♡Jessica Woods♡

I could feel my head spinning around after today's incident. They just kissed today and now she was saying that they were in a relationship. I mean, Seriously? And they were having a party for that and she was inviting me too who has the strict parents in the world. Maybe I could count my dad as a permissive one.

Yeah.. I knew I didn't sound like a caring bestie but it wasn't my fault. It was her fault.

While I was telling her how many times I peed a day, she didn't even say a single thing about the crush she had on Ryan until the kiss happened.

They always behaved like they were going to rip each other's heads off anytime but now they were one of the sweetest couples in our school.

Urgh..

Pushing these thoughts out of my mind, I started to walk around the park which was one of my favourite places. The sky was cloudy as usual and the cool breeze ruffled my long blonde hair but it didn't bother me at all as I was too busy on enjoying my own company.

Suddenly my legs stopped moving when I heard some little girl crying and some familiar voices arguing.

As the curiosity got the best of me, I slowly started to move towards that direction and my mouth fell open when I found my brother and Jace was arguing while Georgia was rubbing her eyes and hiding her small frame behind Jace.

I quickly approached them and Jace stopped speaking when he noticed me which made Alex to turn around at me.

"Jessie?"

"What happened?" I glanced all three of them and Georgia moved aside, pouting like a kid.

"He kissed another girl infront of me." she sniffled and I raised my eye brow at Alex.

"Because I love her." he stated, staring at Georgia.

Woah!

Jace pushed her behind him gently, clenching his jaw as she started to sob again.

"Jace, you know, that day Alex said he likes me and n-"

"Did I say I mean it? Plus I like Melanie. Not you okay? You're one of my favourite games. " he shouted and despite the fact he was my brother his words made me angry too.

"Cocky much kiddo?" Jace questioned mockingly.

"Stop calling me kiddo, you wanker." Alex spat.

Jace gritted his teeth as he was about to keep a step towards him but before he could, I placed my hand on his chest and tried to push him back.

"Guys stop it." I almost begged and now my voice was weak than I thought. Jace huffed, turning his body which made my hand to drop on my side.

"She's the one who brought up the topic, Jessie." Alex informed.

"Alex but-"

"Then why the hell are you taking my sister to some kinda places like park, cafeteria and your home?" Jace fumed, holding Georgia's hand tightly who was now standing beside him.

"Oh c'mon this is what players do until they get their goal, right? And don't say you don't know about it." Alex smirked.

"Alex. Shut up." I said through my clenched teeth but they both were still shooting daggers at each other.

"Look Jace, let them talk. This is-"

"There's nothing to talk about." Alex whisper-yelled, glaring at Jace.

"Can you please shut your damn mouth and let me finish my sentence?" I fired back and they both avert their gazes to me simultaneously.

"Are you trying to ship me with this one?" Alex asked, creasing his forehead.

"Yeah." I nodded with a blank expression on my face and Georgia slowly appeared to my sight. "I don't know about the list of your hottest girlfriends but I know that she, Georgia Parker, is head over heels in love with you."

I could see the blush on Georgia while Alex was groaning loudly.

"Maybe you are so unaware about the look she gives." I spoke and my eyes met Jace's, not Alex's. "..about the way she blushes when you compliment her, the time she always spends by thinking about you. There are so many times you have driven her insane but still she waited for you to confess first." I finished and Jace's eyes turned to soft from cold and he was looking down and hiding his face from me as if he had a clown nose on his face.

"Even my history teacher won't give a boring speech just like you did." Alex muttered and Jace looked up at him, his eyes were back to cold and Alex rolled his eyes.

"Jace," I began quietly. "This is their problem. Let them solve it. Trust me, they have enough mature than we think."

Jace sighed, running his fingers through his hair and before he could decide, Alex spoke.

"There's nothing to talk about, Jessie. You know nothing about love so stop forcing me to like someone who isn't my type." Alex explained exhaustedly and threw a glance at Georgia before leaving the place.

Jace clenched his fists as he stared at the direction where Alex had gone and gripped Georgia's hand, glaring at me. Under the intensity of his glare, I found myself speechless.

"You're not his type." he repeated the same phrase what Alex had said a few seconds ago and disappeared from my sight, dragging Georgia along with him.

Why did he tell that looking at me?
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I'm late! I'm late!

I hurried to the CS room and barged in which made everyone in the classroom including Jace to turn towards me. I gave Mrs.White a sheepish smile as I walked past her desk.

"Reason?"

"Well.. some personal problems." I stated casually and she rubbed her forehead before taking a sheet out of the blue file.

"Here." she gave me a sheet."Go and settle down quickly. You've got only twenty minutes."

I nodded, taking the sheet from her and approached my seat which was beside Jace's. I glanced at Jace and he has started to do the test already so I sat on my seat quickly, placing all of my oh-so-educational textbooks on the table and took out a pencil from my case.

He was focused on his sheet and I assumed because of the exam tension he forgot about the fact that this exam was just a revision about our assignment. I peeked a glance at his paper, leaning on him slightly and he looked up giving me an unamused look.

"What?"

