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Avery Step You Jake Chapter 29
Jake brought me back to his house.It was raining, and we did not have an umbrella with us. We were drenched from head to toe, and it was a dire and embarrassing sight.In his spacious room, he dug out a heaping amount of photo albums, diaries, and a medical diagnosis."Miss Johnson, these are all my secrets over the years. If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to show you my insides—bare and raw."However, if you decide to leave me after you're finished, please don't tell me. I'm afraid of the extent I'd go to make you stay…"His head hung low the whole time, avoiding my eyes. The corner of his mouth and eyes trembled, holding back his tears. I did not know what to feel when I reached out to the things in front of me.I read the first page of the medical diagnosis.Jake Young, fourteen years old.Diagnosed with erotomania. I braced myself for what I was about to find out. The photo albums were filled with photos of me. Every single page.In that instant, I felt a chil
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 30 Jake Young's Story: In Pursuit Of Light
I rarely opened up to anyone about myself.I have kept a diary since I was six years old because my mother passed away the very same year.It was a day of heavy rainfall in the summer. The wind murmured unforgivingly as myriads of cicadas buzzed harmoniously.I woke up from a nap, and an unearthly sound filled the air.Bolts of flashes lit up the darkened sky as a wall of rain drummed on the ground. The mansion was vast and pitch-black, and its silence was deafening.I called out for my 'momma', but there was no response.I followed the whirring sound of thunder up the stairs, passing the long hallway. Step by step, approaching nothing but the worst nightmare of my entire life.There she laid as a single strike of lightning lit up the dark room, illuminating her face.She looked at peace—sound asleep.Later, the mansion was swarmed with people, filling the air with heavy and muffled sobs. I stood behind the adults, crisscrossing through the crowd. In front of me was Jerome You
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 31
At that time, I thought she would wake up.It was after the countless nights spent in bed alone when my untold amount of 'momma' was met with silence as I wept myself to sleep. Only then did I realize that she was not coming back and that I would never see her ever again.I started keeping a diary. Word by word, I recorded my feelings toward the world around me.Not long after my mother's burial, Jerome Young brought back a younger woman he said was my new mother.I would never call her that. Never.I had found my late mother's diagnosis papers. She was diagnosed with major depressive disorder.Along with it was a letter she wrote for me.She apologized to me over and over again in the letter.Father's betrayal and pressure from her own parents were too overwhelming for a girl who was brought up in a wealthy family and was given everything she had ever wanted.On that thunderous rainy day, she decided to take her own life under the impression that I was still in my piano class
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 32
After Veronica Choice married Jerome Young, she tried to win me over.It was funny how the homewrecker who killed my mother was still trying to get me to like her. Had she forgotten what she did, or was she trying to make up for what she did to cover up her guilty conscience?I hated Veronica Choice, and I hated Jerome Young.However, ever since then, I learned how to disguise myself.Perhaps the adult world was permeated with a sense of conceit. They thought every child was naive and easily manipulated.Presents, toys, snacks, and candies were all there was to a child's world.At least, that was what Veronica thought.I was so cooperative with her performance that I had successfully convinced her that I was a good-for-nothing kid who was pampered by his wealthy family.It was a useful disguise. Within all those years in the Young family, she never wasted her time and effort to plot against me. She spent her time seeking medical advice from countless places as she tried to conc
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 33
Avery Johnson appeared in my life by complete chance.When I was in ninth grade, Veronica had a massive argument with Jerome over his affair with a young starlet.They had been at loggerheads for the longest time. Veronica was the type of woman to be highly skilled at manipulating men. They would fight every morning, then make up by the end of the day. It was clear they would never call it quits, no matter how bad the fights were.Eventually, I grew sick of the noise.One day after school, I distracted the driver and snuck off to wander outside. Then, out of nowhere, it started to rain.The rain only grew heavier.I ran to the entrance of a fast-food restaurant since I ran out of options.I had a deep fear of rain. It tended to remind me of the past.I squatted by the door, watching the clouds darken more and more. Just as I contemplated whether or not to call my driver to come and get me, the door behind me opened. I heard a gentle voice coming from behind me."Hey, do you wa
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 34
I was unsure of what came over me after that, but I started going to the fast-food restaurant every day after school.I found out that her name was Avery Johnson. She mentioned that she was a student who worked part-time while studying at the university nearby.A lot of the things I said to her, on the other hand, were far from true.The name I gave her was my classmate's name.The truth was that I did not want to show her the real me. That person was ugly inside and out, feared and resented by many.I complained to her about the amount of homework I had, just like the other kids in my class did. I ranted about the endless tutoring classes I was sent to every weekend. I rambled on and on about cartoons I had never even seen, as well as the abundance of toys I had at home but never touched.I had told her one truth—my parents had an awful relationship. They fought all the time, and that was why I never wanted to go home.She reacted with great sympathy. Sometimes she would sneak
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 35
Our fate came to an end because the fast-food restaurant had shut down.She continued her studies at her university. It felt like my world had ended.I thought of her endlessly. Those thoughts morphed into a growing desire to see her again.I figured out a way to yield information about her. The courses she took, the friends she had.I would show up at her university, hidden in the throngs of passers-by wandering around campus. I would pick a spot every time I saw her, gazing at her from afar until she disappeared from my line of sight.I took pictures of her all the time. I developed every photo, arranging them into albums.The traces of my 'relationship' with her began showing up in my journal at some point.I began to think my feelings were reciprocated. She somehow knew I liked how she looked in that long blue skirt, so it was why she wore it all the time. Every time she smiled was because she knew it would bring me joy.I told myself the only thing keeping us from being to
Avery Step You Jake Chapter 36
I got better. I still went to see Avery Johnson from time to time.I do not know what made me do it. I just wanted to see her. I really, really wanted to see her.In between my 'check-ups' on her, I stumbled upon a side of her that I had never seen before.She was a hard worker, and she was incredibly diligent. She had a brilliant academic record. She was always gentle all the time to everyone.She had given a speech as valedictorian the year she graduated.I sat in the last row of the audience. My eyes never left her figure the entire time.Standing front and center of the spotlight, she seemed to glow. In an almost ironic contrast, I was curled up in the darkest of corners.How I longed to reach out for her hand, luminescent in the distance.How I longed to come into the light, how I longed to shine with her.
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