Understanding You

Chapter 9

Me and Jake finished the video, which was a Q&A. I walked back to my house and my brain turned on. (for once.) Jake has been really sweet lately. I hope he doesn't like me in that way. And what about CJ? Speaking of CJ, I haven't talked to him lately.
As I was going to text him I got a call from an unknown number, but it had my old area code so I answered it.
"Hello?" I asked
"Hello. Is this Katelyn Reynolds?" The person asked. It was a lady
"Yes, and who is this?"
"I'm Lisa Strong, a doctor from the Peace Health Hospital of Portland Oregon," She told me. What do they want? "Jaelin Carter was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound and-" I cut her off
"WHAT?!?! Is she okay?!?" I shouted
"Yes she is okay, but the thing is, her boyfriend attempted to kill her and she isn't safe because he ran before the police could get him." Of course. That bastard.
"And you called me cause she wants to see me? I live in LA now and she knows that. I'm sorry, but I can't see her." I told her. As much as I wanted to go back, I couldn't. What if my dad was there. I couldn't go.
"Actually, we were wondering if she could live with you to be safe." She said. This took me by surprise.
"Um, I guess. Yes." I hesitated.
We discussed how we could fly her in. Maybe when Jaelin comes I will try to set her and CJ up. And if that doesn't work, then I'll set her up with Jake.
"Thank you, bye," I said as I hung up.
I went downstairs because I need to mention Jaelin coming to LA to my mom.
"Hey mom?"
"Hey sweetie. What's up?"
"Well, this is a long story..."
I told her everything about what happened to Jaelin. How her boyfriend abused her, the call I got from her days ago and the one I got from the doctor.
"Well I guess she could live with us, but where do we have any room?" She said
"Mom, we have a spare bedroom and even an extra bathroom." I reminded her.
"Well in that case, let's get some furniture!!" She yelled. Sometimes my mom can be really weird and all, but at other times she's really cool. I'm glad to have the mom I have. And I'm happy that she made a "friend".
Once we got to Ikea, I took pictures of things I thought looked cool and sent them to Jaelin. She told me that she like all of it, and offered to pay me back, but I told her that she was way to nice and that if she even tried to give me money I would burn it.
After we left, I went over to Jake's house.
"Hey neighbor!" He said once he opened the door.
"Hey ass-hat!" I said
"What's an ass-hat?"
"I don't know. I just came up with it." I said as I walked into his house. He has a nice house.
"Do you want to talk about it now?" He asked
"Talk about what?"
He looked at me and gave me the 'you-know-what-I'm-talking-about' look.
I didn't want to talk about it. I've talked about it with many other people.
"Hello!" Jake shouted
"Sorry, what?"
"You didn't answer my question."
I sighed before explaining it to him. But instead I said something else.
"Jake look, you've never been physically abused, your dad actually cares about you, you best friend wasn't almost killed-" He cut me off
"Actually my best friend was almost killed."
"Really?" I asked. He gave me a really dumb look. "I'm serious!" I said
"You told me the other day that your dad abused you. Didn't he almost kill you?"
It took me a minute to think. "I'm your best friend?" I asked
"Yes Katelyn. You're my best friend."
Did he just call me Katelyn?
"Did you just call me Katelyn?"
"Isn't that your name?" He joked.
"Well yea but you never call me Katelyn."
"I called you that because I'm trying to be serious." He told me. I guess I am his best friend. That really means a lot.
"You still didn't answer my question."
"Well before you cut me off, I was telling you that it's hard to understand." I told him
"Katie, understanding you is something that I want. If that made any sense."
"Why do you want to understand me?" I asked. It made no sense. Why does he care about me more than I care about me?
"I want to understand you because you're my best friend, my sun, my moon, my light, and no matter how cheesy that sounds Katelyn, I love you."
"You know what Jake," I started, "I love you too."

Author's Note: sorry this chapter was short... and cheesy, but I had too. Should CJ and Jaelin be a thing? Leave it in the comments!

~Kenzie