Chapter 25 –Another Day (Jacquie’s POV)

“Honey time to get up,” my mum yelled to me cheerfully.
“Okay” I say.
I get up and rub my eyes and stretch.
I get my school clothes, walk to the bathroom and have a shower. When I finish I dry myself and get dressed Then I walk into the living room.

“I cooked you breakfast” mum says showing me a plate with a fried egg and two pieces of toast.
“Umm no thanks” I say.
“Honey you should eat” she says in a very whiney voice.
“And mummy I don’t wanna” I say in the same tone as hers.
She glares at me and puts the plate on the table and walks off.
“She was only trying to help” Mark says walking in.
“She knows I hate eating eggs” I say and slump onto the chair.
“Well maybe she forgot” he says backing her.
“Whatever” I say, “Can we go now?”
“Yeah I guess but you might be early” he says.
“Meh” I say.
“Okay” he says
“You coming baby?” he asks mum.
“Umm no I’m gonna be doing stuff around the house” she says.
We walk out to the car and we get in and drive off.

School…
“Okay see you at the mall” Mark says.
“Okay see ya,” I say getting out and walking into the school.
I’m early but not by a lot, Andrew runs up to me.
“Heya” he says.
“Hey” I say, “Is this considered as early?”
“Not really” he says “But if you come here when Micheal does it is”
“Okay what time does he come then?” I ask.
“When his mum is ready for work,” he says.
“Okay” I say.
We make our way to Andrews bag on the stairs.
“So” he says.
“Yeah so” I say
“By any chance are you…Goth?” he asks.
“Well yeah I am are you?” I ask
“Yeah” he says.
“Okay cool” I say with a smile.
He smiles back.
I pull out my phone from my bag and check the time.
“Anxious much?” he says.
“No” I say putting my phone back in my bag.
“Right” he says with a smirk.
“Shut up” I say jokingly.
“Never” he says and we both laugh.
Jared walks through the gates and comes over to us.
“Hey” he says.
“Hi” Andrew and I say at the time.
My phone rings.
I quickly pull it out. (Calling: Mum)

“Umm Hi” I say answering.
“Hey” she says
“What’s with the phone call?” I ask.
“Nothing just wanted to say sorry for giving you eggs Mark told me you didn’t like them” she says.
“Okay umm bye” I say and hang up on her before she can say anything.

“Oh my god she is so annoying” I say putting my phone away.
“Who?” Andrew asks.
“My mum” I say.
“Really?” he says.
“Yeah” I say.
“How?” he asks.
“She just annoying” I say.
“Okay, By the way do you want my number?” he asks.
“Umm sure” I say getting my phone out again.
I pass it to him and He puts in his number.
“Hey Jared can I put yours in here too?” he asks.
“Sure” Jared says.
He adds Jareds number too.
“Thanks” I say taking my phone back and putting it back in my bag.
“So have you seen Micheal yet?” Jared asks.
“Nope” I say.
“I have” Andrew says, “He isn’t in a good mood”.
“Why?” Jared and I ask.
“I dunno,” he says lying back “Probably another book problem”
“Yes actually” Micheal says from behind us.
Andrew jumps up.
“My brand new book I have bought is missing” Micheal says angrily.
“Sorry I um… didn’t know you were there” Andrew says.
“Whatever” Micheal says sitting down and taking out another book.
“Don’t tell me all you're gonna do is read all your life” Jared says.
“Well I do wanna be a writer” Micheal replies.
“What horror, sci-fi, action, comedy…” I say but am interrupted.
“A mixture” he says and goes back to his book.
“Oh okay” I say.
“Moody” Jared says under his breath obviously not quiet enough.
Micheal gets up.
“I don’t know why I bother trying to be friends with you guys, you are utter morons” he says and walks off.
Jared mimics him “You are utter morons”.
He makes me laugh.
“Cute laugh” he says.
I stop.
“What?” he asks.
“Nothing” I say and sit down.
“You sure?” he asks.
“Yeah… Anyways do you guys have any brothers or sisters?” I say changing the topic.
“Yeah I got a sister” Jared says sitting down.
“Same with me” Andrew says joining us “Do you?”
“Nah” I say, “What’s there names?”
“Tahlia” Jared says “She is awesome seriously she can write really good stories”
“My sis is called Melissa, Mel for short, She is awesome too she is like an artist” Andrew says.
“Drawer or painter?” I ask.
“Umm painter but she is pretty good at drawing,” he says.
“Awesome, I’m … never mind” I say.
“No tell” Andrew says.
“Well I draw a fair bit but they're not that good,” I say.
“Aww come on show us,” Jared says.
“Okay fine” I say getting out one of my old New Jersey books, I only show a couple of pages.
“Whoa that’s awesome” Jared says.
“Hell yeah” Andrew adds.
“Don’t,” I say.
“Don’t what?” Jared asks.
“I hate being complimented,” I say.
“Oh fine its shit” Jared says jokingly.
I hit him jokingly back.
We all laugh.
“Umm anyways just wondering do you wanna meet my sister?” Jared asks.
“Sure I would like to meet both of your sisters” I say.
“Cool” Andrew and Jared say.
“When?” Jared asks.
“I dunno up to you” I say.
“Now?” he asks.
“Sure” I say.

We all get up and they take me into the school, All the way too the art block. There are two girls both dressed in black one is drawing and the other is reading.
“Hey sis” Andrew says walking up to the one drawing and giving her a hug.
“Hey, gah get off me” she says pushing him away and continues drawing “I’m busy”
“Geez” Andrew says, “That one there with the fangs is Melissa”
“Okay cool” I say.
The girl that was reading finally looks up from her book and walks over to Jared hugs him and sits back down while keeping an emotionless face.
“Well umm that’s Tahlia” Jared says, “What’s up Tahlia are you upset or something?”
“No, this is just shocking the stupid author of this book wrote an entire chapter about how a guy got shot in the back and he didn’t say anything about hoe severe or anything I mean you should write something about how severe it was GOSH” she says.
“Umm okay” Jared says pretending he knew what she said “she normally not like that” he whispers to me.
“Okay umm Hi Melissa and Tahlia” I say.
“Hey” they both say looking up and then looking back down.
They both look up again.
“We have got to stop doing that,” Tahlia says.
“True” Melissa says.
“Man you girls are bitches,” Jared says.
“So offensive” Tahlia joked.
I laughed.
The girls looked at me.
“Sorry but I found that funny” I say.
They both smile.
“Well as you know I am Tahlia and that is Mel, sorry about the whole ignoring you thing we thought Jared had gotten another girl friend” she says.
“Umm Hi” I say.
“I haven’t had that many girlfriends” Jared says “plus how do you know she isn’t”
I look at him and so does Andrew.
“It’s obvious, she laughed at our joke and not yours,” she says.
Jared sneers.
“So anyways how old are you?” I ask.
“I’m 12” Mel says.
“And I’m 13” Tahlia says.
“Cool, but aren’t you a bit young to be at high school Mel?” I ask.
“Umm nah I was skipped a year, too smart” she says and laughs.
“Smart my ass” Tahlia says
Mel sticks her tongue out at Tahlia.
We all laugh.
“Oh crap I’m suppose to be with Kristen” Jared says and then runs out the door.
Tahlia laughs, “He’s so fucken forgetful”.
“I wonder we you get it from NAMELESS,” Mel says.
“SHUT UP, YOU COULDN’T EVEN REMEMBER YOUR NAME EITHER” Tahlia says.
“Well at least I didn’t say…” Mel says but is pushed over by Tahlia.
“Well at least I didn’t stay quiet and look like a complete idiot,” Tahlia says.
“Well when you are trying to get someone to notice you and they ask what your name is, you don’t say there’s,” Mel says getting up.
Tahlia turns away.
“Aww Tahlia I’m sorry” Mel says.
“Nope” Tahlia says.
“Aww Serious I’m sorry” she says
“Disowned” Tahlia says.
Mel tackles her.
“Fine, Fine okay get over it we are friends” Tahlia says.
“Best friends?” Mel says.
“Sure whatever get off?” Tahlia says.
Mel finally jumps off.
“Hugs” Mel says hugging Tahlia.
Tahlia has a weird look on her face.
“Is that how they normally act?” I ask.
“Yep” Andrew says.
I sigh.
“What’s up?” Andrew asks.
“I’m just missing New Jersey,” I say.
“There’s no New Jersey in Australia” Mel says.
“Umm she’s from America” Andrew says.
“Oh, well that explains a lot” she says.
“So what’s America like?” Tahlia asks.
“It’s… Good” I say “But I really only liked New Jersey”
“Okay” Tahlia says, “Well me and Mel must be going”
She and Mel walk out the door, Mel nudges Andrew and says something quietly and walks out, Andrew goes a little red.
“Well we better get back to our bags” I say breaking the silence that had consumed the room.
“Yeah” Andrew says and goes less red.

We walk back to our bags.
And just sit there in silence.
His phone rings.
“Umm hey” he says answering it.
There is silence. And he looks up at the building at the windows.
“Aww man Mel, leave me alone” he says hanging up.
“Be right back” he says running off into the building, I look up at the window and see Mel and Tahlia. I keep looking and Andrew comes into view, I watch him as he is talking to them, then he looks out the window and sees me and waves and walks out of view. I wait a little while and finally he comes out the building and sits down.
“And that was about?” I ask.
“Umm never mind,” he says.
“Okay” I say sitting next to him.
He gets up almost immediately.
“What?” I ask.
“I umm gotta go check on Jared,” he says running off.
I laugh and get out my phone.
I watch the time.
Man I was bored.
I mean staring at a clock watching the time.
Obviously I was totally bored.
“Hey” Jared says making me jump.
“Whoa, umm hi” I say looking up.
“I thought you might like to meet my girlfriend Kristen,” he says.
“Hi” I say.
“Hey” she says.
“Oh by the way Andrew is looking for you,” I say.
“Okay” he says, “I better go find him you two can talk”
He walks off.
“So” I say.
“So” she replies.
“What do you like to do?” I ask.
“Jared” she says laughing.
What a blonde joke I thought to myself but laughed so I didn’t seem mean.
“Well I like to just hang out and shop” she says.
“Okay cool” I reply.
“So what do you like to do?” she asks.
“Umm draw and skateboard,” I say.
“Ooo rebel” she says jokingly.
“Yeah” I say.
Jared and Andrew walk back.
And the bell rings.
“What great timing” Jared moans.
We get our bags and walk to class.

Recess…
I go and sit with Andrew on the stairs.
“So where are Jared and Kristen?” I ask.
“I dunno probably being lovey dovey together” he jokes.
I laugh.
“What about your sister?” I ask.
“Probably with Tahlia somewhere” he says.
“Okay” I reply.
“So” he says.
“So” I reply pulling out a packet of chips and eating them.
He goes though his bag and pulls out a sandwich.
He looks at it and then moans.
“What?” I ask.
“I got my sisters lunch” he says getting up “wanna come find her?”
“Sure” I say joining him.
We walk around looking for them.
“Hey emo kid why don’t you cut yourself” Some guy yells from over behind the building.
I look at Andrew he looks at me and we look over to where we heard it. It’s Mel, Tahlia and some other people.
“Fuck off Dick” Mel yells.
“Aww run out of razor blades” the guy yells again.
“Come on Tahlia lets go to Art block” Mel says.
The boy blocks her way and pushes her back and she falls over.
Tahlia helps Mel up.
“Oh great its that fucker again” Andrew says.
He walks off and I quickly follow him.
“Leave my sis and her friend alone Glen” Andrew says finally reaching him.
“Oh I’m so sorry” Glen says sarcastically.
“Shut it” Andrew says “Leave them alone or else”
“I don’t think I will leave them alone,” Glen says.
“Fine” Andrew says and punches him in the gut.
“Oh f…” Glen says falling to the ground.
Mel and Tahlia come over to me.
Andrew joins us and we walk off.
“Andrew you idiot violence isn’t right you know your gonna get in trouble again” Mel says.
“So I don’t like people picking on my sis,” He says.

