Jumping Bases ((EDITING))

Chapter 10

Saturday 

Jake had invited me to go to this party with him so I accepted. Half of me went to be with Jake and another half liked to be with Ryan.

I knew that Ryan would be there and I could just make him jealous. My mind was all over the place, saying yes then no then back yes. After a huge headache and an Advil, I decided to go. I curled my hair, put on some make up and went full on. 

Soon a knock traveled within the apartment. I slowly stood up and sauntered towards the door and opened it. 

"Hey" he paused and looked at me and checked me out "you look hot" Jake smiled. 

I just smiled "come in" 

He stepped in and put his hands in his pocket. 

"I’ll be ready in a sec" I said as I walked into my room. 

Is it funny or weird how when I walked out he was sitting on my couch, watching TV, just like Ryan had done? They are so common yet so different. Ugh. 

"Ready" I smiled. 

He looked up, nodded and turned the TV off "come on" he stood up and walked behind me as I walked to the door. 

We stood in the elevator in awkward silence. 

"Kristen?" he asked. 

"Yeah?" I turned to him. 

"Did the kiss, like 2 weeks ago... did it mean anything or was it-" 

In stepped an old woman and stood between up. OH THANK GOD. I didn't even know the answer to that question. Yeah, I like him but...

We all stepped into the lobby and the old woman headed towards the glass doors also. Jake opened the door for the old woman and me before he walked through. Was that the cutest thing or what? 

We sat in the car and didn’t talk. I HAD to break the silence, I was itching to. 

"Did it mean anything to you?" I asked. 

He turned to me for a second before he diverted his eyes back to the road "k-Kris, I don't know if you may have already known this but I happen to like you  ... ALOT" he revealed. 

"A lot?" I murmured. 

"Yeah...” he bit his lower lip nervously. 

"Say something' he turned to me. 

I was speechless... "I kinda, sorta may like you too" I replied. 

"You do?" he continued to bite his lip. 

I looked out the window and began chewing on the inside of my cheek "yeah" I answered. 

I slowly turned to see his face and he was smiling. It was a cute smile. He then parked and turned the car off. He then turned to me and scratched the back of his neck. 

"Well this is awkward...” Jake chuckled. 

"Just a bit" I giggled. 

What do we do now? 

"You wanna just go to the party?" he quickly said. 

"Yeah" I replied rapidly. 

"We’ll talk later" we both opened our doors and walked towards the door. 

He opened the door for me and stepped in behind me. 

"Hey dude" Tyler walked up to Jake and did their masculine, dude handshake stuff.