Her Escape

Bunk Assignments and First Aid

Jade walks on the bus and looks around her eyes fix on the table and couch. There small but overflowing with clothes, albums, notebooks, comic books, movies, and musical instruments. After about two or three trips they were finally ready to start driving. By that time it was about two in the afternoon. They all piled on the bus and were calling bunks, unloading there belongings into draws, and fighting. All the guys besides Garry who was driving and Bob who was keeping him company were crowded into the confined bunk area, fighting and bickering over who gets what bunk. Jade walks back there to see what all the fuss is about and as she makes her way through the black curtain, into the middle of the argument everyone stops. Gerard turns to Jade and says
“You pick” everyone agrees as he continues
“With out anyone’s influence, you pick the bunk arrangements”

Jade feeling nervous and uneasy accepts the duty.
“Ok, well I’m going to get this bunk.” She points to the top right.
“Mikey” she points to the top left
“Gerard” she points to the bunk below Mikey’s
“Frankie” she points to the bunk below her own
“Bob” she points to the bunk beneath Gerard’s
“Ray” she points to the bunk beneath Frankie’s
“Brian” she points to the bunk below Bob’s
“Garry” she points to the bunk below Ray’s
Everyone is generally pleased with the bunk arrangements and decides it’s a good idea to take a nap during the six hour drive to VA beach.

Jade goes to climb up to her bunk when Mikey stopped her, by grabbing her arm from behind. Jade jumps
“Hey you ok?”
“Yeah just a rough couple of days, ya know. And plus my leg is killing me I think I pulled a stitch.” She looks down at her leg.
“Yeah I know. But you’re safe now. You want to lay on the couch with me and I’ll take a look at your leg” he asks smiling.
Jade looked him over for a second. Watching his body language she had been hurt many times before. But she trusted him. She left safe with him. So she softly smiled and accepted
“Sure”

As he sub-consciously grabbed her hand a glorious feeling rushed through both there bodies. And suddenly their where monstrous butterflies in there stomachs, and the numbing sound of their hearts strumming in their ears. It was almost as if time had stopped for just an instant to capture the moment. But as Jade blinked her eyes the moment was gone but the feeling like never before remained. They walked towards the couch.
“So lets see that leg of yours”
Jade begins to roll up the pant leg making sounds of pain.
“This isn’t going to work. Do you have shorts I can change into?”
“Yeah sure one minute”
He walks quietly back into the bunk area and emerges with a pair of boxers.
“This is all I have…not a shorts guy”
Being that Jade was already in his boxers she walked into the bathroom and a minute or two later she came out in his navy blue plaid boxers. She goes to the couch and sits down next to Mikey.

There is a medium amount of blood on her leg and even more on the boxers. He pushes the leg of the boxers up slightly to see the cut. His changing hazel eyes, now honey colored with an emerald green rim, looked up at her consciously. Jade smiled and pulled it up exposing the whole wound
“I trust you”
She whispered with a voice as graceful and powerful as an angels cry. He smiled and walked over to get a cold wet paper towel, some bandages, and ant-bacterial cream from the hospital. After Jade’s wound was cleaned and dressed, they sat on the couch Jade still in his boxers and sweat-shirt. Jade gently laid her head on his lap, as her played with her hair and looked through her icy blue eyes and seemed to hold unspeakable beauty.