Chapter 8

The next day, I woke up happy because I was going to see Jones today in school. I walked to the bathroom and got my toothbrush, I squeezed out a little toothpaste into my toothbrush and put it inside my mouth. I walked out of the bathroom and sat on my bed with my toothbrush inside my mouth, then I picked up my phone and saw I had 6 missed calls and 3 text messages from Betty,

Hey girl, are you home now,

Angie how was your first date???

Come on pick up your phone you monkey.

I smiled and texted her back, I told her my date was fun. I opened my whats app and lots of messages entered my phone because I was offline since yesterday evening. I ignored all the texts and looked for Jones's text even if I wasn't sure he would text me. While I was searching, I saw a text from an unknown number,

Tonight was fun, I really wish we could hang out more often.

I smiled at the text because I knew it was Jones.

Lol, me too. good morning. hope you enjoyed your night,

I replied and saved his number then I replied to other messages and went back to the toilet to brush my teeth. When I was done I showered and went down for breakfast. Dad and Mom were at the table having breakfast already. They were both dressed for work and when they saw me, mom smiled at me weirdly but Dad looked at me like he was mad at me. I slowly walked down and headed to the dining while they both glanced at me continuously.

"Uh... what's wrong?" I asked and chuckled nervously because it was weird.

Dad stood up with his coffee mug and walked to me, he sat next to me and dropped the coffee mug on the table,

"Angie, I saw you walk out of a car yesterday," he said and sipped a little coffee, "Who is he?"

When Dad asked I looked at mom but she looked in another direction immediately.

"He's uh....," I was a bit nervous so I swallowed the lump in my throat, "My classmate,"

"I think you mean your classmate who is your boyfriend," said Dad,

"No, no dad he's not my boyfriend, we're just friends,"

"For now?" Dad asked and squeezed his face, "He's going to ask you out someday and you'll say yes," he raised his voice. I became a little scared when he raised his voice because I can't remember the last time dad yelled at me.

"Come on honey that's enough, you're scaring her already," mom said,

"Yeah I know," dad said and chuckled then he stood up and hugged me, "I scared the crap out of you," he said and continued to laugh. I felt relieved and pushed him softly,

"Leave me alone dad, you scared me dad,"

"Yeah I know," dad said and continued to laugh.

After breakfast, I headed to school. I tried to go to Betty's house first but I knew if I had gone there first I'll be late for school, again she's suspended so maybe after school I'll go to her place. I arrived at school and headed to my locker, I picked up some books and walked to class. The class was already crowded when I arrived at school, I walked to my seat without looking at Jones's seat to see if he was in school or not. I dropped my bag on my desk and sat down on my seat, the moment I leaned my back on my seat the chair broke and I fell.

Everyone in the class started laughing at me after this happened. I stood up feeling humiliated, then Victoria walked to me laughing seriously with a camera in her hand and a screwdriver. She tried to talk but she couldn't because she was laughing.

"I told you to {She busted into laugh again} I told you to stay away from Jones but you didn't listen,"

"Victoria what the hell did you do to my chair?"

"I loosed a few screws with this screwdriver," she said and laughed,

"Don't worry it's not that bad, you can just sit on the floor," said one of the girls who follows Victoria as they all continued to laugh.

Victoria walked to me and looked me in the eyes,

"Stay away from Jones, I'm warning you for the last time, if I see you with Jones again I'll post this video on the school's social media page," she said and smiled evilly

"What video?" I asked curiously,

"This video," she said and show me the video of me falling from my seat.

"Victoria delete that video right now," I said,

"I would if you stay away from Jones,"

While we were talking, Jones walked into the class. I don't know why but I felt happy when he came in. He walked to his seat and dropped his bag on his desk, then he walked to us. immediately he got to us, Victoria smiled,

"Hey babe," she said to Jones and grabbed his face, pulled him close to her, and kissed him on the lips. Jones stood where he was without saying anything, he only gave Victoria a hard look. I was so jealous that I walked out of the class and ran to the toilet. Jones called my name and followed me but I didn't answer him. I got into the girl's bathroom, walked into one of the toilets and shut the door. I closed my eyes and leaned my forehead on the door as tears rolled out of my eyes.

While tears flowed out of my eyes I remembered what mom said about girls and how silly they can get just to get a guy.

Is this what love feels like? painful, jealous, heartbreaking? Jones hasn't even asked me out yet and here I am in the girl's toilet crying because that jerk kissed him, we aren't even a couple but why am I this hurt? I cleaned my tears and closed my eyes, I took a deep breath in and out. {The bell rings for the first period} I opened the door and walked out of the toilet, I headed to the mirror and looked at myself to see if I looked like I just cried but I was looking fine. I walked out of the bathroom and met Jones standing by the door.

"Jones, what are you doing here? you should be in class,"

"I swore I was never going to leave here until I see you, look I'm sorry, she's the one that kissed me I mean you were there and you saw what happened,"

"And you couldn't do anything, this is the second time, first she came and hugged you while we were talking, she even made fun of my name and you couldn't do anything, now she kissed you in front of me and you remained silent," I said and walked away but he held my wrist,

"Wait, okay let me ask, what should I have done?"

I forced my wrist off his hand

"Anything, I don't know, anything that would stop her from doing it again,"

"I'm sorry, please I beg you don't be mad at me," he said but I didn't listen,

"I don't even know why we're having this conversation, it's not like we're a couple," I said and walked out on him.

"I love you Angie," he said.

I stopped where I was and slowly turned back,