Stuck - Chapter 11

When I got home from school, I walked straight through the house without looking for my mom. I just got a towel and jumped into the shower and sat there with the water running on my head, running down my back. Everything was just running through my head at once, whenever I saw or spoke to Jonathan. My heart would stop beating and I'd go breathless but I wasn't trying to take him away from Keir. I wouldn't do anything like that because I'm not someone who would do something like that. I was okay with, just being his friend... but now everything was changing. I could feel myself hating Keir. I felt a burning hate growing in my heart and I somehow felt as if I wanted to steal him. "Sweetie, are you okay there?" My mom's words fluttered over my head "Yea, I'm okay.

"I'm fine mom." I called out. "Okay," she called out and I heard her footsteps fade into the background. I got up of the floor of the shower and pulled down the towel, I had hanging on the edge of the glass and dried myself as well as my hair. I got dressed into my jeans as tonight was "family night" whoopie.... I hated this night more than ever. Each Friday we would go to this restaurant in town and we'd eat there with all my aunties and my uncles and my cousins. Yes, usually it was a blast but not tonight.

Tonight I just wanted to sleep but I couldn't because if I told my mom I wasn't feeling well. She know, I wasn't actually not feeling well and be on my case, the whole night about what's wrong with me, what happened and I wasn't going to let that happen.

I opened the bathroom, my mom was standing there with a black satin dress. It was about knee-high and silky but I was fine with just wearing my jeans and a top,"Put this on. I bought it today and you have to wear it now," she said holding the dress out towards me. "Why?" I groaned, "Because I said so," she called out.

I took the dress from her and walked into my room. It fitted, it looked really good but it was so formal. It didn't make sense, I thought. I sat in my room doing a 500 word essay for English on Shakespearean writing. It was about 7:30 when my mom said, that she was going to start the car. So I packed up everything clearing my room when a stone hit my window... and then another one. I walked towards the window cautiously. When I looked down, I saw Jonathan aimlessly looking back and forth on his feet, with his hands in his pockets, looking up at the window. I didn't say anything. Just closed the window and walked downstairs and outside locking the door behind me and putting the lights off.

I walked around the corner to see him still standing there, looking beautiful as usual. He was still looking at my window, not knowing I was standing right there. "Uhm Jonathan," I called out towards him confusedly, "He..... hey," he called out kinda stuttering after seeing me standing there, staring me up and down. It was kinda awkward. "I just wanted to apologize for Keir," he called out slowly walking forward "Yea, it's okay, but how did you know where I live?" I asked awkwardly, "Oh I just know these things." He called out and coughed stretching his arm behind his head to scratch his head and then looked at the ground embarrassed.

"Oh, hi there," my mom called out now standing on my side looking at Jonathan. I felt as if I could just drop dead and die. After that Jonathan bounced forward to shake my mom's hand, "I'm Jonathan," he called out, "And you're Mindy's...."

Before he could respond I called out, "Friend."
"Yea, that," he called out kinda laughing but looking at the ground, "Oh, well why don't you join us tonight? Every other cousin of Mindy's brings along a friend, so why not," my mom asked.

"I wouldn't want to intrude. I'm okay Mrs. Torres," he called out.
"Yea, he's okay," I called out nervously.
"Mindy, don't be rude. Jonathan you will be joining us no more excuses," she called out to Jonathan.
"Okay then, I'd love to thank you," he called out.

I felt as if my brain was going on an OD, my heart beating too fast and too loud. We walked towards the car. My mom was well in front of us, a few feet away when Jonathan bent his back a bit to whisper in my ear, "You look beautiful." I wasn't gonna let his charm get to me, so I pushed him away a bit but he just bounced back. "Uhm Mrs. Torres, I'll take my car, I'll follow you." He called out and pulled out the keys to his yellow M3 BMW. It was so sporty and suited him perfectly.

I could hardly breathe, so I just jumped into my mom's car as quickly as I could. When we got there, I nearly stumbled out the car. As I walked to the door of the restaurant, I looked at his car door opening, and I saw his Reebok sneakers! I felt as if I were going to faint. I couldn't believe my mom dragged him into this. He walked towards me slightly, bouncing his feet on the floor as he walked and smiling at me boldly, "Who's that," my 14-year-old cousin called out...."Jonathan," I called out, barely able to speak.

As we stared, he walked towards us, when he got to where we were standing. He just stood there next to me like a bodyguard. It was actually quite cute then we started moving in, instead of sitting next to me. He got dragged around till he was sitting on the opposite side of the table directly, in front of me. With both of my 14-year-old cousins staring up at him. Dreamily he just had his eyes locked on me, I looked away trying not to start eye contact.

Why would he be doing this? I mean he said, he wasn't trying to lead me on. But here he is staring at me with those soft eyes of his. The water jug was in the middle of the table and so I put my hand out to grab it just as Jonathan did. Our hands touched not like we haven't touched before, but we both just jolted pulling our hands away as if we had just been shocked.

We ate, shared jokes. It seemed he has a way with my family too. They seemed to love him as my mother kept looking at me and looking at him and then looking at me and winking afterwards. My little cousins would go play outside and I'd go watch them. So like always I got up and just as I did. Jonathan did as well.

I walked down the edge of the table and walked outside to a long stretch of grass and beautiful colored flowers and twinkling lights draped across the trees. He was running around playing with my cousins for a while but after that he looked at me. His eyes went soft again. He walked towards me. My heart was beating too fast, I couldn't breathe properly.

When he was finally right in front of me, he held out his hand for me. I took it slowly and walked with him into the garden. We found a hedge maze and suddenly Jonathan looked like a little boy again. He has a spark in his eye. He pulled me into the maze with him, "Jonathan no..." I called out laughing. We laughed and laughed about stupid things that Jonathan did to make me laugh and me stumbling over things.

We got to the middle of the maze and I fell over another brick laying on the floor, "They need to move these or else spazed freaks will fall over them." He called out winking at me sitting on the floor with grass in my hair. He sat down beside me and looked at me, "So you meant, I'm the spazed freak right?" I called out randomly. He burst out laughing at me, I just covered my eyes too embarrassed.

Suddenly, I felt his hand cover mine trying to pull mine away when both my hands were removed from my eyes. I looked at him looking at me with his emerald-green eyes and he leaned in towards me as if he wanted to kiss me. I turned my head a bit but suddenly I heard a screeching sound.... It was keir!

She was standing there looking as if she were about to explode. Jonathan jumped to his feet, "I can explain this," he called out. "There's nothing to explain, you've won." She called out looking at me and ran out of the maze. "I have to go tell your mom." I said, "Thank you." Jonathan called out racing behind her.