Just Friends || j.g.

6

I woke up the next morning with a massive headache. Stupid ass hangovers. I hate them.

Everything from last night is blurry. I can remember parts, but not full events.

I finally get out of bed and do my morning routine. When I'm done, I don't bother to make my bed and just head downstairs. I put my hair in a messy bun as I'm walking down the stairs.

I hear laughter erupt from the dining room and am immediately startled. I walk towards the sound to see Jack and my mom eating breakfast and laughing about something.

"Good morning sleepy head." My mom laughs. It's good to see her happy. I really appreciate Jack right now.

"Hi mom." My morning voice still a little present.

I check my phone to see so many Instagram notifications. I swipe through them wondering what I posted to get all these likes and comments.

The clock reads "9:45". Why am I up so early? I head to the kitchen to see bacon, eggs, pancakes, sausage, french toast, etc. Wow. This looks delicious.

I grab a ceramic plate from the counter and grab one pancake, one piece of french toast, a little bit of eggs, one piece of bacon, and one piece of sausage. I love food. Don't judge.

I saunter back into the dining room while eating the piece of bacon. I sit across from Jack and it's so awkward that you can literally cut through the silence.

My mom speaks up, and I'm glad she did. "Well?"

I look up from my food and furrow my eyebrows.

"Hmm." I hum, taking another bite of bacon.

"How was the party?" She asks smiling.

I nearly choke on my food. How did she know about that?

I finish chewing my food and swallow before talking.

"Um, it was fun. How did you know about that." I ask nervous to hear her answer.

"Well I'm not dumb Sarah. You're 18 now and I could care less whether or not you went to a party." She says, completely ignoring my question.

"I told her." Jack finally speaks up.

I intake a big gulp of food, nearly choking again when I hear him say that.

"Yea. And I saw the pictures on Instagram." My mom takes a bite of her pancake.

'What?' I mentally scream. I whip out my phone and check my Instagram. That's why I have so many notifications.

I look through the pictures of me and Jack. There were 4. 'Ok, not too bad'. I thought to myself.

The comments read things anywhere from 'You two are so cute' to 'GOALS!!' to 'Awwe' and 'I ship it so hard'. I smiled and kept looking at the photos. There was one that I hadn't looked at yet.

Oh no. This is not real. I tapped on the picture and it didn't make any sense. I didn't remember taking the other pictures, but it was fine because they weren't bad. They were just us smiling and laughing at each other. But this one, this one was not ok. It was me and Jack kissing. When did that happen. I know I wasn't that drunk. Or was I?

I started to second guess myself. Notifications were still rolling in. I looked at the notification bar to see a very familiar name. It read "Jackgilinsky liked your picture". I clicked on the bar and it brought up the picture of us kissing.

What a piece of shit. I looked in his direction and he was staring at me smirking. I rolled my eyes and continued to look at the likes. I had to see if my mom liked the picture.

When I made sure she didn't, I deleted the picture. I didn't want anything to do with it anymore. I set my phone down and continued eating.

"I'm going to go shower and then go shopping." My mom informed us as she got up and went to the kitchen.

No! Please don't leave me with him.

She shortly returned and smiled at us both. She walked over to the stairs and glanced over at me.

"Hey Sarah?" Concern laced her voice.

"Yea mom?" I stood up.

"Will you call me if your dad comes home?" She looked like she was on the verge of tears.

"Yea. I'm going to go pick up Deja too, so don't worry about her." I reassured her.

"Thank you sweetie. It was nice seeing you Jack." She said that like she hadn't seen him in years.

"You too Mrs. Clark." He said smiling.

"Please Jack, call me Vanessa." She waved us off and went up to her room.

I texted Deja and asked her when she needed to come home.

[Dej (loaf)] about an hour

[Sarah] ok. i'll be there

[Dej (loaf)] ok. how's mom

[Sarah] she's better. she misses you though

[Dej (loaf)] tell her i miss her too

[Sarah] ok, see you soon kiddo. i love you

[Dej (loaf)] i love you too

I left her on read and continued eating. Jack was already done and he just left me by myself. What a jerk.

I finished eating and took care of my plate. It was time to face this problem head on.

I walked into the living room and sat on the couch where Jack and I had first officially met.

"Jack." I played with my fingers.

"What?" He coldly responded.

"Can we please talk about this?" I stood my ground.

"There is nothing to talk about." He kept looking down at his phone.

I got up and snatched it away from him.

"What the fuck Sarah!" He raised his voice.

"Oh shut up." I rolled my eyes. (SAVAGE ASF)

He didn't reply and just shook his head sighing.

"I give up. I don't know what I did to piss you off, but clearly you don't want to talk about it." I raised my voice, wanting to chuck his phone at his head.

"I'm not talking because there is nothing to talk about." He sighed.

"Bullshit Jack. If there was nothing wrong you wouldn't be mad at me-"

"I'm not mad at you Sarah." He cut me off.

"I'm not done speaking." I ignored his comment. "If there was nothing wrong, you would've slept with me last night. If there was nothing wrong, you wouldn't be talking to me like this." I managed to say that all in one breath. I was done. I'm was not going to put up with his shit anymore.

I handed his phone back to him and started to walk in the direction of the stairs.

There was a sudden pull at my arm, causing me to stumble backwards.

"Sarah, look, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten mad." He said softly.

"Save it Jack." I ripped my arm from his grip. I made my way upstairs and into my room, locking the door behind me.

I walked to my bed and got into it, laying down and staring off into space.

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-Lyssa