My Neighborhood Love Story

Chapter 22: Worse

Jawan's P-O-V

I shut the door and threw myself on my bed. I was upset. I felt stupid.

"Why did you do that?" I said angrily to Heather.

She sat at the edge of the bed, "What do you mean?"

"You made her mad!"

"No. I made her jealous. Something that you wanted me to do, remember?"

I sighed and slid my hands down my face, "Okay. You're right. But maybe we should just stop the act now. I don't feel right doing this."

"Aw, but I was kind of having fun."

"What?"

"I think I actually like you, Jawan."

"No you don't."

"I do. Really. And if you give me a chance, I'll show you that you can like me too," She said scooting closer to me.

She was not serious. I had no attraction to Heather at all and I wanted Aria, so I wasn't buying into it.

I moved away, "No. I want you out of here. Get out."

"But Jawan..."

I opened the door, "I said get out."

"No! What is it about me that's so bad? Why don't you want me?"

"Because I love Aria, not you."

That's when she ran up to me and kissed me, I quickly pushed her off.

"Stop. You're making yourself look pathetic."

"Okay. But watch, you'll regret what you've done. I'm going to make sure you and Aria never get together. You will love me, Jawan or you'll regret it otherwise."

She left and I slammed the door shut. I can't believe she's that psycho. I wasn't expecting that. I sat at the window and looked out of it. Aria walked into her room then threw herself onto her bed. I had to talk to her somehow. I grabbed some random M&M Pretzels that I had lying around, opened my window, then I tossed them.

I saw her look at me. She didn't look happy. That's when she looked away and shut off the lights in her room. I shut my window and decided to play around with my keyboard. I sung How To Love until I heard a knock on my bedroom door.

"Come in."

Khalil came in with Lucky and they both got on my bed.

"What's up, bro?"

"Do you know what happened out there?" Khalil said looking down.

"No. What?"

"Lamar nearly beat Aria up. I had to fight him to leave her alone."

I looked at him and by now he was looking up at me then that's when noticed his eye had a ring around it, "Wait, Lamar did that to you?"

"Yeah. You need to get her. She likes you, Jawan. But you decided to go and get with Heather."

"No, I was just trying to make her jealous."

"Well, you did a good job and now she's probably not going to try to talk to to you."

"God, why am I so dumb? But there was really nothing going on between Heather and I."

"You know Heather likes you, right?"

"How did you know?"

"It was obvious. No one would ever be willing to pretend to date someone for nothing in return unless they had actual feelings for them."

"Well, she went crazy on me earlier and I had to kick here out."

"What do you mean?"

"She told me she liked me and was going t make me love her or else I'd regret it."

"One word: Insane."

"I know, I know. And with Heather on my back, I might not be able to get to Aria. I just keep making things worse."

He let out a sigh and got up, "Just talk to Aria. Stop being scared. If you had done that in the first place, she could have been all yours. I told you that. But you didn't listen. Good luck cleaning up this mess."

He walked out and left me in the room with Lucky. I went over to my bed and began to pet him.

"What do you think I should do, Lucky?"