They Call Him Trouble (a Jason Mccann love story)

Chapter 15- Joy Ride

Jess smiled brightly as she slowly shut her tech book and pushed it aside, I knew I was about to get a very long list of things that make it obvious that I apparently like Trouble.

"Where do I start?" She said with bright eyes

"Maybe at the part where you stop talking?" I said as I didn't want to hear her talk about it. She cleared her throat and smiled.

"every time he walks in the room your eyes are locked onto him, like you're in a trance or something!" I shook my head and laughed, glancing over to him for a second. He was sitting on the desk with his feet on the chair and his hat sideways. he was such a dork.

"and you're always staring at him!" I quickly looked over to her again and dropped my jaw

"I AM NOT!"

"What do you call that then?"

"I thought he called my name!" She shook her head

"yeah.. sure.." I noted the sarcasm.

"are those the only reasons?"

"every time he's around you act differently.." I shook my head once again

"what do you mean I act differently?"

"you just do, and your eyes light up when he's around!"

"now you're making stuff up.." she looked over at home and gasped.

"what?"

"He's staring at you!"  looked over at him rather quickly, he was talking to a kid that sat in the back row, his eyes were nowhere near my direction.

"He is not!" she laughed loudly and covered her mouth

"That proves you like him!"

"how?!"

"You were like 'oh my god' and looked over at him like your life depended on it!" I chuckled

"The words 'oh my god' never came out of my mouth"

"yeah but you were thinking it!" the bell went for first lesson and I left as quickly as I could to avoid further embarrassment.

Our first lesson was English, one of the only lessons other than music, drama and dance I had with Jess. We sat at the front of the classroom and were typing our recent book reviews on the laptops. I could feel someone staring at me, you know that feeling you get when you know someones eyes are locked onto you but you are too afraid to turn around and find out who it is? I felt Jess elbow me to get my attention.

"what..?" I said quietly as the class was dead silent and all you could hear was the sound of typing.

"that Sam kid.." the sound of his name made my stomach churn, I felt like saying 'oh i know him, he's the one i kissed at the party' but I knew those words wouldn't escape my lips.

"Yeah..? what about him..?"

"He's staring at you.." I hit the table with my fist lightly

'I knew someone was staring at me..'  I thought to myself as I turned around slowly to see him staring at me, biting his bottom lip.

I groaned and turned back around to face my computer screen, I knew what was running through his head, he was thinking about the moment we had at that party.

"What..? why is he looking at you! there is something you aren't telling me!" she could always sense when I was lying, always.

"What do yo mean?" I tried bluffing for as long as possible but we all knew I had a terrible poker face.

"I mean, was there something that happened at the party that you aren't telling me?"

"I told you everything.." I said with my eyes at the computer screen,

"okay.. let me ask you that question again" she cleared her throat before continuing

"was there anything else that happened at the party that you are not telling me?" I tried to hold it in for as long as possible but it was obvious I was lying.

"One thing happened.." Her eyes widened in delight

"tell me tell me tell me" I sighed and ripped a piece of paper from my work book as I wasn't going to say it out loud for the whole class to hear.

I began writing and slid the note across the table to her, the note read:

Me and that Sam kid kind of.. Kissed..

Her eyes widened even more, it looked like her eyes were about to pop out of her head!

"are you serious?!" I nodded slowly

"Did you like..." she pouted her lips into a kissy face "do that back?" I shook my head

"at-least don't think I did.."

"so you had more than 3.."

"no, I had three beers, that was it!" I said that a little loud as the teacher eyed me, there goes my innocent image in English!

She sighed and looked back down at her computer

"are you going to date him?"

"what?!" The teacher shot my a death stare

"Violet.. shush" she spat before turning her beady eyes back to the papers she was marking.

"I said, are you going to date him?"

"why would I date someone I don't like?" she shook her head slightly and went back to typing, acting like the whole conversation never happened.. and I was completely fine with that.

Half way through the lesson Jess was becoming fidgety, she couldn't sit still,

"I need to get out of here.." she whispered to herself as she stood up slowly and walked over to the teacher and asked if she could go to the bathroom. When she stood up she knocked the note off the table, I hadn't noticed that the note had fallen off of the table and at troubles feet and neither had Jess.

Trouble picked up the note, slowly examining and reading it, If i knew that note had fallen from the table I would've quickly picked it up before it fell into the wrong hands. I heard a silent gasp come from behind me, I turned around to see trouble instantly look back down at the book that was in-front of him.

'was he just staring at me..?' I thought to myself, I felt a tingling feeling in my stomach and forced my lips to a smile. What was wrong with me?!

During lunch I notice Trouble approach Sam, I didn't think much of it as they would talk regularly until I could hear a little anger in Troubles voice. I couldn't make out what they were saying, Trouble pointed at himself, then at me before grabbing onto Sam's shirt in a threatening way. I knew he was talking about me.

After school I walked out to the car park to realised that my car wasn't there, instead there was a note laying on the ground where my car had been before, I picked it up slowly as I awkwardly looked around. It said:

'I decided to take your car for a little spin, wait here and I promise ill return it by 4 -Trouble' I groaned loudly and walked over to the grass, there was no way of getting home other than walking and there was no way in hell I was going to walk home. all I could do is sit here and wait, hoping that Trouble will stick by his promise and bring my car back.