Chapter 15:
Jenna decided it was time to go home, and she also decided Jakes house must be cursed for her. Every time she goes there for a party something dramatic happened. Lacey pulled up and asked 'how was it?!' Jenna could hear how excited she was that Jenna's social life was coming to life.
"Not to bad, pretty boring, just hung around with Tamara."
"Jenna, why don't you have a boy friend? Tamara's happy, you could be too!" Jenna laughed at her mum's remark.
"I don't know mum, ha-ha." That night Jenna tossed and turned in her bed, she couldn't seem to stop picturing Matty's blue eyes. 'Snap out of it!' Jenna shook her head. The next day she got a call from Tamara and they spoke about the fight.
"What actually happened?" Jenna asked.
"Jake told me that Matty told him that Collin was starting Matty, but Jenifer was next to them when they first bumped into each other and she told me that Collin told Matty to back off and Matty got defensive, then when Collin said something about you Matty punched him!" Tamara was rambling and Jenna was confused. There were so many different people saying they heard and saw different things. How could she know which one was real? She got especially confused about Jennifer's recollection of the fight.
"What did Jennifer say Collin said?"
"She didn't tell me, she just said Matty punched him after?"
"I'm so confused T. Doesn't matter anyways it was stupid and I didn't see Collin after and Rebecca was taking care of Matty."
"What do you think of Rebecca anyway?"
"She seems nice and she's gorgeous, so makes sense she would be with someone like Matty."
"As opposed to you?"
"Tamara! We're just friends you know that." Jenna made a gun with her hand and pretended to shoot herself in the head. If she heard the words 'Matty' and 'friends' one more time she was going to go insane, even if she was the one saying them.
Two weeks past and Jenna and Matty had hardly spoken since the fight. Jenna knew he was seeing Rebecca still and she was trying to space herself from him so she could let her feelings die down. Tamara and Jake were inseparable so it was hard for Jenna to spend time with Tamara at school, she would walk with them until' Matty showed up and she would find some excuse to leave and she'd go sit next to Ming in the library with her headphones in watching Ming study. Her parents had cracked down on her and made her do Chinese Saturday school. So not only were her Saturdays booked, but then her Sundays were occupied with homework.
One Thursday Jenna was spending her lunchtimes on the oval alone, she felt like getting some space and on the oval she didn't have to worry about avoiding Matty or annoying Ming, not to mention third wheeling Jake and Tamara. Her phone rang and it was Tamara 'meet me at the courtyard tables, now!' Jenna grabbed her bag and made her way down to the courtyard to see Tamara, Jake, Matty, Rebecca, Ming, Clark and Jeremy sitting at a table. Clark and Jeremy was the new hottest couple, online official and they had also gotten close with Jenna and Tamara, which meant Jake too, and they were like the extended family of the gang. Jenna took a seat next to Tamara at the very squashed table.
"Okay! Jake and me have an awesome idea!" Said Tamara with an excited expression. "We all should go camping this weekend!" Everyone seemed excited about the idea, but Ming was the first person to say she wouldn't be able to make it.
"My parents would never let, and I have Saturday School and relatives coming over from China. It just can't happen for me!" She seemed disappointed but Ming was used to missing out on group things.
"We're defiantly in!" Clark shook Jeremy's hand with excitement.
"I don't think my mum will let me, so have to pass…" Jenna lied.
"Jenna! I'll beg Lace personally, you're coming!" Jenna's plan had failed.
"Oh good then, yay, camping." She said sarcastically which made Matty laugh and Jenna looked up and him shyly before looking away again.
"Well I'll be there, Rebecca?"
"I don't know if I can babe, my mum wants to see a psychic this weekend and I told her I'd go with her, it's like a full weekend thing…" Jenna felt like banging her head on the table, that excuse seemed so ridiculous to her.
"Okay, so no Ming and no Rebecca. But we still got Clark, Jeremy, Myself, T., Matty and Jenna!" Jake said. As ridiculous as the psychic excuse was it actually worked, Rebecca was out but Jenna was defiantly in, much to her despair.