I follow his line of vision and someone sitting against the brick wall. Blake! I start to run over with everyone behind me. Chris threw Jace back to his friends and followed. I got to Blake and he was sitting against the wall with his eyes squeezed shut. I touch his arm and he grabs my hand and before he does anything else Seth pulls my hand away, “Bro it's us chill,” he says. Blakes eyes snap open, “Shit, sorry Kass,” He says. I bend down, “Are you alright?” I ask him taking in the damage. He has a cut on his cheek, bruised jaw, split lip and he was holding his side, “Let me see,” I say softly. He looks at me, “I thought you were mad at me,” he questioned looking at me. I sigh, “I'm not mad... I just, I needed to think,” I say pulling up his shirt a little. He has a bruised side. The boys all look about to kill someone, “Damn it, what the hell Blake, rule one, never go out alone when you know Jace and his friends wait around for one of us to be alone,” Sam says with his hands behind his head as he paces. Blake looks at them, “I didn't... I was in the locker room and they pulled me out... You think im that dumb to come out here alone,” he says. Chris shakes his head, “At least they took it easy on you,” Chris says. I look at him like he is crazy, “Easy... Look at him Chris,” I say a little louder than I needed. Becca sigh, “Jace is known to do a lot worse. Blake is lucky,” she adds. Blake nods, “They are right, Jace and his friends put a kid in the hospital once,” as soon as the words left his mouth I felt sick. Picturing Blake in the hospital. “Alright, call it a day. Blake needs to go home,” Jesse said as him and Ryan help him to his feet. I put his arm over my shoulder to help him walk. He pulls me close, “Your car is trashed, I swear I will fix it,” he says as we make our way to Chris car. “I can get a new one, I can't get a new you,” I say hugging him. He groans in pain but still hugs back. “Alright, take my car. Jesse will give Becca and I a ride home,” Chris says handing me the keys. “Whoa, I don't want to drive,” I say freaking out. Becca looks at me, “Kass, Blake is in no shape to drive... I know you hate driving but you have to. It is only a five minute drive,” She says hugging me. I nod and get in.
Longest drive of my life. I park the car and Blake is smiling at me, “What?” I say leaning back. He chuckles, “You looked terrified of driving,” he says. I frown and look down. “You are, aren't you?” he says a bit more serious. I look at him, “Let's go to my room and we can talk about all this,” I say helping him. Once inside I sit next to him on the bed with a wet cloth to clean the blood. “You don't have to tell me Kass. You were right, it's not my place to force you to talk about whatever it is,” he says looking at me. I hand the cloth to him and he looks at me. I laugh a little, “I have only ever trusted Becca and Jesse with it... I don't know, I just find it hard to believe people when they promise not to leave but they always do anyways,” I say looking at my hands in my lap. Blake had all his attention on me, “When I was little, I always thought that someday I would grow up and have the perfect family. One like I had at that point. I was only six, I wanted to go to the park,” I paused and then went on, “After begging my parents to take me they got everyone in the car, Me, Maci, and Kelly,” I said. He looked at me, “Maci and Kelly?” he questioned. I didn't look up I kept going, “It was an indoor park, and since it was raining my parents didn't want to go, but we did. On the way there it was raining so hard we couldn't see... Next thing I know an on coming car hit us head on,” I paused as tears trickled down my face. “Kass stop,” he said looking close to tears but kept going, “It happened so fast, my dad let go of the wheel to cover my siblings and me..... I woke up in the hospital,” I paused again, there was no going back now, “I could hear the doctor talking outside the room to my aunt... My parents and Maci died on sight, Cody was fine, My dad had him covered all the way, I got out with a broken arm and a few cuts,” I said pushing the images back. “But your mom died of cancer, and your dad in the army,” he said a little confused and shocked. I looked at him, “After the accident, no one in our family wanted to take in two kids, not even our own blood. They all hated my mom for marrying my dad, so they wanted nothing to do with us, so we were adopted by John and Bri... Cody was to little to remember that day, so to him they were his parents. But to me, as much as I loved them for taking us in, I knew they would never be the real thing...... All through the years I was depressed and never happy, until I ran into Carson. He was different back then, he made me smile, laugh, forget about everything. He was the only one at that point who knew, until I also broke down and told Becca who then informed Jesse... But Carson knew how to cheer me up... We dated for all that time, but he changed, he started hanging out with these kids and they would get into trouble, then.... what broke me even more then I already was......” I paused. Blake looked at me with eyes begging me to just stop, “He took the only thing I had left that was mine... the next day I find him cheating on me with one of my friends..... So do I have trust issues, yeah, because nobody is keeps promises anymore,” I say as tears flow down my face. Blake looked ready to kill someone, and upset at the same time.
