MAIN Julie's final decision

Day 52

Julie awoke early, she was curled up on top of her comforter feeling chilly. She had on a t-shirt and panties, the panties were still a bit damp from the night before. Horror dawned on her face as she realized that yesterday had been a 'safe day'. Had she been wrong about danger days? Was every day dangerous now?

Julie reached out for her phone, 7:48. There was no way Jake would be awake yet on a Saturday morning. Julie sent him a text anyways, "Let me know when you wake up we need to talk." Julie went downstairs and checked that all the doors and windows were locked. She then went back upstairs to the master bedroom, that way she could have two more locked doors between her and the rest of the world as she showered.

Julie was sitting in her mom's car a block from Jake's house when her phone finally buzzed, Jake was awake. She waited there for ten minutes but was soon at the front door of his family's house knocking. She noted that one of his parent's cars was missing. As Candy opened the door Julie braced herself for today's insult.

"Hello, Julie. Didn't expect to see you on a Saturday morning, I'll see if Jake is up yet." Candy said with the tiniest trace of a smile as she opened the door. Julie was stunned at her politeness.

"Well, come inside. I thought I heard some life coming from upstairs not too long ago so Jake might be awake. Mom and dad decided to go to the cabin so I was enjoying having the 80 inch TV all to myself." Candy said as Julie came inside. Candy shut the door and went off to the den with the giant TV, leaving Julie to wonder if Candy was always this laid back on Saturday mornings.

As she walked up the stairs the door to the upstairs bathroom opened. Jake had a towel wrapped high around his waist, covering his upper legs and lower body, he had obviously just gotten out of the shower.

"That was fast, am I in that much trouble?" he said as he looked down at Julie.

"You're fine, I just couldn't wait to talk to you. That's all," she replied.

He went into his bedroom, Julie followed to the door but stopped. She closed it three-quarters of the way and talked through the door. "Let me know when you're dressed."

"Thanks," Jake said back. "Just give me a minute." Less than a minute later he was at the door in a t-shirt and boxers. "Come in I can't find any clean shorts so this is close enough," He smiled sheepishly.

Julie flopped down on the couch while she watched Jake search the room for a clean pair of gym shorts to complete his usual weekend attire. If they did run away together would he take care of her or would she have to take care of him? Either way, she did need his help so it was time to pop the question.

"Want to run away together?" Julie said as Jake slide on an only worn once pair of shorts. He looked at her like she had three heads.

"Run... away?" he said slowly.

"Yeah, you and me, like Romeo and Juliet, Bonnie and Clyde, Anthony and Cleopatra. We can run off and be happy together." He just stood there and stared some more. This gave Julie time to realize that things didn't go well for any of the couples she had just mentioned.

"Well maybe not EXACTLY like them," Julie said trying to save herself. "I mean leave this town and be together. I know it's sudden but I think I could be happy with you, and want to give it a try." She half lied.

Jake slowly sat down on the couch next to her. "So... you want to leave home?" Jake paused a bit more, letting it sink in. "Go... and not come back?" His speech was slow and halting, Julie thought she might have caused him to mentally pop a gasket.

"Yeah Jake, I know you aren't supposed to take any money out of your college fund. But let's face it you don't want to go back to college. So let's use some of it to try and see what a life together would be like, just you and me." Julie was looking deeply into his eyes, hoping to convince him without telling him the real reason why she wanted to go. She saw wheels turning in his head, but he didn't look convinced.

"I don't know," he said looking down. "That money... I shouldn't..." he got up and turned away from Julie and towards the door.

"It's just sitting there, what are you going to save it for? Your kids?" Julie tried to make it sound like it was ridiculous to insist that it was just for college. "I mean, if you want to save some for OUR kids that's fine, but first we need to make some." Maybe that will shake some things in his head loose she thought.

"Give me a minute," Jake said walking to and opening the door. "I'll be back," he left and went downstairs.

"Talking to his sister?" Julie wondered. Not likely, she would say no 100% of the time and Jake knew that. He ended up being downstairs for over five minutes. Julie was just about to go looking for him when he returned.

