I promised you guys another chapter, so here it is! Thank you for the reviews, follows and favourites. I may post another chapter in about 8 hours or so. I think the story will have 4 chapters and an epilogue or 3 chapters and an epilogue.
Jack's POV
...248, 249, 250. Finished my push ups for the day. I get up and take a sip from my water bottle and on my way to get a towel I pass my mirror. I slowly turn around and for the first time in 3 years I truly look at my self. Broad shoulders, arms with the perfect amount of muscles, a 4-pack and the beginning of a 6-pack. In the corner of the mirror stands a picture of me at the age of 12 years old and in the opposite corner is a picture of me that was taken last weak, on my 15th birthday. Now that I closely look at how I looked when I was just 12 I realise that everything those girls said... (what were their names?!... Oh, yeah, Donna and Erica) was completely not true. I wasn't far, but not skinny either I had a normal weight I just let myself be influenced by their comments. I didn't look nerdy, I was quite ok-looking for a 12-year-old boy. Looking back now I have no idea how the hell I could believe what those wanna-bes said. I changed since then, I truly did. For the first time in my life when I arrived in Seaford I instantly made friends with my neighbour, Jason who is my age and, surprisingly, I was the one who started the conversation. I turned to be more confident that I thought. But now it's time to say goodbye to him and the other friends from Seaford High that I made in only one semester. My things are already packed and downstairs. I just have to take a shower and then off I go back to Seaford to live with my older sister, Clary.
I just happened to enter the bathroom when my phone started ringing. I answer and I'm totally not surprised to hear the voice on the other side:
"Hey, Jack! I really need your help with something."
"Kim! I'm here. What is it?"
Her voice sounded so broken and I hadn't heard that voice broken in almost 3 years. I still have no idea how school is going in Los Angeles because it's a touchy subject for me, so Kim decided that it would be better not to talk about it. But on the other hand I am quite curious becouse apparently Kim and Sunny changed for the better. They both sound more cheerful and more carefree so I suspect things got better there. Sounding so broken, Kim now scares me.
"Jack, Andrew broke up with me and I feel so lost!"
To be honest, I kind of expected that. I have no idea how Andrew started being friends with Kim then started taking a liking to her, according to Sunny so one day he finally made his move and asked Kim out. That kind of bothered me because I had had a crush on Kim since kindergarden and, unfortunately, I never had the courage to tell her. And in middle school, when everything was going down hill, I knew for sure it wasn't the right moment. Then, I moved which meant no chance of telling her so I just gave up.
Now, I am the best friend from another city who she relies on even though we haven't seen each other in a long time. She and my parents tried to convice me to Skype with her, but I just didn't want her to see me changing so much. In my point of view, she had to stay in the dark about my looks until I came back home. Tomorrow she will see me and I'm not sure if I'm happy or not if she is going to recognise me. Now I have to focus on helping her.
"Girlie, you don't have to feel down. I don't know why you got together with that guy considering how he behaved with the three of us in middle school. I don't know what changes have been made in that school, but I promise that from tomorrow everything is going to be okay again and you will be happier than ever."
"What?!"
Kim's POV
Andrew just broke up with me, the guy I had been crushing on since Jack left. How could I had have a crush on him?! I honestly don't know. It just happened. When we became friends and later asked me out I couldn't believe it so I called Jack at that time too and he seemed to fake happiness. I know what Andrew did to us, but I just had to accept. And now I suffer the consequences. Andrew just played with me. But no one plays with Kim Crawford when she changed the school for the better.
"Girlie, you don't have to feel down. I don't know why you got together with that guy considering how he behaved with the three of us in middle school. I don't know what changes have been made in that school, but I promise that from tomorrow everything is going to be okay again and you will be happier than ever." What's that supposed to mean?
"What?!"
"Kim, tomorrow you will go to school like nothing has happened and you will continue like this. I know it hurts you, but you have Sunny, Jerry and Milton to support you. And, trust me, you will soon find another person to trust."
"I don't know how you manage it, Jack, but you just made me feel better. I lo- I – I LOST MY KEYS." Oh my God! Did I almost say that I love him?! Good thing that I made up the loss of my house keys and covered up the mistake. How could I say that I love Jack when my contact with him was minimal. We only talked on the phone because for some unknown reason he totally refused to Skype. I still have that image of the perfect 12-year-old boy whom I fell for. He wasn't chubby, nor skinny. He had no glasses to be compared with a nerd. He was very smart and that's why Donna and Erica picked on him. They were jealous. Now they have no group. The hang alone in the library and not because no one tried to include them, but because they said they are too good for this school. Only later did they realise how wrong they were.
"Kim, Kim! You okay over there?" How sweet! Jack is concerned for me.
"Oh, yeah! I found them, I put the keys in another pocket. Thanks for the pep-talk, by the way."
"No problem! Hey, I would love to continue chatting but I was about to take a shower when you called so..."
Jack?! Showering?! Could there be a more perfect image?! Oh, God! I got it bad.
"Geez, Jack! I didn't have to know that." I laughed wholeheartedly.
"Then talk to you tomorrow." And just like that he closed. We speak on a daily basis but I somehow feel tomorrow is going to be another way of talking. I just know it from the way he said it. Like, mischieviously. Oh, well! Time to do some homework!
Jack's POV
I finished talking with Kim. She had almost said she loves me were was I just imaginating?! It couldn't be possible, she only knows my personality and for all I know she fell for Andrew because of his looks. Neah, I must be just overthinking it.
I got into the shower, washed my hair and then dressed into a pair of low-rising black jeans, a black T-shirt with Guns 'n' Roses written on it and a pair of red high tops. I stop on the door frame with my hand on the light switch and take one final look around the now almost empty room that served as my room for 3 years, the room in which I learnt how to be confident and how to not care about what others say if it's a bad thing. With a sign, I switch the light off, pick up my backpack on one shoulder and close the door.
As I am now looking on the window of the plane, I think: "LA, here I come!"