Choosing was a thing a was never good at. From making a small choice like what color nail polish to wear to one as big as my whole Craig and Jimmy situation. I was never able to make a good choice that satisfied me. I avoided Craig and Jimmy in the halls for the whole day. Even though Jimmy had no idea what was going on I decided that I had to break myself away from him for the day too. As soon as the last bell of the day rung I quickly ran out of the door from school, wanting to escape from everything that was in the Degrassi building. I made a left at the stoplight. Normally I was supposed to make a right for the shorter way home but today I needed time to think and making a left was the long route home. The long route home took about 15 minutes. It passed through two small neighbor hoods. These neighborhood were all straight little cookie cutter houses. You could imagine by looking at them that each family looked the same. Two parents, two little kids, and probably a dog. The dogs name would be Rover or Buddy or some cheesy puppy dog name like that. The families would probably all had the perfect lives. Their kids probably never had to deal with problems like getting bad grades, having bad hair days, or even choosing between two boys that you both like. Nope, these families are probably perfect, no problems at all. Suddenly in this cookie cutter neighborhood the sky started to get dark. I felt one small drop of rain on the top of my head. Then I felt more and more. Rain soon poured down on me, on the grass, on the trees , on the perfect cookie cutter houses in the perfect little neighbor hood. Something about this made me smile. A large grin crept upon my face. For the first time all day I had really felt happy. I leaped a little in the air my clothes soaking wet. I did a little spin. I just felt so happy. I was dancing in the rain. I must of looked as strange a soaking wet girl just dancing in the rain. But just for a minute there I didn't care what other people would have thought of me. I was just being me having a good time.
I heard the sound of running footsteps behind me. I felt a pair of hands cover my eyes.
"Guess who?" I voice said. I recognized the voice.
"Hey Jimmy" I said removing his hands from my eyes. I turned around. There he was in his basketball uniform standing holding a umbrella over his head.
"You look…ugh… wet!" he said. We both laughed. I loved it when Jimmy smiles. It brings this warm feeling in me which I love.
"I saw you dancing in the rain." He said. "To tell you the truth Jade, you looked like a freak!"
"Oh, I know" I said. We both laughed again.
"Come on Jade come back to my house. Your soaked to the bone. You can dry off there" He said with his eye sparking.
"You live in this neighborhood?" I asked. He nodded. Go figure. Jimmy, Degrassi perfect 9th grader lived in the perfect neighborhood. I laughed in spite of this.
"What's so funny?" He asked
"Oh nothing" I said. I ducked under his umbrella, where it was dry and warm, and we walked to his house.
Once we were at his house I followed Jimmy up the stairs to his room. It was painted dark blue. On the walls he had pictures of his favorite basketball players, and other celebrities. Jimmy also had pictures of friends all around the room. There was one picture of Craig, Spinner, and him with their shirts off being all macho and flexing there muscles. It was a quite humorous picture.
"Can I have a copy of that one?" I asked jokingly.
"Take a number." Jimmy said and flopped down on his bed.
There was also one with him and a much younger looking Ashley with their arms wrapped around each other. Ashley's hair was longer and she didn't look goth. She actually looked much better. But when any girl is with Jimmy they look much better and feel much better.
"JIMMY," jimmy's mother called from down stars. "YOU LAB PARTNER CALLED HE SAID HE WILL BE OVER SOON TO WORK ON YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT"
"OK MOM!" jimmy shouted down the stairs.
"I should really leave soon then." I said.
"No stay with me until my lab parent come. Keep me company!" he said smiling and motioned for me sit down next to him on the bed. I lay myself down next to him on the bed. He turned on the TV and for a while we sat there watching an old rerun of friends. Ross and Rachel just get in a fight the hook up again. Monica cleans something. Joey and Phoebe do something weird. And Chandler makes fun of all of them with sarcastic comments. It was the typical friends episode but I always loved every minute of it. I laughed at one of the jokes and then snorted.
"You snort?" he said making fun of me "You dork!"
"Oh hey you're a dork too!" I said. Jimmy laugh and tickled me. I giggled.
"One dork for another" he said.
"Who said I'm a dork?" I asked.
"I did!" he said. "your just like me and if I'm a dork your one to!" he continued tickling me.
"I'm not like you." I said moving away from him tickling me. I just lay there next to him on the bed. "Your like almost perfect Jimmy and I am not perfect!"
"Jade, you are perfect. Perfect for me." He said smiling. He leaned in for a kiss. And his lips were greeted with mine. It was another long perfect kiss with Jimmy and I there was a lot of tongue. I have learned that Jimmy's kissing skill were another perfect thing about him even though he said he wasn't perfect. We rolled around on top of each other but did nothing more then kissing. Our minds we just set on each other so of course we didn't hear Jimmy's mother shout from down stairs
"Jimmy your lab partner is here"
And jimmy's lab partner walked up the stair and opened the on our make out session. And who of course was Jimmy's lab partner that opened the door on us. Well Craig of course, and let me tell you his expression was priceless.