Living With Jordan

Chapter 12

I spent the rest of the day with my brother because I missed him so much. At the end of the day I headed for bed stressed about school starting again tomorrow.

I heard my door open and looked over to see Jordan. "Hey, you up?" He whispered. "Yea" I replied. He walked over to my bed lifting up my covers and laid down beside me.

"Are you crazy what if Charlie see us" I whispered trying to push him off my bed. "It's fine I'll leave before he wakes up" Jordan kissed my forehead and placed me his arms. "Goodnight panda girl" he said before quickly falling asleep.

*beep beep* my alarm clock goes off at 6:40, Jordan wasn't beside me. I can't believe he actually got up early enough to sneak out of my room. I got on my uniform and I put on my makeup before heading to the kitchen for breakfast.

I could smell it in the air, the smell of delicious pancakes. I ran to the kitchen and there was a plate with a gigantic stacked pancakes. I got myself a plate, put four pancakes on it and smothered it with maple syrup.

"Morning" Jordan walked from his room to the kitchen acting like he just woke up. "Morning" I said slightly blushing at him then quickly turning my attention to my pancakes.

"Your up late." Charlie said to Jordan. "Ya I forgot to set an alarm." He replied and with a big yawn he sat next to me and grabbed some pancakes.

"Okay" Charlie clapped his hands together "first day back to school, we can't be late. Let's go." He grabbed his bag and headed out the door and we followed sluggishly. Ugh school.

Quinn (mean girl) POV

Jordan and that new girl came to school together again. He is mineee "time for revenge!" She chuckled heading towards the gym locker rooms "I'll make you wish you never came to this school."

Rose POV

Finally gym class ended. Since my teacher made me run an extra lap because I was a little late to class, I was the last one to go to the change room after class ended.

"Nonononooo!" This can't be happening. Where are my school clothes, I swear I put them right here. I heard a chuckle come from behind me.

Three people emerged from the shadows "oh are these yours?" Quinn held up my uniform which was soaking wet and all cut up. "Here you can have it back" she throw them at my feet. "Stay away from Jordan or this is just the beginning!" She threatened me, then they walked out of the change room giggling.

I collapsed to the ground grabbing my clothes and started hyperventilating. I heard the door open again, I turned to look thinking it was the girls back to terrorize me even more, but to my relief it was only Jordan. As soon as he saw me his face looked mortified bordering on anger. He saw how that made me feel uneasy so he shook it off and approached me. He sat down beside me and wrapped his arms around me. He held me in his arms for awhile letting me cry into him before asking "What happened?"

"They...they" it was hard to talk, I tried to gather myself but failed and started crying even more. I didn't even care that my snot was dripping out my nose and getting onto Jordan.

"It was those girls who just left wasn't it?" Instead of answering I just nodded my head. Jordan let go of me and got up, I tried to grip onto him but I could barely lift my arms right now, I thought he was going to do something he'll later regret like beating those girls with how angry he looked but to my surprise he came back with a sweater and a box of tissues.

He took the wet clothes from my hands and put them into a plastic bag, then kneeled down and wiped all my snot and tears away, he helped me stand up and put the sweater he got onto me. It was obviously his, it was huge and smelled like him which was comforting. He quickly turned around and crouched down implying for me to get on his back, I could hardly stand up by myself so I did as he wanted and got onto his back.

"Everything's going to be okay..." he reassured me "let's get you home" he walked out of the change room, it was kind of embarrassing, everyone looking at me a girl crying on some guys back. But I didn't mind much I felt safe for probably the first time since my dad died.

We got to my locker and Jordan sat me down on the floor so he could pack mine and his backpacks to go home. I don't know when he texted my brother but he came running down the hall towards our locker.

"What happened? Why are you crying? Did you get hurt? Who did this to you? Did you make her cry?" He turned to Jordan ready to kill him. I let out a tiny laugh, Charlie being all frantic was always funny to see and it calmed me down a bit but not enough to stop crying or to even muster a word. All I could do to stop my brother from killing Jordan was to tap on him to get his attention and shake my head no. I gripped Jordan's pant leg and tugged it a couple times before letting go and making grabby hands towards him so he'd let me go back onto his back.

"Rose tell me what happened?" Charlie still insisted, I gave him a pouty look "okay we'll talk about this later at home." Jordan didn't say anything about what happened. He knew it would be better for me to talk about it since he didn't know all the details about what happened either. Charlie grabbed all our bags and Jordan carried me all the way to the car. He strapped me into the back seat and instead of going to sit in the front he came and sat in the back beside me and held my hand the whole ride home.

After a couple hours of calming down in my room and taking a bubble bath with my paci and rubber duckies to relax I was finally ready to talk about what happened....