True Love At Last Sight

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

It was Friday and school had finally finished for the week. I was so thankful for it being the weekend! I walked through my bedroom door, chucked my bag in the corner and jumped backwards on my bed.

I looked up at the ceiling and saw out of the corner of my eye the light of my phone go off notifying me I had a text.

I peered over the corner of my bed and read the name that had appeared in red on the screen, "Jake".

My whole body frozen for a second. Why was he texting me? He never text me. I picked up the phone expecting to read something like 'Please take me back, I still love you!!' but that was not what I read. Upon my screen read 6 words that made my heat sink...

'I know what happened to you brother.'

A sudden feeling of anger shot through my body.

'What! How do u know who did it? And if you had anything to do with it, I will never forgive you!' I replied, tears threatening to spill.

He replied very quickly. I through my phone across the room in frustration when I read his reply.

As I went to retrieve my phone, my door flew open and Callum walked through to see what all the noise was. I picked up my phone, the screen had cracked but I could still see the text that read,

'I'm not meant to say anything, but I wish I could'.

"Is it just me or is the world cruel?" I accidentally asked aloud, forgetting that Callum had entered the room.

"Chloe are you okay?" he asked cautiously, trying not to upset me seeing that I was obviously angry.

"Yeah Callum, I'm fine. Just a bit annoyed."

"Why?" he automatically asked.

I looked over at him. He was now sitting on my bed so I went over and joined him. I wrapped my arms protectively around him

"Because of what happened to you," I replied.

He looked up at me and smiled.

"You care too much," he said squeezing out of my embrace and walking out the door.

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About 2 hours later, I decided to go for a run to take my mind off everything.

I walked out the front door in my black running shorts, pink t-shirt and black and orange runners.

As I turned left to run through the park, I saw Jake pushing a little girl on the swing. I slowed my pace and stopped and walked up behind him. I guess he heard me coming, cause he stopped pushing the little girl and turned to face me.

After what felt like a lifetime, he turned back around.

"Lucy, why don't you go play on the slide?" he asked. His voice was quiet and calm. This was a side of him that I barely ever saw. I liked it.

Lucy hopped off the swing and ran over to the slide, climbing up the huge stairs one by one.

"Look Chloe -" I cut him off.

"Jake, please tell me. It's not fair, it hurts me seeing my brother hurt."

Jake looked guiltily down at the ground. I knew he wasn't going to talk to me right now.

"When you change you mind, you know where to find me," I said before turning around and jogging back home.

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After completing my 5 km run, I went up the stairs and walked into my bathroom.

I turned on the hot water for the shower and stepped under the tap completely soaking my body. It felt so nice to just stand there as the water trickled down my body.

When my fingers couldn't get anymore wrinkly, I hopped out of the shower, covered my body with a towel and walking to my room.

As I shut the door I heard a voice come from behind me

"Well look who it is; the same, old Chloe Budinski."

I let out a small scream, grabbed the baseball bat that was beside my door and faced my attacker. But instead of a criminal I saw Chase sitting there on my bed. Wait, Chase? I hadn't seen him in 4 or 5 years. He left after his family moved to Spain. I ran up to him and gave him a huge bear hug. I missed these arms, until I realised I was in a towel.

"Umm ... Chase, can you please leave so I could get changed?" I asked sweetly.

"Wish I could stay and watch the show," he winked "but you know whatever."

He left the room with a smirk. I threw on my white tank top with the US flag on it and my black leggings. I walked out the door skipped down the stairs and there sat Chase sitting on the couch.

I slowly crept up behind him, attempting to scare him, but it didn't work.

He turned around and grabbed my waist, flipping me onto the couch next to him. In shock I screamed and he laughed at my reaction.

After he had stopped laughing, we both sat cross legged on the couch.

"What are you doing back here? I thought you were meant to be in Spain for another 18 months?" I asked with excitement in my tone.

I couldn't believe he was here. He was like my best friend. He has been since kindergarten.

"Well, mum and dad organised that I could come stay here with you for a month since I haven't seen you in ages, I don't have school and I know you missed me. I had to come visit!" he said with a cheeky smile.

I gave him a another big hug, stood up and started to search the house to see if mum was home yet. Chase decided to come with.

As I walked down the hallway, his arm looped with mine and we skipped to the kitchen to get food.

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After eating, we sat on the couch and watched TV. We spoke about what has happened in our lives since he had moved. His was short and simple; but mine seemed so full of drama.

I told him about Jake and Dylan and Callum and Jesse. I caught him up with Monique. Us three were like the 3 musketeers.

"Hey Chloe, you should invite Monique over. I haven't seen her in ages! It would be good to catch up."

"Yeah sure," I agreed pulling out my phone, "I'll text her."

'hey Monique you will never guess who I bumped into! Come round and ill tell u all about it.' And with that I pressed send.

"When she comes, go hide in my room, we can scare her," I said to Chase with an evil smirk.

10 minutes later, the door bell rang and Chase went sprinting up to my room.

I opened the door casually. Monique walked in and dropped her bag at the door. We then walked up to my room.

As I opened the door she asked, "So who did you bump into today?"

And then Chase jumped from behind the door and scared the shit out of Monique. After realizing who it was she ran up to him and gave him a hug.

"OMG Chase you scared the shit out of me! I haven't seen you in ages!"

"I know. I was meant to scare you, that was the point," He slightly laughed with a cheeky grin on his face.

We all sat down on my bed and talked about everything. In the 5 years chase had been gone so much had happened. I really missed us talking like this.

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It was now around dinner and we all decided that we were gonna have a sleep over like old times. So as we walked downstairs to get food. I heard the the door bell rang, so I left Monique and Chase in the kitchen as I walked towards the door.

When I opened the door I was in a state of shock because when I opened the door, it was to none other than Jake.

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