"Uh, your answers are wrong. Let me correct them." I said and was about to take his sheet but he slammed his fist on the middle of the sheet which made me flinch.

"No thankyou." he said through his clenched teeth.

What's wrong with him?

"Jace, we should do the test together whether we like it or not." I hissed and pulled the paper forcefully but I couldn't, as his huge clenched hand was resting on the paper.

"If you do wrong, you'd fail." I informed and he shook his head slowly.

"No. Everyone thinks you'd be the reason for my low grades." he chuckled humorlessly and I resisted the urge of punching him.

"Why do you wanna do that?" I asked, frowning.

"Because I hate you? Because the weak girl deserves that?" he tilted his head, fidgeting the pen and I was actually taken aback by his words but instead of sobbing, I clutched my hands together to control the volcanic anger that was rising on me.

"Great." I exclaimed and stood up, holding my blank sheet in my hand. Jace furrowed his eye brows as I grabbed all of my books hastily.

"I would never be the reason of someone's failure." I stated furiously and pretended not to care about the guilt look on his eyes as I started to move towards Mrs.White's desk and banged my sheet on her table.

"Sorry ma'am. I can't do it." I told flatly.

"What do you mean by you can't do it? You have to do this test." she insisted and I narrowed my eyes at her.

"I said I can't." I stressed and she leaned back on her chair, adjusting her spectacles.

"Oh I see.. then don't hide your face when you get a big F and a black mark on your school report." she sneered.

"I won't." I said, giving her a tightlipped smile and walked out of there angrily.

I decided not to think about his sudden change or my sudden outburst and descended the stairs, approaching the locker room.

"Hey.." I heard the familiar masculine voice behind me but I didn't stop walking.

"Jessica, hold on!" he called out and grabbed my arm but I swatted it away from his grip before turning around.

"What?" I snapped and Jace gulped audibly, keeping a step back.

If he apologized I'm sure I'd cut his-

"Why did you return the sheet without doing anything?" he questioned innocently and I crossed my arms over my chest.

"Last time I checked, it's none of your concern."

"Did you do that because of what I said?" he asked.

"No. I just want to cross off the 'skip a test and get a big F' on my bucket list." I said sarcastically and he sighed.

"Hey, I was kidding at that moment." he admitted and I raised my eye brow.

"Calling me weak is frickin' kidding? Look," I showed my palm infront of him, holding out the three fingers and folding the rest. "Weak, fat and ugly ain't no joke."

"I didn't mean it." he whispered.

"Then why the hell you said like that? You promised me you won't make me cry and now all you do is hurting me like everyone does and giving me a title 'weak' at last. What do you know about me to call me weak? Do you know something about my family or my personal life?" I asked and he looked dumbfounded so I continued.

"The girl who pretends she didn't hurt and paste a fake smile on her face just to avoid the excess problems and cry alone doesn't mean she isn't strong. She has faced too many problems for her age. I'm seventeen Jace! Damn fucking seventeen and while everyone in my age got their shit together, I was ignored by everyone just because I couldn't be like everyone." I ranted, holding back the tears and he was about to keep a step towards me but stopped when I showed my palm infront of him.

"Don't you dare come closer." I warned and as if on cue, the bell rang so I turned on my heels and ran away.
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Hey!

Jessie?

You there???

Don't ignore me bitch!

Ryan told everything!

The Jace prob right?

Can't you answer my calls?

Pick up the damn phone Jessica Woods!!

God! You're annoying!

Jessie?

Pfft I'm done.

No she wasn't. I thought as she called me for the fifty eighth time. I sighed and sat up properly before answering it.

"H-"

"You bloody girl! Don't you dare do this ever again and thank God that you're not near me because right now I wanna stab you and bury you in the grave that you have dug by yourself." she ranted and I rubbed my temple.

"So?"

"Jeez girl.. you're really annoying. I-"

"Fine, fine. I'm sorry. I was distracted by today's inc-"

"Oh Jessie.. You know Jace right? he-"

"I don't know. Who is he?" I asked and she grunted.

"Girl, Sam is the one who called you weak in the very first place then why didn't you snap at him at that time?" she questioned, ignoring my previous statement.

"Sam is not the one who pinky promised me. Plus, Jace said he hate- never mind." I said, waving my hand in the air as if she could see it.

"Oh Miss drama queen, just cheer up. If it makes you any better, Sam too reminded me to call you and ask you how you're doing as he didn't notice you nowadays." she informed and I scoffed.

"Do you want me to believe this?"

"Believe it or not he actually said it." she told and the corner of my lips curled upwards automatically.

"Okay, now you're looking like Mr.Bean." Louise commented as if she could see me and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not." I frowned and I heard her giggling.

"So.. Ready for the party on Friday huh?" she beamed and I sighed.

She was an idiot but I couldn't complain as she was being an unpaid therapist for me.

"Should I really wanna come? I didn't ask my mom yet." I said slowly and I could picture the frown on her face that was appearing right now.

"Try to be a good bestfriend, lassie." she stated. "We'll be going straight to my home after the school finishes on Friday and we'll be getting ready there. Okay?"

"Hm, yeah okay." I said monotonously as I wasn't much fond of parties.
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"Mom please." I begged her with my puppy dog eyes but always they haven't worked well with her.

