All I Ever Knew

Chapter 14 - Apologies

On Saturday I woke up feeling way more tired than I was the day before. Arguments with Jace really took it out of me. After that though, it had been an uneventful weekend.

I watched a few films, rang my parents and went on a walk with Ronnie.

It's now Monday and a new week of lectures. I'd been up half the night, thinking about whether I'd forgotten to do any work for this week. I doubt it as I can't remember them setting us any work in the first week but my brain just didn't seem to want to function properly. I woke up early to the birds chirping but after trying, and failing, to get back to sleep I decided to get up and make an extra effort on my appearance. I spent a bit of time doing my makeup and decided to put my hair up in a ponytail but curl the parts that were hanging down at the front. I looked hot.

It'd been a couple of days since I'd last seen Jace and the others, apart from Ronnie and  who had come into my room last night to watch a few movies before we went to sleep. I loved Ronnie, I loved how close we'd become in the last week or so, but I hated the fact that I knew that being friends with Ronnie meant that I had to see Jace sooner rather than later and that was one thing that I was not prepared for.

I'd decided over the weekend that I was just going to ignore him, I was going to act like he didn't exist. I wasn't even going to try to be civil anymore because that didn't seem to be working. I would just go to my lectures, complete all of my uni work and try and make plans with the others where hopefully Jace wouldn't be involved. If he kept being busy with Damon, with whatever thing that they kept sneaking off to do, then hopefully it wouldn't be too hard to hang out with his friends without him being there.

Shaking away my thoughts of Jace I put on a dressing gown over my cute Disney pjs with Stitch on. I was so obsessed with Stitch, he  reminded me a little bit of me: cute, small, easily angered. I laughed at my thoughts as I headed into the kitchen to make some breakfast.

I went to the cupboards and pulled the milk out of the fridge, but as I closed it, I jumped in fright dropping the milk carton onto the floor.

"What the hell?" I yelled, with my hand held over my chest, trying to calm my now fast beating heart. Jace was standing right behind the fridge door. How did he even get in here? I was standing there, my cheeks heating up, as Jace looked me up and down, a small smirk forming on his face.

"Nice PJ's" he remarked. I rolled my eyes and just turned around, grabbing some cereal and a bowl out of the cupboard. "Well somebody's not a morning person".

"Shut up Jace! What are you even doing here?" I asked, pouring myself some cereal.

"I came to offer you a lift to the coffee shop before your lectures" he stated as my head jerked up to look at him. He was still standing there with a smirk on his face.

"What?" I asked.

"You heard me" he raised his eyebrow at me, refusing to repeat himself.

"I know. But why?" I asked. How did he even know that I'd be awake this early? "I thought I was 'your problem'" I said using my fingers as quotation marks. I went back to making my cereal, closing the box and putting it back in the cupboard, trying to ignore his presence. I was still pissed at him for what he said the other night.

"I didn't mean that" he said, the smirk disappearing from his face.

"Well you sure seemed like you did the other night" I said, putting the milk back in the fridge and storming past him to the door, with my cereal in my hand. I heard footsteps as he followed me out of the kitchen back to my room.

"I'm sorry okay? I was just annoyed" he said. I spun round as I reached my door.

"Well you didn't have to take it out on me!" I snapped.