Mend Me
Chapter 2: Forgiveness and Realization
Yay! I'm so excited, thanks for all your comments and suggestions. So here is my second chapter, hope you love the way it turned out, I myself am very happy with it, enjoy!
Joe's POV
I gulped as Demi's face turned to mine I was prying in my mind that she wouldn't crack it at me. Her eyes looked straight into mine, there was so much pain in her eyes and I'm not saying that because they were all red and puffy. She looked at me up and down then before I could even react he flung herself into my arms and I could feel her warm tears land on my shoulder. I rubbed her back.
She whispered to me faintly, "I'm so sorry Joe I was a complete idiot, I should have listened to you, you were right all along he is a jerk…"
Miley signaled to my brothers that they should leave us alone, so the all walked inside leaving Demi and I sitting on the swing in the front yard. Demi had her head rested on my shoulder. We stayed silently in that same position for a while until I decided to break the silence.
"Demi I'm sorry we ever had that fight, it was wrong of me to say that you weren't allowed to date Sterling, I guess I just felt as if you would have no room left for another guy in your life apart from him, but instead because I got so angry at you I lost you for a whole year…I stuffed up Demi I really did and I'm sorry." I said looking at Demi's head rested on my shoulder.
She lifted her head and fiddled with a pink flower in her hands and said
"I stuffed up too Joe, I should have been smart enough to see that Sterling never really had any real feelings for me. I shouldn't have let a simple fight come between us either."
We both hugged each other tightly, it felt like more than a hug to me I wish I could have kissed her right there and then but we haven't seen each other for so long and it would be too much of a startle for her. We went back inside. Miley was making dinner with Kevin while nick was busy ummm…staring at Miley. I looked at Demi and whispered "hey, look at Nick checking out Miley" I said softly chuckling. Demi looked at Nick looking at Miley and started laughing, I loved her laugh it was contagious so I just laughed with her. Nick, Miley and Kevin looked at us like we were weirdo's, Demi looked at Nick and shook her head.
"What?!" Nick said replying to Demi's head shake, there he goes again pretending like he wasn't staring at Miley like she was a goddess or something.
Demi smiled "nothing..." she said in a tease like voice. She threw herself onto the couch and let out a big sigh.
Miley spoke "Oh I totally forgot to ask did you guys buy any chance bring your bathers?" I rolled my eyes.
"Yes Milez, god you'd forget your head if it wasn't screwed on so tight" I said smirking at her. Demi just nodded.
"Oh god Joe! You're like the annoying brother I've never had" she said while laughing then she playfully punched me in the arm.
"Hey Milez where is your family at?" Kevin said leaning the spoon on the edge of the frying pan to face Miley.
"Oh they went to go visit my cousin Sarah, she is having a baby girl soon" said Miley jumping and clapping her hands excitedly. I rolled my eyes at Miley's immaturity.
"Why didn't you go too?" Demi asked
"Because you know, I have a lot of publicity stuff to do this week, like Vanessa's premiere for Bandslam on Tuesday and I have a photo shoot on Wednesday and…" Miley kept on going on and on she really did have a lot on this week.
I looked at Demi she was just sitting there nodding at Miley like some kind of parrot. I laughed at her a bit and she shot one of those scary girl glares at me, a shiver went down my spine. I looked at my watch, it was 5:20pm but knowing Ashley and Vanessa they'd probably get here early.
"Hey guys Ashley and Vanessa should be here soon" I spoke too soon, both Ashley and Vanessa were standing in the doorway with lame smiles on their faces.
I rolled my eyes and walked into the kitchen without bothering to say hi. I grabbed and apple and walked back into the living room where all the girls were chatting away about their hair and boys and stuff, except for Demz of coarse, that's why I fell for her in the first place I still do like her except she's probably moved on because she thought me and Camilla were dating, well we were… but that's a long and complicated story.
"JOE!!??? Hello anybody home!?" It was Kevin waving his hand in front of my face.
"You totally just spaced out there man, you were like staring at Demi for the last 2 minutes" Kevin said, I looked around the room and everyone was looking at me weirdly.
Oh man now Kevin and Nick are gonna give me a whole lot of shit for staring at Demi.
I thought of an excuse as quick as I could, "Sorry I was deep in thought, I tend to stare at one spot when I'm thinking that hard." thank god very one bought it…even Demi.
My phone beeped I looked at the txt,
Hey Joe plz tell evey1 I can't make it family problems, thanks! Love Tay!
"Oh guys Taylor can't come she's got some family stuff going on" I said to everyone.
"Oh that sucks I was really looking forward to seeing her!" said Demi glumly. everyone agreed.
Demi's POV
It was wired having Joe around again, it was good though it's like the empty part of my heart has been filled again. I took a good look at him, he looked so different, so….hot! Wow did I just think that, even weirder!
I herd the doorbell ring, "I'll get it!" I said practically sprinting for the door.
I herd Nick laugh in the distance then he said "when Demi is that desperate to get to the door you know it will be Selena walking in the room two seconds later with Demi attached to her."
I opened the door to see a pile of walking stuff??? "Selly? Is that you? I can't even see you because of all that junk you're carrying!"
"It's not Junk Demz! It's my bag with my clothing and toiletries in it, my pool volleyball set and some movies" she said sort of shouting over the pile she was carrying.
"Oh, here let me help you." I said grabbing the massive pile of about 20 DVD's and her bag.
Now I couldn't see! I walked up the steps back into the house and just walked forward, I figured that was a better option than walking into a wall.
