The Jerk and I?

Chapter 19

"Yes!" I said, a little too loud making him chuckle.

"Sorry, yes. I'll give you a chance." I grinned.

"Okay, cool. We should probably go home now," he suggested and I nodded, still grinning like crazy.

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It's been a month since Gab and I were dating. He asked me out the day we went on our date that friday night. It was fun, it was just the typical movie and dinner night. When we got home, I invited him over and we chilled in my backyard on my deck, swinging in the couch. We were talking and remeniscing our childhood memories. We also talked about what we wanted to do in the future and other stuff. Then he took my head and stared deeply in my eyes and asked if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I said yes, of course.

Nothing has ever been perfect in my life right now. Neal and Gab finally got along and I was content with that. I didn't want them to hate each other, since one is my best friend and the other is also my best friend and my boyfriend.

Damn, thinking about it, I never thought that I would end up being friends with the guy who I thought was a jerk, even worse, I never thought I would be able to actually fall for him. I thought all connections between us were broken but I guess not.

Anyways, Maddy went back to Ottawa. It wasn't really a disaster. Her family was surprised at first and furious. But they eventually learned to accept the fact that she was pregnant. She made a decision that aborting her baby was out of the question. Maddy and I actually became good friends. I didn't hate her before but I also didn't like her too. I'm not her friend because I pitied her. No, I didn't want that. I was her friend because I wanted to. We had a lot in common actually. We both liked to read novels and we almost had the same thoughts everytime we had to speak out our ideas.

I went to my locker to get my textbook out. It was the end of the day and I was tired, but Gab was coming to my house to hang out. Thursday nights were our chill days.

"Hey beautiful," I hear him whisper in my neck making me chill.

"Hey," I turned around and gave him a quick peck on his lips.

"Joelle! Joelle! Oh my god Joelle!" Guess who that was. If you guessed Meredith then you were right. She ran up to me.

"What's up?"

"You. Will. Never. Guess. Who. Asked. Me. Out." she said in between her breaths. I chuckled.

"Ryan?"

"Ew, OMG, I am soooo over him. Didn't you know? He is dating, ha not Gloria, buuuut, Brook Finns! And I actually don't have a problem with her," she smiled.

"Okay," I laughed, "Then who asked you out?"

"Michael Doyle!" She jumped up and down excitingly.

"No way! Way to go Mer!" I hugged her, jumping with her excitingly.

"Yah, and guess what too?"

"What?"

"Did you know that Gwen and Harry are hooking up?!"

"What?! What happend to Jp?" I asked.

She shrugged, "Turns out he was an asshole or something, eh, I don't know the full story."

"Oh," I nodded, telling her i understood, "What about Shelly? She still goin after Morice?"

She gasped, "You don't know?! I guess you've been hanging out with Gab a little too much that you forgot about her. They're eloping together."

"What!" I shouted as she tried stifflinf a laught but failed.

"I'm joking," she said in between her laugh.

"No way, I couldn't tell," I rolled my eyes at her.

"Sorry," she cleared her throat, "Anyways, Shelly and Matt are dating. I thought you knew that."

Oh yeah, now I remember. Shelly said they started dating a week after Gab and I. Awe, we should go on double dates. Someone cleared their throat. Oh right, Gab was still here.

"We should probably head out now. The gang must be waiting for us," he said. Mer and I nodded and we started heading out.

Well I guess everyone was happy now. Except for Neal, since he was moving back to Montreal in three months. The girls and I were planning a party for him before he went home. WE were  all going to miss him. He told us not to be strangers and to come visit him when we could. We agreed for sure we would.

I guess this is how my story ends now. Scratch that, this is only the beginning and there is more to come. And I couldn't wait for it.
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