Yello guys. Here's the next chapter. I hope you like it
Not five minutes later I was sitting in the waiting room down at the ER. Most of all I had wanted to run, far away from the hospital, far away from Joel. Far away from Joel's feelings and actually mostly away from my feelings.
…"Because mum is right and you are there"…
I had probably… no. I had seen it. I had seen him being around, trying to catch my attention and being the only one in school who acted kind and nice to me. Even though he most likely knew that only talking to me would cause more bullies, and more trouble being on him than what he had on him since the beginning.
...I froze for a moment. Let it really sink in what he had said, and what he had meant…
But I pushed it away. Told myself that it wasn't there, that he was just acting nice because that's how he was. Maybe I had thought that I had wished for him to be like that. But either way, I had kept on telling myself it wasn't real.
…Then I just turn around and ran…
"Jamie? Are you okay?"
Carlisle's voice brought me back to reality and he came jogging human speed over to me where he sat down next to me and before I had had the time to give an answer or say anything at all. He had grabbed my hand and felt on my wrist with two fingers of his other hand. I knew he would be able to hear my pulse without that. But he had to act like a human I guess…
"I'm fine." I pulled my hand towards me. "It's just…. Never mind."
"Boys?"
I glared at him, why did he have to have such a good understanding for? Then nodded slightly. But with his vampire vision I knew he'd be able to see it and Carlisle smiled and patted my shoulder. Despite my thick hoodie his cold skin made shivers go through my body.
"Sorry… Well, you know where I am if you want to talk. And if you want I can talk to Esme when I come home and…"
"No, Carlisle. I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I just… I just hoped that I could catch a ride back home with you when your shift is over. Which should be about now should it?"
"Yes." Carlisle stood up and started fixing with his scrubs. "Just wait here for a little while and I'll be right back." I nodded, while Carlisle jogged through the waiting room and out of my sight. And I leaned back and put my foot against the plastic chair right across the aisle from mine and leaned back in my chair.
For a split moment I had to force a lump down my throat. And I don't think I let myself realize what I was feeling for real. That Joel made my heart beat harder than what it had ever done before. That my mind went loopy and I saw pink and doves and roses and heard the music of those goddamn violins. I knew this, but I don't think I really wanted to realize it. My God! I was Jamie Dylan, Jamie Dylan doesn't fall in love.
She doesn't… right?
When I came to school the next day Joel was in the hallway, in a wheelchair. His backpack in his lap and his mum was reaching up into his locker and picking stuff out of the locker and putting them in Joel's bag. Both of them were silent and didn't seem too happy about what they were doing. Mrs. Carlyle switched between looking into the locker, into her son's backpack and up at her son who had a somewhat grumpy, yet somewhat callous expression on his face. Joel himself was looking around without moving his head, and when I came walking his eyes met mine.
"Jamie."
It was barely more than a whisper, but still it had my heart beating harder than ever and I wasn't so sure why. I looked around, in one end of the hallway Kiana stood with her friends and I didn't want to talk to her. So that was walking straight downwards, which meant passing Joel, closer than what I stood now and so close he would only have to reach out his arm and hand to grab me.
"Jamie?"
Joel tried again, while I did my best to only hurry past him and into m classroom. But I should have known Joel wasn't going to let it go- literally since he reached out and grabbed the fabric of my hoodie when I walked back.
"Jamie please."
"Don't please me. Get away from me." I flinched to pull away from him. "I don't want anything to do with you and I never did. Oh and just so you know. I never told anyone about what I saw. So whatever is the reason that you have to switch schools against your will it's not me. And if you don't want to believe that it's your problem. Get away from me." I jumped away when he reached out again. "I don't want anything to do with you and I never did."
A hurt glance appeared in Joel's eyes. But I could only see it for a second before he turned his head away and with my head held high, I walked through the hallway and into Miss Green's classroom where I mostly threw my books down onto my desk with a bang. And sat down to stare down into my math books. With pencil in my hand but not seeing what I had in front of me.
I had felt my whole face go bright red, but I wasn't too sure why. And I couldn't deny the feeling, and the knowledge that I had probably just made things worse. And gotten myself another enemy, and more trouble than what I already had. And that was certainly not what I had needed.
Oh boy! Well, if I hadn't had a problem with making anyone like me now. I guess I would have it now. And I would have continued to just stare down into my math books without seeing what was right in front of me, if I hadn't noticed someone had stopped right by my desk and now stood with her arms crossed over her chest. And already before I looked up to her face I recognized her on the shirt.
"Jada?" I tried to make my voice sound steadier than what it was threatening not to stay. "What's on your mind?" Jada Carlyle- Joel's little sister was glaring down at me, with an ice cold glare in her blue eyes. And even though I already could see the truth. I prayed to God that she hadn't heard what I had said to her brother.
