𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐲 || 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫

Ch.31

I stared at the golden teddy bear that was laying nicely on my chest. I smiled and ever since yesterday when I got this necklace, it made me feel so much better about myself. I would stare at it whenever I could and at that moment, that was the most important thing to me. 

I put on a yellow tank top and some shorts. I was going to the movies with Elijah and I was just glad I was going to spend time with my best friend again. I grabbed my slides and headed downstairs. 

The guys were there just hanging out as I headed over to the kitchen and noticed that Jake followed me, "Babe?" He whispered in my ear as he put his arms around my waist.

"What?" I pushed him off and grabbed a cup to pour some Sunny D. 

"Come on (Y/n)! You're really going to be mad over something so simple?!" He raised his voice and now all the boys were staring at both of us. 

"Yeah."

"What that's it?! That's all you're going to say? You need to talk to me." The volume in his voice was going higher and higher and the rest of the boys stood up from the where they were. 

"Jake, I already talked to you! But by the sound in your voice and the words coming out of your mouth it seems like you still don't understand! You know I don't like Jaimie, but you think that you're just being a nice, caring friend that she can tell her problems to. Jacob Cooper! OPEN YOUR FREAKING EYES! She's not trying to get your support, all she wants is your dick and right now she's laughing in my face because she has you wrapped around her finger. There is always someone in your life that you will never give up on and for you it's Jaimie, not me. I'm not going to stand here in front of all of you and look stupid! Jake. You're really playing with my feelings and you just don't understand how much that hurts." I got up close to him and poked his chest, "When you stop acting like a dick and start acting like a real man, then we can talk again, but this bullshit needs to stop. It's too early in the morning to hear you complain about how I'm not a good girlfriend because I don't give you your daily bj. Just leave me alone." I grabbed my cup, chugged it, and then got my skateboard. "Are you coming Elijah?" 

All the boys looked at me shocked, but Elijah was just looking at Jake serious and disgusted, "Yeah let's go." 

He grabbed his board and followed behind me, "You still wanna hit that movie?"

"Can we just go somewhere to talk?" 

"Yeah, let's go." He put his arm around my should and rubbed my head just like he used to do when we were little.

**

"Thanks" I said as Elijah handed me the coke he bought for me. We were at the park, but I was just sitting down on a bench feeling like crap.

"So you wanna tell me what's really going on?"

"Jake makes me feel less of myself. It seems like I'm always getting compared to Jaimie and it sucks. I mean I've been insecure all my life, but the fact that he makes me feel this way just doesn't seem like I'm with the right person. I have two choices,  either I take another break from Jake or just go through this whole disaster a million times." I started to cry and Elijah noticed, but the thing about Elijah is that he never knows what to do when people are crying. Turns out today he changed his ways of life for me. I put my Disney World dad cap on and hid my tears from him. 

He moved closer to me and rubbed my back, "I'm sorry I couldn't save you from this monster this time. I was usually pretty good at that when we were little."

I laughed and then started to cry again. It was silent and then he spoke up. 

"I think that you are the most precious, beautiful, smart, caring person I've ever met. And I've met a lot of people. You are everything to me and seeing someone do things to you that make you feel like you aren't pretty enough or special enough makes me feel like I have to protect you from guys in this world..." It was a little silent and then he spoke, "I'm not the person who is everything to you, but I want to be. I truly love everything about you and I'm scared that you'll lose yourself to someone who doesn't even care." He looked at the kids in the park skating and then continued. "Sometimes when I look at you I just want to do everything in my power to take care of you, but when I see you with Jake I realize you aren't fully happy. The (Y/n) I know is always happy and is the same person who became a little nurse the first time we came to this skatepark. The time when a whole adult injured himself and you told him something I will never forget. "It's not broken, it's not bruised, it's just like life, you don't see it until you get back up and notice that it's only one bad day not a bad life." 

I looked up at him with tears in my eyes and smiled. He smiled back at me and I knew this smile was genuine. He grabbed my hand and something in my heart was going off, something I had hid for a long time. 

He stood up from the bench, "Come on, it's a bad day not a bad life."

**

We were walking home with both our skateboards in our hands, his other hand was still intertwined with mine, but we didn't say anything about it. 

"Thank you for this day." I said and looked up at him. 

"No problem Chubs." He tapped my hat and then looked like he was going to say something but didn't want to. 

"What is it?" I asked.

"If I do something right now, please don't get mad." 

"I won't. I promise."

He took my hat off of my head, dropped both of our skateboards, and pulled me in close to him, "thanks."

He kissed my lips and soon enough everything in life felt better again. With his hand supporting my back and his other hand on my cheek, everything felt perfect. Our lips were still connected and I felt sincere feelings that were coming from each kiss. I smiled into one more kiss and then we both had our heads against each others. 

"Well then Chubs, you've made my bad day a whole lot better." He pecked my lips once more and then hugged me. 

We were just there hugging when a car honked at us and we both laughed while getting our stuff.

"I have a letter for you." I said smiling at him as we continued to walk.

"Oh really? What does it say now?" He said nudging me softly. 

"Elijah Bubs Lamb, you are and have been my everything."

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