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Chapter 14: Chaos

Chapter 14: Chaos

Recap:

I was watching a sci fi movie when I felt Natasha shiver suddenly. At first I thought maybe she was shivering maybe because she was cold but it was a relatively warm night. I turned to look at her and to my horror Natasha was staring forward unfocussed and shivering as if she had some kind of a seizure. I leapt up in panic and started to shake her when she realized it was me in front of her, she squeezed her eyes shut in relief .

I let out a breath that I hadn’t realized I had been holding. Okay so she wasn’t having a seizure. Of course she wasn’t having a seizure! What was wrong with her though? She had tears flowing down her face. She was positively sobbing now.

“Natasha what’s wrong?”

“Jude I-”

She started sobbing again. All I could do was hold her as she had held me sometime back. I took her on my lap and held her close as she sobbed in my chest. After sometime she stopped sobbing and just stayed there. I was confused but I couldn’t help but notice how tiny she felt in my arms, tiny yet perfect.  I shook myself and tried to focus on the matter at hand.

“Natasha?”

“Hm?”

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. For some reason I just remembered something unpleasant.”

“Was it about your dad?”

“No.”

“Your mom?”

“Nope?”

“An ex boyfriend?”

“ha! I wish it was as simple as that!”

“Then what is it?” I asked giving up on guessing.

“Er it’s something that happened to me while I was in college?”

“What happened?”

“I was sexually abused.”

“WHAT?” nothing and I mean nothing had prepared me for that. I don’t know what was worse, the fact that she said it in a deadpan voice as if stating a fact or the fact she had been abused.  

“Tell me everything.”

I sat there as I heard her narrate what had happened to her. The son of a bitch had even tried blaming it on her. When she told me that she had actually apologized to his wife I felt like crying with her. Wuss! Said my inner voice. Yeah I know my inner voice has great timing.

“Natasha where is this place?”

“Which place?”

“The café where you used to work.”

“Its near my university.”

“Which University you went to again?”

“It was St. Louis.”

“Oh. Nice.”

“Scholarship.”

I started laughing and so did Natasha.

“Didn’t your mom do something about it?”

Natasha paled at the mention of her mother.

“No. I didn’t tell her.”

“Why not?!”

“I didn’t want to trouble her? I-I didn’t want to get her all tensed.”

“You didn’t want her doing her job? She’s your mother, that’s what all mothers do. Its their job to worry Natasha!”

She stared at her feet and refused to talk anymore about her mother. I sighed and let the topic a rest. For some reason she didn’t like talking about her mother.
I stared at her as she continued looking down at her feet. “So you think I have mischievous eyes huh? I asked with a smirk. Natasha bursted out laughing.

“Seriously? I mean seriously Jude?”

I nodded my head and said “Yep.”

Natasha shook her head and then stood up.

“You were saying that you want to leave?”

“Well I wanted to before but I kinda like the company.” She looked down at me and smiled. “So I guess I will go there tomorrow and just pick up my stuff, check on my apartment and come back here.”

I smiled goofily as my mind registered that she liked my company and I sort of understood she wanted to check on her apartment.

Suddenly she bent down and kissed me on my forehead and my goofy smile became goofier and wider.

“Goodnight Jude and thanks for being there.”

With that she went to the bedroom. I sat there smiling like an idiot touching the spot where she had kissed. I switched off the TV and went to my room. As soon as I entered the room I stopped and chuckled. Natasha had already fallen asleep and there in the middle of the bed was the wall of pillows. I went there and laid down. I fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.


Natasha’s P.O.V.

I woke up early next morning. I tried moving but couldn’t. I looked around trying to find the source of the weight and realized it was Jude’s arm and his leg. His arm was around my shoulders and leg was wrapped around my waist. I tried getting up without waking him but it was impossible! Jeez how much did he weigh anyway? There was a stream of sunlight coming in though a slight gap between the curtains which caused Jude to scowl making him look really cute. I turned on my side and adjusted myself so that I blocked the ray of light. His face immediately eased and the scowl disappeared. I looked at him and smiled. His lashes were thick and long. His hair fell on his forehead. He could totally carry the ‘just out of bed’ look. He was drooling a little which made me giggle.
“Take a picture it will last longer.”

I gasped as I realized he had been awake all this while. I shoved him off me as he opened his eyes.

“Aw that’s harsh Nats! I just woke up!”

“Liar! You have been awake all this while.”

“Not really just when you said that I look hot.”

My eyes widened, I hadn’t said anything out loud had I?

“Well you were thinking it anyway.”

