Chapter 11

Chapter 11 | S a m a n t h a s p o v

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The next day...

My alarm goes off I get up and go straight into the bathroom. I quickly take a shower and change my clothes. I leave my hair down again and put on my glasses.

After I'm finished getting dressed I grab my book bag and go downstairs. I walk into the kitchen and sit at the counter. My phone vibrates. I got a text. It's from Jace.

Jace is awesome: Good Morning Sam's club. ☺

I laugh to myself.

Samantha: Good Morning Jace, and don't call me Sam's club that's weird. I'm just now realizing your name is still 'Jace is awesome' in my phone. 😂

Jace is awesome: I changed it back ;) don't change it again or it will mess up my awesome mojo

Samantha: lol. Mojo?

A plate of bacon and eggs slide in front me.

"Good morning Mom." I say still looking down at my phone.

I hear deep laughter. "I'm not mom."

I look up. "Dad!" I yell getting up and hugging him.

"How was your business trip?" I ask.

"You don't wanna hear about my boring business trip." He laughs

I laugh. "What did do you while I was away?" He asks.

Maybe I should tell him about Jace. My dad is really cool about boys as long as he meets them and approves. He's not really over protective. Since I'm a goody two-shoes and I never do anything wrong, my parents trust me in basically every situation.

"Oh nothing, just hung out with a friend." I say playing with my fork.

"A friend? That's new. What's this friend like?"

"He's probably coming over today to study." I say.

My dad widens his eyes then he nods. "Oh. It's a he, I see. Well I'm sure he's swell I'm happy to meet him."

I smile. "Thanks for being cool, dad."

"I trust you. That's why I'm cool. " He laughs.

I smile. "So do you need a ride to school?"

***

•AT SCHOOL•

As soon as I walk into School everyone starts laughing at me. I stare at them with confusion wondering why there laughing.

I look down and quickly walk up to the third floor. The laughing gets louder.

I look at all the lockers and all the walls. There's pictures of me in those ridiculous clothes at the mall everywhere.

How did these pictures even get here?

Everyone gathers around me and laughs louder. I look around at everyone until it hits me.

Jace did this.

He was the only one who was there with me at the mall. It had to be him. Anger starts to build up inside me. I thought I could trust him but I guess I thought wrong.

I push my way through the crowd of people surrounding me and run to my locker. I open it and get my stuff for first period.

"You're so disgusting. Why would you even try on clothes like that?" I hear someone say.

I close my locker and see Mindy. Great.

"Why do you even care what clothes I try on? Go get a life and stop worrying about other people." I say.

I walk away from Mindy but she follows me.

I turn around and face her. "What do you want?" I say annoyed.

People start surrounding me and Mindy to see what's going on.

"You're just a loser. You just follow Jace around because he's popular and you want that to rub off on you. You'll never be popular. You'll always be an ugly, no good, loser, lame girl who has no friends." Mindy says smiling.

Everyone starts laughing. I look in the crowd of people and I see Jace smiling. I feel tears fill my eyes. 

I can't believe me and Jace were ever friends.

I run away from everyone. I keep running until I find a janitors closet. I open the closet and get in it. I lock the door. I sit down and cry.

I thought I was a strong person that never let anyone get to me, but I guess I was wrong.

I hear someone knock on the door. I look up from crying. It's probably the janitor. I unlock the door and open it.

It's Jace.

He walks in the closet and shuts the door behind him.

"Sam, are you okay?" Jace asks softly.

"My name is not Sam, and no I'm not okay Jace! How could you put up all those horrible pictures of me?" I yell.

Jace gives me a innocent look."I didn't put those pictures up."

I roll my eyes. "You were the only one there with me! Who else could it have been Jace?"

He shrugs. "I don't know! It wasn't me though! I promise it wasn't me Sam! We're friends, I would never do that to you!"

I start to cry harder. "Why are you lying to me? I thought I could trust you? You know what? Never talk to me again! The deal is off!" I yell.

I run out of the closet and run to the bathroom. I wipe my eyes so it doesn't look like I was crying. I pull myself together because I can't be late to class.

***

•SCIENCE CLASS•

Today has been the worst day of my life. The only friend I thought I had abandoned me. And now I have to sit by him in Science class because he's my lab partner.

I walk into the science lab and look at my lab station.

Jace isn't sitting there...

I sit down and look scan the science lab for him. He's not in here. Even though I hate him now. I'm worried.

Where is he?

After school...

•AT SAMANTHA'S HOUSE•

I walk home. Jace never showed up to science class. As soon as I walk in the house my dad comes down stairs.

