Happy little accident - ME! (reading e books TXT) 📗

First day back at school.

I had expected to the summer of junior year to be jam packed with parties, cute date nights with my boyfriend, Dan and an all-round success of a summer. But instead I spent the most part of my summer with my mum, sleeping and eating ice cream You could say this had something to do with being dumped via text message at the beginning of summer break. After 2 years of a loving relationship, he sent me a text saying “I need to fly solo for a while” I was confused about what it meant for a while and when he changed his relationship status to single, it clicked.  I was heartbroken, but Ben and Jerry’s are helping me make a steady recovery. The rest of my summer, my mom did her best to cheer me up, we’d go round to her best friend’s, Mia house and have girly night but I just made me miss Katie. She dragged me along to one of her friends weddings, where I was forced to dance with my old best friend Jamie baker. Which was the most awkward experience of my entire life. Jamie had been a part of my life since we were born, are moms had met at the hospital and have been inseparable ever since.  Instead of been young romantics like are moms tried to push us to be, we remained best friends. But once we turned sophomores and Jamie joined the football team, everything changed, he slowly began to blend in with the popular guys and forgot about us.

Katie and I have been friends since we were six, we met at dance class when we both enjoyed exercising. Since we were from Newberg, Oregon which only has one high school, everyone knew who we were. Katie had the looks to die for; Jet black hair, tanned (well, now a little burnt) big brown eyes and a toned-to-perfection figure. Whereas my appearance was more cute than sexy; I had mousy-blonde hair that came just past my boobs, pale complexion, bigger than average green eyes and a curvy figure. Out of the two of us, Katie got more male attention that stretched beyond friend zone, whereas I was typically left in the friend zone. Especially by Jamie. So as you could have guessed, it was a shock when I had gotten a boyfriend.

Pulling up in the familiar  car park and seeing the excitement of some of my fellow classmates made me want to barf.  After the summer, it’s fair to say I wasn't so thrilled to be back in the Hell hole. As I climbed to of my car, I heard the familiar shriek of my best friend Katie. I looked around to see if I could spot her and to my surprise, there she was, burnt as a crisp. She had spent the entire summer break travelling to some of the hottest places with her parents and you sure could tell. Katie pulled me into a hug.

“You’re looking… Tanned?” I said as I pulled out of her hug.

“I know, it’s hot right? Like I don’t look like a total idiot do I?” She looked at herself in my car window.

“I wouldn’t say you looked like an idiot” She smiled at herself in the mirror. “But Willy Wonka called, he wants you back at the factory.”

“I am not orange!” She playfully hit my arm. We began walking into school and she looped her arm through mine. “I’ve missed you so much Gracie!  We need a big catch up, I saw those pictures of you and Jamie Baker at the wedding!  And when I see Dan I’m going to punch him in the balls, dick.” She talked at such a fast pace, only I could understand.

“Ah Juniors, just two more years and we are out of here, out of this town!” The halls were packed with kids, trying to find their friends. You could smell out a freshman from miles just by the amount of nervous sweat the produce.

“Two more years then UCLA here we come!” Katie and I decided from an early age that we were going to college together and UCLA was a choice we both agreed on. Katie and I both found our lockers which were right next to each other; originally I was next to Kit Hellman (a science genius, who had had a crush on Katie since forever) but Katie being the slut she is showed him her boobs- not bare, she has morals- for the locker.

“Kate, I gotta get to home room so I’ll meet you in the cafeteria at lunch?” We discovered when we got our timetables we barely shared any lessons together, lunch was our most valued time.

“Okay Gracie.” She was barely paying any attention, Jake reeds locker was directly opposite hers; he had been her crush since freshman year, and he was the only boy that hadn’t seem to show interest in her and she hated it.

***

As I walked into homeroom, I heard a familiar comforting voice. Jamie. I hadn’t seen him since the wedding, I was kinda nervous. Jamie caught my eye, so I smiled politely. Then I heard a familiar, terrifying voice of Charlotte Pentington. We’ve hated each other for a long, because she had a crush on Jamie and always felt I was competition. Jamie gestured me to the spare seat next to him. It look as if Charlotte was about to race me to the chair, but she didn’t want to embarrass herself. So she give me the look as she walked by, and I mean if looks could kill, I’d be six feet under.

“Wow, you guys aren’t best friends yet?” Jamie looked at me with a cheeky grin on his face.

“Oh, and I wonder who’s fault that is?” I replied with the same amount of cheekiness.

