Pixie Dust and Dark Voids | By : shibbydm Category: Individual Celebrities > Gerard Butler Views: 4192 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Jake stared at the phone, his fingers itching to just call Gerry and tell him everything. Jade was going out of her mind having to shut off her emotions all the time.
Jade sat in her bedroom. She had packed her case, brought forward her hard exterior and pushed on her wedding ring.
Jake looked at his hands, as he switched his gold ring from his right hand to his left hand. He felt physically sick. Grabbing his coat, he slammed the door shut on his “wife” and headed to Gerard’s flat.
“Wife” he snorted, and all because of his bastard father who refused to accept he was gay.
His father’s words echoed in his ears, “Trust me boy, we’ll get this out of you,” as he beat him senseless with anything he could get his hands on. Silent and ashamed, Jake had kept himself to himself, until he met Jade, the bubbly daughter of his father’s best friend. They grew up together, playing man and wife, to the delight of Jake’s father.
Adorable Jade had reassured Jake that there was nothing wrong with how he felt. She had held him, loved him and made him feel human again, unlike the dog his father had turned him into. Jade healed his wounds and gave him faith; they were inseparable, best friends. Many thought them as an item, then came the day Jade met another boy.
Poor Jade, Jake recalled her father’s hate when he realised her daughter hadn’t been courting Jake. Banned from seeing her boyfriend, Jade took comfort in Jake.
To them it was clear; their fathers had clinked their brandy glasses and figured Jade would “fix” Jakes illness and then be married.
Jake would always remember Jade’s black and blue face during a gala when she had defied all odds and screamed in the faces of her and his father that they were unfeeling pigs. Just 17 years old and her spirit rose. Leaving the gala, Jake and Jade felt on top of the world. Jake admired Jade’s courage, and both prayed that would be the end of their lives being controlled.
Jake watched in horror later that evening as both men taught Jade a lesson, her father insisting it was because he loved her, sending her kisses with his fists.
Eventually came the day when Jake and Jade had no choice in marriage; their fathers fortunes combined, everyone was happy. Two futures destroyed; two people who loved each other as friends forced into a marriage they would hide for years; two people who swore to play the part, to never get close to anyone else outside of their pact. A childish game of man and wife had become reality.
Gerry sat staring at Jake, choking on what he had just heard. He cupped his head in his hands and felt the ground leaving him.
“You’re married to Jade?”
“Yes.”
“You didn’t have an idea between the two of you to just get up and leave?”
“Go where Gerry? We were 18, stupid, young and scared. I had the shit kicked out of me everyday since father caught me staring at the gardener. Jade was living in fear of the father who had been her idol for years. I wish to god the poor girl had never met me.”
“I thought you had no relatives.”
“I don’t like to think I’m related to them. I disowned their money and lived on my own, but me and Jade have to be together. Every time we go to her fathers for the weekend once a month, people hug us and say what a wonderful couple we are. All the while, we sit in silence living a lie.”
Gerry stood up, “Why didn’t Jade just...”
Jake sobbed, “How could she tell you Gerry? She’s a married woman. You know, sometimes she looks at me and I see hate. She’s my best damn friend and I’m causing her to waste her life. When we play at her house, when we play man and wife, she hates me.”
Gerry took the crying man in his arms, “There’s no way she hates you Jake. You two are so close, I was insanely jealous of you when I first saw you two together.”
Jake stepped back, “You know what we did on our wedding night? We played monopoly, and she won. That’s my life all over really, round and round, pulling Jade along with me. I just want this to be over, when it’s over, she can have what she wants. You.”
Gerry smiled, “I love her Jake, but this is a situation I have no control in. This is up to you and Jade.”
Jake turned and dropped his head, “I can’t do this anymore Gerry. It’s driving me mad. Poor Jade is feeling even worse, but you can’t tell her you know. She mustn’t know! I can’t believe I’ve even told you, but you have to excuse her pushing you away. You have to understand our absence. We leave tonight. Will you come see her?”
“Look, your both old enough to walk away now, surely?”
“And do what” Jake shouted out. “Jade will have nothing, her father won’t keep her in money; he won’t let her see her mother; he will bad mouth her to anyone he can, and that’s nothing to what he will beat out of her, every time we go there Jade slowly becomes more distant. She’s 24 now. She’ll be dead inside before I know it, and it’s my fault. They never stop controlling us! They even own the apartment we live in.”
Gerry saw Jake to the door and waited until he had lone gone before he collapsed on the floor. The idea of a man hitting Jade made him feel sick. The fear and pain Jake and Jade were living under seemed hard for him to understand, but he realised why she was behaving so odd. At least he knew.
Michelle had almost began to give up splitting Jade and Gerry up, until he arrived at her apartment that night, clearly distressed.
Bringing him in from the cold, she made him tea and listened to his whole sorry tale.
“Gerry, I’m speechless. I had no idea. I mean, god, that’s a secret to keep isn’t it. Very deceitful.”
Gerry dropped his head to the table, “What should I do?”
Michelle saw her opportunity here, to tell him to leave her. In the state he was in, he would trust her. She could wind her way in, he could be hers. But suddenly something inside hurt. She found herself saying:
“Stick with her. You love her; it’s clear as day she loves you. There has to be a way out of this.”
Gerry threw his arms around Michelle, “So I’m not the fool here?”
Michelle held back her tears, “No” Breaking inside, she held him tightly, inhaling his scent, “You go … get her Gerry, she needs you.”
Michelle watched him leave and cried as the door shut, sending the only man she truly adored to another woman. It killed her, but she wanted him to be happy. He had a long way to go, but she knew he would find it. Sighing, she crept back into her room and lay next to her sleeping husband. Crying silently, she drifted off to sleep.
Gerry ran as fast as he could toward Jade’s apartment, but he was too late. He knew before he had knocked that they had gone. Now he couldn’t see her for days, couldn’t tell her he loved her, couldn’t help them.
Gerry winced inside for the two poor friends, now on their way to 4 days of hell with the in-laws, and wished he knew how to help them.
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