Chapter 6:

Complications

Cloe walked down the hallway one morning with Cameron. She was absolutely in love with him and anyone who saw them could tell that he felt the same as well. He was tall, he'd gotten a tan over the summer, he had wavy dirty blonde hair. Looks aside, he was extremely kind and one of the more courteous guys out of all the others at the school. They'd been going out for three years and at this point she convinced they were meant to be.

"You coming to my game?" he asked.

"Of course. I wouldn't miss it," she said. To be honest, if she wasn't dating Cameron she probably wouldn't bother coming to any football games. Soccer was more her thing, she'd never been a big football fan. But Cameron was her boyfriend and she would always support him. Besides, he looked pretty hot in his football uniform.

He hugged her. "Good. We've got a new strategy, and we're totally gonna win this…"

He started going into the "new strategy". Cloe tried to listen but half the time she didn't understand football player talk. She couldn't complain though, she did the same thing with her soccer games. She noticed a big flyer on the wall advertising the prom. She gasped. "Cam look!" she exclaimed pulling him over to it.

He noticed the flyer. "Damn, prom is coming up already?"

Cloe giggled. "Of course it is silly!"

Cameron raised his eyebrows when he saw the price of the tickets. "These tickets get more expensive every year. It'll be cheaper to fly to the moon."

"I hear the moon makes silk ride up on you."

He chuckled. "Who told you that?"

"Well like, there's no gravity on the moon right? So why shouldn't it make silk ride up?"

Cameron laughed. Cloe said the weirdest things sometimes. He pulled her close to him. "You weirdo."

She smirked. "You love me for it, don't you?"

He kissed her lips. "More than anything." He began to kiss her again passionately hardly showing restraint even though they were in the middle of the hallway.

"Would you two get a room?" Cade said as he came over to them with Yasmin.

Yasmin rolled her eyes. "En serio."

They all gave her blank stares. "What?"

Yasmin shook her head in pity. "Ay, how are all of you passing your Spanish classes?"

"I know what it means Yas. She said 'seriously' you guys," Cade said proudly.

"At least someone gets it."

"That's not fair. You only understand that because you're with her all the time," Cameron said pointing an accusing finger at Cade.

Cade shrugged. "At least I'm learning something and I've got a B- in Spanish. What do you have, an F?"

"I have a C!"

Yamsin looked at the poster. "I can't wait for prom!"

"I hear senior prom is better than junior prom," Cade said.

"Why?" Cloe asked.

Cade and Cameron both smirked. "Because you have a better chance of getting laid."

Yasmin pushed his arm. "Would you stop it!"

"Better have some condoms with you," Sasha said coming towards them with a smirk on her face.

"Sasha, did you get a date yet?" Cloe asked.

"You've got to have a date," Cameron pointed out.

"You don't have one yet, do you?" Cade said.

Sasha put her hands on her hips. "Oh don't worry I'll have a date and he'll be hotter than both of you guys put together. I wouldn't be caught dead at the prom without a date."

Suddenly they heard the familiar sound of heels hitting the floor coming towards them. They turned to see Jade walking down the hallway looking as trendy as always but with an angry glare on her face. Koby followed behind her looking pretty desperate.

"Can we talk about this?"

"No!" she exclaimed.

"I didn't mean what I said!"

She turned to face him. "I'm sure you didn't! You say you love me and then you say shit like that to me, I won't stand for it okay? We're done!" With that she continued down the hallway past all of them.

Koby stood there watching her with his eyes wide in disbelief. He felt like he was falling off a cliff. Two years of love down the drain all because of him and his big mouth. "Jade I'm sorry!" he called.

"We're not speaking anymore!" she said over her shoulder.

The rest of them looked back and forth between them completely confused by what just happened. They thought Jade and Koby loved each other. There was hardly a moment where the two of them weren't together giving each other puppy love eyes. And now they were over, just like that? Koby was still standing there looking like he'd just been abandoned in a dark forest.

"Koby come here!" Cameron said waving him over.

Koby ignored them and just walked quickly in the opposite direction with his hands in his pockets.

"Oh no, is he going to cry?" Yasmin asked.

"I hope not, I can't stand to see a man cry," Cade said.

Cameron gave Cloe one last hug. "See you later." He went in the direction Koby went in trying to catch up with him.

Yasmin looked up at Cade who was staring after them but didn't seem to want to leave her. "Go make sure he's okay," she said.

He smiled down at her, gave her one last kiss, then left.

"I wonder what happened," Yasmin wondered.

"Don't just stand there, come on," Sasha said leading them over to the door Jade just came out of. They found her leaning against the brick wall outside. It seemed like she was trying to look angry but they could all see the tears threatening to fall from her eyes. "Jade what happened?"

Jade wiped her eye. "Koby was being a jerk."

Cloe reached out and hugged her. Jade hugged her back still trying not to cry.

"Come inside girl, you don't want the whole world seeing you cry," Yasmin said leading her inside. They went in the bathroom and as soon as they were out of the public eye, Jade broke down. Yasmin got some paper towels and wiped her face.

"What did Koby say?" Sasha asked.

"I told him what Dana said to me yesterday and what I said back to her and he said I was bitchy. And I said 'what's that supposed to mean'. And he was like 'well you always act that way to people. Have you ever once thought that it's rude?'. And I was like 'so that's what you really think of me?'. And then he tried to apologize for it and I told him to shut up and I walked away." She put her face in her hands and continued to cry.

"Well if he thinks you're a bitch, then you shouldn't be with him," Sasha said.

"But I love him!" Jade said.

"Jade just go talk to him. He looked pretty torn apart when you said it was over and I'm sure he feels the same way," Cloe said.

Jade shook her head. "He's the one that started it. Until he apologizes to me, I have nothing else to say to him." The bell rang for homeroom.

"Time to go guys," Yasmin said picking up her purse.

"Forget the bell," Sasha said not moving. "Jade, maybe you and Koby just need some time apart."

"Yeah, give it the weekend to sleep on it and cool down a bit. And if he doesn't come around then…" Cloe's voice trailed off and she shrugged.

Jade looked in the mirror. Yasmin had wiped off most of her make up with her tears and her eyes were red. She had been with Koby for nearly two years and the thought of moving on without him made her heart ache. There was genuine fear in the back of her mind. She didn't want to lose Koby. She pulled out her make up bag and re-did her eyeliner.

Yasmin put her hand on her shoulder. "You okay?"

Jade shoved her make up back into her purse. "If that's what Koby really thinks of me, I don't care." She picked up her black purse and walked away.

The rest of the girls followed her knowing she felt just the opposite.

Ah high school relationships. Can't you feel the drama?