#THE_SACRIFICE
EPISODE 83
©Sir Zach
“Our little miss is now hooking up with a guy huh?” Lair tea-sed the moment Jade walked closer to him.
“Good evening to you too” Jade greeted dismissively.
“Ha, so that’s how it’s now right? I catch you k!ss!nga guy and you’re not going to say anything?” Lair nudged her by the side. Jade’s face colored when Lair said the word k!ss. She still didn’t un-derstand why Jake had suddenly done that.
He hasn’t done that before.
“It wasn’t a k!ss, it was a friendly pe-ck” She said defending herself.
“Really? Then come I should give one too. It seems you like friendly pe-cks, wood pe-cker” Lair tea-sed as he drew closer to her with his poutedl-ips.
“You’re crazy Lair Walker, go pe-ck some cadavers” Jade cussed jokingly before sprinting up the stairs to Amy’s room.
“I’ll get you for that Jade Peterson”
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*Amy’s Room*
“Guess who’s here to see the sick princess?” Jade jeered as soon as she walked into Amy’s room.
“It’s the Pretty sick princess’ bestie” Amy replied gleefully. She sprang up from the be-d to hvg Jade, but Jade abruptly st©pped her.
“Don’t you dare move Amy Walker. Get back on that be-d else I’ll sp@ñk you” Jade scolded with a mock-stern voice.
“You wouldn’t dare” Amy stubbornly replied as she pressed forward and hvgged Jade.
“My sweet baby” Amy said as she hvgged Jade ti-ghtly.
“Has someone ever told you that you’re damn stubborn?” Jade hvgged her back but she was careful enough not to squee-ze her just as much as Amy was squee-zing her.
“Yeah someone just did” She pu-ll-ed away from the hvg, her smile not leaving her face.
“Good to have sincere someones’ who can always tell you the truth” Jade said leading them back to the be-d.
Jade gave Amy a scrutinizing look, a frown plastered on her face. “Amy what’s wrong with you? Why do you look so lean? Have you been skipping meals?” She asked with concern, as she moved closer, her hand slowly tucking a stray strand of hair behind Amy’s ear. Amy gave her a guilty look and did not answer, she knew Jade was about to scold her, so she might as well keep shut.
“It’s because of the Michael issue isn’t it?” Jade asked, more like she stated. Amy lowered her head and said, “It’s not true”
“It’s okay” Jade un-derstood how Amy felt about the whole issue. If she was the one in Amy’s shoes she might look worse than her right now.
“Has there been any upd@t£? What did the pri-vate investigator say” Jade curiously asked.
Amy’s mood changed and a sad frown appeared on her face, and Jade noticed it.
“What is it? Did they find something? Have they found him?” Jade asked anxiously, while Amy slowly shook her head. “Then why do you have that look, like something terrible happened?”
“He’s in jail” Amy told her in a small and teary voice.
“What? How did that happen? What did he do? Jade asked all those questions at the same time. She wasn’t expecting news of Michael being in jail. It c@m£ as a shock to her. Well, she had mistaken him for an as-s-hole and had wished him to rot in jail in the past when he broke her friend’s heart, but after knowing the actual truth behind their unfortunate breakup, Jade didn’t think Michael was someone that should be in jail.
“Mom locked him there”
“She did what?” Jade stood to her feet due to the surprise of hearing that. How could Amy’s mom do that?
“And dad is threatening to divorce her if she doesn’t bring him back in a week time. I feel like my family is going to fall ap@rt because of me” Amy broke out in a sob, her palms covering her face as her shoulders shook slowly.
“Hey, that’s not true” Jade sat back on the be-d and wra-pped her hands around Amy.
“It’s true. Look at what’s happening to Michael, it’s because of me. I alre-ady feel like I was some sort of unfortunate being who brou-ght chaos to his life, and now things keeps getting worse because of me. I feel so cursed right now” She sobbe-d even more. She wra-pped her hands around Jade as she buried her head on Jade’s n£¢k.
“Shhh…don’t say that, you’re not cursed. You’re far from that. You’re a sweet, beautiful, lovely, blessed and favoured girl. You’re a bundle of joy. You’re my bundle of joy. I know you’re feeling bad right now, but Amy never say such things about yourself” She comforted her, slowly patting on her back.
Jade pu-ll-ed Amy’s face up. She wiped off her tears and cu-mpped her face with her hands.
“Amy look at me” She said softly ma-king Amy to look at her with her red, dull eyes. Jade sighed in her heart. This was her first time seeing Amy look so broken and trodden. Her strong, bold and fierce friend wasn’t there anymore. All that was left was a weak, frail girl.
