Chapter 9

The next time I wake up, I seem to be in the hospital, my ribs bandaged. My head is fuzzy as I try making out sounds around me. Suddenly there's a bang before someone pushes me back to lay down. I turn and see Jay.

I can't seem to wrap my mind around anything. They must have given some hardcore drugs. He sits on the side of the bed, asking me some things. I just start smiling wildly trying to put my hand to his face, but being too fuzzy to do it. He grabs my hand and presses it against his cheek himself. I just go bright red, covering my face with my free arm.

He chuckled and moves to lay down with me. I just go back to sleep.

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So turns out I only passed out for one night. But then I was too much on drugs the next day to be responsive. But now I was better. I was just pissed at how quickly I lost.

This time, when Jay came to visit me. I was nervous. Because I had debated showing him this for a while. And I don't fancy spending 2 months in the hospital if I could solve the problem now. So Jay came in, and sat on the bed next to me.

"Sunshine, if... I had a way to solve all my injuries right now, would you be okay with it or would that scare you? I mean... If I was a monster, would you be scared?"

He looked at me for a bit before telling me that he wouldn't be scared. I take a deep breath, hoping he was really sure about that one. I start holding myself up as you can see my rib area phasing in and out of existence. Jay stares at it frozen.

I grab his hands and put them to my newly healed ribs. Trying to see if I had just fucked up the nicest thing I've ever had in all of my existence.

He looks up at me after a while, not talking to me, just staring.

I start to get real fucking panicked. I was about to let go of his hand and try to run when he grabbed me and pulled me into a hug. Not asking me any questions. Just holding me.

I pull him into me more as I bury my face to his neck, trying but failing to stop myself from crying. He rubs circles into my back as I just let it out.

We get up and he goes to pull me to go home before I stop him, reminding him that I'm supposed to have broken ribs, how are people not going to be suspicious of me if I just get up and go. He just reminds me that we have money. I stare at him for a bit before I just sigh, going to the bathroom to change into clothes. He then takes me home. We lie to Zoe and tell her that it wasn't as serious as they previously thought. The documents about my hospitalization get changed to say that my ribs were only lightly bruised.

We go on to keep living our life, visiting Zack in the hospital every so often.

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The vacation was slowly approaching. When Jay suddenly got out of his bathroom wearing only a bathrobe and asked if I wanted to come with him to travel a bit. I agreed. He asked the same question to Zoe but she said she'd go back to her parents house, so we wished her a good time.

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We were at the station when we met big Daniel.He rambled a bit about his destination and everything. Jay looked at me, asking if it was fine with me. I nodded and we went to change our ticket.

Daniel, oblivious as he is, didn't catch on to what we did.

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We soon arrived at the destination, we let Daniel lead us to his friend's place, I didn't mind the neighborhood. I mean, last time around I was middle class, but I had a lot of friends that were on the poorer side. So I'm used to these environments.

We got to the place and I naturally went with the flow. Jay looked shocked and looked at me questioning why I wasn't too. I just shrugged and told him I'd tell him another time.

Later into the night we were catching up with little Daniel, helping out, when he gave us the backstory as to why big Daniel is here. Jay then offered him some gum that I bought him. Explaining that he was trying to quit smoking, while looking at me. I was just sitting here confused, I mean I buy him lollies and gum, I know, but why is he looking at me?

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The next day, we were in the hotel, both in bathrobes, I was just sitting on the couch relaxing and he had to deal with the staff sucking up to him. Drinking his wine, he just stood there, waiting until they were done. We were quite a distance apart, presumably so that those boot lickers couldn't report anything out of the ordinary to his family. He was now getting a run down on Logan. He looked quite mad. But now that I think about it it was probably because of how caring Daniel's mom was to him. He probably got mad that her hard work got stolen like that.

Before they left, he asked them to drop off boxes to Daniel's mom's place.

When they were gone, he took another sip of his wine before speed walking to me and dropping into my lap, having abandoned his drink on the coffee table.

I took him in my arms, cuddling a bit, before he got back up to go change to fight Logan. I followed after him, also changing. He did take advantage of the fact that I was shirtless to hug me, which just made me turn red. I could feel him laughing at me which just embarrassed me more. I dressed like him, in minimal clothes with as little as grabbing opportunities as possible.

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We were now both standing in front of Logan. Thought Jay pushed me back so I let him, thought I knew I'd loose it if he got hurt in any way. Logan looked fucking dumb.

I just stood back and watched Jay fight, he was really doing well. He looks so handsome fighting. Well he always does. I just stood there enjoying the show. But then the motherfucker Logan threatened to rip the envelope. That fucking wimp.

Jay rushed him but he ended up having his hair grabbed. Then he got punched and Logan started chocking him, really hurting him.

I saw red.

In a flash, Jay was just sitting on the ground, gasping to get his breath back. I was holding Logan by the neck, raising him up in the air. Chocking the shit out of him.

He was making gurgling sounds but I didn't care.

I kept choking him like that for a bit.

Watching him struggle, his legs not touching the ground. His hands tried to free himself but it did nothing. He tried to kick me with all his strength, but I didn't move.

After some time, I decided to slam him down on the ground, still holding him by the neck.

