A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the wait but I was at my dad's house and didn't have a computer. Enjoy!
Samantha's POV
The rest of the week went pretty fast, me and Jeff have gotten even closer. My mom met him and tried to act like she actually cared that I had a new friend. But now it's Friday and I am SO ready for this weekend.
"So, you ready for this weekend?" I asked Jeff as we were walking to his car after school.
"Yea, what are we going to do exactly?"
"Umm I'm not sure. Your dad left this morning for the city, right?"
"Yup, he won't be back till sometime Sunday. Did you let your mom know that you're staying home this weekend?" he asked getting in the car.
"No, she's going to be gone until Sunday night. Going somewhere with one of her new boyfriends. If I would've told her I was staying home, she would've made me go there because she won't be home even though I'm perfectly old enough to stay home alone, like I do every day."
"Oh. Well let's get home and decide what we're going to do."
Now we were in Jeff's living room, I was laying on the couch and he was sprawled out on the floor next to me. We've been there for about 2 hours thinking of something to do.
"Jeffyyy! I'm bored" I said with a pout.
"Well what do you want to do?" he asked, not even looking away from the ceiling.
"How about we go to Path Mark and get some snacks and junk food and stuff and have a sleepover?"
"Alright, let's go." We made the 5 minute drive to the store and stopped at the entrance. "Ok, you go get the candy, I'll go look for some other stuff."
"Why don't we just get the stuff together?"
"I don't know, this way we can cover more store"
"Whatever you say Jeffy." So I walked to the candy isle and had no idea what I was looking for.
John's POV
I was walking around in Path Mark seeing if there was anything good around when I seen Samantha going towards one of the isles. So I followed her, but stayed kind of far behind, wondering how she got here since she didn't drive and no one was with her. I was going to go over and talk to her, when her phone started ringing. I hid behind a display and listened as she answered the phone.
"Hello?...I'm doing what we came here for, picking stuff up for our sleepover. What are you doing?"
Oh, so that's why she's here. Just picking up some snacks for a girly sleepover. I'll just wait until she's off to go talk to her.
Samantha's POV
I was trying to remember some of the candy that Jeff said he liked, but was drawing a complete blank when Taylor Swift's Love Story started playing, telling me that someone is calling me. So I pick it up without looking at the caller ID, too busy looking at all the packages.
"Hello?"
"Hey, what are you doing?" Jeff asked
I rolled my eyes even though he couldn't see me. "I'm doing what we came here for, picking up
some snacks for our sleepover. What are you doing?"
"Honestly, I have no idea. I don't know where anything is in this store. I don't even know what I'm looking for."
"See, this is why we should've stayed together. But nooooo! We had to do things your way."
"Ok ok, you were right."
"That's right. Just come here, because I'm having a hard time picking things out too. I'm in isle 3. Hurry up!" I said and hung up not giving him a chance to answer.
John's POV
So I was listening to Samantha's phone conversation, still wondering who she could be here with. I haven't really seen her hanging out with any of her old friends lately. I was going to go over and finally talk to her, when I see that freak she's always with coming down the isle, so I go back behind the display hoping that I don't get caught spying.
"Finally! What, were you on the other side of the store?" she asked looking over at him as he walked towards her.
"Pretty much. So what exactly are we getting here?"
"Well you told me to get candy. Do you like Swedish Fish?"
"Yeah, I love those!" he said snatching the bag off the shelf.
She laughed at him while taking the bag out of his hands and putting it in the basket she was carrying. "Alright then, let's go get some Goldfish since your dad never bought more after we played that game a couple days ago"
"Oh yea, I like those too. I hope your not thinking about playing that game, unless of course you feel like losing again." He said with a cheeky smile taking the basket from Samantha's arms.
"If I remember correctly Jeffy, I was not the only one giving out kisses that night."
Wait, Jeffy? Kisses? She's having a sleepover with him?! What's going on around here?
"Yeah ok, so I missed some. But not nearly as much as you did"
"Oh please! You SO missed more than I did! You suck at that game."
"Oh, well now maybe I don't even want to play with you anymore. Good luck finding a way home." He said starting to walk away, but she grabbed his hand.
"Hey! You can't leave me here! We're suppose to have a sleepover. And we still need more stuff for that, by the way." She said putting on a sad puppy dog face and looking up at him.
"Ugh you know I can't say no when you make that face." He said looking down at her.
