Broken Home - Chapter Three

After Josh and Jake left the boredom hit me. I had nothing to do. I didn't know anyone here in the city to come and hang out with me. And it was only one in the afternoon. Josh wouldn't be home for another seven hours. What was he going to do for seven hours? I walked out of my room and down the steps. Going to my left and crossing the foyer, I went into the living room. I sat down on the sofa and curled up into a ball. I grabbed the remote and flipped on the TV. I put it on some dating show and tried to pay attention. My thoughts kept going back to Jake. He was so beautiful. And he seemed like a nice guy. The kind of guy that I'd like to know. The kind of guy I'd want to...I stopped myself. I could not think of him in any dating ways. It would not be like that.

Besides, it is not like he even has an interest in me..and even if he does, that'll be gone once he knows all about me. I learned long ago that people who are respectable tend to not like me after they find out about my past. Sucks to know that my parents wouldn't have anything to do with me if I wasn't their daughter. I could just imagine the things they would say about me if I was just any other person. I sighed. I really didn't need to lay here and think about things that would bring me down. I sat up and turned off the TV. I walked over to the computer across the room by the window and sat down. I logged into my facebook and my myspace, but no one was online. I shut it off and stood up. I stretched looking around the room. There was absolutely nothing to do here.I decided to lay out in the sun.

I had to admit, my bikini was really awesome. It was lime green with splashes of hot pink and blue all over it. It was just a little small, but that was okay. I would just get more sun. I went into the backyard carrying my towel, baby oil, and a tiny radio. I sat down in one of the lawn chairs beside the pool and rubbed oil on my body. When I was finished I turned the radio onto my favorite mixed CD and laid back. It was so relaxing. After about thirty minutes I flipped over onto my stomach. I yawned. This was great...

"Hey, you still alive down there?" A kind of familiar voice asked me. I looked up to see who it was. It was Jake! Groaning and rubbing my eyes, and flipped over and sat up. I turned off the radio.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him confused. I thought they were going to be gone until eight. I stretched and popped my neck. I must have dozed off. But for how long. I looked down at my body, I wasn't burned or anything so it probably hadn't been too long.

"Well, we decided to come back early. The park was pretty boring after a while, there wasn't anyone down there." he said laughing.

"There isn't anyone here either though." I told him sleepily. I wanted a nap.
"Well there is you." He said softly. I looked up at him. He was blocking the sun so I didn't have to squint.
"Uhm, do you know what time it is? I guess I fell asleep." I asked him. I stood up and stretched. From my side view I saw Jake checking me out, satisfaction on his face. I groaned quietly and wrapped me towel around me. He smiled.

"Its only like two thirty. We really weren't gone that long. We went to the pak, but it was too boring to stay there. So Josh figured we'd find something to do here." He told me. I started to walk to the house motioning for Jake to follow me. We walked into the house into the kitchen. Josh was standing there looking through the fridge. He turned and looked at me grinning. My brother Josh, he really is handsome. We kind of resemble each other. Same blue eyes, same blonde hair(although I dyed some of my blonde hair black, his is all natural and he keeps his short and spiked.), same nose. He is a lot taller then me, and really well built. Really, Josh takes a lot of pride into his fitness. He always wears preppy clothes, or the thuggish kind. It depends I guess. Josh really is a great guy, really funny, kind of rude but in a funny way, smartelic. Our personalities match a lot.

I smiled back at him. Looking over at Jake, I realized he was staring at me. Our eyes connected and I felt my blood go hot. I could feel my face starting to turn red and so I turned to leave. Josh of course stopped me.
"Hey sis, did you get burned? Your face is kinda red." He told me. I looked at him embarrassed.

"Uhm, yeah kinda I guess. I fell asleep outside. Jake woke me up. Guess it's a good thing you guys came or it would be worse.I'm going upstairs." I told him quickly. I glanced at Jake again. He was smiling at me. I smiled back and walked quickly upstairs. Inside my room I fell onto the floor. What was wrong with me? It's just a boy. How could I feel this way about him already? Do we really connect that quick? I knew I had to stay away from him. I didn't want to get myself hurt. That would be horrible. I was determined to stay up here and away from Jake. But I knew I wouldn't. I really wanted to hang out with him. I was weirding myself out. Why did I want to get to know him so bad? What made him so different? I felt my adreniline pumping.

Standing back up, I undressed out of my clothes. I looked around my room for a cute outfit to wear without being obvious. I settled on a pair of lime green baggy pajama pants that looked great and a white wifebeater. I looked really cute without looking like I was dressing up for the red carpet. I looked into the mirror again. I tossed my hair around a little bit. Now that my face wasn't blood red, I could see my tan looked even better. The white and lime green contrasted really good. I had a little bit of makeup on, but not much. No need to overdo it when I was just at home. I rubbed a little bit of lip balm on and went to my door. I breathed a deep breath and opened the door to go back downstairs.

Walking down the steps I felt nervous. I wasn't sure why, but I wanted to get to know Jake a little better, maybe then these feelings wouldn't feel so abnormal. I only had one question in my mind that made my stomach flip.

How well would I get to know Jake tonight?