✓ | BAD AT LOVE ( jenzie. )

chapter twenty → the burning flame

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chapter dedicated to: @bandkid2001 !!!
you guys might need to prepare your tissues and pitchforks/a knife/chainsaws
if the song ends, just keep playing it until the chapter ends. it might be a bad song choice, but the music video is a bit similar to what will happen, so you SHOULD watch it. plus this song is my jam. ♥︎

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johnny

I dribbled the basketball going towards the hoop, until the other team had stolen the ball. I was playing a bit off today, and it was unfortunate because it was a big game. It was also unfortunate because I am one of the best players in the team, and it was at our court, so if we lost it would be embarrassing.

They got the ball in the hoop. Great, now they're 12 points ahead of us, and there's only 5 minutes left, we can't possibly win that many in 5 minutes.

5 minutes have passed, they won, if anything, we didn't even earn any points due to the taller people always blocking the ball. They won by 15 points, a large gap. It may not seem a lot to many people, but our team is pressured all the time to have a high score, and to our coach, this is a horrible lost. It would only be okay if they were 2 points ahead, but he would still be disappointed.

"Great, now we lost thanks to you, Johnny." Brandon says, sweat falling upon his face.

"It's not only his fault, it's all of your faults. You guys weren't trying enough," Coach says.

"Did you even see—" Mark says, Coach interrupts.

"Yeah I did see it, Mark, but not enough effort." Coach says, fixing his cap.

"Just go home, I need to talk to certain people," Coach says.

"Johnny, stay." Coach says.

"Yeah, Coach?" I ask wiping my sweat with a small white towel.

"What's wrong? You've been playing really weird lately, you okay?" He asks.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I say.

"Okay then, you could go." He says.

I went out the doors of the school, and there was the team all gathered in a circle.

"There he is, the failure!" Brandon says, turning around to see me.

"Look, I didn't—" I say.

"Yes you did! They were 15 points ahead and most of the time the ball was with you. You were being a ball hog, or not even trying!" He spit back.

"Stop blaming it on him," Carson says pushing Brandon.

"He literally kept letting them take the ball, you know we're right." Mark says.

"Oh yeah? You wanna go?" Hayden says, starting a fight.

"Yeah, sure!" Brandon says sarcastically and punches Hayden.

Brandon begins to pull Hayden by his shirt until I punched him in the face, causing a nose bleed. Once Brandon had took notice, he began to punch me.

Carson pushed him away. Mark pushed Carson to a wall and punched him rapidly.

The fight was already beginning to get confusing, it was filled with punches, being pushed, and even being kicked.

"Shoot." I say once I notice I have bruises everywhere, a black eye, and a nose that's about to bleed.

"You won this time, Orlando." Brandon says and goes into his car, speeding away.

"You okay?" Hayden asks, holding his hurting arm.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I say.

"Your sister is calling," Carson says, I get the phone from him.

"Johnny!" Lauren yells through the phone.

"What do you want?" I ask.

"The Zieglers' house is burning in flames, get here as fast as you can," She says, almost crying.

"I'll be there," I say and hop in Carson's car.

"Let's go," I say, not bothering to ask if he can drive Hayden & I there.

We speed away super fast, worried. No one said a word throughout the car ride. In 5 minutes, we were there. Mackenzie's house was in flames. Her parents were out for a business trip and Maddie was at her boyfriend Jack's place.

Sirens were heard, the fire department was bringing out their hoses. They were trying and trying, the flame wouldn't go out.

I grab a fire suit from the fire truck, until a fireman had stop me.

"Sir, don't enter this area," He says.

"My girlfriend is in there," I say, he pushes me back.

"Sir, don't." He says, I ignore him and run into the home.

I run upstairs, and I found Mackenzie's room. She was fast asleep and the fire was already getting to her room.

I wake her up, and she rubs her eyes.

"Let's go, there's a fire," I say pulling her up.

We go back to where I entered, but the fire had already spread through it. I take notice that the window wasn't infected by the fire yet, I look at Mackenzie.

"It's the only way," I say.

I jumped out the window with her between my arms, I was under her, so the ground had affect my body, it hurt. She wasn't hurt whatsoever, which was the only thing that mattered to me that moment.

Suddenly, my vision goes black.

☆ author's note ☆
OOF A CLIFFHANGER, A BAD ONE!
it was so sweet of johnny to save mackenzie just for her safety. i told you this was going to be eventful.
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Who do you think started the fire?
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