Scared of Falling in Love

Saturday Afternoon

"Giselle. Giselle!" I wake up to the sound of my mom calling my name. I slowly open my eyes then quickly shut them due to the very bright morning sunlight. "Geez. would it kill you to just let me sleep in once this week. It's Saturday", I say sitting up and rubbing my eyes. Everyone's in the Kitchen eating at the table while my mom cooks.

"Oh trust me we did. It's 2 o' clock in the afternoon, Giselle. Your dad and came home at midnight, saw you passed out on the couch with you marker on your face, but you looked so peaceful that we didn't want to bug you. Looks like your brothers really got you", she says, trying to hide her urge to laugh.

"What?" I rush over to the mirror hanging on the wall of the living room t find scribbles, a uni-brow, and mean words all over my face in black marker. My blood boils andI march towards the kitchen table where the little monsters are sitting, without a care in the world. My dad notices the fury in my eyes and extends one arm, protecting John and James.

"Dad may be protecting you guys right now, but you just wait", I say threateningly pointing at the them.

"Easy there Lava Girl", my mom says setting a grilled cheese on the table in front of me. Mom always calls me that whenever I lose my temper. She wanted to make sure I didn't offended by my temper name, so she went with the Lava Girl character  from the movie 'Shark Boy and Lava Girl'. I used to love that movie when I was little and am still very fond of it. 

I sit down and eat the sandwhich, all while giving my brothers the death stare the whole time. I'll get my revenge. It might not be today. It mightnot be tomorrow. But it'll come.

Okay. I'm sure I'll get over this in like 20 minutes and pretend that nothing happened , so that whole revenge speech was for nothing. Oh well. It's how this daily situation always ends up.

After finishing my lunch/breakfast , I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Even though its the second time I've seen it, I flinch when I see what my brothers did to my face. I sigh, looking at my reflection in the mirror, which has water drop stains on it, and turn on the faucet. As I wash all of the marks off of my face, I think about last night- how Jaden came over to watch a movie with me, how he told me that everything was going to be okay. How easy it was for me to believe it. And then I remember the last thing he said before leaving. He was going to ask someone other than Klarese to the dance.

Who could he possibly want to take to the dance? And why didn't he just ask her? I'm sure she would've said yes. I mean what girl in their right mind would say no to Jaden and his perfect smile, stunning brown eyes, and his hair. I mean. He's Jaden. Every girl in the ninth grade is literally in line for him. With the exception of me of course. We're just friends. Besides a guy like that would never ever go for a girl like me. But seriously who is this girl he likes? And why the heck do I care so much.

I force those thoughts out of my mind and squirt what's left of my toothpaste onto my tooth brush. Note to self. Ask mom to buy more toothpaste. I continue brush my teeth. I rinse my mouth and head to my room to dry my face. I sit on my bed and pick up my charging phone and see a couple notifications. It's nothing more than the usual- a couple likes on my photos from people apparently stalking my Instagram, due to the fact that the pictures they liked were rom 10 weeks ago. I'm not Judging or anything. I do it too.

I continue to scroll through my notifications and see that I've received a couple texts and two missed calls from Lily. I unlock my phone and open up iMessage . As soon as I click on my recent texts with Lily, I see that it wasn't just a couple of texts. There has to be at least 50 unseen messages from her. I scroll up to the first unseen message from her.

Received Yesterday at 11:29PM

GISELLE! YOU AND JADEN WERE HANGING OUT LAST NIGHT?!?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!