Ch 23- Class Rings & Oreos

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PREPARE FOR A CHAPTER THAT I'M TOO LAZY TO PROOF READ.

~THREE MONTHS LATER~

 “Joey, you need to calm down. It’s the first day of summer! Relax!” Sawyer says, watching TV on his bed.

 “I can’t!” I exclaim, frantically searching around his bedroom. “I’ve lost my class ring!”

“How could you lose your class ring when you just got it last month?”

 “I don’t know, but you’re going to help me find it. That thing cost $388.72 and that’s not counting the $50 dollar down payment.”

 “Well if you turned your order sheet in on the actually dead line instead of waiting 2 weeks to mail it in, you would have gotten a $40 discount. And if you entered the lottery contest you would have gotten an additional $50 discount. Mine only cost $292.43 and that’s counting the $50 down payment.”

 “Where is your ring anyways?” I ask, tiling my head and squinting my eyes at him.

 “Inside my bed.” He flat out answers.

 “…What?” I ask confused.

 “When I have my back against the headboard and my hands behind my head, sometimes my ring falls off and slips into the space in between the headboard and mattress. Yours is probably down there, too.”

 “Then what the hell are you waiting for? Get up and find it!” he sighs and sticks his arm down into the slender space. Moments later, he pulls his arm back out and opens his hand to reveal two class rings. I grab mine out of his hand and slip it back on my finger.

 Mine is Solaris Elite metal. It’s a mixture of gold and silver to make this pretty gold. In the middle of it is a giant ruby gem since our school color is red and it says “Joey” across the giant square-ish stone. Outlining the gem is a silver frame that says “Arleta High School” in tiny letters. On one side of the ring is a carved picture of a camera and on the other side is a carved picture of the theater symbol. This ring describes me in so many ways and I know when I look at in on my finger in a few years, I’ll remember all the memories of high school.

 I hope they’ll be good memories.

 “Oh shit.” I groan out through my coughing fit. I grab a tissue off of the nightstand and cough into so I don’t splatter little dots of blood on Sawyer’s white carpet like last time.

 “You know there’s only 2 ways to fix this, Joey.” Sawyer says, rubbing his eyes surrounded by dark circles. “And I know you’re not in the mood to kill anyone right now.”

 “I can’t. I don’t want to cheat on Shane again.” I say, lying on the bed next to him. We’re just staring at the ceiling as we talk. Sawyer and I don’t really have to make eye contact to know that we’re listening to each other. It’s just our thing.

 “Come on. You’ve done this like four times already. It’s not really cheating if you’re just doing it to save your life.”

 “Sawyer, I can’t. I’m sorry.”

 ~THIRTY MINUTES LATER~

 “Shaney. Are you in here?” I ask, walking into my room.

 “Yeah! I’m in the bathroom!” I hear him yelling from the bathroom. I walk down the hall and find him straightening his hair with my flat irons.

 “What are you getting dressed up for?” I ask him, hopping onto the countertop.

 “Nowhere. I just got out the shower and my hair looks like shit.”

 “I think your hair looks perfectly fine.”

 “Yeah, but you have to say that.”

 “Why?”

 “Because you’re my boyfriend.”

 “I’m being serious! I love it.” I grab his hand and pull him in between my legs. He takes my hands and places them behind his neck before gently pressing his lips onto mine.

 “Where are they?” he whispers, pulling away.

 “Where is what?”

 “Where are the Oreos? You taste like Oreos.”

 That’s because Sawyer is obsessed with Oreos and I finally gave in and made out with him for ten minutes in his car before he dropped me off at home.

 “I had a cookies and cream smoothie.” I lie. “We can go get you one if you want.”

 “Actually I thought we could just stay in tonight. Watch a few episodes of Psych until we fall asleep on the couch.”

 “I have a better idea.”

 “What is it?”

 “Wouldn’t you like to know?” I say, walking out of the bathroom.

 “Actually yes. I would love to know what you have planned.” He yells down the hall, popping his head out the door. I just smirk at him and close my bedroom door.

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