I Could Never Leave Your Bed (Mike Fuentes)

Chapter 6

A whole week he had spent ignoring me, avoiding my glances, and leaving whenever he and I were in the same room, so when he volunteered to go with me everyone was as shocked as me, but no one let me decline his offer. This car, Jack’s car, it’s huge but it feels like I’m trapped, and all the air smells like is him, and it’s maddening the way he still smells the same. It’s the scent I’ve known most my life, the scent that for the longest time symbolized home for me, but right now it’s suffocating me, and it’s taking everything in me not to look at him, because he keeps sneaking glances at me, I can feel his eyes land on me every few seconds, and it makes my stomach do weird things, but then again Mike has always had this effect on me.

I try to think of anything that might have led to him wanting to come along, I’ve played the scene over and over in my head but I just I don’t know what made him decide to come along, especially after the way he was trying so hard to stay away from me, but I can’t come up with anything so I replay this morning again in my head.

It was weird that Jack was up before me, usually because I was always the one to drag him out of bed, and it was especially weird that he had left the bus without me. I quickly bounded down the bus stairs and looked around hoping to find any sign of where he could have run off to but when I saw the venue everything instantly made sense and I was hit with the nostalgia this place brought.

“Sam!” an excited female voice called to me and before I could look up a body slammed into me embracing me in a bone crushing hug that could only belong to one person.

“Jenna!” Jack scolded his girlfriend. “You’re going to break Sammy.”

“Sorry!” Jenna let go instantly and I found myself coughing to gain my breath back, but the coughing was instantly replaced by laughter as I pulled Jenna back for another hug.

“I was wondering why Jack was up so early, but now I understand.” I say letting go of her and staring into her beautiful blue eyes. I give her a wink and watch as the corners of her mouth instantly turn upward as she nervously runs her hands through her long wavy brown hair.

“For Jenna, I’ll miss all the sleep in the world,” Jack says as he pulls her into his chest and places a small kiss on her forehead that instantly makes her blush. “and you know how much I love my sleep.” He adds in making us all laugh.

I can’t help but to smile as I look at them. If there were ever a match made in heaven it would be them. I remember the way Jack would look at her and the way she would look at him, all they needed was a push and they were inseparable ever since. The happy memory though soon slips away as I look back at the venue, and without warning a couple of tears escape my eyes.

“Oh,” Jack says instantly making the connection in his head of where my thoughts have wandered, all the shows I had gone here with my father, and that last one with him where I learned just how sick he really was. “Di-did you want to go visit him?”

“Sammy what’s wrong?” I hear Vic’s voice approaching and when I look up it’s all four of them, and it takes everything in me not to look at Mike so I just stare at the building in front of me.

“I just realized I haven’t visited my dad in a while,” I turn to look at Jack who is visibly hurting for me, but I don’t want him to, because he should be happy, not sad because of my own problems, “It’s okay Jack, I’ll go next time, you and Jenna have fun.” I give him my best fake smile but I can tell he isn’t falling for it, and neither is Jenna she’s about to open her mouth when Mike cuts in.

 “I’ll take you.” His voice carries through making us all snap our heads to him, and I can see it that he didn’t mean to say that out loud, but before Mike can back out Jack cuts him off.