We walk off, Mel is talking to Andrew about his actions and how they were wrong. By the look on Andrew’s face he wasn’t listening and wasn’t planning to do so anytime soon.
When we got back to our bags we sat down.
“By the way Mel I have your lunch” Andrew says pulling out a sandwich.
“Oh oops I ate yours then” she said with a giggle.
“Man I don’t want just plain salad,” he says.
“Wait that means I had a salad and … ham sandwich, ewww” Mel says.
Andrew laughs.
“Why don’t you like ham?” he asks.
“I just don’t” she says “But it must have been like only a little cause I couldn’t taste it”
The bell goes
“That couldn’t have been all of recess,” Andrew says.
“Well it is” Tahlia says.
Tahlia and Mel walk off.
“So I’ll see you after school?” I ask.
“Sure, wanna come over my place?” he asks.
“Umm maybe I might have to ask my mum,” I say.
“Okay well I’m gonna be late for class see ya” he says walking off.
I quickly run off to class.

After school…
I walk out of the school but wait at the gates for Andrew, Andrew finally comes up.
“Hey” he says out of breath.
“Umm hey” I say “You sound like you have been running for like hours”.
“Well I can tell you one thing I have been running,” he says.
“Why?” I ask.
“Glen, that guy I punched, his brother and his friends are after me,” he says still trying to get his breath back.
“Oh Andrew” A voiced yelled out.
We both jumped and looked to see who it was.
It was Mel and Tahlia.
“Hey” Andrew says relieved.
“So hows it going?” Mel nudged him.
Andrew glared at her for a minute but stopped and looked up.
He went as white as a sheet.
“Andrew?” I called to him.
“Oh god” he said and ran off.
I looked and saw Glen and some other boys walking our way.
“You two get home as fast as you can okay,” I said.
They nodded and ran off.

I ran off in the same direction as Andrew.
I keep running until I finally find Andrew sitting on a bench.
“You…Okay” I say out of breath.
“Yeah, did they follow you?” Andrew asks
“Yeah but I ran they walked but I think they may be here soon we must go” I say.
“Yeah, what about my sis” he said.
“I told her to get home as fast as she could” I say “But she went in the opposite direction”
“Yeah she is taking a long cut home, it involves a couple of fence jumps but that’s best” he says getting up “we should go, anyways you coming over mine?”
“I still must ask mum, wait I have an idea, follow me” I say.
We both run off to the mall.
I find Marks car and open the door. Mums in there with him.
“Hey mum can I go over my friend’s?” I beg.
“No” she says.
“Please” I beg.
“Why?” she asks.
“Cause he is my friend” I say.
“No boys” she says.
“Mum” I say.
Mark nudges her.
Mum sighs.
“Fine but you have to be home before dark,” she says.
“Okay thanks mum” I say and close to door.
“Yay I can come over yours” I say to Andrew.
“Oka…” he says but trails off when he turns his head to see Glen.
Glen stops and smiles at us and quickly pulls out his phone.
“Oh man,” he says looking at me.
“Walk normal till we can turn a corner okay” I say.
“Why?” he says as we walk.
“Cause if mum thinks I’m in any trouble she won’t ever let me see you” I reply.
“Okay” he says.

We keep walking, I check over my shoulder and see Marks car drive off, I keep looking and see Glen still on the phone but he looked quite angry, We finally turned the corner and we bolted.
“Okay now you gotta follow me,” he says with a small laugh.
“Does this involve fences?” I ask.
We turn another corner.
“Well not if you don’t wanna, it wont” he says.
“Nah I’m fine,” I say.
We run down a street and he stops.
“Damn” he says.
And turns and runs the other way.
“That was a stupid idea,” he says.
“Why?” I ask.
“Glen’s friend lives down there and he has a German Shepard” Andrew says.
“Eh all German Shepard’s have a soft spot” I say.
“Yeah but this one hasn’t got one” he says.
We continue running but slow down a little.
“Okay two fences coming up okay?” he asks.
“Okay” I say.
We come up to a fence, He jumps it easy, I jump it and I do pretty well. Normally I would stuff it up a bit but eventually get over.
The next one comes up.
He jumps over and then I do.
“Wooo I didn’t stack it,” I say
He laughs and starts walking.
I join him.
“So how much longer to yours?” I ask.
“Not much” he says.
We turn the corner and walk up a driveway of a house.
He opens the door and lets me in.
“So this is your place,” I say looking around
“Yeah” he says.
“MUM THEY ARE HOME” I hear a girl yell.
I woman walks into the room.
“Um hey mum” Andrew says.
“Hey Andy, who’s your friend?” she asks.
“Um this is Jacquie and could you please stop calling me Andy,” he says.
“Hi” she says to me “And no I can’t stop calling you Andy cause you're my little boy”
“I’m sixteen,” he says.
“And I’m 46 but still my sister calls me Teeney” she says walking off.
I look at Andrew.
“Heya Andy” I say jokingly.
“Shut up” he says joking too.
He walks over to a door and knocks.
The door opens and Mel pops her head out.
“You okay?” Andrew asks.
“Yeah” Mel says opening the door wide open.
“Hey Tahlia you okay?” Andrew says.
“I will eventually, ONCE MELISSA STOPS TRYING TO DO MY MAKE UP,” she says.
Andrew laughs and Melissa closes the door.
Andrew shakes his head and walks over to the couch and sits.
I join him.
“So” he says.
“So what are we doing?” I ask.
“I dunno, wanna watch TV?” he asks.
“Meh okay” I say.
He turns the TV on and we watch it.


A couple hours later…
My phone goes off.
I answer it.
“Hi” I say.
“Where are you?” my mum yells on the other end of the phone.
“Umm Andrews” I say.
“HELLO I SAID BE HOME BEFORE DARK, WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS” She yells so loud I have to pull the phone away from my ear but I can still hear her clearly.
I look out the window. All the streetlights are on and you can see the city but yep it was dark.
“Oh sorry I wasn’t looking out the window the whole time” I say.
“Come home now!” she yells.
“Okay see ya in a bit” I say and hang up.
“Sorry Andrew I gotta go, I was supposed to be home a while ago and mums really angry” I say.
“Okay I’ll walk ya there” he says.
“Sure” I reply.
“Mum, I’m taking Jacquie home” he yells to his mum.
“Fine” she says.
We walk out the door and begin walking to my place.


My place…
“Okay see ya,” I say
“See ya, by the way your house looks awesome” he says and walks off.
Mum opens the door. Uh-oh!
“Hey” I say.
She glares at me and walks off leaving the door open for me.
I walk into the house and close the door.
“Sorry I’m really late” I apologize to mum and Mark.
“It’s oka…” Mark says but is cut off by mum.
“You said you would be here before dark” Mum says, “Why weren’t you?”
“I was watching TV with Andrew” I say.
“That’s it not a better excuse” Mum says.
I shrug.
“That’s it to your room now” Mum says.
“What? I’m not 8 mum you can’t treat me like that,” I say.
“GO” she yells.
I walk to my room and slam the door.
I throw my bag across the room and flop on the bed.
“MAN I WISH I WAS BACK IN NEW JERESY” I yell.
“WELL YOUR NOT GET OVER IT” Mum yells back.
“FUCK YOU” I yell to her. I regret my words after saying them.
I quickly sit up as mum slams open the door.
“What did you say?” she questions me.
“Nothing mum” I say.
“I know what you said,” she says walking closer to me.
I jump off the bed.
“Mum I’m sorry I didn’t mean to say that” I say backing up against the wall.
“You better be” she says angrily and walks off to the door “Swear at me again and …” she walks off before saying anything.

I walk over to my bed and sit on it, I tucked my knees into my chest and lay my head onto of them and cry.
I hear someone come into my room.
“You okay?” Mark asks.
I don’t reply.
“Did she hurt you?” he asks.
I shake my head but my head is still buried in my knees.
“Okay, don’t worry this will eventually blow over” he says.
I look up and wipe my eyes and nod.
He smiles and walks out and closes the door.
I fall back on my bed.
My phones rings, I almost jump off my bed.

I run to my phone and answer it.
“Hi” I say.
“Hey” Gerard says.
“OMG HI” I say.
“How are you?” he asks.
“I’ve been better, seriously better” I say.
“Why?” he asks.
I walk over to my bed and sit.
“Well a guy at our school wants to bash Andrew and my mum just yelled at me,” I say.
“Why?” he asks.
“Cause the guy was gonna bash Andrew sis and so he punched…” I say.
“NO … I meant why did your mum yell at you,” he says cutting me off.
“Oh I was late getting home from Andrews and then I accidentally swore at her,” I say.
“What was you doing at Andrews for so long?” he asks.
“Umm I was watching TV” I say.
“Sure” he says.
“Do you not believe me or something?” I ask.
“Sorry got to go” he says and hangs up.

What the hell is going on?
Why is Gerard always doing that?
And why is he up so early is must be like 3am or something over there?
Aww I missed him terribly.
But what is up with him?
I mean arhhhhhh what else could go wrong?
I sit on my bed.
Mark walks in with a plate.
"Hungry?" he asks.
"Not really" I say.
"Well umm I cooked you something anyway,” he says passing me the plate.
I look at it.
"Thanks for the Nachos" I say.
"Welcome" he says and walks out.
I eat a couple of chips and place the plate on my side table.
I get my phone and decide to write a txt to Gerard:
Hey Gee, Are you okay? You’re acting kinda well weird.
I send it to him and continue eating the nachos.
When I finish I take my plate out and decide to finish some homework I had got today.
If a train was going at continuous speed of 60km/h and it was 30 minutes away from the station and another train was going at a continuous speed of 100km/h and was 2 hours away from the station, How long would it take for the two trains to meet?
Man why the hell would I wanna know about that?
I put away my homework, I didn't feel like doing homework.
I check my phone for a txt but nothing.
He was probably asleep.
I decided I might as well go to sleep too.

Chapter 24 – School again **FAST FORWARD TO TUESDAY** (Jacquie’s POV)

“Honey school” mum says waking me up.
“Okay” I say getting up and rubbing my eyes.
I walk into the kitchen and my mum hands me some clothes.
“Eww these are ugly,” I say.
“That’s your uniform we bought you yesterday” she says.
“What?” I ask.
“This school has a uniform,” she says.
“No you’re kidding me,” I say.
“Nope” she says walking off.
‘Great, this uniform is like seriously ugly’ I say to myself.
It is a tartan skirt with a white shirt.
‘Well its not that ugly I’m just not into skirts’ I think again.
Mum comes back into the kitchen with a pair of black leather shoes.
“Oh yeah and these are some shoes we bought, quickly” she says “By the way Mark will pick you up at the shopping center so you're gonna have to walk there but it’s only a short walk”.
“Fine” I say.
I walk to the bathroom and have a shower, When I finish I go into my room, dry myself and look for things I can add to my uniform. Black stockings? May as well I laugh ‘Why the hell do I have Matt’s tie in here?’ I ask myself. I must have packed it by accident, oh well a tie wouldn’t hurt. I get dressed, I find a black jacket and I put that on as well, I pack my bag and walk into the living room.
“That jacket isn’t apart of the uniform,” my mum says looking at me.
“So” I say.
“Take it off it’s not even cold” she says.
I take it off and lay it on the seat.
“A tie?” she asks.
“Yes” I say.
“No that’s not apart of uniform either,” she says.
“Fine geez” I say taking it off “How about stockings MOTHER?”
“Don’t speak to me like that” she say and then calms down “The stockings are fine I’ll go get you a jacket if you’re cold”
She walks out the room and reappears with a blue jacket.
“Man the uniform is so…stupid” I say taking it from her and putting it on.
Mum glares at me and walks off.
“Okay ready?” Mark asks.
“Yeah” I say.
We walk out of the house and get in the car.
“I guess mum isn’t coming,” I say.
“Yeah” he says, “She is going to Kay’s again”
“I’m sorry she is like treating me like trash,” I say.
“She isn’t, she’s just making friends” he says starting the car and begins driving me to school.
“I’ll speak to her okay?” I ask
“Nah, it’s alright,” he says.
We stay silent until I get to school.
“See ya at the shopping center” he says.
“Okay see ya then” I reply.
I walk to the office.
“Hi there and welcome to your new school” the office receptionist says.
“Thanks” I say.
She passes me a piece of paper, I look at it and it’s a timetable. She passes me another.
“The first paper I handed you was your timetable and the second is a map of the school, would you like someone to help you around?” she asks.
“Umm sure” I say.
“Okay” she says, “Follow me”
I follow her as we walk the halls, People were looking at me but it didn’t bother me as much as it used too.
We walk up to a kid that is reading a book, He is quite tall and has brown hair.
“Michael” she says to him.
“Yeah” he says lowering his book but still reading.
“This is Jacquie she is new and I was wondering can you show her around please,” she says.
“Okay mum” he says and finally stops reading.
The receptionist walks off. I look at his face he has black-rimmed glasses and his eyes wear a weird yellow/green colour.
“Hi Jacquie as you now know I’m Michael” he say.
“Hey” I say.
“Well what can I exactly help you with?” he asks.
“Umm where do I go for class for a start” I say.
“Okay have you got a time table yet?” he asks.
“Yeah” I say passing it to him.
“Okay” he say looking at it “Well your first class is English in E16 which is the same room as mine so I’ll show you that when we go, your next class is Music in PA2 okay umm did my mum… I mean receptionist give you a map?” he say.
“Umm yeah” I say taking it out and passing it to him.
“Well it’s here,” he says showing me.
“Well I think I know how to read a map,” I say.
“Yeah, sorry I wasn’t sure exactly what to tell you” he says.
“Well okay” I say.
He smiles sorta awkwardly.
The bell rings.
“Okay to English” he says.
I follow him. We walk to a room and he opens the door, We both enter, I go to the teacher and introduce myself to him.
“Okay go sit down,” he says rather angrily.
I sit next to Michael.
“Don’t worry about him he is always angry” he says.
I take out a book for English.
“By the way does this school have lockers?” I ask
“Nope” he says.
“Damn” I say.
“Yeah we had them for a year or two and then they took them away, I don’t know why I rather liked them” he says.

