lungs

part 82

anna+

{we got 71 comments on the last chapter, wtfffff!!}

my eyes open to my window before feeling his arms wrapped around my torso.

i turned around and looked at his beautiful face. smiling, i traced my thumb over his small peach lips.

soon, his eyes started fluttering. he put his hand over my arm and moved it up and down, rubbing it.

"good morning." he said with his raspy voice. he looked at my nose and chuckled, "your nose piercing is popping out." he chuckled.

i pushed the piercing back into my nose, "haha yeah i'm still getting use to it." i said.

he brushed my hair out of my face, "you look good with your nose piercing." he says.

"thanks jacob." i said to him.

we sat up in the bed. i rubbed my eyes and looked at jacob. i watched him put on his shirt as he got dressed.

"you know joey comes back in a few days right?" jacob said, putting on his shirt.

i chuckled, "and?"

it's been almost a month without joey and i've gotten over him by deciding to give jacob a chance. the day that joey left, i went to jacobs house crying and we've been inseparable ever since.

i missed having jacob around, but now he's still my best friend.

i got out of the bed and stretched before hearing sam cry in the other room. if my mom isnt already up yet to get sam, then i have to get him.

jacob looked at me and chuckled as i threw my head back and groaned.

i walked out of the room with only shorts and tank top on, letting the cold air conditioning hit my skin.

i shivered as i walked into sams room. i looked down in his crib and smiled at him, he smiled back. he clapped his hands and giggled, "anna!"

i giggled as well and picked him up, he was cold also. "you must be so cold." i said, bouncing him on my hip.

he has gotten more heavier over the past months, he's sure going to be a ladies man when he gets older.

as i walked out of the room with sam in my arms, i thought of something. "hey jacob, do you want to go for a walk and push sam around?"

"what?" i heard him yell from the other room.

"do you want to go on a walk?" i said back, a little louder.

"anna! i can't hear you!" jacob yelled.

i groaned, "god damit. do you-" i walked up to the door and opened it. "do you want to go on a walk?" i asked him.

he looked up at me from his phone and smiled from the bed. "sure."

i playfully rolled my eyes and put sam on the bed with jacob. "i need to get ready, don't let him fall off the bed."

"ai ai captain." jacob says, saluting to me just like joey did.

stop it anna.

i walked into my hallway bathroom and turned on the shower. i got undressed and soon got in, letting the hot water hit my back.

i woke up more as i put my shampoo in my hair, scrubbing it around.

flashback

"what do you put in your hair to get it so soft." i asked joey, running my hands through his hair as we sat in my room in pitch black.

"shampoo, duh." he says, whispering so we won't wake anyone up.

"ew, you don't put any conditioner in?" i asked, giggling.

"no." he chuckled. "the shampoo actually makes it clean, i don't like how thick conditioner is anyway. its just naturally soft." he says, touching the top of his hair.

"interesting." i say.

he laughed, "shut up."

end of flashback

why am i still thinking of him? i don't like him anymore, at all.

i heard a knock at the door, "you almost done in there, anna?" i heard jacob say.

i went back to reality and realized i've been in here for 20 minuets. "yep. almost done." i say.

after i got out, i got ready. i put on jean shorts with a plain yellow t-shirt.

i went downstairs and got the baby stroller from the garage, letting jacob hold sam as i do.

my mom is still sleeping, so i'll just let her sleep some more. i'm sure she won't mind me taking sam for a walk with jacob.

i put sam in the stroller and put on my shoes after. i then open the garage and began to start walking on the side walk with jacob by my said.

the weather is hot but has a little chill to hit. i'm not really a fan of summer. some days it be too hot for me to even go out and some days it would be hot enough for my hair to look like an afro. the struggles of being mixed are real.

"what are you thinking about?" asked jacob.

"the weather." i said, looking at sam and making sure he's doing alright.

"i like winter a lot." he says.

"ew you like winter? that's when i get ashy." i chuckled.

"what's wrong with winter?" jacob says.

"it's too cold." i say.

"well what season do you like?" jacob asked.

"i like-"

"oh my gosh, joey! baby, i'm gonna fall off!" i hear a female voice say.

i looked over as if it's all in slow motion. i saw joey at the park with a girl with blond hair. since when is he into blonds?

he was pushing her on the swings, laughing. he stopped pushing her and helped her off the swing.

i stood there frozen as i saw the way he looked at her, the way he held her, the way he smiled at her: all the things he once did to me.

i saw the girl look at me, then whisper to joey. joey looked at me and matched my stance, frozen.

"um hi." he says to me, blankly.

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