FALLING // Jylan // Brikey

"Not A Charm" Part 1

Chapter 2: "The Coming"
(2 weeks after the party)

It's been two weeks after the party and I was not feeling good. It was unusual because I have never gotten stomach sick before. It was all new to me and it wasn't going around. I was in the middle of English class holding my stomach, I suddenly felt the urge to barf. I got up swiftly and ran out of that class room and into the bathroom throwing up everything I ate for breakfast and some from dinner. Once I was done I washed my face in the sink and went to the nurses office. I asked for a heating packet and went back to class, saying 'I was fine.' But I knew I really wasn't.

The next day...

I threw up again this morning and then on the bus. I told everyone that I was fine because honestly I was feeling fine, I didn't know why I was throwing up. It was like some nasty hangover.
I was sitting on the bleachers with the now lost Jackson Geick... It was breakfast break, we're supposed to be eating not crying over our exes, but oh well. We were comforting one another. I talked to Dylan over the weekend and I knew he was heartbroken and didn't mean what he did with Mikey that horrific night. I believed him. "Jackson, I now you're mad at Dylan-"

"Oh hell yeah I am!" Jacksonian museum interrupted me, raising his hands to add extra effect.

"All I am saying is that you've gotta stop being so hard on him! He was drunk!" I said but Jackson just shook his head putting his hands in his lap and I could just see the glimpse of tears ready to fall down his cheeks.

"What's wrong?" I asked him in concern, but he just wrapped his arms around me and cried into my shoulder. I knew I had to let him cry this one out.

"Shh, shh, it's gonna be okay." I told him, which just made him cry harder and wail out an obnoxious sound. So I just couldn't help myself as I pulled his slim body, making him move onto my lap, and I just sat there with my arms cradling his neck.

"It's not gonna be alright." He said looking up to me slightly as his eyes glistened in the light.

"Why not?" I asked him, what could he have possibly done wrong?

"I-I I cheated on him too." He says and puts his head back into the crook between my neck and shoulder.

"With who? When? Where?" All these scenarios started popping up into my head.

"You're gonna hate me if I tell you." He said and I was so confused as to what he meant.

"Why babe?" I was becoming soft, nothing could possibly make this day any worse, but you know there's always something that's going to break that.

"IcheatedonhimwithBryce." The only word I heard that came out of his mouth was Bryce.

"What? What does Bryce have to do with anything?" My eyebrows furrowed and I slowly felt my heart breaking and tears coming onto my cheeks.

"I cheated on Dylan with Bryce." Tears started bursting out of my eyes as I went to hug Jackson, but I felt something creeping up my neck and I instinctually ran to the bathroom. Jackson following right after me.

I ran into the stall, Jackson holding up my hair as I barfed all of last nights dinner and some lunch into the toilet. I stood up and went to the sink washing the excess off of my mouth.