𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 || 𝐳.𝐝.𝐡.

Chapter 35

Three weeks later...

June 15th 2019

Jasmine anxiously waited for all the guys to come over. She, Gabbie, and Christina had lots of news. And the guys had news for them.

"Wow, I wonder how Corbyn is gonna feel," Christina said, playing with her fingers. I rubbed her back sympathetically, and Gabbie sighed.

"This is really heartbreaking," Gabbie mentioned. "But at least we'll be together, Jasmine." Jasmine nodded, but still, the feeling nagged at her.

There was a knock on the door, and the girls looked at each other, and took deep breaths. Jasmine walked over to the door and opened, revealing all five guys. 

"Hey," she said, stepping aside to let them in. Zach embraced her into a hug, and she hugged him back ever so tightly. 

I wonder what their bad but good news is, she thought.

"So, um, I guess we'll go first," Jasmine said, looking at Christina.

"Corbyn..." Christina said, looking down. He lifted her chin up with his finger, so she could be looking into his eyes. She caressed his hand, and smiled softly.

"Remember when I told you I was going to become a make up artist? That that's what I wanted to do?" Corbyn nodded. She sighed.

"Well, I got excepted..." she said, trailing off. Corbyn looked at her, with raised eyebrows.

"Into where?" he asked. She looked at him and sighed again.

"I got excepted into Empire Beauty School," she said, and Corbyn clapped his hands happily.

"Thanks amazing, babe! But, where is it?"

Christina looked at Jasmine and Gabriela, and they nodded encouragingly.

"It's in New York..." Corbyn's face turned into a look of sadness, and a tear slipped down Christina's face. Corbyn sat in between Gabriela and her, and he held onto Christina. She silently sobbed, and the room was filled with a sadness.

"As for us," Jack started, "We got signed with Atlantic Records." We smiled at them.

"And the bad news..." Daniel started, "We're moving to Downtown LA."

"For the b-band?" Jasmine asked, her voice cracking. Zach nodded to her, and she put her face into her hands. Zach rubbed her back, and she sobbed.

"Me and J-Jasmine, we're moving to Santa Monica," Gabriela said with a shaky voice. "Jasmine is going to become a choreographer, while I'm just living with her since I'm eighteen already."

By now, the whole room was silent, and there was sadness in the air. Everyone was thinking about how much they were going to miss one another. All the good times they had with each other. 

"Hey, remember that time when Zach got into a fight with that guy that said Jasmine had a fat ass?" Christina said, and everyone laughed.

"That shit was funny," Jasmine said. "Or that time when Daniel threw the biggest fit because there wasn't any apple juice at the moment at Walmart?" 

Laughs filled the air, as they told funny stories about their times together. Pretty soon, it was time for everyone to start leaving. 

"I love you, Jasmine," Zach said, as she buried her head in the crook of his neck. "No matter how far you are, you'll always be my girl. I love you."

"I love you too, Zachy," Jasmine mumbled, burying her head deeper. 

Everyone had their turns to hug one another, and pretty soon, everyone had left Jasmine's house. Silence filled the air, and without the sounds of her friend's laughter to fill it, it was empty.

"I'll miss you," she whispered to the house, and she went upstairs to her bedroom. She looked at the already packed things, and finished. 

She began taking down the taped pictures that were on the wall. It was from all her friends over the past years, and her boyfriend. She had a special suitcase for those, and neatly piled them inside. Then she opened her closet, revealing all her clothes. She groaned, as she didn't have any help to pack all this. She took everything out, outfit by outfit. She piled them neatly inside her suitcase. Then there was her furniture and bedsheets. Since she and Gabriela would have a small two bedroom, there was no need for her to take these things. She'd redecorate everything there, and she had decided to sell all her old furniture. Then she went downstairs, and looked at the bare living room, which only the couch had remained. She sold some of the furniture already, or she gave it away. She also decided that she would give some of her girly things to Reese, being that Reese was always admiring her things. She smiled, thinking about how cute the bedspread would look in Reese's room. 

Jasmine was planning on selling the house. It was a four bedroom, so she was thinking about $355,000. There was no remodeling needed, as the house was in great condition. She went to the fridge, and started pigging out on the little food that was in there. Over the past three weeks, lots of changes had happened. She had already graduated high school, and she was rewarded with her diploma. Everything was actually going well. She was just sad that she wouldn't her friends or boyfriend for a long time. But she knew that she would visit, or that they would visit her.

After a long day, she decided to sleep on the floor in her old bedroom.

"There was so many good memories in this place," she whispered to herself. "Then there was the bad ones."

She thought about the house she grew up in, all the fun stuff that her family would do. Until her father had been out the picture for the pain he caused Jasmine. Then it was just she and her mother, and they would do fun things. Next door, was her worst enemy. Who was now her boyfriend. More funny memories she thought about. 

She closed her eyes, and fell into a deep sleep, wondering what the future would hold for her.

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- Ik this sounds like this book is ending, but it's really not. 😩 Now that they are grown, there is much more stuff to happen. Ooooh its gonna be fun! Im so sorry about these short chapters, these were just fillers on what was going on so far. Mannnnnn that time skip tho🥺.

~Lilly 🥰