The Seaside Café

Chapter 14- Shut Up Before I Change My Mind

Chapter 14- Shut Up Before I Change My Mind

Jace's Point of View

“Jace, dude, what’s your problem?” Chace asks me on Friday morning as we run around the basketball court that my dad had installed a few years ago when I decided to move in here with him permanently. I don’t use it very much, the basketball court just because I’m always sleeping, doing homework or working at the café.

“Nothing,” I sigh, throwing the basketball back at him as I miss my third basket in a row. It’s not that I’m a bad basketball player or anything, it’s just that my mind is kind of…occupied at the time. And not by this stupid pick-up game. Ever since last night after our ‘date’, I can’t stop thinking about Emma Jacobs and it is just kind of ridiculous. I mean, I know it wasn’t a real date or anything, but still.

After the moaning in Claire and Harper’s ears thing, Emma and I didn’t talk very much. We just sat there and watched the movie and occasionally she’d reach over to my lap to get popcorn and I’d drink from the pop that we were sharing. After the movie was over, and we left out of the room that was showing Now You See Me, Emma grabbed my hand again— which was a surprise— and we walked like that outside. I know that she was just trying to make everything all obnoxious and stuff for Claire since she basically forced her to come with me, regardless though, I didn’t pull away.

When we left the theater, we didn’t immediately leave. Claire and Jonathon went to his car and made out for a really long time, so neither Chace nor I could get in. Well, I guess we could have, but that would have been really awkward. And because Claire was with Jonathon, Emma and Harper couldn’t exactly leave. Melody and her boyfriend, Luke, were talking with Chace— I assume that Luke and Chace are friends since they play on the baseball team together. Then lastly there was Harper and Mason, who— according to Emma— have a thing, so they went to some little cupcake place right beside the cinema on their own. That left just Emma and me, so we so we sat on a little black bench at the front of the theater together. We mostly just talked about the movie, because it was actually kind of mind-blowing and really good.

When Claire and Jonathon decided that they were done eating each other’s faces off, they parted ways and we all left. Jonathon was the one driving and even though he kept pestering me about Emma and if we did anything in the back row, I just ignored him. But since he kept blabbering about Emma, it was that much harder to get her out of my head. So, on the entire way home, I was thinking about how her and how good she looked. Basically from the time I got home last night up until right now, all the cute and weirdly adorable things about Emma have been disrupting my daily thoughts and it’s not okay at all.

Like how she always starts rambling and blushing whenever we talk and how she’s always so bubbly and perky and the way she’s kind of quirky and ridiculously gullible. That’s really cute though, how gullible she is. Not to mention how ridicuously sexy she is. You see my problem, don’t you? Especially since I have to see her again tonight at the café, not that I don’t want to see her, because I do.

Suddenly, I feel the basketball hit me in the side of my head, effectively interrupting my thoughts. “What the hell is wrong with you?” I ask him, picking the ball up and throwing it back at him.

“Something’s obviously up, because you just completely zoned out,” Chace observes.

“Nothing’s up,” I assure him, shaking my head. “Why would something be up?”

“Because you’ve been acting weird all morning,” He observes.

Chace came over really early this morning around 9 a.m., and started playing Call of Duty on my X-Box in my bedroom, which woke me up. So, then I came downstairs starving and got some food, then we came outside to the court. Jonathon didn’t come with him as he usually does so that was pretty surprising, but I didn’t ask Chace where Jonathon is. He’s either at home or with Claire, and something tells me that Claire’s not the type of girl to hook-up with a guy after their first ‘date’, so the latter isn’t very likely.