The Boy Next Door

Chapter Ten: Nosy Relatives

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Jude's POV

What the fuck happened to Jason and Celia. I was for sure Celia felt the same way, since they were kids they were inseparable. Damn, I don't even know anything.

Fuck this is gonna take forever to clean up, with all the lights and pillows, I'd have to take multiple trips to get everything back to the apartment.

      "Hey Miranda, you busy right now?" I sent her a text, I hope she's home right now. I wonder what she knows, cause Jason's too heart broken to say anything. Well, I can't really depend on her helping me right now, cause even if she is home she must be dead tired.

About 5 minutes later. Miranda replies, "Hey Jude, slr I just got home a few minutes ago, anyway what do you need?"

     "You think you could head up to the roof?"  I replied.

I'm almost done cleaning up, the lights anyway. 

How'd Jason get all these pillow and blankets up here? I mean it took me forever setting up the lights this morning. I hear a knock on the door and see Miranda, " Hey Jude, you need help cleaning up? or setting up?"

      "Hey, and cleaning up please" 

      "What happened here anyway? I mean it's really pretty and all but, why is it up here?" She said as she started picking up the pillows and placing it into a bin.

      "I guess Celia didn't tell you anything yet huh?"

      "This was for Celia?! Damn Jason's, shit," She said tripping on the blanket, which made me chuckle "Whatever, what happened? Why aren't they here?"

      "Well, let's just say it didn't go as planned."

      "What was even planned, Jude I don't know anything, remember? What happened here?"

      "Well, Jason finally decided to tell Celia how he felt,"

      "Seriously?! Finally." She said having the exact reaction that I had earlier while talking to Jason

      "Yeah, but then something happened, Jason wouldn't tell me but I know it didn't go well, something about Celia not accepting it? I seriously thought she liked him too"

       "Same, but maybe, it's not that Celia doesn't feel the same way, maybe she does and doesn't know what to do about it, I mean come on you know Celia." With surprisingly a serious look on her face, I guess when it comes to her Celia, she's serious about it.

      "Well, whatever happened here, made Jason really depressed. I mean he loved her all his life, and he still loves her."

"If I notice something with Celia later, I'll talk to her about it then I'll tell you how it goes" She says as she places the last blanket into the bin and covering it up.

      "Yeah, thanks," I say taking down the last of the lights. 

Then we starting heading back down to our apartments with the bins of pillows and blankets in my arms, and the basket of lights in hers.

      "I still can't believe they didn't get together right then and there, makes me wonder what the fuck is my cousin thinking, I know she loves him, I can see it, she does." she says as were walking in the hall way of our apartments.

      "I'll see if I could ask Jason what happened, then I'll tell you what I know,"

      "Yeah, sure, same here, then maybe with that we could figure out what those two are thinking."

We both went into my apartment to drop off the basket and the bins. I thanked her again before leaving my apartment. 

I could hear Jason showering, then I remembered, did we even have ice cream to begin with, so I opened the fridge and none, so I left a note on the kitchen counter saying,

       "Jason, I noticed we didn't have ice cream so I got out to get some."