Jen started to move a little in the bed.
Jen: Will?
Will: Yes?
Jen: It hurts.
She was crying.
Will: I know it does. I know something that can help but you're not going to like it.
Jen: What is it?
Will: A type of cream that can heal anything. We have it on this side because people seem to get possessed quite often. You have to put it on the injury. In your case, all of them.
Jen: Can I be asleep for it?
Will: Sure...But before you fall asleep, I thought that you may want to know that Colby will be doing it. Not me.
Jen: He's here?
Will: He right behind you.
Colby: I'm right here babe.
I said, holding her hand.
Jen: Just be careful Colbs. I'm going to sleep now.
Colby: Okay.
I said in a shaky voice through tears. She fell asleep very quickly.
Will: You made her like this. Now, fix it.
He said, pushing the jar of cream against my chest.
Will: If you hurt her while you're doing this, I'll finish the job, and I don't think you want that to happen.
Will turned and left the room. It was only Jen and I now. I went over and took her shirt off. The amount of burn wounds were sickening. I started putting the cream on it and it started to disappear immediately. It took me a total of 15 minutes to get all the burn wounds... Except for one... The that I knew hurt the most. She woke up as I was taking off her pants.
Jen: What are you doing?!?
She must've been too tired to remember Will explaining it earlier.
Colby: Helping your burns. I'm on the last one.
Jen: What are you doing here?
Colby: I'm asleep. But I'm helping you.
Jen: Thank you Colbs.
She fell back asleep before I could respond. I continued with what I was doing. I put her legs over my shoulder so it would be a little easier. I looked at her and felt bad. I just wish everything would be okay. I want Jen to be happy. I want us to be happy together. I don't want other people getting in the way. I tried so hard to get her and now I finally do, but, Brennen keeps getting in the way. I know it hurts her to see his face. I tried to focus on the fact that I was helping her by doing this. I quickly put it on her and put her legs down. Why did I do this? I hated Brennen, but I knew what I did was wrong, but, I still did it anyway. I'm an idiot. A complete idiot. It's not fair Jen has to suffer because I ignored the bad feeling I had before pressing the rod against his skin. I want kiss every part of her and make it better, but, I can't. I can't completely fix this. I wish I could undo all of what I've done I've hurt Jen so many times. All I want to do is help her. She's been through so much hell because of me. I decided to lay beside her. I laid down next to her in bed and propped my head up with my arm. I used my other hand to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear. I rubbed my thumb on her jawline sweetly. I don't deserve to have her, but I do. I kissed the top of her head sweetly as a tear ran down my face. My hand rubbed her side that was exposed because I couldn't get her shirt on all they way without waking her up.
Jen: Hey.
I stopped kissing her forehead and pulled back. I stopped rubbing her side too.
Jen: No it's okay, Colby. Thank you for helping me.
Colby: I'm actually really sorry.
Jen: For what? You helped me, right?
Colby: Yeah... But I did this to Brennen. I didn't know hurting him would hurt you.
She hugged me and I started to cry on her shoulder. She soothingly rubbed my back.
Jen: It's okay, you didn't know.
I pulled away from the hug quickly to look her in the eyes.
Colby: You forgive me?
Jen: Yeah. You're my boyfriend, of course I would babe.
Then she kissed me softly. I didn't realize how cold she was at the moment until now. I wrapped my arms around her for warmth. She nuzzled her head under my arm.
Colby: Comfortable?
I asked while smirking.
Jen: Very.
A beats passed of silence.
Colby: Do you remember the last time we were in this room together?
Jen: Yeah. I kinda wish you didn't stop looking back on the memory.
Colby: Oh?
I said, smirking at Jen.
Jen: Don't think about it too much.
I thought about the memory. Me and two of my friends came to the party. They had a plan to get Jen to have sex with me. They had talked to one of Jen's friends to make sure she would play Truth or Dare with us. Then, one of my friends dared me to have sex with Jen. She was like "Why not? You only live once?" We went to the first empty bedroom we found, which happened to be this one. I threw her on the bed, and we started kissing. I took off her shirt and she took off mine. I went to undo her bra and her body tensed up. I told her we didn't have to if she didn't want to. She got out from under me and put her shirt on and left. I remember how immediately after she left the room, I longed for her touch again. I always wanted that to happen, and when it finally did, she didn't want it.
Colby: I never told you this, but you kinda broke my heart that night.
Jen: Awe, poor baby.
She teased.
Colby: I'm serious.
Jen: Colby, the only reason I had you stop was because the way you touched me, the way you kissed me, it was the best feeling in the world. I couldn't risk falling for you. Trust me, after I left, my heart hurt. I regretted leaving. I told myself that I did the right thing, I listened to my head instead of my heart. I cried for hours, I missed the way we kissed. I missed you Cole.
Colby: This is going to sound really weird, but it was what I missed about you. I thought it was hilarious.
Jen: Oh god what was it?
Colby: I missed how I could make you wet so easily. One time I did it just by speaking.
Jen: How do you kno-
Colby: Call it a talent, specialty, something I've picked up. The list goes on and on, but I know how to tell, trust me.
Jen: What'd you do? Keep track of how many times you did it?
Colby: Mhm. 27. The most I made you wet in one day was 7.
Jen: Are you serious?!
We both started laughing before I went back to being serious.
Colby: I wondered what I did wrong. I just wanted you to be happy.
Jen: Now I'm happy.
Colby: I don't ever wanna lose you Jen.
Jen: I don't ever want to lose you Cole.
I woke up sadly. I wanted to see Jen again. I knew I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and went to Ash's room. I didn't even bother knocking and walked in. He was on the phone.
Ash: Hey Peyton, I gotta go, bye.
Then he hung up and turned to me.
Ash: Yes?
Colby: Is Brennen still in the attic?
Ash: Nope. He jumped out the window in the attic. He's dead, and I say good riddance.
No. He can't be dead. Jen can't be dead. No.
Song:
"I don't want to waste my time
Become another casualty of society
I'll never fall in line
Become another victim of your conformity
And back down."
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