Tough And Afraid

Chapter 3

When we get home I drop my bad at the bottom of the steps and walk into the kitchen.

"I'm starving!!!!" I complain as I open the fridge.

"Well we can order pizza soon. Mom left a note that she's not gonna be home till late" David says as he sits on the counter reading the note.

"YAY!" I cheer, "call me down when we are gonna order it." I grab an apple and grab my bag walking upstairs to my room. I sit down on my bed and take out my homework. It's only my first day and I already have homework in basically every class. After an hour of doing homework it's 4 o'clock and I hear David call me down. I get up and walk down to the kitchen.

"What do you want? Pizza or a sub?" He asks.

"Uhhmmmmm I want pepperoni pizza." I answer.

"Same so I'll just order a medium pizza from dominos." He says. I say okay and I walk back upstairs. I finish my homework at 4:30 and I hear the doorbell ring.

"That must be the pizza! I'll get it!" I shout down to David who was now in his room.

"Okay!" He shouts back. I run down the steps grab the money off of the table in the front and open the door. When I open the door it's not the pizza guy it's Matt. I roll my eyes and tell him David is upstairs.

"DAVID YOUR FRIEND IS HERE EARLY!!" I shout up to him.

"Okay I'm coming!" He shouts as I hear him running out of his room. As eh gets down the steps the doorbell rings again and I open it. The pizza guy finally came. I hand him the money and take the pizza.

"Have a good rest of the day." He says.

"You too." I reply smiling closing the door when he walks away. I turn around and walk to the kitchen with the pizza. I grab two plates for David and I and grab two slices. David and Matt come in.

"So why did you come early?" David asks Matt.

"I just had to get away from my house early it was getting tense because my sister is getting married. My parents and sister are excited and all but they are just getting frustrated with the wedding plans and stuff and I was just feeling suffocated with everything so I thought it would be okay to come earlier."He replies shrugging. I roll my eyes at his answer.

"Want some?" David asks Matt. Matt nods his head and takes a slice for himself while David grabs two and grabs an extra plate for Matt. I eat my pizza feeling Matt's eyes on me the whole time.

"I'm gonna go to the game room and play a game on the x-box." I tell David putting my plate in the dishwasher.

"Okay but only for like 30 mins cuz Matt and I are gonna play Call Of Duty."

"Fine." I walk out of the room and into the game room. I turn Call Of Duty on and sit down in the recliner. About 20 mins into the game Matt and David walk in.

"Watch out for the sniper!" I hear Matt whisper. I just scoff under my breath I already knew about the sniper. I make my character flip over the sniper and shoot him in the head mid air. I look up at David and Matt and David just shrugs because he's used to it and Matt is standing in amazement.

"How...what...how did you learn to do that?" Matt asks still looking shocked.

"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't play video games like this." I snap back at him storming out of the room to my room. I put on my favorite sweatshirt and I tell David I was going outside to longboard.

"Okay be safe and be back in less than an hour!" He replies as I walk into the garage to get my long board. I put on my black vans and put my headphones in. Right as I leave my garage I get a text.

"Hey Jordan ;)"
-Jake
I immediately sit down on my board and immediately start to reply. I know I shouldn't be texting Jake because 1. He's dangerous and 2. David doesn't want me to for my own safety but Jake threatened me saying if I didn't text him he would find me and...hurt me again.

"Hey Jake. How was your day?"

"It was horrible without you here with me:( I miss you<3"
-Jake

"That's bad to hear."

I reply lying

"Do you miss me?"
-Jake

"Yeah. Listen I can't talk right now I'm out to dinner."
I lie again.

"Okay I'll text you later.<3"
-Jake

I stand up and put my long board back. I take off my shoes and walk back into the house. I go into the family room, turn the tv on and sit on the couch. I try not to cry. I hear David and Matt walking towards the family room and I wipe my tears away.

"Jordan I'm going out to get more for dinner and dessert. Matt's gonna stay." David says.

"Why doesn't he go with you?" I ask.

"Because I don't wanna go." Matt says before David could say anything.

"Okay." I mutter. I hear the door close and David drive off. The tears are coming back. Matt comes over and sits next to me. I can tell he saw me on the verge of crying.

"Jordan. What's wrong?" He asks worried.

"Nothing. You don't care anyways. I mean why would you care about anyone when you have all those girls clinging on you? Just leave me alone."

"No Jordan. I actually care. Sure I have girls around me but that doesn't mean I don't care about anyone. Now tell me what's wrong." Matt exclaims.

"Nothing. Just something from the past came up." I say trying to ignore the subject.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" He asks.

"No. It's fine. I'm fine. Let's just watch tv. Is Friends fine?"

"Yeah. Let's watch it." He replies with a hint of sympathy in his voice. Half-way through the first episode of Friends I am cracking up and so is Matt.

"So why don't you like me?" He asks randomly. I look at him with a serious face.

"What?" I ask pretending to be confused.

"Don't try to act dumb. I see you roll your eyes at me. I hear you mutter under your breath snooty comments at me. What did I do wrong?" Honestly Matt did nothing wrong. I guess it's because he reminds me of someone back in California.

"I don't know. I guess it's because your appearances with the girls and you being a star player on the football team reminded me of someone else from California who was a huge jerk and I guess I thought that made you like him." I reply picturing my old friends boyfriend. Matt looks down.

"Well you guessed wrong. I'm not a jerk I actually care about people." I look over at him and see how upset he is.

"Matt I'm sorry. Let's just start over okay?"

"Sure. Hi I'm Matt." He replies sticking out his hand.

"I'm Jordan." I smile and shake his hand. After that we started to talk about a lot and told each other a lot of jokes. Matt was actually really funny and seemed to actually care about people and stuff. Matt leaned in closer to me but I stood up and turned around to go upstairs.

"Call me when David gets back with the stuff." With that I walk out of the room and upstairs to my room.