Charm

Chapter 15

I rubbed my thumb against the green gem marking the charm. My head was shaking every minute, making sure all of this was real. I stood up slowly and grabbed my phone choosing whether or not to call Daniel. Maybe I shouldn't, considering the fact that he broke my heart to little pieces.

"Jesse!", My mom yelled from the kitchen, "Dinner time!"

I ran down the stairs and stepped into the kitchen. My mom was wearing her apron and her hands were on her hips. There was a little piece of hair on her face and she blew it away with her mouth.

"Ive been calling you for 5 minutes already Jesse." She said in a stern tone.

I swallowed hard and hid the charm in my pocket, "S-sorry, school. Yeah...school stuff."

She looked at me for a moment and then sighed, "Just eat dinner please."

I nodded my head and sat down.

There were so many questions running through my head.

1.) Why do I have the charm?

2.) How did it get to me?

3.) Is Daniel safe?

The last question bothered me because I still cared about him! He just didn't care about me... or did he? I need to get these "Daniel" thoughts out of my head before I end up alone living with 20 cats waiting for him. I have to force my self to move on...unless he comes back?

Ugh Jesse focus, he obviously doesn't care about you one bit.

My conscience was mean to me sometimes.

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I woke up and spread my arms out and stretched. As I yawned my phone beeped. I went over to check it and Marco texted me.

Marco: Hey! I was kinda wondering if you would like to see a movie tonight? After all, it is Saturday(No school tomorrow).

I thought about it for a minute, chewing on my nails. Then my fingers started tapping against my phone screen.

Jesse: Sure, what time?

My face started getting really hot and my heart was pounding. After about 3 minutes he texted back.

Marco: I thought we could see "The Last Rose" at 7:00 P.M.

I smiled a bit because I was actually going to see that movie, by myself of course.

Jesse: Sounds great!

Marco: Great! Thats great! Ill pick you up at 6:30.

Jesse: See you then :)

After I sent a smiley face I started to regret it. Was I being too...pushy? I shouldn't have been because I mean...he asked me...out. Or was he just thinking it's a friend thing? Maybe we are only just friends after all. Maybe we aren't even friends! We only met a couple of weeks ago.

I walked over to my closet and started to look through my clothes.

"Ugly...ugly...maybe...definitely not." I threw the clothes in piles.

After about what seemed like 2 hours, I picked my outfit. A green army jacket, white infinity scarf, maroon sweater, yoga pants, and combat boots. Not too ugly but also not too pretty. It was casual and "just right" as the adults say.

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It was 6 o' clock and I was sitting on my bed, tapping my foot rapidly. My mom walked in and her eyes widened.