Here is Chapter 12 of Our Bloody Memories. Enjoy!
Summary, Rated, Warnings, Genres, Pairing and OC Profiles are in Chapter One if needed.
Disclaimer: StarlightAngel101, DOES NOT own Beyblade, and OCs that belong to any authors I mention along the chapters. StarlightAngel101 owns story plot, Jess (OC), and other OCs that belongs to me and mention along the chapters.
A legend to help out when reading….
"Hello" – Talking
'Hello,' – Thinking and Announcements (on radio, PA, etc.)
"To be or Not To be," – Quotes (will appear at the beginning of chapters)
Any word that is in Italic – Empathize the word
God send me an angel, From the heavens above – Lyrics or a letter/note, e-mails, posters (Their BOLD AND ITALIC)
Chapter Twelve: Brooklyn
"All in one night, I get used by a guy that I didn't like that much, and I meet someone mysterious and handsome."
Mid-May
Dabbing the paint-brush on the red oil paint, Jess stroke the paint-brush on the canvas board, that was place on an easel.
Two weeks from now that art show was happening at the school, showing the student's talents in visual arts, music, dancing and drama.
Jess was some of the students chosen to do some visual artwork. It was part of their projects along writing a critique of each artwork. They were to do at least three different artworks, in any kind of media, as long as it follows the rules of what is allow to draw and the measurements of the art courses rule.
Jess had in mind of three pictures she wanted to paint, and got prepared to use oil paints and canvas as her media.
Some music was played in the background to relax her and enjoy her while taking her time doing it.
She continue dabbing her paint-brush in different colors, and stroking and blending the paint-brush on the canvas.
Just when she thought nothing could break the relaxation she was in…
RING! RING!
'Ugh,' Jess thought, 'Why do every time I feel calm and happy, that noises had to interrupt the serenity of relaxation?'
Jess manage to reach for the phone by the fourth time it rang, picking up the phone and placing it near her ear and close to her mouth.
"Hello?" asked Jess.
"Is Jess there?" asked a male voice.
"This is Jess," she replied, "And who might you be?"
"Ian," he replied, "Ian Matthews."
"Oh," Jess said with little interest.
Ian Matthews is the 'hottest' sports freak in the school. A lot of the girls were dying to be his girlfriend, but he was already taken by Ciara. Until about three weeks ago, they ended their relationship for who knows what the reason was.
All that Jess knows that Ian was huge in her view; he has blonde hair that has the hairstyle of a surfer, and dark brown eyes. She passes by him in between classes, plus during lunch being cool to his friends and being with his ex-girlfriend.
"I was wondering if you want to come with me to a beach party, which Trixie is throwing?" asked Ian.
"So, I guess that your over with Ciara and want me to go out with, huh?" Jess replied, "But I am not interested, thanks."
"No, no. Wait, I didn't mean like that. What I mean to say is just hanging out like friends."
"So, you're saying that you want me to come with you to party like friends. Is that it?"
"Yes."
Jess didn't want to fall for this stupid act. Ciara was also to attend to the party, and to make perfect sense, Ian is using Jess to get her jealous and go back together. However, there was some chance that she might not come.
Jess look at the painting that she needs to finish before the art show, but shrugged. The oil paint will be still wet when she comes back, that's the good thing about oil paints. At least she can have some fun at the party and keep her distance from Ian incases he's using her, if Ciara is there.
"Okay," Jess replied, "I'll go to the party with you as friends. When's the party?"
"Saturday, sunset," replied Ian.
Saturday came slow, even though it was two days since Ian called to hang out with Jess at the party.
Jess manage to finish the first one, and half-way done with the second painting, but put it away till tomorrow along with her Writer's Craft and Physical Education homework.
She got an idea on what to wear, as she was wearing a light-purple t-shirt, and mini-jean shorts, along wearing a white hoodie jacket, zipped half-way up.
Jess was putting in her cell-phone, her wallet, and a pack of gum in her small dark-blue handbag.
"Hey, Jess isn't it time to leave to hang out with Ian to the beach party?" asked Aya.
"Yes," answered Jess, "I'm going to wait at the front of the apartment to meet up with him."
"Okay then, enjoy the party."
"Thanks a lot, see you later."
Jess went to close the door after getting her bag, and locking the door with her keys, heading down to the front of the apartment, waiting for Ian to then go to the party.
They arrive at the beach, where the party had begun and the sun have vanished from the horizon, but still see the sky with hints of fuchsia and red.
"Hey guys…" everyone greeted Ian and Jess.
Jess saw some of her friends here, like Serenity, Rose, Roxanna and Nicole, and a few people from her classes.
Jess look for one person that she wanted to know that he wasn't using her, but it was just her luck as she saw Ciara, near the refreshments glaring at Ian, ignoring her.
'Just what I thought,' Jess thought, 'But let's see if my conclusion is right.'
"Jess, do you want to join in for a game of volleyball?" Roxanna asked.