"What do you think gives you the right to talk to my brother like that?" The tone in her voice was just as cold as the look in her eyes. "What's he ever done to you?" My chin dropped, and tried to think of a way to snap back. "No, don't answer that. Because I know that Joel's never ever done anything to you. Because he is a much better person than you'll ever be. And if you ever dare talk to him like that again. Or talk to him at all, you'll have me to deal with and you do not want me as your enemy. Okay?"
"Okay." I shrugged, tried and seemed like I didn't care. And then grabbed my books and headed out of the classroom. Not caring about whatever more trouble this would get me in, and walked straight into Alice that held up some tickets that I just knew way too well.
"Look Jamie. I bought tickets for all of us for those figure skating competitions the eighteenth. We can all go and watch them, including you, me, Jasper, Emmett, Rose, Bella, Edward, Nessie, Esme and Carlisle."
Could this day get any worse? With that thought I just needed to get away from Alice. So I walked right back into the classroom, and sat into the desk in the back. To try and seem invisible for the rest of the world. Well- one could always hope! And I could always hope they'd leave me be there in the back.
I should have learnt never to believe anything could get worse. Because if I thought so, it was for certain going to get worse and before I went home for the day. I had slipped, fallen and on the way down hit my arm in a desk so hard I was for certain I would for sure have loads, big and dark bruises. I fell in the cafeteria and ran out with the laughs echoing between the walls. And on top of it all Kiana and her friends just kept on ignoring me, and I just knew this meant trouble. At last, when I was on my way home I just wanted to lie down in my bed, pull my covers over my head and then not move for the rest of the day. Or the rest of my life.
"Achoo"
Oh no! Not that too!
I could absolutely feel the difference between the spring allergies and just a cold. That sneeze was allergies, but it must have been somewhere certain because it was gone as soon as it came and I could just keep on walking down the road and towards the Cullen's house. Without having to worry about any allergies before in like April.
Instead I went over to worrying about how on earth I was going to get to that figure skating competition without the Cullen's figuring out that I was a compete. And honestly, that wasn't too hard to concentrate on since I just came with one lousy way to do it after the other. I had an idea about pretending to be ill, make them leave and go after them. But that wasn't possible. Carlisle would see through it right away, and if he didn't, then someone would insist that they didn't go at all. And at last there was only one way to do it, and I hid a bang in the changing room with my things the day before for it all to work.
"Can you wait here? No by the way. Go and sit, I'll be there in a little while. Just, go and sit down and watch as it starts. I'll be right there okay?" It was the day for the competitions and I left the Cullen's and ran over to the changing rooms, and did my best to check so that the Cullen's weren't watching. I didn't have much of figure skating clothes. But I had decided on the sweatpants, hoodie and beanie that Emmett had given me. So that no one could take wrong on my name at least. And under the hoodie I was wearing a green crop shirt with short sleeves. However, I wasn't exactly planning on showing it to anyone.
"Something turned up." I ran back to the Cullen's with an excuse to why I wouldn't be coming back. "I need to help with something. But I'll be here as soon as I can." With that, I turned around. And even though I knew they had figured out what I was planning I hoped that I still could surprise them while I ran to the changing rooms and changed into the clothes. Then sat down on one of the benches while I heard Arlo Clemente- who was the star of the school's hockey team shout out into the speakers who would go first.
The boy's competitions were held first, there were only five competes of those to the girls twenty five. I heard them shout out Tysen's name into the speakers. The rest of them were just a bunch of names I didn't recognize. And I counted them to check when the girls' competitions would start. One, two, three, four is Tysen and then one last. I heard Arlo go out again, and all of the girls in the stadium cheered loudly. As Arlo was just that boy in the school that every girl and gay boy wanted to be theirs. And as well, just about every song that came after that and I could guess which person was going. And for one after one, I just waited.
I was going in as number eighteen. So I had to wait for quite a while, and first when I heard it was drawing close to the end of the song of Kiana's number. I checked the knots on my skates one last time and then half walked half skated towards the ice where I entered the ice just as the audience were clapping for Kiana, And glancing up at the Cullen's I couldn't really decide if they looked surprised or not. But I could do nothing else then turn back towards the ice, to the middle and then wait for the music to start.
But as my music started blasting through the speakers I knew for certain that this wasn't the song that I had chosen. I knew what song I had chosen and out of every song that came blasting it was the worst of them all. In form of Barbie girl by Aqua.
Kiana!
Joel is portrayed by Dylan Everett, Jada by Joey King. Kiana by Myra Molloy. Arlo by Dylan O'Brien. And Tysen by Sam Earle. There are polyvores made for them, and Jamie, Carter, Luvie and a character who will turn up in the next chapter. See you then bye!
Random fact
I have finally figured out a way to make this story so it won't be going on forever. There are still several chapters to go, but I can kind of see the finish line. Even though it's still far away.
