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Julia, you’ve got something that I want and I’m determined to make it mine. I think you know what I mean. Watch yourself.
My hands tremored and the paper shook furiously in my hands. I crumpled it up but the frustration didn’t subside as I’d hoped. I needed to find Jesse and immediately. I stared out across the cafeteria.
“I’m going to find Jesse,” I said as calmly as I possibly could.
I began to stand but she pulled me back to my chair.
“No, babe, please. Have you considered that it might be from Taylor?” She asked.
I hadn’t thought of that but I guess I could see how it could also make sense. Both people made sense as its author but Jesse was the outright psycho, not to mention the unveiled threats, not that Jules knew about those. Jesse was the only one who could have done it, in my book.
“Damn it!” I said a little too loudly.
Jules stroked my arm to calm me down but it wasn’t helping. I could tell that she was scared because her fingers shook and she was nearly screaming it through our touch.
“You know it’s going to be okay, right?” I asked her.
“No,” she said.
“Why would you think otherwise Jules?”
“Because I know something you don’t,” she offered begrudgingly.
“This better not make me want to kill someone,” I said honestly.
“Never mind then,” she squeaked.
“Just tell me Jules,” I clipped.
“Well, I found it in my messenger bag this morning in class.”
“Yeah?”
“Well, it was early. No one was around. My messenger bag hadn’t been any place but in my room and your truck since last night and the note definitely wasn’t in there after school because I would have seen it when getting out my books to do my homework after dinner. No one could have had access to it unless............” She stopped.
“Unless,” I said, picking up where she left off, “unless they had been in your house?”
“Yes,” her lower lip trembled.
“And it would have had to have been while you had been sleeping?”
“Yes.”
I shuddered.
“We have to take this to the Principal. Now.”
I grabbed her hand and our stuff and the note and practically dragged her down the hallway. Principal Rudolph’s office had never seemed so far before. Of course, when I was hauled down there after my fight with Jesse it was the shortest walk ever but now it was a million miles away. Go figure.
I burst into secretary Millie’s office and demanded I speak with Principal Rudolph. Jules stood beside me, confident. It was a bit of a ruse. She was frightened and it was something only I could sense. She was a strong girl, stronger than anyone I knew, but this was beyond the both of us. It was too unbelievable to imagine.
“Principal Rudolph is out today kids,” Millie said, her head buried in paperwork.
“Will you tell her that we stopped by?” I asked.
Without waiting for her response, I dragged Jules back to the cafeteria. She didn’t want to eat and I didn’t blame her. We sat at our table and agreed that we should act like the note we had found didn’t bother us in case someone was watching and by someone we meant one of Taylor’s cronies, since Taylor didn’t share this lunch with us and Jesse was gone. I wasn’t taking any chances. I grabbed Jules’ hand, leaned into her neck and breathed into her ear that I loved her.
I blasted a concentrated amount of feeling through her throat and the heat relaxed her at once. The electricity that flowed between us was as powerful as a river’s.