"I know, that's why I do it." She said smiling. Then she went on her tippy toes to kiss his cheek and started dragging him away saying something about getting Goldfish and popcorn.
'Ok', I thought to myself. 'They're not dating, but they seem to be really close friends already. Why is she so into him?! Why couldn't that have been me with her? I wonder what else they'll be doing tonight. Well, only one way to find out. I'm going to have to follow them around'
Samantha's POV
We were walking down the isles trying to think of anything else to get. So far we had candy, Goldfish, popcorn, Mac&Cheese, and soda. Now we're down the baking isle.
"Oh! We should make cookies!" I said as I picked up one of the packages.
"Uhh I don't know how to make those." Jeff said
"Me neither. But how hard can it be? It has the mix in here already and it has step by step directions. We should try it."
"Fine, but don't blame me if they come out terrible."
"Hey Jeffy?" I asked, walking towards the car.
"Yes?"
"I don't wanna go home yet." I said, closing the door and putting my seatbelt on.
"Where else do you wanna go then?" He asked starting the car.
"There's a playground at my old elementary school we can go to."
On our way to the playground, I looked over at Jeff and could tell that he was tired. Or just bored. I'm hoping he's just bored, because tonights going to be a long night. We finally go there and got out of the car. We were slowly walking towards it when I looked at Jeff and wanted to mess with him, so I started smirking at him.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" He asked. I guess he felt me looking at him.
"No reason." I said, the smirk never leaving my face.
"Okayyy thenn." He said, looking away from me.
Then I walked right up to him, took the hat off his head and stopped, as he continued walking having a delayed reaction. When he turned around to face me, I was wearing his hat.
"Hey, give it back!" He said, starting to walk towards me.
"Nah, it looks better on me" I smiled.
"Oh, really?"
"Yes. But you know, now your hair's all funky looking." I said as i ruffled his hair with my hand.
"Now you're gonna get it."
"You'll have to catch me first!" I yelled as I took off running in the mini field that surrounded the playground.
I thought I was doing pretty good, so I turned my head to see where Jeff was. He was closer than I thought he was, so I turned back around getting ready to run faster but I was too late. The next thing I knew, Jeff's arms were wrapped around my waist lifting me off the ground and spinning me around with him. By this time, we were both laughing and fell to the ground out of breath with him leaning over me smiling.
"What?" I asked looking at him comfused.
"What what?"
"Why are you smiling at me"
"No reason, just didn't know you could run so fast." He said lightly laughing.
"Well Jeffy, never underestimate me." I said putting the hat back on his head.
"I won't. You know what? You were right." He said, taking the hat back off.
"About what?" I asked sitting up on my elbows.
"It does look better on you." He said softly as he put his hat back on my head and smiled.
I don't know why, but at that moment I felt different with Jeff as I looked into his eyes. Forget butterflies, I had elephants stomping around in there and my heart was pounding out of my chest. But that part was just because I was running...right?
He stood up and held out his hands so I could pull myself up. Then he led me to the swings and started pushing me gently. By now the sun was almost completely down, so it was pretty dark. We did that for about 5 minutes before I got chills running up and down my back and arms, giving me goosebumps.
"Jeff...?" I said so softly I wasn't sure he would hear me. But he grabbed the swing stopping me and walked around so we were face to face and he squat down so we were eye level.
"Yeah?" He asked just as softly as I did.
"Somethings not right." I said looking up into his eyes.
"What are you talking about? What's wrong?"
"I just got goosebumps and everything, that only happens when its extremely cold, which it's not, or something I don't want is going to happen. I feel like someone is watching me." I said still in a hushed voice looking around us, stopping once my eyes reached the forest to the side.
"Ok, let's get out of here then." He said, quickly grabbing my hand and running to the car, opening and closing the door for me and taking another look around before he climbed in as well.
Once we were out of the parking lot and on our way back to his house, he turned to me.
"Better?" He asked, concern evident in his voice.
I took a deep breath and looked back at him. "A little bit. Can you come to my house with me so I can get some stuff first, I don't want to be alone." I asked softly. He smiled at me, which I took as a yes. We were silent for a while, and I felt him glance at me as I stared out of the window. Then he put a cd on and started singing along. He knew that his singing calmed me down, his voice was just so mellow and peaceful.
