Roommates... with my Ex Boyfriend (Roommates Series: Book #1)

Chapter 17

Lauren

My mouth immediately shuts, and my eyes widen when Jace, and I walk upstairs into the living room to see that everyone is there, going through our school's yearbook. I wouldn't care too much about it if it weren't the year where we graduated. Lynn is the first one to notice us, she smirks, looking in between the two of us. "High School Sweethearts, huh?"

I turn a dark pink while Jace glares at his sister. It's as if we're reliving the memory, I was embarrassed when I found out that we were voted High School Sweethearts, but Jace wasn't too happy about it.

"Have you seen Jace?" I ask Jess as we clap for the girl who was voted 'Best Smile'.

She shakes her head, and begins to search the crowd with me. I give up after a few seconds. This is so typical of him, running away from the things he doesn't like --- without me. Jess begins to jump up, and down excitedly when the principal is about to say the winners for High School Sweethearts. She thinks that Jace, and I are the winners, but I don't. Our relationship is far from perfect, sometimes we look like an ordinary couple, but sometimes we look like we're a divorcing couple.

"Lauren Johnson, and Jace Monroe," the principal says with a smile.

My eyes pop out of their sockets, and I become beet red. I quickly look around for Jace, come on, where are you? I freeze when I hear a few people starting to laugh at me. I'll be the laughing stock for the last half of the year, I can see it now it our school's newspaper: Lauren Johnson gets dumped on her high school sweethearts win.

I rush out of the gymnasium, earning more chuckles, and giggles. I push through the front doors, and the sight in front of me makes me incredibly angry. It's Jace, leaning against his car, with his jacket over his shoulder. "Where were you?"

"I was right here, waiting for this stųpid dance to end, so I could drive you home," he states.

I guess he really did leave, he wasn't getting something from his car, or talking with a few of his buddies.

I cross my arms over my chest. "We won High School Sweethearts."

He frowns, and his face hardens. "I know, one of the student council kids told me. That's when I left."

Fury swims within me, and I don't stop myself from slapping him across the cheek. "You knew, and you left? Without me? Do you know how embarrassed I was? People were laughing at me, Jace. I looked pathetic!"

Jace runs through his hair angrily, both of his hands are shaking quite a bit. He looks at me once he's calmed himself down. "Get in the car."

What? "No."

He glares at me. "I'm not saying it a second time."

I shake my head, and in just a matter of seconds, I've be joined with his jacket. He throws me in the backseat, gets in the driver's seat, and drives off.

He took me to a beach. In the day, it's almost as cold as the ocean, it's so much worse at night. He handed me a medium sized bucket, and told me to dump buckets of water onto him until I was no longer angry with him, and ready to listen, then accept, to his apology. He was sick the next day, and I quickly got it because after dumping sixteen buckets of freezing cold water onto him, I forgave him. That was our last argument before I left him.

"That was the worst night of my life, well, until what happened after the beach," Jace states, sending me a wink. My face gets even hotter. I'm not going to last very long around him, am I?