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I needed to see you, and I don't care what the madness is part I

Sophie came to my house the next day and really distracted me. She told me about her friendship with Jordan, and where they met. She was teasing me the whole time about him and I told her about my insecurities about what I felt about Jordan and what I said to him. My friend just smiled and said that I had done the right thing and followed my heart. After Sophie left, I was left there alone in my world, in my room. The house wasn't as busy anymore and Claire would be away for a while too, spending a week and a half at her relatives' house, while I would stay there alone. My father is traveling to Brazil tomorrow. My luck was that Sophia could come visit me in the meantime. She was getting out of the shower when I saw my cell phone playing 'Who Says'. That was my favorite song. I looked at the display and that number that appeared on the screen seemed somewhat familiar to me. That's why I decided to answer.

Active voice call

"Hello?" I asked, but I only heard breathing coming from the other end of the line. "Hello?" I asked again.

"Hi Julie, this is Jordan!" When I heard his voice I shook all over, I still couldn't believe it.

"Jordan, hi." I said at last.

"How are you?" He asked.

“I’m fine, Sophie was here.” I spoke.

“Yes, I know, she called me. I needed to hear her voice, it feels like we haven’t seen her for days.” I laughed.

“I know, I feel the same way too.”

“I want to tell you something about the note you gave me.” my heart raced even more, and I felt my face heat up, due to embarrassment.

“Look, I’m sorry, are you okay? Maybe I got it all mixed up when you said you wanted to be my friend.” I spoke quickly, not knowing where to put my face.

“Hey, you don’t need to apologize, do you hear me? I know it all may seem confusing to you, but I'm the same way. I really liked you, Julie, and that's really crazy because I don't even know you! Damn, I think I fell in love too as soon as I saw you.” I noticed a smile appear on my face and I wanted to scream, so everyone could hear how happy I was.

“That’s perfect to hear.” I spoke to him.

“It’s good to be able to tell you this. I wanted to see you today but, I understand the situation, so tomorrow I will be waiting for you in the garden. Sophie told me about the conversation you two had,” he says.

“I'm afraid that something might happen. I'm not going to lie and say that everything is fine. It's not but, screw it! I want to see you." I spoke to him.

“I also really need to see you, look at you.” I smiled when I heard those words. When I was about to respond, I heard heavy footsteps coming from the stairs and I realized that it was my father.

“Jordan, I need to hang up, mine is coming.” she said, whispering to him.

“Okay, I’ll wait for you tomorrow. Kisses and take care." he said at the other end of the line.

“Take care of yourself too, see you soon.” I said and quickly hung up the call and deleted his call story, and then my father came in without knocking on the door and was all dressed up.

"Just arrived? I asked my father.

“On the contrary, I am leaving” he says “My trip to Brazil was brought forward but, as I told you before, I will only return in a month.” he completes the speech.

"All good." I got up from the chair and went to him, giving him a quick hug and soon he left. And as incredible as it may seem, I was happy he went. I haven't been this comfortable around Dad since he hit me last time.

I went down to the kitchen and prepared something for myself to eat and then went up to my room again. That was the only place in that house where there was peace and no one was watching me. I lay in my bed to read a book and, without even realizing it, I fell asleep. I woke up to small noises hitting the glass of the bedroom window. I approached the window with slow steps and opened it. When I leaned on the balcony, still looking down, I was startled to see who was there. I couldn't believe it.

“I’m going up.” and so he did, climbed up the wall and slowly came towards me. I was still leaning on the balcony and when he finally arrived, our eyes met. She looked at him in awe and confusion because he was there, that was crazy.

"As?" I asked softly.

“I needed to see you, I told you that.” He answered me.

My chest rose and fell, I was nervous and ecstatic about it all. My eyes dropped to his lips, and then I looked back into his green eyes, which enchanted me so much. Jordan jumped in and was face to face with me. I was very tiny compared to him, who was huge, at six feet tall.

“You said you would only come tomorrow.” I said and got a little closer to him and I could already feel his breath hitting my face.

“I couldn’t cope with anxiety. I spent the whole afternoon thinking about something I should have done at that damn party.” he says and touches my face, making me cringe completely.

"And what would it be?" I asked, looking seriously at him.

We stared at each other for a moment and once again everything around us became just nothing, everything was in slow motion, even the wind that was blowing my hair became slow, in front of both of us. Jordan smoothed my face and gave that beautiful smile that only he had, making my legs feel like jelly, they were so soft.

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