Camp Echo Falls (Completed)

Chapter 95

"Jade I didn't-" I turn to face her but she steps back from the banister hesitantly, putting an eerie space between us that I automatically begin to hate.

"You knew and you didn't think to tell me?" Her words are quick, her voice strained as her breathing starts to get heavier. I can see as her eyes search mine, over and over, begging me to tell her that everything will be okay, that everything will work it's self out.

"I didn't think you needed to hear any more bad things." Bad isn't the right word but I don't know what to say. Why didn't I tell Jade? Well because there was a lot going on and it didn't cross my mind to tell her any of the details. I just needed to make sure she was safe. Nothing else mattered.  I go to reach for her arm but she flinches, her body jolting away from me instinctively. The action sends a slicing pain right through my chest, my stomach turning to an icy cold as my hand drops inches away from the girl who makes me feel like me. Please.

"More bad things?" Her voice is laced with spite. Anger. Her tear stained eyes search mine, begging me to say something to explain what I've just said.

I hesitate. "Jade that's not what-" I stumble on my words.

"Bad things?" She repeats as the flow of tears leave stains on her soft skin, her bottom lip in between her teeth as she tries to stop it from trembling.

"I thought it would be best for you if you didn't know..." I can't seem to form the right words, too scared of saying the wrong thing, "You know...the details." I let out a shaky breath as I look away from her for the first time since I came out here, trying to steady my breathing as the overwhelming pain floods back into my bones.

"That wasn't your decision Leo," her small sobs bring me back to her, my eyes finding her weak body starting to shake, her nails digging into her palms at her side. I can't stand to see her like this.

"I know. I know and I'm sorry. I didn't think that it was important at the time and-" I'm rambling now, my hands tugging on my hair as she watches me with teary eyes."I wasn't thinking." My teeth are gritted together as I speak, her head shakes back and forth as though she's trying to force the words out of her ears.

"I trusted you." Her small voice comes out as barely a whisper and panic starts to seep into my blood.

"Jade." I say stubbornly, not for a second caring about the circumstances, not thinking about anything other than not letting her hate me. I can't let her hate me. I fucking can't. If everything goes to shit, the one thing I will not accept is her regretting trusting me. After everything we've been through, I want her to know that when she found trust in me, it was real.

"Leo," she whispers back, her sad eyes staring up at me, taking me in one last time as though this is her goodbye to me.

"Jade," her name leaves my lips as a beg this time. As a plea, as a last hope to correct this, as anything that she'll take just so I don't have to loose her. I can't loose her. I won't.

"I trusted you," she repeats louder this time, her tone changing from self pity to anger, to regret and hatred in a split second.

"Jade you still can." My voice breaks as I watch her slowly shake her head. "You know I didn't mean to hurt you anymore than you already were. I couldn't stand to see you in so much pain. I still can't. Please understand that," I beg, feeling my own tears daring to fall.

I couldn't care less about crying in front of her. She's seen more of me than anyone else has ever come close to. She knows me better than I know myself, she makes me feel like I'm someone - like I deserve to have good in my life. Jade has seen every side of me and still wants to be around me and for that I'm never letting her go. She blinks away a tear and I see it roll down her cheek, swallowing deeply she looks up at me and I see the clogs turning behind her eyes.