Chapter 50

Grayson's POV 

My relationship with Chase, I didn't really understand. But I understood it with Jessica. 

When Chase called me angrily to vent about shit Jessica did, I couldn't even speak freely cause I was with her. 

 "What the fuck man?!" He screamed at me. 

 "Calm the fuck down bruh!" I yelled back at him. 

 "You don't tell me what to do when we have that bitch with loose lips and loose legs roaming?" He screamed. 

 "Who's 'we'?" I asked him. 

I had no issues with Jessica, none at all. 

I wouldn't have had any with him if he wasn't so headstrong on being with his stepsister. 

The line went flat. 

We both knew there was so much to say, but no batteries to say it. 

A lot was wrong, far beyond Jessica running her mouth, matter of fact, Jessica was getting her on hell on earth. 

Chase cut the call on me and I got back to what I was doing. 

 "What made you sleep so deep though?" I asked. 

 "I don't know. I've been sleeping well, I mean I had a shoot yesterday and I couldn't have done them with eye bags." She replied. 

 "That's beside the point." I said. "Go on." Jessica had bruises around her neck. 

Rudd had raped her on school property. It was his last day in the school. 

 "I woke up and found him seated in front of me." She continued. 

 "And everyone was out already?" I asked. Jessica was already in tears. 

 "Yeah!" She replied, already frustrated. "Do you think so?" She looked at me. 

I had a bad time hiding my thoughts. 

I looked at her, my face holding the question I had in my mind. 

 "I'm just saying." I replied to her. 

 "I really could have been drugged." Jessica said, tugging at my sleeve and crying. 

 "Jessica, I don't want you to be thinking that right now." I replied to her. 

 "He held my neck and made me suck him." She said, weeping. 

I hated that I had to make her relive the experience, but I needed to know everything about it. 

I was pissed, fucking mad already. 

 "He kept on mentioning that it was his last day. That he was not gonna be punished for teaching a silly bitch like me her manners. He said all sorts of things while he made me do it." Her lips were kinda swollen. It was an organic response to oral sex, so I didn't judge her. 

But Jessica was broken, and that was not the Jessica I enjoyed. 

 "It's alright. It's alright." I said, not wanting to further traumatize her with the story. 

I put my hand around her and drew her closer. 

We were at my place. 

My dad wasn't around, so I could have her at mine . 

 "Can I please stay here?" Jessica begged. 

I wasn't gonna let her out anyway. She was vulnerable. Jessica has been quite suicidal for the longest time. But between, sex drugs and modeling, something still keeps her going. 

We cuddled for a while, and I made sure she was comfortable, supplying booze and hot tea. 

 "Are you still up?" I asked after we sat in silence, wrapped around each other and lost in our own different thoughts. 

 "Yeah." He replied, weakly. 

 "I kinda think it's a two man job." I said. I hated to be that person, but I liked to figure shut out as soon as I could. 

 "I don't wanna think. I'm tired of thinking." She replied. 

 "That's alright, baby girl." I dragged her closer, rubbing her head lightly. 

Her blonde hair was all over me. 

Jessica soon slept off and I lay her down in our living room. 

I got a maid to cover her with a blanket and set to some detective work. 

I know Jessica might have stepped on a few toes, it was really characteristic of her, but I didn't think so bad enough to abet Rudd in raping her. 

She still wasn't sure too about filing a lawsuit against him. 

She kinda didn't want that publicity for her career. And I understood her. 

 "Hey, Lily." I had my heart in my mouth all the while. 

Lily was no longer the girl I used to know. I didn't have her on my shelf anymore. She was, different. She spoke differently, acted differently and moved differently. 

 "What?" She asked. 

With how hostile she was at times, I had troubles believing that she was the same girl who'd call me crying and we'd talk for hours, after which we'd phone sex and she'd act like a stranger, just one old fucking cycle. 

 "Are you busy?" I asked. 

 "You don't get to do that." She shut me up. "What do you want?" Lily sounded down, but she wouldn't appreciate my asking, so I mind my business. 

 "Jessica was raped." I said, lowering my voice. 

 "Goodnight Chase."She said. "Ask your whore what she did." She added, and then the line went dead. 

I didn't understand her. Matter of fact, I didn't understand anything anymore. 

One minute she was cool and frolicking with Jessica, the second, she was with Emma and talking shit about Jessica 

I saw all those, and I think Jessica did too. But it wasn't my business, and I rather it stayed that way. 

 "Goodnight." I said to the dead phone. 

The next day came fast, and true to his word, Rudd was gone. 

There was no fuss in the school, and I hoped it remained that way, for Jessica's mental health. 

The first part of the day passed by fast and soon, it was lunch break. 

I stayed as close to Jessica as I could. 

 "I heard they slept together yesterday." I badly wished that it was me hearing things, and not the girls who just passed, speaking loud enough for Jessica to hear. 

 "How's the food?" I asked her, trying to lighten up the air. 

 "I heard them." She said, looking me in the eye and smiling sadly, there was nothing I could do. 

Just at that moment, Emma walked in, with Chase tagging behind her. 

 "Do you think they're the ones?" She asked. 

 "The ones? What does that mean?" I asked her, 

 "Don't worry." Jessica said, smiling. 

Emma and Chase were seated afar. 

Emma threw a piece of macaroni in her mouth, and Chase did the same. She looked away from him, feigning annoyance at him mimicking her, but from where we were, I could see her deep blush. 

Jessica was livid and sucking almost all the oxygen in the room.