2nd Period…
I walk to Music, I go inside and talk to the teacher.
“Oh hello I’ll add you to my roll now, take a seat” she says.
I sit right in the back, A couple of other students come in. Two boys stop and look around for seats, They see seats next to me and sit at them, I pull out a book for music.
“Hey” I hear someone whisper.
I turn and see it’s one of the boys that had just entered the room, He has brown hair and green eyes and looked quite tall.
“Hi” I say.
“Who are you?” he asks.
“I’m Jacquie and you are?” I ask.
“I’m Jared and this Andrew,” he says.
Andrew waves and I wave back. Andrew has black hair and blue eyes he looked quite gothic.
“So” I say.
“Got any friends yet?” Jared asks.
“Well I know umm Michael” I say.
“Michael who?” he asks.
“I dunno his last name,” I say.
“Does he have glasses?” he asks.
“Yeah” I reply.
“Michael Phillips I’m guessing then” he says.
“I dunno” I say.
“Well I think it is cause he is the only Michael that wears glasses at this school” he says.
“Okay” I say.
“Well he is our friend but he doesn’t like us that much anymore” he says.
“Why?” I ask.
“He likes to spend most of his time reading and we like doing more than just that and we tried to stop him from being such a bookworm and we accidentally teared his book” he says.
“Oh” I say.
“Yeah we said we were sorry we even bought him a brand new copy of it and he still doesn’t like us,” he says.
“Yeah he’s a bit too…Serious” Andrew adds.
“Okay” I say.
“Jared, Andrew and …Jacquie please stop chatting and write down these notes” the teacher says to us.
We all start writing.


Lunch…
“So wanna hang with us?” Andrew asks.
“Yeah” I reply.
I follow them over near some steps and we sit.
“If we see Michael we will call him over okay?” Jared says.
“Okay” I reply.
I pull out my phone and check the time.
“Are you anxious or something?” Jared asks taking a bite of his sandwich.
“Nah, I was just seeing if I could call a friend my friend from America” I say.
“You have friends from America?” he asks.
“Yeah, I’m from America” I say.
“Really?” Andrew asks.
“Yeah” I say.
“Awesome, Where in America?” Jared asks.
“New Jersey” I reply.
“Like it?” he asks.
“Hell yeah” I say.
“Oh, I heard its bad” Andrew says.
“Well that’s a whole lot of crap,” I say.
“Umm okay sorry” he replies.
“It’s fine,” I say.
“Michael over here” Jared yells out.
Michael turns and sees us and walks over.
“I see you have met… them,” he says.
“Yeah” I say.
“I believe we have names,” Jared says.
“So” he says.
“You could use them” Jared replies.
“Why should I?” Michael asks.
“Cause we call you by your name” Jared says getting up.
“So” Michael replies.
“What the hell is wrong with you? We are sorry about tearing your book, we even bought you a new one what else do you want?” Jared asks.
“I dunno” he replies.
Jared sits back down.
There’s an awkward silence. Andrew breaks it.
“So are we mates again?” he says.
Michael shrugs “I guess”.
“Okay” Andrew says.
Michael sits down next to me and pulls out a book and begins reading, Jared rolls his eyes,
Andrew tries to make conversation.
“So did you do much in New Jersey?” he asks.
“Umm I skateboarded and umm hanged with my friends,” I say.
This catches Michael’s attention.
“You're from America?” he asks.
“Yeah” I say.
“Okay that’s umm cool” he says and goes back to his book.
“You skateboard?” Andrew asks.
“Yeah” I reply.
“Cool know any tricks?” he asks.
“Not really” I say.
“I skate too,” he says.
“Yeah, he is pretty good at it” Jared says.
“Thanks” Andrew replies.
I look over at Michael, he is still reading.
“So what are you reading?” I ask Michael.
“Nothing that would interest you” he says.
“I was just asking,” I say.
“Sorry I just don’t like being bothered when I’m reading” he says.
“Okay” I say.
We continue eating out lunch.
A girl comes up to Jared.
“Hiya Jared” she says.
“Hi Kirstin” he says.
“Forgot about me?” she asks and then looks over at me, “Or have you replaced me?”
“Forgot sorry, Lets go now okay,” he says getting up and taking his bag.
He walks off with her without saying bye.
“Umm can you fill me in Andrew?” I ask.
“Well that was Kristen, and Jared and her are like going out and yeah, she’s keeps thinking that Jared is cheating on her, I don’t know why though” he says.
“Okay” I say.
“I know why” Michael says.
“Why then?” Andrew asks.
“Because she was cheated on before and she was heart broken and she doesn’t want it to happen again” he says.
“Right, Lee Hunter and Johanna Kase I remember that now” Andrew says.
“Yeah exactly” Michael says.
The bell rings.
“Damn I’m up to a good chapter” Michael says.
“Oh well” Andrew says.
I look at my timetable. Maths in M27.
“Cool you’re in my class” says Andrew from over my shoulder, which makes me jump.
“Oh sorry” he says.
We walk to M27 and go inside and me once again telling the teacher who I am, I go and sit with Andrew.
“Man I hate Maths, I can’t wait for art,” I say under my breath.“You like art?” Andrew asks.
“Oh yeah” I say.
“Cool” he says.


Home time…
I walk out of Art (5th period) and make my way out the school.
“Hey Jacquie wait up” I hear Andrew yell.
I stop and wait for him.
“Hey” I say.
“Hey” he says.
“So” I say beginning to walk, as does he.
“Are you walking home?” he asks.
“Nah, I’m going to the mall and my mum’s boyfriend is picking me up,” I say.
“Okay cool, I’m going to the mall to buy some stuff so I’ll walk with ya” he says.
We continue walking till we arrive at the mall.
“Okay see ya,” I say to him.
“See ya,” he says walking through the mall doors.
I look for Mark’s car and I find it. I open the door and get in.
“Heya Mark” I say.
“Hi” he says, “How was school?”
“Oh good” I say.
“Cool” he says starting the engine and driving off.
We drive in complete silence.
When we arrive at home I go inside and lie on my bed. I look over at the clock its 3.30pm. I so wanna call Gerard but I can’t cause it would be like 1.30am and I don’t wanna wake him up. I go into the living room and sit next to Mark, He is watching some sort of sport program.
“So have you seen mum?” I ask.
“Nope, she's been with Kay all day” he says.
“Okay, I don’t care what you say I’m gonna talk to her when she gets in” I say quite angrily.
“Don’t,” he says.
“I’m sorry my mum is being a bitch” I say and walk into my room.
I hear the front door open.
“Hey honey” I hear my mum say to Mark.
“Hey babe” he says.
I walk out to see them two hugging and kissing.
“Umm mum I need to talk to you,” I say.
They both stop and mum walks over to me and we go into my room.
“Mum your acting like well… a bitch” I say to her.
“No I’m not,” she says.
“Hello you always ditch Mark to go to your friends and forget about us and then he always buys you stuff and all you do is wear it and leave, if you don’t stop it he is gonna think you’re a gold digger” I say.
“You're right” she sighs.
“Really?” I ask in disbelief, she was agreeing with me for once.
“Yeah, I’m never here to stay with him and talk to him” she says “I’m gonna spend more time with him”
“Okay mum” I say happily.
We walk out of my bedroom.
“I’m sorry Mark,” she says going up to him and hugging him.
Mark smiles at and I smile back and go back in my room.

Dinner…
We are having dinner in the dining room.
“Yum this is really nice” Mum says
“Yeah I make the best spaghetti,” he says proudly.
I continue eating.
When I finish I put the plate in the sink and go back in my room. I look at the time YES it’s 8.20am in New Jersey I can call Gerard. I pick up my phone and call him.
“Heya baby girl” he says.
“Hey Gee Gee” I say.
“Why did you call me today?” he asks.
“Cause I miss you” I say “And to tell you how school was”
“Awesome” he says.
“Well school was pretty good except I gotta wear a school uniform and it looks weirdish” I say.
“I bet you still look awesome with it on” he says.
“Aww thanks” I say.
“You make anything look good,” he says.
“Aww your so sweet” I say.
“Make any friends?” he asks.
“Yeah” I say.
“Tell Me,” he says.
“Okay there’s Michael he is kinda weird and there’s Jared and he’s pretty cool I guess and Andrew he’s goth I think well he looks goth I’m not sure he’s awesome” I say.
“Anyone else?” he asks kinda nervous.
“No, Gerard are you okay?” I ask.
“Oh I’m fine its good to see you are making friends…w...o a… g...ys” he says but says the end quietly almost like it was under his breath.
“What gee I didn’t hear what you just said?” I ask.
“Never mind I gotta go see ya,” he says.
But before I could say bye he had hung up.
‘What was wrong with him?’ I asked myself.
“Hey honey that show we were watching last night is on gonna watch it with us?” mum asks.
“Yeah mum I’m coming” I reply and join them.


Gerard’s POV (At school {before school})
“So Gerard hows Jacquie?” Matt asks.
“She’s fine” I reply.
“Doesn’t sound like it” Matt says.
I look through my bag for my drawing book, I find it and pull it out and begin drawing some random comics.
“Gerard what is up man?” Matt asks.
“Don’t matter,” I say.
“Please tell me dude,” Matt says.
“No Matt” I reply.
“Please?” Matt asks.
“Stop it” I say.
“Tell me” Matt says.
“Get lost” I say.
“Tell us?” Ray adds.
“Stop asking” I say.
“WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE TWO WORDED REPLIES GERARD, WHAT THE FUCK IS UP?” Matt yells.
“Shut the fuck up nothing is wrong, get over it” I say
Lucy and Paula sit next to me.
“What’s up?” Lucy asks.
“Nothing” I say.
“Please tell us what’s up with you and Jacquie” Paula says.
“How do you know its about me and Jacquie?” I ask and stop drawing.
“It’s obvious to us girls,” Lucy says.
“I don’t wanna talk about it,” I say.
“Okay can you at least put it into one of these categories?” Paula asks.
“Yeah whatever” I reply.
“Okay” she says “Argument, Fight, Break up or Jealous”
“Umm well jealous I guess” I say.
“Oooh I see, Friends or guys?” She asks.
“I’m not saying anything,” I say
“It’s guys,” she says. Lucy nods.
“How the hell do you do that?” I ask.
“Easy” Paula says.
I look back down at my drawings and continue.
“You can talk to us about it you know” Lucy says.
“I don’t wanna” I say.
“How about us?” Ray asks
“Maybe later” I reply slightly peed off.
“We are here for you” Matt says.
Lucy rubs my shoulder, I look at her and she stops goes red and turns away, I go back to my drawings.
“So umm Gerard can I call Jacquie by any chance?” Matt asks.
“Umm okay why?” I ask.
“I need to ask her a couple of things,” he says.
“Okay” I say.
Matt walks off behind the corner.


