-Escape-

Chapter 21

**Last chapter for the next few days, I’ll miss you guys!!!

-Alex**

**JADE”S POV**

I walk back into the house feeling like my heart has stopped.

Well it has.

“Don’t feel so bad!” she says patting me on the back. “You don’t need him! Just like I don’t need Liam. We are like two peas I a pod, same back story and everything.” She says laughing and plopping down on the couch.

“You were Liam’s mate?” I ask.

She sighs. “Yeah, but I played that dickhead like a video game. He had no idea what was coming.”

“What happened?” I ask.

“I don’t really want to talk about it.” Says Hope seaming a little bit less confidant.

I sigh. “Come on Hope, please? If we are going to be roommates you have to tell me about you and Liam.”

She looks me up and down

“Fine.”

**FLASHBACK (HOPE’S POV)**

It was a beautiful day.

The sun was shinning but I had on my little bird ring to save me from burning.

I walked into the diner like I always did in my big tee shirt, sweatpants, and huge glasses.

In my hand I carried How to Kill a Mocking Jay as I always had for the past few months.

Thing is, I don’t like reading and I wasn’t going into that Diner to read. I went in to drool of Jai.

Jai was one of the waiter’s and he was perfect.

Warm brown eyes, perfect blonde hair, and a thick British accent, which I found adorable considering, we were in America.

He had dated my sister before she died a month ago.

Before I met Liam, I was a lot different.

Shy, kept to myself, a total loser.

So I never had the guts to talk to Jai.

He would come up to me everyday and say ‘the usual?’ I would nod and that would be it.

I would get butterflies over the littlest things like eye contact or a small smile.

One day I was eve’s dropping on Jai’s conversation with the manager Mary. A fat middle-aged single red head that treated him like crap.

“Get out there Jai we have customers.” She demanded.

“I am so sick of all of your stupid demands! Can’t I just have one night off?” he asks.

“I’ll think about it after you serve my customers!”

“I have to know now!” he complains

She crosses her arms. “Well I’m not telling you now, so get to work.”

Jay furrows his eyebrows and takes off his apron. “No.” he says throwing it on the ground. “And I quit.”

“Fine, I don’t need you.” She says picking up the apron and walking into the back.

Jay stormed out of the restaurant and across the street where he sunk to his knees in despair.

I saw this as a chance to get close with Jai so I quickly got up and ran across the street.

I stood in front of him and pushed my glasses up my nose.