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Chapter 15: "Outgrown his Joker phase."

Sorry for not writing for a while! School was busy, and then I had my birthday but it's the holidays so I should be able to update if you guys keep reading! I'd love to know who's made it all the way through, so vote or comment or something if you have! Okay... Now on with the chapter!

Jacey Summers

Last time... (A/N This feels like an ABC show or something :))

I shook my head to rid myself of those depressing thoughts and picked up the note.

Dear Jacey,

I know I've been an asshole to you...

This time...

I can't apologise enough for that, because I do care about you, despite what you may think. We were friends for a while, close friends, and I can't help but miss that. I want to explain more to you in person, please meet me at the diner in town, 6:30pm.

Cameron

That was unexpected, I couldn't help but think to myself, I also found myself wishing for a certain someone to wish me happy birthday, I'd even take a post on my Facebook over the silence. Yet again, I knew it was my decision.

I also wondered what Cameron could say. We were best friends from the age of 8 to my 13th birthday, when things turned ugly. He was the lanky, geeky guy in class, he had braces and spots, then he went away to camp and BAM! Greek god in the making, ladies and gentlemen. Not that I would have ever told him that, then or now the way things are between us. Eventually he just ditched me for the cooler kids, and I never understood why he couldn't still be friends with me at all, maybe I'd get my answers today. Then again, this could be a vicious, high school prank, that sounds more plausible.

Oh well, only way to find out is by going. Wow, that sounded way more confident than I was feeling, way way more. Like I was scared I would get murdered or something, but I was going anyway, have I mentioned I'm supposed to be smart? That's what people tell me anyway, but I'm really not sure they're in their right mind.

I realised the time, and pulled on a jacket and converse before heading out the door and putting in my headphones and turning up the music for the short walk into town. I've said for a while now, that 5sos is all you need for a journey, and I stand by it. Except maybe, food and drink, but still! 5sos is more important.

I eventually found myself in front of the diner, psyching myself up for either a deep conversation, or an embarrassing prank, either way, I wasn't particularly looking forward to this.

Deep breath, and go.

I entered the diner, and it wasn't the busy place it was during lunches at school, it was quiet, I could see Cameron, sat looking at a menu in a booth in the corner, alone, so I slowly released a breath and walked towards him. He looked up and smiled, it was a smile I hadn't seen since I was 13, it was less malicious than I remembered, he must've outgrown his Joker phase.

I sat opposite him, and raised an eyebrow questioningly. He lowered the menu and sighed.

"This may have been slightly out of the blue." Both of my eyebrows shot up. "Okay, very out of the blue, but I swear there is a point to this." I motioned for him to continue, choosing silence over shouting, for once.

"When I was at camp, I became friends with this girl called Bre, and by friends, I mean I wanted her to be my little girlfriend, because let's face it, even I wasn't banging girls at that age." He paused to laugh at his own virginity or something stupid, while I stared at him blankly, when he realised I didn't find it funny, he cleared his throat and continued. "Anyways, she wasn't such a good influence, I guess you could say, but I was in way over my head before I knew it, she told me no girl would want a skinny, spotty guy, so I bulked up and ditched the zits, hey that rhymed, and then I got back and she was there too, which was crazy to me at the time, but thinking about it, I'd seen her around before...-"

"Get to the point!" I finally interrupted, my patience wearing thin. Some kind of light bulb flashed in his head, and he realised he was rambling. "Oh, so um yeah, basically she said I shouldn't be friends with a loser like you." I should have been offended, if I wasn't a self-confessed loser anyway. "So, I'm sorry. For everything I did to you over the years." He told me. "So why're you telling me this now?" I asked the obvious question. He shrugged. "It's your birthday." If that was his explanation, then I would accept it, so I nodded my head, and got up and started heading towards the door. "Jacey!" Cameron called as he got up from the booth. "I'm just going to try this, please don't slap me, or kick me in the balls or anything." He grabbed my face and did the unthinkable, he kissed me. Wait, what the shit?

I pulled back first and touched my lips. "Feel anything?" He asked and I shook my head. "Same, guess we can be friends now." And with that he walked out of the diner. Everything just escalates quickly in my life, I swear!

God, I'm confused right now.

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So ya I haven't updated in a while and this is short and might not be what some of you were expecting, and I didn't want it to be, I also didn't want Jacey and Zack to just be all happy days all of a sudden, so ya.

And I'm sorry this is so short.

Has anyone heard the 5sos album? It's absolutely amazing, I'm so proud of them.

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And until next time,

Bye!

~Steph~