“Hey, c’mon now, we all know it’s not my fault I’m a babe magnet, the ladies just can’t keep their hands off me; not even you bug.” He leaned in, with a playful look on his face. I could smell his cologne as he got closer. How I’ve missed that smell. I missed him calling me bug; it was kind of a patronizing nickname, but he’s always called me it. I got the nickname because when we were about 6, I had an obsession with ladybugs and for a school play I dressed up as one. All the teachers were calling me bug the whole day and it just stuck with Jamie.

“Oh get over yourself, you haven’t got anything to put my hands on.” I missed our playful conversations. I missed my best friend.

“That is not what you were saying at the wedding, your hands were all over me and you know it!”

“ We were dancing! And I distinctly remember that it was you who had your hands all over me.”

We both laughed at the memories. I don’t think we’ve talked like this in a while, even at the wedding it seemed awkward, like we both wanted to tell each other that we missed one another, but neither of us had the nerve to say. The school bell dragged us from our laughter.

“Catch you later bug.”

“Yeah, see you later J.”

I felt Charlottes locked eyes on my back, like lasers cutting through me. I almost felt flattered that she thought I was competition; I couldn’t see why though, she was beautiful but she had a horrible personality, so she must have been threatened by mine.

***

The lessons were long and boring, and my free period just before dinner gave me extra long to catch up with Katie. Just as I sat down, my chili Doritos in one hand and a bottle of Dr pepper in the other, Katie came bounding up to me.

“You’ll never guess what!” I haven’t seen her this excited since she thought Justin Bieber had followed her on twitter; turns out it was just a fan account. “Guess who’s having a party? Jamie! Apparently his moms going on a spa weekend a-“

“Yeah I know, my mom’s going with her, so I have a weekend of relaxation.” I cut her off because I knew she was going to ask if I would get us invited. But before I could tell her no, Jamie wandered over to the table.

“Hey bug, Kat. Um, yeah so bug, do you have that photo of me and you at the wedding? My mom keeps bugging me about it.” He was nervous; constantly running his hand through his hair.

“Oh yeah, I thought my mom would have sent it to your mom by now?”

“Yeah, I’m shocked too.” He looked awkward.

“I’ll bring my memory stick over in a sec, gotta find it.”

“Yeah okay, I’ll be sitting right over there” He pointed over to the table, full of the most popular boys in school. “Oh and I forgot to tell you, you looked beautiful bug” He walked off with a cheeky smile on his face.

I laughed for a second but noticed Kat’s deranged look she was giving me, like she found out the juiciest gossip of the town.

“Kat, why are you looking at me like that?” I edged away from her, usually when she’s like this she hits me in excitement; so I was preparing for the attack. I must’ve moved too slowly, because I got hit, really hard.

“I thought you said you and Jamie barely spoke at the wedding? Jamie wants you! He wants you so bad!” The excitement in her eyes was so scary, I wanted to take the knife out of her hand. “ Oh hey bug, you’re so beautiful, let me have you. Oh bug I- “ She tried to make her voice go all deep, but she just sounded like she had a really bad cold.

“ Would you stop, Jesus, someone might hear you!” I hit her just as hard as she hit me.

“Ow, Gracie c’mon, he is HOT and he is packing!” She actually whispered this time “ And I am not just talking about his 6 pack, I think you know what I’m talking about.”

“You’re not funny.”

“Gracie c’mon, we both know you like Jamie, and don’t say you don’t because you do. You have since I can remember. No go and woo him with your beautifulness before Charlotte gets him.” Her head nodded in the direction which Charlotte was approaching.

Before I knew it, I was marching over to Jamie’s table to hand him the memory stick. What was I thinking! I kept telling myself  to go and sit back down but my legs just wouldn’t turn around. There I was, stood there like a gormless fish in front of Jamie.

“Hey bug!” He sounded genuinely happy to see me, he pulled the chair up next to him. I looked over at Katie, she was too busy trying to get Jakes attention than give me moral support.

“Um hey, here, this has all the photos from the wedding. Are you going to be home tonight? For the dinner?” My mom and his had planned a dinner to finally reunite me and Jamie. My mom was making a big fuss out of everything, I know she hasn’t seen Jamie’s mom in a while but she shouldn’t be this excited.

“Oh yeah, I have to stay home, but it should be fun, like the good old times.” I could hear the sarcasm in his voice so I gave him a little nudge as I sat down.

“Grace, I heard about you and Dan. I’m sorry he’s an idiot.” Liam was one of the sweetest guys at school, and one of the hottest. He was another one of my childhood first, but we never stayed as close. I tried setting him up with Katie but it turned out they’d already hooked up.

 “Yeah he is, Thanks Liam” I smiled at him sweetly and he nodded.

“Hi