She looks to the direction to where Roxanna's voice came from to see a group a people looking at herself, and the volleyball net was already set up.
She smiles softly, replying, "Sure."
She headed towards the group, leaving Ian to do whatever in the party.
"Take this!!" yelled Roxanna, as she spikes the ball to their opponent side.
The ball slammed into the sand, for the other players getting it came too late.
"Yeah another point for us!" a guy on their side yelled.
The other player pass the ball to their side, which one of them passes to Jess, who was serving the ball a few times.
Jess got prepared to served the ball, when, "Hey, look!"
Everyone went to look, even Jess to see at the refreshments table, and at that moment Ian was kissing Ciara.
"Looks like their back together again," Serenity answered.
"I knew it," Jess whispered to herself.
After their make-up-make-out session, Ian and Ciara left the party, who knows where and what are they going to do.
"Who cares," Roxanna replied, "Let's get into the game, and have some fun."
Everyone nodded and got into their positions, as Jess prepares to serve the ball to the other side.
'Don't worry Jess,' Jess thought, 'Pretend he's the ball, and use you anger to hit it over it.'
Feeling ready, Jess toss the ball up in the air, doing over-hand surf. As Jess time the ball when it began to fall down, she use her right hand to slam the ball, to get over the net.
The ball did go over the net…
…Yet, it went too far, over the line and ended up hitting someone in the head.
"Oh my God!" yelled a girl.
"Jess! You hit someone in the head," explained a girl.
'Oh no,' she thought.
Jess quickly ran from the game to head to the stranger that was hit by the ball. Her feet pick up the pace, every step on the sand, till she made it to the stranger.
"I am so sorry about that," Jess spoke, making her voice apologetic, as she bent down to pick up the ball, "Let's just say I hit the ball a bit too hard."
"It's no problem," replied the stranger.
Jess manages to get up, to then have a better look at the stranger. It was then her jaw went down slightly…
He was male, about 5'10" or a head taller than her, with orange-red hair that was moved by the soft breeze, and a pale skin tone, but what made her feel breath-taking were his eyes.
His eyes were bluish-green, reminding her of the ocean. Cool, calm, relaxed. Jess couldn't let her eyes move away from them as they have like a hypnotic effect and she felt calm.
She didn't spoke anything…
…He didn't as well, guessing he was too stunned.
Silence fell among them, and feeling that they were the only ones alone.
Author's Note:
Okay, this is the first time that I have to pause in the middle of the chapter, but listen up! Through chapter one till chapter seven, you had a chance seeing Brooklyn's view of his life before he met Jess, and from chapter eight till about half-way from this chapter, it was based on Jess's view. So, now the rest of the chapter is like a normal view of the story… Don't forget that they met for the first time! Enjoy reading the rest.
Neither Brooklyn nor Jess spoke and kept staring at each other for some time now.
'Come on,' Brooklyn thought, 'Say something to her.'
"Um…" Jess began, "You have amazing eyes, and they remind me of the ocean."
'Nice way to start, Jess,' Jess thought sarcastically.
Brooklyn couldn't believe his ears. She said he had amazing eyes. This was the first comment a girl told him about his eyes. The only comments he get is that he's strong, and sexy.
"Thanks," he said, with a soft smile, "You too have lovely eyes, like crystal dazzling of their pure beauty."
Jess flushed at that comment Brooklyn made.
'Wow,' she thought, 'I don't know who he is, and…um... I don't even know what word can suit him very well.'
"Jess! What's the hold up?!" Roxanna said as she and some of the others from the volleyball game came to see what going on.
Some of the guys thought it's just another guy that Jess's hit the ball with. While some of the girls were amazed, thinking the same thing, he is so hot.
"Hey! Would you like to join us in a game of volleyball?" asked a girl named Trixie, the one who plan out the party, "We need another player on Roxanna's team."
"What happened?" asked Jess.
"While you were too distracted," explained Roxanna, "Paul went to get a soda, to then for some reason tripped and fell, saying he sprained his ankle."
"Sure, no problem," Brooklyn replied.
The girls shriek silently to a whisper, excited to have him join in.
"Then let's get this game on a go then," a guy replied as everyone headed out to the volleyball net.
Everybody got into their position, Jess still server, and Brooklyn was in center after he removes his jacket to reveal a dark-blue t-shirt underneath the jacket.
Jess was focusing on the ball to not realize Brooklyn staring at her moves, from throwing the ball up to making contact with her hand with force to go over the net.
The game went out fun and funny, that no one had a chance to keep score…
Jess however wondered, why he, Brooklyn always get the ball not only when it comes to him, but when it comes to her. He even does it when she said 'mine' to know that she'll get it.
The girls, who weren't playing and simply socializing, mostly gaze at Brooklyn, seeing his every move that his body could make.
For the guys, they also stare at him, but with a hint of jealousy, and they wondered what he has that they don't have. And wondered why girls look at one guy and go crazy over them.
One guy went to one of the girls, saying, "Hey Angela, what does this guy have that we don't have."
