Life

Jake's POV

Me and Erica went to Benny's and talked to him for a bit only to find out that you can't fix it, so I asked Erica if she wanted to start our relationship over in which she agreed. Benny was mad but this time he didn't do anything.

Friday

Tonight was the beginning of the playoffs. We only had to win 2 more games before we head to the state championship. Our 1st string quarterback got hurt during the 1st half so I subbed in the rest of the game winning by a touchdown. I was awarded the player of the game award. While everybody was heading to the locker room I saw this boy in a wheelchair watching from the sidelines. I walked up to him and asked him his name.

"My name is Jimmy, I was watching you play and you're really good"

"Thanks I said, so how come you're in the wheelchair"

"Well one day I was playing football with my friends in the backyard and I got tackled pretty hard and it hurt my back and now it's hard for me to walk"

"I'm sorry to hear that, if you want I'll talk to you about our program and have you right down some plays, I'll get my girlfriend Erica to be my wide receiver, and I looked up at Erica who was glaring at me so I glared back. So what do you say Jimmy, do you wanna do that?"

"Sure but I gotta go soon" he said

"Alright well first hold on let me go to the locker room I got a surprise for you" I came back 2 minutes later with my Jersey that I can wear outside of school and the game ball. I signed both the jersey and football and gave them to Jimmy. Also I gave him a marker and a dry erase board to write on.

He wrote down some good plays, now the only problem was getting Erica to come down and help. I ran up to the bleachers and carried her down on the field. She was saying that she wasn't gonna do it, and I said "look that kid can hardly walk and came to watch a game, the least I could do as a player is spend time with him and maybe brighten his day, now are you gonna help me or not?" she nodded. I ran back and looked at some plays he wrote down, "alright coach you got it" I grabbed the game ball and told Erica to slant right, she looked at me like I was stupid so I explained to her what it meant along with a curl. After a couple of plays. Jimmy's parent's came down from the bleachers and we talked for a while. I gave Jimmy back the game ball and wished him and his family the best of luck and that they would be in my prayers.

Erica got into her car and left before I got to ask her what was wrong. I texted her saying "Erica, what's wrong all I was trying to do was make a little kid happy by playing football with him and having him write down some plays for me to do, I love you text me back when you get this" I didn't get a reply all night so I just said screw it and went to sleep. The next day on the news the news casters had a camera rolling from last night after the game, and they were talking about how I was such a nice player and made one little boy's dreams come true, which was to write plays. I went down stairs and my parents were talking about what I did while they were watching the news. Later that day after I showered I headed over to Erica's to see what's what. When I got there I saw her crying. I walked over to her and started talking to her.

"Erica what's wrong, I asked helping her to her feet"

"It's Benny"

"What about Benny"

"Jake I'm sorry but I don't love you"

"You, you what, I was almost about to cry"

"Just go, get away from me"

"Erica just tell me what's wrong"
"NOW" she hissed flashing her fangs.

I left heading back home. Okay what to do now, you just got dumped for your friend. That does not sound right, I said that to myself a couple of times. Sure I was upset about it but It's her life. I logged on Facebook and started talking to Sarah. We talked for most of the day, unlike Erica Sarah was actually nice to other people instead of acting like she's better then all of them. That night I was laying in bed texting Sarah. As I was falling asleep I realized something. Me and Sarah have a lot in common. No I can't do that to Ethan he has a crush on her, well fuck my O Zone I thought in my head. I'll play it cool, by still being friends with Sarah and Erica, but I don't wanna be the guy left without someone to have. Well I had Erica but she left me for Benny, I guess I could hook Sarah up with Ethan and make them happy. I texted Erica asking her how she was doing, she texted me back saying that Benny tried to rape her. well if I was in Benny's shoes and I had a hot girl like Erica in my room, why wouldn't I, I thought to myself. I replied to her text saying sorry. In my opinion she needs to get her head straight. 5 minutes later something landed outside my window. I opened it and Erica climbed in. she was crying and asking me to hold her. "Erica you need to get your head straight so I'm only going to ask you this once, who do you want to be with me or Benny?" she didn't answer but backed away from me and flew out my window. Like I said she needs to sort out her priorities. I climbed into bed and tried to get some sleep.

A/N: Rachel, i saw what you wrote and took it into consideration