Best Friends Forever Right..??

Chapter 35

(Chapter 35)

(Jesse POV)
 
Brook was acting weird which was… well…. Weird? I stared at her from across the room, her face kept turning red before dying down and lighting back up again as if she was having heat flashes. My eyebrow rose watching curiously as she scribbled down notes.

“Jesse what is your American dream and do you think it is possible to achieve,” I looked at the teacher as he stared back waiting for an answer. I was in English and we were currently on the book The Great Gatsby which was about some rich guy trying to achieve the ultimate American Dream.
“I don’t have one I live my life the way I want too, and no its not possible to achieve one,” Mr. Ruth smiled a little I could already tell he was about to ask another question.
“So you don’t want a family, live in a four bedroom house with a white picket fence with two kids and dog, you don’t want a perfect family dream,” He asked the students turned and waited.

“No there’s no such thing as a perfect family, no one lives in a utopia. For instance, my family; I have an older brother and two younger siblings twins, we live in a six-bedroom house with my mom and dad, on the outside I guess we seem like a perfect family, but we’re far from it. Perfect family don’t exist it may seem like they have it all, but in reality behind closed doors they don’t. It’s the same for the American Dream, Gatsby had everything that you could possibly wish for, but he wasn’t happy, no one was happy…on the lighter side I don’t like kids so having a kid wouldn’t exactly fit me right now,” I blinked as he nodded.
“Anyone else have any takes on this,” He asked no one raised their hand, I turned my attention back to Brook, my eyes connected with hers violet ones they seemed to shimmer, but she quickly turned away blushing again. I’m really not sure what’s going on with she’s been like that since yesterday. After I woke up from my nap she’s been off. Maybe she’s on her period or something. The bell rung interrupting my thoughts I picked up my bag quickly to get to Brook, but she quickly rushed out the door. I sighed maybe she didn’t want the relationship; she was confusing as hell. I walked out into the hall and down to the next room where Hayley was standing quietly watching the crowd walk by and shrinking back some every time a guy would come near her. I placed my hand on her shoulder almost laughing as she jumped in shock.
“Hey, What are you doing?,” I asked eying her, she shrugged, I took her hand and pulled her through the crowded hall with me.

“Slim can I have a cookie today,” she asked I rolled my eyes at her of course she would ask for food.
“Yeah sure, I’ll fix some when we get home,” she nodded and smiled up at me.

“And the spaghetti or lasagna too right,” she asked I sighed and nodded I had promised her yesterday that I would cook it for dinner that night, but I forgot and my mom ended up cooking something else plus Hayley was emotional last night after her session with the counselor so she basically locked herself up in the room until I convinced her to let me in, of course I had to bring food with me.

“You’re okay,” I asked watching her expression to make sure she wasn’t lying as she said yeah.
“Are you okay,’ she countered back while giving me a look as if she knew about Chelsea and every other problem that I have.
“Yeah,” She stared at me before shaking her head.
“Don’t keep it bottle up, you remember what happened last time,” I chuckled yeah I went kind of crazy last time but I was in control now.
“Whatever, you know what’s up with Brook,” I asked she could read people easily so she had to know something.
“No, she’s just confused I think,” she paused and smiled up at me as we stopped in front of her art room.

“You did something nice and it threw her off, I’m proud of you,” I laughed a little and patted her cheek.
“Thanks mom,” I teased getting a small laugh, I kissed her cheek as she hugged me tightly before pulling away.
“I’ll see you after your class gets out and I need to talk to you too after school or at lunch,” I said but she went into the class quickly I shook my head, knowing she wanted to avoid the conversation. Now I had to find my befuddled girlfriend.