason nods before standing up and grabbing his shirt. He then stands up and comes towards me, dragging me past the hysterical woman who is being comforted by Pattie and who I assume to be her husband Mike. I look behind me and get sympathetic looks from everyone as I'm dragged out by Jason.
We are quickly in his car and out of the driveway "What did I do?" I ask. Jason looks at me and sighs. "Nothing Danielle. It's just she uh.. lost her daughter a few months ago and now she has a hard time dealing with it" I could tell Jason was lying but I decided not to push the topic further but all I can thing is who are those people and why is Jason lying about why Elane was crying?