Venice guy

Chapter 1

As I walk through the door I can hear my mom rushing down the stairs but I'm not in the mood to hear her talk about how all men these days seem to be trash again so I quickly close the door behind me as I pull my jacket closer around me.

it's early October but it already feels like winter to me. I mean I am almost always cold but today it really is colder than it normally is this time of the year.

Hailey's already waiting for me out front so I get in the car as fast as I can. "your mom again?" she asks. All I do is nod a quick yes and off we go.

I've known Hailey since I was around four years old I guess, we live in the same neighborhood and we met twelve years ago when Hailey kicked a ball into our backyard and my dad got pretty pissed at her because she broke some ugly vase.

She cried so I tried to make her laugh, I broke another vase and my dad got pissed at me to.

I guess we've been friends ever since.

I always tell her everything and if it wasn't for her I don't know how I would've survived my mom and her craziness during the divorce.

My dad (William) left two years ago and my mom didn't take it very well so I could always come to Hailey if I just needed to get away.

The past year she's been doing a lot better, she seems pretty happy so that's nice.

The only thing is that she went to some independency course for divorced women and now she can't stop talking about all these theory's about how she doesn't need a man and that men these days are no good and stuff like that. Don't get me wrong though, I totally agree about the fact that my mom is a strong women and that she doesn't need a man. It's just that I think it wouldn't be so bad for her if she found someone again who she really loved, like she loved dad.

I shriek when I suddenly feel two cold hands in my neck, I turn around and as I'm trying to hit Thomas Hailey hits the breaks and I fall over onto the backseat.

"How on earth did you pass your drivers exam?", Thomas asks. I laugh at the sight of Hailey's pissed face as I push the door open and get out of the car.

People always wonder why Thomas hangs out with us. I mean not that Hailey and I are losers or anything but Thomas is the captain of the basketball team and I am pretty sure every single girl in our school has a crush on him.

Hailey and I were in the same class as Thomas when we were twelve and back then Hailey kind of had a crush on him as well.

She convinced me to become friends with him so I could ask him if he liked her. Hailey's plan didn't really work but I did become really good friends with Thomas.

Personally I think Hailey still has a crush on him, even though she won't admit it.

Thomas once told me two years ago that he liked Hailey but well since then he has already got a lot of other girlfriends so I doubt it if he still has a crush on her now.

Thomas has other friends too like the guys on his basketball team and Hailey and I have other friends here in school as well but it's still just us most of the time.

Oh and of course there's Jaimy, my pretty cute boyfriend.

I actually met him at Thomas' sixteen birthday party last year, Jaimy plays basketball too.

He was really cute and I was way too shy to go talk to someone like him. He looks like one of those typical sports guys, tall, blond, muscled, good looking so I figured he would already have a girlfriend.

I was wrong.

As he came to talk to me that night I noticed he was pretty shy himself. He may look like it but he is not one of those typical sports guys at all.

When Thomas is with his team he sometimes acts a little tough like the other guys but Jaimy's nothing like that.

He's really cute though, he always buys me things even when we don't have anything to celebrate.

I sometimes feel guilty because he's so sweet to me. It's not that I don't try but I'm just not that good at all those little surprises and stuff like that.

I tried to organize a surprise dinner for us once but I just ended up burning the lasagne.

I feel to arms around me. Jaimy kisses me in my neck and I smile at him. "How was practice yesterday?"

Hailey and I often go watch the boys practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays because Hailey drives us all home and because they're always playing basketball. Jaimy and I usually hang out after so we get to spend some time together.

I couldn't come yesterday though because I needed to work. I have this new job at The Rose, a restaurant in town and at first I only worked on Mondays and Saturdays but I wanted to work an extra day so now they scheduled me on Thursdays as well.

"it was fine, but can't they let you work some other day. I mean any other day would be fine but Thursday is movie night and I can't go watch all those romantic movies of yours on my one you know. I need you."

I laugh "Well if that's the only reason you don't want me to work on Thursday I guess I'll ask if they can schedule me in on Tuesdays as well." I stick my tongue out and he pokes me in my thigh.

I make some weird high pitch sound I automatically make when someone pokes me in my thigh and Jaimy stars laughing. I turn to face him and I try to look mad at him but I can't help but laugh too as I say
"He, don't you laugh at me like that."

"I wouldn't really call it laughing at you. I mean it's only because I think that weird high sound you make when I poke you is cute you know."

I grin at him.

"Yeah sure, just like how I think it's cute how you take your dirty socks off in my car after basketball practice"

"My socks ain't that dirty and I thought we were talking about you changing your work shift so we can have our movie night again"

I nod a couple times before I say, "Hm right so you can go watch romantic comedies without having to be scared your basketball friends don't think your cool anymore."

Jaimy's eyes widen "Okay, well that's not true because I'd still be cool even if I did enjoy those movies, which I don't, and you know it."

I laugh as I say "yeah sure, I'll ask if they put me on Wednesday then."