In The Wave

Chapter 14

Suddenly I felt my whole body jolt forward.

“Damn that hurt like hell.” I screeched out. “How would you like it if I electrocuted you doc, huh?” I ask the doctor who at this point probably thinks I’m a pain . Hey, it's not my fault. After saying that I laid back down since I was sore from being freaking electrocuted. 

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Once the doctors checked everything and ran some tests They finally let my dad, sister and Alex in my room.

“Oh thank god.” My sister says as she comes over and hugs me while tears are on her face. “Don’t you ever do anything like that ever again.” She tells me after slapping my arm.

“I mean I can’t really control people who shoot arrows at me, but I’ll try.” I say, a little confused on how exactly that would work.

“I’m just glad you’re okay sweetie!” My dad says before hugging me as well.“Here we’ll leave you two alone.” My dad says as he grabs my sister and pulls her out of the room.

It was just me and Alex left in the room, when he approached me and kissed me. And for the first time since I’ve known him I saw him crying. He looked like he hadn’t slept in a while. Once he broke the kiss he hugged me tightly.

“Don’t ever scare me like that ever again. I thought I’d lost you.” He says as he cries harder.

“You can’t get rid of me that easily, you're going to have to try a lot harder than that if you want to get rid of me.” I tell him jokingly.

“I love you!” He whispers in my ear.

“I love you too!” I whisper back. We spent the night talking and snuggling until we both fell asleep.

*****

“Jess, Jess babe wake up.” I open my eyes to see Alex nudging me awake. I got up and kissed him before lying back down and going back to bed. Or trying to at least, but when I have my boyfriend right next to me trying to wake me up every five minutes. Well you get the idea.

“Alexander, I swear if you don’t let me sleep I will cut off your balls and feed them to a stray cat,” I say, causing him to stop and let me sleep. 

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When I woke up I heard my dad and Alex laughing, sometimes it scares me how well they get along. Most people would think they’re friends. Hell, I even think they’re friends. I slowly stood up and walked over to Alex taking the blanket with me, before nudging his arm with my head. When he saw me he put his arm around me and held me close then picked me up and placed me on his hip as if I were a little kid. I softly stroked his cheek before kissing it. Then the moment was ruined when my dad’s phone buzzed.

“Oh I have to go Jess sweetie, your sister is attempting to cook back at home and we both know how that ended last time.

“Yeah she nearly burnt down the house, just by boiling water. And she burned the water too.” I say, causing him to laugh before rushing home.

Alex started walking us towards the bed then set me on it laying down with me. He stroked my arm, before tucking my hair behind my ear, then hugging me.

“Jess, there's something we need to talk about!” he says, his voice cracking.

“Whatever it is I’m sure it’ll be fine.” I tell, but the truth is I’m terrified of what he wants to talk about.

“I...we can’t be together.” He tells me, though I can hear the pain in his voice. He doesn’t want to break up. I guess he feels that me being taken was his fault or something, not that I could blame him for thinking that, I would too if I were in his position.

“I know what you mean Alex, but I want you to know that this wasn’t your fault I don’t blame you for any of it. That’s why I’m saying this. No, no you aren’t going to just give up on us. I won’t let you, we’ve come too far in this relationship for it to end, and I don’t give up on things so easily as that.” I tell him in a stern voice.

“But that’s exactly it, this was my fault, and I don’t want anything even worse happening to you. That’s why we need to end this. I know neither of us want to, but us staying together would cause more pain and hurt than it would happiness and joy!” He says, his voice getting quieter.

“Please Don’t do this I’m begging you Alexander please don’t let me go?” I ask him, praying for him to only stay. He kissed me on the lips, then stood up and turned away from me and towards the door, then stopped.

“I love you Jessicia, but I need to let you go, it's the only way you’ll stay safe.” He says before walking out the door. I tried to stand up to follow him out, I made it halfway to the door, before my legs gave out. I just sat there on the floor crying. My sobs echoed through the whole room. I felt as though my world had just come crumbling down.

6 weeks later

Jessicia’s P.O.V.

I’ve been out of the hospital for a few weeks now and ever since Alex broke up with me I haven’t been able to eat a lot and I haven’t slept very much. All I’ve been doing was sitting alone in my room staring at the blank wall across from me. My friends have visited me a bit along with Ruby and Whitney who found an unlikely friendship in this whole ordeal. Today was actually the first day that I decided to get out of the house. That's why right now I’m all alone at the beach watching the sunset thinking to myself. Why couldn’t I have lived a more normal life, why did everything have to be so complicated for me. I started humming a song. I figured it was kind of fitting for my situation. I stood up from off the ground and walked closer to the water. I just kept walking deeper and deeper till my head was under it. I felt myself sink and sink, and just kept sinking. And that was when something grabbed me. I felt a hand pull me up till finally I was at the surface again. I started coughing up water when I opened my eyes. I saw the person’s face. It was a boy with blackish brown hair and green eyes who was staring at me intently.

“Hey, what happened, are you okay, miss are you alright?” he asked me. I just stared at him. Before I even knew what was going on I started crying into his chest. I was crying to a total stranger, a stranger who saved my life.

“I...I...I just can’t take it anymore, I can’t keep losing people.” I say as I cry even harder. The boy said nothing. He just simply Held me in his arms, and comforted me. “Why doesn’t someone just kill me already? I have nothing left to live for, I just want to die.” I cry even harder. He cradles me back and forth in his arms.

“Look I know I may not know your situation or anything, but I promise you it’ll be alright.” Suddenly he smiles at me and helps me stand up. We walk over to the rocks and sit down to talk.“My name’s Zane.”

“Jessicia.” I reply back in a hushed voice.

“So, what’s wrong that you wanna die?” he asked me.

“What are you, my therapist?” I ask him sarcastically.

“I prefer the term feeling hooker.” He says, causing me to laugh. After a while of him making me feel better and me telling him about my situation he agreed to walk me home. When I got there My dad and sister came running out the house and towards me. Bombarding me with questions, like where have you been, and who is this, and more things like that.

I invited Zane in for something to eat or drink to pay him back for saving my life. Once he left I told my dad about what happened at the beach. 

“So that’s how you’ve been feeling, I’m so sorry I didn’t notice anything sooner sweetie. You know what, I think you need a vacation.”

“I think so too.” I told him. I then fell asleep on the couch.