Best friends (WATTY 2013)

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Fifteen.

　

*Mandie's POV*

It's only been a couple of hours since my little incident with Nancy and the unknown football players. That wasn't the way I pictured my first few days in my new appearance to be. But as always Joey came to my rescue .I really love him. He was so nice to me! He even canceled on his Dad for me to make me soup. Then he had to lea-.

Suddenly the doorbell rang.

I got up from my very comfortable bed to answer the door. When I opened the door I didn't expect to see Joey but there he was .He looked really sad and helpless. Joey also had suitcases and that just made me worry a little more.

"What happened Joey?" I asked really worried.

"Mandie can I stay here for a little while until I can get my mind right?" He asked.

"Oh of course, Come on" I said and opened the door a little more so he could come in.

"You know where your room is right you can go ahead I'm going to get your other stuff."

"Thank you Mandie" he said with the same sad look in his eyes.

He had had a fight with his Dad, I felt so guilty for that .If I wouldn't have did such a dumb thing and try and change my appearance, none of this would’ve happened. He always told me that if he would always say that when he was really tired of his Dad he was coming to my house. That was the only thing he relied on his parents for, their house and he HATED it.

When I came back in the house he wasn't upstairs, he was on the couch and had his head in his hands.

"Okay what happened?" I asked sitting beside him

"He told me that I had to stop hanging around you and I had to get my grades back up in languages arts. After that he said that I was going to lose my scholarship to Harvard if I keep this up."

"Okay well how about this? I could give you les-"

"Oh so you are on his side now?" he yelled

"Joey I’m not on anybody's side, You still need to keep your grades up so you can go to whatever collage you wanted to go to." I said calmly

"Okay I understand that part but, staying away from you? How am I supposed to do that?" he said calmed from earlier.

"Joey, Just calm down and think this through" I said not knowing what to say.

"Fine, I..I need some time though"

"Okay that's fine I'll just leave you alone, I’ll be upstairs if you need anything" I said and left

Poor Joey. Him and his family was never in good terms. Who wants to stay on Bad terms with their family? He always ran to me to know what to do, but I never knew what to do.in fact even thought I never really get to see my parents I still loved them. The only trouble was when my mom was here for a week and she tried to get in my personal life, then I would be hard to get along with. I really don't know what to tell Joey. I’m thinking of a plan though.

　

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"Knock, knock, Hey Joey are you up for some homemade pizza?" I asked

"Oh...yeah I guess."

We both went to the couch and ate. We were watching a basketball game.

"Umm...So what do you say about the lessons?"

"Okay I thought about it and it sounds like a good idea, can we do it every time we have homework after school?"

"Yeah that's fine"

"Mandie...I have a question"

"Shoot"

"What would you do if you had a friend say Luke or Matt or some of Taylor's friends and you liked maybe even loved them but you weren’t sure if they loved you back?"

What a way to change the subject?!

I have no idea what to tell him I was in the same situation!

"Why, do you have a girl in mind?"

"Uh..sorta" his cheeks flushed with blush.

"Aww,is the great Nohlan Jacobs settling down?" I said that normally but inside I was so hurt.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse my phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

I dropped the phone in the sudden news. It couldn't be! He couldn't die if it had not had been two weeks yet! I couldn’t believe this. My Dad was ...dead.

"Mandie...Mandie?! What happened?"

"Oh I’m sorry I didn’t mean to put everything on me again but they said " I looked up at him "He is dead" I said and all the tears came flowing down.

I didn't think I could've cried harder than when I found out that he only had a few weeks left but I was wrong. I couldn't stop the tears from falling! And the whole time Joey was sitting there with me. Life seriously couldn't get any worse than this.