Who Are You?

Riding

There was a knock on the door.

I jumped up and ran downstairs to open the door. My mom was already at work so I didn't have to worry about her. I opened the door, and there stood Jake leaning on the door frame.

"Hey." he says when he sees me and smiles.

"Let me go get my backpack." I say

I go up stairs and get my backpack and check my mirror. I'm wearing dark blue skinny jeans, a white corp top that says AC-DC, a black leather jacket, and black converse.

I hurry downstairs and go into the kitchen to get my phone and headphones. I walk to the living room and Jake is sitting on the coach waiting for me.

"Ready?" he asks and gets up.

"Yup." I say and head outside.

Jake comes out behind me and I close the door.

I walk to his Hummer and wait for him to unlock the door. He opens his door just as I do and I hop inside.

"So how was your night?' I ask him

"Pretty good." he answers

We sit in silence for a long time. I cross my legs Indian style and look out the window. It's a nice day quite peaceful.

"Do you mind if I roll my window down?" I ask him

"Go ahead." he replies.

I roll my window. I put my arm to rest on the edge of the window and then stick my head out a bit and I feel the rush of the wind blowing through my hair. I'm pretty sure my hair is shimmering with the warm sunlight. I feel my self smiling as I breath in all the fresh air and the winter fading into spring. The radio turns on and I start singing along automatically to whatever song is on. I hear someone chuckling and I am startled by Jake. I totally forgot he was here.

"Lost yourself a little there didn't you?" He chuckles

"Mmmhmm." I nod

He chuckles. I turn to look at him. He is wearing a smirk.

"You are sooo cocky Jake." I say and laugh at his reaction.

"I am not!" he says with an "offended" tone and pouts his bottom lip.

I smack his shoulder playfully and laugh.

"Hey," he says "If you do again that I might have to kiss you."

"Hahaha in your dreams son." I say and start laughing so hard that my sides start hurting. We stop at a red light and we are in silence again.

I sighed.

"So what are doing this afternoon?" he asks

"I don't know I might go running."

"Oh..."

"Why?" I ask cursorily.

"Oh I thought maybe we could hang out or something." he says and shrugs.

"Well if you want I could meet you at the park." I say

"Sure if you want. I mean you don't have to."

"No I want to." I say and we lock eyes and he smiles shyly. I return the gesture.

Soon we are parking into the school parking lot, and I grab my bag and hop out the car when we are parked. We walk inside together and we walk to my locker. When I open my locker I turn and see Jake leaning against the locker next to mine looking at me. He turns away quickly feeling embarrassed that I caught him looking at me. I pretend that I didn't notice him and put on my layer of EOS and lip gloss like every day. Then I spray some of my perfume on my neck which has a sweet smell to it and I can tell that by the way Jake moved a bit forward that he likes the smell of it too.