Sitting down next to her he said simply, "Why?"

"Oh, shit," Julie thought. She looked into his eyes again, she saw concern and a need to understand.

"Fine," she said as she went into her story. She started by telling him that she had gotten into a huge fight with her mom and Crissy after Crissy came back from college. That was a complete lie but was better than talking about the whole **** thing. Also, she did everything she could to leave out any mention of creepy black things between anyone's legs. She knew that it was real but still thought that Jake would think she was crazy if she mentioned it. She told him about Ashley and the others acting weird, and how Julie felt isolated, alone, and in danger. All the while she tried to keep as close to the truth as she could. Jake looked like he bought into the story and Julie felt that he was on her side by his body language. Just as she was wrapping up she heard a noise at the bedroom door.

"Mom and dad just called, they said that they wanted to stay a little longer at the cabin so we are on our own til tomorrow night. So is Julie going to stay for dinner? If she wants she can even stay the night." Candy capped off that last sentence with a short mocking laugh. "But seriously, I'll make dinner, what do you guys want?"

It was barely noon, staying the day wasn't a bad idea. They would need time to plan where they were going and get things gathered up at the very least.

"OK," Jake said. "Surprise us." Candy withdrew from the doorway and went back downstairs.

"So what do you say, babe? We could go tomorrow, I could even stay the night here and help you get ready." Julie said expectantly.

"No, we should wait," Jake said the words slowly, and a bit sadly.

"Wait? For what? Things to get worse?" Julie had thought that the conversation was going her way and suddenly it wasn't.

"Wait a little longer," he said. He looked away from her, "at least graduate."

Julie wasn't upset, but she wasn't happy either. It did make sense to stay another week or two to graduate. But things had spun so out of control over the last few weeks and it seemed like a couple more and she would be sucked into the whirlwind with everything else.

"Finals will be over Thursday, I'll see if I can't just skip graduation, ok?" Julie said looking for a middle ground.

"Ok," Jake answered.

The rest of the day was pretty glum. Julie ended up spending a lot of the day watching horror movies with Jake and Candy in the den. By 10 pm she said her goodbyes and was off on her way home. Even Candy treated her civilly, perhaps sensing that something deep was going on between Julie and Jake.

Day 54

Finals had begun, and Julie decided to get two orders of french fries to keep her strength up. Only two girls were at the cheerleader's table and the cool kid's table was also missing quite a few of its usual members. About ten minutes into the period Jennifer, followed closely by Ashley, entered the cafeteria. Behind them were Becky, Amanda, Carrie, Olivia, the confident-looking girl from the couch Hannah, and a couple of others Julie hadn't seen with Ashley before. They all walked together as a unit right to the table Julie was sitting at and sat down all around her.

Jennifer sat directly across from her, flanked by Ashley and Amanda. The new girls, Olivia and Hannah sat on either side of Julie. The rest sat out further away from Julie and Jennifer. The whole room seemed to pause and watch, but everyone at Julie's table sat silent, looking at Julie. She was feeling a strange mix of fear and hotness. They didn't seem to be working their voodoo on her, it was just that Julie had seen so much of them, doing so many things, it was making her mind race.

Once the cafeteria had gone back to usual Jennifer leaned over to get closer to Julie and said, "How did I look? Would you worship me?" then she giggled. She was smiling a big cheerful smile and making lots of eye contact with Julie, it almost felt to Julie like Jennifer was flirting with her. "Maybe," Julie thought to herself.

Instead, Julie said, "do you have a Stairmaster at home? Or maybe one of those all-in-one gym things?"

All the girls at the table giggled except Jennifer, "I see that my effort was lost on you. But from what my comrades have told me you are pretty jaded." Olivia placed her fingertips on Julie's knee, and Julie couldn't help but shiver at the slight touch. All the rest of the girls at the table had settled down after Julie's joke, but Olivia kept giggling at Julie's reaction to her fingertips.

