Too Little, Too Late
Logan's POV
As my friends and I made our way up the stairs of the school after being dropped off by our bus, instead of going into the entrance with them, Garret and I stopped; the girls were too wrapped up in conversation to notice. He gave me the smoothie he managed to get from his job earlier this morning.
"Good luck man." He said giving me a look of sympathy, him being the only one in the group knowing what I was about to do.
"Thanks." I turned and walked down the path leading to the side of the school.
I sighed as I reached the bench Erin and I always sit on. This was "our spot". We would always come here when we had free time in school and just talk...and sometimes kiss. It was private. I was gonna miss it.
"Hey Snookums!" Erin cheerfully said as she walked up to me and gave me a peck on the lips.
"Hey Erin, thanks for getting here so early." I smiled the best I could, even though I knew this wouldn't end well. "Here, I got your favorite flavor smoothie."
"Aww, thank you babe! You're so sweet!" she hugged me. "So when you said you wanted to talk it sounded serious. Is everything alright?" she took a sip of her smoothie.
"Yeah...I mean, no. No not really." I answered truthfully.
"What's wrong?" her expression turned concerned.
Come on Logan, it's like ripping off a bandaid. You can do this!
"I can do this.." I said to myself by accident.
"What?" Erin asked, confused.
I sighed. "Listen Erin, you're my first girlfriend, my first real relationship. And you're the best first girlfriend I could ask for. I've really had so much fun being with you, this is been the best 5 weeks of my life. You're so beautiful, and smart, and great and just everything a guy could ever want in a girl and I don't want you to feel like this is your fault. It's mine."
"What's your fault? What are you saying Logan..."
"I'm saying… I think we should break up." I forced the words out of my mouth.
"What? Why!?" she exclaimed. The look in her eyes reminded of a sad puppy.
"Because...because I've gained feelings for someone else." I looked down.
"Oh.." she sounded at a loss for words.
"I just didn't want to be with you while liking someone else. I felt like I wasn't being very truthful to you. You deserve better than that. I didn't start to like the person until just recently, so I didn't agree to be your boyfriend while I liked her. It's just that...I think I might like her a little more than I like you. I didn't want to stay with you, wanting to be with someone else more. That just wouldn't be fair to you." I explained, probably not making anything better.
"How recently did you start to like her?" she asked. She's being way calmer than I thought she would be.
"Maybe a week or 2 ago."
"Can I ask who it is?"
"It's Jasmine." I admitted, meeting her sad eyes. "But she doesn't know, I haven't told her yet. So please don't blame this on her."
"I wasn't going to." she shook her head. "I'm blaming you!" she suddenly yelled in outburst.
"Whoa.."
"What kind of jerk dates someone while being completely in love with someone else! Their best friend for that matter! You should've told me the minute you started to like her but you lead me on for almost two weeks! What a jerk! Ugh, I can't believe I ever liked you! And to think, I was going to ask you to come over and meet my cat today. You're such a douchebag Logan, have a terrible life!" she got up about to storm away, but she stopped and walked back to throw her smoothie in face.
"So we can't be friends?" I yelled, knowing she had already walked away.
I walked into first period, American History, getting funny looks from the some of the kids in the class. For a second I completely forgot I had pineapple strawberry smoothie dripping from my face and hair.
I knew she was gonna do that, that's why I asked Garret to get the smoothie. I would rather have a smoothie be dumped on me than have her slap me in my face. My precious face.
I sat down in a seat next Garrett. I would've sat next to Jasmine but ever since I figured out I like her, I've kinda been avoiding her to make it less obvious.
Garrett gave me a towel to wipe my face.
"What happened to you?" Jasmine asked, turning in her chair to look at me. Delia, Lindy, and Garrett did the same.
"I uh...smoothie." was all I could manage to say.
"You threw smoothie on yourself..?" Delia asked, her eyebrows furrowing.
"No, Erin did."
The second bell rang, making all of us turn our attention to the front of the classroom.
"Why would Erin throw a smoothie on you?" Lindy asked lowly.
"Well I uh...I br-"
"Okay class, quiet." Mrs. Winston cut me off. I noticed some guy standing next her. He must be new. "We will begin our lesson in a minute but first we have a new student joining us today, his name is David Becket."
He smiled and waved at everyone.
"Oooo, hot guy alert!" Lindy whispered to Jasmine and Delia. Jasmine couldn't seem to take her eyes off him.
Oh no...
"David, you may sit where ever you please but make it quick, I need to start my lesson."
Please don't sit next to Jasmine, Please don't sit next to Jasmine, Please don't sit next to Jasmine.
I watched as he searched the room for an empty seat. His eyes landed on Jasmine, and lit up. He smiled at her as he made his way to the empty seat next to her. Which happened to be in front of me.
Dang it, I should've sat there when I had the chance.
"Great choice, Miss Kang is one of the brightest students in this class, she'll catch you up on everything you may need to know." Mrs. Winston told him.
