The Boy in the Jersey ✔️

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Chapter 33

Josh

It's been four days. Four fucking days since Kelly told me she wanted a break from me. I was losing my mind. I keep replaying what she said in my head and I was torturing myself with it.

You made me fall in love with you.

When this whole thing started I didn't have a clue what I was doing. When she blurted it out in front of her brother I thought she had just slipped, but then again at the diner...

I'd be lying if I said that it didn't make my heart swell knowing that she was in love with me, but I didn't say it back. I wanted too. That was the whole point of me going to the funeral was to tell her.

I wanted to tell her that I was crazy about her. That I wanted something serious with her. That I was head over heels in love with her.

But I blew my chance at it again.

So here I was standing at her front door talking myself into knocking. I didn't know if she even wanted to see me. Or if she had changed her mind about how she felt. I was terrified.

I pull my phone out of my pocket and unlock it. My home screen was I picture I had taken of Kelly when we went to Elizabethtown. Her head was tilted up towards the sky and she had to most beautiful smile on her face.

I needed to see that smile again.

That picture was the push I needed to finally knock. Intense silent minutes passed before the door opens.

"The fuck are you doing here?" Logan snaps.

"Is Kelly around?"

"Yeah she's upstairs in her room."

"Can I see her?"

"Why the hell do you think I'd let you even step foot in my house? I despise you. Kelly is pissed at you. So why are you here?"

"Logan please. I really need to talk to her. It's important."

He scoffs and crosses his arms over his chest.

"It's not that important."

My anger was increasing the longer I stood here. I needed to see Kelly and I wasn't going to leave until I did.

"She doesn't want to see you. So leave and stay the fuck away from her. If I find out you come near here I will personally fuck you up."

I couldn't help the laugh that bubbles out of me. He thought he could beat me up?

"I'm not leaving until I see her"

"Yes you are"

"No I'm not" I say sternly as I step across the threshold.

I knew I was pissing him off but at this point I didn't care. He wasn't going to keep me from her. I'd do everything in my power to see her. If she told me she didn't want to see me then that's fine, but I'm not going until I know.

Logan's eyes flare with a hatred toward me. His hands raise and he shoves me hard.

"Don't fucking push me" I growl

Logan's fist clenches at his side and before I know it he's swinging right at my face. I barely dodge out of the way. My anger got the better of me and my fist swung out and hit him right in the nose.

I heard a sickening crunch and pain shot up my arm and into my shoulder.

Logan stumbles back holding his nose which was bleeding.

He takes a second to compose himself before he swings at me again this time hitting my jaw. That was all it took. I was seeing red. I pounced at him and pinned him to the ground.

My fist kept hitting him repeatedly. Over and over. Blow after blow. My anger was only increasing more. He was grabbing on to my clothes and doing anything he could to get away from me but I wasn't letting up.

He eventually stopped fighting and his whole body went limp. His eyes fluttered closed and his breathing became heavy.

I shoot up and back away from him after I realized what I had done. But it was already to late.

"Logan!" Kelly screams from the bottom of the stairs.

She runs over to his limp body and starts cradling his head in her lap.

"What did you do!?" She screams at me.

The fear in her eyes shut me down. She was scared of me. I knew she was. Her eyes were wide and her breathing was coming in short heavy bursts.

"Logan? Wake up!"

My heart hurt seeing her sobbing over her brothers body. Something that I had caused.

"Kelly" I attempt, walking closer to her.

"Stay away from me!" She screams at me.

"Please just let me-"

I'm cut off by police sirens as the cars pull up to the house. Three police officers step out and make their way up to the house.

They take one look at the scene in front of them and pull out their handcuffs.

The short balding officer requests and ambulance as he bends down to check Logan's pulse.

"Is he going to be ok?" Kelly asks through her tears.

"He's got a pulse. It's weak but it's there"

Kelly snaps her head toward me and glares at me. I saw the hatred and the fear in her eyes. She thought I was a monster.

"You're both under arrest" the female officer says to Kelly and I.

She approaches me and puts the cuffs around my wrists as the third officer approaches Kelly.

"Wait she didn't do anything, don't arrest her" I finally manage to speak.

"Sir we have to take you both in for questioning."

"What about my brother?" Kelly asks

"The ambulance will take him to the hospital and make sure he's alright. I will go with him and let you know as soon as I hear something." The older balding officer says.

Kelly nods as she holds out her wrists and the third officer slaps cuffs on her.

Her head was down and tears were pouring out of her eyes.

"Kelly I'm sorry." I say to her.

She flinches at my voice and walks away.

"Kelly!" I call to her from inside the house as she's led to the back of a cop car.

She gets in without so much as a glance at me. That's when I knew I had messed up whatever we had for good. There was no way she would forgive me for putting Logan in the hospital.

No matter how much she loved me.

And I didn't expect her too.