The Bad Boy's Games

Chapter 20

The guy is okay I guess. He's down to earth, and he's not ugly. He's funny but i dont know... he's just not Dad.

Dad was one of a kind. He was that guy who understood me. He was there for me no matter what. He taught me so much. He made me into the girl I am today.

But his service in the army.... he died in war a few years back. No one dares to talk to me about it at school.... they're scared I may start sobbing as I always do at the thought of him. Dang I miss him :'(

I guess I have to learn how to live with Greg, who's Mom's fiance. Frack, it seems so sudden! How the hell will I be able to live with this new change in my life? I'm not ready for this. Oh god. Oh man. Ohhhhhhhhhh sh*ttt.

"Jade..."

My head snapped up to Caroline, who sat next to me in social studies.

"Yeah?" I replied, pushing my thoughts to the side.

"Uhm.. We're supposed to all be working on our projects." She nodded towards Mia and Mike, who stared warily at me. I chuckled nervously. How self-centered am I?! Wow, I need to work on that.

"Ahem.." I looked at Mike & Mia, and then at the papers spread out in front of us on the floor. The rest of the class chattered quite loudly, and I wasn't so fond of all the noise.

Yeah I have bad ears. Just another thing wrong with me but whenever I mention it I just feel like I sound like I'm whining or feeling sorry for myself but I'm not.

"So what do we want to do this on...?"

"Pearl Harbor, stupid" I was startled at Mike's harsh tone and realized he was sulking his butt off. I gave Caroline a look but I couldn't read the expression on her face. Sucks. So I turned to Mia, who broke the silence.

"What she means is, what about Pearl Harbor do we plan to do our project on?"

I nod and Mike gives me a death glare. What the heck did I do?!? Again, there's an awkward silence, which Caroline finally breaks after five minutes.

"How about we just plan things out right now, and then you can all come over to my house on Sunday?"

"Sounds good," I agreed, and so did Mia. Mike nodded. I think he may have been bummed because he was in a group with three girls. Well he should quit being such a baby.

Class ended and Caroline and I, as usual, met up at her locker.

"So I heard you were invited to the party tonight with Mike.." She eyed me, trying to read my expression I guess. I left it blank.

"How the heck did you know that!?"

Caroline sighed and said, "Word gets around, Jade."

I knew that obviously. But this is so annoying. Everyone seems to know everything about me. I felt so exposed.

"Well are you going?" She asked as we headed to the cafeteria.

"Yeah, but only if you come. And I was thinking of telling Mia to join us."

Caroline scoffed and I gave her a dirty look. "What?"

She answered in the most duh-tone, "I highly doubt Mia is going to agree."

I was thinking of snapping back at her but once I thought it over, I realized she had a point. Still, I would at least try to persuade her into coming with us. I really didn't look forward to this party now with Mike acting all harsh and Rachel and Nicole being mean to me with the girls. And Hunter would be there... I don't know what I felt about him. He was intriguing me and ugh, it's terrible because I think he's more of a player than Mike. Before I thought he was just Mike's puppet, but I think it's the opposite way around.