The Date

Chapter 29

Jake

"Jake let her go," Jay said.

"No, I can't! We're going to be together, she's done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated the way you've all been treating her" I screamed so loud I could feel the vibrations coming off my body I was so mad.

"You can't be with a girl like that Jake. She'll be after only one thing" my sister said. I laughed at her, how little they knew about my Kate, I thought.

"She'd do anything for money. She's already proven that by being here. Imagine what she would do, for a bit more fame" her words didn't worry me. I knew what Kate was really like. I knew the idea of fame would repulse her and she would hate the attention. If honest I knew there was much more for me to know but that will come over time. The time I wanted to spend with her.

"You don't know her, none of you does. I'm not letting you treat her like this when he's the one that's been lying to you this whole week" I pointed to Jay. God had it only been a week.

"Jake, she's bewitched you into thinking that she's in love with you or... something. It's all a lie. People don't fall in love that quickly, it's crazy" Mum said. She was right, I must have gone crazy to have such deep feelings for someone after only a week. But if this is how being crazy makes you feel then bring on the white jackets and lock away the keys.

"Where did she go?" I asked looking around the room to see no sign of her. My heart started beating deep in my chest with panic, she's gone.

"Jake doesn't go after her" Mum said as she and Lilly tried to block the doorway.

"You best hope I find her because if I lose her because of you all I'll never forgive you" I moved past them both as they yelled.

"Jake if you walk out that door, I'll only be telling you, I told you so" I ignored them opening the door I felt Da's arm on my shoulder stopping me.

"Jake I get that's she's a nice girl but you don't know her, you've only just met her," he said.

"Jake, if you saw where about's I found her... you wouldn't be so trusting in her feelings for you. I would do anything to get away from there too. You should just let her go" Jay said as I stared at him, shocked at how snobby my brother was being, how they all were being. We all had it all easy growing up with money and family. God knows how hard things are for Kate.

"Are you listening to yourself, if she's from such a place do you really think I'm going to let her go back"

"Don't be a fool, Jake, we'll never accept her" Lilly said. "It's either her or us, would you really want to lose everything for this girl you've just met and spent most of the time hating"

"Your making me chose?" I asked shocked that my own family would do that to me.

"No..." Da said as Mum interrupted.

"Yes," she said. I looked at my family and friend. I watched as no one said a word, as they all stood around watching doing nothing to stop this. I had already chosen the moment she left the room.

"Then I choose her" Mum let out a sob as Lilly and Jay looked shocked.

"Jake..." Paul finally made his voice heard.

"I've never found that person that I can be myself around, the person that doesn't care if I'm being charming or... you all think that I don't care for relationships but the truth is I've just never felt anything worth fighting for but all I want to do for Kate is fight for her... even if that means fighting my own family" I took one last look at everyone hoping that they would finally admit how stupid they were being but no one said a word. "I'm leaving," I said opening the door again with every intension of closing it behind me with my family on the other side.

"Jake you can't..." Connor started saying.

"They're the ones making me choose, not her," I said shutting them out of my life.

I ran out of the door as the party was still in full swing and took the stairs two at a time to get to her and Jay's room. When I got there I saw the room was open. I walked in expected to see her standing there but instead, I saw her dress and jewellery on the bed and the wardrobe empty with just a few ball gowns in. I ran into the bathroom but she was gone. I rushed back downstairs to the front desk.

"Have you seen a girl leave just now?"

"Miss Anderson Sir?" the Clark asked.

"What? No hmmm... a short girl with brown hair. Ahh... she would have ordered a taxi or something..."

"Oh yes she left about twenty minutes ago," the guy said. Twenty minutes? That can't be, I wasn't in there that long after she left, was I?

"Do you know where she went?"

"I think to the bus station Sir, she was looking for a bus back to London"

"Right, I need my car, quickly" he watched the young guy run as I started pulling my hair out. This wasn't happening I thought to myself. Things weren't meant to be this way, things weren't meant to go this far. How did I not see this coming, how did I manage to make things worse than they already were? Why didn't I just do as my brother said and let him live his life and why did I have to get to know her and feel so... attached.

I can't leave her alone. I know I should, I know I should just walk away but I can't. She's been pushed in this fire of hell that my brother brought her to and I idiotically jumped straight in after them only to bring hell on earth.

I should be beaten, hung, drawn and quartered of the games I tried to play with her. She should hate me, call me every name under the sun until I come crawling on my hands and knees to her, begging for her forgiveness for the way I treated her. Yet she blames herself. She sees no bad in me yet all the bad in herself... there is no bad in her whole body.

I was wrong. I was wrong about her and it doesn't even hurt to admit, she was... is a complete innocent in this corrupted guilty world. I only wish she would tell me of the suffering she has been through so I know how to put things to right. She is all that is good and decent in the world that has been dealt a bad hand in life but I failed to change that. I'm going to make sure every day is a better day from the last, I'm going to bring her nothing but happiness and affection.

I just had to find her first.

"Your car Sir" I pulled whatever cash was in my pocket and handed it to the boy.

"Keep the change" I shouted back as I speeded down the road after her.