"Hey he's next to me too!" Cody, the class clown, exclaimed.
"It appears so." Mrs. Winston fake smiled at him. "So today class, we will be..." she started to teach but I could only focus on Jasmine and David's quiet conversation.
"I'm sorry, what's your name?" He leaned over to ask her.
"Jasmine." she smiled.
"Jasmine. Well, uh, I'm David." He smiled back at her.
"I know, she introduced you up there." she scoffed.
"Oh yeah, right...sorry." He shook his head.
"No, you're fine."
"Okay, good. I'm gonna try my best not to embarrass myself today. I tend to do that around beautiful girls like you." He didn't make eye contact with her until he finished.
Oh this guy's good.
She smiled really wide at him then looked down, her long wavy hair covering her face. She does that whenever she blushes. She then looked over at Lindy, I assume giving her the look they give each other when a "cute guy" is around.
The "OMG!" face...I hang around them too much.
I couldn't help but notice David stealing a few glances at her here and there.
This isn't good...
I tuned back into Mrs. Winston. "So everybody get into groups of three and grab books. I will hand out the worksheet shortly."
Garrett got up to get books.
David's probably gonna ask Jas if he can be in her group! That can't happen...
"Hey David, you wanna be in our group?" I said, louder than I intended. He turned and looked at me, not expecting my bluntness.
Garrett came back and handed me a book, giving me a weird look.
"Um, sure." He turned his chair around to face me. Jasmine, Lindy, and Delia all got into a group.
Of course they did, I had nothing to worry about...man now I'm stuck with him.
No, stop it Logan! He's new! Of course he doesn't know you like Jasmine, it's not his fault! Make him feel welcome!
Well not too welcome, he might want to join the gr-
"Logan!" Garrett snapped in my face.
"Hm?"
"He asked us our names. You zoned out." Garrett looked at me curiously.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Logan." we shook hands.
"Nice to meet ya Logan. Do you mind if I ask what's in your hair?" He looked curious but I think he was trying not to laugh.
Mrs. Winston handed us the worksheet.
"Oh, it's smoothie." I said. He looked at me even more confused. "I broke up with my girlfriend this morning."
"Ohhh. Done that before, it didn't go too well." He sighed.
"What, worse than this?" I pointed to myself.
"Let's just say it's one of the reasons I moved."
"Where are you from?" Garrett piped in.
"Michigan. My dad got promoted. I could've stayed there with my mom but I wanted to be with my pops. And because of a few personal issues..." He trailed off. "But I'm glad I moved. The people here seem nice and the city is so lively. The girls are gorgeous..." He looked over at Jasmine. "You guys are the first people I've talked to and you seem cool. Would you mind if I sat with you at lunch?"
"Well I'm just gonna lay this out now. We've tried to add a new guy into our group before and it didn't happen the way we wanted it to. So don't be offended if it doesn't happen." I said. I felt Garrett look at me weird.
"Well he actually seems cool-"
"It's not gonna happen!" I snapped accidentally. I didn't mean to be that hostile.
"Don't worry man, I'm not gonna break up your group. I'm just trying to make friends being the new guy and all."
Now I feel bad.
"I'm sorry man. It's just that the last guy was so boring."
I knew that wasn't the reason, and I was just jealous and afraid, but I had to cover it up somehow.
"Yeah he wasn't that great." Garrett agreed with me.
"Well like I said, I'm not here to get in between anyone. Just trying to make friends. I don't have to sit with you guys if you don't-"
"No no no, sit with us please, I insist." I shook my head.
I had to let him, especially after I was so rude.
"You sure? I could ask someone in my other classes."
"Dude. It's fine."
"Okay cool. Are the people in your group as cool as you guys?" He smiled.
"Well no one is as cool as me," I slicked my hair back " but there's my twin sister, Lindy. She can be annoying at times but she's okay. There's Delia, quirky and weird but cool too. And then we have Jasmine. Beautiful, extremely smart, funny, fashionable...you know what? She just might be as cool as me." I smiled.
"Whoa...she's gonna be at lunch?" He looked over at Jasmine.
That's like the 500th he's looked at her, it's making me want to rip his eyeballs out.
"Yep." I gritted my teeth.
"I'm looking forward to it." He smiled at her then directed his attention to the worksheet. "Okay so what's up with this book work?"
The way he's getting under my skin, this dude might not make it to lunch.
Thank you guys so much for reading! To my fellow JOGAN SHIPPERS (which is probably all of you lol), I'm probably not gonna incorporate heavy Jogan moments until near the end of this story...which sounds far away when I say it but I'm not planning on writing more than 5 or 6 chapters AT MOST. I might not even get up to 5. We'll see. But I'm just letting you know, I plan on letting Jasmine fall for David and have a relationship with him and everything. So if you could wait patiently that'd be great but if you can't and you choose to opt out of reading the rest, that's fine too.
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