Scarlet Harlots (Editing Now)

Chapter 6- Baby Daniel

Chase

Sometimes I felt the urge to tell Jolie I’m not in love with her like I used to be.  Not in a romantic way or anthing like that, but the way I used to think we really were the type of friends who had each other's backs, not on each other's backs, me, by irritating her that I wasn't perfect, like her, and she...well being her.  In moments where I feel like all we have between us is the band, I wonder what the point is… weren’t we unique?  The best of friends, each other’s accountability partner, each other’s family, friends, shopping buddies, role models, and partner in crime when we were away from our loved ones?  Weren’t we special, wasn’t it a sure thing that we weren’t going to end up like every broken thing before us?  It was all so much for me, and I didn’t know if I could continue like this…  well, for much longer.

I ate the granola bar in my hand, savoring it as much as my greedy stomach would allow while inhaling it.  I thought Jolie had found all my stashes of sugar.  I WAS WRONG!

Was it weird that I was happy I was wrong?  I shrugged at myself and began eating my banana. 

I entered the school from the left back door and entered the cafeteria as if it was like the central element of the school.  And I didn’t dare doubt it.  Food was amazing..ly important for nutrients.

Just kidding, it was yummy.  Period.  It was the central element of my existance.

I began shuffling my books in my locker when I had opened it, and things started falling out on me.  I juggled everything that was falling out on me like a pro and pushed all my books back up on the shelf except my Spanish book, and closed my locker quickly worried they would try to attack me again, and walked away to my next class.  I felt someone next to me take simple steps to fall into mine before I heard them.

“You know, you could just organize them and you wouldn’t have to have those moments.”  I heard a deep voice beside me, the bassist of Red Society, Jasper.  He was similarly my height, maybe shorter, but he was also younger.  Younger.  I wasn’t tall for my age, he was just short... Okay, maybe I was taller than most, but Jasoer was still short, like a short cake.

“Didn’t you hear?  It’s good to have your adrenalin pumping at least once a day.” I smiled down at the stump of a kid.  Actually he was skinny, the thinnest of the band no doubt as Leo and Daniel were lanky, but had some muscles to go with their weird guy forms, and Kenzi was massive,  looking like one of those gym buffs that drink a little too much juice.

“Sure Jackie.  Anyways, are you going to Serena’s party after homecoming?”  He asked casually.

Ehhh… not if I can help it.  Me+parties=Jolie pissed off for a month.

“Maybe.” I smiled.

“I’ll take that as a no, well… are you going to homecoming?”  He asked, then looked around us like there were people looking at us.  I looked around and noticed that people WERE looking at us… not us, me.  What the hell… was going on?

“I don’t know..” I said meeting some stares, from guys and girls alike. “Uh… do you know what’s going on?” I asked quietly.

“No, but I think we should have a meeting, in the Red room.” He softly spoke, closer to me now.  I took a step and walked into his body, as he put a hand on my waist to spin me around.  He then placed it on my back and pushed me the way I just came from.  Huh?  What was everyone's problem?  Did they know?  I bit my lip as I watched some seriously predatory glances at either Jasper or me, and I literally gulpped in fear.  Shit, not good.

“Text the guys and tell him to meet us.” He said and smiled at a guy that passed us, the guy looked down at my legs like a freaking perv.

“Huh?” I asked not in any way hiding my confusion, but giving the guy a 'back off' look.