Lab Partner

Chapter Five

Unfortunately I was inside the university nurse station, because after my Literature class my arm had swollen up and bruised a little bit.  I didn't think that Zack had hurt me that bad, but it was just a slight bruising.  Jake had taken me here and kept on repeating that he was going to kick his ass and whatnot.  I don't really know where me and Jake stand, but I definitely do not promote fighting, especially if Jake decided he was going to be my boyfriend.

"Ariel, sweetie, are you okay, Jake texted me all the deets!"  Cindy comes in with a Starbucks drink.  She's handing it to me, but I imply that I didn't want it.  She quickly took a big sip out the drink.  Ha.  Oh Cindy, I'm pretty sure she was at Starbucks while Jake texted her, felt bad, and figured she would give me her drink.  "So what the hell happened?"

"Long story short, Zack came up to me and pulled really hard on my arm.  Jake keeps saying that he wants to kick his ass."

"Well I completely and absolutely agree!  What did he expect to get out of you?"

"That's exactly what I told him.  He cheated on me, what did he really think was gonna happen?  Now the sucky thing is that apparently he still has class with me."

"Oh hell no! Doll, you need to get out of that class!"

"That's what Jake wants me to do too, but I can't get out anymore.  I have to just stick with it and Dr. Merino is such a good professor, I don't want to miss out on that opportunity."

Jake suddenly walks in the room (since only one visitor could be allowed in the nurse station.  "Okay Cindy, my turn to be here for my girlfriend."  Cindy starts getting out and then the nurse tells me that it's okay to leave already.  They gave me Tylenol to get rid of the pain and just a small bag of ice to reduce the swelling.  "Babe, you just have to take it much easier."

"Jake, i'm okay, we have Biology lab already, we should head over there."  He helped me from the nurse's chair and we started walking towards it.

"So I was thinking, maybe you can come over to my dorm afterwards, we can watch a movie or something?"  I looked at him and realized that yeah, things were moving a little bit too fast.

"Um Jake, I don't know about that..." When Zack would tell me things like that, it was because he wanted to touch me in places that shouldn't be touched by anyone until I'm married.

"I just want to take care of you, i'm worried that your arm is going to get more swollen and then who's gonna drive you to the hospital?!"  Wow, he was really concerned.  Zack never said anything like that to me when we were dating.  Well, I guess all of this was really new to me then.  Being in a relationship like this.

"I know Jake..." I replied back looking down at my arm.  I wish I can be outgoing and just not think about anything.  "Jake, yeah let's do a movie night!"

When we got to his dorm, I realized that I hadn't come here, he's been in mine, but woah, this was the nerdy side of him.  There were Star Wars figures on the nightstand and a Yoda lamp on his desk next to his laptop.  That's cute.

"I know what you're thinking...I need to buy more Star Wars stuff huh?" He smiled back at me.  He started to get his couch comfortable and preparing some popcorn in his microwave.  "I like the buttery kind of popcorn, what about you?"

"Actually I do too!  I hate it when people put too much salt on popcorn, it's like why don't you just eat the salt by itself while you're at it." Jake started cracking up, I was just being honest ha.

"You're so cute when you get all mad.  I'm glad you let me take care of you today.  You can sleep on my bed afterwards and i'll sleep on the couch okay!" He looked really happy, and that makes me happy too.