Matt’s POV
I dial Jacquie’s number.
“Hey Matt” she says answering.
“Hey” I say.
“What’s up?” she asks.
“Not much, Umm Jacquie I need help” I say.
“Umm okay sure what is it?” she asks.
“I think something’s up with Paula” I say.
“Really why?” she asks.
“Well she doesn’t seem to act how she used to like she doesn’t talk to me as much she seems to get angry and then go talk to Lucy and then they go off and, like, shop” I say.
“Umm it might be that time of month,” she says.
“I don’t think so,” I say.
“Maybe she might just need some time alone or maybe you kiss her a bit too much” she says with a little laugh at the end.
“Yeah you might be right,” I say.
“Umm Matt?” she says.
“Yeah” I say.
“Is Gerard okay? He was acting sorta weird,” she says.
“Yeah” I say lying since I did sorta know why.
“Okay thanks” she says.
“Okay I better be going see ya” I say.
“See ya Matt say hi to everyone for me okay” she says.
“Okay” I say and hang up.

I walk back to everyone.
“Well Jacquie says hi,” I say “And also Gerard she was kinda worried about you”
“Why?” he asks.
“She said you acted weird, I’m guessing on the phone when you were talking to her” I say.
“Okay” he says going back to his drawings.
Ray tries to look at it but Gerard moves it so he can’t.
“Gerard what you drawing?” Ray says trying to look at it again.
“Nothing” Gerard replies moving his drawing so Ray can’t see again.
Ray looks at Lucy and she shrugs.
“Tell us what is bothering you,” I say to Gerard.
“Fine, geez you guys won’t quit” he says frustrated.
“Thanks” I say.
“Well… She got some new friends and well…” he says but stops.
“They are guys aren’t they” Paula says.
“You so gotta stop doing that,” Gerard says.
“Can’t help it its obvious to me” she says.
“Well yeah they are guys and yeah” he says looking at his shoes.
“Okay what’s to worry about dude?” Ray says.
Lucy shakes her head.
“Ray it means Gerard is scared Jacquie will go off with them, BUT ITS OBVIOUS SHE WON’T” Paula says.
“You never know Paula, what happens if she does?” Gerard says.
“She won’t you should know that you are really close to her and know practically everything about her” Paul says.
“Still” he says looking up at the sky.
Paula rolls her eyes and leans on me.
The bell rings.
“Whoopee class” Ray says sarcastically picking up his bag.
We walk to class.

Jacquie’s POV
After Matt called me I went back to watching TV. Ever since I told mum she was acting like a bitch she has been cuddling up to him, This was great… for them but made me feel lonely and miss Gerard. I go into my room and sit on my bed staring at the picture Gerard had drawn, I know, I’ll send him an email and Mikey and the rest of them emails, I get back up and go to my laptop and turn it on, I go onto my email account and start writing a letter for Gerard:
Hey Gee Gee
How are you?
I’m kinda bored and I thought I would write you an email.
I’m missing you heaps; I wish I was there with you.
So far all I have done since I’ve got here is shopped really. I’ve bought heaps of clothes plus my phone and laptop.
Yeah it must have cost like over $4000 for all the stuff I got but Marks really nice and he bought me it all. Yay me I guess.
Well anyways talk to you later
Love Jacquie
xoxoxo

I send it and start writing emails to everyone else. But when I come to Mikey’s I remember that Gerard said he a little crush on me. What was I supposed to say? Well I can’t lead him on or anything. I write:
Hiya Mikey
How you going?
I told you I was gonna send you emails. Bet you didn’t I was.
Well anyways are you still learning how to play guitar?
Cause you are pretty good, better than me.
Well I gotta go byes
Love Jacquie
xoxoxo

I send it and get off the Internet and turn my laptop off, I go and lie back onto my bed staring at the ceiling. I was bored no doubt about it, I toss over and look at the wall, It was bland and boring just a plain black wall. THAT’S IT!
“Mark can I paint something on my wall?” I yell out.
“Umm what?” he says and then he walks into my room.
I jump up from off the bed.
“Can I make like a mural thing on the wall?” I ask.
“Umm okay but I don’t have any paint” he says.
“Don’t worry, I’ll draw it now and then tomorrow we can go shopping and I can get paint, well after school” I say.
“Well okay” he says and walks out.
I pick up a pencil.
This wall was big. And now it was my big black canvas, Yes a big black canvas I could draw whatever I wanted. DAMN I can’t think of anything, I don’t get it when I want to draw something I can’t think of anything. A skull? No, A Cemetery? Umm hmm no too… done before. Oh ta … hell with it I’ll wait till I can think of something.
“Mark I can’t think of anything to draw so don’t worry about shopping okay,” I yell out.
“Okay” he says.
I sit back on my bed, I lay back.
Stupid drawers block.
Man what am I to do?
Sleep? Too early.Call Gerard? He is in class; well at least I think so.
Listen to music? Nah
Watch TV? No I don’t wanna watch my mum and Mark kissing
Fine I’m going to watch TV.
I walk into the living room and Mum and Mark are watching TV no kissing OMG yes, I sit next to them and watch TV with them.

Chapter 23 – Gonna get you a …(Jacquie’s POV)

“Morning” Mark says waking me up.
“Morning” I reply getting up from my bed.
I walk into the kitchen with him and we both make a bowl of cereal.
“So what are we doing today?” I ask and then have a mouthful of cereal.
“Getting you a laptop remember?” he says.
“What you meant that?, OH MY GOD your so nice” I say.
“Well if you want one that is?” he asks.
“OH MY GOD I SO WANT ONE” I say.
I can’t belive how nice he is, he is, like getting me whatever I want.
“Where’s my mum?” I ask.
“Oh she’s having a shower she should be out in, like, a minu...” he says but is interrupted by my mum walking into the room in a new dress.
“I love this dress thanks so much Honey,” she says.
“No problem babe” he replies.
My mum smiles and does a spin to show off her dress, Her dress was really nice, It was purple with swirls of red on it. She comes over and sits next to Mark and gives him a kiss and steals a spoon of his cereal.
“So what are we doing?” she asks.
“We are getting Jacquie a laptop remember?” he says.
“Yeah one minute” she says and pulls out a phone that looked seriously blinged up.
“Heya” she says.
“Okay see ya then” she says.
“Honey can you drive me to Kay’s?” she asks.
“Umm sure, but weren’t we gonna go shopping with Jacquie together?” he says, he sounded quite upset.
“Come on please I wanna see Kay again she is bored and she wants to go shopping” she says.
“Why don’t we all go shopping together?” Mark says.
“Nah I wanna stay just with Kay” she says getting up and going to Mark’s bedroom.
Mum was acting how she used to when we were living with Dad.
“Oh well we can still go shopping together can’t we?” he asks.
“Sure” I say.
I pick up my empty bowl and his and take them out into the kitchen, I walk to my room and get dressed and then put stuff in my bag and meet Mark and mum in the car, Mark drives to a house really close to the sea, Mum gets out and kisses Mark on the cheek and runs up to the door of the house and knocks then goes in.

Mark drives off and we go to another shopping center, This one looked way bigger. Mark parks the car and we both get out, We go inside and look around, We got to a computer shop and we look at all of the laptops.
“How about this one?” the shop clerk asks.
“Nah that ones to…fat” I say.
Mark laughs at my reply.
“How about this then?” the clerk asks showing me another one.
“Actually I like that one” I say looking at it.
“It’s go a lot of memory, 2GB of r…” he says but I interrupt him.
“I’m not a very technical person so tell me will it work with Internet?” I ask.
“Well yeah all you need is a modem…” he says I cut him off again.
“I repeat not a technical person,” I say.
“Okay well yes we just need to get a… thing for it” he says.
“Okay” I say.
“Okay how much?” Mark asks.
“$2567” The clerk says.
“Holly...Cat” I say.
“Hey I can pay for that,” he says.

We walk to the desk and the clerk goes back into a room and gets a box and another box.
“This is the ‘thing’ you plug into the laptop for Internet” he says.
Mark swipes his card on a machine and pays for it. He talks to the clerk about Internet plans. We leave with Mark carrying the computer.
“Oh thanks so much Mark,” I say “You are so awesome”
“Oh thanks, I'll set this up for you at home okay?” he says.
“Thanks” I say.

We walk out of the shopping center and go to the car and get into the car. Mark drives us back to his place, I get out and he carries my laptop into my room and sets it up for me.
“Well I’m gonna be a bit setting up the Internet, wanna call someone?” he asks.
“Yeah sure what do you think the time is in New Jersey right now?” I ask.
Mark laughs “ Well it’s 11am so its… 8 pm”
“Okay thanks” I say and walk into the living room and call Gerard.
“Hey baby girl,” he says.
“Ooo new nickname yay” I say.
He laughs.
“So what up?” I ask.
“Well Ryan’s spreading rumors about us” he says, “I nearly bashed him but Matt told me to stop so I did and went off for a while”
“Fuck I hate him,” I say.
“Yeah” he says.
“I found out when I start school again,” I say
“Okay when?” he asks
“Well next week on Tuesday” I say.
“Okay well hope you have umm fun” he replies.
“I don’t wanna” I say.
“Yeah I know but seriously you will have heaps of friends,” he says
“And what happens if I don’t?” I ask.
“I’ll come over and stay with you,” he says.
“I’m gonna purposely not have any friends then Miss PMS is in” I say with a laugh.
“Well that doesn’t count Miss ‘PMS’” he say and then laughs.
“Fine” I say.
“How’s everyone?” I ask.
“Everyone’s good, I found out something about Mikey” he says.
“And that is?” I ask.
“He has a little crush,” he says.
“On who?” I ask
“You” he says.
“Really?” I ask.
“Yeah but he won’t admit to it” he says.
“Aww sweet” I say.
“Yeah” he says.
“Ooo someone sounds jealous,” I say jokingly.
“You bet I am” he replies jokingly.
We both laugh.
“It’s Friday over there isn’t it?” I ask.
“Yeah” he replies.
“It’s Saturday here” I say.
“Obviously” he says.
“Shut up blonde moment,” I say.
“You're not blonde though” he says
“Well yeah so” I say.
“Anyways I gotta go really sorry babe” he says.
“Aww I wanna talk to you for like ever” I say
“Same here sorry bye” he says.
“Bye” I say.
“Bye” he says.
“See ya” I say.
“Oh my god I don’t wanna hang up” he says.
“Okay on the count of three hang up okay” I say.
“Okay” he says.
“1…2…3 bye” I say.
He hangs up.
‘Aww I really wanted to keep talking’ I say to myself.

I walk back into my room and sit on my bed and watch Mark fix up my computer. He stops and looks at me.
“What’s up?” he asks.
“I wanted to talk to him for like ever but since we live so far away its, like, impossible” I say.
“Aww don’t worry maybe in the holidays he could come here or maybe you go over there” he suggests.
“Yeah” I reply really happily.

