Once & always
Chapter 3
"Bye Melissa" he whispered to himself.
Jackson walked to his car and drove away crying.
The next day…Jackson woke-up in his bed from the phone ringing, he was dripping in cold sweat. He had just had a dream where Melissa crashed on an island again when she was on the plane to Australia.
He could Tre pick up the phone and answered it. He was saying,
"Hello?" he took a pause to listen to the person on the other end of the phone.
"Who's this?" another pause.
"Oh, hi" pause.
"I'm tre, Jackson's little foster brother"
"No he's still in bed" pause.
"Really?" pause.
"How did it feel?" another pause.
"Good, how can that feel good?" pause
Jackson sat up and then he got out of his damp bed. He walked out of his bedroom in his white, blank singlet and red boxers.
His foster mother, Elaine, was making toast for his, little 5 year-old foster brothers, Tre and Davion.
Elaine turned around and saw Jackson dripping in sweat.
"Jackson, what happened?" Elaine asked him.
"Uh…bad dream" Jackson answered.
"About what?"
"Melissa"
"How
could you have a bad
dream about that sweet little girl?"
"She crashed on the way
to Australia"
"Oh" Elaine said.
Jackson looked over at tre, who was bouncing on the couch but talking on the phone at the same time, davion was bouncing up and down on the couch as well.
"Who's on the phone?" Jackson asked Elaine.
She shrugged and said,
"The phone rang just before you came out and he answered it. It must be someone good, because tre's interested" Elaine said.
"Now way, I'm to young to have a girlfriend, Melissa" tre said on the phone
Jackson ran over to tre because it was Melissa on the phone. Jackson and tre started pulling the phone, but tre was stronger than he looked.
"I'll give you 5 dollars if you give me the phone" Jackson tempted tre.
"No"
"10"
"Nope"
"20"
"No way"
"30"
"don't break the phone" said Elaine.
Melissa was laughing her head off on the other end of the phone.
"If you give me 50 dollars I'll give you the phone"
"50!" Jackson screamed.
"Yep" tre said.
"Fine" Jackson agreed.
Tre let go of the phone, and Jackson nearly fell over. But he got his balance and started talking to Melissa.
"Hi, Mel" he said.
"Hi" Mel said still half-laughing.
"How's Australia going?" asked Jackson said with a smile.
"Good, its hot" she said.
"Are you sure that's Australia, I think its you"
"Shut up"
Jackson walked into his room and sat on his bed. He was talking for 3 hours with her and it was already 12:00pm, but then he got another call.
"Hang on, I got another call" Jackson said to Mel.
"Ok"
Jackson pressed the button that said 'Answer'.
"Hello?" he said.
"Hi Jackson, its Taylor"
"Uh…hi"
"Listen, I wanted to know if I could come around in about 5 minutes to talk" Taylor was playing hard to get.
"Um, sure?"
"Great, see you in 5 minutes, bye" once again, she was playing hard to get.
"Bye" Jackson said.
He pressed the 'End' button, then the 'Answer' button to talk to Mel again.
"Hey Mel, I gotta go. Taylor's coming around"
"Oh, ok. That's fine, bye" Mel said disappointed
"Bye" Jackson said.
He pressed the 'End' button and put the phone down on the bench beside his bed.
Then he got dressed into a brown shirt and black pants. Next thing, he heard a knock at the front door.
Then he opened his door and raced to the door saying,
"I'll get it"
Jackson opened the front door, Taylor was there.
"hi, Jackson" Taylor said.
"hi, come in" Jackson answered.
"so this is where you live" Taylor said walking into where he lived and looking around.
Jackson closed the door, walked over to Taylor and said,
"Elaine, this is Taylor. You've heard of her"
"Oh, hi sweetie. Would like something to eat?" Elaine said to Taylor.
"No thanks, I'm watching my diet"
"Why would you need to go on a diet?" Elaine said smiling.
"Why thankyou, Mrs. Jackson" Taylor said sweetly smiling.
"please, call me Elaine"
Taylor nodded her head and smiled.
Taylor turned around to Jackson and said,
"Jackson, can I talk to you in private"
"um, sure"
What does Taylor want to talk about? Ohhh ahhh! Okay wat eva!! R'n'R!!