The Journey // Jacob Whitesides

Chapter 2: Best Friends?

Jacob came in and sat down beside me.

"Lauren. Look I'm really sorry. I wanted to text you-" I cut him off.

"I don't want to hear it. You hurt me. Badly. If you cared you would've texted me, but no you didn't." I said. I wanted to cry. I wanted to leave.

"Lauren please listen to me." Jacob said trying to be all nice.

"No. Jacob. My mom was in a car accident a few weeks ago. You weren't there for me when it all happened. I needed you then." I said about to cry. I got up and stormed up the stairs. I went into the bathroom and locked the door.

I slid down the door and started crying.

*Two hours later*

I heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" I said trying to not sound like I just got done crying.

"Lauren? It's Jacob. Please just let me in." Jacob pleaded.

I unlocked the door and looked at Jacob.

"5 minutes. Go." I looked at Jacob. He started explaining.

"I honestly wanted to text you. I guess didn't know what to say. I knew about your mom. My mom found out. I didn't know what to do. I knew how much she meant to you. I knew that you needed me. I just didn't know what to do. I honestly missed you so fucking much. I never thought I could miss someone as much as I missed you. I'm glad I came tonight because we would more an likely still be mad at each other if I didn't come." Jacob said. I could tell he was going to start crying.

I stood up and walked over to him. I have him a hugged and started crying. I couldn't help myself but cry. We just stood in the hallway hugging. I missed this. A lot.

"Jacob?" I said.

"Yes?" He replied.

"I missed you too. Really. I did. I missed this. I missed our late night cuddling and watching the scariest movies. I missed everything." I said crying. He let go and took my hands and looked at me straight into the eyes.

"I'm glad to finally have my best friend back." He said smiling at me. I tried not to frown so I just looked down. That's all we will ever be. Best friends.

"Let's go downstairs." I said and started walking towards the steps. I was almost to the bottom step until Jacob picked me up and ran around the house.

"Put me down!" I giggled. Jacob just laughed.

"No!" He laughed evilly.

After about 5 more minutes of running around he put me down.

"Alana! I'm hungry." I said screaming.

"I ordered pizza. It should be here any minute." Right as she said that the doorbell rang. Jack ran and opened the door. He paid for the pizza and walked into the kitchen. We all followed.

"Are you guys friends again?" Alana whispered to me. I just nodded my head 'yes' and smiled.

We all got our pizza and went into the living room. Alana and Jack sat on the love seat, I sat on the floor and Jacob sat behind me on the couch.

"Do you guys want to watch a movie?" Jack asked.

"Sure. What movie?" Alana asked all of us.

"I looked at her and she instantly knew what movie. I loved watching the movie Stitches. I hated horror movies, but this movie was my favorite. I hated clowns with a burning passion. Even though I have watched this movie tons of times, I still freak out.

Jacob started playing with my hair half way through the movie. He always does this when we are watching a movie. It makes me so tired when he does it because he does it so gently.

After about an hour of Jacob playing with my hair, I jumped up onto the couch and cuddled into his side. He wrapped he arm around me. Right when I was about to fall asleep, I heard a camera going off. I decided not to worrying about it so I just closed my eyes and fell asleep.