Whirlwind

Non-Existant Boyfriend - Chapter 12

I woke again like yesterday with a purple bruise on my stomach. It looked new. I honestly thought it was going to be better since yesterday the colour faded. But I guess not.

3 days ago Anna told me that I was some cursed half witch doomed to die by water. Isn't that just pleasant.

I haven't been at school since Wednesday. It's Sunday and Jackson is supposed to pick me up. Today we are going to meet Michaela's boyfriend. I'm afraid that it will be awkward between Jackson and I since he rejected the idea of us dating again.

And since I've had 3 days to think about it I have come up with all 3 suiters if you can call them that.

1st is Jackson he's got the childhood friend and the prior relationship with me part but I'm worried about the future betrayal thing.

2nd is Josh he lives by the sea and is such a flirt, I don't want to even let him have a chance to cheat on me.

3rd is, wait for it, Luke. I know sounds crazy and self-centred of me to think he's even possibly one of them. But he is dating my best friend (even though I might add is not a witch) the problem is that he isn't in the slightest way interested do he's only a possible suiter.

The option for 3rd can go to another I still have Angie as a best friend and Michaela counts as well. So that's why I'm so interested in who she's dating maybe he'll be the other suiter, the problem with that is Michaela's not a witch and I wouldn't want to steal her boyfriend.

{1 hour later}

Jackson shows up. He greets me and looks at my clothes. I'm wearing a dark blue slightly loose shirt with light blue jean shorts.

"You ready to go?" It was his usual comfortable voice.

"Yeah. Thanks."

"No problem." Is it just me who thought it would be weird, he led the way to his car and he drove off towards the shopping centre.

Though out the whole car ride all I could think about was the curse and how Jackson could act normally right now. Maybe he knows and I can talk about it with him. But if he doesn't I'd sound crazy and annoying for bringing up relationships again. He may not be one of the suiters, if that's so then he really doesn't like me. But if he doesn't like me then why did he kiss me? He kissed me so how is this not weird for him? Am I the only one freaking out about this?

When we got there I sighed and got out of the car. Only to be ploughed into by Angie.

"Angela Michelson is here and ready commander." We laughed together. Until we got to the meeting place.

"Thanks Angie, I really needed to laugh. I haven't in a while." I can't laugh as easily anymore, I mean now that I know how I'm going to die. It's hard to be upbeat.

"Your welcome, but why haven't you laughed in a while? You're always laughing. Also why didn't you go to school?" She sounded worried and very curious. I could feel the eyes of Jackson looking at me, I could tell he wanted to know why I wasn't there either.

"Anna told me something about my past and it made me upset is all. I hurt myself so I stayed home for a few days, but I'm going to school tomorrow." I said smiling I'm still hurt but it's not going away so, yeah. I saw Jackson go stiff, maybe he does know about the curse.

"Oh ok. Well let's go find everyone else." I was grateful that she let it go. Jackson on the other hand looked like he wanted to have and hour long conversation like Anna did.

"So you're calling her Anna again?" Jackson said interrupting my thoughts.

"Oh, yeah I guess I've been calling her that since she mentioned my..." No I didn't trust him yet. I didn't have the strength to talk about her right now anyway.

"Yeah I'm just calling her Anna right now." I said I moved off toward Angie before he could speak.

20 minutes later everyone was here even Michaela. We sat at a table in the food hall. Michaela was texting furiously probably to her boyfriend who didn't show. The twins were quiet, even though they make fun about her boyfriend none of us actually thought he wouldn't show.

"That dick!" Michaela was red. "He bailed because he had something better to do. He always does this." She murmured to herself but everyone heard her.

I was feeling annoyed at him why didn't he show. "Hey Michaela wanna go shopping instead, I need to buy some new clothes anyway." I nudged Jayde and Angie.

"Yeah clothes I need some too." Angie said

"Clothes? Yes! I forgot I had to buy some." Jayde added. Simon looked at her like she was crazy.

"Yeah, um, I guess so." Michaela said She wasn't ad anymore she looked depressed. If I ever saw that asshole I'd knock him out.

The boys ended up leaving to go to EB games (Harry was complaining that he didn't get to go with Michaela) while we went to every clothes shop we could find.

By the end we had made Michaela laugh so much, we were trying on the ugliest clothes we could find then show it off to each other.

We all said goodbye to each other, I promised I'd be there tomorrow. Jayde and Simon got picked up by their parents. Harry drove Michaela home (so I guess he brought her here), Angie had her own car so she drove herself home after asking me 10 times if I was ok with Jackson taking me home (I was so proud when she saved up her money to buy a car. She wouldn't let me walk anywhere for the first week.)

Jackson was driving me home silently. When I looked at him, he looked like he was struggling to say something.

5 more minutes passed before he spoke, "So I'm guessing she told you?" I could tell he was being careful with his words.

"I guess you're part of it then?" I asked aggressively. He should have told me sooner than this. And that he was a part of it.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, I just thought maybe I could spare you the trouble of knowing how you die." He said. What am I supposed to forgive the person who lied to me about his intentions for his and my whole life?

"And I guess I didn't want to admit that I was one of the people after you." Yeah all you guys are going to do is make me fall for you then watch as I die for what will be probably the hundredth time.

"Stop the car." We were next to the forest I loved it here. Not only that but I knew my way around.

"What?" he sounded so confused which was really cute but I held that back.

"I said stop the car!" I yelled.

He did as I asked. I jumped out of the car and ran through the forest not stopping when he called out my name. I could feel the breeze in my hair. I had the need to run to cool off.

Cool off...

I need the water.

I remembered the section of the lake near the waterfall. I ran towards it. I took off my shoes then walked into the cold wavy water. I could hear Jackson screaming my name but I ignored him, I just needed to be in the water. I gave up walking and dropped into the water it wasn't deep just when I sat down it covered my lower stomach and high thighs. I sat there for a while. I could hear the loud breathes coming from out of my lungs.

Next thing I knew was Jackson's arms were around my body carrying me out of the water.

Sorry if this chapter was boring I had to change the time of Silvia meeting Michaela's boyfriend until later in the story, so wasn't as exiting as I first hoped.