Mom, 36 from Janis, and 15 from Jake.
She hesitated for a split second, then tapped the entry for Jake.
Monday
Jake: Lisa, I’m sorry. Please call.
Jake: You have nothing to be embarrassed about.
Jake: It was all my fault. I thought you might be getting worked up and I kept pushing you. I shouldn’t have.
Tuesday
Jake: I don’t know what got into me. I’ve never been so turned on in my life. It was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen and I just forgot myself. I’m so sorry.
Jake: I know I shouldn’t have done that, being your stepbrother and all, but I don’t care anymore. I think you’re amazing and...I want you. I can’t stop thinking about you. I’m sorry if that’s weird, or wrong. I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anyone.
Jake: Please call me. My calls are going straight to your voicemail.
Jake: Please forgive me. I won’t do anything like that again. And if you never want to talk to me again I understand.
Wednesday
Jake: I’m such an asshole. I know that now.
Jake: Lisa, please talk to me. I can’t take this anymore.
Jake: My fight’s this Saturday. I’m cutting weight and it’s getting hard to keep my spirits up. I need you.
Jake: Lisa, I’m sorry if I’m coming off like a stalker or something, I just really need to talk to you about what happened.
Jake: It would mean a lot to me if you could be there for my fight. Having you on my side I know I will be unstoppable. I know you have no reason to support me and every reason to hate me. I just need you. Again, I’m sorry. Please forgive me.
Jake: I know I’m being a creep at this point. You obviously don’t want to talk to me. I understand.
Jake: I can never forgive myself for what I have done to you.
Today
Jake: I just wanted to say I am sorry one more time. I will stay away from you and will stop calling and texting. I’ll tell my Dad that I can’t attend any other family functions. Goodbye, Lisa.
Lisa read through the messages twice.
Finally, Janis’ patience had run out. “Well?” she said.
Lisa looked up at Janis and smiled. “He said...he said it was the hottest thing he had ever seen.”
Janis screamed. “I told you, girl!”
“We have to go. He...needs me,” Lisa said, not believing the words she was saying.
Jake
Chapter 10
Ready
Jake paced in his waiting room in a mental state somewhere just left of delirium and just right of sanity. His body was weak, and since the post weigh-in IV ban he didn’t have a quick rehydration to look forward to.
He was on edge, antsy, ready to snap at the first motherfucker to walk through that door. A world class headache was pounding in his temples.
A man poked his head through the door, “15 minutes to walk out, Jake. Get ready.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Jake mumbled under his breath. Time to get this shit over with and get some juice back into this body.
“Cole,” Jake said, “I’m gonna fucking murder someone. I can’t fucking take this anymore.”
“Almost there bro, just a little longer. Fifteen minutes and then we mainline Pedialyte back into you as fast we can. And tonight, steak dinner’s on me.”
“I’ll fucking take you up on that you fucking cheap bastard,” Jake said. “About time you bought me some dinner.”
Jake reached for his phone and contemplated sending Lisa another text. It must have been the tenth time that day. No. Can’t go back there, he thought. He had closed that door. He knew it served him right. He had made this bed. And now he had told her he would no longer bother her. He had to be true to his word, whatever it cost him.
It cost a lot. Now more than ever he needed to be thinking about his fight but all he could think of was Lisa and how he had made her cry.
Cole snatched the phone out of his hand. “Taking this from you bro. You need to focus. Put her out of your mind for now.”
You mean put her out of my mind forever.
A head popped in the door again.
“Three minutes, Jake,” it
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