it all started with one word // mikey murphy

Chapter 3

I wake up the next morning in Mikey's sweatshirt and cuddled up to someone on the couch. I look over to see Mikey sleeping he looks so cute that I didn't want to wake him so I get up quietly and try not to step on Jake, Luke or Trevor and grab the keys to go get breakfast for us all. Quickly running back into the house with McDonald's sandwiches so they wouldn't find out I left I run into to something and almost fall backwards.

"What the h-" I say before looking to see who it was.

"Where were you? We were all scared and you wouldn't pick up your phone" Jake says.

"Sorry JJ I should've told someone, but I got breakfast" I say smiling holding up the bag.

"You are forgiven" he says taking the bag and running into the living room. I walk in there to see them already almost done with their food.

"Did anyone save me one or did you pigs eat it?"

"Its inf tha badg" Luke says with food in his mouth.

"Thanks" I say laughing walk over to the bag. After we are all done eating Trevor had to go home to spend time with his mom since he was gone all day yesterday.

"So what are we doing today?" Mikey asks.

"Me and Jake were going to go shopping for our rooms if you guys wanted to come" I say.

"Boring. I'm just going to go home" Luke says walking out the door.

"Well I will go with because I have nothing else to do, but I'm gonna run home and change" Mikey says running out of the house.
Fifteen minutes later he comes back and Jake locks the front door then gets into the drivers seat out his car.

We get to Pier One Imports with Mikey's directions because we didn't know where it was. When we walked in it was so huge I didn't know where to start because there was so many things. I grab Mikey's hand and run around the entire store picking up things and putting them in the cart. By the time I was done and went to find Jake he was standing at the exit.

"Got enough?" Jake says laughing at my full cart.

"She was like a kid in a candy shop" Mikey says smiling.

"Well I can't help myself I love shopping" I say then go pay for my stuff. Once we get home I take all my things with Mikey's help and run upstairs.

"What color paint did you get?" Mikey said flopping down on the bed.

"Light blue for three of my walls then the one above my bed dark grey chalkboard paint" I say taking it out and showing him.

"So I'm guessing I have to help you" he says sounding tired.

"Yep" I say setting the paint down.

He gets up and grabs the white tarp to put down so I don't get it on the floor and windows. While I pop open the paint and stir it up. We grab a paint brush and start painting one of the walls blue. Mikey told me five minutes ago he had to go to the bathroom and he hasn't came back yet. I was confused and started telling his name when something hit me in the back.

"Micheal Murphy!" I scream because he got paint all over my back.

"Jayden Johnson!" he says mocking me.

"You are so dead" I say throwing paint back at him which got his hair.

"Bring it" he says smirking. After 15 minutes 2 of the walls were covered in blue paint and so were we.

"Okay we need to finish" I say trying to get Mikey up.

"One condition" he says not moving.

"What?"

"You have to do what I want for the whole day tomorrow"

"Fine. Now get up" I say and he finally gets up. After another 4 hours of eating 12 tacos, drinking 20 arizona teas and a lot of bathroom trips the walls were finally done drying and now we were decorating. On one of the walls we put a bunch of band posters and the other we put youtube posters, by the window seat we hung up white lights and put throw pillows on the window sill. Then above my bed Mikey wrote 'Murphy and Dawson best friends forever' and I put a bunch of my favorite quotes.

"Lets get pizza" Mikey says.

"It's 11 at night no one is going to be open" I whine.

"Guys I ordered pizza!" I hear Jake yell which makes me and Mikey look at each other. We run downstairs and this time we don't fall on each other. Once we get down there I see Trevor and Luke standing in the kitchen with Jake.

"Jayden!" Trevor yells giving me a hug.

"Trevor!" I yell back. Giving both him and Luke a quick hug.

"Okay you two shut up and get some pizza" Jake says. We quickly are the pizza then all went our separate ways. Jake, Trevor and Luke all are swimming while Mikey and I are in the basketball court. We were playing a game of one on one and I was winning.

"Come on this isn't fair" Mikey says trying to get the ball from me.

"It's not my fault my dad went to college on a scholarship" I say stopping I never have told Mikey about my dad.

"Really that's co- wait Dawson are you okay?" he says sounding worried. I run up to my room and onto the roof and just sit there looking at the stars trying to calm down. This always happens when I talk about my dad and Jake is the only one that knows I have anxiety let's just hope this time I don't black out.

Mikey's POV

"Jake I need to talk to you" I say walking into the pool room.

"Yeah what's up?" he asks.

"Okay so me and Jayden were playing one on one and then she told me she got it from your dad then she froze up and ran to her room" I tell him then hear him whisper anxiety. "You mean she has anxiety?" I ask.

"Oh you heard that?" he asks worried.

"Yeah do I try to talk to her or just leave her?"

"Go find her and tell her to explain everything and tell her I said to" Jake says being serious.

"Okay thanks" I say running up to her room and over to the window. I get up there like she taught me too and I see her sitting with her back to me looking up at the sky.

"Jayden" I say and she looks back then pats the spot next to her.

"Jake told me to tell you that you have to explain it to me" I say worried because I don't want her to freak out and go sit down by her.

"Jake and I were 9 when our dad started beating us. We tried telling our mom, but all she told us was we were kids and didn't know what we were talking about. So it kept going on until one night when we were 12 our dad was beyond drunk he came into my room where me and my brother were hiding and he dragged us out of the closet. He threw me onto the bed and ripped my clothes off of me Jake tried to get him off, but our dad knocked him out and raped me. My mom came home and heard me screaming she ran upstairs and saw our dad and he ran out. We haven't seen him since and that's why we had to move" she said bawling her eyes out.

"Hey look at me I will never let anyone do that to you ever again. If you need anything and I mean anything I am there just come to my house or text me" I say giving her a hug. We sat there for an hour and just talked until Jake texted me and told me to come down because they wanted to watch a movie. As we came downstairs I saw the boys sitting on the couch watching us. Jake pulls me over to him and asked what happened. I told him she said everything and he told me how to deal with it if she ever has an anxiety attack again. I go sit on the couch and cuddle with Jayden and about a hour into the movie she was sleeping so I carried her upstairs and put her on her bed then went home.

To Daws:

I brought you upstairs and went home to get some sleep. I will be back tomorrow around 11 be ready with a swimsuit and a change of clothes. Goodnight :)

After that I laid down and thought about Jayden, how she looked so cute with my oversized sweatshirt on and how excited she was when we walked into Pier 1 Imports and everything she told me until I fell asleep.