Trust In Forever (Book 12 in the Forever Series)

Chapter 15

Mercy

Friday nights were the one night of the week that Logan & I hung out at my house. Once in a while we would go to his house, but since my house was more fun, it was usually his choice to come to me. Saturday nights were date nights, which meant we would go out with friends or we would go do something, just the two of us. Our parents were all, annoyingly, in agreement that we couldn't spend every night together, since we saw each other at school all day. We tried to explain to them that we were in different grades, so we only saw each other at lunch or sometimes, in passing at one of our lockers. They didn't care.

I loved spending time with Logan & we were falling more & more in love as the days went on. We were best friends as well as boyfriend & girlfriend. We had so much in common & hardly ever fought. I think we both knew what it was like to not be together, for so long, that we cherished our time together. We watched the same TV shows & movies. We loved to make each other laugh & we had the same interests. My favorite place, to be, when we hung out was on his lap, something my dad hated. Whenever he saw me sitting on Logan's lap, he'd give us a look & immediately, I'd slide off his legs, to sit beside Logan. I asked mom, once, why it bothered him & she laughed, replying, 'your dad doesn't like your private parts being so close together.' It made sense, though, but also was hilarious. 

Logan was into art, like me, something we could share, but he was also into sports, something he could share with Jerry. They were friends, but they weren't as close as they were before. Jerry had other friends he was closer, too, plus Joel was one of his best friends. Logan played the saxophone in the marching band, while Jerry was on the football team. They both played baseball, so I was sure they'd get close again, in the spring when they were playing together. They used to play video games together, online, & once in a while, they would still play when we hung out at our house, but lately, Jerry had been distant, so that wasn't happening as much. 

I was kind of glad Jerry & Logan weren't as close as they used to be, because I hated sharing people with Jerry. We were twins, so we had the same circle of friends, but I didn't really like it. It was crappy always having your annoying brother around & always being associated with him. It was even more annoying when you were constantly being asked where that annoying brother was. I also hated that he was close to Karleigh. I hated it, so much, that I may have tried to sabotage their relationship, that appeared to be inching toward a more intimate one.

Jerry had told Karleigh that he had feelings for her, at the beginning of summer, but she told him she just thought of him as a friend. He told her if she ever changed her mind or started to feel differently, she should tell him. They stayed friends, surprisingly, but Karleigh hung out with me, more, so things weren't too awkward between them, over the summer. Karleigh never knew Jerry had told me all about the conversation they had regarding his revelation & she never talked to me about it. I figured it was because she didn't want to make me uncomfortable, which I appreciated. 

At the end of summer, once school started up again, Karleigh started acting weird whenever Jerry was around, so I started to think she either had developed some feelings for my brother, or she was having trouble hiding her feelings that she always had. She also stopped coming to my house, when we hung out, which was another sign that something changed in Karleigh. I let it go, for a while, then several weeks into the school year, I happen to overhear Jerry talking to Joel, saying he had a feeling that Karleigh's feelings for him had changed, so he was going to bring up the subject to her, again. I should have just let it go, but I didn't want to take a chance of them dating & ruining my friendship with Karleigh. 

As I was sitting in the backyard, with Logan, one Friday night, I was half listening to some songs he was playing for me, that were on his phone. It was a band he wanted to go see in a few months & wanted me to go with him, so he was playing me some of their songs to see if I liked them. They were okay, but I couldn't concentrate on the songs, because my mind started wandering. I was thinking back to several weeks earlier, when Jerry came up to me, while I was lying by the pool.