Chapter 11

The next few days were probably the longest few days of Jade's life. She tried to be happy like Koby had told her to but it just wasn't possible! She'd lay in her bed half the day crying and missing him. She ignored all of the phone calls she got (unless they were from him). She was constantly longing for his sweet lips or the touch of his soft hand on her and she just couldn't get him off her mind. Her mother had told her over and over again how unproductive it was of her to lay around the house all day being depressed and she was right. Jade knew she was right but of course she wouldn't admit it. But it wasn't like she could just forget about Koby. She loved him and he wasn't easy to get off her mind.

On Tuesday Sasha came to Jade's house and Jane answered the door. "Hi Sasha," she said.

"Hi. Where's Jade?"

"She's in her room. She's been in there crying since her boyfriend left," Jane explained.

"I'll get her to come out," Sasha said walking upstairs to Jade's room.

"Good luck with that."

Sasha knocked on the door. "Jade, can I come in?"

"Go away!" Jade exclaimed.

Sasha rolled her eyes and tried the door knob only to find out it was unlocked. When she went inside she found that the lights were off but it wasn't dark because of the light form outside, some sad love song was playing on her iPod, and Jade was laying in the bed under the covers and Sasha could hear her quietly sobbing into her pillow.

She walked over to her and sat on the bed. "Jade is this really what you've been doing since Saturday?"

Jade didn't respond, she just continued to cry.

Sasha rubbed her back. "I know you miss him, but at some point you've got to get out of the bed and keep living your life."

Jade turned over and looked at her. Her face was all red and covered in tears from crying. "He was my life Sasha."

"You've known him for two and a half months!"

Jade looked over at the picture of them he'd painted for her. "And in that two months I've grown a thousand times closer to him than I've ever been to any guy."

Sasha looked over at the painting Jade was looking at and she raised her eyebrows in surprise. Wow, she thought, he must have loved her a lot to have taken the time to make that. She looked back at Jade. "Girl, I know you loved him, but do you really think he would have wanted you to lay around all day crying while he's gone?"

Jade shook her head remembering the promise she'd made to him. "No. He told me himself he wanted me to try to be happy until he came back."

"Then why the heck are you laying here with the lights off crying?" Sasha exclaimed.

"It's not tat easy okay? I can't just get up and continue my life normally. I feel like I've been torn in half. This half of me can't survive while the other is in England."

Sasha decided to try something else. "Yasmin and Cloe are coming home today. Don't you wanna go see them?" Jade nodded. "Well how do you expect to do that laying here?"

Jade sighed. "You're right. Koby wanted me to be happy." She sat up and stretched.

Sasha looked at the gray t-shirt she was wearing that looked much too big on her. "Jade, is that his shirt?"

Jade blushed. "He gave it to me a month ago." She got out of the bed and Sasha also saw that she wasn't wearing pants, just hot pink panties that said "Kiss My Ass".

"And no pants?"

Jade shrugged. "I was too depressed to put on pants." She pulled out some purple leggings, an oversized pink t-shirt, her high tops, and some make-up and jewelry. "How do I look?"

"Better than you did when I came in here."


They went to the airport to see Yasmin and Cloe. Yasmin would be coming in around noon and Cloe and Cameron were coming shortly after.

They passed the gate Koby was at and she grabbed Sasha's arm as if to hold her together. "Sasha, that's the gate Koby got left at."

Sasha pried her hands off her. "Don't start crying again, you'll ruin your make up."

They still had ten minutes so Sasha went to the vending machine and got some Skittles.

Jade gasped. "Koby and I once shared a bag of Skittles."

Sasha rolled her eyes. "Wonderful," she said sarcastically.

Jade obviously didn't catch on. She saw a man walk past with a green suitcase. "Koby had a green suitcase!"

"Would you stop?" Sasha exclaimed.

Jade sighed. "I'm sorry."

They went over to the gate and Yasmin's plane landed. She got off wearing shorts, a tank top, flip flops, a tan, and she looked as gorgeous as ever. "Jade! Sasha!" she exclaimed running over to them. "I missed you two so much!" she said giving each of them a hug.

"We missed you too girl," Sasha said.

Yasmin looked around. "Where's Cade?"

"What do you mean?" Sasha asked confused.

"He said he would be here." She pulled out her phone to text him. "I hope he didn't blow me off."

Sasha grabbed her arm. "Cloe's gonna be here. Come on." They went to the gate Cloe was getting off at. The plane was already landed and Cloe and Cameron had just stepped off sharing a soft pretzel and laughing.

Cloe noticed them looking at them. "Hi!" she exclaimed.

"Californian pretzels are the best," Cameron said as they walked over to them.

"I see you didn't take my advice and get that haircut," Jade said. Cameron's wavy hair was still past his chin.

He shrugged. "If Cloe likes it, I won't cut it off."

Suddenly Cade came over to them. "I thought you were getting off at 15?" he said to Yasmin taking her into his arms.

