I Want To Know What Love Is (book2)

Welcome to the Jungle

🎵 Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here everyday
You learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see, you'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me🎵

Tommy parked the car outside my dads trailer and turned to face me. "There's nothing going on between you and Hargrove right?" He asks nervously. I slip my heels back on and shrug my shoulders.

"I mean not really.." I say softly. I wasn't really in the mood to talk about me and billy. Or if there even was going to be a me and billy at this point.

"You know you can do better right? I mean he's already slept with like 5 girls and he's only been here a few days." Tommy says reaching towards me and placing his hand on my bare thigh. I just stare at his hand for a minute. Flinching at the thought of billy with that many girls. Surely he was exaggerating.

"Maybe it's just jealous girls making it up." I say pushing Tommy's hand off my thigh. Tommy shrugs his shoulders and pushes my hair off my shoulder.

"Maybe, but either way your too nice for a guy like billy." Tommy says pulling back and Tapping his hands on the steering wheel. I nod my head and climb out of the car sending Tommy a wave before walking inside the trailer and shutting the door.

The next morning totally sucked. Not just because it was school, nor the fact that I had a killer hangover but the fact that everyone seemed to be staring at me. Every time I turned around people seemed to be whispering and pointing at me. Sighing I shut my locker and made my way over to a brooding Steve. "Hey how did you make it home last night?" Steve asks as I walk up to him. I shrug my shoulders.

"Tommy." I say. Steve frowns and runs his fingers through his hair.

"Shit I'm sorry.." Steve grumbles. "Nancy and I broke up.. I just needed to bail." He says pulling me into a side hug. I wrap my arm around his waist and hug him back.

"It's fine Steve, really." I mumble against his shoulder. "Do you wanna talk about the breakup?" Steve shrugs. "Walk me to Class?" I ask him. Steve nods his head before putting his hand at the small of my back and walking me down the hallway. Steve walked me to the door and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Why don't you come watch me play basketball today? We can talk about Nancy then.." Steve says. I smile and nod my head.

"Yeh sure."

Billy was in my next class (English) and let's just say it was extremely awkward. I had this class with Tommy and Carol. I was sitting at my normal seat towards the back of the room when he came waltzing in the room with Cheryl, one of the blonde cheerleaders hanging off of his arm. She sat at the front with carol and billy made his way towards the back near me. He sat down next to Tommy and cocked his head towards me but said nothing.

"Alright class." Mrs. Moss addresses the class. "We're starting a new project for the semester." Collective groans ring throughout the classroom. She frowns but continues talking. "It's worth 50% of your grade for the year. First you'll pick a famous couple from film and Relate them to famous couples from literature. I'm going to pair you all off in groups of twos. Boy and girl. And you will choose a topic, and write an essay about the couple. Explaining their love story, and the conflict they go through, and why you believe or how you believe they resemble a famous literary couple ." I am taking notes in my notebook and glancing around the room trying to judge who would be the least horrible person to work with. I noticed Tommy making bedroom eyes at carol who was cow chewing her bubble gum and looking back at billy. I rolled my eyes and just stared down at my notebook. The teacher started to call out people's name and pair them together. "Carol and Tommy." I hear Mrs. Moss say. That figures. I think before droning out and waiting for my name to be called. "Helena.." she says drawing my attention. "How about I put you with mr. Hargrove." She says motioning to Billy. I frown at my desk but nod my head. Carol shoots me a glare and turns and starts whispering something to Cheryl causing both girls to hysterically start giggling. The teacher finishes pairing everyone before passing out a sypnosis sheet on the assignment. It had a recommended list of famous couples in literature and an outline on how to write the essay. The room split off in groups and I sighed making my way over to billy. I sat down slowly in the empty chair next to billy and handed him his copy of the assignment. He said nothing but grabbed the paper from my hands.