Somewhere only we know

Chapter 2

so i'll be explaining things here so please Read carefully...

there wont be any dialogues...but this is Julie's POV and she's going to tell a little back story..

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Chap 2-

I'll explain everything to make it clear.

Shai and i met when we were 5, it was summer when she stayed over at her aunt’s house which happened to be the house next to ours. I saw her playing alone on the front yard so I went to introduce myself. We played all summer and became best friends even our moms became super close that’s why they decided to let us go to the same school where my brother goes to and two years later we met Jake.

I remember how i hide behind Shai every time we talked to anyone and one day Shai got sick and missed school.

I was sad and crying all day when a boy came to talk to me and gave me a piece of candy. He said his name was Jake and wanted to be friends so i accepted it. I introduced him to Shai the next day and from then we became best friends. James and Jake met and also clicked.

I was so happy having Jake as a friend and as a crush. Everything i did was for him to like me back. Imagine an eight y/o girl climb a tree to retrieve a little boy's kite, a little girl who punched a boy in the face when he stole Jake’s lunch money, a girl who tried to play football, basketball, martial arts and skateboard so she could hang out with Jake. A girl who strived for straight A's and so on and so forth...

I was happy until that day on 7th grade.

I saw how Jake look at Shai and I’m not blind like the others, stubborn, yes but blind, definitely not.

I confronted Jake about it, at first he denied but i didn’t let it go then later on he told me that he liked Shai and i wish i never pushed him to tell me because it hurt me so much. Stupid 13 year old me cried and cried all night then i realized that i should stop crying and move on and that having Jake as my best friend would be the best for everybody.

On 8th grade Shai told me that she liked my brother and begun hanging out more at our house and getting close with James. James later on told me that he doesn’t like Shai like that and only see her as a little sister. I didn’t want to crush my best friend’s heart so i let her see it herself. She couldn’t get the hint so James improvised and introduced us to Ben, a boy from London. It was funny how James thought being a good boy is all it takes to win a girls heart but chubby little Ben didn’t do the trick.

So that’s how all of us became close friends.

I continued on to impressing Jake and trying to get more close to him but all he ever does when we hang out alone is talk about Shai. It killed me every God dammed time to pretend not to like him back and listen to his cheesy plans to make Shai fall for him.

High school came and we still went to the same school as James. Everything from that point on changed and flipped.

Ben came home from London, at first we didn’t believe it was him because he lost so much weight and got taller over the summer.

Shai had her first boyfriend to distract her from her feelings for James after she finally got the hint when James lost his virginity to his blonde bimbo girlfriend.

Jake was devastated because he chickened out and all his frustrations were poured out into playing football which he joined because Ben and James were on the team. He also got a lot as in a lot of girlfriends and rumor has it he was having sex with all of them and I would confirm those rumors to be half lie and half true...

He only had sex with the girls he was with when he reached 18, junior year. 

I on the other hand kept tagging along Jake like an idiot. Everybody knew that I’m his best friend and the stupid girl that follows him around. I’m his partner in crime when he sneaks out late at night, I would lie to his and my mom to cover him, I eat death threats for breakfast because of her ex's trying to get back at him and the thing that confirms that I’m a certified 100 stupid girl…

When Shai and her third boyfriend broke up, Jake took the chance to confess his undying love for her on the summer break of junior year with the help of no other than ME.

Yes, I’ve been helping him to get Shai to fall in love with him.

Stupid me? Okay I get it, I’m stupid but I told you guys, I’m fucking stubborn.

I’m not blind to the fact that I’m never gonna get Jake to like me, especially now that I’m helping him. I don’t plan on sabotaging his chances and use this opportunity to lure him into my web, no, I’m doing this because I have to, I need to.

Why?

because I love the guy! And I hope I didn’t but I did for so long that I have to hurt myself so I could let go.

What sucks the most is that I keep on hurting but he doesn’t have a clue about it.

Sometimes I wonder how people can be so dense but later on I realized that they just are because some people can hide things better than others and some can read people better than others.

Here is where Ben comes in. For the past few years he knew, I know that he knew because Ben was like me. We’re not blind, just stubborn.

It was the first day of 8th grade the day when James introduced us to Ben, after school we were waiting outside for our mom when Ben sat beside me.

“You like him a lot don’t you?”

I stared at him with wide eyes and he just laughed at my expression.

“I saw you looking at him, you like him a lot.”

I only looked down at my feet feeling guilty that someone caught me red handed.

“but he likes…”

“Shai, I know.”

He cut me off and again I stared at him with wide eyes but narrowed them immediately.

“You’re creepy.”

I said as a matter of fact which made both of us laugh.

“Aren’t you going to tell him?” he asked.

“I don’t know, please don’t tell him.”

I kept looking down at my foot. We both became silent and were only interrupted by the sound of my mom’s car and James calling my name.

 I looked at him before I walked away and he smiled at me then said.

“I won’t tell him, I promise.”

I smiled back at him and I dint even care if I was missing a tooth. I ran and hopped inside my mom’s car and waved at him from the car window.

That’s how we became so close.

So close to the point that it I didn't have to ask Ben how he feels about me because as I've said...

I am not blind.

and it didnt took Ben to ask me if I knew because

He's not blind.

but we were both stubborn.

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