"I did, but you're late."

"I'm sorry. Traffic and shit." He kissed her lips passionately. "I missed you a lot."

"I missed you too."

"So like Jade, where's this new boyfriend of yours? I'm dying to meet him," Cloe said.

"He's not here," Jade said.

Cloe raised her eyebrows. "You mean he's not here as in not here-not here, like, dead?"

Cameron slapped her shoulder. "Stop that." She shrugged.

"She means he's not here as in he went back to England," Cade explained.

Yasmin reached out and gave Jade a hug. "Oh Jade, I'm so sorry."

Jade shrugged. "I'll be okay, I guess. I'd just grown so close to him, and I guess it was pretty stupid of me to do that. We knew he wouldn't stay and I ended up falling in love too hard too fast."

"Well, hey, how about when we get settled in we go get some smoothies or something? That'll make you feel better, right?" Cameron suggested.

Jade gave him a grateful smile. "Thanks Cameron."


Before they knew it, senior year had started. The Bratz walked into school still the most popular girls with the cutest clothes that they'd bought at the mall.

It was lunch time and they were sitting at their usual table. Yasmin was sitting in her chair eating her salad, Cloe was texting under the table, Sasha was at the head of the table as usual, and Jade was leaning back in her chair with her six inch stilettos on the table.

"Are you feeling a bit better about him Jade?" Yasmin asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay." It hadn't been easy for her to live without Koby, but she was coping. The tears in her heart weren't healed, but the bandages on them were holding up just fine.

Cade, Cameron, Ethan, and Dylan came over to them. "Ladies, how's it going?" Ethan said. "Senior year, let me hear you say 'oh yeah!'."

"Oh yeah!" they guys said. The girls just looked at them like they were crazy.

Cade sat next to Yasmin and put his arms around her. The two of them had been inseparable since Yasmin got back.

Ethan threw his straw wrapper at them. "We're eating here!"

Dylan sat on the table next to Jade. "'Sup Jadey," he said tapping her nose.

"Hey Dyl," she said.

"Dylan, she'd single again. How about you make a move?" Cameron said.

Dylan and Jade gave him the finger. "Shut up and cut your hair," Jade said.

"No!" Cameron snapped.

Fianna, Megan, Roxxi, and Phoebe came over to them.

"Hi girls," Fianna said.

They pulled up chairs around the table.

"How was your summer?" Cloe asked them.

"It was great. We went to Disney World," Phoebe said

Sasha rolled her eyes. "Well, I'm sure you had fun singing songs with Mickey Mouse."

"Actually, we were on roller coaster's the whole time," Roxxi said.

Tess and Nona came over to them. The two of them were the Bratz worst enemies. They always acted like they were better than them (even though everyone knew they weren't) and tried to steal their popularity.

They looked at them like they would a squished bug. "Bratz," Nona said.

The Bratz looked at them the same way. "Bitches," Sasha said.

"So what did you four do this summer? Sit around with Yamsin's little brother and play board games?" Tess said.

Yasmin glared at them. "Very funny. I was in Puerto Rico all summer not playing board games with my brother."

"And I was in California with Cameron," Cloe said.

"They made a sex tape and posted it online," Ethan lied.

Cameron hit him on the head. "Dude, stop!"

"And I was taking dance classes which is more than you'll ever be able to do," Sasha said. "Were you sitting around the house all day or did you actually do something besides waste your time trying to ruin someone else's life?"

Tess and Nona glanced at each other knowing they wouldn't be able to top what the Bratz did. Tess planned on being honest. "We…"

"We traveled the world!" Nona said.

The rest of them laughed. "Yeah right, and I went to the bottom of the ocean," Jade said.

"What did you really do this summer Jade?" Nona asked hoping it wouldn't be as good as her other friends.

"She met someone this summer," Cloe said.

Everyone else got interested. "Really? Who?" Fianna asked.

Jade blushed. "A really cute guy."

"Well that's not enough! Tell us what happened," Megan said.

Tess rolled her eyes. "Yeah, we're dying to know," she said sarcastically.

"His name is Koby. He moved here at the beginning of June from the UK. He was tall, had the most gorgeous blue eyes, his accent was to die for, he was an artist, and he was nineteen." She felt a swell of sadness talking about Koby this way but it was nice to relive those nice memories.

"He was British?" Phoebe said impressed.

"He was nineteen?" Nona said truly surprised.

"How did you get together?" Megan asked.

"I saw him sitting outside of his house one day and went to talk to him and we became friends. And one day I was in his bedroom…"

"Whoa!" Ethan and Cade said. "You did that?" Ethan said.

Jade rolled her eyes. "He was painting a picture of me you pervert! Anyway, he told me I was beautiful and he kissed me. I swear he was a damn good kisser."

"Where was your first date?" Tess asked. Even she and Nona were starting to get interested.

