ADOPTED BY GEORGE SALAZAR

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Jai's pov

"Jai” I heard a voice whisper in my ear. I groaned and slowly opened my eyes to see George. ”Hey, good morning. Chris made pancakes and I was seeing if you wanted any. No peanut butter or anything” he said, smiling a little. ”I'm good. I'll just take some cereal” I responded and sat up. He nodded and walked out of my room. I grabbed my phone, stood up, and walked downstairs and into the kitchen. ”Morning Jai!” Anna said before shoving some pancakes into her mouth. ”Good morning,” I said and sat down next to her. I turned on my phone and entered my password. I don't have a lot of apps on my phone so I decided to just go on Twitter.

There was nothing really on Twitter. Just some random posts and hate. Nothing new. I sighed and turned off my phone as Chris walked over to me. ”Hey Chris,” I said. He smiled at me before responding, ”Hey. So, me and George were thinking. You don't really have any friends-” ”I have plenty of friends. You know, the cast of Be More Chill. They're my friends except for tiffany of course." I said, interrupting him.

”Let me finish. You don't really have any friends that are your age. We were thinking that we would watch Anna and you could go out and hopefully meet some people”, Chris said. I sighed. ”Okay, fine” I got up and walked upstairs to my room and quickly got changed. After I was all dressed, I walked downstairs, said bye to Anna, George, and Chris, and then left. The city was busy, as always. People were walking down the street and calling cabs. I decided to go to a cafe that was nearby. 

The cafe was empty except for one girl, who was seated at a table in the back and reading. She looked about my age, maybe a little younger and she was wearing a hoodie that looked like Michael Mells. I chuckled and walked over to her. ”Hi, I just wanted to compliment you on your hoodie. It looks just Michael Mells from Be More Chill” I said. The girl looked up from her book and looked at me. That's when I realized I made a mistake. ”Oh umm, thanks. I made it myself. It has all the patches except, I added a bisexual pride flag to it,” She responded quickly and nervously, ”Oh, I'm CJ, by the way.”

”I'm Jai. It's nice to meet you CJ” I responded and shook her hand. 

After we shook hands, CJ turned back to her book. I sighed and turned around. I started walking away when I heard her voice ”Umm you...you can sit down...only if you want to though!” I smiled and turned around. She was putting her closed book on the table, making sure it was perfect. I sat down across from and I could see a smile form on her face.

She looked up from making sure her book was perfect and took a sip of the water she had. ”Do you want to maybe go to your place?” I asked. She looked at me and shook her head. ”Umm no. My house is bad...” she responded. I looked at her and saw her start to freak out ”Not bad bad! I'm not in danger! It's just a mess right now and my cousin and his parents aren't getting along right now so we can't go!” 

”Hey, it's okay. Why don't we go to my place?” I said and then looked down at the ground. Shoot. What if George doesn't want me to bring someone over? Will he hate me? ”Are you sure? I don't want to intrude...” she asked and then took another sip of her water. ”You won't. When you're ready, we can start walking there” I responded and she nodded. She started putting stuff in her bag. 

”Okay, I'm ready,” she said and picked up a bag she was holding, ”Oh umm, can I borrow your phone? Mine broke a couple of months ago and I need to call my aunt.” I handed her my phone ”I’ll wait outside” she nodded as she quickly dialed her aunt's number. I walked outside and watched as she talked to her aunt.While she talked to her aunt, I really took a good look at her Michael Mell hoodie. She really did have every patch thing. Except, she did add a bisexual pride flag patch under the gay pride flag. I wonder if she is bi.