Him

He's My Chaperone

I feel someone tap my shoulder but I ignore them. "Paris, hey, get up. We're here."

I slowly open my eyes and I'm met with Jace's beautiful green ones. "Hi."

He chuckles lightly and pulls me out of the seat into his arms. "C'mon sleepy head."

I yawn and let him carry me to our cabin. "Where's my bag?"

"It's already there."

I nod and rest my head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat. "We're here. Oh and I forgot to mention. We are sharing the lake with another senior class. They have cabins 1-10."

He sets me down on my bed and walks out. I sigh, he has such weird timing to tell me stuff. Then i chuckle and find my bag with my phone in it. I have three new messages. 'hey! Where are you!? -Mom' 'hey, wanna go swimming with us? -Clare' 'babe, we need to talk while we're on this trip -Linal' I groan and text mom back letting her know where we are and I ask Clare what time. Then I try to decide if I should text Linal or not. 'when? -Par'

'right now. -Linal'

'what cabin number? -Par'

'17 -Linal'

'be there in ten -Par'

I walk out to the living room and toward the door. "Where are you going?"

I screech and swing around. "Don't do that! And none of your business."

He raises his eyebrow at me and walks toward me. "Um, it is my business. I'm in charge of you."

"I'm 18 years old. You are not in charge of me." And I walked out the door.

After about 10 minutes I reached Linals cabin and he is standing outside. "What do you want to talk about?"

He grabs my hand and drags me away from all the cabins. Toward mine, little does he know. (My cabin is the last one on the lake, cabin 21, just passed it are some woods.)

When we get to where he feels we have the most privacy he turns to me. "I want you back Par. I shouldn't have done what I did. I know it was wrong. I..I just want you back!"

"Linal, you hit me. HIT ME. Not once. But twice. You HIT me twice. I can NEVER forgive you for that. Plus, I've moved on."

His eyes widen at the last part. "Moved on? To who?! Who could you hav.." As realization hits him he gasps. "MR. FLAGS!! You have moved on from me to Mr. Flags?!"

"Shut. Up. Linal."

"You fucking whore! He's like what? 10 years older than us!? Eww! He's our TEACHER."

"5. He's only five years older than me. And he's our SUBSTITUE."

"Whatever your such a fucking bitch."

"Linal! Two seconds ago you wanted me back! And now I'm a bitch and a whore!? What the fuck!?"

He slaps my face, hard, and laughs. "Yeah, I did? Didn't I? Yeah. Well I'm glad you didn't take me back. Have a nice life with our teacher." I fall to the ground holding my face sobbing as he walks away from me still laughing.

After what seemed like hours, but I'm sure was only minutes, my phone starts ringing. I ignore it and continue holding my face. That one hurt. Really bad. My phone starts ringing again and I look at it. Jace. No. He can't know I saw Linal again. I send him to voicemail and set it on the ground. It rings a few more times before it stops.

A few minutes after it stops I feel strong, familiar arms that make me feel safe, engulf me in a hug. "Jace,I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

"Shhh, shhh, Par, it's fine. Shh. Calm down."