Jack Frost, Shannon Sabotage [best summer reads of all time TXT] 📗

smile at Jeremiah’s pain. As she wiped her eyes from any remaining tears she ran down the stairs and got dressed in front of the front door. She ran out the front door down the street pumping her arms and breathing heavily from her mouth. There was no way she was going back, never. Someone would find out, his parents would be home, someone would call the hospital.
She stopped in the middle of the street as a car honked at her from behind. Hestia sighed as she turned on her heel and sprinted straight back to where she almost lost her innocence. Reaching the doorway and frantically looking for a phone she stumbled into a back room. She looked around seeing baby toys and stuffed animals lying all around the room. The walls were painted a light pink and there was a crib in the far left corner. She ignored her surroundings and finally found a phone.
“911, what’s your emergency?”
“A…friend of mine is on fire.”
“What’s the address?”
Hestia gave the woman the address and soon she heard the sirens of an ambulance along with a fire engine grow in the distance. She was taken with the ambulance to the hospital. Moments later after being shoved into the waiting room she called Auburn to come to the hospital no questions asked until he got there.
About fifteen minutes later, Auburn stood in the waiting area with his chest heaving.
“Hestia!”
Hestia looked up to find her brother standing in the doorway. She waved him over and he ran over to her picking her up and squeezing her tight.
“I thought you were in the hospital!”
Hestia struggled trying to get lose. He finally set her back down and he sat beside her.
“So, what happened?”
She breathed in rubbing her hands together producing a light flicker between her palms.
“You know that guy who was in our driveway yesterday…”
“Yeah?”
“Well, he was really nice to me today and I missed my bus, he ended up offering to take me home and I agreed.”
“Oh, Hestia.”
“Wait, it gets worse.”
Auburn sighed and listened carefully.
“He tried to rape me and I could’ve burned his whole face off.”
There was a pause before Auburn shot up out of the seat and pushed through doctors and nurses to the emergency room where Jeremiah was being taken care of. Pounding his fists on the double doors he screamed at the top of his lungs,
“That bastard deserves to suffer! He tried to rape my sister!”
Doctors pulled at his arms and tried pulling Auburn back away from the doors but it was no use. He was stronger than them. Hestia buried her face in her hands beginning to sob quietly as things started crumbling all around her. As her brother screamed and yelled Hestia cried harder causing the fire inside the burn and burn. That fire she couldn’t control began to leak out of her hands. She stood running out into the pouring rain. She bawled as the raindrops extinguished her fire and totally drowned her out. She stood in the street that led to the emergency room and stared up at the sky wanting to drown.
Slowly walking back inside she noticed a bright blue haired boy standing at the receptionist desk. She ran towards him crying again but smiling. She hugged him tightly around the chest from behind and wailed into his shoulder. Feeling him turn around she looked up at him with her makeup running revealing the bruise that her father had left. Jack kissed her cheek and spun around facing her.
“I hear what happened, I’m so sorry.”
He took her carefully and gently in his strong arms. She wept into his navy flannel shirt and he held her closely. She cried for a good thirty minutes. Jack held her in his arms as they both fell asleep in the main lobby.
Hestia woke up drenched in her own tears lying in Jack’s arms. As she began to sit up she was brought back down by Jack’s sweet grasp. She cuddled into him and smiled. She kissed his chest as he played with her hair sleepily.
“Hey, sweetie.”
Jack squeezed her lightly and pecked her cheek. Hestia blushed and buried her face in his shirt and mumbled something.
“What was that?”
She lifted up her head slowly and looked up at him.
“Thank you for staying with me. I know I’m a hand full.”
“Not problem at all, I should be thanking you for letting me stay.”
He smiled lightly as she kissed his nose. Their moment was broken the instant Auburn walked into the room. Hestia and Jack both scooted to opposite chairs and looked away from each other.
“I brought coffee. And you know I’ve walked through this area about a ga-zillion times, I know you guys were cuddling.” Auburn laughed as he handed them cups of coffee.
Hestia blushed again and took a sip of her coffee. Jack held his coffee in his hands sitting there. Auburn sat down beside his sister and gulped down half of the large cup. He looked over at Jack and questioned,
“Dude, why aren’t you drinking that coffee? I’ll be happy as ever to drink it myself.”
Jack looked at the cup then handed it over to Auburn. Auburn thanked him and drank the rest of his first cup and started on Jack’s.
“What? You don’t like coffee?” Hestia said as she wiped whipped cream off of her top lip.
“I don’t like hot drinks.”
“Oh, well I do.” She smiled and leaned over and kissed Jack’s lips instantly producing sparks. Auburn leaned over them and slapped Jack’s arm.
“No! No, smooching my sister right in front of me!” Hestia and Jack laughed at him and with a final peck on her cheek Jack stop the public affection.
“So, there’s good news and bad news.”
“Bad news first please.” Hestia demanded after another sip of her coffee.
“Jeremiah’s not to burned up but you’ll have to come up with a story how it happened. We can’t really tell them what actually happened.”
“What really happened?” Jack arched one of his eyebrows and looked at Hestia. She sighed and turned to Auburn ignoring Jack’s question.
“Why do I need to come up with a story?”
“Because we’re going to court next week about this and you can’t just tell the judge you have pow-” Hestia slapped him before he continued. Auburn yelped and cupped his left cheek nodding.
“Sorry, and that was the good news, you know the going to court thing. But I don’t know if we’ll win since you didn’t get raped…But it’s still against the law even to attempt.”
Hestia nodded as Jack shifted position in his chair.
“He got burned how?”
Hestia paused.
“There was a lit candle in the room and his clothes caught fire.”
Auburn pointed at her and smiled.
“That’s the story! Good job, sis!”
Hestia did a miniature bow in her it and laughed lightly. Jack still looked very confused.
“I’ll tell you some other time.” Hestia said as she patted Jack’s leg lightly. He nodded and kissed her cheek.
“What did I say about smooching Hestia in front of me?” Jack shook his head smiling and kissed her again this time causing her to giggle.
“Well, you’re going to have to deal with it!” Hestia snapped playfully.
They all laughed. The nurse gave them an update on Jeremiah’s condition. At this point none of them had any sympathy for him. Except deep down inside, Hestia felt the stinging guilt of what happened.

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Publication Date: 04-11-2012

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