All I Want Is You

Explanations - Edited Jan 2021

Jacob had been calling me almost every hour for the past few days. It hadn't been too long since I last saw him, but I wasn't sure what to say when he called me. It felt easier to just ignore the topic as a whole. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to talk to him. I missed him, obviously, but I wasn't sure whether or not I should apologize. I mean, technically, I wasn't the one that did anything. I just got mad at him because of something that he did. Okay well...maybe that wasn't the healthiest way to be thinly. But, still, I was gonna try to stay strong whenever I did talk to him. He called me again as I thought about him and I sighed before answering it finally.

"Yes, Jacob?" I mumbled softly when I finally clicked the green button and not the red one.

I was sitting on the couch in the living room, watching something on Netflix and eating the chips in the bag by me. I paused the television so that I could hear Jacob better and I nibbled down on my bottom lip as I waited for him to speak. As much as I didn't want to give in to my emotions and feelings, I couldn't help but feel those little butterflies in my stomach at the fact that we were speaking again. I really did miss him.

"Hannah! You finally answered me!" he said excitedly, making me smile because I finally heard his deep voice again, "God, I missed you."

"What do you want, Jacob? You've been driving everyone in my household crazy over all of these calls every single hour on the hour." I said to him with a little laugh, already feeling my attitude fading away from me.

"I want to come see you." He said to me honestly and simply.

I was about to say something but before I could, I noticed that his voice sounded louder. It was almost as if he was in the other room. A sigh left my lips as I walked away from the couch and towards the front door, seeing Jacob's shadow through the thin curtains that were covering the window of the door as I ended the call. I opened the front door and he smiled sheepishly when I looked up at him. His features were softer than usual and I could tell he was rather bothered by the fact that we hadn't really been speaking for the past few days. Seeing that expression on his face almost broke me. I could feel a literal heaviness in my chest at the fact that I had technically been the one to make him so sad.

"Well, I guess it doesn't really matter if I say yes or no. I mean, you're here anyway. At this point, you might as well come in." I moved aside so he could walk in then I closed the door behind him, "For the record, I'm still annoyed with you. But, I guess I could give you a few minutes to explain yourself and grovel for forgiveness."

"I can explain everything. I swear." He offered as he walked through Charlie's home and I followed a step behind him.

I nodded and sat down on the couch with him. I grabbed the phone and exited the Netflix app as a whole on the tv. I then gestured for him to come just a little closer to me so that he could explain everything to me. I was definitely desperate to know what it was that he wasn't telling me. The more that I thought about it and the more that I focused on it, the more I was annoyed and suspicious. We were such good friends and I liked him as a person so much that it really bothered me for him to hold something serious from me. He looked over at me and took a deep breath. It was clear to me that he was struggling with what to say just as much as I was wanting to hear it.

"Okay, so I'm hoping that you remember everything that they said at the bonfire?" Jacob asked me, his worry starting to worry me. "The stories that they told us?"

"I guess I remember most of the basics. Definitely not every little detail. Why?" I asked, mildly frustrated with the fact that he was bringing these things up seemingly unnecessarily.

"That's the truth." He said after another deep breath left his mouth.

"Am I seriously supposed to believe that some scary bonfire ghost story about vampires and wolves is real? C'mon, Jake. I'm not that stupid." I said, getting more and more annoyed as the conversation continued.