That Girl

I Trust You With My Life

The next morning I awoke in an unfamiliar bed, looking around I made out the still sleeping figures of my mum and twin brother, we must have all fell asleep when we came up stairs to watch more movies. Yesterday was without a doubt the happiest day of my life. We ate way too much sweets, then ate too much pizza, we watched so many movies my eyes are actually still a bit sore this morning and we all bickered and chatted about the silliest stuff all cuddled on the sofa. I don’t think I have ever been as happy in my entire life. I stretch as carefully as I can so I don’t wake anyone up and look over to the clock on the bedside table, 08:58am. I smile to myself because yet again I have absolutely no school today, my mum gave in and decided to let Jack and I have the rest of the week off even though she has to go back to work today. Jack’s trailing me out today to god only knows where then we’re meeting my mum for dinner, then Jack’s friends are coming over later on. I’m a little sceptical about that though, Jack’s friends and I don’t exactly get on with each other but I couldn’t bring myself to tell Jack I didn’t want to hang out with them. I’m thinking of inviting Emma over, but am I ready to let a potential real friend in as well as my family? Was I ready to put my trust in yet another person? I wasn’t sure, maybe I’ll see how it goes tonight with ‘the guys’ and take it from there. 

Raising myself up I crawl off the bed as carefully as I can and make my way to my room to grab some clothes, I know Jack won’t be awake until at least twelve but I really need a shower so I might as well just get ready now. I grab a pair of skinny jeans a baggy glamour kills hoodie and sneak into Jacks room to steal one of his band tees. I decide on a Boys Like Girls one as they are in fact one of my favourite bands, although I’d never tell any of my ‘friends’ in school that, they’d think I was a hippy like Jack. I smiled to myself, I was going to be completely ‘dethroned’ as Queen B and I couldn’t wait. I knew Emma wouldn’t stop talking to me though, she was the only kind of real friend I had. I just needed to trust her and let her in a little more, which I am planning on doing, honest.

I go into the bathroom and take a nice relaxing shower, get dressed and go back to my room to dry my hair. When I finally finish drying my long dark brown, almost black hair I don’t bother straightening it, instead just letting it fall in waves.  I check the time and realise it’s 9:50am, my mum has to get up and leave for work soon so I get up and make my way down to the kitchen. I quickly make a few rounds of toast and a cup of coffee and make my way up to my mums room where I can hear her turning the alarm clock off.

I walk in to find Jack has stretched himself out over the space I had occupied an hour ago and is completely out for the count as predicted, my mum sits up and smiles at me a I walk over and hand her the breakfast and coffee I made for her. Sitting down beside her she gives me a one armed hug and kisses my temple.

“Good morning sweetheart, and thank you for breakfast,” she smiles.

I just smile back and crawl back under the covers to get comfortable rolling Jack out of the way slightly. My mum and I chat for a little while before she gets up to get ready and heads off to work telling me to make sure Jack and I behave. Turning the television on I snuggle down in the blankets closer to Jack and watch morning cartoons. At around  quarter to twelve Jack finally begins to wake up and by ten past twelve we’ve began a full on pillow war!

That day Jack and I spent our time in our favourite place as kids, the diner by the peer called ‘Soda Joe’s’. This is where we always had our birthday parties, celebrations and even bereavements (when our pet hamster squibbles died). I hadn’t been to that place in years and it hadn’t changed a bit, the old waitress even remembered us and gave us two double chocolate and raspberry milkshakes on the house insisting we must come in regularly again. Jack and I talked about everything, I told him all about how I felt and why I acted the way I did, I also told him I wrote songs which I had never told anyone before. Jack told me how much he missed me and how one time he was so close to giving up but his best friend Alex stopped him and told him to keep trying with me, so why was Alex so caring towards me, even when I wasn’t around? I had no idea. He also told me all about his band All Time Low and how he really thinks they could be something, from what I heard of Jack playing guitar in the house, he was fantastic. Of course I had never told him this before as I normally told him to ‘fuck up’ but it felt so good telling him what I really thought of his playing, I don’t think I had ever seen him so happy, then again I had never been so happy either.  It was now half six and Jack and I were watching ‘Dumb and Dumber’ waiting for :the guys’ to come over. I wasn’t looking forward to this, Zack and Rian had always been as horrible to me as I was to them, which yes, was extremely horrible and malicious at times. As for Alex, well I was always a nasty bitch to him yet he was always scarily nice to me, maybe it wouldn’t be too bad talking to him? Oh I don’t know, I’m so nervous!