"You hate parties, don't you?" she asked, turning off the stove.

You told me to hate parties.

"Yeah, but it's Louise's party. I must go." I whined and she shook her head, approaching me.

"Look Jessie, I'm not saying you to stay away from her or her boyfriend's friends, what I'm saying was she would be throwing parties hereafter and if I allowed you to go this time then you would be begging all the time and win over me." she rambled and I resisted the urge of rolling my eyes.

"But mom I'm seventeen and you're allowing Alex to go, then why not me?" I argued and she scoffed.

"He's not a girl Jessie and especially he's not you. He's a courageous boy so I could trust him blindly." she stated proudly looking at my brother who was eating his sandwich leisurely pretending not to care about the arguement that was taking place infront of him and I rolled my eyes.

No to favouritism!

"Mom. I promise I wouldn't-"

"Wait, you are going to the party for fun right? And the definition of fun for the young teens, is drink and drugs, having sex with strangers-"

"Mom! That's enough!" I shouted, standing up and a voice interrupted our argument.

"What's the problem girls?" Dad appeared to our sight as he took off his jacket and hung it on the holder. My mom approached my dad quickly to complain about me.

"She wants to go to a party." she told and my dad's eyes widened slightly as he looked at me.

"Dad. I should go. The party is for Louise. I promise-"

"Do you have any fashionable clothes to wear? If not, ask me." dad said casually and it took some moments to process in our minds what he had just said now and when it did, I almost jumped up in joy while my mother's eyes widened as big as the saucers.

My brother drew lines on his plate using the fork as he seemed to be a bit preoccupied.

"She shouldn't go to the party." My mom stated and I could sense the anger in her tone.

"Why not?" dad asked, sitting down and gulping down the water.

"She's underage and she isn't allowed to drink alcohol." my mom informed and I rolled my eyes for the hundredth time.

"She never said she would drink or use drugs. She just wanna go to party to have some fun. Right honey?" Dad turned towards me and I nodded smiling genuinely at him. 

"Look," he turned to my mom. "Don't be so rude to such a puppy like her."

"Then don't come crying to me if you get raped." My mom gritted her teeth, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oh c'mon mom, you're overreacting."

"Oh really? You know how we met each other?" she gestured at her and dad, and I gave her a puzzled look.

They said they dated for two years as they loved each other blindly and got married eventhough my dad's father didn't accept their marriage as they had been getting married too early and my dad left the college purposefully.

"Rachel, it's out of the topic."

"Oh really?" she scoffed and leaned over the table, glancing at my dad and then at me.

"I was sixteen when I met your dad at a party and I really believe in love at first sight and when I saw your dad in all hot and handsome, I felt that thing and maybe it was because of alcohol but when he led me to-"

"Rachel. Shut up." Dad warned but she waved her hand in a 'sorry, I can't' gesture.

"Okay I'll skip that night part but oh boy! it was breathtaking." she really sounded like a hormonal teenaged girl.

"Later we were madly in love with each other so we ran out of the town leaving everything and got married at the age of 19. I still do love him and always will, that's why I didn't ask him divorce since now even we had some times when we skipped having sex because of lack of money to use protection."

"Huh?" my brother spoke after a long time and that's when I realized he really listened to the whole conversation. "You couldn't afford a condom?"

I was about to spit out the food I had on my mouth and my dad started to cough and I passed the water glass but he refused it.

"Sorta like that." my mom nodded slowly as if she was in some deep thoughts.

"Kids! Go to your room." dad ordered and my brother frowned.

"But I didn't finish eating."

"Go and eat in our room."

"See.. Because of your dad can't earn enough money we both couldn't spend some time together. He always goes early in the morning and comes late at night and at the night also Alex would be sleeping with us so we don't have privacy at all." my mom explained but in a strange way I felt she had a point but I didn't know why she was telling us these things.

"Then give me my own room and have sex all you want for God's sake." my brother groaned and left the place angrily making my parents speechless.

I knew as like my mom, my brother too hated to share the room with them eventhough he did own a single sized bed and a study table in their narrowed white walled room.

Poor Alex!

"Rachel, I swear to God if you-"

"Mom why are you telling me all these things?" I asked cutting off my dad as the conversation was going nowhere I'd thought.

"Because eventhough I love your dad so much I don't want you to get married to some guy like your dad." she stated causally and now my dad's head was in his hands and I sighed exasperatedly and stood up from the table.

"Fine. I'm not going anywhere." I said firmly and saw triumphant smile on my mother's face.

"Plus, stop blaming me for everything, and just because you had sex when you're teenager doesn't mean I'd do the same." I told and my mother's face turned into red as I never ever spoke to her like this.

With that, I dashed into my room and plopped down on the bed and curled into a ball, welcoming the darkness as I was too tired of having a long day and not wanting to recall today's memories.

I wish I had another mom. Maybe another life too.

Hey Lovely Readers!

Sorry for the late update, I was too busy on watching cricket. Lol.

I know that Jessica is not the only one as there are so many people who suffer more than her, plus I know I'm not a good author but I'm trying my best to be.

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