Chapter 8- Jake
When Isabelle asked me if I thought she was pretty I didn’t know what to do. I mean of course I did, but it was hard enough saying it once, now I had to say it again? She avoided my question, so couldn’t I avoid hers? But what if she thought that I didn’t think she was pretty if I didn’t say anything? I couldn’t let her think that, so I nodded a yes.
“Any guy that doesn’t think that is a fool.” I said quietly, not meaning for her to hear me, but just my luck, she had good hearing. Isabelle stopped in her tracks. I got ready to hear an excuse about her having to go, knowing that I probably just freaked her out. However, instead, when I looked at her I saw those sparkling eyes, and she was smiling at me.
“You know,” she said “I think I like corny Jake. I mean he is really sweet.” She gave me a little nudge and I smiled, still a bit embarrassed.
After just that first week, I already felt pretty close to Isabelle and all her close friends as well (which includes the guys). The whole new kid, new school, new people thing really didn’t seem like that much of a big deal anymore.
Last week I hung out with everyone a lot and they really tried to include me in everything and introduce me to everyone else they knew.
The first day of school was fun and after that it just got better. Apparently, not just for me, because things got better for Matt and Maria too. I heard Matt’s conversation with Isabelle at lunch the first day and I was kind of curious, so I asked Isabelle what was going on. She said that basically Maria thought Matt was mad at her, but he wasn’t.
Well, later that day Matt chased after Maria in the hallway and caught her hand. She looked at him with tears in her eyes and as one dropped down Matt rubbed it away, and pulled her close to him saying,
“I was never mad at you I was just too…shy. I couldn’t come up with anything clever to say, so I just kept thinking, hoping something good would come to me. But then, I went to get some food, came back and my phone was gone! I didn’t find out where it was till this morning. Turns out my little brother had it the whole time.”
I’m pretty sure that made her day, and I was really happy that she wasn’t feeling so sad anymore, because she seems really nice.
Another thing that happened that week was in drama our group planned out what we were going to do and made up our script. The dude Isabelle told me about, Richie, didn’t show up the whole week, so he left us to do everything. Isabelle, Mike and Karina were pretty mad, but I didn’t know why because I thought he was just sick. Then they told me he was just doing it because his friend told him about the project and he didn’t want to help with the planning.
Anyways, that was that. Now, Isabelle and I were walking around, talking and eating our lunch, like we did the first day, then I saw a girl running towards us, and man was she going fast! She finally got to us and jumped Isabelle.
“You’re crazy!” Isabelle yelled at the girl.
They started laughing and gave each other a hug, then Isabelle turned to me,
“This is my friend and neighbor Skye. She’s a year older than us.” Skye extended her hand and said hello, then she went back to Isabelle.
“Isabelle, we have basketball practice again today right?” Skye asked.
“Yeah, coach said we have to practice a lot to make up for the break ‘cause we have a game coming up next week." Isabelle replied.
“You’re on the basketball team? That’s really cool.” Isabelle looked at me.
