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"So, your dad missed me, huh?" I asked Jeff as we made our way to his house.

"Oh yeah, he'll be happy to see you."

When we went in his house, Jeff went into the kitchen and told me to stay behind so he could go in first.

"Hey Jeff." Gil said as Jeff walked into he kicthen.

"Hey dad, I got someone here with me."

"Really? Who? It's kind of late to be having visitors now."

"Trust me dad, you'll like this visitor."

"I heard someone missed me?" I asked, smiling as I walked into the kitchen.

"Samantha!" Gil said as he gave me a hug, causing me to giggle. "So good to have you back...you are back, right?"

"Yeah, she's back dad. Geeze, you should've heard him. Ever since you dropped off my sweatshirt he's been telling me to fix everything." Jeff said.

"Really now? Well it sounds like he might've missed me more than you did! Speaking of that sweatshirt..." I started.

"You want it back?"

"Pleasee? You know how much I love wearing it." I seen Jeff roll his eyes, telling me he was going to give it back. "Thanks Jeffy." I said in a sing-song voice, causing him to smile as he left to go get it.

"I don't think that's possible." Gil said once Jeff was out of sight.

"Don't think what's possiBle?" I aske, clearly confused.

"There's no way I could've missed you more than Jeff. He spent the whole time in the house. Every time I seen him, he was either trying to get ahold of your phone, or with some silly pink bear. You know, I don't even know where he got that from? Those couple of days seemed to last forever."

"Hey! I made that for him."

"You did?"

"Yeah, at Build-a-Bear. We both made one and then switched, so thats his Funsize bear. I have a blue Jeffy one at my house."

"Aw well aint that sweet. I just gotta say one thing, ok?" Gil said, turning serious.

"Sure, anything."

"Next time something like this happens, talk to him sooner? I've never seen him get so worked up over something. This is the first time he really smiled since you stopped talking to him, I don't think you realize how happy you make him."

I was touched to hear all this coming from Jeff's dad. I never knew how much me being around impacted Jeff so much.

"Oh." I said, kind of taken back. "Well he makes me happy too." I smiled

"I know that darlin. Anyone who is around you two can tell that, but you both don't seem to notice it. Your faces light up when you see each other and you smile entirely too much. Makes me think you have a little something for my son, and vice versa." He said as he slightly laughed at my shocked expression. I was going to object, when Jeff walked in.

He changed into basketball shorts and a wife beater and took his hair down so it was falling slightly in his face. He looked so good, I couldn't look away.

"Here you go." He said as he smiled and handed me back the sweatshirt. I found myself instantly smiling back at him and looking into his eyes. After a few seconds, I remembered what Gil just said and looked over at him. He was smirking and gave me a wink, as if to confirm his thoughts.

"Well I should get going, gotta get my stuff ready for school tomorrow. So I'll see you in the morning?" I asked hopefully, looking at Jeff.

"You bet, I get my driving buddy back." He laughed as he hugged me. I squeezed him tighter, not wanting to leave him, before letting him go and walking out the door.

"Bye!"

Jeff's POV

"Well it's nice to see you smiling again." My dad said once Samantha closed the door.

"Yeah, well I got my best friend back, what do you expect?"

"How did you finally get her to listen to you?"

"Oh, I called her best friend."

"I thought you were her best friend?"

"I mean her other one, this chick Anna. They've been best friends since kindergarten, but she moved to North Carolina two years ago. She's basically the only friend Samantha has."

"So you just randomly called some girl you don't even know?"

"Well...Yeah! What else was I suppose to do, she wouldn't listen to anything I had to say. I knew she would listen to Anna so I got her number from her mom and called her like an hour ago and explained everything to her. She finally got through to her and told her to listen to me, and i just to happened to show up where she was while she was on the phone, so I told her everything. Then we came back here." I explained.

"Sounds like you went through a lot."

"Ehh not really." I smiled. "Well, I'm going to bed, good night."

"Night, and don't forget to snuggle up with your Funsize bear." He said, holding back a laugh. I stopped walking and turned to face him.

"What?"

"I was talking to Samantha while you were gone. Telling her about all you did was mope around with that bear and the phone, and she told me about the bear."

