There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate

There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate (17)

"So, what are you and Scott planning on doing?" I asked AJ as we raced down the highway in her actual car. It looked so much like the rental car that it was almost ridiculous. "You have a whole week to waste. Do you have anything planned?"

Her sunglasses fell to the tip of her nose, and she turned toward me and smirked as she looked over them. "Do you really want to know?"

"Never mind."

"Hah, I was just joking, Jordan!" AJ giggled, pushing her sunglasses back up. "We'll probably just hang out or something. I'm going to have to see my family, too. Speaking of that, are you just going to see your grandma, or are you seeing your parents, too?"

"Of course I'm going to see my parents," I answered with a shrug. "I'm going to be staying at home, so I'm going to have to see them unless I sneak through the window."

"You'd fall down if you had to sneak through the window."

"Thanks, AJ."

"It's true! Remember the time when you, Chelsea, and I had to pretty much scale the side of Lexi's house to get in through her window when Bruce broke up with her? She didn't want to see anyone, and we pretty much gave her a heart attack when we finally got inside. But do you remember what happened before that?" AJ remembered, giving me a pointed look.

I crossed my arms over my chest, staring at the ground flatly. "Maybe."

"You fell, remember?" AJ informed me, as if I didn't know. "You almost got to her window, but you fell and almost crushed Chelsea. But I'm sure, even if you actually did crush her, she would have laughed just as hard as she actually did."

"It wasn't funny," I insisted. "That really hurt."

"But Jesse came over to help you."

"He came over to laugh."

"I still find it kind of creepy that he lives a few houses down from Lexi. Who knows he if was watching us or not?" AJ inquired, shaking her head as her grip on the steering wheel tightened. "He's so stupid."

Out of all my friends, I believed that AJ hated Jesse the most, after me, of course. But it all seemed to really happen after Aimee started showing interest in him. I would never tell her this, but I was sure she was just jealous that Jesse had Aimee's attention. She wanted her best friend back.

I only shrugged, mumbling, "Yeah."

I really didn't want to remember that day. It was the day after we had stopped hanging out with Aimee, and Lexi still stayed locked in her room. Her mom said she didn't want to see anybody, but that didn't stop us from climbing into her room. AJ was first, then me, and then it was Chelsea. I ended up losing my footing and tumbling to the ground, almost taking Chelsea with me.

Let's just say I woke up five minutes later with Jesse and Chelsea hovering over me laughing his ass off, and a serious headache. AJ was even trying her best not to laugh.

Was it really that funny when someone got hurt? I didn't really think so. I could have died!

I knew my friends cared, but they could have showed a little more compassion or something. I mean, what if I was dead? People died from falling off of buildings before... But did that even cross their minds? I highly doubted that it did.

"It's so good to have my old car back again," AJ sighed as she hit the gas a little too hard. "Even though I'm so not used to it anymore."

"This looks exactly like your rental car, though," I pointed out, looking around the car as I did so. "The only difference is that the carpet's a different color."