Olivia whispered into Julie's ear, "wanna go to the bathroom? I can't do THAT thing yet but we could do OTHER things." Julie shuddered as Olivia slid her fingers up her thigh. Julie could imagine doing OTHER things with Olivia, even right in the cafeteria, at that moment.

"Stop teasing her," Ashley said seeing what Olivia was doing. "Julie is to be respected."

The stern commanding look on Ashley's face made Julie imagine sliding out of her seat and under the table so that Julie could thank her old friend with her tongue. Ashley was wearing a skirt after all and Julie had no doubt that she wasn't wearing anything under it. Julie became lost in dreams of what her bestie tasted like when a hand reached across the table and lightly touched her hand bringing her back from her blissful wondering.

"Stay with us babe," said Amanda with a knowing smile.

"It's been decided that you are no threat and can be left alone," Ashley said. "You have had plenty of opportunities to tell others about us, you even have video evidence and you have not told anyone. So we have decided that you can be trusted to keep our secret."

Julie was shocked, at that moment she would have let these women strip her down naked on that table and perform their ceremony in front of everyone in the school. She was so wet and hot that she had to clasp her heads together on the table to keep from touching herself. And now they didn't want her anymore?

Jennifer leaned in again and said in a quiet, seductive voice, "Your sister and friend here still have... feelings... of a sort for you and will protect you it seems. You can walk the halls knowing no one will pull you into a classroom and take you. You can sleep safely in your bed knowing none of us will slide in beside you as you sleep and give you a glorious gift. You are off the hook Julie," she smiled a predator's smile. "Not that anyone at this school EXCEPT you knows that we might drag them into a bathroom stall or slip into their bed at night. So I'm sure they all feel safe too, but you are now the only one that is truly safe." She put a single well manicured finger to her lips. "Shhhh." As Jennifer had talked about how Julie could be dragged into a classroom or someone could slide into her bed she shivered just as hard as she had when Olivia touched her thigh.

Jennifer then giggled and looked at Olivia, "haha, I can make her shiver without even touching her bitch." Jennifer smirked.

Then loudly, so all the room could hear, Jennifer said, "well enjoy your french fries," in a mocking tone. Jennifer then got up and headed to her usual table. All the others got up after her and followed in a tightly packed group behind her. Only Olivia lingered a bit. About halfway to her new seat she turned her body back towards Julie and made eye contact. Olivia lifted one hand to her lips and blew Julie a kiss, with her other hand she gave one of her breasts a savage squeeze. She then made a hand signal to 'call me' as she went on to the table that Jennifer was now sitting at. Julie looked away quickly and started looking around the room to see if anyone had noticed. A few people had, most of them had a look of wonder or worry even disgust. Put a couple of the girls looked at her just as Olivia had, they looked at her with lust in their eyes.

Julie had scheduled an appointment with Mr. Rhodes for right after her last final of the day. When she showed up the secretary stopped her explaining that someone else was already talking with him, "sorry, it was an emergency," she said.

Julie looked around the school office and saw a row of chairs along a back wall. Normally students who had done something wrong sat here waiting for the vice principal to discipline them. Julie sat down at the end of the row, which was in the corner of the office, and waited. There were only a few people working that day since school was winding down for the year. Julie soon became lost in thought.

It had taken all she had to make it through the day. She could still feel Olivia's fingers slide up her thigh. If she actually knew the cheerleader's number she would probably call her right at that moment. These girls were making her so damned hot. Was she a lesbian? Julie had never thought about any woman like that until a month ago, even now women in porn didn't do anything for her. When she thought of her friends, however, the teasing and touching was driving her absolutely crazy. She had been ready to run away from her whole life to escape them a couple of days ago. But now that they had told her that they didn't want her she couldn't stop thinking about them.

Jake had made her hot before, his tongue in her mouth and hand under her bra. At times like that she was almost as turned on as she had been when Olivia had touched her thigh or when she had pictured Jennifer sliding into bed with her. She was attracted to Jake. She did want to have sex with him, but she also wanted to have sex with Jennifer, Olivia, or even Ashley.

