My mate, My exception novel Chapter 76

"Stop." Jake shouts, his voice so full of authority that my dad does. "Please." He begs afterward. I tense up and wait for my father's reaction.

I'm sorry Jen. I can't hear those things said about you. I know you were kidnapped and you were beat but thinking about that last thing happening......

I squeezed his hand and laid my head on his shoulder. Its okay. I tell him.

His face turns to me amazed.

Jen you just talked to me in our-

"So here is what I think." My dad starts up again. "I think both you guys aren't telling us a lot of the story, if any of it. I think you feeding us this bullshit lie to keep in the truth. I want to know what happened and I want to know it now."

I don't say a word and neither does Jake. I know I should, even if I lie and defend that my fake story was true.

"Jennifer?" My mom's quiet voice asks. "It's okay if you don't want to tell us now."

"But-"

"No." My mom doesn't let my dad get a say, yet reaches over and grabs his hand. "Why don't we just take a few days to think about it. Calm down, and rethink it another day."

My dad doesn't sound like he agrees with this but keeps his mouth shut.

"Yeah, that's a good idea." I say. "Jake and I should be going anyways."

Jake stands up and carefully helps me up with him.

"What are you talking about?" My dad asks in a panic, him and my mom also jumping up.

I recognized their panic immediately and realized I'd never even thought of what to do after this point.

"I decided I'm going to move in with Jake..... " I quietly tell them.

"ABSOLUTELY NOT! WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD LEAD YOU TO THINK THAT YOUR MOM AND I WOULD LET YOU MOVE AWAY RIGHT AFTER YOU CAME BACK? ESPECIALLY TO THE MAN WHO HURT YOU IN MULTIPLE WAYS THIS SUMMER." His anger has made my father red in the face as he shouted at me.