Before she knew what was happening her phone was out of her hand and Jack was standing, phone to his ear.
“Excuse me but I’m so sorry to interrupt what I was sure to be a lovely breaking down of Katelynn’s self esteem and confidence but I just have one thing to say to you, Lady,” Jack says, voice coming out in a way that Katelynn’s never heard before, “I do not want you contacting her ever again. Who am I? I’m her boyfriend and I know enough about you to never let you talk to her again! You’re blaming her for being hit by a car? What about the jerk who hit her? Are you mad at him or is your dealt to jump down her throat?” he isn’t giving the woman a chance to get a word in edge wise, at all.
“I don’t care who you are, I don’t care if you’re her mother, but Katelynn is better without you in her life and I’m not going to have you undo what I’ve worked so hard at helping her with! She moved away to get away from you to become her own person and you’re not going to pull her back down for your own stupid mind games! Never call her again! She’s not even where she used to live any more! She’s moved, she’s moved on, she doesn’t need you any more!” Jack reaches down and takes Katelynn’s hand into his, his whole body shaking as he continues.
“Because she has me, and I love her no matter what you think or what you say so I’m going to look after her now not because I have to but because I want to! Put that in your pipe and smoke it and as I said before never call her again.” and he hung up, then turned the phone off, and dropped it. Not because he was mad, his hand was shaking.
Katelynn was shaking as well, staring down at the phone and letting out a shaky breath, wincing when it had made a loud noise on the floor. She really hadn’t called her father in a while and had wondered if he was worried but her mother…oh god she was as mean as ever, blaming her for everything.
She let out a choked sob, pressing a fist to her brow, trying to hold it in. She didn’t want to cry. She wanted to be strong. But her mother’s word had stung. Having her called a failure, a disappointment of a daughter who ran away from her problems.
“I-I’m sorry yo-you had to h-hear that Jack..I didn’t think t-they’d call..”
She was sure her mother was angry, trying to call back only to hear it go straight to voicemail. Then she’d have to listen to those voicemails when she turned her phone back on. She voices these concerns to Jack softly, in concern.
His arms are around her in seconds, his face pressing against hers, his eyes shut. He’s never felt this angry at somebody before, not even when Psycho Delic was playing around with Katelynn that one day. He’s still shaking, but not from fear. Not from this woman.
“It’s all right. We’ll get you a new phone. With a new number. I didn’t even leave a forwarding address at your old place. They won’t find you, Katelynn. I, I won’t let them find you I don’t want her to hurt you again…”
Jack Maple 