Chapter 4
The rest of the week went by pretty fast. It was Friday and I was walking to English with Katelyn. I was adjusting to the school pretty well and Katelyn and I became good friends fast, along with the rest of the gang. And Jake and I had been texting all week.
“So what time are we going shopping tomorrow?” Katelyn asked as we sat down in front of Liz.
“Ugh, I don’t know. I guess it depends on what time we wake up.” I replied.
“Hey, do ya’ll think I could go shopping with ya’ll tomorrow?” Liz asked shyly. I hadn’t thought of inviting Liz, but it was a great idea. Liz was really nice and it would be fun.
“Um sure that sounds great. We can pick you up at your house tomorrow.” I told her after looking at Katelyn to see if it was okay.
“Okay cool, this will be fun.” She smiled excitedly.
She was right this weekend was going to be a blast! We listed to Ms. Niemi drone on and on about Shakespeare for the remainder of the class. Five minutes until the bell my phone vibrated.
“Katelyn why is Jake texting me?” I asked her, whispering.
“I don’t know, just because I’m his twin doesn’t mean I can read his mind.” She answered back teasing.
I opened up the message to see what was so important to tell me that he couldn’t wait until lunch.
We need to talk at lunch. But don’t reply my ringer is on
“What he want?” Katelyn asked me curiously.
“Uh, he said he wanted to talk to me at lunch.” I told her confused. What could it be about?
“About what?” she asked the same question I was thinking.
“I don’t know,” I told her as the bell rang “but I guess I’ll find out.” We gathered up our things and made our way to the cafeteria. When we got there I couldn’t find Jake. I told Katelyn to go ahead and eat and I waited for him by the door.
“Hi” I jumped at the sound of his voice. He walked up behind me.
“Oh hi Jake, I was wondering where you were. You scared me, again.” I accused him teasing. When I looked at him he looked so nervous, what on his mind dang it?
“I’m sorry. We need to talk, but let’s go somewhere less crowded.” He took my hand and starting dragging me across the cafeteria. As soon as his hand met mine a rush of warmth spread through me. I followed him willingly and he led me to the farthest end of the cafeteria.
“Okay what’s this all about, Jake?” I asked, my curiosity getting the best of me.
“Well, okay…” he looked down at our still entwined hands and blushed, and then he dropped my hand and looked into my eyes, and continued. “Well um… I guess I’ll just come out and say it.” He stopped to take a deep breath, “I like you April, a lot.”
I looked at him shocked. “Wow… I mean you do?” I was blushing like crazy, and he took my hand again, clearly confident because of my reaction.
He looked at me smiling. “Yes April, I do. I know I haven’t known you very long but I can’t stop thinking about you! Will you please go out with me?” he asked, his eyes seemed to become a brighter blue than usual.
“Um yeah… sure… Absolutely.” I was babbling, still shocked.
“April, just a simple yes would do.” He said teasing me.
I blushed “yes.” I whispered.
That cute smile of his reappeared on his face. “Okay then, let’s go eat.” We walked hand in hand through the lunch line, and I couldn’t get the smile off my face, not that I wanted to. The warmth I felt earlier had heated up even more and sent a tingle all the way from my head to my toes. By the time we made it to our table everyone’s eyes was on us. Jake pulled out my chair for me and of course I blushed which of course everybody got to talking, which made me blush even more.
Katelyn eyed us suspiciously. “Jake?” she asked.
“Yes my dear sister?” he answered her sending a quick smile my way.
“Did you ask April out?” she questioned him further.
“Yes, yes I did.” His smile grew even bigger.
“Yay! Finally!” she exclaimed excitedly and clasped her hand over her mouth and giggled happily.
“Congratulations” Liz told us smiling; she was holding back giggles too. Courtney looked completely ticked off and very jealous.
“Thank you Liz, I’m pretty happy,” I told her smiling.
“I hope so or I’m in trouble.” Jake laughed giving me his adorable smile.
“Well I’m just glad I don’t have to hear Jake talking about asking you out anymore.” Damien told me laughing, and grinning at Jake.
“Yeah me too” Austin chimed in grinning.
Katelyn glared at Damien. “You knew and you didn’t tell me!”
“Hey don’t get mad at me, Jake made me promise not to tell you.” Damien pleaded with her.
She swung her glare to Jake, who just smiled her way. “Well Katelyn, I wanted to keep it a secret, and well your not so good at keeping those.” He informed her.
She pouted and then sighed. “Whatever.”
“I can’t believe this.” Courtney blurted out. She stood and stomped out of the cafeteria.
“What’s her problem?” Jake asked.
I looked at him, how could he not know? “She likes you Jake.” I told him looking for any sign of happiness on his face. She was way prettier than I was. There was none.
“Oh, and she jealous of my beautiful girlfriend right?” he asked smiling at me.
I blushed and nodded. I wasn’t used to being called beautiful.
“Well Courtney doesn’t like April at all, and she said that if you ever asked her out she would hate all of us.” Liz told Jake.
“That’s terrible!” Katelyn gasped.
“Well we can’t all be as nice as you sis.” Jake laughed, but he sounded a little mad that Courtney didn’t like me.
“Ha-ha well she can go screw herself for all I care.” Katelyn said sarcastically.
“Katelyn!” I was shocked to hear her say that. She was always so sweet.
“What April? You didn’t know my sister wasn’t as innocently as she looked?” he laughed. “But she’s right you know. If Courtney doesn’t like you there’s obviously something wrong with her.” He continued.
I blushed; all these compliments were making me uncomfortable. But it really touched me that everyone took offense to Courtney on my behalf.
“I have to go to math, come on Katelyn. I’ll see you in gym.” I smiled at him and got up to leave. He stood too and gave me a quick hug. Then Katelyn and I hurried off to class.
At the end of gym class Jake walked me to my car. “How about dinner and a movie Sunday? He asked me.
“Sounds good.” I said smiling. We made it to my car where Katelyn was waiting patiently.
“Great, I’ll pick you up at seven o’ clock sharp. Bye girls.” He walked away to his truck as we called bye.
