"Do you want to do homework in my house or yours?" Garret asked Natalie as he pulls into the driveway of his house
"Well I guess your house sense you already pulled into the driveway of your house" She rolls her eyes at him as she gets out of the car
"Hey fine let's go to your house" Garret gave in so it wasn't worth arguing with now
They walk into her house as Natalie's mom yells "Garret! It's been awhile sense you've come over here! Come give me a hug honey!" She walks towards him with her arms wide open, she very much approves of Garret and Natalie being close friends
"Okay mom we have to go do homework, C'mon dude" she gestures to upstairs to her room
"Garret are you ok?" She pokes him with her pencil
"No! I don't get the math homework it's so confusing! How many squares and exponents do you need in one problem, Ugh." He is seriously angry, he groans and throws his body onto the bed and lays on his back. Natalie throws her folder on his stomach to wake him up
"Let's go get some food, late dinner you know?" He picks his head up at the idea of getting anything to eat
"Do we have to go out? We could just stay in and make spaghetti, after that I'm gonna go home after and pass out"
Garret went home so Natalie got to relax and get ready for bed, as she gets undressed for a shower she receives a text from an unknown number
Unknown : Hey Natalie, it's Jack. What're you up to right now?
Natalie Katsburry : Oh hey Jack how'd you get my number? I'm about to go to sleep
Jack Thompson : I asked your friend Lacy and she wrote it down on a
post-it note for me
(What the hell Lacy? Giving my number out to random people?)
Jack Thompson : Getting ready for bed already? It's only 9:30pm
Natalie Katsburry : Yeah me and a friend just did a whole bunch of homework so I'm getting in the shower now
Natalie Katsburry : B.R.B
She turns off her phone and gets into the warm shower, her Spotify playlist plays quietly in the background
Natalie gets out of the shower and dries herself off. She gets dressed in pajamas and lies into bed
She hears her phone Bing!
Jack Thompson : You still awake?
Natalie Katsburry : i am now
Jack Thompson: I have an idea, You wanna play truth or dare?
Natalie Katsburry : I just met you today and I've gone to the same school with you sense 3rd grade, why're you talking to me so much all of a
sudden?
Jack Thompson : That's a very good truth. I don't know all the girls I hang out with just want to have sex or want me to brag. I thought I'd talk to you to see if I could start over, you seem like a nice person anyway
Natalie Katsburry : Ok fine then I'll play along with your game
Jack Thompson : Ok truth or dare
Natalie Katsburry : Truth
Jack Thompson : Are you and Garret going out?
Natalie Katsburry : No he's my best friend, we did homework at my house today for like 3 hours. He's been my best friend sense 4th grade
Jack Thompson : Oh cool, I don't think any of my friends have stuck around for that long
Natalie Katsburry : Truth or dare?
Jack Thompson : Truth, make it spicy
Natalie Katsburry : Who do you like?
Jack Thompson : Wow what a middle school question. I can't tell you Natalie
Natalie Katsburry : Party pooper. It's the name of the game you have to
tell me
Jack Thompson : You said you were getting ready for bed. I think we stop this now, Goodnight?
Natalie Katsburry : Fine Good night
Natalie turned off her phone but she saw that the time is 1am, so she decided to go to sleep now so she's not exhausted for tomorrow
__—Next Day—__
Bing-Bing-Bing Bing-Bing-Bing
Natalie's alarm was going off but she was already awake and up. Dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, she went downstairs and saw Jack our the window in his car. He saw her looking and started honking for her to come outside. When she walked outside he yelled "Hey Natalie you need a ride?" She thought that was weird that he knew her address.
"Uh yeah lemme text Garret real quick"
Natalie Katsburry : Hey this is really weird but Jack Thompson has been texting me and he found out my address. He's offering me a ride to school, should I take it?
Garret Hallsworth : Sounds creepy. I wouldn't take it, wait like 5 minutes I'll be out in a sec
Natalie knew that's what he was gonna say that
"Hey Garret's coming out in a sec and we always drive to school
together, sorry" Jack looked
disappointed
"Can I drive you home at least?" He looks at Natalie with puppy eyes
"Yeah alright I'll find you aft-" Garret comes out side and shouts Natalie's name for them to go. So she rushes to the car and gets in
"Wanna go get food later?" Lacy comes up to Natalie when she's walking to class
"I can't actually, Jack Thompson is driving me home" Lacy's eyebrows stood all the way up. She hadn't seen her do that sense 6th grade
"Hold up, what do you mean Jack is driving you home? You I thought you were kidding last week when you said he was looking at you. Suck his dick" She elbows Natalie raising an eyebrow up at her
"Good god Lacy."
Natalie takes the stuff out of her when someone comes up behind her
"Hey you ready for a ride home?" Jack says in his deep voice and startles Natalie
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Hey psssst. Thank you so much for reading this chapter of Locked in
I've got such big ideas for this story and I can't wait to publish them
-Nåd
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Locked in
RomanceNatalie Katsburry is a quiet girl in high school who fights her problems with her best friend Garret. What happens when she falls into the liking of someone she's never met?