I just looked coldly at him. Watching him try to breathe.

I don't care about Daniel overcoming his fear. Or trying to stand up for himself.

He hurt my sun.

He needs to hurt.

I then went to his left hand, standing on his wrist with one leg, holding it down, before I used my other leg to stomp on his hand. I heard the satisfying crack of his bones breaking.

He kept screaming.

I got off that hand, slowly moving to the other one.

He tried to crawl away, but I kicked him in the stomach hard and he just stopped, coughing blood.

I used one foot to hold down his other wrist, and my free one to stomp on this hand too.

I heard bones cracking again. He screamed again, crying for mercy.

I chuckled.

I moved onto his forearms.

I held them down with one foot and broke them with the other.

It was quite easy to do. I just had to make myself heavier and the impact on him by now was basically a whole truck.

Slowly but surely. His arms, from his shoulders to the tip of his fingers, were broken.

I just stood and watched him scream in pain.

After some time, I turned around to see Daniel hunched down, checking on Jay, frozen in fear.

I didn't care.

I started walking towards them, slowly. Daniel scattered back, trying to get away from me, a look of fear in his eyes as you could still hear Logan's gut wrenching screams.

I didn't react to him.

I just stayed focused on my Jay.

I dropped to my knees in front of him, slowly with a trembling hand, going to hold his face, but not quite doing it, unsure if he feared me now. He just took my hand and presses it against the side of his face, leaning his head into it.

I just went to hold him in my arms.

After a while I got up, still holding Jay in my arms, now carrying him.

I looked over at Daniel, uncaring of the fear in his eyes. I just let Jay hand him the envelope.

"Here's your money and your lucky charm."

And I left, carrying my Jay back to the hotel we were staying at. While I walked, he played with my hair, trying to calm me, as I just held him closer, wrapping his legs tighter around my waist.

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Now back home, we were just spending our time cuddling most days. But today we decided to go out and buy some clothes. Plus I had finally finished designing two matching earrings that I sent to a jeweler to get custom made. It should be ready by now, and I only need to pick it up. I already paid for it.

We ended up meeting Danny and his mom in one of the stores, unfortunately for the employees, this one being one that Jay owned.

We got Daniel's mom's thing exchanged while the employees freaked out, thinking they were gonna get fired. We just left and continued on our way.

At some point, we got to the jeweler and I excitedly handed Jay the box. Nervous to what he'd think.

One earring had white gems, while the other had black ones. The gems where in the middle of delicate flowers, that occupied most of the lower half of the ear.

He quickly asked me to put it on him. So I happily obliged. I helped him put on the white one and he helped me put on the black one. He said that he loved it so I took him in a hug, kissing all over his face afterwards. He silently giggled as he kissed my jaw in return.

We left the store holding hands once again.

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We were now in class, having to endure Zack as he proudly showed off his casts. He did question how I had been back so much earlier than him since he remembered that I was out cold too and the ambulance service providers thought it was pretty serious.

I just told him that I had gotten a concussion so that's why I passed out. And the people thought it was serious since they couldn't judge the severity until they arrived at the hospital. They also couldn't tell if my ribs were bruised or if some pieces had shattered and went to stab some other organs.

He made a sound of understanding before changing the subject. Teasing me about making a move on Jay since he had noticed the matching earrings we both wore every day.

Zoe was quite concerned when she came back and learned that we had gotten into fights. Thought Jay made a very dramatic retelling of what had happened and in the end I was embarrassed again by them.

At some point she had started to learn to understand what he was saying.

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At lunch, we had to watch Zack get fed by Mira, looking absolutely euphoric at it. So I turned to Jay and just started feeding him his lunch too.

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Today was the day Crystal transfers.

I was laying my head on Jay's shoulder, almost about to sleep. Crystal came in and people had the same reaction as in the webtoon, save Zoe, who was too busy on her phone. Thought she did look interested at her a bit, but she remained quiet.

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When the bullying started, thought, Zoe came to the rescue. She politely asked the person sitting next to her to switch seats with Crystal. While I death stared at them, cracking my knuckles behind her. The person was ever so understanding and moved. The teachers didn't say anything since Jay and I are rich and they know it.

Crystal was quite confused at this sudden seat change. So Zoe decided to explain herself to avoid misunderstandings.

"The girl that encouraged your bullying is called Yui, because she taught you were flirting with Zack. She also got my group of friends to exclude me, just like yours. So I know how is feels. And I thought I could be more like ma and pa and help out just like they did for me when I was in the same situation. Anyways, meet ma and pa."

And then she motioned to me and Jay. Crystal looked confused for a bit. Jay and I just nodded at her and went back to half cuddling while having random conversations telepathically.

So from that day, Zoe would drag Crystal to eat with us with the burn knuckles. She introduced her and made sure the guys knew to be respectful of her. Since the guys really respect Zoe, they listened and just treated Crystal like any other person. They included her in discussions and listened to her interests.

Although we left her on her own after school, she has Zoe's number if she needs anything.

I don't know if she truly appreciates it, but she did open up from her shell a bit, she started giving feedback to Zoe as she showed her her new ideas for her livestreams.

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