Life Moves On • Zach Herron

twelve

jasmine's pov

my finger hovers over alexia's instagram profile, i've been trying to decide whether contacting them again is what i want to do

finally i decide what i'm going to do

i move my finger away from her name and click off instagram, i'm not ready to have them in my life again

especially with zach being a student at my college now because if i'm friends with them he might think i'm friends with him and i definitely don't want that

"jas!" i hear my mom shout from downstairs so i walk towards the stairs "do you wanna do some baking?" she asks when she sees me "sure, can we make cupcakes?"

"of course! i'll start getting everything out that we will need while you come downstairs"

i go to my room and put my phone on charge, leaving it upstairs i go downstairs and walk into the kitchen to see my mom surrounded by baking equipment

"i'm here!" i say, putting on the apron that was on the table, it is decorated with donuts because it was mine a few years ago when me and my mom used to bake all the time

"great, let's get started then"

we make a cupcake batter and i decide to put some blue food colouring in it so we will have blue cakes

we split the cake mix and both took a few cases each to fill

"so tell me about your friend, jonah was it?" mom says and i nod "yeah, what do you wanna know about him?"

"what does he look like? how did you two meet each other? things like that" she says and i begin answering her questions

"well, he's tall, very tall actually, he has brown hair and green eyes and we met on my first day because i walked into the wrong dorm room and i happened to walk into his, we then ended up as friends"

"he sounds like a keeper" i frown in confusion "yeah he's a really good friend, he's always been there for me and he's a really good listener"

"maybe you guys can be more than friends one day?" my mom said and i laugh "nooo we already discussed this, i can't remember why but we agreed that we wouldn't wanna ruin our friendship if things weren't to work out"

"you never know jas though. anyway let's get these cupcakes in the oven and make some icing or do you want butter cream?"

"i don't mind really, i think butter cream will be good" she nods and goes to the cupboard to grab the icing sugar while i get the butter from the fridge

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i took the apron off and hung it on the hook in the closet

"i think these look really good" mom said while she was loading the dishwasher and looking over at the cakes

"yeah they do" i say taking one and eating a few of the sprinkles from the top

i walk upstairs, pull my phone off charge and sit on my bed while eating my cake

imessage

jonah 🤪
did you decide to contact your friends?

jas 😇
no i decided not to and zach is at our college too so i didn't want him thinking i wanna be friends with him again too

jonah 🤪
okay, so how's your day been?

jas 😇
i made cupcakes with my mom and it was fun

jonah 🤪
awh what did they look like?

jas  😇
i'll send you a picture, and it was my idea to make the sponge blue btw 😌

*picture of the cakes*

jonah 🤪
omg they look so good! you have to make some of these when you get back😻

jas 😇
okay but you aren't helping, i don't wanna repeat of last time 😬

jonah 🤪
okayyy, when are you coming back?

jas 😇
in 2 days because of my classes, since they wouldn't let me have any longer than 5 days off

jonah 🤪
well i'm excited for you to be back, it's not the same without you

jas 😇
awh thanks ☺️

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