Janelle's Choice

Chapter 19

Finally, the last day of working on this project with Jaden. I couldn't be happier. The past two weekends, I've been wasting time at Jaden's house. But today is the last day. And tomorrow I'm free!

I rung the doorbell to Jaden's house and like literally 3 seconds later, he opened the door. I frowned. "How'd you get to the door so quickly?" I asked him.

"I was already in the living room." He said, stepping to the side so I could come in. I shrugged my shoulders and walked into the large house.

"Alright. I only have a little more work to do on the PowerPoint, so just keep quiet and let me concentrate until I'm done." I demanded Jaden as we walked up the stairs and into his room.

Jaden threw his hands up in defense. "Fine." He said, plopping down on his bed while I sat at his computer desk.

I started the computer up and got back to work on the PowerPoint.

After about 10 minutes of working and researching, I finally finished the PowerPoint. I got up from the computer desk and faced Jaden who was asleep on his bed. He was even snoring a little bit.

I rolled my eyes and looked around the room. I grabbed a pillow from his bed and hit his multiple times in the face to wake him up. "Wake up, Jalen!" I yelled in his ears.

He quickly sat up and faced me. "Okay, okay. I'm up. No need for pillow violence." He said in an annoyed tone.

"Shut up." I told him. "I'm done with the PowerPoint, but Ms. Brown told us we needed to write a paragraph summary on the overall outcome of World War 2." I explained.

"Okay." He said.

I grabbed my history textbook out of my bag and threw it on Jaden's bed. Jaden sat on the edge of the bed and opened up the textbook.

I grabbed a price of paper and a pencil out of my bag afterwards and threw those on his bed also.

I walked over to the bed and sat on the edge of the bed next to Jaden.

I began writing the summary. While I was writing, I kind of felt a sense of awkwardness overcome me. We were sitting next to each other quietly. It was awkward silence.

I hate awkward silence!

I was just about to break the awkward silence and talk about something random, before Jaden already did.

"The Bombing of Pearl Harbor." He said.

I looked at him with a weird and slightly confused face expression. "What?"

"The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. It took place in 1938. It's when the Japanese invaded Hawaii and bombed Pearl Harbor, where they were making all the weapons. The impact it had on the United States is that it brought the US into World War 2 officially." Jaden explained.

My eyes then widened in shock. "How do you know that?" I asked. Just last week she was acting like a complete idiot who didn't know a thing about the history of World War 2. Now without a stutter, he just explained a major part of it.

"Well, you told me I needed to study or I was gonna be stuck in high school for the rest of my life. So I did." Jaden shrugged.

"Oh. Well, okay then." I said, not really knowing what to say next.

I started back writing because I just wanted to get this damn project done already. As I wrote, I realized my hand accidentally touched Jaden's.

I looked up at him and saw that he did the same exact thing. I tried to fight the urge to look in those brownish-green eyes, but it didn't work. I found myself drowning in those eyes.

And suddenly I saw him slowly and gradually lean his face forward. I did the same thing. Our lips were literally centimeters apart before I stopped myself and backed up. Jaden stopped as well and he also backed up. But his eyes were still glued on my face.

"Um..." I uttered awkwardly and nervously.

Okay, am I processing this correctly? Did Jaden and I really almost kiss?

I don't even know why. It's just in that moment, I was lost in his eyes, we were staring at each other.
Great, now my brain is all jumbled up with questions.

"I-I have to go." I said quietly, looking down at my hands.

"O-okay." He said.

I got off the bed and quickly grabbed my bag. I got my textbook and stuffed it in the bag and without another word, I stormed out of that house.

Ugh! Why did I do that. I just left him sitting there, not knowing what to think. I just can't process the idea on how I almost kissed him.

What if I hadn't stopped myself? Then I would've kissed him and that is not good. He has a girlfriend. I can't kiss a boy that's already taken. And I hate him. Why would I kiss a boy that I hate.

The entire walk home, a million different questions and things popped up in my mind.

Okay, for now on, I'm avoiding Jaden. We might have history, chemistry, and biology class together, but for now, I can't be caught looking at him, or talking to him.

I can't face him. It's gonna be too awkward. Just the fact of even connecting my lips with his gives me goosebumps.

I don't know!

I'm so confused!
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Ok. This chapter was a little short, but oh well.

Soo...Jaden and Janelle almost kissed and she's all confused about it.

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