“Right.” I said rolling my eyes.

“Anyhow wake up sleepy head we have to go to my apartment remember.”

Jude groaned and made no effort to move at all. He was so infuriating sometimes! Hot but infuriating! I got up and went to brush my teeth and change. When I came out I saw that Jude was still sleeping. I crept over to where he was and took a deep breath and yelled “Booooooyah!”

“What?” yelled Jude as he sat up and looked around in panic. I was laughing so hard there were tears in my eyes. Jude narrowed his eyes and said, “You are so paying for that Natasha!” I tried to stop laughing but I couldn’t. Suddenly he pulled me on the bed and yelled “Tickle war!” My eyes widened in panic and I struggled to get out of his grasp but he was heavy, there was no way I could get out of this one. He started tickling me while I yelled helplessly. I was laughing and my sides were hurting. “HELP!”

The bedroom door flew open and in came Mrs. Bowers carrying a heavy frying pan with a determined look on her face. She stopped short when she saw us. Her eyes widened and she blushed and said, “I am sorry. I thought there was an intruder in the house.” Jude gave her a charming smile and said, “No Mrs. Bowers. I was just having a tickle war with my lovely fiancé. Mrs. Bowers just shook her head and muttered something about locking bedroom doors. Jude raised his eyebrows and looked at me. I was breathing heavily, my face was red, I was sweating and so was Jude and we were both breathing heavily. Jude had both my hands pinned above my head. To an outsider this must have painted a completely different picture. Jude let go of my hands and cleared his throat.

“Er Jude? Can you please get off me?”

“Yeah sorry.” He got up and went for a shower while I went to eat the delicious breakfast Mrs. Bowers had made. We finished eating quickly and then drove to my house. I opened the door to my house and stared. My apartment was sufficient for me or used to be but now it looked positively tiny in front of Jude’s apartment. I walked and folded my blanket that I had discarded because Jude had woken me up and taken me shopping without any intimation.  I decided to keep it in my cupboard as I wouldn’t be here a lot. I started dusting my furniture and was surprised when Jude picked a broom and started sweeping. I protested but he just brushed aside my objections as he struggled to sweep. I smiled at the sight of this adorable boy sweeping my apartment for me. I disconnected my refrigerator and quickly packed a set of my clothes in a small travel bag. I packed a frame which contained a picture of mom, dad and me when I was three years old. It was taken a few months before my dad died.

“So Natasha, should we go?”

“Yeah, I’m done.”

I slung my bag on my shoulder and we walked out. I locked my apartment as Jude went to get his car. I stepped out and out my bag in the backseat. I climbed into the passenger seat as Jude put on his seatbelt. I put my seatbelt on too. We drove in silence and I put on the radio. I squealed as my favorite song moves like Jagger by Maroon 5 came on. I kinda danced awkwardly while sitting while Jude stared at me incredulously. I couldn’t help it! Every single time I heard this song it made me want to dance. At the end of the song even Jude was humming it enthusiastically. Nobody could not like this song. I suddenly realized we were not going in the right direction.

“Jude, I don’t think we are on the right road. I think you missed a turn somewhere.”

“Oh we are on the right road alright.”

I shrugged, I was terrible with directions but I was pretty sure we weren’t going towards Jude’s home. As we passed a few familiar places a feeling of dread settled in my stomach and I felt my stomach clench. This was the road to my university and for some stupid reason Jude was going the same way. I took deep breaths to calm myself down. There’s no way Jude would take me there. No way in hell. I had just quit my job two weeks ago. I wasn’t ready to face all of it right now. My feeling of dread returned as Jude parked in the university’s parking lot. He got out while I sat there as still as a statue. He came to my side and opened the door.

“Come out Natasha.” He said softly. I shook my head and just sat there. I folded my hands across my chest. Jude sighed and bent down to my level.

“Natasha look at me.” I turned my head to look at him. Damn those blue eyes! What took my breath away was the gentle look he had in his eyes. There was concern and care in them.

“Why are we here?”

“Do you trust me?”

I shook my head and said “No?”

Jude chuckled and held his hand out to me and said “That’s the spirit! Now come on.”

I put my hand in his, his hand was warm whereas mine was clammy and cold. He gave my hand a reassuring squeeze. We started walking across the campus towards the café and I felt my steps falter, my knees shook a little and I struggled to keep out the events of that terrible night out of my head. As we neared the café I felt my heart rate increase, a billion thoughts raced across my mind. Why are we here? Did Jude not believe me? Had he come here to check the story out for himself? Why didn’t he tell me we were coming here? Did he want to catch me unaware thinking I was lying? I really didn’t understand the purpose of this visit. As we neared the café I saw a few empty tables. Jude went and sat at one. Today he was wearing a red T-shirt and ripped jeans with black sneakers. He looked like a college student himself. In fact we both could pass as college students. I was wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt and my worn out white converse. I took a seat across him.

