The Boy Across the Lake

Chapter One (part one)

My grandparents always said, "Never get too comfortable. In life, you can be on the bottom of the world just as easily as you can be on the top, and Addy, fate has a funny sense of humor, it will never just let you settle. Always remember that it's awful sunny when you're on the top, so bring sunglasses so you don't get blinded, and when you're on the bottom it gets awful chilly, so bring a jacket, and no matter where you are at the moment, bring a clock because I promise you, hunny, nothing lasts forever." I've never understood this. Maybe because I've never really been on the bottom. I would always just fake a smile and nod to her. Sure, I've had a bad day here and there, but there's only ever been one time back when I was like twelve that I was in pretty rough shape, but I'm over it now. I mean what's there to be so upset about when I live in a beautiful house on the lake, my family's healthy, I've got a great group of friends, and I have an amazing boyfriend, Jason.
Jason is a jaw dropper he's so hot! He's absolutely gorgeous from his perfect white teeth, brown hair, green eyes, and jaw lined face to his perfectly toned and tanned body. I wouldn't be surprised if he was Zac Effron's cousin. He is literally the reason half the girls in the junior class envy me.
We haven't been dating but for about three weeks. It all started when he dumped his ex, Kate, in front of the entire cafeteria one day at school. He stomped in one day, pushing open the poor blue door open so hard it swung and hit the wall adjacent to it, causing a metallic boom noise and everyone sitting at their round lunch tables to stop and stare. Kate was right on his heels (and was making exceptionally good time considering his pace and her ability to keep up with him in her outrageous 4inch heels) with her face swelled up into what resembled a rats face.
The room was silent, anxious to catch an earful of whatever it was the hottest couple in Fallen County High School was arguing about now. I remember watching not the two of them, but watching everyone else in that cafeteria suddenly go from their conversations to absolute silence. Drama. Not everyone will admit it, but everyone loves it. Honestly I never did think too fondly of Kate, so for her and her boyfriend to be fighting and her to have that awful, wrinkled, rat face, ment that she was both unhappy and ugly for the moment, so I focused my attention on them.
"Jason Tyler! Don't you dare walk away from me!" Kate shrieked. Without looking back, Jason replied, "Hun', bringing out my middle name doesn't change the way I feel, it just gives the you false confidence of my mother." Her face wrinkled even more. "You know what? Fuck you! Who the hell would choose her over me? Oh, that's right! A piece of shit like you!" She screamed.
By this point several things happened all at once. Kate was escorted out of the room and was later given detention for use of profanity and disturbing the peace. Jason went through the lunch line, grabbed a water, typed in his lunch code, and sat down with his football/basketball/baseball buddies as if nothing had just happened. As for the rest of them room, it was all gossip. "Did he cheat?" "I wonder who it is?" "His walk is sooooo hot!" "He's soooooo hot!" "I hope it's me! I'd dump Brandon in a heartbeat for him!"
"Losers", I thought. Of course, I was among them, secretly wondering if it could be me. The bell rang, and I headed for my locker, only to find none other than Jason Tyler Read standing before me. I was was speechless in his presence. It was all I could manage to force a goofy smile on my face. The other alternative would have been my drooping jaw and drool leaking out from it.
"Hey," he said coolly. I think he was looking at me when he said it. There's no way. I thought. I mean he doesn't even know my name for gods sake! "You're Addy Baker, right?" His green eyes bearing into my very soul. I had to lean a little to my left on the red lockers to help stabilize me. His face had me mesmerized. Shit, Addy, say something! "Hi, yeah, I'm Addy. Addy Baker, hi," I stumbled out. "Hm," he chuckled, "You're pretty cute. How about I get your number and I'll text you later?" I don't remember what happened after that other than me rambling off my numbers and his amazing smile.
I remained still after he had left, in a daze, replaying his presence over and over again. Suddenly, I was snapped out of it when Payton near pushed me over rambling on about something like how he actually talked to me, something about Kate, something about his perfection, and I don't know what else. I was too star struck to care.
Long story, short, he texted me and said he'd liked me for a while and was just with Kate to please his parents. Why she would be parent pleasing was beyond me but it doesn't matter now because by the next week we were dating. By the week after that we had our first kiss, and that first kiss quickly escalated to one of many, many make out sessions. He was an awesome kisser, but was started off fun and passionate has now morphed into kind of a mission of some kind. I know I'm probably just being paranoid and a sissy but this kind of scares me. We are moving very fast, and for some people (like Jason) that's great, but for others (like me) it is pretty horrifying. Just yesterday he texted and said his parents were at work and wouldn't be home until later and that he wanted me to come over.
Thank goodness Natalie and I had already made plans for a sleep over that night. I wasn't planning on telling her I skipped out on what would have been a very eventful night with Jason. She would have gone off on this big rant how I was mental to not want to have sex with him and how she would if he'd asked her. I have my reasons why I don't want to, but she wouldn't understand. Honestly, I don't know if anyone would.