Did You Miss Me?

Chapter 6

Jake was smiling, like he was looking at something he'd got back after being lost for so long, the funny thing was, he never lost me.

"You're my girl" he beamed as he pulled me into a huge hug. I giggled and hugged him back. I was his girl, and that wasn't about to change, not now. Not ever.

"Hey, you live with me now" he pulled out of the hug and gazed at me. This was why I loved this man. He was just happy that I was with him, and he didn't get scared or jealous of someone who used to be in my life eight years ago when I was all floral frocks and flower crowns.

I nodded and kissed him before climbing off his lap and back onto my side of the bed. And it wasn't just me staying the night this time, I was actually living here. Sure we needed to make it official with all the bills, and I'd need to move my things from mum's house, but for me and Jake it was real. We'd made the next step as a couple after three years.

It suddenly dawned on me that the next step for a couple to move on to was marriage and children, and not necessarily in that order. I was now terrified, but excited at the same time, and more the latter than the former. I loved this man, and I was positive that I wanted the rest of my life to be spent with him, and whatever our future had planned.

The next morning I woke up to a steaming cup of coffee, wafted under my nose from a wide awake and pretty sweaty Jake. He'd been on a run.

"Wakey wakey"

I sat up and took my coffee.

"Why did you go running? You never run in the morning unless you're frustrated" I muttered sleepily as I rubbed my eye

He looked at me as if I should have known the answer, but it was still early and I hadn't woken up properly. I decided to ignore the glare I was getting, it was intended to be funny, but I was too sleepy to even contemplate the thought of teasing at the minute, so I let it slide, much to Jake's annoyance.

I went to grab my phone to see it was no longer on the side any more, instead it was in Jake's hand. I mentally slapped myself as I took a wild stab in the dark at why Jake was frustrated.

"So that boyfriend called" he smirked, I knew he was pretending to be okay with it, but I didn't question it. It was his coping method, and that was okay.

I wasn't sure whether to smile or not, the better half of me was saying not to, that it might just look like I was smiling in the knowledge that Sam had called, but it didn't stop me. I was smiling because Jake was stood in front of me, sweaty and in his running gear, his eyebrows raised and even though he might have been slightly frustrated, he still made me a coffee.

I shook my head to whisk away the smile in the fear that it may just give out the wrong impression.

"What happened?"

I could have guessed, but I still wanted to know for sure. I could imagine Jake answering the phone and being all sexy and saying he was busy making passionate love to me and trying to make Sam jealous, but I could just as easily imagine him being angry and telling him never to call again, both would have been good to hear.

"I answered, he asked who had Jess's phone, I told him that I'd found it at the park, he threatened me to take it back to her... Jess you actually dated this guy?"

I looked confused, sure Sam was a bad boy but he would never threaten anybody, at least he never would have when we were together. I nodded slowly before slowly asking what the threat was, it couldn't have been that bad. Sam was a rebel sure, but he would never physically hurt someone.

"Oh nothing really, just said that he'd find me and make sure I'd never see the light of day again"

I choked on my coffee and put it back down.