We stopped at my house to pick up some pajamas and clothes for tomorrow, then walked to his and got the bags out of the car from Path Mark.
"So where am I gonna sleep tonight" I asked as i sat down on one of the chairs in the kitchen, watching Jeff put everything away.
"Umm I'm not sure. We could have a little camp out in the living room if you want."
"That sounds good. But right now I don't really feel like doing anything. Can we watch a movie?"
"Sure, which one?"
"I don't know what you have. Pick something that'll make me happy or laugh or something, I need that right now."
"You ok?" He asked walking over towards me.
"Yeah, just that whole thing at the park. I hate when I get that feeling, it creeps me out. And thanks." I said smiling at him.
"For what?"
"For getting me out of there and letting me stay here tonight. If I was with anyone else I know they would've told me it was nothing and we'd still be there no matter how uncomfortable I was."
"It's no big deal. The last thing I would want to do is make you uncomfortable or upset you. And as for staying here, I don't mind one bit. I was actually worried I was going to get lonely this weekend." He said smiling and pulling me in for a hug.
"Ok, well I'm going to go get changed. You set up and movie and stuff." I said as I walked upstairs so I could put my bag in Jeff's room when I was done.
I changed into my soft baggy blue pajama pants with rubber ducks and bubbles on them, with a purple tank top with stars, cresent moons, and clouds on it. Then I took off my makeup and put my hair up into a sloppy bun. I walked downstairs to see Jeff and had to stop a minute to look at him. I thought he looked good before, but now it was even better. He was wearing his pajama pants with a black wife beater that showed how muscular he really was. I shook my head and was going to continue walking into the living room when Jeff turned around and froze when he seen me.
"Wow." He said, still looking at me.
"What?" I said looking down, feeling self consious.
"You took your makeup off and everything. You look so...." He trailed off.
"Weird?" I asked, looking up into his eyes, only to find him staring back into mine.
"No...beautiful" He answered softly.
As soon as he said that, I felt my face heat up.
"What?" I asked confused and stunned.
"Don't tell me no one's ever complimented you on your looks before." He asked looking shocked.
"Hah, yeah right. I've never been complimented on anything before. The only things said to me are making fun of me, saying I'm too skinny. Ever since I was in elementary school, I was always told i was too small. That I needed to gain more weight because I wasn't normal enough. My doctors tried to put me on some special formula that they give to old people when they need to gain weight. My mom has even asked my multiple times over the past few years if I'm anorexic. Nobody gets that that's just how I am. I don't watch what I eat and i definately don't have a disorder. I guess i just have a really fast metabolism or something. But everyone always says how I'm so small, it's not healthy but I'm perfectly fine! You should've seen in middle school. I was always wearing sweatshirts that were 2 or 3 sizes too big because then no one could see me. Then in my freshman year I was the same way, always wearing sweatshirts so no one would say anything but then when it gets to summer, all that comes off, so I've become overly self concious of myself." By the time I was ending that, I was crying and Jeff quickly rushed to me and brought me into a huge tight hug and just held me.
"Hey, don't get upset. Those people don't know what they're talking about. Look at me." He said, pulling away slightly and lifting my head up gently with his hand. "I don't care what anyone has ever said to you. They're just jealous because you have the body that none of them can get, and you don't even have to try for it. That's actually an advantage for you. You can eat anything you want and not have to go on crash diets like most of the teenage population and you'll still look great" I scoffed when he said that. "Hey, believe me, there is nothing wrong with you. You are one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. And by far the best looking one around here. No matter what anyone says." He said, looking into my eyes and brushing away a few tears that still stained my cheeks. He leaned down to kiss my cheek before bringing me into another hug and stroking my hair gently.
"Lets watch the movie now, ok?" He asked, looking down at me.
"Can we get some snacks first? Oh, and what movie did you pick?" I asked as we walked to the kitchen to make some popcorn.
"Grease" He said, smiling when my face lit up in happiness.
"Can we sing along to all the songs?"
"Of course we can. Just no more crying, alright? I don't want you to be sad."
"Ok. And thanks again." I said as i reached up to kiss his cheek. "You're the best."
"I know." He smirked as we walked back into the living room and started watching the movie. About halfway through, we were both sleeping on the couch, me resting on his chest with his arms around me. Little did we know, Gil had planted video camera's in the living room and kitchen before he left, knowing things would happen and so he could add the film to the other tape of us he already had.