Only Me

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"You"

Jackson's P.O.V.

"Fine", I answer in agreement.

"Fine", Veronica repeats with just as much venom in her voice as me.

"What's fine?", Mrs. Smith interrupts our silent argument.

"Your daughter is evil", I explain before the witch has the chance.

"Jackson is fucking stupid"

"Veronica", her mom quickly scolds her for her vulgar language.

"Sorry, mommy"

"You guys are a mess, arguing at four in the morning, sun didn't even rise yet", Mrs. Smith starts to scold us both for our immature behavior, "Go to bed", she shoo's us.

Even if I wanted to sleep I can tell from the fire still blazing in Veronica's eyes that I would not get the chance.

I can't wait to hear about how much her feelings suddenly flipped and how she began to like me as soon I started messing with Jade.

And I can't wait for her to convince me about how confident she is in these feelings.

"Jealous?", she gets right into it.

"You said you wanted to leave it alone", I try to make my way back to her brother's room.

They need to give me my own room in this house since I'm here so much.

"I'm not jealous you rat, I only said that cause I wanted you to give me attention"

Did she call me a rat?

"Don't worry about it Veronica", I just want to go to sleep and pretend like this did not happen.

"Stop walking away from me Jackson, are we going to continue avoiding each other every time we bump heads? What if one day we never talk again", she grabs on to my wrist.

"Veronica", I say pulling my arm closer to my stomach to move her closer to me, she needs to hear me clearly, "Do I look like I'm playing with you?"

I was never one of them niggas who considered myself to be in the friend zone because the girl I liked did not like me back. I know better than to expect shit from people who owe no obligations to me. I started a friendship with her because I genuinely wanted to be friends with her, not to hopefully fuck her one day.
But the lord is testing my patience today.

"Stop fucking with me", I say in the most serious tone I could because lord knows I want to bust out laughing right now.

Shortie wanted attention?
So what the fuck was I giving her before? What am I giving her now?

"I'm not fucking with you."

"Let me go", I try to free myself from her grip but all my attempts fall in vain.

"Come into my room"
Lord almighty, if this is a test fail me now cause you know fully well I'm going to take my ass into that room.

"Okay, sit down now", she forcefully pushes me onto her bed.

When was the last time I was in here?

For all the time that I have known Veronica, panic was not an emotion that she displayed often. So her having the emotion completely take over her body has me a little bit uneasy.

"I'm not fucking with you, ok? I would never fuck with your feelings, I don't know why you assume that of me. When I first found out about your feelings, yes I was uncomfortable, who wouldn't be? I thought we were only friends because you saw me like a piece of meat and not a person. But when I told you that your touches make me uncomfortable you immediately stopped and that made me realize that you obviously see me as more than that and of course I was happy about that. And I thought we could just continue to be friends but I started to notice and miss things about you that I never thought I would. I wanted you to touch me, I even started to have dreams about how your hands felt on me, and then it's like you became nicer and started showering me with attention but then you stopped. And I realized that you started to spread your attention and at first I didn't know why I was so upset about it but now I do and it's because I want..." she trails off, seemingly at a loss for words.

"You want attention?", I try to fill in.

"Not just attention, it's more than that"

"You sound like you just want at-"

"You", she cuts me off. "I don't only want attention, I want you"

Fuck me, it definitely feels better when she says it sober.