Something More Than Roommates? -Nate Parker (The Tide)

Part 2

*Jasmines Pov*
The boys order a large pepperoni pizza. I'm not much of a fan of pizza but ah well.
"So tell is about yourself." Drew says with a mouthful of pizza.

"We'll I'm Irish, as you can tell by the accent. Um, I came over here to look for a college to study arts and photography."

"Oooh fancy." Levi said cutting me off.

The boys and I laughed at his remark.

"I have one older sister who moved to Australia with her boyfriend. I'm 17."

"Same age as Levi." Nate says.

"My favourite bands are My chemical romance-"After I said my chemical romance, I could see that the boys looked very intrigued. "The Vamps, Arctic Monkeys, Green Day, All Time Low and The Killers."

"Wow, we like a lot of them bands too." Austin says.

"Enough talking about myself, tell me about yourselves." I say.

The tell me everything I need to know about them. They seem to like the colour black. And ripped jeans. And bands. But who doesn't like bands?
They skateboard a lot. And they are all from different states, except for Nate and Drew.

"I'll show you to your room." Nate says.
I get up and follow him down the corridor to the last door on the right.
He opens the door to reveal a large, but white room.

"We didnt know what you liked, so we just left the room white." He said.

"That's okay, it should be fun decorating it"

"You can leave your stuff in here and head back down to us. We're going to play truth or dare when we tidy up all the writing stuff."

"Sounds great."

I get my suitcases from the doorway and bring them to my room. I lie on my bed and think of all the different colour I could paint the room. I think I'll go with dark purple and dark red.
I head back down to the room and sit beside Nate.

"Okay Jasmine, truth or dare." Levi says.

"Umm, Dare."

"Okay Jasmine, I dare you to, uhm, kiss Nate."

"What?!"

"You heard me. Do it."

"Okay fine."
I turn around to Nate and our lips meet. He isn't a bad kisser.
I pull away.

"Satisfied?" I say to Levi.
He just laughs at me.

"Okay, Levi, truth or dare?" Nate asks.

"Truth."
"Oh taking the easy way out I see." I say, everyone laughs.

"TICKLE FIIIIIIGHT." Levi shouts.
All the boys jump on me and begin to tickle me.
"Stop, stop." I say in between laughs.

Austin, Levi and Drew get off me. Nate is left, staring into my eyes. He moves in.
"Um hum." Levi says.
"Oh, uhm sorry." Nate says, blushing.

We continue truth or dare for about an hour. I can say that I didnt have to kiss anyone else.
"I better sleep. Jet lag will hit me hard tomorrow." I say.
"Okay, see ya." Austin says.
Nate gets up and follows me.

"Uhm, Jasmine?" Nate says.

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Uhm, when I almost kissed you, I felt something on your arm, like going about half ways up your arm."

*Nates pov*

She looks like she's about to cry.

"Oh Jasmine, please don't cry. I'm sorry."

"No, it's not your fault. I'll tell you in here."
I follow her into her room.

"Are you okay? you don't have to tell me." I say.

"Well you know there's something there now, so I might as well."

"Okay, if you're ready."

"Okay, so I actually have an older brother. Well had. He was a motorcyclist.-one day, he was coming home. And, and a lorry came out of nowhere, and knocked him down."
At that point, she burst into tears.
I took her into my arms and let her cry on my shoulder.

"Jasmine, how long ago was this?"

"Just over a year ago." She said between sobs.

"How old was he?"

"Twenty-two"

"Do your parents know how hard it has affected you?"

"No, and they can't find out."
She gets up off my shoulder and pushes up the sleeve of her top.

"I do this whenever I think of him, which is quite often."
I see all the red marks.
"Jasmine, doing this wont bring him back."

"I know, but it eases the emotional pain."
I just hug her again because I don't know what I'm supposed to do.