I'm still mad at everything. Today was horrible.

"Hey Samantha! How was school?" My dad asks.

"Fine." I say quietly. I push past my dad and go into my room. I slam the door.

I take a shower and change into my frozen pajamas. Even though I hate frozen I still wear them because my mom bought me them. When I'm done changing I start my homework.

***

When I'm finally done with my homework it's 6pm.

Someone knocks on my bedroom door.

"Who is it?" I ask.

"It's Dad. Someone is here for you." He says through the door.

I get up and open the door. I walk downstairs. As soon as I see who it is I cover my mouth with my hand in shock.

It's Jace.

But it's not normal Jace. It's Jace with a black eye. Even though I'm super mad at him, I can't help but run up to him and feel his eye. I'm to much of a caring person to ignore his black eye.

"Are you okay? What happened? Who did this to you?" I ask frantically.

He laughs. "Eh, Nothing. I just got into a fight over this girl I like."

I bet it's Mindy.

"What girl is so special that you would go and get a black eye for?" I ask.

He smiles and the looks down. "You."

What? Did he just say me?

I laugh. "Your kidding right?"

Jace smiles. "No Sam I'm not. Earlier I felt so bad for what you went through at school today so I did some digging and found out that Mindy and her friends were at the mall the same time we were yesterday. Mindy paid some guy named Jack to secretly follow us around and take pictures of us. So after I figured that out I had to teach Jack a lesson. And that's how I got this black eye."

My heart drops. Jace didn't take the pictures. Mindy paid someone to do it.

I feel so bad for accusing him.

"I'm so sorry for accusing you of doing it." I say.

Jace laughs. "Sam, don't be sorry. You were mad and I was the only one that was to blame. I forgive you."

Right there after what he just said my whole body melts. He's so sweet. I've never seen him like this.

"I can't believe you got a black eye for me. Thank you so much Jace. You're so sweet." I say smiling.

He grins. "Hey! don't call me sweet. I'm a football player and football players aren't sweet" He says pointing.

I laugh. "Well you're a sweet football player."

He smiles.

I grab his hand and lead him into the kitchen.

"Sit here." I say pointing to the chair right by the counter.

He sits down and I open the freezer. I grab a bag of frozen peas and hand them to him.

"What am I supposed to do with these?" He asks laughing.

"Put them on your eye. It'll help the swelling." I say.

"Wait once sec I'll freeze my eye with peas as soon I get back. I gotta go get something out of my car." Jace says

I laugh. Jace leaves and comes back with a rectangle box wrapped in green wrapping paper.

He walks up to me. He smiles "For you." he says handing me the present.

I set it on the counter and open it. I cover my mouth with my hand.

"It's the black dress from the mall." I say lifting it up.

He smiles. "Yeah. You seemed like you really liked it so, I bought it for you." He says.

"Thank you so much Jace!"

He honestly just made my day.

"No problem. Oh and I like your frozen pajamas." Jace says laughing.

I look down at myself. I forgot I was wearing them.

I laugh. "Shut up! my mom bought these!"

My mom and dad come into the kitchen.

My mom smiles as soon as she see's Jace. "Hey Jace how are you?"

He smiles. "I'm good Miss. Johnson. How are you?"

"I'm Great!" She replies. She slaps my dad in the arm playfully. "Jim! This is Jace Samantha's friend."

My dad shakes Jace's hand.

"Nice to meet you sir." Jace says

"Same to you, Jace. What happened to your eye?" My dad asks.

My mom hits my dad in the arm again. "Jim, it's not polite to ask those kind of questions."

Jace laughs. "Oh it's fine I just got into a fight."

I cut him off. I pull Jace close to me and put my hand on his shoulder. He puts his hand on my waist. I point to his eye. I smile "Jace got this black eye for me because he was being sweet."

My mom awes and my dad smiles.

"I'm not sweet." Jace says blushing.

"Just face the fact that you are sweet." I say.

Jace laughs again and I hug him. He hugs me back. I don't why I hug him. It just feels right. 

Who would've known having a friend would make me this happy?

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A/N: Hey guys! This Chapter was a just teaser of Samantha and Jace starting to like eachother. Samantha still likes Billy but she's slowly realizing that she may have feelings for Jace. And well, Jace still doesn't how he feels yet, he's caught in between being cool and liking Samantha. So yeah, this A/N was just a summary of whats going on with Samantha and Jace a.k.a  Jamantha  ;-)  I hope you all enjoyed this Chapter! : )