Unexpected

7.

A week has passed since Jessica put her car in the ditch. She hasn't talked to her dad about what happened and how they are going to deal with it. She wants to ask him if he wants to see her mother. She doesn't want to talk about it though because it makes her mad.

She's tried not to think about it at all since that night last week. Jessica has preoccupied herself with school, homework, lunch in Connor's section and lunch with Connor on Friday. Annabelle came over one night and they distracted themselves with their usual, the hot tub and dramatic movies.

Earlier in the week, Connor asked Jessica what she was doing Saturday night. Jessica was planning on staying in her room and reading until she passed out so she was going to lie and say she was busy but she didn't. She told him the truth about her only plans being reading and he called her lame in a joking manner.

Connor said he will pick her up at her house around 5:30 pm to go bowling. There are not a lot of things in this world that Jessica is considerably bad at, but she might as well not even try to bowl because she will put it in the gutter every time anyways.

As Saturday rolled around, Jessica was in a good mood. She had a very nice lunch with Connor the day before and a decent day at school with all the idiots. She had a quiet, relaxing night alone, while her father worked a night shift. She read one of her romance filled books for a few hours before she decided to take a bubble bath. With candles lit, bubbles over flowing and classical music playing in the dim light of her bathroom, it was almost impossible for Jessica to not fall asleep.

Jessica woke up abruptly, while still in the bathtub, because of a bad dream.

She was the age of thirteen once again, having a fun-filled day with her dad on her birthday. Her mother didn't come, for reasons known only to them. Once again, Jessica's mother let her down. Another important thing her mother just had to miss. Jessica isn't surprised, just disappointed. Just like that day. The dream is exactly how she remembers it. Jessica forgot about the let down of a mother she has for the short amount of time she spent with her father at the mall until they walked through their front door. How precise her dream was is most certainly the scariest part. Jessica woke up at the gruesome site within her imagination.

She saw that is was eleven o'clock in the evening, she finished washing herself in the bathtub quickly, wanting to lay in bed to get some rest before her day with Connor tomorrow. She saw she had a missed call from the handsome man she has befriended. As she is laying down in bed, she decides to call Connor back.

"Hello, beautiful. What's going on?" He says immediately after answering her call on the third ring. Jessica's cheeks turn to a bright red shade as she hears the sweet words coming from Connor's luscious lips. Breathing a slight sigh, she's happy he isn't in the room with her to see her flushed face.

"I actually just woke up from a nap- in the bathtub. Weird place to sleep, right?" Jessica giggles as she tells her friend this information.

"Oh, I see. So that's why you were ignoring my call, not because you despise me for my good looks and incredible sense of humor?" She can tell by the tone of his voice that he has a smile on his face as he is talking. She can only wish to see that breath-taking grin of his right now.

"Yeah, I TOTALLY despise you. You're the WORST person I know and you most definitely are NOT attractive." Jessica emphasizes her words, making sure her point gets across that she is being sarcastic.

"Well you should've told me how you felt earlier, instead of me wasting my time on you, ya butthead." He responds with laughter still invading his voice.

"But, in all seriousness, what are you doing right now?" He adds on, before she can respond to his playful insult.

"I just laid down in bed, why?"