Amy lifted her eyes to meet Jade’s gaze, as she tried to stifle her tears. “I know things are very rou-gh now, but never speak ill of yourself. This is not your fault. This is your mothers fault and not yours or anyb©dys, it hers and hers only. You loved Michael to a fault and I witnessed that love, but you can’t say you’re cursed because your mother chose to go on the wrong path and decided to leave choas at her wake? Amy you’re the best daughter, sister, friend, lover, future wife anyb©dy can have. So don’t say ill things about yourself. All this is a phase, just to shake you up and build you. But have to be strong to fight and fix this, so you can come up at the other side victorious and happy. Believe me nothing is going to happen to Michael and if I know your mother well, she’ll definitely let him go. She loves her image too much and would probably not give anyone a t©pic to talk about her. I as-sure you” Jade said while Amy nodded slowly.
“Now st©p crying okay and give me an Amy special smile” Jade nudged her arm. Amy stifled her tears and tried to f0rç£ a smile but it wasn’t as bright as her usual smile, and in every way it looked f0rç£d.
When Amy finally calmed herself down, she pu-ll-ed Jade in for another hvg and said, “Thank you Jade, you’re the best”
“And you’re my bestest friend” Jade hvged her too with a smile.
“Where’s the man k!ss£r?” Lair asked flinging Amy’s door open, ma-king the pair of friends snap their n£¢k towards the door.
“Who’s a man k!ss£r” Amy asked in confusion, as she wiped the residue of tears off her face.
“Jade Peterson of course” He announced. “I caught her k!ss!nga…”
“Where you crying?” He paused and asked with a slight frown forming on his face when he noticed Amy’s puffed and reddend eyes.
“Not anymore” She rolled her eyes at him, when she saw the scolding look he was giving her. She immediately turned to Jade with wi-de-ned eyes.
“You were k!ss!nga man?” She asked in a fully surprised tone. Jade was about to die of embarras-sment. She turned and glared at Lair.
“I wasn’t k!ss!nganyb©dy. It was just a ..”
“pe-ck” Lair completed her s£ntence with a hint of sacarsm.
“Exactly” Jade nodded.
“On yourl-ips huh? With hisl-ips slammed against yours and his ton-gue exploring your mouth like a plunge, you call that a pe-ck” Lair said ma-king Jade frown at him.
“That’s not true” She blurted out. She turned to Amy, “Lairs’ lying. You know how he can be right? He’s just trying to mess with me by exaggerating things” She said throwing her bag at him but he dodged it.
“Really?Okay deny that a guy didn’t bring you here? Or that hisl-ips didn’t k!ssyou” Lair was trying so ha-rd not to laugh at Jade’s countenance. She looked like she was about to murder him. He loved messing with her like this.
“It was just a pe-ck” She declared firmly. Amy who was confused didn’t know who to believe, but she knew de-ep down the kind of person her brother was. Jade was probably telling the truth.
“Who was he?” Amy asked instead.
Jade turned her head to the side, without answering Amy. She was feeling embarras-sed.
“Jade?” Amy called out in a suspicious tone.
Jade pouted herl-ips and pushed it to the side, before muttering, “Your boss”
Amy was confused by her reply. She had many bosses. Ranging from the CEO, Jake Beau to her dep@rtmental director. Which could she be talking about? And why was Jade k!ss!ngher boss, or according was pe-cked by her boss.
Amy’s eyes popped when a name c@m£ to mind. She didn’t know why she thought about him, but from the vague memory of her drun!knight at the club, she was sure it was, “Jake Beau?” She asked with surprise. “plea-se tell it wasn’t him” Amy pleaded desperately.
“You know him?” Lair who was now very much interested in this asked.
“Shut up Lair!” Amy thun-dered, her eyes staring daggers at him. She didn’t have time to answer him now.
“Jade plea-se don’t tell me you k!$$£d Jake… that…that notorious, chronic, devilish womaniser?” Amy asked, more like she was pleading with Jade not to admit it was true. She would die if that was the case.
Jade looked at her, “Firstly it wasn’t a real k!ss. It was just a pe-ck on the cheek. And yes it was Jake Beau, but don’t make him look like a terrible person. His actually a good, cute and funny guy who has a lot to give and not just a mere wom-anizer” Jade said in Jake’s defence, completely stunning Amy beyond words. Amy didn’t see that coming.
“You can’t be serious” Amy was dumbfounded.
“Ha, our girl is hooked and re-ady to be reeled in” He smiled sheepishly as he listened to both women.
“Lair I swear I’ll kill you, if you say something else, not withsatanding that you’re my lovely brother” Amy snarled. Lair raised his hand in surrender, but he pu-ll-ed a chair forward to sit close to them.
“Jade, you can’t around town with Jake Beau. His my boss and I can as-sure that that man is a dangerous male specie. He sleeps with everything he sees, and discards women like piece of trash. Sitting in his car is even dangerous. Jade you can’t do that!”
“But he isn’t that bad. He actually treats me well and hasn’t made any advances towards me or anything like that. Our friendsh!pis simply platoonic”
Amy kept quiet for a couple of seconds, carefully observing Jade. This conversation gave her a feeling of deja vu. This was how her relationsh!pwith Cale started.
Amy turned Jade to face her and asked. “You like him don’t you?”
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