[1] EXPOSED

1.8 - Stolen

           “How the hell did he find out?” Jake mouthed to me before Matt was in earshot.

            “I don’t know!” I replied and let out a big sigh. I felt like everything just became more confusing. Too many things were happening at once and I was getting a headache from it all.

            “What are you doing here?” Jake asked Matt, who was trying to calm down from laughing maniacally.

            Matt ignored his question. “Is Nathan okay? I heard he smoked a little too much and started coughing up blood.” He played with his frayed light brown hair that was spiked forward and then twisted his small lime green gages until he was comfortable again.

            “He’s in there with the doctors and his and Jewel’s parents,” Jake explained. I sighed at the thought of my mom embarrassing my family like that and realized that what I had done was much worse.

            “Well why the hell are you guys out here then?” Matt wondered.

            “My mom just made a huge scene and got into it with Nathan’s mom…” I pulled my legs in towards my chest and looked at Jake.

            “Yeah,” Jake continued what I was saying, “and basically her mom started yelling at me and her and we just had to get away from there.”

            “Ha, so you’re hiding here,” Matt laughed, “You better watch out, dude. Psychotic moms aren’t fun to deal with. Trust me, I have experience.”

            “Psychotic mom is better than no mom,” Jake wasn’t upset anymore but every once in a while he had to remind himself that she was never coming back. It was a sad reality to deal with, but he handled it well.

            “I’m so sorry, man,” Matt didn’t know what to say.

            “I’m about to just drive somewhere…” Jake turned on the car and I put my hand over his wrist. He seemed a little out of it.

            “Jake, are you crazy?” I felt the car roll backwards a few feet and I just wanted him to stop. “You don’t even have your license, do you?”

            He barely made it out of the parking space without hitting one of the cars beside us. I gripped the bottom of the seat as he pulled forward and headed towards the road that led to the hospital.

            “Dude!” Matt shook his head, “Just pull off at the gas station or something!”

            “Jake, I really don’t think you should do this,” I looked both ways right before he shot out into the road. I should have never given him the keys. He was in a weird state of mind right now and he needed to snap out of it.

            “Just stop at this Taco Bell…” we passed the Taco Bell, “Or don’t stop at this Taco Bell…” Matt and I looked at each other until something else caught his attention. “Holy shit!”

            Jake swerved out into open traffic and ran a red light. He was lucky that there wasn’t a cop car around because we would have had red and blue lights flashing behind us within a matter of seconds.

            “Jake, turn around!” I screamed, “We can still go back and not get in trouble!”

            “I don’t care about not getting in trouble,” Jake laughed, “I just want to get away from everyone. We can get back to your house and then come back and get your parents later. I’m just not staying in there.”