Life As We Know It

Chapter four(:

I heard a rough male voice on the other line. He sounded tired, and angry. I didn't know who it was or how they got my number. My heart was racing and I started at Ry for a long moment. She took the phone from my hands and started to talk. "Hello?"

"Hi, is this uhh Jocelyn?"

"Uhhhhh.....yeah! Who is this?"

"That isn't important."

"It kind of is. I mean I would love to know who I'm talking to."

"Listen, where did you go this morning. I woke up and you weren't there."

"Oh, so this is Derek?"

He didn't say anything, so she went on.

"Listen, I told you I had to go, so I tried. I was going to get in trouble. I needed to leave before anyone found out."

"I would have taken you home."

"You do realize I drove to your house right" She said it like she was unsure.

"Oh yeah."

"Well anyway, how did you get this number?"

"I uhh...I uhh...Looked you up on the Internet. It was a lucky guess really. They didn't have a picture but you were the only one from Nevada."

"Oh. Creep."

"Hey, I just wanted to make sure you were alright, and no one kid napped you or anything."

Awe, he cared about me!

"Oh, well listen bud....I have to go."

"Oh...did I say something."

"No, I have to go."

Ry hung up the phone and handed it to me. She gave me the what were you thinking look. I wanted to call him back and say 'Hey! That was my friend I would love to meet up sometime cause you are super fine!'But I knew that wasn't going to be a good idea at all. 

Since it was summer break, I didn't have to go home anytime soon. I loved Ry's house. It was big and nice and her parents really didn't care that I was there. I could move in there, and they wouldn't even care. She did have an older and younger brother though, and I couldn't stand either of them. Her older brother's name was Nicholas. He has chocolate brown eyes, and light brown hair. He was good looking don't get me wrong, but since he was my best friends brother I knew I had to lay off. Her little brother Owen, was the cutest little kid ever. He was 10 years old. He had dark brown hair with blue eyes. He had the biggest crush on me, and that's why I didn't like him.

Riley decided that we should go out again, but definatly not at a club. We decided to go to this really fancy resturaunt. It was called the Lumis. We made reservations, and luckily there was a table left for us. I decided to curl my hair again, and put on a red cocktail dress. I wore white shoes and had a white clutch with me. Ry wore a dress. It was white at the top and black at the bottom. The top was a crumb catcher, and the bottom had pockets to the side. She wore her hair into a side curl, and wore black shoes with a red clutch.

We went in her porshe, and started to drive. Suddenly, my phone rang again. I picked it up this time and it was Derek. "Hello?"

"Hey Jocelyn."

"What's up?"

"Nothing."

"You are calling me because?"

"I just wanted to say hey."

"Oh, you couldn't have just texted me?"

"I guess that would have worked, but I wanted to hear your voice."

"Oh, listen, I have to go, I'm eating dinner."

" Oh, alright bye."

I hung up he phone and stared out the window. Riley didn't bother to talk to me, and I didn't mind. All I could think about was Derek. I didn't know why exactly, but I liked him a lot. He was everything I had ever wanted and more. I had had boyfriends in the past, but I never thought of them the way I thought of Derek. He was so nice, and sweet. He called me twice in one day. Just to see if it was the right number, and to hear my voice. I think that was the most sweetest thing ever. Then again, he is twenty two. I never really liked the older type. Every single guy that I had dated was always the same age or just a little older. I am almost seventeen, and he just turned twenty two. I knew that would never happen in a million years. I wanted it to happen, so badly. Riley would kill me though and I was smarter than that. I thought that maybe if I found someone I truly liked, than maybe I could think about him and snot Derek.

We pulled up to the Lumis. We got out of the car and didn't say a word to each other. It was awkward. I didn't know if we were fighting or what, but I didn't like it. We walked inside, and there was a huge line waiting to get in. Everyone looked so nice and smelled so good. Riley and I cut to the front of the line and everyone was complaining. She then said " Menteer, party of four." Four? There was four of us going to be here? What?

"Jocelyn, I invited a few friends to come and join us, if that's alright."

"No problem."

The waitress led us to our seats, and then Ry explained to them that there was going to be two more male figures coming. She said that they were tall and looked our age. If they say Menteer party of four, let them in. 

We sat there for about 10 or 15 minutes. Then, I see two of the most attractive men I have ever seen. Next to Derek of course, but I pushed those thoughts away. They both sat down. One across from me and the other across from Ry. I was assuming that these were our dates. The one sitting across from me had brown hair, and green eyes. He was wearing a red dress shirt with black pants and a black tie. His hear was spiked in the front, and smooth in the back. He looked fine! The one sitting across from Ry had on a black dress shirt with a white day and white pants. He had light brown hair and honey brown eyes. He looked fine as well. 

"Jocelyn, this is my friend Wyatt." I reached across the table and shook his hand. Then she said in a more this man is going to be yours tone,"This is my other friend Chris."I smiled and shook his hand. I pulled out my phone and had it on my lap. I texted Ry and asked her if she planned on making us all matching. She then replied with of OF COURSE!

We talked and laughed an ate dinner. Ry and Wyatt were in their own Little world, and I figured that he was the new boyfriend. Me and Chris on the other hand talked a lot. And surprisingly we had a lot in common. He liked pickles, I liked pickles, His favorite food was tacos, my favorite food was tacos. His favorite color was purple, my favorite color was purple. He was really nice and sweet. By the end of the night, we walked out of the restaurant holding hands and laughing. It felt good to be with someone so right. 

We exchanged numbers and I told him to  call me. He said he would, and then, I hopped into Riley's porshe. We drove off in silence at first, and then she spoke up. 

"So, what did you think of Chris?"

"Very charming." I said with a laugh

"Good, I see that you two are dating?"

"I guess, I mean we didn't really talk about it."

"Oh."

"What about you and Wyatt?"

"We have been talking. We decided to finally go out on a date, and he said he had a friend that was looking for a girl and then we kind of planned to hook you guys up."

"Oh cool, thanks Ry!"

"Hah...anytime!"

We rode the rest of the way home in silence. We finally reached her house and we both ran inside. I  went into the bathroom to change my clothes. I pulled on old sweats and an old tee. I pulled my hair up into a messy curly bun and took off all of my makeup. I sat down stairs, and waited for Ry to come down stairs. When she did, she popped in Remember Me. We watched it the whole way through and cried like babies. We cried so much, that we cried our selves to sleep.