《The Guy Next Door (COMPLETED)》Chapter 8: I Want Peonies At My Funeral
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Ok so whats the first thing you see when you wake up? For me it's my purple coloured ceiling.
Now what I would like to see in the morning is an entirely different thing. Can anyone guess what it is?
Alec.
So you can imagine my surprise when my wish came true. I mean just imagine you woke up and saw the guy you liked peering at you with his big green eyes.
So I did the most natural thing. I fell of my bed and by fell I mean completely toppled to the ground
Ok so not the most natural thing.I mean falling of my huge bed has to be a challenge but then that was me.
Everyone has a superpower and mine was embarrassing myself in the worst possible way no matter how impossible it may seem.
"Ow" I say rubbing my head.
"Oh my god Clara are you alright?" he asks helping me get up.
I nod. Im not nearly as bruised as my pride.I mean you don't just fall off your bed in front of a guy you like.
Unless of course you're me.
"What are you doing here?" I ask slowly getting up.
"Oh Jake told me that you were awake and asked me to call you..." His voice trailed as he saw what I was wearing.
Which happened to be my Hello Kitty pajamas. Great. Just freaking great. I'm going to murder Jake for sure.
"Umm your mom invited us over for breakfast." he said guiltily, "I'll go down and tell her your just coming."
And with that he walked out slamming the doors shut behiend him.
I rush over to the mirror to check how I looked and lets just say that it was a miracle that Alec hadn't run away then and there.
Usually in a book or a movie the heroine is perfect. Whenever they wake up there is not a hair our of place and their make up is perfectly applied. For some people like my sister who was the glam queen of Seaview High even after all these years these things may actually apply.
She had gotten all the good looks in our family.
But I was nothing like my sister.
You could probably differentiate with columns between two of us and you could easily come up with 50 differences but if it came to similarities there would be mainly three.
We shared the same last name and parents and had blonde hair.
So as I looked at the mirror I saw my hair sticking out like Lisa Simpson hair and crease marks all over my face and to top it all of my Hello Kitty pajamas were pink in color.
Now isn't that just peachy.
I look at my alarm clock and my mouth drops open in shock.
It was 8:00 which meant I had less than half and hour to get ready. Its like this day just keeps on getting better and better.
I quickly take a shower and wear the first thing I find in the closet. Since my mother has come home my closet is filled with new expensive clothes.
My fingers grasp on to a green blouse right on top that has every kind of pattern possible with black leggings.
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I apply lip gloss and some mascara(Yes I may be late but i have to redeem myself from the pink hello kitty pajamas.) Although I'm pretty sure I messed that up too.
I run down the stairs to find Jake, Alec and all of our mothers sitting as if they have all the time in the world.
I look at the granfather clock near the table which says 8:05.
Oh no he didn't.
Jake is smirking at me and I know exactly what happened. The idiot changed the timing of my clock.
I probably would have gone and choked him then and there if his mother hadn't interrupted.
"Oh Clara." she said her eyes sparkling with kindness like it always did,"Don't you look wonderful."
Yeah for a girl who finished her 45 minute morning schedule in 15 minutes because her ass of a son changed her clock i really did look good.
"Thank you Mrs Henderson." I say politely sitting next to her.
"Clara your father and your grandmother have gone for her check up." my mother says formally to me as if I was another one of her clients.
I nodd dissected my pancakes as if they were Jakes face. Jakes very very hot face.
I stop in horror.
I did not just think that. I did not think that.
"Clara I wanted to ask you something." Jakes mom said,"You know that the weddings on New Years eve right in New York?"
I nodd. Still trying to get her son out of my head.
"Well i was hoping you could be a bridesmaid." she said hopefully.
I look at her trying to process what she had just said. I was still thinking about Jake. But now I had gone from his looks to best ways to kill him.
My mom was giving me her 'You better not blow this stare.'
I nod.
"Id be honoured." I say smiling.
Looking back at that moment i would have screamed no if I had just known who the Maid of Honour was going to be in fact I wouldnt have gone to New York. But who was going to tell past me that.
"Im glad." she said as she glanced at the clock,"Oh you guys better get going or else you'll be late for school."
Alec gets up not quite looking at me. Who could really blame him. I mean even I would have run away if I saw someone like me in the morning.
But I would have probably screamed Bloody Murder on the way.
I nod as I get up thinking about the car ride to school. I was probably going to ram Jakes sad excuse for a really expensive car.
I honestly love my car. It was the cutest VW bug ever and it was bright red. I usually pick Rebecca up but since Samantha who lived closer was going to school with Matt she decided to hitch a ride.
