Jina woke up to hear something being thrown at her window. She rolled over and looked at her alarm clock which read in big bold red numbers it said 3:30 AM. She rubbed her eyes and turned the light on her night table on. She never went downstairs for dinner that night and she had been sleeping since 7. She walked over to the window, all of asudden a face appeared and she screamed.
"O Shit",she whispered as she opened the white old white window.
"What are you doing here Joel?",she questioned him. He looked like he needed soemthing.
"Jina was that you who screamed? are you okay?",she heard her "mom" say.
"Im fine I just had a nightmare goodnight!",she said. She didn't hear anything but foot steps walking away. She sighed in relief.
"Answer me",she said.
"Well can I come in first?",he questioned.
"I guess",she said stepping aside to allow him to climb in. The window was a few inhes above the floor. Joel climbed in and shut the window.
"Well what do you want?",she questioned.
"I wanted to apologize..",he said.
"You don't need to apologize",she said.
"Why not I was being a dick.. and especially when I really need you.. my father left Jina.. I dont know what to do.. everything is soo confusing Im soo confused",he stated. He looked at her. His eyes were about to over flow with water again. He quickly tried to whipe about the tears that were about to come. Jina moved a little closer to him.
"Im soo sorry Joel",she said as she took her arms and threw them around his neck. She heard him sobbing.
"Need somewhere to sleep I can set my alarm for early so you can be out of here and back at home..like we did the last 20 million times you slept here",she said.
"I'd love to Jee thank you",he whispered. She pulled away and took his hand. They walked over to her bed. He took his shoes off and got under the covers with Jina. She gave him a kiss on the head as he turned the other way. Then she reset her alarm clock and shut the light off.
~*~
Jina woke up with the sound of her alarm. She looked next to her and Joel was gone. She looked at the clock to realize it was set for a half an hour after she had set it for Joel. She must of missed the first alarm and Joel must have reset it so that she could sleep more. She was about to smile when she realized her math final was that day and she had hardly studied. She quickly grabbed her book and began to study.
"Jina your going to be late lets go!",she heard her "mom" yell. She rolled her eyes and made her way downstairs. She grabbed the burnt peice of toast from off the table and ran outside to the bus stop. She was eating away and studying at the same time. She felt someone tap her shouldure. She jumped dropping the toast out of her hand.
"Sorry",Joel said. Jina smiled.
"It's alright sweeti!",she said leaning against him. That morning Ashley and her best friend Billy decided to take the bus as well becuase Ashley wanted to tell Billy how she felt. Billy had long brown hair and was very skinny. Ashley stood there not knowing what to say to him.
"Benj!",Heather stated giving him a hug.
"Hey",he said.
"You alright?",she asked.
"yah Im feeling better..", he smiled.
"Thats good!",she smiled.
"Listen after school you wanna come with me to pick up the peice of shit my family has for a car now.. I have to pick it up for my mom..",he asked.
"Yah.. I'll come!",she said.
"Okay cool!",he smiled. He's soo cheezy it's soo cute Heather thought.
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The big yellow bus arrived and everyone got on. Ashley fiddled with her finges and her leg was moving at about 100 mph.
"ASH!",Billy yelled. She looked at him with a worried smile.
"Sorry",she smiled at him. "It's okay.. you nervous.. about the History exam today?",he questioned.
"Yah thats it.. im nervous about it.. I studied all night and I still don't know what im doing",she said.
"me too, hey wanna study at lunch?",he asked.
"yah...",she said.
"We'll eat for like 10 minutes then we'll go to the library?",he questioned.
"Yah",she said with a smile. A study date she thought yay.
~*~
"You need help?",Joel questioned looking away from his writings and looking over at Jina's paper.
"Yah.. I don't understand circles they are pissing me off!",I smiled.
"Here watch this",he stated making some configuration on the paper.
"Try and start from 1 point and not every angle",he said. She smiled.
"You think you gonna pass the final?",she questioned.
"Yah.. sure.. peice of cake",Joel said.
"At least you say so",she smiled.
"Have confidence!",he told her as he hit her arm.
"Ouch! loser!",she shot him a evil glare.
"That did't hurt I hardly touched you!",he said as they pulled up to the school.
"Did to",Jina smiled as they got up and walked into the school.
~*~
Jina was coughing her brains out trying to get the small portion of toast from that morning out of her stoamch. She knew she had just failed her math final she ran out of the class room when it was over and ran as fast as she could to the bathroom. She heard the door opened and stopped for a few minutes letting herself catch her breath. But she couldn't help it something was burning in her chest and then in her throat as she leaned over to throw up. She heard a firmilar voice.
"Jina?",the voice questioned. Shit she thought it's Ashley we meet again in the bathroom and this time she caught me.
"Yeahh",she hoarsley answered.
"Are you alright?",she questioned. Jina flushed the toilet and grabbed her bag. She opened the orange stall doors and looked at Ashley was was looking at herself in the mirror.
"Your beautiful and Billy loves you Ash don't worry about the way you look",Jina stated tying her hair back into a low ponytail and leaning into the white sinks to splash her face with water.
"No Im not.. Billy likes Kim.. she's so much prettier than me and she dresses nicer.. I dress like a slob it's soo unfair why can't I be pretty?",she questioned. Jina looked at Ashley. Her blonde hair flowed down her back with a soft glissen to it.
"Ash your not ugly.. Im sure if you tell Billy your real feelings then he'll.. change his mind about Kim and like you",Jina said.
"Im sorry about yesterday.. in the bathroom.. I was really mad!",she said.
"It's alright Ash.. I haven't been very nice latley either.. and Heather hates me becuase Im a self centered brat.. do you think Iam?",she questioned.
"No.. of course not",Ashley said.
"Ashley your lying to me I can tell",Jina told her as she lifted her face back up to the mirror and little drops of water fell off of her face.
"Im not lying Jina.. we all have problems.. and you just are more sensitive there is nothing wrong with that.. Im sure you and Heather will work everything out",Ashley said.
"This time I really pissed her off.. and I pissed mom off too... now im prolly gunna be grounded till the end of time!",Jina said.
"Well you were pretty rude.. Jina I mean you always make her feel bad by using your not my mother",Ashley said.
"I know.. I just want my real parents and be like everyone else..",Jina stated grabbing some paper towels from the dispenser.
"Your aloud to be different Jina..",Ashley said as the bell rang.
"Shit I have to go.. I'll talk to you later bye",Ashley ran out of the bathroom. Jina sighed and looked at herself in the mirror and let her hair down out of the pony tail. She walked towards the door and made her way to her 2nd period class which was Sign Language the only class she ever cared about.