When I'm With You (REWRITING)

CHAPTER 1

"I'm never, ever going to drink again. Shit, my head is buzzing," Janyce pleads to herself, walking to the living room while Anthea drags herself to the kitchen to cue her pounding head with Advil.

I chuckle slightly, not surprised with their sober behaviour. "Janyce, you said that last time you had a hangover." 

She shushes me while swaying her index finger all over my face. "It still won't be the last time I say it." 

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The girls walked over to sit in the car while I locked the house door. We live in a safe neighbourhood but it's better to be safe than sorry. I look over to my side, hearing another door close. Jay was fumbling her his car keys and phone as he looked over to his car. 

"Hey!" I catch his attention making him stop in his tracks. "Do you want to join the girls and I for lunch?" I say while walking over to him. 

His lips go thin as he gives me an apologetic look "I can't. Something came up at work but if you guys go shopping after can you buy me some milk? I ran out this morning." He says getting into his car. He rolls his car window down and shoots the girls a quick wave. 

"Work on Saturday, huh? Suck to be you." I shake my head at him. 

"What can I say? I'm a busy man," He places his sunglasses onto his face, covering his eyes from me. "I'll see you guys later."  

I wave to him as he backs out of his drive. We've known this guy for a year now and still don't know what he does for a living. It's like he has an on and off job. His home half the time, but when he has to go to work, it's at odd times. 

I shut my car door, after sitting in the driver's seat. Janyce stopped laughing, making me suspicious. "What happened? Why'd you stop laughing?" I cock my eyebrow upwards at her and all she does is look over at Anthea. Anthea had her face in her head, covering me from seeing it.  

Anthea lifts her face and tilts my head to the side. She was blushing like crazy. "It's nothi-" 

"She finally just admitted that she's in love with Jay." Janyce proud smiles and leans into further into the passenger seat. 

When we first moved here, we had trouble lifting our boxes into the house. Jay was kind enough to help us and bring in boxes which were too heavy, which we all found attractive. That's how we actually met Jay. As the year went by he became more of a good friend to us instead of just being an ignorant neighbour. He'd wash our cars, mow the lawn, help to repaint the house walls and so on. He was a great help when it came to 'manly' jobs. 

 "I'm not in LOVE with him! I like him. There is a difference. " She mumbles into her jumper. 

I throw my head back in laughter as I start the car engine. "I already knew. It's really obvious." I looked over at Janyce who rolled her eyes at me. "Hey! It's not my fault that I'm observant and you're not!" 

Janyce is clueless at times. She has a mind of her own to live in, but that's what I liked about her. She was the energetic one between all three of us. She's really creative and funny. While on the other hand, Anthea is the mum of the group. She a great cook and a complete neat freak. 

It just makes us a small, happy family. 

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Janyce's P.O.V

I look around for the health aisle in the store. There weren't many people roaming around the shop and it made me nervous. The girls were sitting in the car, too lazy to come out because they were complaining about there cramp pains. 

I look down at my phone and pull out a small shopping list from my notes. 2 cartons of milk, bread, toothpaste and pads. 

I pat myself on the back mentally as I see a huge sign directing me to the health aisle. I enter the health section, quickly grab toothpaste, and walking down a little further for the pads. "Wings. Wings. Wings." I mummer to myself, looking around the section of pads. 

My eyes land on the top shelf and I groan. Out of all places, the pads we need is on the shelf I can't reach. 

 "Fuck" I cuss under my breath. I place the store basket down and reach out for the navy blue packaging. I huff and look around for help but no one was here with me. I look back up and jumped as high as I could to get them. I jump over and over again, making it seem more of a workout. 

I stop jumping when I hear someones chuckle not far from me. Keep my eye on the pads, not wanting to look over at the person who I've just embarrassed myself in front of. 

"You think you need some help?" A deep and unbelievably sexy male's voice questions not so far from me. I turn my head and my eyes widen, not believing what I'm witnessing. I was greeted by piercing green eyes looking down at me in awe. He was fairly tall, probably around 6ft. His glossy brown hair was pushed back with sunglasses, allowing me to admire his facial feature. 

I clench my teeth in embarrassment. I can't believe out of all places this guy could have seen me, it just had to be in the pad section. "U-uh...That would be nice of you," I look back at the pads because I cloud feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. 

His presence moves closer next to me, giving me a whip of his strong scent. "Which one is it? There's a few up there." I point over at the navy package which had 'Comfortable Long Winged Pads' bolded in neon green. 

His hand goes up and grabs it easily in one swift move. He made it seem so easy. "Thanks..." I mumble in distress still not looking at him as I take them from him. I turn the other way and begin walking away from him as fast as possible. 

"Woah there! Wait." He jogs up next to me, making me stop. I really can't face this guy, he was making me extremely agitated. "There's no need to be embarrassed. I'm not judging you for wearing pads. You can't really control it." He says looking down at me. 

Sweet Jesus. The last time a guy spoke to me about periods was my health teacher in grade 9.

"I'm Freddie, and you are?" Oh, we're exchanging names? 

"Janyce. My name's Janyce." I say smiling a bit.

His face lightens up and I notice how cute his smile was. He had a small number of freckles laid down on his nose, but they aren't as noticeable. 

He uncrosses his arms, allowing me to see the silver rings tightly placed on his fingers "Pass me your phone for a minute." He says in a demanding voice, with his hand out. 

I pull my phone out and hand it to him, keeping a small not in the back of my mind that he's a complete stranger. It's like my hands had a mind of its own. I focus on his face as he types something into my phone and his phone at the same time. The way his nose crinkles when he's focused was so dainty. He finally gave my phone back and winks at me. 

"I'll see you around then?" He asks me as he straightened up. I smile and nod at him as walked the opposite way.  He types something into his phone and looks back at me in mischief.

I heard my phone ding. Look and see a text message.

Freddie :)

Bye, gorgeous. 

I chuckle and give him a small wave as he turns the corner. 

My phone suddenly starts vibrating. Anthea's contact flashes my screen and I realise I've been in the store for more than half an hour. 

I pay for everything and wish the cashier a good day before speed walking out of the store.

Just wait until the girls hear about this. 

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