Joshua Bliss

Chapter 27: Polaroid Picture

"Hey, how're you doing?" Josh asked me, sitting on my bed beside me. It was a little after 10 in the morning right now, and I've been awake since six. No one else was awake then; at least I don't think so, because the house was extremely quiet. I didn't get out of my room though, so I wouldn't know for sure. I've been sitting in my bed for hours now, in the same position, just staring down at the floor. The bed was high (or I was short), and my feet couldn't touch the ground, so it was just dangling there. And I've been like this up until now, when Josh came into my room.

"I've been better," I answered, pulling my legs up onto the bed. I pushed myself to the head of the bed and hugged my legs, not even knowing how I feel anymore. I pretty much cried out everything inside me yesterday, so I didn't have any more tears in me. It's this weird feeling when you've cried a lot, and it makes you feel empty - makes you feel drained. Your body is made up of about 60% water, and tears come from water, but it's almost like there's none left; it's like you went to cry, but you've cried so much that there's no more tears left inside.

Josh gave me a sympathetic smile before pushing himself off of my bed and over to my desk where my laptop was. I watched him as he picked it up and walked back over to the bed. He sat beside me and opened up the laptop in front of the both of us, "How about we watch a bunch of movies to get your mind off of it?" He suggested, just as the screen changed for me to put my password in.

"Do we have to watch movies?" I asked. "We can watch like a series together or something, if you want to."

"Sure, anything you want." He shrugged, turning the laptop to me so that I could log in. I leaned over and quickly typed it in, not wanting him to know what it was. I don't trust anyone with my passwords, not even Kendrick, and I trust him with everything. I have two passwords for everything, like my phone, laptop, email and different accounts, and if you find out one, it's not that hard to find out the other. So keeping my password top secret is one of my major priorities. "You have Netflix?"

"Yeah," I nodded. "It's already logged in; you just have to open it."

"Okay, so what do you want to watch?"

"I've always wanted to start Supernatural, how about that?" I asked, feeling a little bit excited to finally be able to start this series. It's been way overdo on my 'what to watch' list that I keep in my head. I haven't started that much series, because I barely watch any, I just watch a bunch of movies, but Supernatural was like, my number one to watch.

"Sure..." He said, as if he didn't really want to. I gave him a look, kind of asking what that meant - hopefully he understood that question. "I already watch that, and I will probably end up ruining it for you."

"Well if you do ruin it for me Josh, I will kick you out of my house." I warned him, but meaning it in a joking way of course. Seconds later I realized that was a really horrible joke, and I immediately felt bad about it. "I'm just kidding, I, I wouldn't do that."

"It's fine," He laughed. "I know you were just kidding,"

I smiled, a little relieve that he didn't get upset about what I said. "We were supposed to go out with Sophie and them yesterday," I brought up, remembering that I said maybe we'd go today, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

"Yeah, but you were upset yesterday, I don't think you'd have any fun with them if you were upset." He explains to me, opening up Netflix.

"I guess, but we should at least call them and tell them I found you," I reminded him. "And that you now live with me,"

"Well if you want to, then go ahead." He said, as he typed in supernatural in the search menu.

I nodded and got my phone from under my pillow, deciding to call Sophie, considering I only had her number. I did have Dustin's too, but he didn't have mine yet, and I'd just really rather call Sophie - I'm a lot more comfortable with her than anyone else. I mean I'm still comfortable with Dustin and Carter, because when the thing happened with Jackson, Dustin tried to help me with that and I hung out with him alone that day. And on the same day I talked a lot with Carter because I came late, and that made me comfortable with him. But Sophie is my best friend, as she said, so it's easier to call her than to call anyone else.