He goes back to fixing it and I continue watching him. He stops again.
“Why are you watching me?” he asks.
“I’m bored” I say.
“Well umm can you make me a coffee? Please” he asks.
“Sure” I say getting up and going into the kitchen.
I start making the coffee.
‘Oh my god if Gerard came over here that would be awesome’ I thought to myself ‘we could like umm party and umm shop, wait he isn’t that keen on shopping’.
I finish making the coffee and take it in to Mark.
“Thanks Jac” he says taking the coffee from me “ By the way I just finish setting up your laptop”.
“Thanks” I reply.
He takes his coffee and leaves the room.
“What the hell am I supposed to do now?” I ask myself aloud.
“Internet?” Mark says.
“Meh, I wanna just draw I guess” I reply and sit and begin drawing random things.

(Gerard’s POV) (10pm in NJ)
“So what do you wanna do?” Paula asks Matt.
“I dunno whatever you wanna do” he replies.
“But I wanna do whatever you wanna do” she says to him.
“You choose” he says.
“GEEZ do something before I puke” I say to them.
“Dude your such a downer” Matt says jokingly.
“I know, I’m bored and I’m waiting for Ray to come back” I say.
“It has been a while, hasn’t it” Paula says.
“Yeah it has, like an hour it only takes a couple of minutes to get to Lucy’s and here” Matt says.
“Maybe we should go and check on them” I say.

We get up and walk out the door. We walk to Lucy’s first.
I knock on the door and her mum answers it.
“Hey is Lucy and Ray here” I ask.
“Oh they left about” she says checking her watch “55 minutes or so ago”.
“Really?” Matt asks.
“Yeah” she says.
“Okay thanks, bye” I say.
She closes the door and we walk down the pathway a bit.
“Okay lets check Ray’s now” I say.
“Yeah they are bound to be there” Matt says reassuringly.

We walk to Ray’s. I knock on the door.
“One minute” I hear Ray yell.
We hear a scrambling in the house. Matt raises an eyebrow and Paula laughs.
Ray finally answers the door with his shirt badly buttoned up.
“Well it doesn’t take much to wonder what you have been doing” I say with a laugh.
“Yeah, my parents were out and well I had the place to my self, so yeah” Ray says.
“You mean… 2nd base?” Matt asks.
“No… More like Make out session” Ray says.
“Yeah yeah” Paula says what we were all thinking.
“Anyways we can’t make it” Ray says with a smile.
“Okay Ray we understand” I say.
We all laugh and walk off.

We arrive back at Matt’s.
“So what the hell are we supposed to do now?” Matt asks opening the door.
“Well I think I might go sleep I’m really tired, and now that just leaves you two,” I say suggestively but only in a joking way.
“OH YEAH LETS DO THAT” Matt says also joking.
“Well see ya” I say and leave and go to my place.
I open the door and hear guitar sounds.
‘Frankie’ I say to myself.
I walk to Mikey’s room I need to tell Frankie to stop because it’s most likely mum is trying to sleep. I open the door to find Mikey sitting there playing guitar pretty damn well.
“Umm Mikey I really seriously don’t wanna say this but you're gonna have to stop mum is probably trying to sleep” I say
“Yeah” he says “But I don’t wanna”.
“Mikey” I say crossing my arms.
“Fine” he says putting the guitar down.
“Thanks Mikey” I say closing the door and then sitting next to him.
“So” I say.
“What?” he asks.
“I know who you like” I say teasingly.
He glares at me.
“I can’t believe you gave me such a hard time and you liked her” I say.
“Well yeah so” he says.
I smile at him.
“I had no chance with her anyway” Mikey say lying back onto his bed.
“You never know Mikey” I say.
“Three years difference” he says.
“Well that don’t matter really” I say.
“Yeah it does its like going out with a fucken preschooler” Mikey sorta yells.
“Mikey don’t worry okay, you will find the perfect girl for you one day and you will be as happy as ever” I say.
“Whatever” he says.
I decide it might be best to leave him and I walk out of his room and go into mine and sleep.

Chapter 22 – Can’t Stop Thinking About Her (Gerard’s POV)

I lay on my bed and wait till my alarm on my clock rings 7.30am. Clock finally goes off. I turn it off and sit up. I’m so tired I didn’t get any sleep cause I can’t stop thinking about her. What the hell am I to do? She hasn’t called me and I’m kinda worried.



I walk into the living room and find Mikey lying on the couch asleep.

“Mikey” I say trying to wake him.

“Gerard fuck off,” he says to me still sorta unconscious.

I push him off the couch.

“Man Gerard, You can’t ever let me have a good dream can you?” he yells at me.

“What about then?” I say with a smirk.

“Jac…” he say but trails off.

I look at him and start smiling.

“JACK” he says.

“You have been giving me a hard time all this time over Jacquie and you like her” I say.

“NO I SAID JACK” he says quickly and quite loudly.

“Are you gay then?” I ask with a laugh.

“NO” he yells.

“Shh, you're gonna wake mum gaybo” I say.

“Shut up, I’m not gay” Mikey says “And I only like Jacquie as a friend”.

“Sure sure” I reply and walk into the kitchen and I start making myself a coffee.

“Mikey wanna coffee” I ask.

“Yeah” he replies.

I hear footsteps coming into the living room.

“Morning mum, how are you?” I hear Mikey say.

“Morning, I’m alright” My mum says.

“Coffee Mum?” I ask

“Thanks darling” she replies.



I finish making the coffees and bring them out.

“Thanks” Mikey and my mum say.

I take my coffee and go in my room.

I sit on my bed and stare at my phone. I start taking sips of my coffee. I stop and look at my book of drawings, I go over to it and start flipping though till I find the one I did of Jacquie. It was pretty but not as pretty as Jacquie. I close the book and finish my coffee. I get my clothes out for school. Which was Black skinny jeans and shirt with a vampire on it. This shirt was one of Jacquie’s Favorites. I pick my clothes up and walk to the bathroom and place them on the vanity. I then have a shower.



After shower…

I get out and dry myself. I fix my hair up and put on my clothes. I take out the laundry and walk back in my room and get my stuff ready for school.

“Aww fuck” I hear Mikey yell.

I walk out and to Mikey’s room.

“What wrong Mikester?” I ask him.

“Fucken shirt is pink,” he says.

I look at the pink shirt he is holding.

“Isn’t that the shirt Jacquie likes of yours” I say to him.

“Yeah, well you're wearing the one she likes as well” he replies.

“Touché” I say to him.

He smiles.

I smile back at him.

“How about her other favorite?” I ask.

“Yeah I guess” he say throwing the pink shirt on his bed and walking over to his closet and looking through it, He pulls out another shirt, It has a skateboard on it.

I walk out and grab the now pink shirt.

I walk to mum.

“Can you make this white again?” I ask her.

“Yeah” she says taking it out of my hands “Isn’t this Mikey’s?”

“Yeah, Fix it for him” I say.

I walk into my room and get my bag.

“Bye” I yell to everyone.

“Bye” they reply.



I walk out the house and then I walk next door to Matt’s.I knock on the door.Matt opens it and closes it behind him.

“Hey” he says “Any word from Jac?”

“Nah, not yet” I say.

“Okay” he says.



We walk over to Ray’s. We find him talking to Lucy on his driveway.

“About time” he says jokingly.

“Hey” Lucy says.

“Hi” Matt replies.

“Yeah” I say.

“What’s up Gerard?” Ray asks me.

“Noth…” I say but am cut off by Matt

“He’s upset Jacquie hasn’t called him yet”.

“Oh” Ray says.

“I’m sure she will call soon” Lucy says.

“Okay” I say.We walk over to Paula’s.

Matt goes to knock on the door but Paula opens the door before he can.

“Hey honey” she says and kisses him.

“Hey” Matt replies and kisses her back.

“Hey everyone” she says.

“Hey” we all reply.



We walk off to school. I feel kinda left out since Paula and Matt were holding hands and so was Ray and Lucy.

‘Loner AGAIN’ I think to myself. When we arrive at school up comes Ryan as usual.

“Hey guys” he says.

“Fuck off” I say to him.

“What did I do … LONER?” he says obviously wanting me to bite back.

It worked “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?” I yell at him.

“I said what did I do…” he smirked “Loner?”

I glare at him and clench my fists.

“Gerard don’t dude this guy is a waste of time” Matt says.

“Loner Loner Loner” Ryan taunts.

“Fuck up Ryan” I say as calm as I could.

“L…O…N…E…R SPELLS loner” he says.

I drop my bag and walk up closer to him. He backs away a bit.

He smiles again

“What Jacquie not here because she couldn’t stand the sight of you?” he says.

“Gerard don’t bite okay” Ray says.

I take his advice in a way. I turn around and pick up my bag and walk out of the school.

“Gerard you gotta stop doing this” Matt yells to me as I walk off.

I stop and turn and look at him.

“Then let me bash this little fuck wit and I won’t go” I say.

“You know violence isn’t the answer Gerard” Ray says.

“Then what is?” I yell “Talking?”

“Yes it is” Ray replies.“You know Jacquie didn’t like violence, you know why she only used it when she was younger” Matt says.

“Whatever, Tell them I’m gonna be in later” I say and walk off. I ignore whatever they say and keep walking.



(Matts POV)

“Gerard come back” I yell to him.

He just keeps walking.

I turn to Ryan who was now looking at me.

“Why the fuck do you wind him up all the time?” I ask.

“Cause you guys won’t let me hang with you” he says.

“I wonder why?” Paula says sarcastically.

“Could you just leave us alone please?” I ask.

“Fine, I’ll get better friends and you’ll see I will be back on top of the school again” he says walking off.

I get out my phone and call Gerard.

I wait and then finally he answers.

“Dude come back” I say.

“I’ll be back around 2nd period okay” he says and hangs up.

“Okay apparently Gerard will be back around 2nd period” I say to everyone.

“Did he say what he was doing?” Lucy asks.

“Nope” I reply.

Bell rings.

“Okay see ya later” I say and we all walk to class.



2nd period… (Gerard POV)

I walk into Art class late.

“Sorry sir” I say to my art teacher.

“Okay Gerard go sit down” he says.

I sit right at the back where Jacquie and I use to sit. Jacquie’s little drawing of a skateboard was still there. I smile as I see it.

Kayley sits next to me.

“Heya Gerald” she says.

“Its Gerard” I say.

“Whatever, sorry about you and Jacquie” she says.

“What?” I ask surpised.

“I’m sorry about you scaring Jacquie off” she says with a laugh.

“I didn’t scare her off, Her mum wanted to live in Australia so she had no choice but to go” I say quite angrily.

“Yeah, Yeah sounds like that other girl all over again” she says rolling her eyes.

“Who did you get all this crap off?” I ask

“Ryan” she says.

“He is a liar” I say.

She gets up “whatever” she says and walks over to her friends again.

Ryan is really pissing me off now.



Lunch…

I walk over to our spot. Everyone is already there.

“You okay now Gerard?” Matt asks.

“Not really, Ryan has began spreading rumors” I say.

“Oh fuck no he is back to his tricks again” Matt says.

“Now can I bash him?” I ask.

Matt glares at me. Obviously a no.

“You can’t go around bashing people” Ray says “But you can have revenge” he says evilly.

“Yeah” I say.



(Jacquie’s POV) at 9am (6pm New Jersey)

I wake up and get some clothes out of my closet. And walk to the bathroom and have a shower. When I finish I dry myself and put my clothes on and take the laundry out. I walk into the living room.

“Morning Jacquie” Mark says.

“Morning where is mum?” I ask.

“She is asleep” he says “She told me to take you shopping is that okay?”

“Umm okay” I say.

I put on my chucks and Mark and I get into his car, He starts the engine and we drive off into the city. We go past heaps of shops. I smile as we go by a couple of what look to be Goth shops. OH MY GOD Australia likes Goths woo!



We arrive at a big shopping center and he parks the car and We both get out and go inside the shopping center.

“So what do you want to get first?” he asks.

“Phone!” I practically yell at him.

“Okay” he says taking me to a phone shop.

“Choose any phone” he says.

I look though the phones. I find a black one I really like.

“That one?” I ask “Oh wait that’s a bit expensive”

“Too late your getting it” he says “I’m paying no biggie”

“Okay” I say not really believing he was gonna such an expensive phone.

I walk out the shop with my brand new phone.

“Oh my god I can’t believe you got me this” I say to him.