"JOE, MOVE!" Miley shouted.
THUMP! Next thing I knew I was laying on top of Joe with lots of DVD's and their covers scattered all over the place.
"Ow…" Joe and I muttered I hurt too much to get of Joe. So I opened my eyes to see if I had damaged Joe.
Instead he was sort of smiling at me, "what!?" I said forgetting everyone else around us.
"Ah don't get me wrong Demz you're pretty warm but could you mabie get off me now?" he said with a stupidly amused look on his face.
"Oh ah yeah sure sorry I'm a cults!" I said jumping to my feet.
Miles, Nessa, Ash and Sel were all shaking their heads at me.
"Ok let me get this straight with all you girls just because I fell on top of Joe a stayed there for a while doesn't mean I like him or he likes me" I said frowning at them all
"Sure…" all four girls moaned together. I rolled my eyes.
"So we gonna play some pool volleyball or what!?" I shouted enthusiastically.
"Yeah!" everyone shouted, with Joe's enthusiasm just a little more enthusiastic than everyone else's.
"Ok let me go get my bathes on then" I said grabbing my bag off the couch then walked up to Miley's room and locked the door.
I put the white bikini with different coloured poka-dots all over them, I didn't like them that much but this is what Miley bought me for my last birthday and she keeps complaining that I never wear them, so I may as well try them out and see what people think.
I wrapped my matching poka-dot towel Miley also bought me around my waist and walked downstairs. Everyone already had their bathers on underneath their cloths so I gather they all split into separate rooms and got changed.
I entered the room and everyone looked at me. "Wow Demz you look hot in those bathers!" Kevin said wide-eyed at me. I guess the bathers looked good on me.
I laughed "Ah….thanks Kevin"
"You're welcome!" Kevin said smiling, Joe slapped him on the arm.
I felt my cheeks go red, I put my hands over my cheeks and waked outside to the pool.
Miley did a bomb into the pool and got Joe all wet, I laughed so loud.
"Oh so you think this is funny demitria?" he said with a cheeky smile on his face.
He stepped closer to me and I stepped backwards, he came right up to my face, it was uncomfortable so I stepped…"Woahhhhhh!" splash! Water all around me great just great!
I swam to the surface and gave Joe one of those girl stares he hates most. He put his hands up "Ok little miss sour I surrender" oh no he didn't!
"That's it!" I got out of the pool and jumped on Joes back. It was nice to be able to play like we had never been apart.
We were both laughing so hard, Joe fell in the pool with me on his back. We both got to the top. Every one was looking at us like we were idiots.
Joe and I just looked at each other and shrugged.
We split up into two teams for pool volleyball-
Team 1-
Joe
Demi
Miley
Nick
Team 2-
Selena
Kevin
Ashley
Vanessa
We played for a whole hour and our team one! Yay! I got my towel and dried myself off. I looked over at Joe, I just couldn't help looking at him every now and then I bit my lip. I thought what is wrong with me! Why can't I stop feeling so guilty about leaving him
I flashed my eyes to Miley, she looked back and I think she knew what I was thinking because she pulled me over to a corner and asked me, "You are thinking about Joe and leaving him aren't you?" yep! she read me like a book.
"No...I mean yes…but I cant…and he" I babbled on to Miley like a fool.
"Demi, I'm not supposed to tell you this but when you and Joe were best friends…." she took a deep breath and kept speaking "Joe felt much more than that…he loved you Demi and that's why he got so angry at you when you talked about sterling and your first date"
Then all at once all the memories of Joe and I came flooding back into my brain. One of the memories of my 14th birthday party he bought me a necklace that said 'together forever'. I let a few tears steam down my face.
"He really did love me! I'm a real idiot aren't I Miley?" I said looking at the floor.
Miley replied in a soft voice "No not an idiot…just sorta blind , that's all"
I just nodded and walked back into the house where every one was getting ready to watch 'Transformers- Revenge of the Fallen'. I walked over to Miley's cupboard and pulled out 4 popcorn packets I shoved them in the microwave aggressively, I was so angry at myself! I am so confused!
"Are you ok Demz?" it was Joe, probably the last person I should let my anger out on, I tried to calm my self down.
I opened my mouth to say something but then closed it. I trapped Joe into a massive hug. I stayed silent and let tears steam down my face just as much as I did they day I last spoke to him.
"I'm sorry! I'm not the one who should be crying my eyes out here…I cant believe I didn't…" I cut myself off I was going to say that I couldn't believe I didn't realise he loved me, but what if he didn't have those feelings left for me anymore.
"You know what it doesn't mater… all that matters is that my best friend is back in my life" I said smiling.
Joe's POV
Somehow I knew what Demi was going to say was important, but ill ask her later.
"Hey Joe can you bring the muffins mum made in here for the movie?!" Nick shouted from the living room.
Demi smiled "I'll take the muffins in and you wait for the popcorn to finish" Demi said as she wiped the tears away from her beautiful face.
Ok I'm going to stop there because it's already 7 pages! Sorry for the delay, but I am in high skwl and I have lots of hw at the moment so yeah. Next chapter will be more on the sleepova and after the sleepova.
On another subject, I saw the music video 4 'Send It On' some amazing jemi moments! They'd be amazing together! Don't u think? And on other news my friends think Nick has always had a crush on Demi just because he's always happy around her…ah no! I don't think so!
Peace! Love NickJonasAndSmileyMileyRock! xoxo!
