Perfect Harmony

Chapter 10

          I open my eyes to my phone ringing beside me and Isaac’s name flashing through the screen. Oh, hell. I fell asleep. On Luke’s couch. In his basement. With him. He’s sleeping right across me on another couch. His cheeks are so red when he’s asleep. His lashes are perfect too. Nah, Jess. Bad idea. I think I fell asleep cause he was trying some tunes onto my unfinished lyrics. Now it’s almost midnight. Fuck, why didn’t I tell Isaac about going here? Ugh, stupid selfish bitch, Jess.

            I rubbed my eyes and gathered myself up and slid “Answer”. I’m literally shaking. Dammit, I’m such a guilty bitch. “Hey, babe.”

            “Where the hell are you?”, he snarled and it sounds so wrong. He’s so mad.

            “I just slept.”, I managed to answer.

            “Slept where?”, he questioned. “Cause, I’m here outside your apartment and no one’s answering, Jessica!”, he roared. Dang, he is so mad. So so mad. He never calls me Jessica. Not even when he’s upset. I’m in such deep shit. But why is he acting like this? Is he Isaac? Cause he seems like a different person…

            “Hey, look.”, I tried explaining. “I just went to Luke’s to confirm the song thing and—“, I was cut by an angry Isaac.

            “I’m picking you up, Jess.”, his voice toned down a bit. “Wait for me.”

            I don’t get everything. Why he’s so mad. He encouraged me to do this and try things. He knows or I assume he knows I’m trying to live a little. Live more outside our own little bubble. We haven’t talked about this but, I assume he feels me. He always does. No, stupid bitch. He doesn’t know. You never open up to him anymore. How is he supposed to read you, you’re almost emotionless every time. Maybe that’s your problem. Hell, stupid stupid, Jess.

            I’m so scared I’ll ruin everything right now. I don’t know what to feel. I’m so fucked up. And I don’t want Isaac to hurt just because of my worthless drama. I need to talk to him. And he needs to talk to me because I also don’t get why all of a sudden. We need to talk.

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            “Hey, you can stay the night, Jess.”, Luke stood up as I took a step upstairs. He’s awake. And he’s so attractive. Who pulls off a just-got-up look like that? Hell. Yeah, hell. You should be pissed at him for not waking you up. Pretty messed up, Jess, eh?

            “Why didn’t you wake me up?”, I shouted at him.

            “Chill out. You looked tired. And I like watching people sleep.”, he smiled.

            “What? You’re so creepy. I’m getting out of here.”, I blurted.

            “Hey I meant, I like watching beautiful people sleep.”, he corrected himself.

            “Creepier.”, I just said because I will definitely blush if I didn’t defend myself and I shouldn’t feel like that around him or because of him. Isaac’s supposed to be the only one that makes me feel like this. I don’t know anymore.

            “Hey, come on. It’s late.”, he walked to me and stopped infront of me. “Please stay the night.”, he said as he looked right into my eyes and shot my heart.

            I couldn’t let him feel like this so I just looked away and said, “My boyfriend is picking me up. I’ll get my car tomorrow.”