Barriers Ch. 3 by ThingsYouWouldBelieve
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The bell rang for my last class of the day and like clockwork my phone vibrated.
“I’ll be waiting out front hurry up.”
I stood at my locker contemplating blowing Jon off. I really just wanted to go home and shut myself off from the world. I decided against it because Jon would just bang on my door until I gave in to him. I walked out and hopped in his car.
“I’m really sorry about this morning. I really just lose my temper when dealing with Jenna. I’ve never had someone hate me so much for no reason.” He scratched the back of his head with his left hand as he drove down Plainvell Rd.
“Yeah whatever. Where are we going?”
“I figured the Hog would be a good place to get lunch.” The Hog was your standard sit down Burger Chain, they had a killer BBQ Swiss burger.
“So what is this another date?”
Jon turned to me at a red light. “If you aren’t comfortable with going on a date with me don’t think of it as that. I’m happy to be your friend…although after last night i’d like to think i’m a little more.”
I perked up and glared out the window embarrassed.I had him in my bed. We didn’t do anything crazy but he was right to assume things had finally progressed like he wanted.
“Jason? We’re here.”
I snapped out of my thoughts and hopped out of the car. Jon grabbed my arm and brought me in before i could get away. He must’ve put on some aftershave after gym class because he smelled really nice….there was that warmth i fell asleep to last night again….
“You’re overthinking this.” He said as he gripped me tighter. Jon was shorter than by maybe half an inch but that’s the only thing i had over him. My small hoodie was definitely getting stretched out by his upper buddy and he was in complete and total control. “Let’s eat and then we’ll see if Jenna is waiting for you and if she is i can leave. Nothing crazy i promise.”
“Ok…..”
“There we go.” He released me from those strong arms and I felt worse for it. Then i felt bad for falling for someone at such a rapid pace just because they were giving me attention. “Stop thinking and lets eat.” He moved to open the door for me.
Lunch took a total of 45 minutes. We screwed around on our phones until the food came out and made quick work of it. Jon mentioned how he was glad that everything wasn’t happening during basketball season and he could relax with me right now. I had forgotten this was the year he finds out is OSU wants to pick him up.
“So what happens if OSU picks you up?” I asked as i filled out the check.
“I get my ass over there as fast as i can.” He beamed only to quickly realize what I was really asking about. “Oh….you mean you and me….”
“Welp that ruins this date. Time to take me home” I slid out of the booth and bolted out the door looking for Jenna’s number.
“Jason wait i didnt….” For someone who had all the answers Jon was sure for a loss of words as he followed me out to the car.
“Didn’t think past the next year? Most don’t so i wouldn’t worry about it. Who knows if i even wanna see your face tommorow anyways?” I rolled my eyes out the window after buckling in. “Please just take me home i need a drink.”
Jon conceded and looked behind him to back out. The car ride was silent as we both were lost in our thoughts. I was mostly thinking about Jenna and if she was going to be on my doorstep by the time we got there. I knew Jon was kicking himself for ending lunch that way he did. He always felt the need to be perfect for me for some reason.
We rolled up and as expected Jenna was pouting right on my doorstep. She knew where the key was but for some reason she never let herself in. I let myself out slowlyand looked back to see him looking the other way.
“Thanks for lunch…”
“Yeah yeah. I’ll talk to you tommorow.” He was most certainly scheming but i didn’t have the energy to think about it as i shut the door and watched him drive off.
“I hate his fucking guts.”
“It was a nice lunch, lay off.” I fumbled with my keys and checked for the housekeeper before letting her in.
“Yeah he was nice to Vanessa, Karen and Julie while you were away too.”
“He’s not my boyfriend, he can sleep with whoever he wants.”
“He’s not allowed to when he’s trying to date my best friend, especially if he’s trying to be your first boyfriend.” She was already in the cabinet eyeing her options. She pulled out the vodka, poured two shots and downed one immediately. “Come on today sucked and Marky wouldn’t go to the gym with me. I wanna get buzzed.” She handed me the other shot glass.
I shrugged and downed it in one gulp.
“You know what we should do?” She took the glasses and the bottle and walked towards the basement.
“What?”
“Watch a movie tonight!”
“Ok I’ll fire up Netflix and…”
“No let’s go out! We never go out!”
“But we’re already drinking…”
“Oh now that Jonathan Han is in the picture you don’t wanna drive a little buzzed?” I hated this tension between the two of them. It really made hanging out with either of them incredibly awkward and hostile.
“No, theres a shit ton things to watch on Netflix and I’ve been out all day. I’d also rather not have people see me in public now that everyone and their mother knows Jon is pursuing me.” I grabbed the bottle out of her hands and took a gulp out of it.
“Ugh fine, but we’re going out tommorow for your birthday. I know your parents gave you a shit ton of money since they’re nowhere to be seen.”
“You know my house way too well.”
“Of course!” She came over and hugged me. “Now what did you wanna watch? I’m in the mood for something animated.”
“We haven’t see frozen yet right?”
“You’re so fucking smart Jason holy shit.”
“You’re already drunk.”
“Shut up.”
I laughed as I pushed her off me and turned on my computer. My Facebook was open from like 2 days ago when I last touched it and I couldn’t help but notice the dozens of friend requests I received. I guess everyone wants to know you when your schools point guard wants to date you. I shrugged it off and put on Frozen.
As a general rule whenever we watch a movie, we make up a drinking game. Every time a character sang we drank. Everything a pet was introduced or an inanimate object was brought to life we drank. Every time a fairy tale cliché appeared we drank. As anyone who’s seen the movie could imagine we got trashed pretty damn quickly.
Two hours later the movie ended and we laid there unsure what to do next.
“I’m hungry…” Jenna moaned completely gone.
“Yeah me too, what time is it?” I looked at my TV to see it was about 6:15.
“Jasonnn lets go outttt.”
“We’re far too drunk to drive anywhere.” I picked up the bottle we brought down and finished it. “Let’s just call in a pizza.”
“I don’t want pizza I want taco bell.” This was a regular conversation, eventually I would give in and drive but tonight Jenna had other plans.