So I was desperate to start a Sofia & Jake story because I just simply love the two of them together and I think that they earn more credit than the show is giving them. And I know I shouldn't be starting a new story since I have so many on progress already, but I just couldn't help it. So anyway, I hope you like this story. And I know the characters aren't just like they are in the show but I still tried to keep their main personalities in check, don't know how I succeeded though.. Anyway, enjoy and reviews are welcomed!
"Love sucks!" Sofia exclaims angrily and shifts the TV channel away from the lovey dovey romance movie to something else, while spooning more ice cream into her mouth. She never thought she would be pining over some guy this long, especially not Jake. It had been four months, four freaking months, since they broke up and since then she has been a total train wreck. She didn't show it outside, although Josh and Gabi knew because they saw right through her, but everyone else thought she was this strong, independent woman, soul spin instructor who had all her emotions under control.. Complete lie. She was lost, heartbroken and the only thing keeping her from getting diabetes was her physical job.
Jake was supposed to be her breakup buddy, he was supposed to be someone to have fun with but instead she had to fall for the guy. She didn't even realize it before she was losing him. At first when he said he was going to leave her she didn't mind because she thought their relationship was purely physical and fun, and all she wanted was to make sure he came with her to the quinceanera. But then when they were having their breakup sex it all came to her. She realized how much she cared for him, how much she loved and craved his touch, how toxicating his scent was.
At that moment everything changed.
Everything he did was just more. His touch on her skin, it wasn't just a way to make her shiver and giggle, it burned her like fire. His kisses, they weren't just making her feel good, they made her feel euphoric and light headed. His deep moans, weren't just making her lady parts light up, they made her feel like she was really the source of his pleasure and it made her heart flutter. The way he said her name, over and over again, she felt her walls breaking more and her breath hitched in her throat. The way they were cuddling after, it didn't felt like other times did, like they were just enjoying each other's company after filling their needs. Instead they hold on to each other like their lives depended on it.
That's the way she felt, but obviously Jake hadn't felt what she had.
The morning she woke up after that night she found the other side of the bed empty. The spot where she usually found Jake's perfectly sculptured face sleeping peacefully was now just a cold space unfilled and she found herself crying a few minutes after the realization of him being gone hitting her like a wrecking ball. She heard Gabi's voice coming through the door asking if she was okay and soon the blonde was in her room, rushing over her crying best friend.
"He's gone Gabi, he's really gone!" Sofia had cried hopelessly and let her best friend hold on to her as she cried more than she had ever done before.
And now, here she is, four months later and still hung up on the guy who wasn't supposed to be the source of her heartache in the first place.
"True love doesn't even exist!" She says angrily again and switches the channel again, hearing two different people coming inside, already knowing who they were.
"Sofia, honey.." Gabi's voice starts carefully and she turns to glare at her best friend, her mouth full of chocolate flavoured ice cream, which was supposed to bring her comfort but she found none.
"Didn't we decide to stop eating ice cream?" She continued, sitting next to Sofia. She tries to take the spoon and the can out of Sofia's hand but she moves it away, out of her reach.
"Yeah, but that was before I heard he was coming" She says with emphasis on the word he.
"I know and we talked about it. You are going to show him what he left behind" Gabi says and gives Josh a look. Josh takes the hint and catches the ice cream package out of Sofia's hand.
"Hey!" Sofia whines and turns her glare to Josh.
"And anyway, this isn't even your ice cream" Josh says and protectively takes the ice cream back to the freezer.
"But I still enjoyed eating it" She says and crosses her arms.
"Sofia, I love you, you know that, but I'd appreciate it if you took your feet out of my expensive coffee table and stopped eating my ice cream" Josh says and she huffs, before giving up and taking her feet out of the table.
She didn't really have the right to complain. Josh had been kind to let her stay at his place alongside Gabi when Gabi had forgotten to call to plumber on time and that lead to them having a water damage in their own apartment. She didn't have nowhere to go until the repairings were done so Josh invited her too to stay in his place in the meantime.
"Sorry" Sofia apologizes and looks at her hands for a minute before speaking again.
"It's just, I don't know.. I wasn't prepared to see him again you know?"
