Jades POV
I sat in the spare room, and watched the red headed boy pack his things,
Why can't I tell him! I the looked at the boy I had fallen in love with.
And now he's leaving, and I can't stop him. I never was going to be able
to. I liked him from the first day, when he showed up on my doorstep early
one Saturday morning.
*Flashback* (A/N most of the story is a flashback)
"Jade? Is the spare bedroom clean? The exchange student should be here any minute." My mother yelled down the hallway from the kitchen, where she was franticly scrubbing everything. She wanted it to be perfect. All we knew at the time was that we were hosting a well-mannered boy from Japan. My mother even talked to his mother, when she found out that it was a male who was staying with us.
"Ya, it's clean." I yelled back to her. I had spent a good portion of the morning cleaning it to my mother's expectations. My room on the other hand was a different story.
"What about your room?" She yelled. I swear, she must read minds. "Get your little ass up there and clean it!" She said, walking into the living room where I was plopped on the couch watching some re-run of MTV's hottest countdown. They just happened to be playing my favorite song, 'Headstrong' by Trapt. She turned off the TV and shooed me up the stairs.
In my room I turned on the CD player, of coarse to the Trapt CD and started on the mess. Within five minutes I was done, she'll be too busy to look under my bed. I sat down on my bed, listening to 'Headstrong' again, waiting for the boy to arrive.
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The two of us clicked, from the moment he walked into the house. He needed some help in the clothes department, but man, I had never seen a cuter guy. My mother introduced everyone and instructed me to help Suishi, which was what he said his name was, up to his room. While he started unpacking, we talked and started getting to know each other. It turned out, we had a lot in common, well, for an American and a boy from Japan.
"What do you spend most of your time doing?" I asked.
"Um... reading, writing, and science. I like studying too. I love Botany. I have my own garden at home." He laughed a little turning red in the face.
"There aren't many boy's around here that can say they like any of that, come to think of it you're the first." He blushed, clearly embarrassed, 'I should have stuck with the skate boarding idea.' He thought, knowing he was the only boy he knew that was interested in the same things. I noticed his embarrassment and continued.
"I like a boy who is actually interested in something else besides beer, and sex." I said, most every boy at school was like that. "Some guy's here spent their time drinking, getting laid by girls and skate boarding. They're the drunkies of the school. My friends were going to stop by after school, do you mind?" I asked changing the subject. I couldn't keep my eyes off him. He was tall had long red hair with a pair of big emerald eyes, he was the meaning of hott. A lot of boys here in the Midwest were going with the long hair look. Well some of them. The popular prates wouldn't ever let it go out over an inch. Them and there stupid girlfriends. I hate 'em all.
"I don't mind" he answered, he wanted to meet new people, humans were all different. That's what interested him. Suishi looked at he Jade over his shoulder. She was sitting on the bed staring out the window at nothing. 'She was pretty,' he thought, 'easy on the eye's, but something about her made me wary of her.'
"DINNER!" My mom yelled up the stairs. Jade stood up and walked towards the door.
"Come on, I'll give you the tour after we eat." Suishi stood up and followed her.
*Flashback* (A/N most of the story is a flashback)
"Jade? Is the spare bedroom clean? The exchange student should be here any minute." My mother yelled down the hallway from the kitchen, where she was franticly scrubbing everything. She wanted it to be perfect. All we knew at the time was that we were hosting a well-mannered boy from Japan. My mother even talked to his mother, when she found out that it was a male who was staying with us.
"Ya, it's clean." I yelled back to her. I had spent a good portion of the morning cleaning it to my mother's expectations. My room on the other hand was a different story.
"What about your room?" She yelled. I swear, she must read minds. "Get your little ass up there and clean it!" She said, walking into the living room where I was plopped on the couch watching some re-run of MTV's hottest countdown. They just happened to be playing my favorite song, 'Headstrong' by Trapt. She turned off the TV and shooed me up the stairs.
In my room I turned on the CD player, of coarse to the Trapt CD and started on the mess. Within five minutes I was done, she'll be too busy to look under my bed. I sat down on my bed, listening to 'Headstrong' again, waiting for the boy to arrive.
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The two of us clicked, from the moment he walked into the house. He needed some help in the clothes department, but man, I had never seen a cuter guy. My mother introduced everyone and instructed me to help Suishi, which was what he said his name was, up to his room. While he started unpacking, we talked and started getting to know each other. It turned out, we had a lot in common, well, for an American and a boy from Japan.
"What do you spend most of your time doing?" I asked.
"Um... reading, writing, and science. I like studying too. I love Botany. I have my own garden at home." He laughed a little turning red in the face.
"There aren't many boy's around here that can say they like any of that, come to think of it you're the first." He blushed, clearly embarrassed, 'I should have stuck with the skate boarding idea.' He thought, knowing he was the only boy he knew that was interested in the same things. I noticed his embarrassment and continued.
"I like a boy who is actually interested in something else besides beer, and sex." I said, most every boy at school was like that. "Some guy's here spent their time drinking, getting laid by girls and skate boarding. They're the drunkies of the school. My friends were going to stop by after school, do you mind?" I asked changing the subject. I couldn't keep my eyes off him. He was tall had long red hair with a pair of big emerald eyes, he was the meaning of hott. A lot of boys here in the Midwest were going with the long hair look. Well some of them. The popular prates wouldn't ever let it go out over an inch. Them and there stupid girlfriends. I hate 'em all.
"I don't mind" he answered, he wanted to meet new people, humans were all different. That's what interested him. Suishi looked at he Jade over his shoulder. She was sitting on the bed staring out the window at nothing. 'She was pretty,' he thought, 'easy on the eye's, but something about her made me wary of her.'
"DINNER!" My mom yelled up the stairs. Jade stood up and walked towards the door.
"Come on, I'll give you the tour after we eat." Suishi stood up and followed her.