“Jude why are we here?”

“Just wait and watch.”

I frowned at him. I didn’t like his tone one bit. I didn’t want any trouble I just wanted to get out of here! A waiter walked up to us and handed our menus. Jude ordered cold coffees for both of us. I was too nervous to eat or drink. I looked around and didn’t see anyone from the old staff. I shrugged thinking they were probably working the evening shift. The boy returned with our glasses of coffee while Jude looked around. He excused himself to go to the washroom. I sat there in dread thinking that Blake would be here anytime. I took tiny sips of my coffee, soon Jude came with a big smile on his face.

“What happened?”

“You’ll see.”

I looked at him in confusion as he sipped his coffee. I finished my coffee and excused myself to go to the washroom. Jude just nodded. I went to the washroom, by now I had relaxed a little. Blake hadn’t come out yet so in all probability he wasn’t here anyway. I walked out and was about to get out of the passageway when I was blocked by someone. I tried to scream but a hand clamped down on my mouth. I stared into Blake’s furious eyes.

“So Natasha you finally decided to show up huh?” His eyes raked my body and I squeezed my eyes shut, whimpering a little.

“Well don’t you look gorgeous?” he said smiling evilly and licking his lips. I felt my skin crawl. I felt tears spilling onto my cheeks and hated myself for it. I tried hard to struggle but that only seemed to please him more so I stopped. He pushed me further into the passage. I kicked and struggled. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me.

“Listen to me you bitch! You cost me my marriage and my house and a hell lot of money! All my old staff quit. It happened all because of you.”

“Actually scumbag all of that happened thanks to you!”

I looked up shocked and ecstatic to see Jude standing at the entrance of the passage.

“Get your filthy hands off my girl.” Ok is it weird that the only part of the conversation that my brain registered was ‘my girl?’ yes I must be losing it.

“Your girl?” Blake sneered.

“Yeah you heard me. Let her go.”

“Or else?”

“Well can’t say I didn’t give you a fair chance.” With that Jude moved forward and  pulled me out of Blake’s grasp. He pushed me behind him and punched Blake hard in his face.

“Ow! Son of a-” he didn’t get to complete what he was saying because Jude pulled him by his collar and banged him against the wall.

“If you ever come near her again I swear I will make you regret ever being born again.” Every word of his was accompanied by a shove against the wall. Blake was bleeding from his nose and he looked like he was really hurt!

“Ok! Ok man! You can have her all to yourself.” I was glad to see he was sniveling and eve had tears running down his face, tears of pain.

“Just let me go please, I will never touch her again.”

I just stood there and stared amazed at Jude. Then Jude caught Blake’s arms and held them behind his back.

“Natasha” he called out to me, I looked up at him “ hit him.” My eyes widened.

“What? Come on man are you serious? I said I was sorry ok?”

“You shut up. Just stay still or I swear I will break your arm. Natasha come on!”

I took a step forward and looked at the creep square in his face. I took a determined step near him, raised my knee and hit him hard where the sun doesn’t shine. He collapsed on the floor whimpering. Jude gave me a huge smile, “Awesome Nats!” Then he took my hand and we ran out of the café laughing. We were a few feet away when I stopped and said, “We didn’t pay for the coffee!”

“I did.”

“Oh ok then.”  I literally skipped all the way to the parking lot. It felt so good to hit the creep. I stopped at the car and turned to Jude.

“Thank you so much.”

“My pleasure”, he said grinning widely. I stepped forward and hugged him tight. I didn’t feel like letting go. Finally I did and Jude smiled at me.

“I could hit him once more you know!” he said winking. I laughed and wished that we could have met under difference circumstances and could have had something for real. Suddenly Jude’s phone rang breaking the awkward silence that had settled.

“Hello?”

I watched as he spoke and saw his whole body tense.

“Don’t panic we are on our way!”

(A/N: Yes another cliffhanger but I will try to upload tomorrow itself. This is longer than usual atleast according to microsoft word:p I would have written more but my back is killing me. Thank you so much guys for your support and comments! They make my day! Thank you @ RaTasha Cuyler. Your personal message made my day awesome. I  am so happy you guys like what I write! As usual lend your support to me please? Comment vote fan ? I love you guys! <3