Chapter 7

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Jack POV

I looked around the van to see all of my friends sitting around me. For the most part we were all fine, Rudy had come shortly after the fight began and broke it up. Jerry got a black eye and I think most of us got a bruise here or there, but nothing worth informing any adults about.

Sam was sitting next to me and she handed me her phone.

S: Hey you ok? I read on the note app she had pulled up.

I chuckled remembering all the old conversations we had in the past by doing this.

J: Yeah Im fine, you? I typed before handing it back.

S: I think I have a few bruises but ill be fine.

I thought for a moment before responding. J: Are you sure that we should tell them when we get back?

S: ?

J: About this whole prank and stuff, I think we've all had a rough day

S: Ok that's fine, tomorrow?

J: Yeah right before practice starts

S: Kk

"Are you two really texting each other back there?" Rudy said looking at us through his rear view mirror.

"No, just passing a phone back and forth with a notepad open on it, saves minuets," Sam replied.

"Smart, you might actually be able to teach Jack a thing or two," Rudy said.

I chuckled at his comment and saw Kim rolling her eyes.

I handed Sam back her phone and pulled out my own.

J: You ok? I handed it over to Kim and she just stared at me for a second before typing something.

K: Yeah, shouldn't you be asking Samantha that question

J: Sigh, why do you hate her so much?

K: I never said I hated her, I just really don't like her

J: Ok, whatever you say.

K: Hey whatch doing 2morw?

J: Umm… idk, why?

K: I was thinking maybe we could hang out

J: Sure, Oh wait I promised Samantha that we would hang out in the morning

K: Its fine :(

J: But maybe we could hang out right before practice starts, Come 30 min. early?

K: Sure, sounds like fun :)

I saw Kim smile as I put the phone back in my pocket.

"Hey Jack?" I heard my Latino friend from the row in front of me say.

"What Jerry?" I replied.

"So tell me again what this book is about?" He said as he held the book up to me.

"It's about the author's time in the concentration camps during the holocaust," I explained for about the 5th time to him.

"Does he die at the end?!" Jerry said hopefully.

"No Jerry! It's a memoir!" I told him annoyingly.

"What's a memoir?" He replied back.

"An autobiography," I said after a sigh.

"And that it?"

"A book he wrote himself, long story short he is alive now and doesn't die in the book," I said slowly so he might be able to understand me.

"Ok… that's disappointing, oh well," Jerry said as he continued reading.

I sighed again and noticed that we were almost back to the Dojo.

When we finally arrived I grabbed my stuff and waited for Sam to get hers and then the two of us skateboarded back home. When we got back we talked to our family for a little bit when I headed upstairs and got ready for bed.

I was just falling asleep when I heard a knock on my door.

"It's open!" I shouted.

"Hey Jack, I didn't wake you up did I?" Sam said as she walked in.

"Nah its fine, what's up?" I asked as I sat up and leaned against my headboard.

"The whole thing that happened with Kim earlier today got me thinking, why doesn't she like me?" She said as she sat down next to me.

"Well first off you were kinda… what's the word…"

"Bitchy?" Sam interrupted.

"Well I wasn't going to put it like that… but yeah,"

"Damn it, I didn't mean to be. . . I just got so annoyed. . . and no offence she isn't the nicest person in the world either,"

"I know but you can't blame her, you did just show up out of nowhere," I said flinching as she rubbed her face.

"I know . . . I really need to apologize don't I?"

"Yeah, that might be a good idea,"

We sat in silence for a moment before I heard her sigh.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't want to go back home next week."

"Why not, I bet all your friends miss you and can't wait for you to get back,"

"What friends, I think you know just as much as I do I have like five… at the most,"

"Well still, they miss you,"

"That's the thing, I don't think they really do. . . It's just that . . . I don't know, I think that they just kind of put up with me" She turned to me before continuing, "You have it lucky, you have friends that you know like you, no not friends, a family, something I don't have."

"What do you mean?"

"Well mom practically hates my guts, I never see dad anymore, and I have Kai, and well, he's Kai,"

"What about your friends,"

"I already told you, they just. . . put up with me. I don't think. . . they really like, or want, to hang out with me. . . Sometimes I just wish I had a different life, you know the feeling?"

"Not really, at least not anymore, ever since we moved here to Seaford I haven't felt that way, sorry,"

"Good. I'm happy that you don't have to deal with it anymore,"

"Sam I'm sure it will blow over soon,"

"No Jack, It won't."

"Huh?"

"It's been like this for a few months, and. . . Never mind,"

"Come on tell me," I said very concerned.

Sam just stared at her hands for a moment before talking.

"Sometimes it just doesn't get better, and I just don't think I want to deal with it anymore, and that sometimes no one would care if I wasn't around, if . . ."

It took me a second before I realized what she meant.

"And the only reason why you haven't 'fixed' the problem is you're too afraid to die." I said putting air quotes around fixed.

"Yeah, everyone always says that it's a stupid way out but. . . Sometimes I think it would just fix everything, for everyone."

"No it wouldn't. Everyone would be really sad, and you would be gone,"

"For a few months, maybe weeks, but then they would get over it, and no one would care anymore. I wouldn't be that annoying hassle that everyone has to deal with."

"I would miss you. I don't know what I would do without getting to talk to you every week like we do now."

"Yeah so one person would miss me. That makes me feel so much better," She said sarcastically.

"Hey look, you dad is going to get that movie deal and you guys will move down here, and you can go to school with me and the gang, and you'll make new friends, ones that care about you, and you'll hang out with them. You won't ever feel the same way, ever again."

"Yeah right, even if what you said about all that stuff about new friends and stuff would be true my dad is never going to get that movie deal, no one wants to see a fat old ex-actor in a karate film."

"Well then maybe I can talk to my parents, they would let you move in with us, you could get the spare guest room."

"Your parents might allow that but mine won't, they would just hear about how I feel and then send me to a psychologist so they don't have to deal with me." Her voice sounding like she was about to cry.

"Hey, we'll work something out, the two of us can figure any problem out, just like we always were able to, and we always will."

I gave Sam a hug before she was able to say anything else. I felt some tears hit my back but I didn't say anything, I just hugged her tighter.

We didn't say anything more and a few minutes later she thanked me before heading back to her room and going to sleep.

So what did you guys think? Sorry that it has been a really long time since I last uploaded anything and don't worry I will have KICK moments in a little bit.

Also sorry if the ending is a little bit depressing, I've had a rough last few weeks and I guess it reflected in my writing.