My Mistake

Chapter 8

"So Princess, what do you want to do?" Jace had dragged me out of the store and we are currently walking around the mall aimlessly.

"Surprise me." He smiles and picked me up, throwing me over his shoulder.

"Jace!"

"You said I should surprise you!"

"Not like this!"

"Fine." He puts me down and pouts a little.

"Alright what about this? To cheer you up let's go and buy chocolate. You buy me one, I buy you one. Deal?" He shakes his head slowly at my statement and leads me to nearest candy store.

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"That is so not fair!" We just finished buying our chocolate. Ok buying me chocolate. I bought one for him and he bought one for me but I ate the two.

"Awww, does Jacey Wacey need his blanky?" I tease him. We pass one of the shopping carts and Jace suddenly smiles evily at me.

"What?" He picks me up again but this time he places me in one of the carts. Before I can comprehend what's happening,  he's pushed the cartout of the store and he starts running while pushing the cart  very fast.

"JACE! STOP THE CART NOW!! PUT ME DOWN!" He ignores me and jumps onto the holder at the bottom.

"JACE!!!!" I scream as we burst out of the mall. The cart somersaults and we crash.

And he landed on top of me. He was laughing. Oh we'll see what's funny when I'm done with you. I knee him in the groin, hard.

"Fu-" I knew him again before he could finish, resulting in him falling of me and clutching there.

He groaned loudly, rolling on the ground. I laughed and waited for him to get up. He tried to get up slowly, a pained looked on his face the entire time.

"We have to talk about your people skills." He leaned against the fallen cart and exhaled deeply. I snorted and helped him up. We started walking towards the direction of a park,  and he was grumbling about my people skills the entire time.

"Hey Jace, can you tell me about yourself? I'm getting  bored with your constant mumbling." He chuckled quietly, shaking his head.

"So commanding! OK, my full name is Jace Edward Martin. I'm 18, I'm guessing you're like 17. I lived in California then I moved to Seattle 5 years ago. I've been voted "Hottest and Sexiest guy in school since the 5th grade." He winks at me and I roll my eyes. "I have a younger sister, Marge, who's 11." At the mention of his sister, his eyes lit up. "We did all kinds of crazy stuff together. Once, she hatched a plan to sneak into our mom's room and replace her make up powder with sand. Imagine her shock when she opened her drawer!" We burst out laughing. I couldn't believe he actually did that.

"So tell me about you."

"Ok, my full name is Nana Akosua Lexi Asamoah-Brooks and-"

"Damn girl! So many names." I glared at him and he shut up.

"Anyways, I lived in Ghana my whole life until a few weeks ago. When everything changed."

"What happened?"

"We just met. I don't trust you enough to tell you that."

"Ouch. But understood. How about we make bet? By New Years, you'll have trust me completely."

I laughed. He thinks it's that easy? My trust in people has been broken for almost year now. I doubt he'll be able to do it so I agree. We walk in comfortable silence for a while until I hear whimpering. It sound like it's coming from the bushes ahead. Without telling Jace I race ahead and nearly jump into the bushes. I part the branches and come face to face with the cutest puppy I had ever seen. It was injured, and its white fur had mud and blood on it. It flinched away from me when I tried to hold it.

"Lexi! What's wrong?" Jace came up behind me and peered into the bush.

"Give me your jacket." With confused look on his face, he took off the jacket and handed it to me.

"Hey there. It's alright. I've got you." I gently lifted the puppy and Jace gasped out loud.

"So cute!" He actually squealed. 

"I'm taking her home. How far are we?"

"About 5 minutes. How do you know its a she? And will your parents be ok with a new dog?"

"First, look at her stomach, you can see tiny nipples. And two, they wouldn't care."

He walked me back to my house and attempted to hug me which I quickly dodged and ran into the house. I proceed3d to wash her wounds and patch her up. I quickly went to the nearest supermarket and bought 5 cans of dog food. After she finished eating, she became hyper, running around and jumping on furniture and trying to lick my face the entire time. I finally got ahold of her after chasing her for the past 7 minutes.

"You...are...really fast...you know. I think...I'll name you...Flash."  I wheezed out, clutching my knees. She looks up at me with innocent eyes and I can't help but swoon.

"Ok Flash, let's go and sleep please. My bed is calling my name." I pick her up and start climbing the stairs when my phone rings. I quickly take it out and notice that it's an unknown number.

"Who is this? How did you get my number? I swear to-"

"Relax Princes. You know, hearing you being angry is a total turn on." By now I had reached my room and I jumped onto my bed, carefully placing Flash beside me.

"Pervert. And you know, hearing you talk makes me want to go deaf." I say in a chirpy tone. It's quiet on the other side for a moment before he bursts out laughing.

"Sure Princess." I could practically hear him winking. I yawned loudly and he chuckled. His nickname should be Chuckle since that's the only form of laughter he knows.

"Goodnight Princess." I yawn again and snuggle into the duvet. Flash snuggles herself into my arms and I cuddle her.

"Goodnight Pervert."