I Thought Three Was A Crowd

Chapter 6: Jordan Too

I couldn't speak for most of the students at my school but I really like school. I thinks it's because I never got the chance to go to school and not worry about going home to some bullshit. It's very thrilling for me. Jordan doesn't really agree but he tolerates my academics. He knows that's it's very important to me. He keeps me on track. Sometimes I get real lazy with my work. I would procrastinate or wait till the day of to do my work. He would give me like small pep talks to get me to do my work. He would make sure that I knew the reason that I was doing it. I don't think there is anyone better than him in this world. He was raised so wrong but he is just so right. 

I went to school and made sure I got all my work done for the rest of the day. I came home and went straight to sleep. I always came home from school and would go to sleep. It's kind of a routined thing. I woke up and I checked my phone. It had a text from an unknown number. I opened it and it said 'Hey. This is Ashley. I hope it's okay but I asked Brianna for your number and she gave it to me.' I replied and said 'Hey. It's fine. How are you?' The thoughts hit my head immediately again because I didn't know why she wanted my number. What are we gonna talk about. What made her want to talk to me? I wasn't important in anyway. We texted for about 15 minutes talking about some things going on in our lives. She would text me back immediately. I told her that I had a boyfriend and it took her about a minute to reply back, I wondered why. We needed the conversation saying that we would meet up at her job later on. After I put my phone down, Jordan woke up beside me. 

"Good morning." 

"Good morning." I said back to him. 

"I'm going out today." 

I didn't have work today so I had a free day off.
"Where you going?" He asked. 

"I'm going meet a friend I met at Brianna's Party." 

"Oh cool. Can I come?" He asked. "My customer cancelled workouts today because they had a family emergency so my day is freed up" 

"Sure. The more the merrier" I replied. 

We got out of bed and got ready to go. I texted Ashley and told her that I was bringing Jordan with me. She replied with a smiley face emoji. Me and Jordan got into the car and headed to Le Pizza. 

"So, who is this friend we are going to meet?" Jordan asked. 

"Her name is Ashley. She is a Senior in High School, too. Like I said, I met her at Brianna's party." 

"Oh. So we are just going to talk and eat?" 

"Yea pretty much." 

We pulled up into the parking lot of Le Pizza and walked into the restaurant. We were seated and there she was. Waiting for us. I was holding Jordan's hand when we walked in but he let go so he could shake Ashley's hands. He looked at her and smiled and introduced himself. It was weird though. Like in that moment, I felt him get happier somehow. You could see that he lit up when he saw her. I felt kind of emotionally hit by that. We sat down and ordered our food.

"So, What do you do, Ashley?" Jordan asked her. 

"I actually work here. I saw Kelly here yesterday." 

"Oh yea." Jordan said looking at me. I shook my head and smiled. 

"Yea. It's cool to have somebody closer to me at work because I'm always bored over there." I said rolling my eyes. 

Ashley and Jordan laughed at me. I laughed with them. The waitress serving us brought us our food and we ate and talked. We had finished eating but we still had a conversation for almost another hour. I was really enjoying myself. Having Jordan with me was really good and being around Ashley made me happy. Wait. Why did that make me happy? I mean, she's just really cool to talk to that's all. It's not like I liked her or anything. I have a boyfriend so I can't like her. I don't even like girls. I have a boyfriend. I was completely in conversation with myself in my head for about 5 minutes until Jordan and Ashley tried to get my attention.

"Kelly!" Ashley yelled out.
Jordan was waving his hand in front of my face. I woke up out of my day dream. 

"We are about to go." Jordan said. 

They had already paid the waitress. We all got up to leave the table. We walked out the building and wished farewell to Ashley and went to the car. We got into the car and started to drive away. We got home and got straight into bed. Got out of our clothes and laid in the bed.  I laid on his chest and we started to talk. 

"I had fun today. Ashley is pretty cool, don't you think?" Jordan asked me.
"Yea, she is. Very friendly." I replied. 

I felt that feeling again. What was it? I was worried like something wasn't right. I looked at Jordan's face and he was scared. He wanted to tell me something I think. He had this frightened and sad look and his face. I didn't know what was going on. Jordan sat up on the bed and looked at me and asked me to listen to him. 

"What's up?" I asked. 

"Kelly. I love you. I love you with all my heart and I plan on marrying you and having a family with you in the future and make you the happiest person in the world."
I blushed and almost started to cry. He wanted to marry me. I wasn't worth marrying. I couldn't even go a week without crying at least once. I was a mess. But he wasn't done. He had this sudden look on his face of sadness. He took a deep breath as if he couldn't say what we wanted to say. 

"I think..." he stumbled. 

"I think I..." he stumbled again. 

"What?" I asked him in a worried look. 

"I think I like A..." he stuttered. 

"Just say it." I said. 

"I think I like Ashley." He said. 

My heart immediately dropped. What!