Chapter 25
Bianca and Jax walked hand in hand down the Keaton halls. Now that they were reunited and Bianca's mom finally accepted their relationship, they felt more confident being in public as a couple.
"So how were things here while I was gone?" Bianca asked her boyfriend after they stopped by his locker.
"Terrible, but I survived with the help of Miles and Alya," Jax answered. "Did you know I was going to fly to LA by myself yesterday?"
"Are you serious Jaxon?"
"Yes. I needed to see you so bad."
Bianca reached her hand over and stroked the front of his hair that was flipped. "You are the sweetest Jaxon Gardner."
Jax blushed. "You're embarrassing me Bianca Blackwell. People are staring."
"I don't care Jaxon. Remember our vow? We wouldn't care what people thought of us?" Bianca reminded.
"Right. I don't care if they're staring and laughing at us..."
Bianca looked away from Jax and saw what he saw. A few students stood feet away, with teasing smiles. When she turned back to Jax, they laughed again.
"What's your problem?" Jax slammed his locker shut and walked up to them. Bianca stayed back, startled by his voice.
"Nothing," one of the students said.
"Then why are you watching us? Do we amuse you?"
"We just knew she'd come back because Bianca's such a quitter," a girl said. "But did you really think your relationship would still last even though she came back for you?"
"I'll have you know, the whole time she was away I never went a day without thinking of her," Jax said. "And our relationship is even stronger now that she's here. In fact, you people are helping with that. We don't care what anybody says. We don't care that we're both insecure and we struggle with our confidence. We need each other."
Jax left the students with no words to say, while Bianca watched. She smiled because he had stood up for them like she had with her mother. She was beyond proud of him for doing that, knowing how insecure he was.
"Way to go Jaxon," Bianca said, walking up to him.
Jax put his head down and smiled shyly. "Just standing up for our relationship."
"Well at least we have my mother," Bianca said.
"And us," voices behind them said. Jax and Bianca turned around to see Miles, Alya, Kit, and Jenna standing in a row.
"Hey guys!" Bianca ran up to her friends. She went down one by one and hugged everyone, including Alya and Jenna; the two girls she didn't get along with at first.
"We all missed you here," Jenna said.
"Really?" Bianca grinned. Kit, Miles and Alya nodded.
"Our two lovers are reunited," Kit said.
"And the world is right again," Miles said.