my brother's best friend [e. b. c.]

4: in love

Jazmin's POV
I stayed in my room. Thinking about what just happened over...and over. I can't get him outta my head.

Am I really in love with Erick?

Christopher's POV:

I took Erick to my room.

"What happened?" He asked worried.

"N-Nothing." I said.

"Dude how can a girl that looks perfectly fine at first and all of a sudden starts crying."

"Okay I'll tell you." I told him realizing why's he said is true.

"Please."

"Jazmin. Jazmin Velez. We've been together through thick and thin. When she was about nine, and I was ten, se would start crying out of no where. I would always ask her, what's wrong. Her answer was always I don't know. I don't know. She always said. Through out the 4, 5 years of her being like this... I found out she has really bad anxiety..."

I looked towards Erick. Tears were running down his eyes.

"Dude why are you crying?!"
"I think I-Im in love with your sister. I-I wouldn't want her to go through that"

"I-Uh"

"I don't know...ever since I picked her up from the ground... I felt different..."

"But why are you crying."

"She's dating someone else..." I barely heard him.

"She's dating someone?!"
"Yeah..."

"Who?"

"the guy that had a bandana today I think his name is Joel"

"They're not dating."

"Then why are they always so close?" he said as his jaw clenched.

"Cause they're bestfriends, Joel also helped me figure out why Jazmin was like this ever since she was nine... they've been bestfriends since, she had her first attack..."

"Oh..."

"Yeah"

I got up and got a photo album. I gave it to Erick and said.

"Here, look at Jazmin before she 'gloed up' ... I don't see why you like her... when she's not in panic she's a complete dork." I let out a small laugh.

Erick was smiling while looking through the book.

There was a very small knock on my door and Jazmin came in.

"You guys better not be looking at po-"

She saw that Erick had the photo album and ran and snatched it from him and threw it at me.

"WHAT THE HELL CHRIS!"

"What?"

"I look ugly in all those pictures!" She said.

"I know you do." I smirked.

"I'm gonna kill you!"

She jumped on top of me and started to punch and slap me.

"Jazmin!"

"What?" she suddenly stopped.

"Stoppp"

She got up from I top of me and said. "You're so lucky I didn't hit you more."

Erick sat there...looking shocked.

"Why did you have to freak like that."

"Cause those were sixth grade pictures. Not little adorable baby pictures."

I laughed.

"Fuck you Chris"

She said walking out the door.

"She actually did look adorable in those pictures." Erick said slowly.

"Whatever. I still don't get why you like her."

"She's... different."

"Different? Want me to call Jazmin to beat you up like she did to me?"

"No! No! No! I-I mean she'... not like the other girls."

"Is that a good thing" I asked.

"Yeah."

"Better be." I clenched my jaw hoping that it's true.

I'm hungry.

"Wanna go eat?" I asked Erick.

"Yeah sure. What about Jazmin?"

"We'll take her."

"Okay."

I knocked on the door as I heard music from inside.

"What" she said when she opened the door.

"Wanna go eat?"

"Sure, give me like 15 minutes."

"Okay, but no longer than that or were leaving."

"Fine"

And she closed the door.

Jazmins POV
okay Jazmin... you have a second chance at this...don't blow it.

I put on this:

I put on a sweater cause it was kinda cold outside. I put in a touch of makeup and I turned off my music. I got my phone and earphones just in case.

I walked downstairs to the Living room. They were waiting and talking.

"I'm ready." I announced.

Erick couldn't keep his eyes off me and I felt uncomfortable but I felt my cheeks get warm.

"Okay let's go" Chris said.

"Wait!" I said.

"What?" They both said in unison.

"How are we supposed to go eat if we don't even have a car?" I turned to Chris.

"Erick has a car."

"Oh."

"Yeah so let's go."

I got in the back seat and Chris in the front seat.

I plugged in my earphones and listened to my favorite singer, Sabrina Carpenter...

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