Tattoo Love

Chapter 9

I woke up around 8 that night. Mom took me to go get dinner, we met Nat and his grandparents for dinner at a small family restaurant. "How are you feeling babe?" Nat asks me wrapping his arm around me once I sit down in the booth. "My head hurts but other than that I feel okay." I tell him. We eat dinner in an awkward silence, Nat asks if I will walk outside with him so I do.

"Look I am so sorry about what I said last night." Nat says while trying to hug me. "I know you are but that does not mean anything now. You called me a whore, and I cannot just forgive that. Plus the fact you think I want to date Jake just because he is hispanic like Angle. Nat we have been together for almost 2 years, do you really think I would just throw that away?" I ask him trying to not cry. He just turns away, he does think that I would throw it away.... "Paige I love you but I do not know what to think right now." He says looking at me and I swear I can I feel my heart shatter. "If you don't understand that I want you, then I can't be with you." I say and just walk back inside, and tell my mom I still don't feel well. She takes me home where I just go to sleep.

I wake up the next day and go to school.

"PAIGE! Wait up." New kid yells. Okay so he is not really new, he is new to the school but to he is not. I have known Timothy forever and a day. His cousin Lance use to hang out at my house all the time in Louisiana, and honestly I use to have a crush on Lance but he is probably 21-22 now.

I'll have to talk to Time eventually so let's just get it over with. "Hey Tim what are you doing in Texas?" I ask him giving him one of those bullshit one armed hugs. "I just moved here, Lance got an apartment here and I moved in with him, had to get out of Shreveport." He responded, hugging me back. "Yeah I understand, Shreveport is going to hell in a handbasket, so you're coming to my school now." I ask him dreading his answer. "Yeah I am I'll be a junior." He responds. I being to walk down the hall and he is following me. "Thats nice, I'm a senior so I only have a little bit left." I tell him. "Oh. yeah that's cool. Hey can you show me where 1103 is?" He asks me looking at his schedule. "Yeah it's right down this hallway." I walk him there and then we say our goodbyes. I just cannot believe that he goes here and that Lance lives here now.

I go through the day not really registering what is going on. I check my phone and see that I have a message on facebook from Lance. "Hey Paige. How have you been? I know you are probably at school so can i call you later? I got your number from Tim." Great this just keeps getting better. "Yeah sure I get out at 1430 so call me about 1515." I respond not caring if he understand military time or not. I went to my last class of the day and that flew by luckily. It was Friday so I only had one day before getting my tattoo finished, yes I was excited but also kinda dreading the fact that I was going to see Jake.