SKYWAY, CHAPTER THIRTEEN: “TAKEN”
I take my seat next to Jessie, our legs pressed together. –‘Awr, look at you two being cosy,’ says Holly sarcastically and rolls her eyes. –‘Shut up and play the film,’ Jessica replies, blushing furiously. –‘Why is Jessica blushing?’ I ask, raising an eyebrow and wearing a mischievous smirk on my face. –‘Because Jessica is embarrassed.’ I lean closer to her and wrap my arms around her. –‘Don’t be,’ I whisper in her ear and I feel her relax into me.
-‘You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you…’ I sing along dramatically and wink at Jessie. –‘You’re like heaven to touch, I wanna hold you so much…’ Jessie sings happily. –‘DUET!’ yells Holly, whipping out her phone. –‘At long last love has arrived, and thank God I’m alive.’ We jump out of the seat and start slow-dancing to the song, my arms around her waist. –‘You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you,’ Jessie sings. I twirl her around and we finish with my arms around her waist and Jessie leaning back, one of her legs around my waist. Our faces are only inches apart as we laugh. I help her up and we sit down on the loveseat, Jessie on my lap and her head resting on my shoulder. –‘Awr, look at you two lovebirds!’ Holly says giggling. I roll my eyes at her and she giggles more.
I jump up once again, carrying Jessie in my arms, jumping around like a lunatic. –‘THIS IS MY JAM!’ I yell as I hear the music start. –‘I WANT YOU TO WANT ME!’ I sing loudly while I make my way to the kitchen, where I let go of Jessie. –‘What are we doing in the kitchen?’ –‘I want a coke. HOLLY! Do you want a coke?’ I hear a faint ‘yes’ from the living room so I open the fridge and grab to cans of Pepsi. As I turn around to walk back into the living room, Jessie takes the cans of me and pins my arms above my head. She brings face closer to mine and whispers: ‘Where is mine?’ –‘In the fridge,’ I reply breathless. Jessie look up from my lips and slides her left hand down my arms and cups my cheek, stroking my cheekbone with her thumb. –‘Why do I have to get it myself?’ I roll my eyes. –‘Jessica, you are a strong, independent-’ I am cut of by her soft lips touching mine. Her lips move against mine, trying to make me kiss her back, but I can’t move. I freeze as Jessica slides her other hand down and places it on her waist, using it to pull me closer. She kisses me harder and her hand roams around my back. –‘No, Jessica, no,’ I say as I push her off me. Tears form in her eyes and she sprint away, into the hallway, and I hear a door slam. Did she leave? I make my way into the hallway and open my bedroom door, where Jessica is. She lying in my bed, crying into my pillow. I enter the room and sit down on the edge of my bed. –‘Care to explain what’s wrong?’ I ask, stroking her back lovingly. She sits up and wipes her eyes. –‘I wish I could,’ she mumbles. –‘Please, just try, I hate seeing you hurt.’ –‘Why would you even care?’ she sighs and let herself fall backwards onto my bed. –‘I care. I always will. Please tell me what’s wrong?’ –‘It’s just… I’m so confused… I loved you, and I thought I was over you, and I knew Alisha liked me, and I liked her too, and now I think I love her, but then at the BRIT’s I saw you again and that’s when I learned I wasn’t over you.’ –‘Basically you don’t know to who your heart belongs?’ Jessie nods. –‘My dad said: “If you want to know where your heart it, look where your mind goes when it wanders.” Tell me who you think about before you fall asleep Jessica, it’s her, isn’t it?’ I ask, tears making my vision blurry, but I’m still able to see her shaking her head. –‘No,’ she whispers barely audible, ‘It’s you.’ –‘NO! You can’t love me. It was all a mistake, one and a half years ago.’ –‘A MISTAKE? Is that all I am to you!?’ she cries out. –‘Yes. But it was my favourite mistake.’ Jessica’s head shot up. –‘What if we never met?’ she whispers. –‘Than my life would be a living hell. I need you, I love you, but I can’t be with you.’ –‘Why not? Am I not good enough for you?’ –‘It’s the complete opposite. You’re too good for me.’ Jessica looks at me. –‘I’m falling in love with you. I don’t know how, I don’t know why. But I know I did.’ I stand up from the bed and turn around harshly. –‘Don’t fall in love, there’s too much to lose.’ –‘Like what?’ she asks. –‘Your unbroken heart.’ –‘I know I broke yours. Let me mend it. Let me mend your broken heart.’ I turn and look at her, almost mockingly. –‘How?’ I ask. –‘Let me kiss you,’ she says getting closer. I take a step back. –‘No. Please don’t do this to me. Don’t do this to Alisha.’ –‘She won’t find out.’ –‘No, please…’ I beg, but she’s deaf to begging. She takes another step closer so now I’m pressed up against the wall. –‘What would you do if you found Alisha kissed her ex?’ I ask her. –‘I’d love her honesty.’ –‘Don’t lie to yourself,’ I hiss, ‘Admit it. You’d be broken.’ –‘No, I won’t.’ She brings her face closer. –‘Let me love you,’ she whispers before she presses her lips against mine. Despite my heart begging me to stop and my head screaming no, I kiss her back with everything I have. My hands around her neck, pulling her closer. Her kisses are my ecstasy, I need it. I want it and I need it. Jessie’s lips move along mine softly, things start to heat up as Jessie’s hands roam around my back. She stops kissing me, allowing us to breathe for a second before her soft lips are kissing mine again. The kiss was more then lust. It was love, it was sweet, it was anger, disappointment, and it was perfect in every way. Until it was rudely interrupted by Holly screaming for her coke.
