Dangerous love (incomplete)

chapter 8 part 2

‘Do you like him’ my mom asked and I immediately snapped back into reality. ‘what makes you think that?, I am never around him’.

‘well, its just that you’ve been acting like you’re in love since two weeks ago. Is there something I need to know honey?’

Her words shocked me, everyone had been seeing it too, Lisa was right. I was falling for Jake; I was falling way too deep to survive. ‘Can I please get sometime alone, please’ my eyes were doing all the pleading to my mom. ‘Alright, Dora is in the kitchen and ill be in my room if you need anything, remember, any move, let me know, ok!’ she concluded shutting the door behind her.

I was just starting to concentrate on what could be happening; nearly sobbing, loving Jake meant danger, it wasn’t long until the phone interrupted. I answered it motionlessly without checking who it was.

‘Hi…um…it’s me Jake’. My heart almost ran away. The butterflies in my stomached moved as if my tummy was on fire. I didn’t know what to say, I was surprised he called my cell phone, I never gave him my number!

‘I’m alright, thanks for calling’

‘I know you have a lot of questions on your mind, I also have plenty of questions to ask but I’ll answer you. I phoned jenny and told her about what had happened, not everything, so I asked her for help, she told me what you liked and gave me your phone number, and the roses were from me’. His voice sounded so warm and tender on phone, it never felt to welcoming, he would always be harsh to me and speak as if forced to. He’d call me names, make me fry and later on laugh at me, despite he being a childhood friend, I never got used to his teasing. Actually, I was grateful to jenny for giving him my phone number, hearing his voice made me feel a lot better.

‘Thank you’ was the only word I could think of.

‘Anytime’ he replied softly as if not wanting to wake someone up. There was an awkward moment of silence until he broke it.

‘Can we meet up please...by the beach, next to your yard’. He asked very politely.

I don’t know, it’ll have to wait, actually I can’t’. I replied as softly and self-conscious as I could. He didn’t even say a word after that, he just hangs up. I pulled the phone unto my chest leaving it squeezing my breast, for a moment I imagined it as Jake. Tears of sorrow ran down my cheeks as I recalled what Lisa said “ill kill your next girl”. I had to believe Lisa because once she made up her mind, she never changed it. It was hard to face the truth but then I finally did, I love Jake Brookston… Yes you heard me right, he’s the first and last, but we can never be. I’ve loved him ever since I set my eyes close to his…ever since I felt his breath against mine and how I wish he loved me back. I cried myself to sleep. I woke up the next morning at six, ran down stairs only to find mom’s bags packed, Dora’s as well. I knew what this meant. My mom always left for business trips and needed Dora’s accompany. I always had to stay at jenny’s or Lisa’s for two months, this time it was going to be different, I wanted to stay home alone, to get away from all the things happening.

‘Honey, we are leaving, you know what to do, take care and if anything goes wrong, give me a call straight away’.  She leant forward and gave me a long hug which made me feel like nothing was going to be ok. She then kissed my cheek and headed for the door with Dora behind her.

The next three weeks were not that fun. School was closed and there was nothing much to do than to hang out with Curtis, jenny, peter, Kevin and carol. Amanda was so close to Lisa and decided to stick with her, I really didn’t care. All we did was shop, hang out, go for Curtis’s pool party and enjoying life doing teen stuff.  I hadn’t had from Jake for such a long time but Kyle was always around. Not for Lisa but for me. He wasn’t at all bad looking, grading him with Jake I’d say that they are draw; he’s as hot as Jake is. He sort of acted weird lately, dropping me home, visiting me most of the time, helping tidy up the house. It was all weird to me. He once attempted to kiss me during Curtis’s party but I didn’t let him, it was clear that he liked me but I wasn’t sure at all. All these fun never made me forget about my love for Jake, not once did he leave my mind.