Promise of dawn

Chapter 5: Clara

I am so scared. Beth and Percy have been trying to get back at Jaslynn and I know that it’s not gonna end well for me.
“Hey guys, do you mind not, kinda, like, messing with Jaslynn?” I ask bowing my head.
“Why? She kidnapped you and made us pay for her hospital bill! Then threatened to hurt you more if we didn’t pay!” Percy explained.
“I know but I just don’t want more to happen to me! I know you guys think that she might be harmless when she feels hurt, but she really isn’t. I gave her a nose job too a couple years back and it just came down harder on me!” I explained almost crying.
“Okay, if we have to stop then we will.” Bethany says reassuringly.
“Thanks.” I say, wiping away a tear that was about to fall.

~~~~Time Break~~~~

I walked home, being very aware about who and what was near me. I hear a car screech on the road. I almost jump out of my skin. I start running down the sidewalk. My head is throbbing, mostly because I just got out of the hospital and haven’t had much recovery time. I look back. It’s Jaslynn staring at me. I just reach the door to my house when I hear a car door open and shut. I run through the door and lock it. That still didn't stop her. She smashed in a window. I run up to my room screaming. I lock my door and shut all of my windows. I sit on by bed panting because of my running. Jaslynn starts banging on the door. I try to push my dresser over the door.
“Clara! You won’t get away from me you little bit**!” Jaslynn shouts, still attempting to bang down my door. I am half crying. I call Percy and he automatically answers.
“Hello! I need help! someone broke into my house! Don’t call the police just use the bullhorn on my porch to scare her out.” I say
“Ok we’ll be right there!” Percy says nervously.
5 minutes later I hear the siren and I hear Jaslynn run down the hall and outside.
BANG! BANG! BANG! The door was being banged on extremely hard.
“Clara!!” It was Percy.
“One sec, let me unlock my door.” I say. I crack open the door just a little bit, then swing it open and hug the person that came to reach.
“Are you hurt!” He asks. His heart was pounding, he must have run here.
“Y-y-yes… i am.” I stutter and fall to the floor.
“What happened! I mean we saw the broken window, but what else?” Bethany asks
“I was walking home and she followed me. She smashed in the window and walked in. I ran to my room and well as you can see she tried pushing the door in but failed. I am so scared.” I say trying to calm down.
“Come on. You are coming to my house tonight.” Bethany says. She gets up and grabs my backpack. Percy gets up and helps her get a tee-shirt and a pair of jeans. They write a note to my mom saying:


                        Dear Clara’s mom,
                                    Clara is staying over at my house
                                tonight because of an event that
                                happened earlier that evening.
                                           ~Bethany

“Thanks for everything.” I say hugging my self.
“No problem. We can go camping later if you want.” Percy asks wondering if it was okay.
“Sure. It’ll give me something to take my mind off things.” I say quietly.
“Wonderful! Problem is that I only have 2 tents.” He says in a joking manner.
“No you perv!” Bethany shouts. We all laugh, even I did! “Clara will have to be in my tent.” she adds.
“It’s okay. We have 1 huge tent. So, sorry to disappoint you!” Percy says with a laugh.
“You realize that you’ll have to change outside right?” Bethany as a joke. We all laughed until we got to the camping ground. All of the good spots were taken up by these fancy RVs, so we settled for a spot by the water.  Percy sat down next to me.
“Bethany has to go grab some stuff from her house. She took my car so we are kind of stranded here for a little while.” Percy explains.
“Well I think you won’t be too board. We should probably set up the tent.” I say looking deep into his eyes.
“You know, I really like you.” He says looking down at my hand.
“Really?” I say. No one has ever liked me before. Well, at least that I know of.
“Yeah, quite a lot actually.” He explains. “So, do you wanna?”
“Sure. It would be nice.” I say smiling. We look at each other. Both smiling and laughing. I turn around just to find Bethany watching us. We look at each other. Percy winks and looks at Bethany.
“So, what were you guys doin while I was gone?” Bethany says smiling and running her tongue over her teeth.
“Just talking about how we are going to set up the tent.” I say hoping she believes me.
“Well are you sure about that?” Bethany says with a chuckle.
“Yup.” Percy says still smiling.
“Okay well we kind of need to set up the tent, set the fire, and roast marshmallows.” I say simply.
“Mmmm… gimme s’m s’mores!” Percy says getting up and brushing the pine needles off of his beige shorts and light grey tee-shirt.
        “You will have to pitch the tent before you get any kind of food.” I say jokingly.
        “Well then I guess I better get started then…” he says probably attempting to flirt with me. I hope that this is what normal people do and not just a random person that just wants me for my booty. We finish the tent and light the fire. Everyone sits down and grabs one of the wooden sticks Bethany brought as well as a hot dog. We finish our hot dogs and I get the marshmallows. We all set out our sleeping bags down (Thank you Bethany for lending me one!) and settled in. Percy was on my left and Bethany was on my right. For some reason I got stuck in the middle.
        “So, I just realized something. We are in a relationship yet I don’t know that much about you.” Percy says looking into my eyes with curiosity.
        “Well that all depends on what you want to know.” I say flipping my hair.
        “Anything. What do you want to be when you grow up? What college do you want to go to? Stuff like that.” He asks
        “Wait, wait, wait, did I just hear the word relationship?” Bethany asks with a laugh.
        “Maybe…” I say laughing. “Well The one thing I do know is that I want to go to NESCOM (New England Schoo for school. Mostly because I went there in 7th grade because my media club teacher loved me for helping her with videos that were played on the school TVs.” I tell him about my plans for the future. I am really surprised that Percy actually listened to the whole story that I could have sworn went on for about an hour.
        “What about you. What do you wanna do when you grow up.” I add.
        “Well, I want to be a marine biologist. There is a school in Florida that I want to go to. It actually has an underwater classroom, so I think it would be really cool to go there.” He explains.
        “I don’t know about you guys but I’m going to bed.” Bethany says with a yawn.
        “Yeah, I think that’s a really good idea.” I say snuggling into the warm, nylon sleeping bag. “Good night everyone.” I add.
        “Good night.” Percy says zipping up the yellow tent and turning off the battery powered lantern sitting at our feet. I hear a groan from Bethany which I do believe was also a good night.

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I know it is summer so the progress on these chapters will be slow. This chapter I
ended up finishing at like 1:15 in the morning so please excuse my poor grammar.
I think I did pretty well this time. Again the next chapter will have an update notice
on my wall. Also sorry for the language in the previous chapters. One of my team
members wants to have Jaslynn be a bit crazy. I will try to tone it down as much as
possible!

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                    Aries9100