Life in the Friend Zone

Chapter 7-Jumping to conclusions

Chapter 7- Jumping to conclusions

I turned and walked away. My friends had been right after all, but I had been too stubborn to listen. I barely knew Alex, and yet I took such a big step-introducing him to my family. Maybe I was that pathetic and desperate after all.

I should have waited at least a few months before even considering introducing him, but stupid me believed in love at first sight-as crazy as it may sound-and here I was paying for my naïve thoughts.

In all honesty, I did truly believe in love at first sight. I believed that some people were exceptional. I believed that there were those rare chances where a one-in-a-million person met “the one” and instantly knew it; and as bizarre as it may sound, I felt that way when I met Alex.

“Leaving so soon?” a voice broke me out of my thoughts. I turned to see a face I had not seen in over a year-well, except in magazines. It was my sister Kylie.

“Kylie?”

She gave me her award winning smile and engulfed me in a hug, “Hey sis”

“It’s been forever. You look amazing.” I smiled warmly. There was a time in our lives when we were inseparable, but all that changed when Kylie did the one thing I had not had the courage to do; she stood up to my father.

“Why are you leaving so soon?” she had a worried look on her face. “Are you alright sis?”

I sighed and put on a fake smile for her, “I’ll tell you everything some other time, but right now I just need to get out of here.”

“I haven’t seen you in over a year! If you’re leaving then I’m definitely going with you. You know I can’t stand being in the same room as him anyway.” The ‘him’ she had been referring to was my father.

I didn’t understand what kind of man would have children and yet have no emotional attachment to them at all. He really did not give a damn about anyone but his wife- and Jason of course. It was weird how he loved Jason more than both his daughters combined; and Jason was only his nephew.

Kylie and I were walking to my car when I heard Alex calling out my name. Kylie and I both turned around and saw Alex jogging towards us.

“My, my, my, who’s the hunk?” her eyes grazed over Alex appreciatively.

“Later.” was my reply. The one thing I loved about my sister was that she knew when to drop a subject.

Alex came to a stop a few feet away from us. “You really need to stop jumping to conclusions.” He looked at me pointedly.

Unfortunately I had inherited my father’s stubbornness, “Oh please, don’t act like you did not lie to me. You’re always smiling at your phone and you never answer a phone call in front of me. I was stupid to have not seen it sooner, but I know now, so cut the act Alex. I know for a fact now, that you are-“