His house was pretty homie. You walk in and see a big living room with 2 couches and 1 big blue bean bag and fluffy white carpet in the middle of the room and a tv at the end. Then you walk to the kitchen and there is an island in the middle and a counter with an oven and a bunch of cupboards at the top. But that's just the bottom. ((A/N: it's not letting me add pictures so you can just imagine it as your house or however you want.)
"Okay, do you kids want a snack before you get to work? I have yogurt, raisins, cheese strings...."
"I think we're okay mum....." he said through his closed teeth.
"Well, what about Alice? She smiles and then looked at me
"Oh um I'm fine, but thank you for offering." I say
"Wow, you're so polite, hopefully you can rub off on Jason a bit." She pinches his cheeks
He quickly removes her hands and starts to blush, I try and hide my face because I'm on the verge on laughing. Phew ok I'm good.
"Okay well, Alice and I are gonna go work on the project now... so bye." He looked at me, giving me a signal with his eyes that he really wants to leave.
"Oh yeah, let's go, but thank you for the offer." I smiles and grabbed my bag and followed Jason upstairs.
"Soooooo, this is my room." He said and opened the door.
Surprisingly it was quite neat, except for the bed not being made. He had a guitar next to his bedside table. He had a bookshelf and a closet with a mirror on it. It had a desk at the back of the room with a computer and a gamer chair with windows above it. And next to it 2 amplifiers with a bunch of wires connected to the walls. It had a few band posters on the walls. And the walls were painted with perfect white paint.
"Wow, this is such a nice room!" I walked in with my bag still in my hand, not wanting to put it down somewhere I'm not supposed to because the last thing I need is to break something in Jason's room. Oh boy how mad would he be. Oh that would NOT be pretty. He's known to have anger issues. Like once he chased this boy called Matthew round the school just for breaking his loosing his pencil , and it wasn't the playful, laughing type of thing, oh no no no, his face red like Saten. And I swear that kid missed school for like 2 days, of course the school said he was sick, but I'm pretty sure he had a black eye. And Jason didn't come to school for a week, probably because he was suspended.
"So, you play electric guitar?" I asked
"Yeah.... not that much though." I nodded
There were a few seconds of silence until he finally spoke
"So, you wanna get started on the project or...." he asked
"Yeah sure."
We went to sit at his desk and he pulled up a spare stool for me to sit on.
"Okay," I said while I put my bag next to me "I brought my iPad so we could do some research and my A3 pad of paper for notes and maybe to draw a mind map on the success on the Empire Of Mālī....." I looked up at him to see him looking straight at me, and just then we locked eyes. His eyes were so beautiful....... NO NO NO! ALICE, you are here to work. You do NOT like Jason! So, after about 5-15 seconds I mustered up the courage to look away.
"Yeah..... so wh-what do you wanna work in first...." I quietly said, looking at my iPad.
"Oh yeah well ummm we could just search the trade? Maybe......" he said
"O-okay, you can use my iPad and research and I'll draw the diagram."
"Cool." He smiled
The rest of the hour and a half was pretty smooth sailing. I'm actually surprised on how much work we got done. I mean, there were little awkward moments here and there when we didn't really know what to say. But then we just got back to work or said I need to go to the bathroom. So I had gone to the bathroom 5 times 😂😂😂. Good going me. But, I wasn't the only one, Jason sometimes asked me if he could borrow a pencil, so he ended up with like 3 of my pencils, but I just pretended not to notice. It was funny really. It's so weird, seeing this side of Jason. Like this side that isn't bullying me or acting all popular and tough and all that. I really do like this side. It makes me wonder if maybe this is how he acts round his friends, maybe that's why they like him so much. I wonder if he will ever act that way around me?
"KIDS!!! COME DOWN, I MADE DINNER!!" We hear Jason's mum shout from downstairs.
"COMING MUM!!!" Jason's shouts back
"Ow!" I exclaim
"Oh I'm sorry!" He says quickly
"Oh no no it's ok." I reply. I really didn't want to get into one of those awkward moments again so I quickly say after "Well we should probably get going...."
"Oh yeah yeah let's go."
So we both go downstairs, since I'm behind Jason, I'm sorta fixing my hair just to make like a good impression I guess? Okay, okay here we go
"Wow, this food looks amazing, thanks for letting me stay for dinner." I say as she puts the pasta on the table.
