Her Fragile Heart

Chapter Five

Photo is of Jennifer Aniston, who plays Kassie's mom.

~Kassie~

I did not understand Bryan… at ALL. I mean I was the one that was mad… so why did he storm out? I stood outside for the longest time but it started to rain so I decided to go inside.

“What was that all about?” Mom asked.

“I… thought he was suggesting that I was being conceited and he got mad at me because he actually complimented me… I don’t know, it all happened so fast,” I shook my head.

“He seemed like such a nice boy, handsome too.”

“Julie?” Dave joked.

“Oh please like I would leave you for an eighteen year old boy… nineteen, we’ll talk,” Mom laughed.

I got out of there while I still could… I hated seeing my mom with another man, even if my dad was terrible to us.

I looked at the picture of me and Bryan… we were quite the duo. Usually Bryan was so calm and I’m a wild child. He looked oddly perplexed in that picture while I am laughing my butt off and sticking my tongue out at the camera.

As I looked at it some more I realized the picture looked out of place, I had so many of Jimmy up. Maybe I need to take some of them down? I took the few pictures off of my desk and set them in my closet. The only remaining picture was of me and Bryan.

I instantly started to cry.

“Kassie you’re gorgeous,” Jimmy sighed.

We were hanging out in my room for the first time. It had only been two weeks since he asked me out.

I flushed scarlet. “Thank you.”

“Can I take a picture of you? I want to show my mom how beautiful you are,” Jimmy said.

Butterflies were set off in my stomach and I smiled brightly, “Of course.”

Jimmy kissed my cheek lightly.

I grabbed my camera out of my nightstand and sat next to him. We both smiled so brightly because we knew that this was the start of something real.

How could I just shut away all of the memories I had with Jimmy? I felt like I abandoned him… by choice. Jimmy… he didn’t abandon me by choice….

I didn’t get much sleep that night.

I went to school with dry, red eyes. I think I got about an hour of sleep all together. I fell asleep in most of my classes. The worst part was Bryan didn’t even talk to me. He just walked on by without even glancing in my direction once.

I may have been a little over dramatic about it…

“Kadejia you don’t understand! Our friendship is over!” I said on the phone after school.

“Kassie, we went over this one thousand and seventy-two times!” Kadejia said annoyed, “He doesn’t hate you, your friendship isn’t over, and he just needs time to cool down!”

“No. No, he doesn’t he hates me and I don’t even know what I did wrong!”

“Let’s go over this again-”

“We took a picture and I used a picture frame with a picture with Jimmy in it, which caused me to ask him if he’s ever been in love. He told me yes and… well… really I got a little bit jealous because, well, I don’t know why I got jealous-”