"Why would you tell her that?!"

"What's the big deal? We were just talking about how different it was without her even if it wasn't for that long and how happy she makes you."

"What! Now I don't want to leave you alone with her anymore, never know what's going to come out of your mouth to embarrass me."

"There's nothing to be ashamed about. She told me some stuff, but seems like you don't want to know, so I'll just go to bed then." He said as he started walking away.

"Wait!" He turned around. "What was she talking about?"

"Oh not much, just how you make her happy too. I told her that anyone that sees you two together can already tell that because you kids smile too much." He said as he turned and went into his room.

Samantha's POV

School was so much better now that I'm talking to Jeff again, but I can't wait till we leave. He had to drop something off, so he told me to just wait in the rotunda by where his locker is for him. Pretty much everyone left already, I'm the only one in the hallway.

"Hey Samantha."

Great, just who I want to see.

"Hi John." I said as I turned to face him.

"What are you up to?"

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm waiting." I said. I still wasn't happy about what happened on New Years.

"Oh. I was just wondering if you...." He started, when his phone cut him off. Thank God. Where's Jeff when you need him?

As John was looking down at whatever message he just got, I was looking around and seen Jeff walking towards us. As he got closer, I mouthed 'help!' to him, and he nodded. He motioned that I would be getting a piggy back ride, so I smiled, telling him I got it. Then he started walking up behind John as he looked up.

"So, as I was saying..." He stopped as he felt Jeff tap his shoulder. He turned to look behind him, as Jeff walked over to me and I jumped on his back. When he turned back around, to say he was surprised would be an understatement.

"What are you doing with him?" He asked, pointing to Jeff.

"Come on John, even you know that we're best friends."

"I know, it's just that I heard you two weren't talking anymore."

"Yeah, well I couldn't stay away from her for too long." Jeff said, causing me to blush and smile at him. "And now if you'll excuse us, we have to get going." He said as he took off running, so I held on to him tighter while laughing. Once we got out of the building, we finally slowed down but Jeff didn't put me down.

"Thanks, I think he was actually about to ask me out." I said, laughing slightly.

"No problem. Man, how much is it going to take for him to realize you don't like him?"

"I don't know, I think he's just jealous that I spend all my time with you."

"Well then he can keep being jealous, cause theres no way you're getting rid of me."

"I wouldn't dream of it." I said as I tightened my grip on him again and rested my head on his shoulder as we walked to his car.

John's POV

I couldn't believe they're friends again already. I guess this is going to be harder than I thought. Well, I know that Samantha can get extremely jealous. Maybe if i get some other girls to pretend to like him, he'll start hanging out with them and leave Samantha behind.

Samantha's POV

I was sitting in Gym aginst the wall. It's so boring, all the teachers had to go to a meeting so everyone is just sitting around doing nothing. I was looking around when I seen Jeff sitting down on the other side of the gym, and waved to him. When he smiled and waved back, these two 9th graders a few feet away from me started talking.

"Hey, look at that cutie over there with the purple hair." Said the blonde. I immediately knew she was talking about Jeff, so I looked over at them.

"Oh wow, I wonder if he has a girlfriend." Her friend said.

"Who cares? He's too good looking to just be for one person."

"Yeah, he kinda does look like he would like some attention. Maybe we should go over to him."

"Wait, he's looking over here! Quick, smile!"

I looked up to see that Jeff was looking at me and was tapping on his phone, so I got the hint and looked at mine to see I had a new message from him.

'Why the death glare?'

'These two freshman are talking about you.'

'Anything bad?'

'Well...not really. They think you're cute and stuff, thinking about going over to you.'

'Well, I guess I am kind of hard to resist ;]'

'Haha, don't get too cocky. They're annoying. Good luck if they come over.'

"Ok, are we ready now?" The blonde asked her friend.

"I think so, but what if he doesn't want to talk to us?" The blonde seen me glaring at them, so she gave me a disgusted look before answering her friend.

"Oh please, why wouldn't he want to, I mean look at us! We're much better than some people here." She said, glancing at me again. "Plus it's not like he's doing anything else. We'll go see if he wants to do something afterschool."

