Love, Boys, and Jealousy: A Typical Romance

Chapter 18

When Friday morning rolled around, Erica woke up to see a text from Blake. She was afraid to read it, but did it anyway. After reading it, she felt her eyes start to tear. Sh forced herself to get ready for school so she could just be in Josh's arms.She practically ran out the door to Isabella who was sitting outside. Isabella knew something was wrong the moment she saw Erica.

"What's wrong?" she asked. Erica just ran up and hugged her. "What happened?" Isabella saw Josh walking. "Do you want to go see Josh?" Erica nodded. "Okay he's right over there." she shouted his name and  he stopped walking. Erica ran to him and wrapped her arms around him.

"Babe, what happened?" he hugged her back. A tear slid down her cheek and she just held him tighter. He plled his chest away but still had his arms around her. "We promised eachother no more secrets. so tell me." Erica lifted her head and he wiped away her tears.

Erica fought throught the tears to tell him what's wrong. "I-I killed him." she studdered.

"Who?"

"Blake."

"No you didn't. What happened?"

"Last night after we ended our videochat and I went to bed, Blake texted me..." Another tear ran dwn her cheeck and Josh wiped it away.

"What did it say?"

"Goodbye..."

"He texted you goodbye?"

"YEs. H killed himself because of me. Because I broke his heart!"

"No you didn't Your not responible for his actions. Don't worry. Please don't cry. I hate to see you cry. When you cry, I hurt inside." He wiped away another tear. I love you." he kissed her.

"I love you too." she nestled her head into his warm chest. Josh gently kissed the top of her head.

"Do you want to go talk to guidence? I'll go in with you." she nodded. "Okay let's go then." Isabella, Josh and Erica walked to school and they both took her guidence to stay with her.

After about an hour of sitting in guidence, Erica, Josh and Isabella made their way to third period. When Erica and Josh walked in late to english, they saw that Mr. Simon had finishd the lesson and gave them the rest of the period to talk. Heads turned to see them. Erica's eyes were still red and watery. Darren and Kyle saw and came over.

"What's wrong?" asked Kyle

"Nothing." Erica answered.

"Are you better?" Josh looked into her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm getting there."

"Getting there?" Darren and Kyle were confused.

"I'm fine. Don't worrry." Erica sat down.

"Dude, what happened?" Kyle was concerned.

"Nothing."

"Was it Michael?"

"Forget it."

"Tell us." Darren pressed. 

"I said drop it!" Josh shouted. All eyes turned to him but he didn't care, he just kept yelling. "It's none of your business. Enough!"

"Josh. Josh!" Erica stood up and grabbed him. "Calm down. I'm alright. Don't freak out. It's okay."

"Seriously. What's wrong Josh?" asked Kyle.

"Nothing. Don't worry. Sorry I snapped at you Darren."

"It's okay. It must be something serious. I've never seen you like this."