Fell For You

Superman Punched Embry

"You're not listening." Jacob repeated through gritted teeth.

I slurped my cola and nodded distractedly.

"We are." I assured, voice muffled through my straw as I gestured to Seth.

Seth who was siting next to me was gulping down his vanilla Cupcake.

The fact that I'm sitting a little bit further from him than usual relaxes my muscles so I'm not that tensed. I try to keep the feelings at bay, keeping our friendship as mutual as possible. I still have to figure out these uncertain feelings and until then;

Though some moments are filled with tension in the air we still do stuff that we usually do alot. So i guess its kinda fine.

"I'm telling you, The Hall Monitors On Steroids are out to get me." He whispers, his eyes darting out the window and back to us suspiciously. As if the windows were bugged. Could they be? Pffft, we didn't even have a proper pay phone on the Reserve.

Seth and I glance at each other and burst out laughing.

"Jacob, the hall monitors on steroids are not out to get you." Seth said through fits of laughter.

"Chill out cuz." I snickered.

Jacob glared at us both. "Great, wait till I get abducted. We'll see who's laughing."

And that was three days ago. Right now I'm trying my best not to smash my phone into pieces.

"This is the eleventh time I called him!" I exclaimed. I hate going late to school on Mondays.

Kristina who was just sitting next to me on the front porch barely looked up from her phone.

"So?"

I turned to her and gave her my best are-you-kidding-me face.

"So we're gonna be late." I pointed out before I went back to dialing his number. I shivered slightly when a cold breeze blew past me. The biting cold which was usually comforting was how just adding salt over my bruised ego.

Jake couldn't possibly have forgotten me.

There was beeping, then someone finally answered.

"Jake, finally I-"

"Hey cuteness."

I blinked, shocked when my other cousin's crystal clear soft voice answered.

"Hey cuz, umm, where's Jacob? He's supposed to pick me and Kristina up for school. It's Monday."

"Oh, he's sick. He just called in with flu." She replies softly.

My eyebrows furrow. "What? oh. It's okay then. I'll just stop by this afternoon and-"

"I don't think that's a good idea Cuteness." She quickly piped in.

"Uh, how?"

Now I am really confused. Last season I basically spoon fed him back to health when he got sick with malaria.

"Well you see it's very contagious. I mean even I can't see him. Darn club's contagious." She explained chuckling. I squinted my eyes. I could tell it was a nervous chuckle. Somethings up.

"Oh, okay. Well that's fine."

"Yeah okay well have an awesome day bye!"

The phone call ended abruptly.

I blinked, astounded. That was weird.

I turned to Kristina but she already stood as if on cue. "Shall we ask one of the parentals to drive us?"