Saved. // j.g

07

My head. God, my head. 

I can barely even open my eyes as the sun shines in through the window, I roll over and lay there for a minute to adjust. 

Wait. Where am I?

Im in a bed In a guy's room, fuck what did I do.

And then I remembered the party, the drinking, the swimming.

I'm at Jack's house. 

I get up and look in the mirror, putting pressure on my forehead. My bruises are visible but healing, and im in the oversized shirt I got from Riley's. I must have blacked out. 

I open the bedroom door and walk down the hall to the living room and see Jack sitting watching TV on his phone. 

"You're up," He says as I enter. 

"Yeah.." I say wincing, "Was I fucked up?"

"Pretty much." He says and gets up and walks over into the kitchen. He reaches in the cabinet, opens a pill bottle, and walks over to the counter.

"Here, sit down" He says and places the pills on the counter and I sit on the bar area.

"Thanks," I say as I sit and he fills a glass of water for me as I take the pills.

"Look, im sorry I didn't mean to be a burden- I probably fucked up your night and I wasn't really thinking about-"

"Stop. Its fine, don't worry about it. Your clothes are In the room when you wanna get dressed," He says and sits next to me.

I don't fully remember what happened last night, I just know he went with a girl and brought me home. 

I go back to the room and open my phone. Riley snapped me asking if I made it home okay, nothing from Marisa. I told her i'm fine and realized my car is still there. I put on my jeans and go back out to Jack.

"So my car is still at Brayden's right?" I ask as he stands by the fridge.

"Yeah, you think you can drive it home if I take you?" He asks.

I didn't even expect him to offer, I've only talked to him maybe three times. He made sure I was safe last night. He did more than either of my friends did. 

"Uh yeah I can. You wouldn't mind?" I ask.

"Nah, let's go," he says grabbing his keys and we walk out to his car. 

We don't talk much the way there but he pulls up behind my car parked on the street. 

"Well, thank you, for everything really. I don't know what would've happened if someone wasn't there for me," I say grabbing my keys.

"Yeah you're welcome," He says kind of just flatly, "and Adelynn" he adds as I open the door.

"Mmh?" I say looking back at him. 

"Don't be stupid." He says in a serious tone. 

I don't know what he could be referring to, but I smile because stupid is just who I am.

"Ill try" I say and get down, shut the door, and walk to my car. He doesn't drive off til Im in my car, but I stop the think about what even just happened. 

Why did it seem like Jack cared about me?

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Later that day Marisa texts me explaining once Christian showed up they got in a fight and she went home with her other friend, leaving me with Riley. It was fine, she does this all the time so i'm not surprised.

My mom didn't really realize I never came home, I hopped in the shower and got dressed in my room. I laid in bed on my phone and wondered if I should try and add Jack on snapchat. I tried looking at his twitter for it but it wasn't on there, but I noticed he had an unusual large amount of followers. Why did he have so many?

I ended up having Riley send it to me and hesitated, but added him. It was nearly 4 in the afternoon and my hangover seemed to be gone. 

I texted Brayden's friend Ian because we used to smoke together and asked if he wanted to blow one. He almost immediately texted back and we decided he was gonna come get me and we were gonna go smoke at the beach. 

I threw on some shorts and he pulled up. I got in and started rolling on the way, the drive is about 20 minutes and once we got there we laid out a blanket and sat down.

"So you good? You got drunk as fuck last night," He said laughing 

"Yeah, I made it home and now im cool," I said laughing, hitting the blunt

"Did I see you leave with Gilinsky?" He asks as I pass the blunt.

"Uh- yeah. He offered to drive me home because Marisa left early," I said, not wanting to tell him he really took me to his house.

"Ahh, Jacks that guy. I didn't know you knew him like that. He's kinda just on his own wave, heard he's famous or something" He says as we look at the beach and smoke

Famous? Jack? Huh?

"I mean I really don't know him, ive just ran into him at school a couple times. What do you mean he's famous?"

"Him and his best friend from Omaha make music, he moved to Beverly a few years ago to start a new life out here. As far as I know he's on the come up" He laughs, I don't know if he really knows what he's saying but that might explain his followers on twitter.

"Huh. Yeah I don't know, he was kinda just there you know, right time right place?" I say, smoking, thinking.

I checked my phone, Jack Gilinsky added you back. 

I smile to myself, I wonder if we'll ever talk about last night. Its almost like he didn't want to this morning.

We finish smoking and head back to town. He drops me off and I walk inside, Jack isn't home. Why I even care honestly, it doesn't matter. 

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