"Why thank you sweetie." She smiled at me and I smile back
She then puts some on my plate. Just then like a mini version of Jason comes running up to the table.
"Who dis mummy!" He exclaims while jumping onto his chair and pointing at me. Wow he's adorable, figures he's related to Jason. Wait what!? No!
"Honey it's not polite to point, and this is Alice, she's coming over because her and Jason have a project together."
"Well, she is very pwitty! I bet Jasey is gonna kiss herrrrr!" He giggled. I started to blush super hard and looked down at my food, trying to hide my burning red cheeks. I discreetly try and look at Jason to see what his reaction is. He's just glaring at his little brother.
"Max! That is not how we speak to people!" His mother said. But I could tell she was trying to keep a straight face.
The rest of dinner I really just kept quiet. His mum did ask me about my interests and stuff like that, but most of time time I just ate. No joke that was the most amazing pasta I have ever had! Max was talking about his day. You know year 1 stuff, who put their mouth on the drinking fountain, a boy touched a girl and now had cooties. Ahhhh, brings back memories.
"Thank you so much for dinner, it was delicious." I smiled
"Why thank you sweetie!" She smiled
I stood up and took my plate to the sink
"Oh please sweetie, you're our guest, you don't need to wash up." She said while getting up from her chair.
"Oh, okay" I shrugged.
"If you kids wanna get a few more things done on your project, you best do it now, Alice's mum is coming in about fifteen minutes." Said his mum
"I think we will leave it for now, I'll just help Alice get her stuff together."
"Alrighty! I'll call you when her mum is here." She shouted as we went up the stairs.
"Thank you!" I shouted back
In Jason's room
"Your mum is like so nice!" I said as I was packing up my bag, trying to start a conversation
"Yeah to you, she's always so embarrassing with me...."
"Well, that's just probably just because I guess we grow up fast, and just wants to savour the moments she has with you." I suggest
"Wow, that was deep." He said while putting his hand on his heart. I giggled at his comment
"I guess my mums really starting to rub off on me... OH NO!" I dramatically put my hand over my heart "I CAN'T TURN INTO MY MUM!!! AHHHHH!" I fell into the floor. We both started to laugh so hard and eventually he fell into the floor, but on top of me accidentally by tripping over my foot. He both just laid there for a moment.
"Hi." He says, still on top of me
"Hey......." I reply, not breaking eye contact with him
"You're kinda starting to hurt me so......" I say
"Oh yeah right ummm sorry about that..." he gets off of me and I stand up and dust myself off. Thankfully I heard Jason's mum shout
"ALICE! YOUR MUMS HERE!!" Thank god!!! I quickly grabbed my bag and walked to the door. I turned around
"You see tomorrow." I give a small smile
"Cya." He waves
"Hi mum!" I say running down the stairs
"Hello honey! How was your day?" She asked as she embraced me into a hug
"Good." I replied "thank you so much for having me!"
"It's a pleasure, come back any time!" She smiles. I smile back.
"Well, we better get going, thanks again." Said my mum
"Jason! Are you coming downstairs to say goodbye?!"
"Oh it's okay, he said goodbye when we were upstairs."
"Well, okay, bye!" She says as we walk out the door. I turn round and quickly wave before I get into my mums car,
"Well, how was it? Is Jason a nice boy? Did you get a lot of work done?"
"Yeah Jason's nice and yeah we did get quite a bit of work done. And his mum has the best pasta ever! No offence."
"Well, as long as you had a good time."
The rest of the ride was really just my mum talking about her day and about her applying for a promotion. Adult stuff you know.
As soon as we get home, I ran upstairs, got into my Why Don't We T-shirt and Calvin Clein bottoms. Well, I would say this was a pretty good day. I got to see whole new side of Jason, but how am I supposed to know he will act this with other people around. Or if this was just an act for his mum. Ugh, I'm just gonna forget about it.
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Does he love me?
Teen FictionA girl called Alice has a huge crush on Jason. He keeps giving mixed signals. He acts nice when they are on their own, but when they are in school, apparently his 'reputation' is more important. And one day Alices secret is exposed. Will she find ou...
