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Chapter 5

We walked faster to my place. Jack didnt speak a single word on our way there. He honestly disappointed me but he was technically defending himself wasn't he?

I walked a bit faster & put the key in the house. I walked in letting him go second as I closed the door, Jack had a shocked look in his face which I couldn't really understand.

"I thought you sold this house?" Jack said.

"Wasn't just mine." I simply said,

"Come on follow."

I walked towards the bathroom him right beside me.

"Sit." I said, & he sat on the toilet seat lid.

I grabbed cotton and put water at first. Trying to just clean up all the blood. I tilted his chin up and he winced. I tried my best to clean it but I couldn't anymore.

"I'm going to try it with the alcohol." I trailed off, as he nodded for response.

He never broke eye contact with me.

I grabbed the alcohol in a cotton & tried cleaning the blood. Jack flinched a couple times but then he let me finish up cleaning all the blood.

"Here stand up." I said walking over to the sink with him. I grabbed his hand and could feel his body towering over me from the back. I turned the faucet on trying to clean all the blood once again. I finished with one hand and dried it, continuing with his other hand, getting his knuckles that had bruises now. I felt his loose hand wrap around my waist as I still cleaned his knuckles.

"Dry it up." I said walking out, & down the stairs to the kitchen. I cooked something for both of us & put it on the table.

Minutes later Jack walked in. As he walked in you could feel the tension in the air.

"Come in, eat. After this we need to talk."

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"I know you're pissed at me because I started the fight, & especially because I just came back. Probably now having to watch my ass when I leave to go anywhere. But I'm sorry I wasn't thinking straight and I know it wasn't right." He took a deep breath after he finished. It was so weird because he touched every single thing I was about to say.

"Fine. I was about to scream at you, you know that right?"

"I know and I'm sorry I'm probably risking all of you guys."

"Not really, let me call the rest." I said taking my phone out and calling all their numbers, for a 5 way phone call, on speaker.

"hey guys?"

"What's up" They said.

"So everything's cleared up, we need to get that guy back though." I said.

"Fo' sure." Eric said.

"How though?" Maria said.

"It's complicated I'll try and find out how soon." I added.

"Alright it better be good Secret." Leslie stated.

"What about that guy Jack what are you going to do with him?" Amber asked.

"He's staying with us for a while, I think he'll be leaving in 3 moths or so." I said and saw Jack nod beside me.

"Alrght well I just saw some suspicious guys walk around the street, to your place and back to ours Alex, so lock everything and don't leave until morning. I'll go pick up every single one of you girls to take to Secrets place?" Eric asked.

"Sounds good." We all said.

"Good night girls. Love you, take care Secret." Eric said.

"bye." I said not adding anything else and hanging up.

There's been something wrong with Eric ever since the day Cameron walked in to the garage lot. Never mind it was way back on the basketball game.

"Fuck!" Eric yelled frustrated. "We're short one player." He said scratching the back of his neck.

I saw Leslie whisper something & he nodded.

"Secret!" They called me over.

"Yeah?" I said walking towards them.

"We're short one player. Do you want to play basketball?" Eric asked a pink tint evident in his cheek.

I remembered it, I would have to ask him about all this. Even though I think I already came to the conclusion of this.

I rested my head on Jacks shoulder. Not even aware of what was happening anymore because I was slowly started to fall asleep. I felt his hand tuck a loose strand of my hair to the back of my ear an then his lips on my forehead.

"Go to sleep." he whispered and I did.

A couple minutes later he started talking, well more like mumbling.

"You shouldn't have picked this road"

But I didn't.

"I wish I was there, I should have taken you with me 2 years ago."

You should have but should've doesn't exist, you just did or you didn't. But you didn't.

"I hope you're still that humble girl I met over an event"

I hope so too.

"The caring girl that made those stupid YouTube videos to make herself save others without knowing. The girl that.."

I couldn't finish answering everything in my mind anymore. The words started to slowly fade away so I didn't know if he kept talking or not.

Maybe I did change, but its just a mask. I'm not really who I say I am, at lest not completely. But that Cameron guy with only knowing me for 2 days, or as he said months he knows more than the rest of them.

More than Jack.

More than anyone.