The Escape

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

It was Saturday night, the trial had already passed. I thought it would be really bad, but I wasn’t. I didn’t see Andrew. They asked me, that if I felt uncomfortable (due to the thought that he almost raped me) I didn’t need to see him. All I really had to do was record my statements in a tape, and they’d play it to the judge in presence of Andrew, and give him his sentence. 1 year. It wasn’t enough. 1 year could pass so fast. These vacations were passing by very fast too. I had to go back to New York with my mom in a month, and I really didn’t want to. I was having the time of my life here. These last week, Jake, max, Cole, Ashley and Rachel had become my bestest friends. Every one of them had gained my trust. Max and I were like twins. Jake always told me that I was the girly version of max. We had gone snorkeling, surfing, shopping and swimming all together, and I was excited for tomorrow.  Pete had lent us his private yacht. Yeah, I said yacht. The boy was rich. The thoughts swirled in my mind, until somehow, I shut off.

I woke up, and glanced at my clock. 9:30. Shoot! I had an hour to get ready! I had to meet up at jacks at 10:30. I shot straight up the bed, and ran to take a shower. The shower took 16 minutes, record time.  I quickly wrapped up in a towel, and went to choose my clothes. I put on a black bikini that had swirls of all the colors of the rainbow. I decided to wear an aqua colored short, and a crop with white, orange, pink, green and purple stripes. It was my favorite. I went to the bathroom, and dried my hair. I quickly straightened it. I put on my flip-flops, and grabbed a bag, which was stuffed with a towel, sun block, a dry bikini, my jacket, and a pink tank top. I got my phone, and ran downstairs. I still had a full 5 minutes. I quickly ate, and ran to jakes house.

“Babe! I’m here!” I shot at Jake, who was sitting in his couch watching TV. He laughed at me calling him babe. It was our joke. Two days ago we had been calling ourselves ridiculous nicknames. He was Jakie and I was Jessie pooh. I let out a laugh, and he stood up, turning of the TV. “

Lets go!” I said.

“Okay babe, be right there” he said, going to his room. I inspected the living room, and inspected the photographs. I saw Jake, matt and a young girl. I remembered about jakes sister Jane. She had light brown hair and the same blue eyes Jake has. She was beautiful. Jake caught me looking at the picture, and he smiled.

“That’s Jane,” he said, grinning, but you could still sense pain in his voice. I just smiled and headed for jakes car. He drove in silence, not a word said.

As soon as we got to the port, were the yachtes and boats were parked, I ran out of the car into Maxes arms.

“Maxie!” I screamed at him, and then he let go off me. I said hi to everyone else, and we went to the boat. Jake looked at me like he hated me. I avoided eye contact with him, cause I could tell he was pissed at me. He actually avoided both max and me. We were going to the open sea. The ride there was great, we all sat to the edge of the boat and let the water brush our feet and splash into our faces. Except Jake. What was wrong with him? As soon as we got to a reasonable spot, Jake, max, Cole and Ethan got out their fishing rods and set them up. Max told me to come with him to the second floor of the yacht and I followed him. He grabbed my hand and pulled me into the small room. We sat on the bed. He grabbed my hands, and suddenly the door burst open. It was Jake.

“H-hey” I said, freeing myself off maxes hands.

“I came to talk with max,” he said, his voice sounded serious but at the same time angry. I walked out of the room, and sat down on the couch. I could hear Jake screaming. Max screamed back at him. I walked closer to the door, expecting to hear more, but Jake came out of the room, looking majorly pissed. I approached him.

“What’s wrong?” I asked him. He kept on walking.

“What’s wrong?!” I asked again. He looked at me, and spat out,

“Don’t talk to me. I don’t like you. You’re not my friend,” he said. Tears sprung out my eyes, I didn’t bother to fight them back. I grabbed his arm, but he yanked away, going downstairs. The rest of the day was a blur; I didn’t know why Jake was mad at me. Max kept coming at me with jokes and smiles, but I never smiled back.

When we got back to the port, I didn’t bother saying goodbye. I walked home instead. It was already getting dark, but I didn’t really care. I grabbed my jacket and put it on. I ran back home in tears. I didn’t know what was going on with Jake. He just seemed so mad at me, and what he said was enough. I got home and joined Pete for dinner. It was a good thing I had used waterproof make up, if not, it would have been evident that I had cried. I just smiled at Pete as we ate in silence. But he broke that silence.

“So how did your day go, jess? Did you have fun with your friends in the yacht?” Pete asked.

“Yeah! Ethan and max even took a dip in open sea” I said.

“Oh, that’s cool,” he said, and then took a bite,

“I wanted to tell you, that there will be a luau for teenagers next Friday, and all the beach is invited” Pete said.

“Oh cool” I told him.

“Do you have anything to wear?” he said. I shook my head no. He handed me cash.

“Thanks” I said. I went to the living room and turned on the TV and slumped to the couch, grabbing a blanket. I got sleepy and I finally fell asleep at the middle of an episode of the Simpsons.

I woke up, and rolled out of the couch, hitting the floor. I remembered I had fallen asleep in the couch. I went to my room, combed my hair, put on a fresh set of clothes, and washed my face. I was decided to go to talk to Jake. I went to his house, but I didn’t find him there. I spent the day outside, tanning and shopping.  I had been frolicking in Victoria’s secret and forever 21 with Ashley. She talked all the time, about how much she liked Cole. They really made a cute couple. I picked up a cute strapless bikini, a white dress that had a golden strap, and a navy blue dress too. I was planning on using either of them for the luau that was coming. Ashley asked me to go surf, but I was done with water activities. It was almost sunset, when I found Jake sitting in the front porch of his house. I sat down beside him. He stood up, and walked away. And I didn’t even say a word. I screamed his name, and finally gave up after seeing him slam his bedroom door. He really didn’t care.

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