Always You

Enza

It's been two weeks and my grandmother is still here. My parents have been basically ignoring my presence, I could say I'm used to it but I felt different coming from my mom. The only source of attention I get is from Jace and her parents they make sure to always be there for me, especially Jace. I can't go a day without seeing her, I'll start to lose my composure.

I heard my mom's voice calling me from downstairs. It was unusual for her to want to see me, as they always made it clear that I was not welcome. They often said that I ruined their day just by being around, so I tried to stay out of their sight to avoid any conflict. I hurried downstairs and found my mom and grandma there, but I didn't see anyone else.

"Yes mom?" I said hesitantly. She looked at me smiling, I would've smiled back but I was nervous, something seemed off about this friendly behavior.

"Invite Jace over for dinner, me and your father would like to have a chat with her." I looked at my mom like she was crazy, my dad hated Jace and the feeling was very much mutual on Jaces end. I nodded my head yes going back upstairs to fetch my phone. I dialed Jaces number and placed her on speaker phone. I could never talk with the phone directly to my ear, it drove me up a wall with how loud the voices came through.

"Hello, Enza?" Jace voice sounded through the phone after a couple rings.

"Jace, what y-you doing tonight?" I waited for her response as I heard a few voices in the background

"I have practice then I'm free babygirl, you okay?"

When Jace called me that I felt my heart flutter and my face heat up in embarrassment. I couldn't stop the smile that was forming on my face.

"Enzaaaa"

"Yes, my m-mom invited you over for dinner, I don't know why"

I was nervous on what her response was going to be, but she always made my day by nit getting mad and just going with the flow.

"okay, ill come after practice, coach is really upset we almost lost yesterday so he's making us practice on a Saturday." Jace explained to me over the phone.

"can I-i come watch you practice" I don't know why I was nervous asking her this, ive never asked to go anywhere with her and her team. I always tried my best to give her space, when it came to her other friends.

"yea you can come, I dont mind ill pick you up in a few minutes." Jace said hanging up the phone before I could respond.

At Practice

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I watched as Jace was having a practice scrimmage, her and her teammates arguing about which team was better and how it was unfair. I giggled at their childish antics before I went back to reading my book. I heard a lot of arguing and it didn't sound like they were joking anymore, suddenly a basketball flew my way knocking my glasses off my face, breaking them.

"That a dick move, Kayla, the hells wrong with you." I heard Jace yell at her.

"She was in the way, not my fault." Kayla retroted back.

"Kayla you totally did that on purpose." I heard the coach say as I walking to the locker room. The ball hit me pretty hard and I felt hot warm liquid down my chin. I went to one of the sinks, looking in the mirror. The ball had successfully bussed my bottom lip.

"Enza!" Jace shouted walking into the locker room looking for me. I called out to her and she quickly came up behind me turning me around.

"Let me see." Jace grab hold to my head turning it upward slightly looking at my lip.

"Im fine, it's just a bussed lip, people get them all the time." I laughed out. Jace smirked wondering how I found this situation amusing. she reached in her pocket pulling out a really tiny container of vaseline. She opened it rubbing a little bit on her finger before applying it to my lips. she was so gentle with me and caring she actually deserved the world. And I was afraid I wouldn't be able to give it to her.

"Let's go home."she pecked my lips before walking off