Jessica woke up to a scratching noise at her bedroom door. She opens it to see nothing. Her paranoia was acting up again. She goes to the bathroom, opens up the medicine cabinet, opens up a bottle of pills. She quickly gulps down three pills but before she could gulp down more, Cotton startles her. "What are you doing?" Asks a annoyed Cotton. Jessica didn't know she's a light sleeper, the slightly sound will wake her up. "Oh um, just taking some painkillers." Jessica lies. "Um if you take anymore you're going to have an overdose?" Cotton points out. "Oh no, I can take up to five of these." Jessica smiles as she opens the lid again. Jessica pours out three more. "See I've taken two so I'm going to take these and go back to bed." Jessica gulps them down. "Okay." Cotton says unsure why Jessica needs painkillers. "Why do you take painkillers or better yet so many painkillers?" Cotton asks coming closer to Jessica. "Um its nothing, let's just go to bed yeah?" Jessica quickly puts the pill bottle away and picks up Cotton. ''Okay." Cotton repeats. Jessica knew Cotton was going to pry. But she just wants to know, and Jessica wasn't ready to tell yet. Jessica lays down with Cotton. Her lies are getting bigger and it's getting harder to find new excuses for it.
Jessica woke up later that morning throwing up. After her throw up session, she rummages through her bathroom cupboards until she found a pregnancy test box. She did what she had to do on the stick and waited for about 5 minutes. She looks down and silently read: Positive +. She instantly drops to floor in tears. The pregnancy test was thrown on the other side of the bathroom near the door. Jessica was angry with herself not at Jake. ''Your pregnant?" Says a more-than-angry Jake. "Yes." Jessica replies with a nod. "How could you! You told me you were on birth control! And now you're pregnant! Are you fucking kidding me?" Jake yells. She couldn't respond. It was all hitting her at once. "But I thought you wanted to try again?" Asks Jessica. "When we were old enough to have children! God dammit Jessica!" Jake yells and before he knows it he backhanded her across the face. "I-i-" She began but he cut her off. "Just leave me alone." Jake walks out to see Cotton. She was standing there the whole time. "And you! Did you know about this!" He yells at Cotton. "Jake leave her alone! She didn't know!" Jessica pulls him away from her, but he pushes her into the wall. "Get the hell of me!" He yells at her. "That baby is mistake. Cotton's a mistake and so are we. I'm seriously done with you! Goodbye." He pushes Cotton out of the way and walks out. "Wow." Cotton says and walks out. Jessica fell to her knees in tears.
"No! I didn't mean to do this! Why! Why are they so mad at me! What did I do wrong! " She screams out. Cotton came back in with some soothing hot chocolate. "Mum, please just calm down! He's just upset." Cotton says with the sweetest smile and voice Jessica found irresistible. Jessica gets up from the ground and picks Cotton up.
(I'm sorry but I'm In love with Cotton and Jessica together. They'd either be Cessica or Jotton? You pick.)
She kisses her on the lips. Cotton surprisingly kisses back. "Put her down." Says an angry voice known as Jakes. "No!" Jessica snarls at Jake and Cotton covers her ears Jake wasn't mad like he was but he still was a bit angry. "Jessica! She's just a child! And you're kissing her like you'd kiss me?" Jake crosses his arms. "So maybe she likes it." Jessica snaps at him. "Well let's ask her?" Jake suggests. Jessica looks back at Cotton. "Do you like that?" Asks Jessica.
"No." Cotton lies.
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The Institute ~Completed~
HorrorSeveral people must confront a reality no one is prepared to face. This book is an original.