“okay well we need to get you some credit for it” he says.

We go to a shop and he buys me $50 credit.

“$50 that’s heaps” I say to him.

“Really?” he asks “Think about all the credit you're gonna spend calling Gerard”

“I thought you didn’t like him?” I ask.

“Hey your mum doesn’t like him, but to me when I saw him he seemed very into you so I really don’t have a problem” he says.

“Aww thanks” I say really happy that he had accepted the fact I liked Gerard.

We continued shopping.



(Gerard’s POV again)

“Dude it’s alright I found out something that’s gonna put your mind to rest” Ray says.

“What?” I ask tensely.

“If you have a phone from America and you take it to Australia you can’t call on it or txt but you can still receive messages” He says.

“Really?” I ask happily.

“Yeah” he says.

“Okay” I say,

“Thank makes me feel better”.

I sit back and relax.



7pm New Jersey (10am Sydney) (still Gerard)

My phone rings.

We all look at it. (Calling: Unknown). I pick up the phone.

“Hello” I ask.

“Hey Gee Gee” Jacquie says.

“Oh my god Hi” I say really happy.

Everyone looks at me and smiles. I look at them as if to say what and then I walk outside.

“How are you?” she asks.

“I’m great now, What about you?” I ask.

“I’m super, Mark is really awesome he bought me my new phone and its like super expensive and he bought me clothes and OH MY GOD he likes you, But my mum doesn’t” she says.

“Cool well everything but your mum” I say “Why does Mark like me?”

“He reckons you're … nice or something he said that you looked like you were really into me or something,” she says with a laugh.

“Awesome” I reply.

“Yeah, It’s school holidays over here it’s kinda weird and OH MY GOD they like Goths well I think they do they seem to have a lot of goth shops” she say.

“Cool, What type of school?” I ask.

“It’s a performing arts school” she says with a sigh.

“What’s bad about that?” I ask.

“Umm hello snob’s much” she says.

“Don’t worry about it” I say.
“Meh I think I go to school next week or something” she says “Oh yeah and Mark is gonna get me a laptop”
“Awesome” I say.
“Clearly” she says and then giggles. Man how I missed her laugh.
“I miss you heaps” I say.
“Oh my god miss you heaps more” she says
I turn around and see everyone looking at me from the door.
I laugh.
“What you laughing at?” she asks.
“Matt and everyone are watching me talking to you” I say.
She laughs.
“Tell ‘em I said HI” she says.
I wave to everyone to come over. They walk over.
“Say hello” I whisper to everyone.
Everyone nods.
“Ready, set, GO” I yell
“HELLO” they yell into the phone.
“HI” I hear Jacquie yell and the laugh.
Everyone laughs.
I put the phone back to my ear and shoo everyone off. Everyone but Mikey leaves.
“So doing much?” she asks.
“Not really” I say. I shoo Mikey off again, He looks at me and then walks off.
“So” she says “OH yeah I got your surprise”
“Like it?” I ask.
“Nope” she says.
“Why?” I asked really surprised.
“I LOVED IT SILLY, I got it framed and it’s in my room on my desk” she says and then lets out a giggle.
I laugh too.
“Aww man I gotta go see ya Gee Gee OH MY GOD I love that nickname” she says.
I laugh.
“Well okay see ya” I say.
She hangs up.
I walk back in with probably one of the biggest smiles on my face. Everyone looks at me. I try to stop smiling but its worthless I can’t stop.
“So what happened lil’ Gee?” Matt asks.
“Nothing” I try to say making it sound normal but instead making it sound like a real big something.
“Your face doesn’t say that” Ray says.
“Okay” I say finally managing to stop smiling.
I sit down on the couch with everyone still looking at me.
“So what did you talk about?” Paula asks.
“Not much” I say and smile again, then stop myself.
Ray raises his eyebrow.
“I’m serious” I say.
“Yep sure lover boy” Lucy says.
Everyone laughs.
“Okay well I’m going back to my place Mikey wanna come over or stay?” I ask.
“I’m gonna come” Mikey replies.
“You don’t know how wrong that sounded” Matt says.
We all laugh and Mikey goes a little red.
“Bye” I say.

Mikey and I walk out and walk to our place. We go inside and he follows me into my room.
“What’s up Mikey?” I ask.
“How’s Jacquie?” he asks.
“She’s good” I say.
“Yeah, so umm what did you talk about?” Mikey asks.
“Umm not much, just random stuff” I say
“Okay” he says and walks out the room.
I shake my head, and go and continue with a drawing I was doing before and go to bed when I’m done.

Chapter 21 – In Australia **19 hours later … {OH MY GOD LONG TIME lol}** (Jacquie’s POV)

We get off the plane and walk to get our bags, We look around for Mark, We find him.
“OH MY GOD Jacquie there he is,” she says.
She leaves me with the bags and runs up to him and hugs him.
I roll my eyes and pull her bags and my bags over to him.
“Hey Jacquie” he says and tries to hug me.
I pull away from him and glare at him.
“What’s up with her?” he asks mum.
“Oh she likes some guy who’s a freak and I said he was and now she pissy” she replies.
OH MY GOD why is my mum talking about me like that.
“Stupid bitch” I say under my breath.
He obviously hears me and looks at me and then takes Mums bags and leaves me with mine to carry to his car. Well I hope it’s a car I don’t wanna be stuck in like a truck or something. We walk to a really nice car that turns out to be his. He opens the boot and puts our bags in. Then closes it and opens the door for me.
“What a gentleman” mum says to me.
I roll my eyes as he does the same for her, I get in the car and close the door, Mum and him get in the car too. I put my seatbelt on and so do they and we drive away, I look at the building as we go by them.
“So where exactly do you live?” my mum asks.
“You’ll see,” he says.
“Picked out a school for Jac?” she asks.
“Well there’s a nice Performing Arts school really close to where I live,” he says.
I roll my eyes. ‘Great a posh school just what I need’ I think to myself.
“By the way in Australia we have primary school and high school you're in high school cause high school is years 7-12” he says to me.
“I don’t care I perfer New Jersey” I say.
“Jacquie stop it” mum yells at me.
I go back to looking out the window. We begin to drive up a driveway.
“Whoa is that your house?” mum asks.
“Yeah” he replies.
I look out the house. It was big and one of the most beautiful houses I had ever seen. OH MY GOD is this guy rich?
“Umm Mark are you … Rich?” I ask.
“Not rich, but I do have a lot of money” he says.
“So you're rich?” I ask again.
“Fine rich, but not really” he says.
He pushes a button and the garage door opens. And he parks the car inside. We all get out and he opens the boot and carries a couple of bags as do mum and I. We go through a door into a hallway, which leads to the living room. I look around this place was so modern.
“Okay Jacquie your room is the last room on the left” Mark says.
“Okay” I reply and walk to the door of my new room.
I slowly open the door and look inside. The room was way bigger than the one in New Jersey and this time it was black! The colour I always wanted my room to be.
“OH MY GOD” I yell putting my bags on the ground.
“I’m guessing you like your room” Mark says standing in the doorway.
“Yes, Is this like the only black room in the house?” I ask him.
“Yeah, I got this room painted when I got back since I know you always wanted a black room” he says to me.
“Oh my god thanks” I say and then hug him.
I quickly stop and back a fair bit off.‘Did I just hug him?’ I ask myself.
He turns and walks away.‘Why the hell did I hug him?’ I ask myself over and over.
“Oh well” I say aloud.
I start unpacking. And then a thought of Gerard pops into my head. I run out to mum.
“Can I call Gerard?” I ask.
“It’s too late” she tells me.
“Damn” I say.

I go back into my room and look for my phone in my bag. I find it and turn it on. (3 new messages) I begin to read them.

Matt: Hey Jac, We found Gee and he told us everything, Now he won’t shut up about ya look what you have started jokes.

Ray: So you in Aus yet?

Gerard: I miss you, did you get my surprise yet, call me when you can, Luv Gee gee.

‘Gee gee’ I say to myself with a laugh ‘Aww that’s so cute, but what does he mean surprise?’I try to txt back but it won’t let me.
“Umm why isn’t my phone working?” I ask.
“You need to get a new phone when you’re here, We can go shopping tomorrow and I will get you and your mum and new one” Mark replies.
“But I want to txt Gerard” I say to him.
“You're gonna have to wait” he says.
‘Damn another set back’ I say to myself.

I walk back into my room and continue unpacking. I go back into my bag and find a piece of paper. I open it up. OH MY GOD IT’S A DRAWING OF GERARD’S IT SO AWESOME. I turn it over to see some writing: Dear Jacquie, I’m gonna miss you heaps, and I know I will see you again sometime and I will still love you as much as I do now I promise, Love Gerard.
‘Awww I wanna see Gerard right now’ I think to myself.
“Do you have a photo frame that would fit a A4 piece of paper?” I yell out to Mark.
“Yeah” he says.
I walk out and go up to him.
“Can I please have it?” I ask really nicely.
“Sure” he says and walks into a room and comes back with a frame.
“Here ya go,” he says. I take it from him.
“Thanks” I say and quickly go back in my room and put the picture in the frame and set it on the table in my room.
Yet again I start unpacking. I swear if I have to stop again I’m just gonna stop and not start for like an hour. I laugh to myself. I find my skateboard yay, BUT no not gonna stop. I put it next to my door. I start pulling my clothes out and put them into the closet and drawers. When I finish its just other stuff I’ve brought such as my drawing pads and art stuff. I place it on the table and in the other drawers. That’s it I can’t be bothered doing anymore.

I walk out and find Mark cooking.
“Watchya cooking?” I ask.
“Steak and chips” he replies.
“Right” I say, “So do you have a TV?”
“Yeah it’s over there,” he says pointing to another room.
“You mean this isn’t the living room?” I ask.
“Nope more like a family/dining room” he says.
“Umm okay” I say and walk into the other room supposedly the living room.
“Do you need help working it?” he asks.
I look at the TV it was massive.
“Umm yeah I think,” I say.
He comes in and pushes a couple of random buttons and the TV turns on.
“Okay this button changes the channels this one changes the volume and that’s about all you need,” he says passing me the remote.

A while later…
Mum had finished unpacking and was watching TV with me.
“Dinner's ready” Mark tells us.
We walk out and sit in the dining room. Mark comes around with our food.
“Thanks” I say as he gives me mine.
I begin eating and so does mum, Mark gets his and joins us. It’s quiet until mum breaks the silence.
“So when do you wanna start school?” he asks me.
“Never” I reply
“Jacquie” mum says a little annoyed by my answer.
I shrug at her.
“Well we have to enroll you sooner or later” Mark says.
“Sooner definately, really soon” my mum says.
“Well at the moment I believe that everyone’s on holidays” Mark says.
“Okay good” I say.
“Well okay anyway you girls probably need some stuff so we are definately going shopping tomorrow right?” Mark says.
“Right” I say.
‘Let’s see if Australia likes Goths’ I think to myself.
“Okay then” Mark says.
Then it goes silent yet again.
We all finish dinner and I go and watch TV again but get bored and go in my room.

I start drawing some random stuff. First the buildings of the city, then I tried drawing a plane but that stuffed up, then I tried drawing this house but stuffed up and got angry and then I tried drawing Gerard. I tried so hard but no matter how hard I tried the drawing just didn’t look like him. It looked imperfect and I wanted a picture of him that actually looked like him. I gave up and decided to go to bed I was tired cause I couldn’t fall asleep on the plane. So it was easy to fall asleep.

Chapter 20 - Going To Australia WOOPIE! not (Jacquie's POV)

“Hey Jacquie, oh my god we are going to Australia” My mum squeals to me.
“Whatever” I reply waking up fully.
“By the way why are you here? I thought you were gonna stay over your friends” she asks me.
“Oh I came over to get something and fell asleep I guess, I better go over and say bye and stuff,” I say.
“Okay” mum says and then skips out my room.
“Idiot” I say under my breath.
I get changed into some clothes and apply some make-up.

