Reveiw
Emma laid in her bed, her eyes puffy and her hair in knots. Her mother left food outside her door which she would get later but for the moment she didn't want to do anything but sleep. It was the only escape to what she was feeling. She had never been hurt like this before, never been cheated on and never wanted to forget everything like she wanted those at that moment. Joe has kissed another girl in front of everyone, as if the last four month hadn't even happened.
"Baby, please come out and take a shower or have some dinner. You've been in there all day." Her mother asked from the other side of the door but all Emma could do was roll over and pull the covers up over her head.
"At least tell me what's wrong." Her mother begged. After not getting a response Emma's mother paced her living room, worried about her only daughter. Emma had never acted like this before, and she had never kept anything form her mother either. They always had an open relationship and her mother didn't know how to handle it, so she called Joe.
"Hello?" Joe asked, sounding a bit sleepy.
"Joesph? This is Emma's mother." Joe gulped.
"Hi, is everything ok?"
"Well I'm not sure exactly. Do you know why Emma is upstairs in her room, refusing to talk or come out? She's never done this and I'm worried."
"She wont come out of her room? Has she eaten or showered?" joe asked worrying about his tiny fragile girlfriend.
"No, she hasn't."
"I'll be right over." Joe said clicking the phone off. He sat up from his bed, where he has been moping himself as well as nursing a hangover, and quickly dressed and washed his face.
"Tell mom and dad I'll be back." Joe said to his brothers before rushing outside and sprinting down the street towards Emma's house. The light in her room was out, but the living room light was on, so he knocked on the door.
"Oh Joesph, please come in. Go right up, tell me if you have any luck." Emmas mom said watching the young boy rush up the stairs, reminiscing ob her own young love she once knew.
Joe stood before her door, unable to think of what to say. He had really screwed up and he knew it, and he wanted to be able to talk to Emma and cradle her in his arms, so he knocked quietly.
"Emma? It's Joe. Listen baby, I know I screwed up but can we please talk?" He asked, his hand grazing the door wishing it would magically unlock. Emma said nothing.
"Emma please, you need to eat something, your mom is really worried and I am too. I was really drunk and I shouldn't have made us go to that party-" The door opened and revealed Emma, her eyes puffy and her nose running and a large sweatshirt over her tiny frame, her hair was knotty and her eyes pierced his angrily.
"Go home Joe and don't come back." She said scooping up the food her mother layed on the ground and slamming the door in Joes face before he could do anything. He felt even worse now after seeing her, why was he so idiotic? He knew he would drink at that party and he knew she didn't want to go, but he made her and now everything was going wrong.
"Emma please."
"I SAID GO HOME!" She yelled. Joe waited for an hour, and after realizing she wouldn't budge he sighed and turned around going down the stairs. Emmas mom looked at him with hope but he shook his head.
"Sorry Mrs. Johnson, I'll try again tomorrow." He said, but in fact he already had a plan. After going back outside into the cold, he looked up at her window and surveyed its height, and compared it to the height of the tree next to it. Then he walked over and began climbing it.
Emma let a whole fresh batch of tears stream down her face after seeing Joe. How could he just come over and try to face her? Did he feel bad after seeing her a mess? Did he think it was revolting and want to dump her anyways? These thoughts brought even more depression which brought more tears.
Suddenly there was a scraping noise, causing Emma to roll over. The branch from a tree outside her window was swaying and scratching the window fiercely. Then the shadow of a boy came into view and Emma s heart stopped, as joe crawled forward and pushed on the window letting it swing open. He tumbled in, landing besides her bed with a pile of leaves as well.
Then he looked up, twigs and branches in his hair and dazed look mixed with guilt upon his face. There was an awkward silence before Emma just couldn't watch him sit there looking like and idiot, she began to laugh.
"Emma, are you laughing at me?" She continued to laugh and just laid back, letting the tears roll off her face only this time they were caused by laughter and not depression.
"You look like an idiot." She said in between laughs. Joe raised a hand to his hair and felt the branches and leaves, smiling too.
"Oh." He pulled them out but Emma still laughed.
"You rolled into my window, with a bunch of leaves, and you looked so stupid, because you are stupid." She said laughing. Joe loved her laugh, he loved her voice and even if it was insulting him and he couldn't help but let a small smile creep onto his face.
Emma was laughing so hard it hurt, even though it wasn't really funny, she just couldn't stop. Joe stood up from the floor and brushed himself off, walking over to her bed and sitting on it looking straight at her, into her brown eyes. She stopped laughing immediately.
"Stop staring at me."
"No, Emma we need to talk. Last night, I knew we shouldn't have gone to that party but my friends were pressuring me and I just went with it. It was stupid and your right, I am stupid. I am the stupidest guy alive because I hurt you."
"Yeah, of course I'm hurt. You cheated on me, you lied and abandoned me at that party and embarrassed me in front of all your friends. Saying sorry wont fix this."
"Please, just listen. I'm not used to being with a girl who doesn't party, and I felt a little confused. I don't know why, I've never been in love with anyone else and I didn't know how to react to my friends wanting to party and my girlfriend not wanting to, I want to please everyone all the time, so I made a mistake but emma I'm only human. I make mistakes and I got drunk and what I did, it was wrong."
"Joe if you wanted to party you could have canceled or rescheduled, but you didn't, and you messed everything up"
"I know but Anna is nothing, shes a girl who I kissed but I promise you on everything in my heart and everything I am that I'll never do that ever again because I love you with all my heart and I never want to kiss anyone except you."
"and Jessica Alba."
"Well, that chance will never come." She smiled a little.
"Joe, how can I trust you again?"
"Emma we're in a relationship, your going to make mistakes too and wouldn't you want me to give you another chance? Please Emma, let us leave this behind because I love you." At this point Emma was crying out of happiness. He took her small hands in his and pulled her into his arms, letting her sob into his chest.
"Alright Joe." She whispered. He smiled and leaned down pulling her into a long, slow kiss relishing everything about her. I shouldn't have forgiven him, I should have let him see mistakes have consequence, and he cant break someone heart and get it back together with the snap of a finger, but I didn't. He makes me laugh, he makes me cry. The only thing I didn't know is which side to buy..
