9 Stay away

10 AM

“Jason, Jason”

Some random girls were screaming. Jason did not even pay attention to them, instead, he went inside the class then went to the teacher. “Good morning, Sir”.The teacher was writing down some English notes on a whiteboard and then he turned to face to face with Jason. Other students were taking this opportunity to do whatever they had to do.

The teacher put the blue marker on his desk. “Good morning young, man, how may I help you?” Jason looked at Jennifer sitting at the back with her eyes throwing knives at him and then turned his attention back to the teacher.

“I’d like to speak to Jennifer” Jason pointed his finger at Jennifer who stopped looking at him and covered her head with her green jacket.

“The teacher inhaled and fixed his glasses “Miss Jackson, she only sleeps in my class and I can’t help it. Jason looked unconcerned and was not paying any attention to the teacher. The teacher finally snapped to reality and realized that Jason was staring at him weirdly. Oh sorry, you know getting old makes you talk a lot.

“Ms. Jackson” The teacher voiced out loud.

Jason walked outside with both of his hands inside of the pockets of his black jeans trying to look cool in front of the girls from the class. They took the bait, someone were blushing, it’s not their fault. He’s tall, handsome, and he knows how to dress, Who wouldn’t fall for him?

“What the fuck does he need right now?” Jennifer mutters as she was getting up from her desk and then she headed outside with her hair all messed up. Jason stood in front of the door and soon as she got outside he turned to his right with a wrathful look on his face then Jennifer followed him. They went straight into another hallway then walked by 3 rooms then turned right and went inside an abandoned room that had no but desks.

Jennifer was standing in front of the door which had a vertical window in the middle of it facing Jason. “What is this all about?” Jennifer shrugged and asked confusingly.

There was a brief moment of silence from Jason.

“...I told you to stay away from Marcus, didn’t I?” Jason asked. Even though Jason and Marcus’s friendship is not healthy, Jason protects his friend no matter what, because back in the days Marcus helped him through a lot of difficulties.

“What? Jennifer closed her eyes and twisted her mouth trying to look innocent. She then opened her eyes and looked at Jason “I told you to stop acting like my boyfriend and stop stalking me for God’s sake, and for your concern, I actually like him and I'm not going to drag him into whatever my and your family are into.” Jason and Jennifer have been friends for a long time due to their family connections, dirty stuff, and all that.

“And you expect me to believe you?” asked Jason.

“Why are being an old man ?'' Not that Jason looks like an old man, he’s a 6’2 feet teenager with a pointy nose and caramel hair and his sexy british accent.

“The last kid you dated, his life went to waste, his family never found him and you and your whole family fled your hometown because of that, tell what happened to this kid?”

“Why do you care so much, Jason?”

Can’t you respond?”

“I can but if I do, I won’t stay away from Marcus?”

“Don’t try me, Jennifer, you know exactly what I can do to you,” Jason said, squeezing his tooth together, lowered his eyebrows, and pulled them closer to each other.

“Fine, we left town and since then I haven’t heard of him” Jennifer responded and smirked at him.

Jason clenched his fingers and then realized that he was in school then, Jennifer opened the door for Jason to leave. “Come on, leave now, cause I have things to do.” Jason looked at her and Jason left the class turned right to the hallway leading to Jennifer’s class and his eyes met with Marcus’s eyes who was just passing by, they did not exchange a word but the way they looked at each other meant war.

Marcus went straight and as soon he was passing. Marcus noticed Jennifer standing in front of the door to his left, he smiled at her, she smiled back at him then she looked away, Marcus left through the door leading outside.

3:40 PM

After school ended Jennifer went back to her house by riding a local bus, she got off the bus. Take the main door’s key out of her pocket. She unlocked the door when she entered the house. The house is just like any normal house, as soon as you get in you could see the kitchen and to the left, you could see things like a TV, couches and to her left, there were the stairs and Natasha who is Jennifer’s big sister around 20-year-old sitting on the stairs looking all gloomy. “Hey Sister,” Jennifer said as she was closing the door behind her.

“Hi, sis” Natasha replied in grief.

Jennifer looked deeply at her eyes and noticed that they were wet. It looked like she wanted to cry but she held back. Jennifer ran towards and wrapped her hands around her shoulders trying to comfort her “what happened?” Jennifer asked, trying to know why her sister looked so beat up and gloomy.

“He’s dead, Jen” She replied with tears falling down from her eyes.

Jennifer’s heart started to beat fast because that dead person could have been anyone she cares about. “Who’s dead?” Natasha stayed quiet. “Who the fuck is dead Natasha”? She yelled at her sister.

“Our brother, our brother has been murdered,” Natasha announced.

Jennifer was surprised. Her mouth was shaking like an earthquake. She let go of her sister and buried them in her face. She got up and walked towards the living room. She could hold the heartbreak no longer and she dropped her body on the crouches in a disheveled heap as her grief poured out in a flood of uncontrollable tears.