Learn to love again

Chapter 10

The picture on the side is of the heirloom tree topper that Sara's parents with be bring. Also I would like to thank ArticEm for giving me the idea for a new character :)

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Jason’s POV

I walked down the stairs to see Jerome fall off a ladder and Sara glaring at him. I just ignored it and decided to go out for a little. After an hour of driving around I felt like coffee. I saw a starbucks and sighed.

“Better than the bitter coffee that I’m forced to drink every morning.” I said and pulled up to the building. After parking my car I got out and went inside. After ordering I looked around for a seat. I then noticed that the only one available was in front of a girl. She have bleach blond hair and she was sipping her coffee. I walked over to her.

“Excuse me but…is it alright if I sit here?” She looked up at me and froze. Her eyes were a beautiful blue. Someone could get lost in them if they stared long enough.

“S…sure.” She said softly and I sat down. I smiled at her and then I noticed a light bruise on her cheek. You could easily miss it if you were far away enough. My smile disappeared and my eyes became sullen.

“What happened?” She froze again and reached her hand up to her face. She didn’t reply and just shrunk in her seat.

“Here… how about I introduce myself. I’m Jason.”

“M…Mary…” She replied I reached over and gently took her hand off her face and held it.

“Mary I know we just met but you look like you need to tell someone.” I said and a tear came to her eye. She blinked it away and took a deep breath.

“Fine I’ll tell you…I just got out of an abusive relationship. My ex has been abusing me for a couple years…I couldn’t get the courage to do it until today. He was nice when we started out but over time he…became progressively aggressive. He started hitting me…calling me names…and hurt me mentally time and time again. Everytime I thought about leaving him I lost the courage.” She said and I was angry. How could someone just…abuse a person. It gets me angry.

“My parents also abused me…they started abusing me when my little sister died seven years ago. The reason why is because they blame me for her death. They throw objects at me…break my bones…hit me…cut me…and a lot of other means. My grandma got sick of it and took custody of me last year. She didn’t know about my ex till yesterday. So now here I am…avoiding talking to my grandmother and talking to a stranger.” She then laughed slightly. My name was called and I looked at her.

“Go ahead…when you get back we can talk more.” I nodded and went up to get my coffee. After talking for a few hours we got to know each other and…she’s a sweet girl. She wanted to leave and still didn’t want to go home and finding out that she walked a few miles here…I offered her to come home with me for a little. She agreed and we left.

We got to the house and when we got inside I felt something cold hit my face. I wiped my face off and my eye twitched. I then saw Sara with a pile of snowballs in her arms. I then raised an eyebrow in confusion.

“How did you get snowballs?” I asked and Jerome poked his head out from behind the couch. He then threw a snowball, Sara looked backed, ducked…and the snowball hit me in the face. I wiped it off my face slowly. My eye twitched again and Sara covered her mouth to hold in a laugh. Mitch then walked out of the kitchen, shoved a snowball in Sara’s face then pelted Jerome with one.

“I made shaved ice and then…we made snowballs.” Mitch said and I sighed.

“Anyway…guys this is Mary.” After I said that I felt another ball hit my face. I clenched my fist and my eye started twitching rapidly. Jerome then ran up the stairs and I took a few deep breaths. I put my hand to my fore head and wiped off the ice slowly with a closed mouth smile on my face.

“I’ll be back…I’m going to go…talk…with Jerome for a minute.” I then charged for the stairs and bolted up them.

Mary’s POV

I burst out laughing after Jason disappeared up the stairs. I couldn’t keep it in any longer. After a minute I caught my breath and I saw Sara and Mitch looking at me confused. I froze and looked down. We then heard Jerome yell along with something falling to the floor. We heard the door slam then we saw Jerome run down the stairs with Jason close behind. Jerome ran past me and as Jason got closer I sighed, held my arm out and close lined Jason. He fell hard on his back and he groaned.

I looked back at the three of them and Sara was wide eyed and covering her mouth, Jerome was poking his head out from behind Mitch and he was wide eyed and Mitch had his mouth hanging open in surprise with his eyes wide.

“What? Jason be crazy so he got the line.” I simply said and helped Jason up. He held his throat and I smiled at the three of them.

“Uhh…I’m gonna go make an early dinner…” Sara said and ran into the kitchen.

“We’ll help you!” Mitch and Jerome said at the same time and ran into the kitchen. I then looked at Jason who was holding his neck.

“Don’t look at me…I can’t cook at all.”