"I know" Josh says, slightly furrowing his eyebrows.
It had been a complete shock to him, and Gabi, when he found the two friends sitting in Sofia's bed, Gabi comforting Sofia as she cried on her shoulder. He had never seen Sofia cry, or show any kind of weakness actually. He hated the fact that his little brother had been the reason to break down the strongest person he knew and he wanted to yell at Jake for that but Sofia made him promise to not say anything about her to Jake. Every time he spoke with Jake on the phone and he asked how Sofia was doing he had to lie and not tell him that she was on his couch, eating pie or popcorn and yelling at the screen in front of her.
"I'm not prepared for tomorrow. I mean, yes I have had four months to get over him but somehow I just can't. I know I was doing better but now I feel like I'm on square one again" Sofia speaks honestly, not seeing a reason to keep anything from the two, when they knew her better than no one and she trusted them with her life.
She had indeed doing slightly better, she didn't sulk on the couch every day anymore. She actually left the house nowadays, also other than going to work. She was hanging out with Gabi and they went out, shopping and clubbing. She even tried to get back on the horse again but no one seemed to light up the interest in her. She didn't even try to get to know the men she met anymore, she just picked a guy from a bar and went home with him, trying to fill the emptiness she felt inside but no one seemed to help. Surely they released the sexual tension she felt but it didn't seem to cheer her up in any level.
She had managed to cope with the cold feeling in her heart but then two days ago when she had heard that Jake was coming to Josh's and Gabi's engagement party, she had gone hundred steps backwards on her recovery progress. When Josh invited him he wasn't going to come, said he had something else going on then but apparently he had changed his mind and now she has to see him tomorrow.
"But Sofia you have to face him eventually, he's Josh's brother and you can't avoid him forever" Gabi says and rubs Sofia's arm reassuringly.
Gabi had known Sofia as long as she can remember and no one had left her like this. She usually got over a guy in a few weeks, in a month on tops but four months and still not getting over him.. That's new. And Gabi has a feeling why Sofia can't get over Jake, she loves him although she doesn't know it herself. Sofia has never been in love, not that Gabi knew, and she knows everything about her best friend. Surely she had had deep feelings, for example towards Ruben, but it was nothing compared to what the brunette felt towards her fiancé's little brother, she's sure of that.
Still she can't tell Sofia because that would make her go completely crazy, or, she wouldn't believe her. She has to realize it herself.
"Why? I could just crawl under my bed and never come out again" Sofia says.
"That's it!" Josh says with a tough voice and makes the both girls jump.
"Sofia, you are stronger than this! You are Lil' So So after all! You can't just let some guy get into your life and then fuck shit up for you. You have to get up on that couch, get a good night's sleep and then face him tomorrow like you own the whole city, or even the world. You can't let him see how much effect he had on you! You have to show him that your life is the way you want it to be and you couldn't be happier. Make him want to punch himself for letting a girl like you go. Make him feel bad!" Josh lectures and both girls look at him mouths dropped open.
"Why didn't you say that four months ago?!" Sofia exclaims. She can't help but feel a bit better after hearing Josh's words. It feels good to have someone on her side, other than Gabi who had to be on her side.
"And you do know that's your brother you're talking about" She continues and chuckles slightly.
"Yes I know that" Josh chuckles.
"But seriously Sofia, Josh is right. You need to show him that you don't care" Gabi says.
"I know" Sofia says with a sigh and gives Gabi a hug.
"Thank you, both" She says and gives each one a meaningful look.
"I appreciate your attempts on helping me" She says before slashing a small smile and standing up from the couch.
"Anytime" Gabi says, also smiling as she places her arm around Josh.
"Now I will get my beauty sleep and then show him what sexy bomb he left behind" She says with a grin and heads downstairs.
"You know she's going to break down tomorrow right?" Josh asks quietly when he's sure Sofia can't hear them anymore.
"I know, do you think we should've told her?" Gabi asks, worried look on her face.
"About Jake having a girlfriend? I don't think so, she should hear it from him and not us. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want get in the middle of that" Josh says.
"Me neither. I just hope she's going to be okay.." Gabi sighs and puts her head on his shoulder.
"Me too"