I walk out of the house and start walking to Matt’s. I go to knock on the door but the door opens before I could.
“Hey” Ray says quietly.
“Hey” I say going inside “Everyone sleeping?”
“Yeah” he says.
I walk over to my bag and pick it up.
I hug Ray.
“See ya I will miss you so much” I say.
“Aren’t you gonna say bye to everyone?” he ask me.
“No, I don’t think I’m gonna be able to” I reply.
“It would mean so much to them,” he says.
“I know but everyone would be awake and I certainly don’t wanna talk to Gerard at the moment” I say.
Ray pulls out the hug.
“Jacquie” he says to me.
“Don’t,” I say back to him.
“HEY EVERYONE JACQUIE’S HERE” he yells.
“I hate you so much right now,” I say to him.
“I know,” he says with a smirk.
Everyone slowly comes into room still rather sleepy.
“I’m gonna miss you” Frankie says.
He hugs me.
“I’m gonna miss you too Frankie” I say hugging him back.
“See ya Jacs” Matt says giving me a quick hug.
“Promise to email?” Mikey asks.
“Yes Mikey” I say.
“Well I’m gonna miss ya too” Mikey says.
“Me too” I say almost in tears. I normally didn’t care if I was leaving anywhere but this was different I had heaps of friends here.
Paula and Lucy hug me at the same time. They were practically like sisters now well kinda.
“OH MY GOD I don’t want you to leave” Lucy says.
“OH MY GOD If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have a boyfriend, I’m so gonna miss you” Paula says.
“I’m gonna miss you guys too” I say.
Gerard enters the room from the bathroom. My heart skips a beat and the room goes silent. He looked in a bad state. His eyes were red and so were his cheeks.
Ray taps me on my shoulder.
“I told him when he woke up and he went in the bathroom and I couldn’t get him out,” Ray says to me quietly.
“Okay everyone Bye” I say and quickly take my bag and go to the door to leave.
I walk out but I’m not alone Gerard has followed me.
I run to the house and go inside and lock the door.
“Jacquie, I’m real sorry,” he yells.
“Go away, I don’t wanna talk to you,” I yell to him.

I run to my room and pack the last of my stuff listening to Gerard’s calls for me to talk to him and let him in. He finally stops. I start crying but I stop myself. I walk to the mirror and fix up my make up. My phone rings. I look at it (calling: Gerard). I hang it up. And then a couple of minutes later I get a txt. (Déjà vu much).

I take my stuff out to the car and put it in the boot.
“So Kerrie’s keeping our car?” I ask mum.
“Yeah Mark’s buying me a new car in Australia” she says with a little giggle.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mum so happy in my life. I guess it was a good thing… I hope it was.
Jimmy and Kerrie come out of the house and get into the car.
“Why are they coming?” I ask
“Someone needs to drive it back silly” mum replies.
I get into the front seat. And so does mum, Mum starts the engine and puts her seatbelt on and so do I. She drives it off the driveway and down the road. We go past Matt’s and my friends are there. They wave to me but Matt runs up to the car. Mum stops. I open the door and Matt gives me my board.
“Thanks Matt, I nearly forgot” I say.
“Okay see ya,” he says.
I look at my friends and realize Gerard isn’t there.
“Where’s Gerard?” I ask.
“I dunno we saw him go home and that’s it” he replies.
“Okay see ya Matt, Tell everyone bye for me” I say to him.
“Okay bye” he says.
I close the door and pass the skateboard to Jimmy. I wind the window down and wave to everyone.Mum drives off.

Airport…
We arrive and I get out and look around and stretch my legs and take my luggage out of the back and get my skateboard and shove it inside my bag. Mum does the same and we go inside. We go though customs.
“Jacquie” I hear some yell.
I turn around and see Gerard.
“Oh my god did you come all this way to see me?” I ask.
“Yeah” he says running to me “I love you and I’m so sorry Jacquie I truly am”.
“Oh Gerard” I say and hug him “I could never be mad at you, it’s so hard to be”
“I love you so much” he says.
I kiss him straight on the lips. This time it felt more loving.
He pulls out and smiles at me.
“Why did you stop?” I teased him.
He kissed me put this time he frenched me.
“Whoa get a room,” Jimmy says.
I stop and glare at him. Jimmy backs off a bit. I French Gerard back.
“Honey we gotta go” my mum says to me.
But I continue kissing him. He pulls out again.
“So you love me?” he asks.
“Hell yes” I say and kiss him.
“I’ll call you whenever I can and txt you and email you” he says.
“Same” I say and kiss him.
“Bye” he says.
I start crying.
“Bye” I say. He hugs me tightly. And I feel a tear run my neck. Oh my god he was crying too.
“Aww gee I don’t wanna go,” I say.
“Don’t worry I promise I will see you as soon as possible” he says.I hug him tighter.
“Bye” I say.
“Bye” he says.
We let go and my mum and me walk over to the plane. I begin to cry again . I stop and run back to Gerard and hug him.
“I’m gonna miss you so much” I say.
“Me too” he says.
I kiss him one last time and join up with my mum, I wave and walk onto the plane, I sit with my mum, She tries to calm me down.
“Jacquie it’s alright okay we are only on the plane for a couple of hours” she says thinking I’m upset about being on the plane.
“It’s not about the fucken plane it’s the fact I just left the guy I love in America and I’m not gonna see him for a long time” I say to her.
“Oh that guy you kissed?” she asks.
“Yes” I say happily cause she noticed.
“That guy is like a total freak you can do better,” she says to me.
My jaw drops.
“You bitch, get the fuck away from me” I say to her.
“Honey, it’s true I mean come on he’s like a loser and you are … nice,” she says.
“You have never said I am pretty, let me rephrase you can’t say I’m pretty cause you hate having a goth for a daughter” I say really pissed off.
I ignore whatever she says to me for the rest of the flight and just look out the window.

Chapter 19 – THE EVE AND PARTY **6 days later (tomorrow I leave for Australia {in story})** (Jacquie's POV)

9pm…(Party at Matt’s {everyone’s there except parents and relatives etc.)
“Oh my god thanks for the party guys,” I say to everyone.
“Welcome” Matt says.
“Bring on the alcohol” Gerard yells.
“Hell Yeah” I yell.
Gerard pours drinks for everyone.Frankie brings out his guitar from Matt’s room.
“Here’s a song I’m making up on the spot” he says.
♪♫♪“Jacquie is awesome, but she is leaving so we are having a party and a Jacquie party never stops”♪♫♪ he says jokingly.
“Great song lets get it published,” I say
♪♫♪“Jacquie I haven’t finished, Whoa she is awesome and this party is awesome so something awesome plus something awesome equals…EXTREME AWESOMENESS” ♪♫♪ he continues.
“Okay stop you suck at making songs on the spot” Matt says.
“Like to see you do better” Frankie says.
“Okay” he says.
He walks over to the stereo. And looks though CD’s he picks one out looks at it and puts it on and then changes it to a track.
I immediately know the song and who its by. Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns and Roses. Why the hell this song?
♪♫♪“She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of so many memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that happy place
And if I stared too long
I'd probably have a party and get high

Whoa Jacquie’s so fine
Whoa oh oh oh Jacquie’s so fine

She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I love to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of fame
Her hair reminds me of a awesome place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly come right by

Whoa Jacquie’s so fine
Whoa oh oh oh Jacquie’s so fine

Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Jacquie’s so fine” ♪♫♪ he sings.

He walks over and turns off the stereo.
“That was … coolish” I reply.
“You win this time,” Frankie says. And puts his guitar back into Matt’s.
We all refill our drinks including Matt who skulled his when he finished singing.

11pm…
Yet again Matt is drunk on yet another party night. But this time he is more controlled. But someone has joined him. But who you may ask? Ray? No. Frankie? No. Mikey? Getting warmer. Gerard? Yes surprisingly. I didn’t think he was the type to get drunk. You think you know a person and then they surprise you.
“Gerard why are you awesome?” Matt asks drunkenly.
“I dunno why?” Gerard replies.
“Cause you know me” Matt says.
The two burst into laughter.
“I normally laugh at anything and everything but I don’t see how that was funny,” I say.
“You wouldn’t know unless you’re drunk,” Ray says.
“Oh I see alcohol madness” I say with a giggle.
“More like alcohol stupidness” he says.
We both laugh.
“Matt honey stop it” Paula says to Matt telling him to stop drinking.
“But its fun” he slurs.
“If I finish your drink will you stop?” she asks.
“Fine” he replies handing her his drink.
She drinks it and takes the glass to the kitchen.
“Have you ever seen Gerard drunk before?” I ask Ray.
“Yeah, it can be funny but sometimes it can be quite… tragic” he says.
“Oh what do you mean tragic?” I ask.
“Umm nothing” he says quickly.
“Ray” I say
“Well he can be hard to control and make a fool of himself,” he says regretting the words coming out of his mouth “Umm when he’s sober don’t tell him I said that okay, In fact forget what I just said”.
He walks over to Lucy and gives her a cuddle. She cuddles him back. I look at Matt trying to dance. I giggle at the sight.
“You know you have a very cute laugh” I turn and see Gerard right behind me.
“No I don’t,” I say blushing.
“You do,” He says.
I smile and blush more.
“And the cutest smile” he says.
“Stop it your drunk you don’t mean it” I say.
“I do mean it,” he says.
“Nah” I say.
“You’re the most prettiest girl I’ve ever met,” he says.
“Not true” I say.
Matt comes over to us and listens in on the conversation.
“And I’ve loved you ever since the day I met you” Gerard says.
“I don’t believe you, you’re drunk,” I say.
“Nope it’s all true he LOVES you” Matt says.
“No he doesn’t,” I say starting to become convinced maybe he does.
“FINE DON’T BELIEVE HIM BUT ITS TRUE, ANYWAYS LETS SEE IF I CAN SKATEBOARD” Matt yells.
And then tries running outside tripping over then getting up and going outside finally.
“Matt you're gonna hurt yourself” Paula yells running after him.
We all walk after them.
“Matt’s so gonna stack” Mikey says to Frankie.
Frankie laughs.
We watch Matt trying to get on the skateboard. It’s really amusing because he keeps missing the board. He thinks he is on the board and tries to push himself along. We all start laughing. Matt finally realizes he is not on the board and tries to get on it again. This time he succeeds for about 3 seconds and then falls over. Paula goes up to him and helps him up. We all sit on the driveway. Gerard sits right next to me. I look at him and he is looking at me.
“Why are you looking at me?” I ask.
“You look so beautiful in the moonlight,” he says.
“Stop it” I reply.
“OOOOO GERARD’S IN LOVE” Mikey yells.
“Damn straight” he says.
I feel myself starting to blush.‘Oh god I do love him’ I think to myself. I get up and go inside. Gerard follows me. I look though my bag.
“What are you doing?” he asks me.
“I’m getting some money, I’m gonna buy myself a drink from the shop” I say.
“There’s heaps of drinks here,” he says.
“I wanna get a special drink,” I say.
“Can I come with?” he asks.
“Yeah I guess,” I say.
We walk out the door.
“We are going to the shops be right back” Gerard says.