As they walked over towards Jeff, I couldn't help but glare at them. For some reason, these chicks were making me uber jealous and they didn't even do anything. Jeff's going to be with me afterschool. He wouldn't leave me for some snotty stuck-up freshman, right?

I looked over there to see them all giggly and Jeff looking like he was planning an escape route. The blonde reached out and put her hand on his arm, and I couldn't take it anymore. I walked over and as I was getting closer, the two girls were glaring at me again. I guess Jeff noticed they were looking at something because he turned around looking annoyed, but when he seen me coming closer, he smiled.

"Save me." He whispered in my ear, as he hugged me. I just giggled and nodded.

When we pulled away, the girls were staring at us with mixed emotions of anger, disappointment and disgust, and I just smiled at them.

"So anyway, are you free later?" One of them asked, turning back to Jeff.

"Well, I don't have time for all of you, so sorry..."He said looking at me and winking. The other girls were smirking, thinking he was going to choose them instead, when he turned back to them and said "But I already have plans." As he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled my back against his chest.

The two just stood there with their mouths slightly open, obviously surprised at what he said. They were getting on my last nerve, and just needed to leave already.

"Stop staring and keep walking." I said coldly as I leaned back into Jeff more.

They finally started walking away, so Jeff let go of me. We were about to sit down when the blonde of the two girls came back, turned Jeff around and started kissing him. It made me so mad I could feel my face getting hotter as I walked over to where they were.

"Hey bitch, you better back off." I said as I yanked her off of him.

"What the hell is your problem?!" She asked, as if I did something wrong.

"My problem? My problem is that two freshman whores don't know when to leave someone alone." I said as I walked closer to her, backing her into a wall. "Make sure you keep your slutty asses away from him from now on, got it?" I asked, getting in her face. She just nodded and I pushed her towards her friend and said "Good, now get out of here before I get mad."

The two quickly made their way out of the gym and I walked back over by Jeff and sat down next to him.

"Wow."

"What?" I asked him.

"I've never seen you get like that with anyone."

"Yeah, well, they were getting on my nerves and just went too far."

"What did you say to her anyway? She looked scared."

"I just told her that they better leave you alone and to get out of here before I got mad."

"Before? Could've fooled me." He said, smiling. "Thanks though."

"No problem."

"Sooo umm...there's kinda something I wanted to tell you..." He said, scratching the back of his neck.

"What is it?"

"Umm well, I'm gonna be gone for a while."

I stopped what I was doing and looked at him. "What?"

"Yeah, my brother wants me to visit him, so I'll be going to North Carolina for a little while."

"How long will you be gone for?"

"I'm not sure yet." He sighed. "I promise I'll be back for your birthday."

"My birthday?! Jeff! That's all the way in June!"

"I know. But he really wants to see me, I have to go." He said

"When are you leaving?" I asked quietly after a couple minutes.

"Tomorrow morning. I didn't know when to tell you. I only found out like 2 weeks ago though."

After that we went to his house and I helped him pack the rest of the things. I was quiet most of the time, just thinking about what I was going to do now while he's gone. How am I suppose to get out of doing things with John now? And I'm going to have to go back to the bus. We had to say goodbye tonight, since he would be leaving at 4am. I tried to stay as long as I could, not wanting to go home, but eventually it got too late and I had to get some sleep for school tomorrow.

"I think you should get some sleep, Samantha." Gil said as he watched me and Jeff sitting on the couch doing nothing.

"Yeahh...I guess so." I said reluctantly as we both stood up.

Jeff pulled me into a huge tight hug and held onto me for what seemed like hours as Gil watched us.

"Text me when you get there?" I whispered in his ear as we continued hugging.

"Everyday."

After a little while longer we broke apart and I actually had tears in my eyes. I guess Gil noticed, because he pulled me into a hug and said "Don't worry darlin, he'll be back before you know it."

"I hope you're right."

"And hey, don't become a stranger around here, come over any time you want." He said as he let me go.

"I will." I said as I walked over to Jeff. "Bye Jeffy." I said as I kissed his cheek and waved sadly before I walked out the door after hearing a faint 'bye'.

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