Fragile Hearted

Chapter 5

Jonah's POV

It's been 4 days since I kissed Millie. I've been trying to give her space since our conversation in the office. Millie hasn't even looked at me since that day, and it's been eating me up inside. I want to tell her I love her, but there's a problem. Jake has spent the last 4 days in Millie's room, drying her tears and watching movies. I went in there once to check on her, but she was snuggled up to Jake. Jake is taking her away from me, I can tell she's falling for him, I know it's only been 4 days, but they haven't left each others sight in  96 hours. I hear a door slam from upstairs. I quickly run upstairs to see what happened. I found Jake standing outside Millie's door.

"What happened?" I asked pushing him away from Millie's door trying to open it. The door was locked, she never locks her door. My mind automatically knew what he did. Jake tried to touch her in a way she didn't want to be touched. I turned around and pushed Jake against the wall. "what did you do!?"

"She was leading me on man," Jake said shakily "I-I thought we were going good so I tried to undress her." He was scared and I could tell.

"Did she ask you to stop?" I yelled, Jake looked at me and said nothing. "DID SHE ASK YOU TO STOP!?" I repeated.

"Yeah, Okay she did, but-"

I grabbed his shirt and dragged him down the stairs to the door. I opened it and threw him out. Jake wasn't allowed back here ever again. I was furious at this point, Jake was like a brother to me, yeah we had our differences but I would always have his back. Jake knew how much I loved Millie, so why would he do this? I walked back upstairs to check on Millie. I knocked on her door.

"Millie?" I say while knocking "I threw Jake out, he-he isn't here anymore. Can I come in?" I asked slowly turning the handle. Her door was unlocked, she must have heard me throw him out. I walk into Millie's room and look around, she wasn't anywhere in her room, I checked her bathroom, It was empty as well. I walked over to her desk and noticed a slight breeze. I turned around to find the window open. I walked over to the window and stuck my head through the opening, there she was, sitting on the roof with her knees brought up to her chest. I crawled out onto the roof, closed the window and sat next to her.

"Millie, I'm really sorry for what he did. I-I know you don't like people touching you like that, ever since, you know." I said slowly wrapping my arm around her. It took awhile but Millie finally fell into my grip. Millie snuggled into my chest. 

"I don't know what happened. W-We were just having a nice conversation and then he started running his hands along my legs. I tried to push him off but he just kept going, I couldn't scream or say anything. I was so scared Jonah, I thought it was going to happen again. When he removed his hands from my legs to unbutton his pants I pushed him off me and dragged him to the door. I threw him out and came immediately to the roof." Millie burst into tears, she cried for almost an hour going on and on about how scared she was and what happened, and why she thought it was her fault. After awhile Millie got up and started crawling back to her window. Millie tried to lift the window up and open it but it wouldn't open.

"umm Jonah, could you lend me a hand. The window won't open." Millie said trying to open the window. I crawled over to the window and tried to open it. Millie was right the window won't open. 

"The window must've locked when I closed it. We'll have to find another way into the house." Millie's eyes widened.

"The only other way is the front or back door, and we're on the roof Jonah." I started looking for a way down. The only thing I could think of at the moment was for me to jump down, go inside and unlock the window from the inside. 

"Looks like I'll have to jump down Millie, there's no there way." Millie's eyes widened.

"No, There's no way I'm letting you jump down Jonah." Millie took a short pause "So I'm jumping down with you. Its only fair since I'm the reason you're out here anyway". My eye's widened.

"You can't jump off the roof Millie, you could hurt yourself you know, because of, you know." I said walking towards her. "And I'm not going to let you get hurt, because of me. So please just  stay here and let me do it." Millie crossed her arms. I could tell she was not taking no for an answer. I finally gave in. "Fine. You can jump down, but at least let me jump down first so I can catch you." Millie thought about it for a few seconds.

"You have a deal." She said walking around me "But drop me and I will kill you. When I get out of the hospital that is." She said punching me in the arm. She winced a little but I pretended not to notice. Millie and I walked over to the edge of the roof. I jumped off and landed on my feet, the impact hurt a little but I could take it. I looked back up at Millie. 

"Okay Millie when I say 3 jump down okay? 1, 2, " before I could finish Millie jumped down and everything went black.