Chapter 13 (Jasmine)

Jared and I basically talked most of the time and when I realized he was avoiding some of my questions I suggested we watch a movie. I don't know the reason for his behavior but it was definitely weird.

I started doubting him for a while but I pushed the doubts to the back of my head. Jared won't do anything to hurt me he promised. We watched about three movies and before we realized it was almost evening. "Okay so should I prepare something for us or we should order or I could call your mom to bring us food" Jared suggested just when the movie was ending.

He lay on his stomach with his head on the pillow beside me. "I want to see you prepare food" I said while laughing. The idea of Jared cooking was still funny to me. "What, you think I can't cook?" he asked with a pout. I patted his head, "Don't be so hard on yourself I know a lot of people who can't cook" I teased him.

"Okay that's it I'm cooking and you're going to love it" he said and got up from the bed before coming over to my side of the bed. "I'm going to carry you to the living room so you'll be able to see me at work. Is that okay?" he asked and I nodded.

He carefully raised my leg which made me hiss in pain. He looked at me with worried eyes and I nodded to tell him I was fine and that he could proceed. He tried again but this time more gentle and when he had secured my leg he placed his hand at my back and lifted me up, "Hold on tight, I don't want you to fall". He walked slowly and made sure I didn't hit anything. "Princess have you been eating?" he asked all of a sudden, "Why do you ask?" "Well you're so light I could literally throw you if you were not hurt".

This boy is very weird. "The fact that I'm light doesn't mean I'm not eating Jared" I said his name with a playful roll of my eyes. He took me to the living room and gently placed me on the couch and after ensuring that I was comfortable he went into the kitchen to get an apron. "What should I make" he came back to ask while putting on the apron.

He turned to me and I tied the straps at his back. "How about you make the chicken soup that my mom sent this morning" he seemed to like my idea "Yeah then I could prepare some rice with it" he suggested and I nodded.

"Well off you go chef. Don't burn the house" I said as he walked away. "Just wait and see princess I'll blow you away with my marvelous cooking. Just wait and see" he said making it sound like a threat. I laughed and blew him off. I could see him from where

I was sitting but not what he was doing so I decided to watch some television. I turned it on and flipped through the channels but I didn't find anything interesting I just turned it off and sighed. "What should I do now" I whispered to myself and lay down then I had an idea.

I'm not really sure if it's safe to do it but I guess I'll have to try it eventually so why not start now. I slowly lifted myself into a sitting position all while occasionally glancing at Jared to make sure he wasn't watching me.

It's not exactly bad what I'm about to do but I know Jared won't exactly like it. My legs felt stiff from being held straight for so long.

I moved them slowly from the couch my right leg first. It took a while for me to keep it firm since the floor felt cold under my feet. When I was sure that I was okay I added my left on the floor. Jared moved into the kitchen to a part where I could not see him so it gave me more time before he saw me. "Okay Jasmine, we can do this" I slowly moved myself off the couch and in no time I was standing.

I was in so much pain that my legs began to shake but I was determined to try to walk and so I did. I held on to the couch and walked in the direction of the hallway leading to the bedrooms. I reached a point where I had to let go of the couch and that's when everything went downhill. I couldn't balance myself and I ended up falling and unfortunately I fell on my hurt leg.

I screamed in pain. It felt like my leg had been hit with a log. I was able to move over a bit so I was lying on my back with my eyes closed and teeth clenched in pain.

"Princess, what happened" Jared was beside me before I could call for him. "It's hurts Jared, it hurts" I cried and he inspected my bandage. He had wanted to call my mom to change it for me because of the blood but I begged him to do it later but by the look of it now we'd probably have to change it now.

He quickly went back to turn off the stove and came back to me. "Jasmine don't worry I'm here okay" he helped me straighten my legs to reduce the pain. "I'll call your mom to come and check your wound it's bleeding more now".

I didn't think and looked at my thigh to see the shorts I was wearing was soaked. I started to panic all of a sudden this was not meant to happen. I just wanted to see if I could walk. My hands shook as I reached to touch the wound and I was already in tears.

"I'm sorry I should have just stayed put" I said looking at my hands covered in blood. He saw what I was looking at and held my face. " No no princess don't look there look at me. Only me this will all be over soon, okay" he said and stroke my face directing my attention away from the wound.

"Just keep your eyes on me I'll call your mom to help with the wound okay, relax" he took out his phone and called my mom. I couldn't hear what she was saying and I wasn't really listening either. Jared's hand felt warm on my face and I managed to calm down. He looked at me throughout not looking away once and it made me feel warm inside that he cared so much.

His facial expressions fell for a bit before his small smile appeared on his face but I could tell something was wrong. He ended the call and moved to help me up. " Jared what happened? What did my mom say?". He lifted me up and sighed " She's actually not at home at the moment so I have to do it myself" he seemed uncomfortable with the idea.

He carried me to the bathroom and gently placed me on a stool by the tub. " Okay so she told me what to do and luckily I have everything I need but if you don't want me to do it I can tell her so she'll come herself".

I nodded and he moved off to the medicine cabinet to get what he needed before entering the tub. He slowly raised my legs and moved them so that my lower half was in the tub. "Okay so I'm going to take off the bandage first. You can hold on to me if you want" he said and got on his knees. There was water in the tub but he didn't seem to care.

He started to cut through the blood soaked shorts I had on but not before asking if I was okay with it. I didn't really have a choice as I nodded. He did it so carefully making sure that I didn't get hurt. I really felt the pain when he started to take off the bandage.

I held on so hard to him I was shocked that he wasn't complaining and I would have gladly appreciated his muscles if I wasn't in so much pain. He took off the bandage and I tried to look at the wound but he looked up and held my face. "No princess" I nodded and clenched my teeth as well as tightened my hold on him as he washed the blood of. It hurt really bad and no matter how gentle he was it still hurt.

He washed my feet too so I was basically clean from the waist down. He had grown red doing all that and I don't blame him he's basically kneeling in a tub of water washing a girl's tight even I would have been embarrassed if I wasn't in pain.

He cleaned me up and bandaged the wound again before moving my legs out of the tub. Every form of movement hurt at the moment and I occasionally hissed for which I earned an apology each time.

When he got out of the tub he was completely wet with some blood patches on his clothes but he didn't seem to be bothered. I sat on the stool in just a shirt so he went back inside and brought me a new pair of shorts. "This one is should be lose enough for you to wear right" and I smiled at how considerate he was being.

He succeeded in putting it on me and he carried me to bed. He gave me a top to change into since the one I had on was slightly wet then he left to go and change thereby giving me the opportunity to change too.

"Jasmine, I think I'll have to cook for you some other time but for now I'll just order okay?" I was really bummed but I had to accept it. My stupidity had brought this up in the first place. He left to go and clean up leaving me alone.

I just lay on the bed playing with the hem of the shirt. It's obviously his because it smells like him as does everything else in the house. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining his scent is very calming and not too strong which makes me like it more.

I don't know what happened the next thing I knew Jared was waking me up to eat but this time he fed me the soup instead because it was pretty obvious that I wasn't completely awake. He made sure I was comfortable for the last time before giving me medicine for the pain and he lay beside me upon my request. "Goodnight Jared" I said with a smile.

Today had been exhausting and I really hoped I didn't bother Jared much. "Goodnight princess" he replied and I closed my eyes with a smile and slowly drifted off to sleep.