Angel replied, "I don't know. But it seems so rare that if his looks came down from the heavens."
One of the girls beside Angela moved her body at an angle looking at Brooklyn. Then a minute later, she said, "He has a cute butt."
The game went for a while till Jess calls it a break for her. She left the game to the refreshment stand to get herself a can of soda. Opening it and taking a small sip of the sugary fluid, letting it down go to her throat.
"Jess," Serenity said as she came to her, along with Rose, "Can we talk to you about something?"
"Alright," Jess replied, "What's up?"
"Um…" Serenity began, "It's about him." Rose made a thumb up, pointing behind her shoulder, for Jess to look who they were talking to.
They were mention about the guy that she accidentally hit the ball, and the one with the ocean color eyes.
"Yeah. What about him?"
"Have you notice?" Rose asked, "That he keeps getting the ball when ever the ball heads to you."
"Yes."
"And he keeps staring at you when you make a move in the game?"
"He stares at me?"
"No, duh," Serenity and Rose replied in unison.
"So, tell us," Rose pleaded, "What did you do or say to him, which made him want to stare at you?"
"Well," Jess began, "I said his eyes remind me of the ocean, but he complemented me as well. He said that my eyes were like crystals sparkling of showing their rarest beauty."
"He has a thing for you," Rose answered.
"If you say so, but I'm heading back to the game."
Jess places her soda on the table, leaving it behind as she went back to the game enjoying it as much as possible.
The game went like always, everybody having fun, till Jess look at the time on her watch, 11:13pm.
"Sorry guys I got to go, my roommates might be worried about me," Jess said, "I'll see you guys at school, bye."
"See you, Monday," everybody replied, but Brooklyn.
Jess immediately left the beach, but it was then Serenity notice Jess's handbag was here.
"Jess has forgotten her handbag," she said, as she picks it up.
"Too bad," one of the girls replied, "Looks like we have to give it to her at school."
"I can probably catch up to her if you want," Brooklyn volunteered, as he was in front of Serenity.
"Are you sure? But alright, if you want to give it back to her," she answered, handing the bag over to Brooklyn.
"Thanks," he said, "I even had a good time hanging out with you guys tonight, bye."
"Bye," everybody replied.
Then Brooklyn left the beach to look for Jess.
It took a while till he saw her, making it to the other side of the street.
"Hey!" he yelled, getting Jess's attention.
Brooklyn hurried to the other side of the road, to make it over, and handed her handbag, "You forgot about this."
"Oh!" Jess said, "Thank you so much for returning it to me, how can I repay you?"
Jess got her handbag, letting the strap hung on her shoulder and her hand holding the strap.
"How far do you need to walk to your place?"
"Maybe, about fifteen minutes, why?"
"So, I can ask if I could walk with you there, to keep you company."
"Okay, sure…um."
It was that Jess realizes she didn't have a chance to know his name, and yet he didn't know her name as well. Well this is odd, that they meet and forgot to do a proper introduction.
"My apologies," Brooklyn said, "I'm Brooklyn Kingston."
"My names Jessica Pacheco," Jess said, "But everyone calls me Jess for short."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Jess," Brooklyn replied, with a small smile.
"And it's nice to meet you, Brooklyn."
"You know you should be heading to your place."
"Oh yes, so are you going to walk with me?"
"Yes."
The fifteen minutes went by quickly as Jess and Brooklyn came to the main entrance of the apartment building. They gotten to know a bit of each other, from schools they attend, to their friends, and their age.
Jess knows now that Brooklyn is nineteen, as he knows that she's seventeen.
"Well, it was nice meeting you Brooklyn," Jess said, before she began staring at his ocean color eyes, as well as Brooklyn staring at her crystal-blue eyes.
The feeling that they were alone in the world, and yet feeling calm around each other.
Jess took a step back, feeling odd of staring at his eyes yet his eyes are irresistible for her.
"Will I ever see you again?" she asked.
Brooklyn was thinking the same thing, he also wanted to see her, and yet didn't want it to become a habit that eventually gets Blood Trillium's feeling suspicious of him.
"I can give you my cell phone number, so, you can talk to me, as you can give the same to me," he replied, as he handed his phone to her.
"Sure, okay," Jess answered, taking his phone, to add her cell phone number in it.
Finishing pressing the numbers, she handed his cell over to him, along with her cell as she got it from her handbag to give it to him, so he can put his cell number in it.
Brooklyn returns her cell-phone, as she put back in her bag.
"I'll call you, later," Brooklyn said.
"Alright then, it's nice seeing you, Brooklyn, see you later," Jess replied, as she entered in the building, after she stare at Brooklyn once more, and showing a small smile on her face proving she mean it.
Brooklyn returns the smile saying, "Farewell Jess."
He too left, going out in the night, returning to where he belongs, Blood Trillium.
Phew! Finished!! I hope that everyone enjoyed it, as much as I typed it, but sorry if the last part was rushed. Don't forget to REVIEW…
Peace out,
StarlightAngel101