The strays.

7

Sage's POV;

I sighed as I finished up my last bit of work. Summer school had honestly been so easy. But what sucked is I had not failed any classes, the teachers decided to make me go to summer school because I had missed so much of the school year, I don't like school okay? I nervously skimmed over my essay looking for mistakes. I had actually felt proud of this, and hoped this would get my approval to go home. Jake had already wrote his essay and was told he passed, and was now waiting on me, I felt bad because I take so long to write due to doubting myself .

I took a deep breath and gave Mr. Rodgers (my summer school teacher) a small smile. "hey Mr. Rodgers, I finished my essay." I mumbled quickly. "alright, let me read this quickly, I'll quickly go through your test scores and let you know if you passed." He smiled as he read through, and went through my scores. "sage?" he asked. "uh.. yeah?" I replied nervously. "your such an intelligent young lady. Why did you allow yourself to get in summer school?" I wavered the thought for a moment. "I had missed so much school during the school year, personal issues. Although I kept my grades decently up, the principal told me I missed to much and he wanted me to re learn the subjects." I jumbled out quickly. He nodded. "I see. Well sage, you passed, have a wonderful summer." He smiled warmly and shook my head. "Thank you."

I laughed but realized what Jake was doing. "Jake! What are you doing! your going to hurt your self!!" I yelled as Jake prepared to do a back flip off of the play equipment . We had decided to stop by the park before we went home. He just smiled, "no I'm not!" "dammit Jake!" I yelled right as he flipped off. I watched in horror as he landed on his feet but stumbled back and fell on his butt and laughed. "Don't ever scare me like that again or I swear to god I'm going to beat your ass!" I yelled. Jakes laughing came to a halt as his eyes saddened, and he enveloped me into a hug. "I'm sorry sage, I didn't mean to scare you, I thought you'd like it." he muffled into my hair and kissed the top of my head. "It's okay, I guess I over reacted a bit." I mumbled.

"Have you talked to bre yet?" Jake asked as we laid down eating popcorn on his bed. I sat up and swallowed. "uhm..., no. Not since she was angry with me for 'ruining your relation ship' I don't understand why she was so upset with me..." I trailed as I realized I was crying. "fuck." I cursed as I wiped the tear but they just seemed to continue and wouldn't stop. I felt jakes arms around me. "Shh." He whispered. "Things will be okay, you guys have been friends for to long to let those years go down the drain. Talk to her tomorrow, I'll go with you." He gently rubbed my back. I smiled up at him and hugged him back. "Thank you." We then laid down and went to bed.

"Sage, Sage hunny." Jake's mom gently shook me and as I started to get up jakes grip on me tightened. I giggled and slapped his arm and he whined. "Yeah?" I asked his mom. "There's someone on the phone for you." My eyes brightened as I had remembered. It's June 20th. My birthday. Maybe my parents were on the phone, maybe they haven't forgotten about me completely. I took the phone from Jakes mom. "Mom? Dad??" I asked with a heavy breath. The person on the other line was silent for a moment as if trying to decide. "uhm, No sage. This is your uncle Sam. Aren't you with your parents?" my mood darkened. "uhm no.. I haven't seen them for weeks... I thought you were them calling to wish me a happy birthday." I mumbled, as a tear fell down and I quickly wiped it away.

My uncle sighed. "I'm sorry sage. I'll try to get a hold of them. But I did call to say happy birthday, and to tell you that id be there in..." he paused. "two hours." I smiled, the fact that my uncle called on jakes mom seems probably a bit odd. But I've been friends with jake so long, that if family cant get a hold of me, they know to call jakes mom. "I'll see you then, love you. bye." The call ended and I collapsed on the Bed. "Happpppppyyyyy Birthdayyyyyyyyyyyyy" I heard a sleepy jake whisper behind me. I flopped onto my side so I was looking at him. "Thank you." I smiled. "Get up, take a shower and get ready. We are gunna go somewhere." He said climbing out of bed with a mischievous grin. "What do you have up your sleeve Mr. Moure?" "Something that you, are just gunna have to wait and see."

A/N: HIIIII man I haven't updated in forever im sorry. Also SORRY this is such a SHORT chapter! I just wanted to get it out as soon as I could, for I have other stories to update on. lol. REMEMBER; read, like, comment, promote. Thanks loves <3 ALSO I MAY OR MAY NOT BE POSTING ANOTHER STORY WHEN I CATCH UP ON MY OTHER ONES <3