I hope you like this chapter! I was a little disappointed with how many reviews I got on the last chapter. Remember, the more reviews there are, the faster I update. This chapter was supposed to be for yesterday, so that means today I will be updating two! Also remember... REVIEW, REVIEW,REVIEW!:)
Kim's POV:
The minute that we left the dojo I saw the gang. Jerry was hitting on a girl named Veronica, Milton was reading a textbook (nerd), and Rudy was acting cool and handing out Bobby Wasabi Flyers. I rolled my eyes at this.
"Why are rolling your eyes?"
"I see my fiends. Come on, let's go see what they are up to!" I walked up to them while Jack and I's hands were still tangled together.
"Hey Jerry, Milton, and Rudy," I stated.
"Yo what's up Kim?" Jerry asked.
"Not much Jerry! I see you were hitting on Veronica."
"Ya, she is totally hot yo!" I just chuckled at this. "So, who is your new boyfriend, Kim?"
"This is Jack, and he is not my boyfriend." Well at least not yet.
"Then why are you guys holding hands?" Milton asked while coming into the conversation. I quickly looked down to see that our hands were still intertwined. Jack and I jumped away from each other, leaving both of us with red cheeks.
"Well...we were just going to get some dinner," I told them.
"Sure..." Rudy stated.
"I'm Jack!" Jack stated while holding out his hand. Rudy shaked it.
"Nice to meet you Jack, I'm Rudy, Kim's sensei," Rudy told him.
"Nice to meet you Rudy!"
"I'm Jerry!" Jerry stated while walking up to Jack and shaking his hand.
"Nice to meet you Jerry. Do you do karate as well?"
"Yup. I'm a black belt!" Jerry stated coolly. Milton then elbowed him in the chest.
"Jerry your a yellow belt, but nice try!" Milton stated. Jerry just had a sad face while rubbing his nipple in pain. "And I'm Milton!"
"Nice to meet you too Milton. What belt are you?" Jack asked.
"I'm a yellow belt as well, but aim pretty awesome so I could probably be a black belt like Kim."
"Ya, you probably could since I beat you in sparring everyday!" I stated. Jack just chuckled at this. I looked back at him and smiled. "So, these are the people that go to my dojo!" He nodded his head as of saying 'cool'.
"Do you do karate Jack?" Rudy asked.
"Ya. I'm a third degree black belt," Jack stated.
"Really?" Rudy asked.
"Yup!"
"Are you part of a dojo right now?"
"No, but Kim said that maybe I can join yours!"
"That would be awesome Jack! You can show us your skills right now of you would like!"
"Ok," Jack stated. We walked back into the dojo and I grabbed a punching dummy from the corner.
"Here Jack. Show us what you got," I told him. He walked up to the dummy and stretched his arms and legs real quick. He then punched the dummy really fast and did all kinds of kicks. Jack did a lot of roundhouse kicks, which really impressed me. Then finally he did 3 dragon kicks in a row.
By the time he was done, all of our mouths were hanging open in utter surprise. Jack was AMAZING!
"Close your mouths guys. Your going to catch flies." We quickly shut our mouths as Jack had a smirk on his face. "I can also show you a bow staff routine."
"You do the bow staff?" Rudy asked.
"Yup!"
"Then go ahead Jack!" Jack removed the dummy off the mat to where I had received it, then he grabbed a bow staff. He went to the middle of the mat and bowed. He did all kinds of cool things with the bow staff. Then he started doing a lot more advanced moves. He did cool kicks with the bow staff in his hand and everything. He put he bow staff on the ground,then he stared to do a routine without it. He punched and kicked and so much more. Then he did a backflip and cartwheels. He did front flips, back handsprings, and so much more. I was utterly amazed. When he was done, Iran up to hi and hugged him. He hugged me back and kissed my forehead.
"Good job!" I whispered to him.
"Thanks!"
"Ummm...guys?" Jerry said. Jack and I pulled away and looked at him.
"What?" We asked.
"Are you done being lovebirds?"
"We are NOT lovebirds!" I yelled. He just chuckled and put his hands up in defeat.
"Jack, you are amazing," Rudy stated.
"Thanks Rudy!"
"If you want, you can absolutely join our dojo."
"SWEET! I would love to!" Jack said with a smile on my face. I gave Jack a quick side hug to show him congratulations.
"Hey, so Jack and I were going to go to Falafel Phil's, did you guys want to come?" I asked.
"Sure!" they all said. We all walked out to Phil's and sat down a tour usual booth. It was Jack and I on the same side, Milton and Rudy on the other, and Jerry pulled up a seat.
"I hope that it was ok to invite them!" I told Jack.
"It's fine Kimmy! I kinda wanted to get to know them better anyways. It's not like we are dating, and we can still get to know each other."
"Ya!" I replied.
"So have you been living in Seaford for a while, Jack?" Milton asked.
"No! I just moved here today from Denver Colorado," Jack stated.
"Oh cool! How are the babes in the C-O?" Jerry asked. Jack scrunched up his eyebrows and looked at Jerry.
"They are fine Jerry!" Jack replied, still kind of weirded out.
"That's how Jerry is!" I told him. He nodded in response.
