Broken

Chapter 48: Sometimes One Job Is All It Takes

Jack

I left after Kerri fell asleep because I figured that it would be awkward just me and Ally there considering the circumstances. I was walking down the hallway when I suddenly got the presence of eyes following my every move. I spun around and watched to see if I could notice anyone. Nothing, so I decided to carry on walking back to my dorm. But all I could feel were these piercing eyes watching me even if I couldn't see them.

I shrugged the feeling away and tried forgetting about it, that wasn't until I felt myself being dragged into a dark room. When doing so I banged my head on something, probably a door. I clutched it lightly and thankfully touched no blood. "What are you up to lately Jack?" the voice scratched its way around the room. "What do you mean?" I always taught myself to answer a question with a question, that way you don't have to answer, well most of the time.

"You damn well know what we mean, your screwing this all up, stop it and no one will get hurt you understand." The voice was sharp and painful and echoed its way through the walls to make sure that I got the message. All I could do was shake my head. I felt my hand trace its way towards the handle of a door and make my runner. Although as I began to leave the voice sharply called "Remember Jack, this one job is all it takes and it needs to be done right," I nodded again and whispered back "Then I promise I won't get in the way."

I peeked around the door to see if anyone was watching me come out now I figured was the cleaning cupboard before I made my move down the hall. I moved out into the open and smiled noticing nobody around. As I turned around I crashed into something soft and fell backwards. Not so hard that I would fall over, so I guess we could just call it a stumble. I shook my head and looked up to see Hayden.

"What the hell were you doing in the cleaning cupboard?" he questioned with a confused look upon his face. I shrugged "Just looking for something that's all, don't worry." I dodged past him and carried on walking "Jack, are you okay?" I nodded at him, "Yeah course I am," I suddenly felt myself come over hot and flustered. I felt sweat trickle down my spine, my hair, literally everywhere. I don't know how long I have been like this but I quickly made my run after Hayden asked if I was okay.

I made it to my room and slumped down onto the bed and held onto the pillow as if it was my best friend. I held onto it tight and I felt tears spring to my eyes. No, I had to hold them in, I just had to. A tear dropped down and landed on the pillow and I immediately shook it away. I took deep breaths and tried calming myself down until I heard a knock on the door. I looked up and saw Ally standing by it. What was she doing here?

I wiped away the tears immediately and smiled. "Hey Ally what's up?" she raised an eyebrow at me and said "Have you been crying?" I shook my head and she came in and sat next to me. "So what you doing here?" I asked again. She sighed and shook her head "I'm not entirely sure, I just found myself wandering and I ended up here, is that weird," I laughed at her comment. "Just a little considering we haven't been the best of friends since you started here," and this time she laughed.

"What's so funny?" I laughed. She shook her head and kept laughing "Nothing, just, just you," by this time we were both laughing. Only then did it cross my mind, "Hey Ally, what did you mean earlier when we were with Kerri?"

"I said a few things, you're gonna have to be more specific for me?" she started fidgeting.

"Well I said something like 'you're see her again' or something and you looked surprised in why I said what I said?"

She fidgeted a bit more before she answered me "Well I dunno, I guess because I never really expected something like that to appear from your lips," and she shrugged. But as she was saying it, I noticed that she was stuttering. But I ignored it; she probably doesn't want to talk about it. "Is there another reason you found your way down to this particular room.

She took a deep sigh and answered me "I dunno, I guess I just feel comfortable talking and sitting with you, I feel like I belong by you sometimes and I know that it sounds weird and all but I feel safe sometimes next to you," her head landed on shoulder and her eyes began to close. After that my eyes shot open wide and I wrapped my arm around her and held her close as I heard her soft breathing against me.

I smiled and kissed her forehead and led her down on my bed carefully and wrapped the covers around her and slept on the floor.