We walk to the shops and we go inside and I look around at the drinks they have.
“What one are you looking for?” he asks.
“I can’t remember what it’s called but I know what it looks like, it’s like red and it’s a soft drink,” I say.
“Raspberry?” he asks.
“Nope” I reply.
“Ooo is it ummm CREAMING SODA?” he asks.
“Oh my god yes that’s it” I say.
He points to a drink. It’s creaming soda right in front of me geez I’m blind. I take it from the shelf and walk to the counter and pay for it.We walk out the shop.
“So umm Jacquie do you umm like me?” he asks kinda nervously.
“Well yeah as a friend” I say also nervously.We continue to walk in silence.
About halfway to Matt’s place he stops and pulls me into a hug and then he kisses me. I kiss back I couldn’t help it. He stops.
“So you do like me?” he says playfully.
“No, I just can’t resist a kiss” I say very unconvincing.
I try to pull away but he doesn’t let me and tries to kiss me again.
“Gerard no” I say even though I did want to kiss him.
“Come on I know you like it” he says. I finally break free of his grip.
“Your drunk, very drunk!” I yell at him.
I walk off quickly. Gerard follows.
“Jacquie, I’m sorry,” he says.
“Leave me alone” I yell to him.
“Jacquie I love you I’m sorry,” he yells.
“Lies” I say. I run off making my way past Matt’s without anyone there noticing and running to the park and sitting on the bench. I watch Gerard look around for me and then go into Matt’s. I begin to cry. I didn’t know he was like that I never saw it in him to be like that. I start to remember all the good times I’ve had with Gerard. Oh my god there was always that love spark. But I guess I was to blind to see it. Now it was too late I was leaving. I look over to Matt’s and everyone started walking out of the house obviously about to go searching for me. I rub tears away. I look my hands and see my make-up all over them. Great smudged make-up this is gonna look great trying to go home. I see Matt and Paula go walking my way. I duck from sight. They walk past the park and keep going. I hear Gerard calling my name. I try to ignore it but it gets too much and I begin to cry harder.Ray walks into the park. Oh crap he is gonna find me. Ray is looking around and then finally catches a glimpse of me and walks over. I make myself stop crying.
“You okay?” he asks quietly.
I nod.
“What happened?” he asks.
I sit up. And then Gerard sees me and comes over. I get up and walk off.
“Please Jacquie I’m sorry” he yells to me.
This catches everyone’s attention and everyone makes their way over.
I continue walking. Gerard follows. I begin running and go to the front of my place and get my skateboard. And I run back on the road and skate off. Gerard is still coming after me. I begin to cry again, Tears stream down my face. I hear Gerard stop running, I stop and look at him, He looks at me, I turn away and continue. I look over my shoulder to see him walk in the other direction. I stop and wait till he walks into the house. Everyone but Ray follows him he stays waiting for me to go by. I deicide to skate over to him either way he was gonna stop me. When I get to him I get off my board.
“Are you gonna tell me what happened or am I gonna wait till Gerard is sober?” he asks.
I nod.
“Well he kissed me and then he wouldn’t let me go and then he tried to kiss me again but I broke free,” I say.
“Oh” he says, “I’m guessing he is really regretting that”
“He doesn’t love me he just drunk,” I say even though I knew this was false, I knew I was trying to convince myself though.
“He loves you Jacquie he told us ages ago but he couldn’t get the courage to ask you” Ray replies.
“Whatever I’m going to bed I’ll be over in the morning to get my bag and I will say bye” I say “Bye for now”
“Bye” he says.
I walk off carrying my board. I walk into my house and go into my room. ‘Thank god everyone was asleep’ I think to myself as I look in the mirror and see my make up messed up.
I wipe it all off as much as I can. And just fall on my bed and try to sleep. I can’t sleep, I loved Gerard, I loved him all along. Now he’s done that I feel hurt. I realize my drink is still in the park. Damn that could of helped. My phone rings, Why the hell was it here I’m pretty sure it was in my bag at Matt’s.
I go to my phone as quickly as I can (Calling: Gerard). No way was I gonna answer it. I cancel the call. I start thinking about him but stop myself. Then I get a txt from him. It reads: Hey Jac, I’m really sorry, luv Gee. I start crying. I chuck my phone on the table and cry myself to sleep.

Chapter 18 – **2 Weeks later** Bye Bye Mark Or Not! (Jacquie's POV)

I wake up and walk into the living room and then into the kitchen and pour myself a drink of water. I walk back into the living room and sit on the couch. I begin drinking and think about stuff. Mark? WAIT OMG HE IS GOING BACK TO AUSTRALIA TODAY! Oh mum is gonna be crushed. I decide to cook breakfast for everyone. I go into the kitchen and begin to cook up some eggs and bacon. Mark walks in.
"Hey Jacquie" he says
"Hey Mark" I reply
"I was wondering do you like Australia?" he asks
"Umm it's alright but I perfer it here" I say still cooking.
"Oh this is gonna be hard" he says under his breath but I hear him.
"Huh?" I ask turning around and facing him.
"Oh never mind" he says nervously.
He walks back into mum’s room. I continue cooking.

When I finish I set the table up really nicely. And put the food on the table.
"Breakfast everyone,” I yell.
Everyone comes over to the table and sits down.
Mark taps his glass.
"I have a question to ask the two most important people in my life at the moment" he says.
Mum looks at him confused.
"Okay" he says breathing in and then out "Would you two like to live with me in Australia?"My mum smiles and hugs him. I am mortified. I don't want to leave New Jersey or America for that matter. OMG that’s why he asked me if I like Australia.
"So what do you say Jacquie?" Mark asks me.
"NO I LOVE IT HERE I'VE FOUND SOME FRIENDS AND I AM ENJOYING IT HERE" I yell.
"What?" my mum asks
"Come on you will like it in Australia, It's great lots of things you can draw and paint" Mark says trying to convince me.
"NO" I say walking to my room and slamming the door.
I fall on my bed. Great I finally find a place where I like it and I gotta move. That’s just my fucken luck.
Mum walks into my room.
"Young lady you are coming with me to Australia" she yells at me.
"NO I finally got some friends here and if I go to Australia I won't see them,” I yell back at her.
"Too bad your coming" she says
"I'm gonna stay here with Kerrie then" I say.
"No, Honey please come on in Australia we can have our own house and you will have other friends" she says to me quite calmly.
"Let me think...NO get out of my room" I yell at her.
Mark walks in.
"Both of you get out NOW" I yell.
"Don't speak to me like that,” Mum yells at me.
"Please Jacquie It will be fun I promise" Mark says to me.
I turn away
"NO I like it here with Gerard, Matt, Ray, Frankie, Mikey, Lucy and Paula" I say.
"You will have more friends in Australia, Plus you can talk to your friends here over the Internet and call them on your phone" he says still trying to convince me.
"It won't be the same" I say, "Please just leave me alone"
They walk out the room and close the door. I get dressed. I guess I'm gonna have to tell everyone that I'm leaving. I really don't wanna leave. It's great here and I don't care if I have to live with Kerrie.
I walk out of my room. Everyone in the living room looks at me.
"I'm gonna go tell everyone I'm leaving" I say sadly holding back tears.
"Okay" Mum says happily.

I walk out the house and go to Gerard's first. I knock on the door. Gerard's Mum answers it.
"Hey, are you here for Gerard?" she asks.
"I'm here for Gerard, Mikey and possibly Frankie if he stayed over" I reply.
"Oh ok" she says. "Gerard, Mikey and Frankie, Jacquie is here,” she yells
They all come to the front door and are all dressed.
"Come we have to go get everyone" I say to them.
"Why?" Gerard asks.
"I wanna tell everyone something, all at once" I say to him.

We walk to Matt's and get him. Then to Ray's, then to Lucy's and then Paula's.

"Okay what is it?" Gerard asks.
I think of how I'm gonna say this.
"Well?" Matt hurries me.
"My mum's boyfriend Mark is going home to Australia today" I say.
"Yeah we know" Matt says.
"There's more" I breath in and then out "We will joining him sooner or later, I'm still not sure when"
"OMG NO" Gerard says. I can't hold it in. I begin to cry.
Gerard hugs me.
"Why do you have to leave?" Paula asks.
"My Mum won't let me stay here with Kerrie,” I say.
I wipe away some tears.
"You can't go" Frankie says.
"Yeah you can't you're like one of our best friends" Mikey says.
"I don't have a say in this I have to go" I say.
I wipe more tears away.
"That sucks" Lucy says.
"Hell yes" Ray adds
Gerard hugs me tighter. And I realize he is crying too.
"Gerard are you crying?" I ask
"No" he says really quietly.
He lets go of me and pretends to scratch his eyes.
"I'm gonna miss all of you so much" I say.
"We are so gonna miss you too" Paula says.
"Well I better see when I'm going" I say sadly "Cya"
"Bye" they all say.
I begin to walk back to mine with Gerard, Matt, Frankie and Mikey. And Lucy, Ray and Paula walk back to their places. We walk silently. I walk to my door and go inside.

(Gerard’s POV)
“Hey Gerard you okay?” Matt asks me.
“I’m fine” I say sarcastically.
“We have her phone number and we have her email address so we contact her seriously it will be fine” Matt says trying to make me feel better.
“Why didn’t I ask her when I had the chance, I mean there was plenty, like New Years Eve last year” I say.
“Do tell” Matt asks.
***************Flash back***************
It was night and Jacquie and I were sitting looking up at the stars waiting for Matt and Ray.
“Tonight seems so nice” Jacquie says.
“Yeah” I say
“I wish today would last for longer, I mean this year was great probably best year of my life” she says.
“Really?” I ask
“Yeah” she replies
“Well there’s something I have wanted to ask you ever since I met you” I say
“Really what?” she says.
“Umm …” I start very nervously.
She looks at me with her beautiful blue eyes that were twinkling in the moonlight.
“Do you like…….” I say but can’t seem to finish my sentence.
“Do I like what?” she asks.
“Umm New Jersey” I say quickly.
“Hell yeah” she says.
**************Flash back ends**************
“I chickened out, I just couldn’t ask her, I mean she is so pretty and I’m just… me,” I say.
“Don’t beat yourself up Gee, You are an awesome person okay, Yeah you should have asked her but don’t worry you will get plenty of other chances with girls” Matt says.
“Yeah, but I don’t want anyone other than Jacquie” I reply.
“I think we better get something to eat cause I know I’m starving” Matt says trying to lighten the mood.

(Jacquie’s POV)
“So when are we leaving my great life behind to get a crappy one?” I ask
“Jacquie stop it, Well anyway we are going to leave in a week” Mum replies.
“Can I please stay here” I ask hoping maybe just maybe mum will say yes.
“No” she says “That’s Final now stop asking me”.
“Okay I got to go in 5 minutes Honey” Mark calls out to mum.
I roll my eyes and go in my room.
“Say bye to Mark you won’t see him for a week” my mum says.
“NO” I yell.
I hated him; he knew I wanted to stay here.
Mark walked in my room.
“Cya Jacquie” he says.I turn and glare at him.
“Do you know how much I hate you right now?” I ask him.
“You don’t hate me” he says.
“I fucken do, get the fuck outta my room” I say angrily.
“Don’t swear or I will tell your mum” he says.
“Go ahead I don’t care anymore” I say to him and sit on my bed.
He walks out of my room. I hear everyone saying bye then the front door open and close. Then I hear car doors open and close and the engine of mum’s car start and the car finally drive off. The front door opens again and closes. And then later a knock at my door.I don’t answer.
Kerrie and Jimmy walk in. I look at them.
“Your mum probably doesn’t want us to tell you but we tried all we could to see if you could stay here” Jimmy says.
“Really?” I ask.
“Yeah, we know how much you like it here and well yeah” Kerrie says.
I get up and hug them.
“I love you guys,” I say.
I let go of them.
“Listen okay, you will love Australia believe me I’ve been” Jimmy says.
“But I don’t wanna leave here, I don’t wanna leave you guys or Gerard or any of my other friends” I say
“Yeah” Kerrie says.
“Lets go watch TV” I say trying to lighten the mood.
Jimmy nods and we all go and watch TV in the living room.

3 hours later …
Mum walks in.
“Whoa you took awhile” Kerrie says.
“Yeah I went shopping” mum replies.
I look at her then go back to watching TV.
“Here’s something I got for you” mum says handing me something. I don’t take it out of her hands so she drops it on my lap, I look at it It’s 3 new drawing pads.
“Ooo someone’s cocky about living in Australia for a long time” I say.
“Jacquie stop it I was trying to cheer you up” mum says.I rise to my feet.
“You wanna make me happy? Wanna make ME happy? Then let me stay here,” I yell to her.
“I can’t leave you here, you’re my daughter and I want you with me” she says back at me.
Mum walks off into her room. I sit back down and fold my arms.
“Want dinner?” Jimmy asks.
“Nah I’m gonna go to bed Night” I say getting up and going to my room.
I go in my room and close the door. I look at my old drawing pads. I have only used two of the three drawing pads for New Jersey. I put them away and I go to bed. Fuck this day must have been one of the worst.