"What kind of friends did you have there," Rudy asked.
"Well, I had 4 really close friends. One of them was a football player named Henry. We had been best friends since first grade. We kinda got into a fight recently over a girl named Corie, but it's all cool now. I have another guy friend named Peter. He was one of the coolest kids in school. We became friends in 7th grade (the year after he came to school). ThenI have two friends that are girls. One of them is Corie. We have been best friends since preschool and I absolutely love her (as a friend though). I had started liking her in 4th grade and she started liking me in 6th grade. So, I asked her out at the end of 7th grade, she of course said yes. We dated for about a year, maybe longer. It turned out that Henry had liked Corie since he saw her in first grade. I saw them kissing last year, so I broke up with Corie and I didn't talk to them for over a month, but we are friends now."Jack ranted. "Sorry for telling you pretty much my whole life, but it kind of just spilled out of me."
"That's ok Jack! But who is the other girl?" Jerry asked.
"Oh ya. My fourth best friend is also a girl, but she is also my cousin. We are the same age, and she is my mom's identical twin sister's daughter. Her name is Grace. She is the best," Jack stated. I could sense a little bit of sadness in his voice from talking about his mom.
"Oh cool!" Jerry said.
"So, who do you live with Jack?" Rudy asked.
"Ummm... my dad, my big brother, Brandon, my little sister, Betsy, my little brother, Tony, my two cousins that are twins, Avery and Joel, and my mom," Jack stated. He looked at me and I gave him a weird look. I wonder why he said that his mom lived with them?
"Wow! You have a big family. Why do you live with your cousins?" Milton asked.
"Well, my dad has a younger sister, and by younger, I mean YOUNGER! She is 26 right now (my dad is in his forties.) Her name is Vanessa and she has a husband named Parker. When Vanessa was 13, she had her first boyfriend named Isaac. They got VERY close, and ended up having sex one night. It was unprotected sex and she got STD and she got pregnant. It turns out, she was pregnant with twins. She went through a lot of emotional stress. When she told Isaac about it! he broke up with her and ran away. When they were born, she was very lucky to have them, but she was just starting high school, she didn't have a job, they didn't have a father, and she couldn't drive yet. Vanessa didn't want to give them away. My father and my mother volunteered to take care of the twins until she was out of college. So since then, they have been living with us. They are 12 now, and are in 7th grade.
Recently, Vanessa called and said that she was getting out of college and wanted her children back, but Vanessa doesn't know anything about them, neither of them want to leave us, and my family doesn't want to give them away. They are apart of our family now, but we don't know what to do," Jack stated. "And sorry for ranting to you again!"
"Jack, it's ok. We are all friends now. We can tell each other anything. We won't tell anyone anything!" Rudy stated. We all nodded our heads.
"Thanks guys!"
"No problem Jack!" everyone stated. Then Phil came over to take our orders.
"Who are you?" Phil asked.
"I'm Jack!"
"Nice to meet you Jack. I see you have met my friends. I'm Phil."
"Nice to meet you you Phil. And yes, I have met them all. Kim's my neighbor, so we met pretty easily."
"Oh, that's awesome Jack. The Kim's is a very nice and sweet girl."
"Yes she is," Jack stated while making me smile.
"So, can I take your orders?" Phil asked.
"Ya, Jerry, Milton! and I will have Baba Ganoush and 3 sodas!" Rudy stated.
"I'm just going to have a soda Phil," I stated.
"And I will have a soda and some spicy not Falafels," Jack stated.
"Coming right up!"
After we all ate, we headed home. Jack and I walked together since we were neighbors. Jack said that he could just pick up his skateboard tomorrow. After a while of complete silence, I remembered that I needed to ask him something.
"Hey Jack?"
"Ya?"
"Why did you say that you lived with your mom?"
"Well..."
"Jack, you can tell me."
"You see, everyone that I tell about my mom'a death to, always baby me about it. It gets annoying after a while."
"What do you mean by 'babies you about it'?" I asked.
"Well, they say stuff like 'oh I'm so sorry' or 'it's going to be ok, I will always be here for you'. And I know that they are trying to be nice, but I just get sick of it, you know?"
"Well, I don't know, but I know how it feels to be babied," I told him. He nodded and stopped walking. "Why did you stop?"
"Because I wanted to tell you that I love you! As a friend!" I smiled and laughed.
"I love you too!"
"And I also wanted to say again, that I don't care that we are going fast, because I have never been closer to anyone before. There is something about you that I love. Maybe it's your humor, your beauty, your gorgeous brown eyes, the way you smile, or anything else, you are just amazing in general, Kim!" Jack said. By this time I was crying from how lovely that sounded. "Come here," he said. I walked over to him and he pulled me into a hug. His hugs were the best hugs ever. They were warm and cozy and just felt so comfy. I'm pretty sure that we are going to become a couple because I absolutely adore him. He is perfect and amazing, and maybe even my love of my life. He cares about me and I care about him. I have to say that this has been one of THE best days of my life.
"I will always love you Kimmy. As a friend or more, I will always love you!"
"Me too Jack. Me too!"
And at that moment, I swear we were infinite!
