The Girl Behind The Camera

~4~

I walk into school like any normal day. I walk over to my locker, hood up as all days. And
I feel someone lightly pull my hood down, I look over to my left side and see it was Jake. I roll my eyes.
"Why do you hide your face? It's so pretty!"
Rose was surprised, no one ever called her 'Pretty'
"Because its a habit" I say pulling up my hood and keep grabbing the stuff I need for the day.
I see Jake look around my locker and grab a photo from my locker
"Did you take this?" He says looking at it in pure shock
"Uh... y-yea..." I say in a shaky voice
It was a picture of my husky in a big field laying on his back looking really cute
"That's amazing! Thats true talent right there." Jake smiles, and I look over at him... not scared to show my face to him. Which was weird. And not like me. He sets it back in my locker
"So... you coming over tonight?" He says to me as I shut my locker.
"Probably not..."
"Come on! Please!"
"Fine...." I say giving in, which I normally didn't do "as long as you stop pulling down my hood in school."
"Deal! Here's my address" he hands me a slip of paper with his address and street on it.

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After school I'm just playing around with my dog and hear my phone ring

Jake: Hey!

I roll my eyes and reply

Rose: your seeing me in a few hours... can't you wait?

Jake: No.... 🙂

Rose: in like four hours I'll be at your house.

Jake: that's to longgggggg

Rose: someone's clingy

Jake: HEY! Someone's coming out of there shell!

Rose: gtg go eat, cya in a few hours

Jake: Aw... ok see you then!

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I sneak out of the house at night when my parents are sleeping and get on my bike, I start to pedal over to his house and stop, realizing how big it is. I hide my bike and text him.

Rose: I'm here...

Jake: Perfect! Climb up the rope on the side of my house to get to my room.

I read the text and see the rope. I begin to climb it and as I get closer I see Jake grab my hand, and when I get Close enough then my hip. I lightly hop into his room

"This is nice..." I say looking around
"Thanks, you can sit over there." He says pointing to a blue fluffy chair and I walk over and sit down
Jake looks around not knowing what to do and walks over to Rose, he sees her wearing a hood and pulls it down
"Hey!" I say looking up at him
"You said at school, not at my house. And plus, no one else is in here." He says looking at her.
"Yea..." she smiles and they hear foot steps
"Frick." Jake says and turns off the lights, then turns on his phone light
"We can go hang out in the back of my car, then if my parents come in my room they will just think I'm taking last shift at work" he runs over to his window and goes down the rope, I look down, scared. I have a fear of hights and stay up there in pure fear.
"Hey you ok? Remember I'm down here and I can catch you..." Jake says right next to the rope. I take a deep breath in and slowly start going down the rope, once I got closer to the bottom I feel Jake's hands on my hips as he helps me down. Once I get to the grass we grab my bike and put it in the back of his car and I sit in the back seat as he drives to an empty parking lot. He gets out and goes into the back of the car with me.
"I know it's not the most fun spot, but it's better than getting caught and both of us screwed..." Jake says, smiling at me.
I let out a short laugh
"Yea... this is Better than that" I smile warmly at him.
The next thing I know we are holding hands and laughing with each other.
We stop laughing and I smile at him, he puts his hand on my left cheek, holding my right hand and kisses me. My eyes widen then shut closed, kissing back, I squeeze his hand and keep kissing him.

You know how I said "I'm not the girl who meets a guy one day and then the next night be making out in the back of his car"

I didn't tell you I lie. A lot.