Rapid Days Behind the Bars of Life

Chapter 8

It's Monday, two Mondays ago, Jo was a part of my life. I still think of her. I can't help it so today, I'm going to offer that we skip school and I'm going to try to get closer to her. I just have to find her first.

She's the only reason why I wanted to come to school today. I know I should be concerned about Kaiwa and our baby but one day of not worrying, won't hurt. I hope.

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I walked into school and the first person I see is Kaiwa. What the fuck? I thought she was grounded, never to show her face in this school again. I should be glad I guess because she's here, alive and okay and happy I suppose. However, I'm not happy or as happy as I should be. I don't want everyone to see our baby..... well to be truthful, I don't want Jo to see our baby. I couldn't care less about others opinions.

If Jo see's that Kaiwa is carrying our baby, then she wouldn't want to have anything to do with me. I mean I could already dent her reputation if I talked to her today, but if people know that Kaiwa is having our baby and I talk to her, that would make it worse. It won't only destroy her reputation, it'll also make sure that it's never rebuilt. It'll be gone and it'll stay gone for the rest of high school.

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Kaiwa sees me and speed walks to me, kissing me on the cheek. I hugged her then kissed her on the lips.

"Fuck, why did I do that, people will think we're dating. I hope Jo didn't see that," I think to myself after kissing Kaiwa.

"Man have I missed you Jonah. I've missed kissing you and hugging you and touching you." She sighs then says, "but most of all, I've missed talking to you, and I've just missed your presence."

I didn't say anything, I just smiled and kissed her on the forehead.

"Shit, I did it again," It's as though I can't control myself.

I stared into her eyes, then I looked down at her stomach. I felt something that I can't quite explain or understand, as I stared at her stomach and it made me smile but also terrified.

"I've got to get to class, I'll see you later." I said to her

"Oh okay I'll see you too." She said in a disappointed tone. "I love you."

"I love you too." I said, taking her hand and kissing it.

"What am I doing?"

The bell finally rings and I finally get to see Jo. Well, I've seen her I just haven't spoken to her.

I saw Jo walk by so I walked out of class quickly before Kaiwa would catch up to me. I had to catch up with Jo first.

"Jo!" I called out to her, not obnoxiously loud or stupidly low, but just right enough for her to turn around and to my surprise a smile appeared on her face when she saw me.

She said something to her posse then started walking toward me. Wow, I'm important enough for her to know my name and leave her posse to come talk to me.

"Sup, Jo." She said to me with a mischievous smirk.

I laughed a little then said, "Hey, and I told you I prefer Jonah."

"Yea, you did and I told you whatever."

"Which means?"

"Which means that I either call you Jo or Jonah depending on whichever one I feel like calling you." She said, then cutely tapped the tip of my nose.

"Yes, Ma'm," I said with a salute and a smile.

"Eww I'm no Ma'm, I'm 16. You don't call females Ma'm till they're like 60 or whatever." She said then punched my shoulder.

I chuckled then said, "Yea, whatever."

"So J what did you want to talk to me about?" She said

"Oh so you're calling me J now as well? and how did you know that I wanted to talk to you?" Wow such a stupid question for me to ask, too late now I've already asked it.

"Ehh I like J too, it suits you and it's pretty obvious that you wanted to talk to me considering that you yelled for me while I was with my friends."

"Yeah I know sorry, stupid question but I was wondering, how would you like to ditch school again? Let's go hang out."

"I don't know Jonah, I can't just leave my friends again and not tell them where I'm going."

"Right, I forgot about your 'friends',"

"Why'd you say friends with a quotation?"

"Well, Jo they're more like a posse and less like friends."

"Whatever, fine let's do it. I do get bored of my 'friends'."

"They're not really your friends, if you get bored of them. Bored enough to ditch them."

"Yeah I know. So are we just going to stand here and talk about my friends, sorry posse, or are we going to ditch this joint? We've been in this empty hallway for about 10 minutes."

In a stern typical British accent I said, "Hmm lets see, I think we should stay focused with school and evaluate who our friends are and you and I should become a thing."

She laughed loudly and said, "Yea right, you and I should become a thing, because that's going to happen. Come on goofy, let's go and this time we're using your car." She said walking ahead of me.

What she said registered to me in two different ways. The first way was all romantic and flirty and the second way was all sarcastic and jokey which was the actual way she said it.