previously on Jax and Andi
The rest of the period passed without discussion between Jax and I. I tried to pay attention to the teachers "introduction to geometry" speech, but I found myself focusing on the back of Jax's head. God, this boy even had a cute neck! Wait what was I thinking? I didn't think boys were cute! Well except for my zombie boyfriend, Phillip, on my favorite video game, Zombie nightfall, but this was different! This was a real, living, breathing.... boy.
I gasped in shock. I couldn't....like him could I? No, that was ridiculous! I had only met him today, and I was not about to become some Disney movie princess who falls in love with a guy they just met the same day! But yet, I couldn't stop thinking about him.
Chapter 4
Andi p.o.v
After second period I run to the nurse for a pass to leave school. I cant stay here a second longer.
I knock on the door and cross my fingers, praying nurse lily believes me.
The door swings open and I quickly put a hand to my stomach. I'm going with a nice old fashioned stomachache, no temperature or coughing involved, the most reliable.
Nurse Lily looks me up and down suspiciously. "Andi, what are you doing here? You're not going to bother me again about becoming a guardian are you? because I've already told you there's a really slim chance for humans..... "
"that's not it at all" I cut her off. "I have a really bad stomachache, and I was wondering if I could have a pass to leave".
She crosses her arms and narrows her eyes. "this isn't another one of your harebrained schemes is it?"
"I promise it isn't, I just want to go home and rest"
she sighs and returns to her desk to write me a pass, and I feel a surge of victory. She hands me the pass and I tuck it safely into my pocket. "Show that to the secretary in the front office before you leave' she says with a dismissive tone, meaning its time for me to leave.
I thank her and leave the office, trying to keep a smile off my face and seem sick.
"Andi wait up!" I hear behind me in a voice I just barely recognize, and I speed up a little. Its new boy. God, is he obsessed with me or something?
He catches up and walks backwards in front of me, so I have to look at him.
"What do you want Jax? I'm trying to get out of here before they catch me" I say, waving the my nurses pass in his face. He snatches it out of my hand and brings it up to his face, squinting at it.
"No way! They actually believed you ? I'm definitely using this sometime!" He says in awe. He looks at me and smiles wide, and I swear my heart almost jumps out of my chest.
I try to grab the paper back but he holds it over his head and I can't reach.
"Give me that!" I yell, jumping up to try and grab it. He just laughs.
"I won't give it back until you answer a question"
I look at him expectantly
"Would you like to hang out sometime?" He asks
My breath hitches and my cheeks feel like they're burning, and now it's obvious...
I had a crush on Jax
I have never, ever, in my life had a crush on a boy. I never expected it to happen on the first day of the school with the new boy, of all people.
My heart races 100 miles a second. "S-sure I mean, I guess I would lo-like to hang out with you what time and where I could just meet you there, ok now I'm rambling and.." I say, but he cuts me off.
"Relax Andi, Is Friday at 8 ok?" He asks, and I nod quickly. He smiles widely at me "see you then."
With that, he walks down the hall, leaving me standing there like an idiot.
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After I left school, I arrive home to a motherless house like always. She still wasn't home yet, but I didn't care. She could never come back and I wouldn't care.
I'm starving, so I check the cabinet for anything to eat, but there's nothing. All the food is gone. I sigh. Now I'll have to go food shopping.
I walk to the kitchen to get money, and I silently pray there's at least more than 50 dollars in the cookie jar.
I open it carefully so that it won't fall and break, crossing my fingers, then peer inside.
Nothing, absolutely nothing but dust.
I panic, searching frantically under the Lid, behind the jar, anywhere and everywhere. There's no way that money could be gone. If that money's gone.....
I have no idea what to do.
I sink down onto the floor, head in my hands. That was the last of the money my mom gave me before she left. I was supposed to last another week with that money, and then she would come back. She would come back and give me more money and then leave again, just like it always was. How am I supposed to survive the rest of the week?
There's only one option left...
I'm going to have to call my mom.
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I hold my phone in my hand nervously, fingers lingering over the buttons. I don't WANT to call her, but I don't really have a choice. Before I even know what I'm doing, my fingers are hitting the numbers that I know by heart. The phone rings, and I lift it towards my ear.
"Andi are you alright?" I hear her soft voice say over the phone, and I suck in a breath. It seems like so long since I've heard her voice, when I reality it's only been a few weeks.
"Andi, are you there?" She asks. "Y-yeah" I stutter
"Is everything ok honey?" She asks, concern laced into her voice.
I get straight to the point "I need more money" I say, just a bit of bitterness in my tone. Hey, I'm trying!
"You ran out already?" She asks, her tone disapproving. I roll my eyes. Yeah, because I'M the irresponsible one.
"is there anywhere you can stay until I get home?" She asks, bored of the whole conversation already. She probably has some party to go to.
"No" I answer truthfully, looking at my nails.
She sighs. "I guess you're going to have to figure something out."
I look up from my nails. "What do you mean IM going to have to figure something out"
She sighs again, and I kind of want to smack her.
"Andi, before I left I gave you a budget that you were to spend wisely. Now that you've been irresponsible and spent it all, you're going to have to figure out a way to get yourself out of that mess" she says matter of factly. My jaw drops. What am I going to do?!?
"But....."I start, but she cuts me off. "Andy I'm not talking about this anymore, figure a way out of it yourself. Goodbye" she says, and I hear the click of her hanging up. I stare at the phone in my hand mouth wide-open, in shock. What the hell am I going to do now?
Hey guys I'm really sorry that this chapter took so long (superlong) but here it is now. Please don't hate me :-)
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