I hate him, I love him//Jacob Sartorius

Forty-One

*Skip to Saturday*

Emily's POV 

I wake up in the morning dreading the double date that was later on in the day. I look at my alarm clock. Flashing in red it read 11:07. There was no school today since it was Saturday. 

I look at my phone and see a message from a number who I think is James.

J- Hey, just wanted to make sure we were on for today. 

E- Yup! I'll see you at 4.

I reply to the text and get outta bed. I look into Adam's(her brother in case you forgot cuz he's irrelevant) room. He, of course, wasn't there. I go downstairs and make myself some pancakes. By the time I finished it was already 12. I washed the dishes and went back upstairs to shower. 

I shower and look through my closet for something nice to wear. I end up with skinny jeans, a cute cropped white halter top, and a long beige cardigan. I put my hair up in a messy bun that somehow looked right with the outfit. I then put on some light makeup when I get a text. 

J- I'm like a minute away ok?

I look at the time. Its almost 10 till 4. 

E- Ok, just waiting.

I quickly put on white Converse and grab a small cross body purse and sit on my couch, waiting for what seems like hours. I finally hear a beep outside.

"Hey," I say sliding into the passengers seat of the car. 

"Hey," he replies. "Well, you look nice," 

"This, it's nothing, just something I found in my closest." I say, I could feel myself blushing.

"Just take the compliment," he said smiling. I laugh and thanked him for the compliment. We spent the rest of the time getting to know more about each other more until we got to the cafe.

As we started to get out of the car I was feeling more and more anxious about going in. I walk in with James and see Jacob sitting at a table with a pretty blonde. 

"So that one is Jacob and that one is Ella," I whisper to James as we walk to the table.

"Hi!" I exclaim plastering a fake smile on my face as we near the table. 

"Hi!" Jacob said getting up and hugging me. I hug him back and go up to Ella. 

"Hi, I'm Emily!" I tell her giving her my hand to shake.

"Hi, I'm Ella, Jacob has told me so much about you!" she exclaimed. 

"Well I'm sure he has," I blurt out. I look and see James being socially awkward. "I'm so rude, guys this is James," 

"Hi, you must be Emily's new man," Jacob says with a small hint of jealousy in his voice. But he's over me, right?

 "No we're not dating yet," James said, cutting me off from my thought. We sat down and started talking.

"So how did you two meet?" Ella asked me and James.

"Well we were in gym and our coach was doing that annoying thing where each gender group had to pick between certain numbers and your partner was whoever had that number from the other group." James started to say.

"Me and James both picked 7 so we were partners and well now we're sitting here on a double date," I finish. 

"So how did you and Ella meet?" James asked them.

"Well, I was just scrolling through Instagram when someone Dmed me. I checked it and it was Ella. We just started talking and getting to know each other and well now here we are." Jacob said cupping their hands together. I get the feeling of thousands of bricks crushing my heart again.

"So, Jacob tells me you and him used to date, how'd you guys meet?" Ella asks us.

"Well, it's kind of a long story, you want the beginning or the whole thing?" I ask. 

"It's not that long Emily, and it's just the beginning that led us where we are now." he says.

"Ok then let's tell them the how we met." 

"So it was Emily's first day at a new school in a new town. She was going to throw away her lunch when I accidentally tripped her. I was apologizing and helping her up when I knew that I wanted to date this girl." he says.

I furrowed my eyebrows. That hit and run probably gave him some kind of brain damage to that part in time.

"Right Emily?" he says. He gives me a look of 'please just say yes.'

"Yea, it was nice. He helped me up and got me a change of clothes. We were together for a little while but quickly realized that we should be nothing more than friends." I say, lying of course. 

We spent the rest of the time making up partly fake stories about our relationship over time. 

"Well, it was really nice meeting you," I say to Ella as we were leaving.

"It was nice meeting you too! We should do this more often," she says. 

"Yeah, that sounds nice. Just give us the dates and will be there," I gave a small fake laugh and looked at Jacob. 

"It was nice seeing you," he says.

"It was nice seeing you too Jacob," I reply.

"Well, this was fun, hopefully we could do it again soon but sadly we have to go," James said, grabbing my hand. 

"Bye," said Jacob and Ella as we left the cafe.

"Well that was really fun James," I say as we get into the car. 

"That was, thanks for asking me," he said laughing remembering to the day before when I attempted to ask him out. 

"Thanks for clarifying what I was doing while I was asking you out," I say, laughing. He drops me off at home and I go in. I check my phone to see a lot of notifications from Bella and Sou.

E- If you wanna know what happened be at my house in 10 minutes 

I waited 10 minutes and surely enough, they were both here. I told them all what happened at the cafe.

"I would've called him out, just saying," Sou said after I finished.

"I know right, he tripped you purposely and I was the one who got you up. Or was it Lana? I can't remember." Bella added.

"I don't know, I couldn't call him out. It was just all awkward and would've been even more awkward if I said something like no you bullied me, we dated, you cheated on me, I got back together with you again, again you cheated on me, I didn't forgive you, somehow you got hit by a car, and now were here," I say.

"Ask him," Bella suggested.

"What?"

"Ask him why he made up everything," 

"I mean she's not wrong, you'll still be calling him out, but privately," Sou added. 

"I can't, it'd just be weird."

"Ok, then I'll do it," Sou told me.

"That'd be even weirder because that would mean I told you guys about the whole thing," 

"Ok, then you do it,"

"Fine, I'll go to his house tomorrow and ask if it makes you guys happy," they roll their eyes and we spend the time talking about school. 

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I republished Backstage(the Justin Bieber fanfic I wrote) 

I barely edited it so it's really cringey 

Also I used Sou's name cuz I'm not creative and the book was about her soooooooooo