Just Another Love Story

Chappie 18

Chapter 18: The Princess

*Belle*

The first week of living with Justin, was not easy.
For one thing, I do not lie when I say his parents are never home.
They do come home, but not until 11 at night or 1 in the morning. And then they are up until 3 am doing work then by 5 am they are gone.
Justin never sees them, I have yet to actually meet them.
Also, Justin at home, is shirtless almost all the time. And sue me for saying this but dear lord that boy is hot. And no matter how long I'll be living with him, I will never get over seeing his abs when he opens his bedroom door.
And lastly, me and my constant nightmares. I have screamed out in the middle of the night more than enough times to know that Justin is getting impatient with me. Every time he comes to wake me up from my dream of death, he sits on my bed and waits for me to tell him why. And I tell him soon.
Its Saturday morning and we're eating coco puffs and watching Looney Toons. I have never eaten anywhere other than the kitchen and here I am in the living room. It took an hour's convincing to get me here.
"Are you enjoying your stay?" Justin asks me with a mouth full of cereal.
"Oh yeah definitely. If it weren't for you, I would be in a foster house 80 miles away." I sighed.
"Well you're here now and that's what matters." He smiled at me.
I really am enjoying my stay with Justin. He has been very kind and helpful. Minus the occasional crankiness from lack of sleep.
"So what do you want to do?" He asked me.
"Well I have some work-"
"No no no no. Work is for Sunday. Saturday is for fun." He cuts me off and shakes his head.
I laugh, "then what should we do?" I ask him.
"Hm, relax for now, because at 2:00 we're going out." He runs up stairs mischievously.
I laugh and shake my head. I text Tabby about my upcoming adventure, and then I hear the doorbell. I get up to answer it. Assuming it is one of Justin's friends, I just open the door.
And low and behold, Jessica Ferosi stands in front of me.
I really need to stop assuming.
"Oh hell to the motherfucking no." She snapped.
"What in the hell are you doing here?" She glared at me.
I was very much tempted to slam the door in her face, but that wouldn't nice.
"Jessica-"
"Where's Justin?" She cut me off and pushes past me as she enters the house.
"Jessica, dearest, you weren't invited in." I inform her.
"Oh pulease. This is not your house so I don't really think you get to tell me what to do." She folds her arms across her chest.
I wanted so bad to just yell GET OUT OF MY HOUSE because it is mine. But I just don't think that Jessica needs to know.
"Fine. Justin!," I call, "you have a visitor!" I take a seat on the sofa.
Justin comes down stairs with a smile on his face, but when he sees Jessica, its gone before you know it.
"Jessica. What are you doing here?" He asks.
"I came to see you baby bear." She taps his chest.
"Okay, how about you meet me by our spot and I'll come to you." He winks.
Giddily, she skips out the house, leaving the door open behind her. Justin closes the door and looks at me.
"Why did you let her in?" He asks me.
"I honestly thought it was Luke or something." I answered.
He shrugs, "well that's over."
"Aren't you going to meet her?" I raise an eyebrow.
"Hell no. She and I have been done for months now. I made that shit very clear. But she doesn't get it." He sits next to me.
I remember at the beginning of the school year, when they were together. I wonder what happened.
"What happened?" I questioned.
"With us? I caught her kissing Brandon Andrews." He shrugged. "So I told her it was over between us."
I turned my body to face him and sat with my legs folded.
"So why are you telling her you'll meet her here and there? Just tell her back off." I was surprised with myself. Normally I would never say anything like that. Tabby is having an effect on me.
"You're right. Truth is, I like messing with her. It sounds awful I know, but its pay back for what she did to me." He looks at his feet.
I nudged him, "let's go out now." I say.
His face brightens, "okay, yeah. Let's go."
We load the car with beach towels and sunscreen and food and all the things you need for a day at the beach.
We went to Way Side Beach. When we got there Damien, Kyle, and Luke were already there.
"Oh my god hey guys!" I yell.
Justin turns around, "oh brother, what's up guys!" He calls.
They walk up to us and start conversation. I call Tabby and tell her to pack a bag and come down here.
About 25 minutes later Tabby pulls up honking her horn.
We all wave to her as she gets out her car.
The rest of the day included: throwing me into the water, multiple times, Kyle flirting with Tabby, Justin eating all the potato salad, and Damien yelling at him for it. Also Luke got sunburnt.
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As I got ready for bed I thought about when Luke got sunburnt and Damien slapped his arm. It was so funny. I laughed and choked on my toothbrush.
I jumped into bed and there was a knock on my door.
"Come in." I called.
Justin poked his head in and it reminded me of my mom. I got a little sad but it also made me feel warm inside.
"Hey." He said softly.
"Hey." I replied.
"I came to tell you a story." He said.
"A story? For me?" I asked.
"Yeah." He walked into the room and sat on my bed.
"Once upon a time, there was a princess. And she was loved by all the creatures in the land and all the people. One day a terrible dragon came to terrorize the kingdom! The princess didn't know what to do. She turned her favorite man servant to seek advice. She said: noble man servant, help me in this time of desperation. The man servant said: if the opposite of day is night and the opposite of cold is warm, then what would be the opposite of hate? He left her without a word more. The princess knew exactly what to do. She went to the highest room in the castle and called to the dragon. She kissed the dragon on the nose and it turned into a small lizard. The kingdom was saved. The end." He concluded.
A tear fell from my eye and dropped on my hand. I gasped, I didn't realize I had been crying.
"Justin.."
"Shh. Sleep tight Belle." He wiped my tears and tucked me in and left my room.

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