Jade remembered the day perfectly. "We went out to dinner at Bone Fish Grill and we went ice skating."

"That's really sweet," Fianna said.

Sasha was obviously getting jealous by all the attention Jade was getting. She tried not to be, but that could be her telling everyone what an amazing time she had with her boyfriend. "So Jade, exactly how far did you go with him?" She knew good and well Jade and Koby did not have sex but she also knew that was what everyone would be expecting to hear and she'd look like a loser if she told them she didn't.

Jade glanced at her. "How far…?"

Sasha smirked. "You did go all the way with him didn't you?"

"I…"

Nona and Tess smirked. "Yeah tell us, did you lose it to him?" Tess asked.

"Or not?" Nona said giving Tess and knowing look.

Jade knew Sasha was just playing her trying to get all the attention off of her. Everyone was looking at her expecting her to say she and Koby went that far and she would give them what they wanted if it meant ruining Sasha's obvious plan. "Yeah we did."

Ethan laughed. "So there really was some action?"

"Of course." She started rattling off her long time sex fantasy. "Like, I was in the shower and he came to my house. We totally did it in the shower, and then took it to the bed."

Cloe kicked her lightly under the table. "You never told me you did that."

"Well, I don't really like to brag about these things but I knew all of you wouldn't leave me alone unless I told you what happened." She gave Sasha a look; she totally wasn't done with her yet. "You should have seen how jealous Sasha was when I started dating Koby."

Nona snickered. "You were actually jealous?" she said to Sasha.

Sasha shook her head. "No…!"

"Don't lie," Jade said. "She was so jealous she wouldn't talk to me for half the summer."

"Damn Sasha," Ethan said.

"That's just wrong," Phoebe said.

Sahsa glared at Jade then stood up. "Whatever." Then she got up and left.

"So um, where is this boyfriend of yours?" Tess asked.

"Yeah, you should totally bring him here. I wanna meet him," Fianna said.

Jade sighed. "You can't."

Nona stood up. "I knew he didn't exist!"

Jade rolled her eyes. "He does exist. You can ask any one of the guys, they've seen him in person, except Cameron. Two weeks ago, he went back England. I haven't seen him since." She looked down as she spoke trying to hide her sadness.

Phoebe put her hand on Jade's shoulder. "I'm sorry."

"He said he'd come back for me, but he never said when."

Suddenly the bell rang. They all said their good bye's then went to their classes.


After school Jade was outside at the front of the school with Yasmin and Cloe.

"Where the heck is Sasha?" Cloe asked.

"Jade, why did you do that to her?" Yamsin asked with her arms crossed like a scolding mother.

"You two saw what she was doing. She can't stand it when she's not in the spotlight so she tried to take it from me. And I don't appreciate that. You know I won't stand for it when people try to do that," Jade said.

A car rolled up at the front of the school.

"Ooh, sweet car," Cloe said.

Jade turned around to look at it. When she saw it she felt like she would explode from joy. An immediate smile spread across her face and she felt like if it got bigger her face would break. "Koby?" She didn't believe it; she blinked over and over again trying to wake up from this dream.

Yasmin and Cloe looked back and forth between him and Jade. "That's him?" Yasmin asked.

Jade nodded.

"He is hot," Cloe said as she stared at him.

Koby noticed her standing over there and he smiled back at her. She waved at him and he waved her over to him. She ran over to him as fast as she could without tripping in those heels. People stared at her but she didn't care. She pushed anyone in her way. He got out of his car and when she got over to him she threw her arms around him and kissed him as hard as she possibly could.

Yasmin and Cloe watched the whole thing and Fianna, Roxxi, Megan, Phoebe, Tess, and Nona came over to them.

"Is that Koby?" Tess asked. The jealousy was clear in her voice.

"He's sexy," Roxxi said.

"Oh yeah," all of the girls agreed.

"She's so lucky," Fianna said.

Jade and Koby continued kissing craving what they hadn't had for weeks. She looked at him wiping the tears from her eyes. "What are you doing here? I thought you moved back?"

Koby smirked. "Did you really think I would actually leave you like that?"

Jade gave him a disbelieving look. "That was dirty trick!" she said punching his arm.

Koby chuckled and kissed her nose. "It wasn't a trick. I really did go back. But my father got a permanent job here and I'm going to the University here. So, we've got all the time in the world together."

Jade hugged him tightly. "That's great!"

"By the way, I got your note and I thought it was so sweet, that I got you this." He reached into the glove compartment and pulled out a gorgeous necklace.

"Koby you are the best!" she exclaimed as he put it on her.

He kissed her neck. "I take it you like it."

She nodded. "I do." She kissed his lips. "I love you."

He brushed her bangs out of her eyes. "I love you too. School is over now right? Do you want to go for a ride?"

Jade nodded eagerly. "I'd go even if school wasn't over." They got in his car and drove away from the school glad to be reunited.


The End! Hope you liked it. Reviews are appreciated.