Habits

chapter 8 |whos your daddy?

Kacy's POV

I woke up to the scent of masculine cologne and a my chest on a dark haired boys chest. then I realized. it was jack. in this moment I felt so safe. jack was like my security blanket. I honestly can't believe I went without him for as long as I did. I'm also super surprised he didn't try to have sex with me on the spot. i silently got out of bed and realized how bad I had to pee. I knew jacks house so well I didn't even have to look for the bathroom. of course no one was home in Jacks house. no one was ever home. I came back into jacks room to find him awake and on his phone. I crawled back into bed and picked mine up.

mom: 18 missed calls

mom: left for Texas and you're not welcome anymore. apartment is empty and I'm not paying rent anymore. good luck bitch.

Matthew: Kacy where are you

Matthew: Kacy are you ok

Matthew: please call me

Shawn: please tell me what's going on. why were you acting so weird?

I just locked my phone not bothering to even answer anyone at the moment.

"are you ok?" jack said putting his arm around me

"oh yeah I'm fine" I said sarcastically. then I pulled up the text from my mom and showed him.

"oh my god Kacy I'm so sorry" he said snuggling me closer. I instantly started crying. my own mother, the woman who raised me (not very well) just left me. that meant one thing. I'd have to go to my dad.

Jack and I got dressed and went to breakfast at IHOP. then we picked up my car and went back to his house

"you wanna have a party" he said sitting on the couch.

"a party?" I said

"well yeah. it'll be fun" he said

"it's your house and you know I'm down for whatever" I said coming over and sitting next to him.

then he leaned in and planted a kiss on my forehead.

"oh cmon jack that's it?" I whimpered

he sneered, leaned in and kissed my lips. it's been a long time since I've had one of those and I missed it.

"so party?" he said

"party"
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we told guests to show up at 6 and it was 3:30 so I had time to go to my dads. I let Jack know and then went to my car. I pulled into my dads driveway and went in and knocked on the door. Chase, luckily answered. he was my favorite because I felt he actually genuinely liked me.

"oh hey!" he said leading me into the house.

"hey! so is my.... your dad here?" I said looking around.

"he's your dad too. you can call him yours. and yeah he's in the office." chase said showing me to him.

when we got to the office chase opened the door and my dad looked super surprised to see me. and not really the kind of happy surprised either.

I sat down and chase closed the door behind him.

"uhhhh Kacy love how can I help you?" he said closing his laptop.

"mom left" I said.

"she what?" he was so astonished.

"she left. she's in Texas and she's not coming back. and I didn't wanna go with her and her new drunk of a partner so here I am" I said shrugging my arms.

"oh Kacy honey I'm so sorry you had to go through that" he said.

"it's ok, I just... I need a place to live and I didn't know what else to do besides come to you" I explained.

"no no of course, ummm I guess you could get a room here?" he suggested

"I wouldn't wanna impose on your new family"

"Kacy it's ok"

"no no I can find somewhere else" I said getting up from my chair.

"hey no, stay," he said pointing at the chair.

I sat back down.

"what if I gave you your moms apartment?" he said.

"wait really?" I said gleeming

"yeah I mean you already live there so why not?" He said grinning.

"oh my gosh Pat thank you so much!" I said getting up and hugging him.

"dad, Kacy. it's dad" he said hugging me back. I smiled into his chest as he let go.

I went back out to my car and drove back to jacks house.

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during the party I clung to jacks side. Matthew was there and so was Madison. Madison was on top of some other guy but Matthew, Matthew was standing alone with his beer bottle, occasionally striking up a conversation with whoever came next to him. funny thing is, is I didn't feel bad. he left me on the side of the road. not caring how I was gonna get anywhere, what was gonna happen to my family life, or if he would ever see me again. how could I be with someone like that?

Jack suggested we get some joints, and as it being one of my old habits I said no at first. but then I looked at jack, my biggest bad habit, and thought, why the hell not? I can't really call him a BAD habit anymore either. I mean he saved me from Texas.

we sat down with some others and passed the joint. after being clean for so long I almost immediately felt the high. Jack, well Jack took a little while. I was at the point of passing out when jack finally got loopy.

we wandered back into the party together, and all I saw were the walls spinning. then I saw Matthew come into focus.

"what do you want" I said falling over.

"are you ok Kacy" he said trying to hold me up.

"let go" I said pushing him away. due to his muscle mass and my lack of body weight and sense of gravity, my "push" of Matthew caused me to simply bounce off of him. the stumbling of my feet made me loose balance. and I ate it into the island in the kitchen. slamming my back. of course, jack saw the whole thing. but jacks high was different from mine. I was loopy and clumsy. Jack was aggressive and anxious.

"you touching her?" jack said pushing Matthew as two girls helped me off the floor.

"woah dude ok calm down. I was trying to help and she fell" Matthew said trying to explain himself.

I was removed from the room before I could watch the rest. the two girls carried me into the living room and laid me down. they looked at my back, which had a giant gash across it. before they could address the situation, I heard crashing and yelling from the kitchen. Jack shoved Matthew into the cabinets and Matthew had pushed him back, causing a full on brawl. I tried to stand and go into the madness but the girls held me down and tried to explain I needed stitches. I pushed them off of me and stumbled into the kitchen.

"guys guys guys" I said practically falling into them. when I entered, Matthew had Jack shoved on top of the island. after seeing me he immediately let go and ran to me.

"is your back ok?" he said putting his hand around my waist.

I saw about 10 of him and he was spinning. all I knew is his hand felt good right where it was

"HEY" jack said smacking Matthews hand off me.

the girls that helped me out of the kitchen came and held Matthew away from us, fainting over his hotness. then jack and I went outside.

I called Shawn and texted him to come get us. at least I hadn't broke my habit of running back to Shawn.