The Bad Boy (Jack Gilinsky)

Chapter Four

I went into school the next day, keeping in mind what Lexi had said. I think I let my guard down to much last night but that was going to stop today. I walked into school and everyone was staring weirdly at me. I tried to ignore it but I wondering what was going on. I went to my locker to get out my books when Maggie ran up. "Is it true?" She squealed with a huge smile on her face. "Is what true?" I said confused. "Everyone’s saying that Jack is going around saying that you and him had sex last night" She told me. My face dropped "What!" I yelled. I was furious, I was going to kill him.

I stormed my way down the hall looking for him, I was going to murder him. I spotted him talking to a group of guys in a circled by the lockers. I ran up shoving him forcefully against the locker."What the fuck is your problem!" I screamed at him. He chuckled to himself rubbing his arm."Calm down Sparky it was just a joke" He said. "Stop calling me that, that isn’t my name"I said shoving him again but a little lighter this time.

"Don’t act like you don’t wish it was true" He said smirking. I rolled my eyes "You’re such an asshole" I said before storming off. I tried my best to convince everyone that Jack was lying and most people seemed to believe it, but I was still so angry at Jack. Later that day, I walked into Science and to my luck it was the class that we spent discussing our project.

I sat down ignoring him completely. "Are you just not going to talk to me now?" he said halfway between the class. I let out a sigh still ignoring him. "Look it was just a joke and beside no ones ever going to believe that you would do that" He said turning his head to me."What does that mean?" I said confused about what he meant. "It means everyone knows you’re too smart to fall for me like other girls do" He said smiling a genuine smile at me which he had never done before.

I was slightly taken aback by it, I didn’t know how to react so i just smiled back. For once we actually spent our Science class talking about Science, we didn’t stray off topic like we usually do. “Come to mine later and we’ll do the project” Jack said to me. I nodded as I began walking away. “Look Sparky I am really sorry for what i did it was way out of line” He said. For once i actually smiled when he called me my nickname, it kind of felt natural now. “It’s fine” I said smiling before walking out.

Jack and I spent most of that night doing our ‘project’ which was really just us going off topic as usual. We were actually starting to get along really well. He was actually a pretty nice guy when he wants to be. I yawned loudly looking at the time. “It’s 1am I should get going” I said standing up. "Just stay here?" Jack suggested. "I thought you said I was too smart to fall for your tricks?" I said smirking. "You are, that’s why I want you to stay" He said half smiling at me. I thought about it for a minute, it was really late and by the time I would get home it would probably be 2am so I decided one night wouldn’t hurt.

I sighed loudly “Okay just this once” I demanded. “Just this once” He said chuckling to himself. I laughed too slightly. “You can sleep in this if you want” Jack said throwing me a pair of sweatpants and a shirt. "Thanks’ I said walking into the bathroom to change. When I walked back in, Jack was lying on the bed with his shirt off. I couldn’t help but stare but had to stop when I saw a grin come across his face. I coughed awkwardly getting in on the other side of the bed.

"Night" I said lying down to face the opposite direction. "Night" He said back lying down to. we were both at opposite sides of the bed not touching. Jack suddenly crawled over to me, wrapped his arms around my tightly. I should have pushed him away but I didn’t. Jack said I was too smart to fall for him like others girl did but I was starting to think maybe I’m not as smart as I think I am.

It had been a few weeks since I stayed in Jack’s. Everything had changed since that night. Jack and I grew really close, we began spending time together outside of our project. I could feel myself really falling for Jack, It was the way his whole bad boy persona completely changed whenever he was around me. I had also noticed that he had almost completely stopped sleeping around, of course I couldn’t be 100% sure but I had a feeling he had stopped for some reason.

We spend almost all of our spare time together and sometimes I thought he was going to make a move but before he did he would always stop himself or look away awkwardly. Although I was starting to get feelings for Jack, Lexi’s voice was always in the back of my mind telling me no.

It was a little under a week until we had to present our project but we had already finished. I was on my way to Jack’s house to hang out. I hadn’t told him I was coming over but we always did this so it doesn’t really matter. I walked into his house not knocking on the door. His parents were always at work anyways. "Jack?" I called out and there was no answer.

I made my way up the stairs knowing he was most likely in his room. "Jack?" I said as I opened up the door. I stopped right in my tracks, my heart completely dropped, there he was on top of another girl. "Oh shit sorry" I said quickly closing the door. I could hear Jack rummaging around in the room. I began walking away down the stairs, trying to get away from the house as quick as possible. "Hey wait" Jack yelled after me only in his boxers.

I turned around giving him a disgusted look. “Hey what are you doing here” He said awkwardly. “I came over to chill with you but clearly you’ve found someone else to hang out with” I said in an angry tone. "I didn’t mean for you to see that" He said running his fingers through his hair. “Clearly..” I said raising an eyebrow at him. "Why are you so mad?"he asked with a confused expression. “I’m not mad why would I care it’s none of my business?” I said glaring at him. "You obviously are or else why you wouldn’t be acting like this" He said moving closer to me.

"Did you think there was something going on between us or something?" He said muttering. "No" I lied looking down at my feet trying to hold back the light tears the flowed down my face. "Why are you crying?" He asked me. "Because you make me so angry!" I yelled."You know I’m not the relationship kind of guy and you deserve someone who’s going to give you everything and I’m just not that guy, you deserve better" he said. I laughed to myself as the tears flowed down my face. "That is such bullshit! and you know it, you’re just too scared to actually commit to something for more than 5 minutes because you know you’re going to fuck everything up!" I said raising my voice slightly. “It’s not! I have too much respect for you to treat you like I do those other girls, that girl in there, do you think i have any respect for her? No.” He said raising his voice too.

"If you really had respect for me you wouldn’t be in there with that girl in the first place" I said shaking my head.He stayed silent for a minute. ”I don’t know what to say..” he began but I cut him off. "Then don’t say anything, I’ll see you around" I said shooing him away as I began to walk away. “Sparky I’m sorry” He said with pain in his eyes. "It’s Kendall from now on and we have to present our project on Monday don’t forget" I said walking out of the house.

He didn’t follow me so I knew he didn’t care enough. I can’t believe I thought he had actually changed, people like him don’t change and I was just going to have to except that. He was always going to be Jack the boy I hated but now he was so much more, he was Jack the first and only guy who broke my heart.