The Chain (A Catherine Diary) - Stamfield. Complete

Chapter 20

20

A young girl appeared around the corner, skipping over. Immediately, I could recognize her, as being Susan's sister, they were very similar in the face, hair, body shape, clothing, in fact the only immediate difference, was that Janet was a couple of inches smaller than her older sister and her face showed her younger years. Looking closely at her face, which seemed to don less makeup than her double, she looked more thirteen, than fifteen going on sixteen.

Her smile widened when she saw Jack. 'I was hoping she was talking about you'.

'You remember me?', Jack asked, panning his eyes up and down over Janet's form.

'How could I forget you. I was so jealous of Susan when she was going out with you', she smiled and brushed her hair away from her face, she pronounced her motion, as she looked at him and gently bit her bottom lip, 'and you haven't changed one bit'.

So that explained the relationship Susan had with Jack, she was his ex-girlfriend.

'You definitely have changed', Jack responded, ignoring her obvious seduction technique, 'I seem to remember you running around begging me to take you down to the park, to play on the swings'

Janet blushed, although I could swear that even that was part of her flirtatious behavior. I turned away from their conversation and looked at Susan, she was observing them, with a somewhat forced and maybe jealous smile on her face. I also noticed her keeping an eye on me, probably wondering if I was having the same reaction to the connection between Jack and Janet. She then turned to me and whispered, 'Sister's are so annoying. You have any?'

'No, I have.........a brother'

There was a pause in the middle of my answer, this was due to the shock of Janet's response to Jack.

'Trust me Jack, I didn't really want you to come to the park and play on the swings, I wanted you to play on me'.

Both Susan and I turned to them in synchronicity. But Jack just laughed. 'One things for sure, you're far more confident'

'And I'm turning sixteen Jack', she said and winked at him.

He blushed. My God, he actually blushed to a fifteen year old. This is a boy who could probably get any girl in college if he tried and he blushes at a fifteen year old girl. He definitely went down in my estimations.

'Janet, this is Catherine. Jack's girlfriend', Susan said, trying desperately to break their conversation.

Girlfriend? like hell I was and after that display, it was doubtful I ever would be.