Skinny love // J.P.

Chapter 7

A/n I changed Tyler brown(science partner) to Eric brown.

Leah's POV

I fell to hard for him didn't I. Maybe I shouldn't off fallen for him. I fall so easily in love then they end up picking me up and pushing me out. Maybe I should try growing in love, instead of falling in it. Cause falling might hurt, but when they pick you back on your feet before pushing you out, it hurts worse.

I was currently sitting on my couch with Eric working on our project. I honestly wanted to go sleep, but this stupid thing has to be done.

"You okay?" Eric asks me when he finally looks up and notices my thinking face.

"Yeah yeah, just trying to figure out all the dependent variables." I fake a small laugh and start working again. I feel the couch go down a bit as Eric moved closer to me.

"I know you're not okay. I know we barely talk, but I can still tell you're not. What's going on?" He asks me in a worried and caring tone as he wraps an arm around me.

"C-can I trust you?" I ask, biting my lip as my old trick not to cry.

"Of course leah" he tilts his head down to try and face me but my heads rested on his shoulder.

"Do you know Joel Pimentel..." I told him the whole story and and through it all I kept biting my tongue harder and harder until I tasted a familiar metallic taste in my mouth.

"Oh Leah, I'm so sorry. He doesn't deserve you if he can forget you that easily okay? Just don't think about him. What gets your mind of things? Whatever it is we can do it, we can finish this stupid ass project another day" he said rubbing my shoulder, he's really sweet.

"Um, usually just horror movies. They're my favorite" I smile a bit. I then remember watching the exorcist with Joel. How safe I felt in his arms. Then I couldn't take it. A guy I've been talking to for what, 5 hours? Has seen me cry.

I bursted out crying and hugged my knees close to my chest while rocking back and forth. I started hyperventilating, feeling my anxiety kick in. No no no, not again. I'm not gonna be one those girls.

"Oh my gosh" I hear Eric say before hugging my tightly. I stopped hugging my knees to curl up and cry into his chest. Joel and I weren't even dating and he hurt me this bad. I'm just a stupid fucking sensitive girl that had some misread feelings.

I quickly wiped my eyes and sat up.

"I'm so so sorry for crying in front of you. Please don't tell anyone." I shyly say.

"Of course not. It's normal to cry leah.."

"Let's just watch some movies"

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It was lunch the next day and I was feeling a bit better. Every time me and Eric saw each other we would smile and wave.

"Hey boys.." I heard a feminine voice say as I looked up to see the girl Joel slept with.

"Sorry these 2 are taken" Kyla's sassy self said as she fake smiled at her and pulled over Tyler and Jaime.

I laughed a little bit and saw the girl fake laugh back and roll her eyes. She then proceeded to talk to Joel. Making sure her glossy, barely there cleavage was showing.

"Yeah, so do you maybe want to come over to my house later tonight for round 2?" I heard her whisper into his ear. He breathed deeply before replying.

"You're a slut and I was drunk. Nice try." He whispered back into her eat and she stomped off.

Tyler high fived Joel and Jaime fist pumped him. All of us laughed at that and continued randomly talking.

I then looked over to Joel to see him texting. Me, being snoopy, sneakily looked over my shoulder and read what he was texting..

Joel to baby❤️: hey, I'm sorry about that. Didn't want my friends to ignore me. I'll be by your house at 7, sound good?

I cringed at his contact name for her before having to bite my tongue once again. So, that was all just a show...

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Short as hell halted because my friend accidentally dropped my phone and it's completely shattered! I can't even see the keyboard. So I'm sorry for the multiple errors in this chapter and joe short it is. It's roughly 300 words less than what I usually do and I'm so sorry.

But on the bright side, I've been seeing a lot of the same people voting for my chapters and I'd like to thank you soo much<3 it means a lot and I hope you like the book :)

Love all of ya

~XoLeah