WHAT COMES AFTER THE END OF THIS

Chapter 55

Chapter 55

Yrene's PoV

As one might have guessed, I spent the entire week hanging out with Jason. He would pick me up from school, occasionally with a bouquet of white roses because he knew I felt that red roses were too mainstream. Everyday he took me to a new place, to all his favourite places and my thoughts were so preoccupied by him, invested in him that I remembered little else. He intoxicated me, made me feel high without drugs, the way he would hug me from behind when I didn't know he was there, the way he would easily remove his jacket and hand it over to me when i even so much as slightly shivered, the way I fit perfectly into his arms, and this was enough for me. And slowly but surely I realised that I might be falling in love with the not so bad boy who was already in love with me. I found myself awaiting for the end of school so that I could embrace him, go places with him. And if this longing was not a sign of love then I didn't know what was.

I hate Monday's, always have and perhaps always will, however, the only good thing about this particular Monday was its end. Jason would come to pick me up and take me somewhere, note, I said somewhere, meaning I didn't know where he would take me, I never knew, he never told me and though I wasn't one for surprises I felt myself changing, for the places he took me to in order to surprise me were the places I had never thought of but the places I had instantly fallen in love with. My thoughts on this track I barely notice Chase solving a problem in front of the class.
"Ms. Jones?" Too dazed to realise I'm being spoken too, I continue on my train to daydream land. That, friends, is till I hear someone banging on my desk and as soon as that happens I jump upwards before realising that in front of me is a very, very angry Chase.
"Ms. Jones?"
I gulp and nod at him.
"You do not seem to be paying attention in my class. Is that a correct notion?"
I nod again before finding my voice,
"Ye-yes, Sir. I am sorry. It won't happen again." I feel the anger coming from him in waves as he seethes,
"It. Better. Not." He walks back to the whiteboard and I breathe a breath of relief and pay attention for the rest of the lesson. I'm up from my seat the second the bell chimes and am about to run away when Chase motions for me to stop. Well shit. Leave it up to my luck to land me in the most humiliating situations. I make my way up to his desk and to my utter astonishment he isn't as angry at me as he was a few minutes ago but rather he pulls me into a hug.
"Thanks?"
"What for?"
"I don't know, the hug maybe?"
He laughs and my heart stirs a little, but only stirs not like a full blown tornado that I used to feel before.
"Chase, I'm sorry. I mean for not paying attention in class."
"It's okay. Just don't do it again."
"I won't. I promise."
"Yeah, Yr, you're a bright kid and I don't want you to suffer," my heart eggs tugged a little when I hear him call me a kid and I almost tell him that he didn't think of me as a kid when he had his tongue down my throat but I let him continue nonetheless, "in other circumstances I would have asked you what was wrong but I know nothing is wrong, as of now, that is." Deciding to be a little cocky since I am still a little angry at him for calling me a child I decide to pull his strings a little,
"How so?"
"Well for one thing you were smiling, while you were thinking and so I'm guessing it probably wasn't something I would need to worry about and even after I scolded you seemed happy."
Okay, maybe I should really stop thinking about Jason in class. It's too much. We can't have the entire world know about us, now can we? I'm not superstitious or anything like that but I want to keep the evil eye off of my new relationship. Finally deciding to answer Chase, I give him a bright smile, one that is not at all fake,
"Yeah, I am happy. Very."
"I knew you'd be." His tone is a notch sullen and grave but not even that can burst the happy bubble inside of me that is swelling by every passing minute in anticipation of where Jason will take me today.
"Oh and also, Yr, you wanna hang out? With me?"
I am taken aback by his strange request and I think about it for a second. It wouldn't hurt would it? After all we did decide to be friends and this was the only way forward, to forget the past and focus on the future and I could at least give him this considering he had given me up, that is if he did actually want me in the first place, so that I could find a new, much needed happiness elsewhere. And so I nod at him.
"This is only tentative though. It depends if I am not busy the day you want to hang out then for sure I'm in but if I have something else to do then we can reschedule."
"Perfect. I'll let you know when and you can ask Jason's permission."
"Chase, Jason is my boyfriend, not my father. Besides, I am sure he won't deny."
And I was right. He did not deny but instead encouraged me to go out with my ex-loved of sorts.
"Of course!" He had said, "you do not need to ask my permission. Baby, I trust you more than I trust myself, not to mention I feel like your friends would kill me considering I have been making you hangout with me the entire past week. And I'm sure you don't want me to die just yet, do you?" This had earned him a playful slap which had magically turned into a heated kiss. And now here we were, me forcing him to tell me where he was taking me now and him refusing to say a single thing about.
Jerk. Suddenly he stopped his motorcycle and in a matter of seconds blindfolded me.
"No peaking!" He had scolded the moment when I tried to lift the blindfold. He held my hand as he led me through the ample trees and onto a clearing, he stopped and turned to stand behind me, hugging my before untying the blindfold and kissing me right below my ear. To say the bare minimum, I was awestruck. He stood in front of me with his arms widespread like he was presenting my with something huge, and he was. In my shock I squealed, jumping up and down with my hands on my mouth. He knew. He remembered. I ran and launched myself at him with full speed.
"Oh my God! Jay you remembered!"
"How could I not?" His demeanour changes and he seems to have adopted a cocky attitude, "well, let's just pray you still remember how to rap. Wouldn't want to be insulted in your presence, how would I?"
Of course I still remembered how to rap, I had grown up listening to the rap god himself, Eminem. How dare he insult me? When I knew that he was well aware of the fact that rap ran in my very veins, through my bloodstream. I was going to beat this man's ass.
"Oh... It's on Dawfield. Wait till I beat your lousy ass!" I playfully challenge him and he rolls his eyes at me,
"Oh we will see little monkey. We will see."
If one might not have guessed already my boyfriend had brought me to a rap house, a pub where people mostly came to introduce their raps to other people but this one was different, this was a karaoke rap club. I was so ready for this. I jumped on his back as he held my legs to his waist and walked us through the doors. Even at this time the club was packed to the brim. Men, women and children alike clapping for the presenters on stage and voting for those they thought best. He places me down in the ground and I stand next to him with his arm slung around my waist in a careless manner as if to show to the world that I belonged to him, In fact he even glared at the men who had winked at me.
The presenter on the stage announces,
"Next up we have, the couple, Jason Dawfield and Yrene Jones! Round of applause for these two brave souls who have joined us today!"
The crows erupts into cheers and applause as Jason and I make our way up to the stage and I smile proudly at myself when I see how shocked the others are when they see me up on stage. It seems to me that Jay is a usual here as he calls out to the DJ,
"Yo, Jake! It's time for some controversy!" Oh. I know where this is going and before he could even begin rapping I called him a coward for choosing the easiest Eminem song,
"Seriously Jay, you're such a coward for having chosen 'Without Me.' Dude I could literally rap to that when I'm sleeping."
He flicks my nose and pinches my cheeks,
"Oh really now, baby? It's not like you can do any better but we shall see."
"Indeed we shall."
Jay takes up the stage like a storm, ridding himself of his jacket and winking at me he begins to rap to the beat thrown by Jake,