Kissed by a Bullet

Chapter 36 ~ Well there isn't a robin underneath, it's the dark Knight himself

Song of Chapter: Is there somewhere by Halsey

Jace sits quietly on the other end of the couch, I glance over at him, he was thinking hard about something.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I say turning my attention to him instead of the tv. I lay my head in his lap and look up at him.

His thoughts were broken and he looks down at me with half a smile. "About work, boss man wants me work on some things this weekend and I was trying to think of way to get it done faster." He tells me.

"Well I'm sure you have a great plan, your pretty smart about that kinda of stuff." I say and he chuckles and smiles at me. I sit up sit on my knees and look at him.

"Hey! We should have a date tonight!" I exclaim and Jace's smile fades with a sorrowful expression.

"I can't I have to work at 6 until close." He says and my gut tells me that there something more to the words then just having to work.

But I blow it off. "Okay that fine, well it's 3:58 now, it's a Thursday, we should do something!" I say and Jace doesn't give me a smirk for any dirty thoughts. He looks at me and smiles.

"Okay what do you want to do?" He asks and I narrow my eyes at him.

"Okay spill something is wrong, you didn't smirk at that." I say and he rolls his eyes and pushes me on my back and he gets on top of me.

"This better?" He asks and he kisses me and I laugh. "Yes much better." I tell him and he chuckles.

His phone starts ringing and leans away. "Ignore it." I tell him and I grab his jacket to bring him back to me.

"I can't, it's probably work." He says and he gets up and looks at his phone with grimace replacing his smile.

He answers, "Hello?" With a pissed tone and walks out of the living room into the kitchen.

I can't help but frown at this. What the hell? I sit on the couch and wait for Jace, I wanted to give him some privacy.

With a laud bang. Jace walks back into the room, pissed off would be under statement.

"Jace what's wrong?" I ask getting up from the couch. He looks at me and his anger lightens to sad sorrowful look, it then changes to a blank mask hiding his true emotions.

"I have to go, something came up. Just.... stay here okay? I'll see you later." He kisses the side of my head then proceeds to leave. I go to the window and carefully hide as I watch him.

He punches the door of his old, rusty red truck. He gets in and slams the door. He just sits there staring at the steering wheel trying to calm down, I assume. He then looks up at the house and pain expression kisses his face. He then starts the truck and pulls out of the driveway onto the road.

I slide to the floor, I put my head in my hands. His quietness is getting worse since Monday. He was perfectly fine until he went to work at 4 and I met him to go out to dinner at 7 . It all changed he was just smiling at me like nothing was wrong, but it doesn't hide that something is eating him away.

I've asked Nikki to see if he knows what going on, but he wasn't there. Jace was by himself that night which isn't uncommon for him to work alone.

But something is wrong, Jace isn't acting like its anything I did. Instead he's been trying to spend time with me, like he showed up today randomly to see me. But he just sat quietly on the other end of the couch.

At school today he didn't say much, Troy and Reece asked me if I knew what was up. So I know they don't know.

I was the only one that noticed that Jace was glancing over towards Leigh's table a couple of times. With am unreadable expression on his face.