Addicted ~ Nate Jacobs

Chapter Twenty-Three

Nate's suspension meant that he was temporarily expelled. Therefore, he spent his second week either in bed or working out. Then, he decided to drive around aimlessly, checking in on Sophie at school and even Jules. He had so much spare time that he printed the obscene pictures of Jules and put them in an envelope for future reference. He met Sophie every Friday night, and Maddy would always cover for her. He looked forward to it every week and so did she. Sophie always made him feel better and in turn, Nate made Sophie feel better too.

Sophie's bump had rapidly grown and she no longer looked bloated, like, you could clearly tell that there was a baby in there. She was able to find out the sex of the baby now, since she was 19 weeks pregnant. But, she wanted to wait for Nate to be in the clear before they found out. She felt wrong finding out the sex without him. And so far, everything with the baby had still been going great. Plus, her bruises had finally gone away, which meant people were finally beginning to stop gossiping, sort of.

Once again, Nate broke into Tyler Clarkson's apartment, in order to blackmail him.

"Morning Tyler."

"Fuck. Oh, god." Tyler said, placing his hand over his chest.

"Sit down, Tyler." Nate said, motioning towards the couch across from him.

"Please man, please don't fucking hurt me again, please." Tyler begged as Nate rolled his eyes.

"Tyler, I'm not gonna hurt you. You're in a fucking neck brace. Just sit the fuck down. I want to have a mature conversation."

"About what?"

"Your options, now sit."

"What are my options?" Tyler asked slowly.

"Not good, man. One is better than the other."

"Oh, fuck. Please, dude. I was in the hospital for, like, seven days. My retina detached, and I can't see, and, and I get migraines constantly, and I can barely breathe through my nose-"

Nate cut him off, being the dick he was, "Tyler, I don't care. I need you to take a breath and relax. Then, I need you to go into your room and put some clothes on and I need you to get in your car and drive down to the East Highland police station. You're gonna walk up to the receptionist, and you're gonna tell her that you'd like to confess to a crime."

Tyler looked at him confused, "What crime?"

"The night of the carnival, you ran into Sophie Peters, who's a senior at East Highland High. You'd been stalking her since the first football game of the year, since she turned down your proposition. You confronted her and asked her why she'd been ignoring you. She said it was because she was pregnant and had a boyfriend. You became enraged that she rejected you yet again, and you choked her." Nate said, with a smirk.

Tyler sobbed, "What's my other option?"

Nate sighed, "Well, I mean, go about your day. But, at some point, Sophie Peters and Madeline Perez are going to go down to the East Highland police station. They are gonna walk up to the receptionist and say that they'd like to report a crime."

"What crime?"

"That, on the weekend before school started, they both went to a party and Maddy got intoxicated and was assaulted in the swimming pool by a 22-year-old college student named Tyler Clarkson." Nate sighed, "And Sophie was assaulted by the same 22-year-old college student after the football game when you grabbed her inappropriately. And then on the night of the carnival, you assaulted her again by choking her, like I mentioned before."

Tyler gulped, "You cannot prove that I was at the carnival."

"You sure about that?"

"I was here."