Chapter 11:

Matty and Jenna decided to meet at a café near their school. Jenna was nervous going there, she caught the bus and the hole way over she could feel herself physically shaking. She was a bag of nerves imagining Matty pulling up in blue truck getting out and pushing his thick black hair back before making his way over to her. She was dreading it. Getting off the bus she hoped he would be there already, or maybe arrive at the same time so he wouldn't watch her awkwardly walk over. But she had arrived first, she took a seat at the bench near the café and was sitting for less than ten minutes before Matty pulled up. Jenna stared down at the floor trying to pretend she hadn't watched his car drive in.
"Hey Jenna" Matty gave an awkward smile; he was nervous too but was hoping for the best.
"Matty, hey uh I just wanted to talk…" Jenna was nervous, should she really be doing this? Maybe she could have pretended it never happened. But she made a deal with Tamara that she would talk to Matty even if that were the complex way of handling the situation, or at least it felt complex.
"About last night" Jenna continued, "Look I had a lot to drink and it was stupid and we should just be friends."
Matty felt a sharp pain in his chest; she wasn't expecting her to say 'lets run away and be together forever' but friends? He didn't know what it was about Jenna, he loved just being around her.
She said friends though and he said "Yeah I understand ha-ha it was no big deal we got along and shouldn't be weird cause of some stupid little thing!"
Jenna was surprised but how okay with it he was, even she was upset that any chance with Matty was off the table now.
"Friends." Jenna said wearing her best fake smile.
"So, pal, want to go and get a drink?" Matty figured he couldn't just walk off back to his car after they had declared 'friends'.
"Sure thing ha-ha!" Jenna and Matty made small talk until' they both forgot about why they were being awkward they had chemistry and conversation couldn't help but flow between them. After a couple of hours of hanging out at the café just joking around and drinking smoothies Jenna was happy she had spoken to him even though after another day of talking with him made her feelings more confused she was still relieved to have cleared the air.

"Do you need a lift home?" Matty offered Jenna and she accepted, anything to avoid another bus ride with old ladies fighting over the seat closest to the door. Jenna sat in Matty's car with a warm look on her face staring out the window and trailing his dashboard with her long slim fingers. The radio filled the comfortable silence and Matty came to a red light and looked over and watched Jenna lip singing to the radio and looked at her fingers gentle, graceful movements. He took a deep sigh, 'I screwed up that chance.' He thought to himself.

Jenna got home and instantly called Tamara to see what had happened with her and Jake. Tamara told her that Jake had actually broke up with Lissa that night after a rocky past month. Lissa was in denial and tried to get back with him. Tamara told Jenna that Jake rejected her and he told Tamara he was thinking about their kiss when he officially ended it with Lissa.
"No way T!"
"Jenna I must be a good kisser!"
"Ha-ha, well a relationship ended because of those lips of yours!"
"It was already doomed everyone knows that." T. Said in her own defense.
"Well now what? Me and Matty are friends and you and his best friend are… well what?" Jenna could feel she was slightly jealous of Tamara's position.
"I don't know ha-ha, but he asked me to hang out on Thursday?"
"Well all you can do is wait and see! I have to go, see you tomorrow." Jenna was confused about whether her day with Matty was as good as she originally thought or did she just ruin her own chances with a guy then spend the hole day letting herself like him even more.