study buddies - sjy

ten

CHAPTER TEN ::: I woke up the next morning to my mother knocking on my bedroom door. I got up, having slept off my drunkenness, and immediately started to shake Jake awake. He groaned but I put my hand over his mouth. What was I gonna do, this was gonna look so wrong. There was then another knock at the door and Jake sat up in the bed.

"Fuck." I whispered to myself, trying to think of what to do.

"LiHua wake up." My mom called out.

"Coming." I called out and got out of bed, "Get up." I whispered and Jake just did as I said.

I walked to the door and took a deep breath, preparing myself before I unlocked my door and opened it. My mother looked past me and saw Jake. I thought I'd get smacked but instead she pushed past me and walked over to the boy with a smile.

"Jake!" She excitedly said as she walked over to the boy and pulled him into a hug. She barely even hugged me, what the fuck?

"Hi Miss Huang." He greeted my mom, hugging her back.

"I didn't know you'd be sleeping over." She said, sitting down on the bed and pulling him down to sit down next to her. I just slowly walked over to them and stood in front of them.

"Yeah, I wasn't planning to but honestly, your daughter wasn't doing well so I stayed with her." He told my mom.

"I told her not to get too drunk but of course she doesn't listen. Whatever, it is what it is, she'll be the one paying for the consequences." My mom says and she raises her eyebrows at me. "Thank you for staying to take care of her, you're so sweet." She compliments Jake. Well, obviously she liked him a lot.

"I don't mind it at all." Jake answers and my mom smiles.

"What is with you? Why would you get so drunk? Now you forced this boy to stay over!" My mom scolded me in Cantonese.

"Ma, I didn't force him! I just asked him." I answered back.

"I don't even care anymore. You're the one with the hangover." My mom sighed before switching back to English. "Jake, do you need anything?" She then asked.

"No ma'am, thank you." He answered back and she just smiled before getting up from the bed and leaving my room.

"What the fuck. She likes you more than me." I say as I plop back down on my bed.

"What can I say." Jake responds with a smile and a shrug.

"Shut up." I say.

There's then a silence which I break, "I'm sorry for making you stay over." I told the boy who turns to face me.

"Lili, I mean it, you didn't make me. I could've just left you but I didn't cause I wanted to stay." Jake responds as he puts his hand on my thigh and slowly caresses it.

"Great, now I feel like crying again." I say as I fall back so that I'm not facing the ceiling. Jake stays sitting up as he continues to caress my thigh.

"I'm not trying to be an asshole when I ask this, but do you think you're getting your period soon?" Jake asks.

I sigh, "Most likely." I agree.

Jake lays down with me and pulls me on him so that my head is resting on his chest. I started to softly cry, the feeling of comfort being too much for me. He rubbed my back as I cried into his shirt. He didn't say anything the whole time, he just rubbed my back as he tightly held onto me.

I finished crying and pulled away from the boy, "I got your shirt all wet." I say.

"That doesn't matter." He says with a smile. "Are you good?" He then asked.

"Yeah, I just- felt like crying I guess." I answered.

"I get it." He responded as he sat up and pulled me into a hug.