You're My Forever

Meant Nothing | 30

The Next Day... 

The first thing I thought of when I woke up was the kiss with Jack last night. I smiled softly as I remembered it. 

I grabbed my phone to check the notifications I got but the first one I saw was a text from Jack. 

Jack: Hey. I had to go to school a bit early today to talk to a teacher so don't wait up for me when heading to school.

After reading it, I got out of bed and went to my closet to get dressed. I put on a yellow oversized sweatshirt and some army printed ripped jeans. I left my hair down, brushed my teeth, then went to school by myself. 

Jackson's P.O.V... 

Once I was done talking to my teacher, I went back downstairs and began walking to my locker.

As I was walking, Ema suddenly approached me. I mentally face-palmed. 

"Hi Jack." She said with a smile. "What's up?" I sighed, not wanting to be here. "You know, last night I went to your house to talk to you about something but I saw something a little more interesting.." She said with a mix of a smile and smirk. 

My heart started beating a bit faster as I heard what she said. Did she see Roni and I's kiss?! Fuck... 

Ema's P.O.V... 

I looked just past Jack and saw Roni walking right near us. This was a perfect opportunity to ruin things between them!

From the way they both reacted after the kiss happened, it looked quite like it was their first kiss and it was completely uncalled for. So I was really hoping I'd get my desired response from him after saying what I was about to say.

"I bet you and Roni's kiss was pretty special, huh? Knowing how you guys have been best friends your whole lives?" I said to him with a smirk. 

Veronica's P.O.V... 

"I bet you and Roni's kiss was pretty special, huh? Knowing how you guys have been best friends your whole lives?"

I immediately looked up when I heard this. I spotted Ema and Jack. I could only see Ema from where I was as Jack was facing away from me. I backed up a bit so they wouldn't see me but also not too much because I wanted to hear what he was going to say. 

Jackson's P.O.V... 

"Why were you spying on us?" I asked her, crossing my arms and raising a brow. I partially only said that because I didn't know how to answer her question. "Avoiding the question, huh?" Ema smirked. "No. I just don't understand why you would spy on us when we were having a personal conversation." I was really starting to get annoyed. "Damn.. You really don't wanna answer my question. It must've been one hell of a special kiss then.." Ema crossed her arms as well. 

"No it wasn't! The kiss meant literally nothing to me so just drop it!" I finally shouted, reaching my breaking point. Honestly, I didn't really think what I told her was true.. The kiss didn't mean nothing to me. I don't know what it meant to me. 

Veronica's P.O.V...

"No it wasn't! The kiss meant literally nothing to me so just drop it!" 

I felt my heart sink as I heard his words. There it was.. Our kiss meant absolutely nothing to him...

I felt tears beginning to fill my eyes. I needed to get out of here... 

I speed walked away and to the back entrance of the school. I ran out the doors as tears began pouring down my cheeks. I found a bench, right near the back entrance. I sat down, putting my feet up on the bench too as I hugged my knees. I rested my forehead on my knees as I began crying harder.

I cried for about five minutes, until a much needed friend showed up. 

"Roni?" I heard a concerned voice through my cries. I looked up slowly and saw Jeremy. He looked very concerned when he saw the tears all over my face. "Roni! Are you ok, what happened?!" He ran up and sat beside me, quickly pulling me into a hug. I put my legs down and hugged him back tightly, beginning to cry again against his chest.

I cried against him for another five minutes while Jeremy just stayed silent, gently caressing the back of my head as he continued to hug me. But after the five minutes, I finally calmed down. 

I looked up at Jeremy, our arms still wrapped around each other. He looked down at me. He cupped my face in both hands and wiped away my tears with his thumbs. 

"Do you want to talk about it?" He whispered, looking into my eyes. "No.. I want to forget about it..." I whispered back, my voice shaking a bit. "I can help you with that. How about we ditch school for today? We can go out for ice cream and then go bowling. Or if you prefer we can just chill at my place. Whatever you want." He said with a small smile. 

"Let's go for ice cream and bowling." I said with a tiny smile. "Great. Let's go then." He smiled. So we both got up and left the school. We had to take separate cars since both of ours were parked at school. 

We drove to an ice cream place, bought some ice cream and sat down across from each other at a table. 

We talked and talked there for over an hour. Jeremy did an amazing job of distracting me from what I overheard Jack saying. I couldn't have been more grateful for him. 

And after we finished at the ice cream place, we went to the bowling alley. And we spent about three hours there. I had an amazing time and I completely forgot about what was going on with Jack. 

By the time I got back home, school had just ended. I had already told Jack to come home without me since we usually walk home together. 

But once I got home, I went up to my room and laid in bed. I instantly started thinking about Jack and Ema's conversation again. But this time I didn't cry. That's because I started thinking about it in a different way. 

Now that I started thinking about it more, I chose not to be mad or upset about what Jack said. Jack probably only kissed me because he wanted me to stop talking. I just had to accept that. Jack and I have been friends forever, there was no reason for me to expect more just because of one small, meaningless kiss. 

So from now on, I was going to try and accept that Jack and I's relationship was just going to stay as strictly friendship. 

I had a feeling Jack still probably felt awkward about the kiss so I decided to text him and tell him I was ok with what happened. 

I was still very deep in my thoughts when I started typing. 

Veronica: Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I think the kiss was ok.

Only after I sent the text, I realized my huge typo. My eyes widened when I noticed it. FUCK!

I meant to type, "Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I'm ok with the kiss." but instead I typed THAT. What I sent to him made it sound like I was saying that the kiss itself was ok. Oh my god, this was so freaking embarrassing!

I was about to start texting him again to correct my mistake but then I got a reply back. 

Jack: OK? So you think I'm not a good kisser?

Jackson's P.O.V...

When I read her text, I'll have to admit, I was confused and a bit offended but it didn't take long for me to realize it was most likely a mistake. 

So I decided to respond with something funny just to lighten the mood a bit between us. 

Jackson: OK? So you think I'm not a good kisser?

Veronica's P.O.V... 

I laughed, reading his response as I knew he was just kidding around. 

Veronica: Well...

Jack: I'm truly hurt Roni😭

We continued joking around on text for like half an hour. And honestly.. it was much needed.

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