The New Me

Chapter 5: The Guest

Recap

Taylor's POV

Suddenly, someone knocks on the door and Rose walks towards the door while shouting, "I am going to open the door."

But Jayden stops her and says, "Mom, just stay here. I'll check who it is."

Jayden has a weird expression on his face as if he already knew who it was. So, all of us decide to silently follow him and who we saw isn't even the last person we expected to be standing there...

We see a familiar face, and everyone, except Rose, says in unison, "Krystal?"

She smiles awkwardly and waves. "Hey everyone?"

I can feel the awkwardness rising as we didn't expect her to see her here.

Jayden urges her in and says, "Come in. Let me introduce you to my mom."

He closes the door behind her once she is inside and turns to his mom. "Mom, this is Krystal. Krystal, this is my mom."

Both of them exchange smiles and Rose pulls her in for a hug.

Rose says teasingly, "So, you are the one Jayden has been talking about?"

Krystal blushes and says, "Yes Madam."

Rose laughs and says, "You can call me Rose, like how his friends call me. It makes me feel old when you call me Madam."

Krystal giggles. "Okay, Rose."

Kayden raises his eyebrow and asks, "What is going on here? What does mom mean by that?"

Jayden says, "Let's sit down. I'll explain."

Everyone sits down on the couch and Kayden asks again. "Explain! What the hell is going on here?"

Rose scolds him. "Mind your manners! We have a guest here."

He shrugs his shoulder in protest but apologises. "Sorry, mom."

All of us look at Jayden, for an explanation. "Erm... So basically, Krystal and I have been hanging out for a while now and we decided to finally make it official."

I was the first one to react and say, "Aww... you two are going to be the cutest couple in our class. I love the two of you together."

Krystal blushes and says, "Thank you."

Kayden interrupts, teasing his brother. "So brother, how long has it been going?"

He smiles and says, "Approximately for about 2 months, I guess?"

Charlotte raises her eyebrow. "Wow, I hope you both last long."

Krystal nods appreciatively.

Kayden continues. "No wonder you have been acting weird for the past few months. Whenever I ask you to come with me to meet some girls, you always gave me excuses that you were busy."

Everyone laughs at Kayden the moment he said that. 

Jayden deserved this as his last relationship left him heartbroken. They had been dating for about two years when he found out that she had been cheating on him with a soccer player.

He was so heartbroken; he didn't have any girlfriend after her. His ex wasn't a nice person at all; I once caught her having sex with someone in the janitor's closet.

"So how did you two ends up together?" Zach questions, looking between them. \

They both look at each other and Krystal speaks up first. "I had been crushing on Jayden for a year but didn't have the guts to say anything, so I decided to just be friends with him knowing what happened to him during his last relationship. We realised that both of us shared common interests and he started to have feelings for me and that's when I confessed my feelings to him and here, we are now."