Chapter Five

Jake POV

I walked to Adam's place, wondering how the fuck I was going to ask him to join the club that was considered social suicide. The air was filled with a certain chill and I was seriously glad that I had worn my leather jacket for warmth. Adam and I have been texting for the last couple of weeks and hanging out at school, but today he asked me if I wanted to hang out round his place to work on our Of Mice and Men assignment.

I weren't expecting Mr Jensen to roll out the red carpet when he saw me, but Adam was officially a mate of mine and I was going to try and make an effort with his family (even though his dad hated my guts).

I knocked at the door of a seriously nice looking house (man, these white people must be LOADED!) and waited for an answer. If God actually gave a crap about me, he would have let Adam answer the door… but life doesn't work that way so it had to be…

"Oh, Jacob Puckerman."

Yeah, the English teacher from hell that can't even get my name right. Mr Jensen looked at me with disapproving eyes, looking half tempted to slam the door in my face and I glared at him but kept my voice calm.

"Is Adam here?" I asked coolly and Mr Jensen frowned at the mention of his son's name.

"Adam!" he called over his shoulder, reluctantly stepping aside to let me in.

I walked into the smartly furnished hallway, grinning when I saw Adam walking down the stairs.

"Hey," Adam grinned, meeting me at the door and ignoring his father's disapproving glare "you found the place all right, then?"

"Can hardly miss it." I chuckled.

Adam gestured upstairs.

"Come on, we can start the assignment in my room, it's quieter upstairs."

I followed Adam upstairs, noticing that Mr Jensen was frowning at us as if half tempted to call us back. Did he really not trust Adam to be alone with me? What did he think I'd do? Get him high? Beat him up? Rape him?

He probably even thought I'd do all three, that's how little he thinks of me. Just because my half brother beat people up and got girls pregnant, it didn't mean I would do the same. In fact, the only person who didn't look at me like I was a piece of crap was Adam (even Marley was wary around me because of my reputation and Kitty only wanted to go out with me because of my reputation).

Adam's room was exactly like I imagined it: shelves lined with books and sports trophies, but it just looked like a typical guy's room.

I threw myself on the bed, resting my hands behind my head and smirked at Adam.

"So," I said casually as he sat on the bed next to me, picking up his book from the bedside table "you read the book yet?"

"Twice," he said simply and I noticed that his bookmark nearly at the end of the novel "I'm just re-reading it one last time."

Holy shit, this dude is smart!

But he wasn't just smart, he was actually good looking and his arms and torso had good definition. His hair was a dark brown, but cut short, which made him look tough, but those seriously green eyes were what made me stare at his face… I hadn't actually seen eyes that green before and his lips were just-

"Jake?"

I snapped out of it, mentally shaking myself and trying to calm the fuck down. I breathed a shaky sigh and became suddenly aware that I was sitting closer to Adam, which hadn't bothered me a few seconds ago but now I was just all too aware of it .

"What?" I asked, moving slightly away from Adam to put some distance between us.

"How much of this have you read, because we need… hey, what's wrong?" Adam went from being casual to looking at me with concern. I tried to not look at him as I nodded, feeling more uncomfortable.

What the hell was wrong with me? I'm not gay, I was far from it and a known ladies man. So why was I feeling attracted to a guy?

I tried to reason with myself, I haven't had sex with Kitty in months because I was still hung up on Marley and I was just tired from all the basketball practice.

But somewhere deep inside me, I knew that was a pathetic lie.

"I'm fine, can we just get this work finished?" I snapped angrily and got off the bed and sat at the desk "I just want to get this fucking over with!"

Adam looked confused, then he just shrugged and frowned at his open book.

"Whatever, just let me finish this chapter, then we'll start writing notes on the first few chapters."

Adam was clearly annoyed, but unlike me he was good at hiding his true emotions. I regretted being harsh towards him, because now he was pissed off with me and I couldn't even tell him why I was frustrated.

What should have been a cool time between friends, was now a very silent and awkward few hours. I tried to apologise to Adam a few times, but the words refused to come out so I continued to write feeling frustrated. Out of the corner of my eye, I secretly admired the look of concentration on his face as he wrote in his notebook which made him look cute.

Ugh! I had to stop thinking like this, Adam was a guy and I'm straight, I was just tired or stressed out.

As the digital clock on the bedside table got to 23:35, my eyes were struggling to stay open and I stifled a yawn.

"I got to start heading home, it's getting late" I said, stretching and turning to see Adam had fallen asleep and was slumped against his pillow, his book lying on his chest and snoring lightly.

I smiled at Adam, deciding that I should just let him sleep. I silently left the room and headed downstairs, managing to walk past the living room without running into Mr Jensen or his blonde daughter and left the house.

Once I was back home, I lay awake in bed with too many thoughts running through my mind and all of them involved Adam. I still felt bad for not saying sorry to Adam and I had completely forgotten to mention the Glee audition this Friday.

Fuck it, I should just do both while I had the nerve.

Getting out of bed, I grabbed my jeans from the floor and pulled my phone from the pocket. I then carelessly threw my jeans back where I left them and sat back on the bed, quickly writing a text.

Me: Sorry for being an asshole earlier, I was being out of order and it had nothing to do with you. Look, there are going to be Glee auditions at the end of the week and I think you should try out, it would mean a lot if I had my buddy there : )

I searched through my address book and found Adam's number, then before I could chicken out I quickly hit 'SEND'.

I heaved a deep sigh and threw myself back on the bed with a groan and covered my eyes with my forearm.

No one has had this effect on me before and it was really starting to freak me out.

Author's Note: To everyone who has been following this story, I'm really sorry I haven't updated in ages and I'll try and continue updating this story as well as my others.

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