It had been 20 minutes and although she had lost herself in fantasy for a while she was now starting to wonder if she should just come back the next day. Julie started to stand when the door to the guidance councilors office opened. Out stepped Jennifer, Julie dropped back into the chair and ducked down a bit. She didn't really need to hide, Jennifer had let the door close behind her and was checking her makeup with a compact. The secretary threw Jennifer a strange look as she stood there putting on some lipstick and then puckering her lips a few times. Julie could from her vantage point see Jennifer give the secretary a smile as she walked up to her.

"Sorry about the late notice. I might need an appointment for tomorrow too, but it might be another girl. So can you just put down 'Jenny' for 2 o'clock tomorrow and if another Jenny shows up just let her in?" Julie could see the secretaries scowl as she typed something into her aging computer. Jennifer didn't bother to confirm anything and sauntered out of the office.

As Julie entered the office Mr. Rhodes was adjusting the positioning of the various things on his desk, getting them just right. "Oh, Julie. You waited, thanks, sorry about that. Uh, unexpected emergency." he said as he stopped playing with the frame of a picture.

"I'm sure," said Julie with just a hint of annoyance and jealousy. Julie sniffed the air, it had just a hint of the smell of sex. Julie then sat down and looked around the room she had been in so many times before. She noticed that in front of the window a new small loveseat now sat. "I want to know if I have to go to graduation to graduate," Julie said.

On closer examination, Mr. Rhodes looked a little disheveled. He straightened his tie and said," I guess strictly speaking you don't HAVE to go to the ceremony, it's just a formality after all. But we can't give you your diploma before then. What's this all about."

Julie had worked on this lie for a while, "my mom and sister decided to take me to Europe for graduation but they completely messed up the dates. In fact, they aren't even here now, otherwise, they would be here explaining this to you not me. I have a flight on Saturday that they rebooked because at first, they were off by two weeks. They're still off by one week but at least I can make it this time, can't miss finals, right?"

"I see," he said sitting back in his chair looking around like he wasn't even listening. "Well you are a good student, I'm sure you will pass all your classes. So if you have to go, you have to go. Grab life by the horns, am I right?" To Julie, it suddenly seemed like Mr. Rhodes was talking about something else entirely but he had said what she wanted to hear.

Julie stood up, "so if I pass my finals and don't show up to the ceremony I'm alright?"

"Free as a bird," he said smiling, putting his feet on his desk and accidentally knocking over the picture of his wife that he had been messing with earlier. "I'll even give that to you in writing." He laughed, he was obviously in a very good mood.

"I'll be here tomorrow to pick up that letter," Julie said. Glancing over at the new piece of furniture she asked, "what's with the new couch, there's no room for it in here."

"It's actually not a couch, it's called a chair and a half. Sometimes students prefer to talk without a desk between me and them." His explanation was laughable.

"Right," Julie said as she was stepping out of the cubicle. "It's to talk to them," the only way he could have talked to Julie on that couch was if she sat in his lap. If she did that right now she wouldn't have to worry about anything in his pants poking her. Although she hadn't been sure when she walked in earlier, she was now certain that Jennifer had taken care of that problem personally.

After school, Julie was on Jake's couch, trying to pretend that it was a chair and a half. She felt a lot friskier than normal but Jake was playing it cool. As she sat on his lap he just wrapped his arms around her and cuddled. Occasionally he kissed her neck or ear as they watched some sort of mystery anime. Much to Julie's wonder he wasn't even that hard. Could a guy even get it inside her if he was that soft she wondered?

"Dummy, tramp. Mom says dinner's ready," Candy was trying but she just wasn't quite her bitchy self. Had Jake told her that he was running away with Julie? Or maybe Candy had listened in on their conversation that day that she got him to kind of agree? Whatever the case Jake was acting a little more thoughtful and less handsy ever since that ride home when it felt like they were going to break up. It was looking more and more like Julie had made the right decision. Getting away from the League of Evil Lesbians and starting anew somewhere else made a lot more sense than giving in to her lust and... and... well Julie really didn't know what would happen then. All she knew at that moment was that if she could survive three more days she could push Jake over the edge and make her getaway.