Cigarette Stained Lies

Chapter 7: Perfect... Just Perfect

I turned around immediately because the voice sounded really familiar.

“Jessica wait!”

“Hi, what’s up?” I asked checking the time on my phone. It’s almost 7 o’clock, good. One more hour until Glee comes on. 

“I just want to know if you want a ride home, it’s pretty late and I don’t want you to go call and wait for a cab.”

“Sure, thanks Danielle.” I said as she led me out the door. Once we were outside, I noticed Logan outside smoking a cigarette. Wow… I didn’t know he smokes…

“Hey Logan” I said while walking over to him. I heard Danielle’s heels following me from behind.

“Hi Jess” Logan said before he took a long drag of his cigarette.

“What’s up?” I looked at him as he puffs of smoke came out of his mouth.

“Nothing much, I just finished some work with my dad and was about to head out.” He said while putting out the cigarette. It was now a bud, which he flicked it to the floor and stomped on it. “Where are you going?” He asked with a questioned look as he was looking from me to Danielle, who was behind me.

“Danielle was about to take me home.” I said while turning to Danielle who was occupying herself with her Blackberry.

“Well I can take you home. I live very close to you, and Danielle lives in the other direction.” He stated. As soon as Danielle heard her name, she took her attention away from her phone and looked up at us confused.

“What?” She asked us.

“I can take Jess home. She doesn’t live by you, and I don’t want you to waste your gas.”

“Oh, well… thanks then.” It looked like she wanted to say something else, but she didn’t. “Bye Jess.” She said before walking away. It was just Logan and me left.

“Should we get going?” He asked as he started to walk in the direction to his car.

“Um, sure.”

The walk to the car was a tad awkward, but thank God it wasn’t a far walk. Once we finally got into the car, which was a black Range Rover, he turned on the car and started to head in the direction to my house. The car smelled like cigarettes knowing fully he was the cause of that.

 It was quiet while we were driving. The only noise was the radio that was lightly playing Lady Gaga’s song Speechless in the background. I smiled slightly to myself, knowing that that song got me there in the first place. I started to hum along while staring out the window. Once I started to sing to myself, I heard him chuckle. I stared at him with confusing.

“What’s so funny?” I asked.

He stopped laughing and took his eyes off the road to look at me.

“Nothing.” He said looking back at the road.

I dropped the conversation and look back at the window. It was silence once again. Seconds later, the song Perfect by P!nk started to play. A single raindrop began to roll down the window, and then it was lightly drizzling. After a few more minutes of comfortable silence, my stomach started to growl. Logan once again laughed.

“Hungry are we?” He asked with that charming smile of his.

“Yeah, Ms. Roberts didn’t let me take any breaks.” I said while giggling.

“You wanna go get something to eat?”

“Sure” I answered after thinking about it. He then turned going into a direction away from my house. There was still silence in the car. I really didn’t care about it, but it looked like he was annoyed by it.