Why It's a Good Thing: Chapter 1: Alone

Chapter Eleven: Six Months

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“I’ll get him this time.” Joletta says when she calls me.

“How?” I ask, hoping for a plan I know will fail.

“It’s May, I’ll kiss him on our six months.  It’ll have to work.” She tells me.

“No offense, but I can’t believe you haven’t kissed him yet.  I could kiss him faster than you.” I brag to her.

“I don’t think so, doll.  How fast do you think you could kiss him?” She asks.

I think of my answer.  “I could kiss him before we even started dating.” I don’t know how accurate it is but it feels about right if I wanted it to be.

“Oh yeah right.  You call me up the day that happens.” She challenges.

“Oh I will.” I assure her.  “You get ready for the phone call, dearie.  It’ll come.” 

“I think not.” She says.

“Just how far away is this six month anniversary?” I ask.

“Only ten days.  We got together on December 20th and now it’s May tenth.  I’m excited.” She tells me.

“Where was the enthusiasm in that?” I mock her.  “I’m excited.”

She yells into the phone.  “I’m excited!!!  Was that good enough?”

“Still needs some work,” I say with a laugh.  “And try not to get your hopes up because I doubt you’ll kiss.”

“Why?” She asks me.

“Well… I don’t know.  I just don’t think you will.” I say.

“I think you’re doing this just to get your own hopes up.” She tells me.

“I still think in the end it will be me and him together.  That’s why I’m so confident I will kiss him before we even go out.”

“I don’t know how you keep yourself thinking that.  Before we even started going out you probably thought it would be him and you in the end.  You have a crazy mind.” She tells me.

“I don’t have a crazy mind, I have a strong sense of right and wrong.”

She says nothing at first.  “I still think you’re wrong.”

We both laugh at this.  I guess we really are okay with each other now.  Sometimes it really is nice to have her around.  “I’ll still call you when the day finally rolls around.”

“And I’ll call you when I kiss him in ten days.  I’ll tell you how good he is.” She tells me, I can’t help but laugh.

“I’ll be waiting then, darling.” I tell her, and with nothing else to say, we go.

 

I wake up feeling sick on May twentieth.  Luckily, it is a weekend and I don’t have to go to school.  I heard about Adam and Joletta’s plans and they aren’t getting together until tonight.  School gets out in about two weeks on the fourth of June and I don’t know how I’ll ever see Adam over the summer for the reason of Joletta.  The air is still chilly but it’s warming up quickly.  I don’t know how I’ll kiss Adam before Joletta let alone dating.  I feel like she’s too much competition for me but he would take me out of the burning building first.  Joletta will never be afraid of me.

I feel sick throughout the whole day and when the magical time comes, six o’clock, my sickness worsens.  I stare at the clock while I wait for their date to be over.  Six thirty… six thirty-one… six thirty two… six thirty three.  The date ends at ten.  She has four hours to make it happen.

At ten twenty she calls me, the phone doesn’t even get a fourth of the way into the first ring before I answer.  “Hello?” I say quickly, almost tripping over my word.

“I see you were waiting for me.” She says, I don’t hear any happiness in her voice but I don’t hear any sadness so I don’t really know what to think.

“Yeah… so, did anything happen?” I ask her.

She sighs.  “No.”

“Why?” I ask.

“Because… I don’t know.  It just didn’t feel right.  I think I’ve waited too long.”  

“Ohhh.” I say.  I kind of laugh in my head but I actually feel kind of bad.  I would hate for something to get ruined by waiting too long.

“Yeah, but now that I’ve waited too long, he’s still mine and he won’t ever be yours.  I’ll make sure of it.”  She is going back into her vicious protective state and now we won’t be okay with each other.  We’re going to be enemies again.  When I say nothing she continues.  “But don’t forget.  You’ve lost.” Her evil voice comes back.  “He’s mine forever and I don’t intend on getting a call from you.”

“Have you forgotten?” I’ve already won, I won him the day we met.” I tell her.

“I don’t know how you keep your hopes up but I hate it and it’s wrong.  He will never love you,  especially more than he loves me.  I’m much more to him than you are.  Much, much more.”

“I doubt it.” I tell her.

“I’m his girlfriend.  Don’t doubt it.”

I think of the diary entry when Adam kissed me on the cheek.  I thought it was so romantic, we were sitting in the tree playing “grownups” but I know he really meant it because in the entry the day before he told me he liked me.  I know he doesn’t have a crush on me anymore because it has been over eight years.  It was even before he was blind.  Nothing before that matters.  “Just wait for the call.”

“I’ll wait but it will never come.”

“Now you’re the one trying to get her hopes up.” I tell her.

“Goodbye.” She says, and hangs up.

 

Well then.  I think Adam and I were made for each other and Joletta and Adam are a train headed for a brick wall.  I’m surprised they haven’t broken up yet, they haven’t gotten anywhere.

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