Our Little Secret

Chapter 73

Sarah
"Hey Sarah." Cameron's voice is sounding through my receiver and I'm surprised that she'd call me.

We don't talk that much outside of class and when we do talk it's mostly about me having trouble with Jack. We have seen each other once or twice, but our friendship haven't really kicked off.

"Hello Cameron." I say slightly astonished but with a happy voice.

"Can I help you with something?" I continue when she doesn't say anything.

"Not really, I was just wondering if you'd like to hang out or something." She answers with a small laugh.

"Oh." I say with a little laugh of my own. "Sure, I'm not up to anything special so that'd be great." I tell her honestly, anything to get away from the house, to get me away from Jack.

"Awesome. Are you free now? We could go to the mall or something?"

"Yeah sure, I'm free and that's fine with me, I'm in need of a new bag anyways. The one I have is starting to fall apart."

"Alright, shall I come and pick you up?" Cameron asks and it sounds as if she's getting ready to leave.

"That'd be sweet."

"Okay, I'll text you when I'm at yours, see you in a few."

We say our goodbyes and hang up. I decide to attend to my looks while I wait for Cameron to show up, my hair is a complete mess and I barely get it done before a loud honking sounds.

On my way down the stairs I meet Jack, who actually looks at me properly for the first time in weeks.

"Where are you going?" He wonders, stopping midway and looking up at me.

"Out." I answer him courtly without stopping, I pass him without a second glance.

"But I thought we could spend some time together." I hear him call out after me and I stop at the bottom of the staircase.

"What?" I say with disbelief and turn around.

Jack's looking at me as if this is a completely normal suggestion, I can't say that I look the same.

"What do you mean what?" He says when I remain silent.

"I mean as in what?" I emphasize and gesticulate with my hands. "Where's this coming from?"

"Well I just thought that we'd hang out or something, I don't fucking know." Jack drags a hand through his dark hair, he's starting to look troubled now.

"I'm not interested, bye." I almost snap and turn around. Before Jack even reacts I'm out the door and jumping into Cameron's car.

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"I just don't get it, all of a sudden he wants to hang out when we've barely spoken for over two weeks." I take a spoon of my ice cream and shoves it in my mouth.

The vanilla flavor dances around in my mouth before going down my stomach. Up till now I've told Cameron about Jack's weird behavior today and complained about our current relationship status, again.