feelings and emotions

Chapter 14

Jas's pov:

I wake up to my phone buzzing like crazy. I struggle to get out of Chris's arms wrapped around me like I'm a freaking burrito.

When I finally get hold of my phone, I see about fifteen messages from Nia and two from my mom and three missed calls. Then I realized it was Nia's grandfather's viewing today! I totally forgot!

Nia:

-Jas where are you?

-It's almost time!

-Please text back.

-Mom is freaking out, you promised!

-I won't stop til you answer!

-Pleas pick up.

-We really need you.

-Jasmine please!

and her messages kept saying the same things. Then I saw my mom's.

Mom:

-Jasmine, Nia said you aren't with her yet?

-Don't do this to her. What's going on?

I couldn't tell them what happened. It was already hard to be in front of Chris like this. Luckily, I had an hour. I got ready as fast as I can and I put as much make up as I could to cover my face. Chris woke up to me blow drying my hair. He grabbed the blow dryer  from my hand.

"Jas what the hell?"

"I have to go. Like right now."

"Okay." he says giving me back the blow dryer. He goes in the bathroom for five minutes and then comes out with skinny jeans and a black t-shirt.

"Wait what?" I say confused.

"You really think I'm gonna let you go alone, idiot?" he says with a side-smile.

"Excuse me, last night I was amazing." I say, smiling. He laughs and takes the blow dryer out of my hand again. "Chris stop!" I say annoyed.

"Relax babe." He says. He starts the blow dryer again and starts blow drying my hair, making me smile. Then I looked at the time.

"Okay, we should really get going. It's important."

"You should drive. I don't know where we are going. I just don't want you going alone." He says grabbing my bag.

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When we get to the place, Nia walks up to me and she looks pissed. She grabs my wrist and and pulls me to an empty room.

"Where the hell were you? Do you know how pissed I am? Jas you promised--" she pauses and looks at my face. Shit. I must've not covered all of the cuts. "What is that?"

"What?" I say trying to play it off and failing. She walks closer to me and touches the cut. "AH!" I hit her hand away. It stung like hell.

"Jasmine.. Is Chris hitting--" I cut her off, knowing what she was gonna say.

"God no! Nia I promise you its not like that. I promise. You know I'd never lie to you."

"You lied to me about the other promise you made..."

"Nia..."

"Then what the hell Jas? What? What is it? Just tell me the fucking truth!" I can hear the annoyance in her voice. I was just about to lie to her.

But I couldn't lie to her. It's Nia. There was no lies at all between our friendship. Our friendship overpowered lies, just like it is right now.

"Nia I went to get a job yesterday."

"Is this going somewhere?" she said crossing her arms.

"I looked for one downtown...."

"What?! Jas! Crawford told me that that's one of the most dangerous places! Him and Christian almost---"

"Yeah I know... Wait... they what?"

"No finish your story."

"Well anyways," I continued, a bit confused. "I didn't tell anyone at all except for my mom, but then when I was there, I realized that people were following me so I called Chris who already found out that I was downtown. Nia, basically, I got the shit beat out of me and almost lost my virginity. Please just forgive me for forgetting. Please." I explain.

"Of course. Are you okay?"

"Well I'm here, aren't I?" I smile. "But are you okay?"

"My leg is healing and even though a part of my family is missing, not everyone is gone. Plus, I have you." she smiles back. We hear a knock on the door and it opens. We both look to see who it is and we are slightly shocked to see who walks in.