Falling For The Bad Boy

CHAPTER FOURTY

"Yeah..pretend like you know it." I mutter.

He looks at me and grins.

I smile.

"So, who did you call?" He asks.

"What?" I ask.

"I know you must have called someone when we broke up." He says.

"Oh yeah. I called Logan. He said a few things." I say.

"Well..."

Flashback...

"Logan?" I ask.

"Yeah, is this Katie?" He asks.

"Yeah...umm Jacob and I broke up and I didn't know who else to call." I say.

"Jeez, what happened?" He asks.

"Long story.... His mom made me." I say.

"That woman has always been a little crazy." he laughs.

"I guess." I mutter.

"Darling, it's going to be okay." He says.

"I don't know." I wine.

"Jacob wouldn't be able to let you go. He used to be the kind if guy to kiss and diss...screw then flew...but with you he has never been so serious. He talks about you a lot, he buys things for you, strange things remind him of you, and he loves you. He is just waiting for you to call him up and take him back. He is respecting you." He takes a breath. "We all knew you wouldn't just do that to him. You are definitely not that kind of person. You love him just as much. You two don't have the usual kiddy love that most High school kids have. You two are special and you have a love so pure that nothing could break it."

By then a few tears had collected in my eyes. Logan is good at this stuff. I know who to come to now. I tell him thank you and we both eventually hang up.

End of Flashback

"So, yeah that is what it was." I mutter.

"He is a cool dude. I wish Jack would be nicer to him." Jacob says.

"Yeah." I agree.

"Speaking of Jack...we should meet him at the basketball game. Logan too....and Shawn...and Bailey...." I say.

"Sure. I don't really care." He smiled.

We pull into his driveway. His kitchen lights are on, and we see the silhouette of her shadow through the window. She is walking around back and forth. She is either pacing of baking a cake.

She was pacing. We notice as we walk through the door. Her eyes are swollen and her hands red because she has been rubbing then for a long time. Jacob and I stare with confusion. Why would she be so...nervous? sad? panicked?

"Mom.." Jacob starts.

She lets out a huge sob, gasping for air ans runs to him. She wraps her long arms around his neck and cries. She keeps crying out "I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry" over and over again. Jacob let's her interrupt.

"What?" He asks.

She turns to me and wraps her long arms around my shoulders and cries the same thing to me. Now I know that she was saying sorry for what she had told me. She felt bad and was having a breakdown.

"It isn't true." She cries. "You didn't kill her. I told you that she did and...and...AND...." she bursts into a loud bawl. "And you DIDN'T! I AM SO SO SO SORRY, KAITLYN! I am a terrible person!" She cries.

"It's okay." I sooth.

"I am sorry, but I have to go." She cries, running into her room.

Jacob and I watch her leave and we turn to head to the car. It isn't like we want to leave her like this...it is that we know we must. She wanted to be alone, and I know that when I say that, it's true. Sometimes more than anything.

He opens the door for me, and runs around and opens the car door. I get in and turn up the radio. He looks at me and we both  start singing random....wait...SCREAMING random words as if it is the right words.

Once we pull into the parking lot, we see Jack and Logan sitting with popcorn and cheesy baseball caps. Bailey is sorting by them with her perfect hair and everything. Jack immediately stands up and hugs me and Jacob.

"So guys..." I say.

"We are all back together." Jack mutters with a grin.

Logan nods.

"Katie, Jacob,and  Logan against the world." Jacob says.

"And Bailey and Shawn." I smile.

I look down at the field. "Even Leslie..." I say.

We all laugh or smile.

We also know that Lexi is here with us to...even if we can't see her.

I turn to Jacob and smile. He grins back. His grin makes my heart melt, and I feel loose in the seat. He pulls me toward him and kisses me. I kiss back passionately. His lips make me want to faint. Who knew....every day....just a little bit..... I was falling for the bad boy.

THE END