Five Doubts (part 2)

pov: Narrator

Jasmine crept up to the room but to her benefit it was empty.

"Huh? Apparently he's up already."

she looked at the time on her phone verifying that it was 5am.

"so does he work?"

but she didn't stop and started searching the place, in the closet she found nothing but sportswear and something formal.

"isn't he a nerd?"

the sheets of paper stuck on the wall, they are poetry lyrics.

"Songs? That's weird, I've heard some of them."

Jasmine began to check the computer, which was on at the time.

"pictures, pictures, pictures, pictures of landscapes, pictures on a stage?"

Among the pictures of different landscapes, we found one of Veronica with a man dressed in a black sleeveless t-shirt, shorter hair, but it was him, it was Chase, in his hands a guitar.

Jasmine started looking around and found no instrument, nothing like that.

"maybe it's an imitation or some game?"

"but it looks very familiar"

He changed the photos again, among them some of him with a group of young men and then he recognized one of them.

"Adrian? that's Adrian, from Hell's Angels from my favorite band, why is she with him?"

she switched photos again when she found one of him in school clothes.

"Is it the same person? apparently it was someone very fat..?"

at that moment she felt the stairs.

-Shit!

scared she screamed in her mind and ran to hide under the computer cabinet, when she saw Chase pass by in the towel.

-no, no, no, no, please don't-

"Damn, I think I'll look for a hobby, something similar to a job to distract me."

she dropped her towel, as she searched for clothes in the closet.

"I could go back to music, but after what happened, it better just remain a secret, I don't want to go back to that life."

Chase put on his boxers, then his socks, likewise his pants, when an idea occurred to him.

"There is a video game place, where I could be a salesman, it could help me to distract me".

only then he put on his shirt and looked at the computer where his school picture was.

"Who was here or did I leave her? maybe she was remembering hell".

Chase closed the gallery and turned off the computer.

"So Adrian's sister is going to sleep here, but this will be total chaos."

Chase left the place, while Jasmine held her breath blushing she waited a while and headed to her room.

-I'd love to get excited for Adrian's sister, but he's a monster.

until inside Veronica goes to Jasmine's room.

"Hey, breakfast is ready, go downstairs and eat."

----

On the other hand Chase ran into Nidia who was on her desk sighing.

"What 's wrong?"

She looked at him with tears in her eyes and hugged him tightly.

"I can't find a job anywhere, awww."

-¡Show cute!

"Relax, you'll find something, let's see something together."

"awwww"

her tears started to flow.

"I suck at this, I look for work all day, but I can't find anything!"

Chase wiped her tears and smiled at her.

"relax, I know someone who owes me a favor, I'll talk to him, give me a sec"

"Really?"

she was surprised, wiping her eyes.

-it's like a kitten ha ha-

Chase sent a couple of messages and then smiled at Nidia.

"Well, you'll be Gabriel's assistant, a producer I know, you'll get a good pay. He accepted you to be his long distance assistant do you think?"

she jumped for joy hugging Chase and he patted her head.

"Really! Thank you!"

Chase smilingly left her the data written down on a piece of paper for her to communicate with Gabriel, but Nidia with some embarrassment gave him her number.

"in case I have... any questions I'll talk to you okay?"

"sounds good to me "

Chase smiled at her but as he left the place, his doubts kept surfacing as he saw Jasmine avoiding him.

-What's wrong with her?

but Juliet called him aside to talk to him.

"Can you come over?"

"Yes."

They both headed to Chase's room, where she began to snoop around.

"Is it comfortable for you with so many leaves on the walls?"

"yes why?"

-it's weird, she never showed curiosity about anything-

but in the next words Chase's body tensed completely and sweat started to run down his body.

"So pig, how has your life been?"

"You...you remember me?"

she unsmiling, her expression cold, looked straight into Chase's eyes.

"Clearly, and it seems you do too, although you've changed a lot."

Chase clenched his fists.

"Now what?"

She shrugged and leaned back on the bed.

"I don't know, you took us in when we hurt you, why?"

"I couldn't leave you alone, too early in the morning and without a roof to sleep under."

Chase answered her doubt, sitting up in bed.

"why are you here, you guys had money".

"mmmh no, Nidia had money, but her mother ran her out of the home when she said she didn't want to hurt you anymore, I've always been like you."

"how come?"

"your mother for some reason, she wanted us to hurt you to the point of no return."

she began to explain without showing any apparent emotion.

"why?"

"I don't know, but when you were hospitalized, Nidia asked to stop, then her mother arranged papers to banish, it all went unnoticed, until she turned 24 and was run from home, obviously I come with her taking care of her, though I can finally be myself"

Chase looked at her surprised, but didn't react in any way, just sighed.

"afff."

"you won't say anything?"

"what can I say, it really doesn't matter what happens, the past is over and all that's left is to look forward, if you both regret what happened, then all that's left is to forgive, right?"

Juliet looked at Chase for a while and spoke again.

"you are a very soft person"

"Yes that can be bad, but it doesn't matter, does she not remember me?"

"she largely forgot about you, but if she remembers you enough to want to ask for forgiveness"

"then it's all good."

Juliet walks up to Chase.

"what are you doing!"

surprised Chase tried to stand up, but Juliet's hands held his and her legs left them over his to immobilize him.

"I do what I want, now I can be me!"

her crimson hair, mingled with the sun's rays coming from the window and gave her a majestic and alluring aura, which Chase was enchanted by.

"J-Juliet this is wrong."

"Why, I want to do it."

Slowly her voice trailed off and her lips moved closer to Chase's to the point where they were brushing.

Chase, surrendering , looked her straight in the eyes, about to move the missing inches to join, when a scream brought him back to earth.

"CHASE!"

that Veronica scream came from the second floor.