New Blood

Ready

BLUE

                ‘Hey :P’

It was from Alex.

                ‘Hey J’

I was lying on my bed above Rex’s. Beneath me, Rex was snoring. I rolled my eyes at him and went back to typing.

‘Are you free tonight?’

I bit my lip as I thought of my plans.

‘I am, why?’

There was a few minutes between that and the next text.

‘Well, I was wondering if you would like to go to the movies… maybe as a date?’

I had to re-read that a few times.

‘Are you asking me to go out with you?’

‘Maybe?’

‘Okay. What time?’

‘I’ll pick you up at seven… be ready for a movie :P’

I was smiling as I turned off my phone.

‘See you then weirdo’

“REX WAKE UP!” I shouted, jumping off of my bunk. It was already five. I have two hours.

“What?!” Rex jumped out of bed.

“ALEX JUST ASKED ME OUT! HELP ME GET READY!”

Rex stared at me for a second. Then he understood.

“Okay. Go take a shower. I’m going to go pick out a good outfit. Where are you going?”

“Movies.” I replied, already in the bathroom and stripping out of my pjs. I turned on the water and took a relaxing shower. I made sure I was completely finished before I hopped out and wrapped a towel around my body. I found a stack of clothes that Rex had picked out for me. He had my tattoo choker with a Love Sick tank top. It was low cut on my sides. He picked a black and red lacy bra to go with the tank and matching lacy underwear. I rolled my eyes at that.  A pair of black skinnies was beneath that. At the base of the cabinet was a pair of no show socks and my black and white checkered vans. I grinned and dried off, quickly slipping into everything. After I was dressed, I went into our room, where Rex was already waiting with makeup. He did a simple winged eyeliner and black lipstick. He helped me into my black hoodie, because it was the only thing that fit over my cast. I slid on a fingerless glove over my scars. I hadn’t cut since Alex and I were back on terms with each other three days ago.

“How did you get your phone back from Jake?” Rex asked.

“Alex went back and got it for me.” I said. Rex frowned.

“How did Alex get it? He and Jake are worst enemies.”

I shrugged. “I don’t know.”

“Have you ever had your first kiss?” Rex asked out of nowhere.

“No.” I said. He grinned.

“Well, atleast my baby is still innocent.”

I smacked his shoulder.

“That’s not nice.” I complained. He rolled his eyes at me.

My phone buzzed in my pocket. I took it out.

‘Jake is practically catatonic, Blue. Can you please at least tell him to eat? He won’t do anything unless you talk to him.’ –Jubilee

‘He won’t eat?’ I responded.

‘No. Hasn’t for three days.’

‘Put him on the phone. Speaker.’

I waited a minute. My phone rang.

I answered.

“Jesus Christ, Jake, stop. Blue is on the phone!”

“Jake?” I asked. I heard a muffled thump from the other end then Jake’s voice.

“Blue?”

“Yeah, it’s me. Jubilee told me you haven’t’ been eating.”

He sighed. I could hear how tired he was. His voice was raspy too. “Look, I really need to tell you something- I’m sorry about my past, but I can’t go back and redo it now. I really have feelings for you and all I want is for us to be together. Please, Blue, let me make it up to you.”

“Jake, i-“

Rex gave me a look. I sighed.

“I don’t know. Everyone’s been keeping secrets from me and I just feel like it’s something huge that I’m missing. You need to eat. Seriously. I can’t have you die. We can talk about this in person.”

He sighed. I heard Jubilee faintly in the background.

“Okay.”

“Good. You’re going to eat, right?”

A pause. “Yeah.”

“Okay. Bye Jake.”

“Bye Blue.”

I hung up. Rex looked at me.

“What?” I asked. He shook his head.

“Nothing.”

I glanced at the clock. 6:58. my phone buzzed.

‘I’m here.’ –Alex

‘Coming :P’