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Chapter 22

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I was the definition of being on cloud nine.

After those kisses with Matt I felt like I had been missing out on a lot. I really didn't know how I could have lasted so long without telling him that his feelings were reciprocated.

Right now everything was kinda perfect. Kinda.

When we came back from the little camping trip, I had the talk with Jake. At the beginning he was furious because he hadn't known were I was and, according to him, he was worried about me. He really did look sort of concerned. After that, we had a long nice chat about everything that had happened over the last few years. I learned that my mom's death hadn't been my fault, and that Jake didn't blame me after all. That he had been so devastated he just needed to place the blame on someone.

So we did something we hadn't done in a long time.

We talked about mom.

We shared memories and remembered how much she loved us and how much we missed her hugs and kisses, and her cooking, and our family. We talked about that time when dad gave us ice cream for lunch and mom got so mad she didn't talk to him all afternoon but then forgave us and took us out for dinner and we stayed up all night with her watching the stars rain and telling us stories. We also talked about my first day of pre-K when I cried and cried because I didn't want to go and little Jake kept laughing at me.

We promised each other that we would talk about everything and anything that bothered us and that we would be there to support each other, trust each other. I promised to tell him everything about Matt and he made me promise that I would live life to the fullest; and he promised he would tell me everything about this girl he was crushing on hard and I made him promise that he would stop drinking so much. He didn't think I had noticed but I had. I didn't want his drinking problems to actually become really bad problems and he needed to understand that he had to slow down.

After all that talk, we hugged the life out of each other and went our separate ways. Jake had to work -surprisingly he had landed himself a job- and I needed some time to digest everything that had happened this weekend. I was beyond happy and relieved for Jake and I, and as I was lying on my bed, I thought of Matt.

Matt, who had surprised me the most over these few days. What I felt for Matt I swear I had never felt before for anyone. Of course I'd been attracted to guys before, and I've had some silly crushes like every girl, but this had no precedence. Matt had texted me a couple of times but I hadn't responded him yet.

Hey gg ;) How did it go w/ ur bro? I can't wait to c u again

BTW 'gg' stands for gorgeous girlfriend in case you didn't know. Also, I can see you don't wanna answer my texts which is fine bc that means ur also dying to see me but don't know what to say.