Im pretty sure she did it on purpouse to see Samantha with Matt and bug the hell out of her. Well atleast she left the Jake and Alec drama alone.
I get into my car thinking about my Calc test in the first period. It was going to be horrible.
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I put the keys in the ignition to find out that my car is not working. I push the accelator a few times but nothing.
Crap this is not happening to me.
I quickly rush out of the car hoping that the keys to the Mercedes was yet there.
Like I said my family was loaded.
"Mom" I say after 2 minutes of searching,"Where are the keys to the Merc? My car is not working"
I enter the kitchen to find Jake and Alec still siting there and my mom talking to Jakes happily.
Didn't they have to go to school and didnt Alec have a Calculus Test with me?
"Clara I have to go out." my mom said adapting the same buisness like tone with me,"Can you take a ride with one of the boys?"
She then goes back to talking as Jake and Alec both get up simultaneously.
"Clara I'd be happy to give you a ride." Alec says smiling as he walks upto me.
Thank god. Hopefully he forgot about the incident in the morning.
"Ok then ill pick up Natalie." Jake says smirking as the three of us walk out.
Alec froze and face palmed himself.
"Crap Natalies gonna kill me."Alec said,"You don't mind coming with her do you?"
He DID not just ask me to share a ride with him and Natalie after I was the reason they broke up the last time.
"Or you could come with me." Jake says as he heads to his car which you guessed it was a shiny new Ferrari.
I look between the two of them and delibrated which was the worse option.
: Alec
: Natalie (who will definitley kill on sight)
: No Natalie
: Jake (who may be a potential serial killer.)
Plus it will look weird if I ditch my "supposed" boyfriend.
In the end Jake won.
I mean if I had survived Natalie then how bad could having a ten minute ride with Jake be?
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"Jake" I scream my eyes tightly shut,"If we die I'm going to kill you."
I should have never ever ever chosen to go with Jake. I mean my chances of reaching school alive was slowly fading.
I dont get why people have to drive so fast. Especially guys i mean why can't they just FREAKING STICK TO SPEED LIMIT.
The last I saw Jake was going 90 miles per hour. No kidding and we had barely just left my house.
I peeked a bit to see that the landscape around was a blur.I closed my eyes imagining how we would be reduced to a couple of grease spots on the road because of him.
I opened my eyes slowly again to see that Jake was looking at me with an amused expression.
Wait if he's looking at me whose looking at road?
I swear to god if he doesn't stop Im going to have a panic attack. I mean a bigger panic attack than the one I was having now.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
I mean Jake wouldnt want to kill himself right? I mean he is way to self obsessed to do so. What if he was suicidal?
What if he actually needed to be institutionalized? What if he was actually going to kill us?
Crap. I think I was going to puke.
"Jake stop."
My voice was shaky but firm. He looked at me in suprise for a second but slowed down.
"Thank you." I say as I close my eyes trying not to picture the giant firey ball of death that would have turned us into ashes if there was an accident.
Yup I may just be a teensy bit dramatic.
"We are here." he says slowly.
I open my eyes to see him looking at me with concern.
"Please if you are going to puke don't do it in the car." he remarks
Yup so much for concern.
"I wont puke."I lie,"But only if you let me drive us home."
Jake smirked.
"You cant stay away from me right." he says jokingly.
"And how are things on Planet You wish." I say rolling my eyes.
"We better get out of the car." Jake said with an amused expression,"Im pretty sure people are getting the wrong impression."
I roll my eyes at Jake and his sick humour.
Jake gets out of the car and im about to go out when my leg gets caught. I free it and step out of the car to see the entire student body staring at us.
More like staring at Jake.
The girls I kid you not were literally drooling and the boys were drooling to but due to his car.I mean with his black.leathe jacket and Ray Bans i have to admit he looked .....
I think ill just leave the statement like that.
I slammed the car door and everybodies heads turned towards me.
I swear to god most of the girls looked at me like I was a piece of fake Prada heels lying on the sidewalk.
Trust me it was not a good expression. Im pretty sure most of them were planning on ways to kill me.I wanted to tell them that Jake was all theirs i means its not like we were .......
Oh Fudge.
The first bell rings signalling it was time to go to class and yet not one person has moved an inch and Im just standing and staring trying not to tremble under all the looks I was getting.
But it was like Jake was used to it.
"Thats my cue." he smiling,"Bye sweetheart."
He gives me a peck on the cheek which im pretty sure he did pourposly because so that what the girls were giving me were death glares.
He then walks of as every eye in he parking lot watches him go.
Great it had been barely a day since he had come and I would probably have to decide the flower arrangements for my funeral.
This was going to be a long day.
AUTHORS NOTE:
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