"Jade, honey, wake up! It's Valentine's Day!"
Jade groaned, and attempted to shut out her mother's happy go lucky voice. It really was too early, and besides. Today was going to suck. No Valentines for her, of course. She didn't have a boyfriend anymore.
"Jaaaaade!"
"Alright, mom," Jade groaned, and rolled over. She looked through bleary eyes at the clock, and saw that it wasn't even eight in the morning. She didn't have school, it was a Saturday! Why so early? Her mother knew not to wake her until ten on Saturday s, and sometimes even then she was pushing it.
"I hate you, mom!" Jade yelled, and buried her face in the pillow. But of course, she wouldn't be able to fall back asleep. She stood up and walked to her bathroom, blasted the shower as hot as it would go and stripped down to her underwear. She sat on the counter and watched as steam filled the room, bathing her in heat and opening her pores.
After about fifteen minutes of waking up, she got into the shower. She stood in the warm water for a few minutes, then shut it off and redressed in a shirt with a black bleeding heart.
It was Valentine's Day, after all.
She walked downstairs, intent on yelling at Mrs. West for waking her up so early.
"Mom," Jade called, walking into the kitchen.
"Morning honey," she replied cheerfully.
"What. Is. Wrong. With. You?"
"It's Valentine's Day! A day for happiness and love! I made you heart pancakes. And why aren't you wearing that charming little pink skirt I got you?"
"You make me sick."
Jade sat down and purposely cut up her pancakes, slashing the harts through the middle and soaking them in syrup until they were unrecognizable.
"I've got to work, but maybe when I get home we can go to dinner?"
"Mom, you and dad divorced three years ago. You don't have a boyfriend, neither do I. How about we just treat this like any other day?"
"Okay, so I'll see you at seven for dinner at Chez Montreuille, and maybe we'll go see that new romantic comedy?"
"Yeah, mom, great plan. We can go eat French food and watch single ladies drown their sorrows in crepes, then go sit with the same single women as they cry over a cheesy plot line in a movie theater that smells like pee."
"It's a date!"
"God, I hate you," she muttered under her breath. Her mom kissed her forehead, and left out the back door leaving Jade to wallow in her pancakes.
She finished them, and walked to the living room intent on searching the channels for a Lifetime movie she could laugh at. She found one instantly, and laughed at the depressed single woman, and hated Valentine's Day, and ate out of a box of chocolates until she was full to bursting like most single girls did on Valentine's Day.
"I-I loved him," sobbed the fake blonde actress on screen, and Jade laughed harder. She thought she heard the sound of her back door open, but figured she was imagining things.
It was only after she heard the sound a third time that she went out to investigate. She grabbed a fire poker and padded across the floor, then crept into her kitchen.
The back door swung close instantly, and Jade froze. Somebody had been in the house. As to what they were doing, that part hit her a second later and she was flooded first with relief and then curiosity.
"Oh. My. God."
Her kitchen table was covered in roses and boxes of candy. Candy, candy, and more candy as far as she could see. Stacked in the corners of her kitchen, covering her table, on top of the counters.
Godiva, Russell Stover, Whitman's Samplers…Chocolate everywhere.
Jade crossed the room and lifted the box, to see that they were all dark chocolate, her very favorite. She had only ever shared that with one person.
Only one person had a key to her house, but that person wouldn't dare show up. Jade's next thoughts were her mother, and grabbed her phone.
She dialed her mom's cell phone, and it rang.
"What is it, Jade?" her mother asked, her voice soft and anxious. Her work voice.
"Mom, did you cover the kitchen in chocolate?"
"No! Why did you? Honey, clean it up before I get home-"
"No, mom, boxes of chocolate. Seriously, there's like two hundred here!"
"No, Jade, that wasn't me. But I need to get back to work. Maybe it was B-"
Jade hung up instantly.
Of course it was him. It had to be…But why?
Five miles away, a dark haired boy drove away as he laughed. Happy Valentine's Day, Jade, he thought.
Beck Oliver had always liked chocolate.
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