Chapter 29– I’m going **8pm**(Jacquie’s POV)

“I’m going, see ya” I say “Bye Jared”.
“Bye Jacquie” He says.
“Jacquie are you going?” Tahlia yells from out of her room.
“Well you heard me” I say with a laugh.
“Aww stay a little longer” Mel yells.
“Nah I’m kinda busy” I reply.
“Please” Tahlia says.
“I gotta couple emails I gotta send” I say.
“A couple now?” Jared asks.
I glare at him and he slides down in his chair avoiding my gaze.
“Fine, we will just annoy Jared” Tahlia says.
“Be my guest” I say looking at Jared who was now looking at me with a worried look on his face “Bye Jared, have fun” I say.
“Bye” he replies weakly.
“Bye T and M” I say
“See ya” They say.
I walk the door and shut it.

I start walking back to my place.
I take a little detour and go to a little shop so I can get a drink.
I was damn thirsty, I walk inside a search the shelves for an ice coffee. When I find the one I want I go to the counter and pay for it, I walk out of the shop and take a few sips and continue walking to my place.
“Heya Jacquie” someone says from behind me.
I turn around. It’s Simon, a guy from my school who is a wannabe jock and he is very unpopular with the other jocks. I talked to him once and he seemed nice but ever since he has been trying to come into our little group, He is quite tall and dresses always in sport clothes except when he is at school when he of course wears school uniform, He has red hair and brown eyes.
“Hi Simon” I say.
“So how you been?” he asks.
“Pretty good” I reply.
“That’s good” he says.
“Well I better be going my mum is expecting me” I say with a smile and start walking home again.
“My house is near yours” he says, “I’ll walk with ya”.
Damn I forgot about that.
He walks beside me.
“So” I say.
“Done much this weekend?” he asks.
“I have been with my boyfriend most of the time” I reply.
“Okay anything else?” he asks.
“Umm I was with Tahlia, Mel and Jared as well” I says.
“Watch any movies?” he asks.
“Yeah heaps” I reply.
“Any good ones?” he asks.
“Yeah but I can’t remember the titles except Jaws, I love watching it, it cracks me up” I say.
“Okay” he says as if making a mental note.
“Well my house is just there, Bye” I say.
“Bye” he says and I run off to my house.
I go inside.
Phew it’s good to be home, That was quite … awkward.
“Hi everyone” I yell and walk to the living room where they are.
“Hey” Mum and Mark reply.
“How are you?” I ask them.
“Good” they both say.

I smile and go into my room.
I turn my laptop on and put my phone next to it.
I go onto my email account and check my emails, Of course there is one from Mikey cause he just loves to send email, It could be like anything and he will send me an email about it.
I read it.

Heya Jacquie,
Well how are you and what have you been doing?
I haven’t done much just been practicing bass, Frankie said I’ve improved a bit but I don’t believe him I think he is being nice. Gerard has been really mopey and has been drawing a lot. He auditioned for a play at school and got the main role, which everyone was happy about but he decided he didn’t want to do it anymore and quit, Mum was very upset about it, Mum said he had a gift and he should use it, Gerard didn’t care and he has been avoiding everything including school. I don’t know what’s up but I talk to him and he seems to get a bit happier but then he doesn’t care and ignores me.
Anyway I better get going.
Mikey

I begin to write my reply:

Hey Mikey,
I’m good, I haven’t done much either just school and watching movies with friends. Everything seems good where you are except Gerard, Any improvement from him? And Mikey can you keep your eye on him for me? Just make sure he is okay? Anyways is Matt and Paula’s relationship okay still? Last time I heard about it, it wasn’t great. Well I got to go
Jacquie
Xoxoxox

I hope Gerard’s okay annd I definately hope Matt and Paula are okay cause they are so cute together.

“Jacquie” Mum calls.
“Yo” I yell to her.
“Wanna talk to Kerrie?” she asks.
“Hell yeah” I say walking out of my room and to Mum who was holding the phone.
Mum is smiling and she passes me the phone. I take it from her.
“Hey Ker…” I say
“OH MY GOD JACQUIE I’M ENGAGED” Kerrie yells into the phone.
“OH MY GOD REALLY? WHO?” I ask.
“JIMMY” She yells.
“What?” I ask.
“Jimmy” she says.
“I thought you two were only friends” I say.
“Yeah but we got real close when you guys left, we didn’t say anything though” she says.
“Just leave us out then” I say jokingly.
“Yeah I did” She says and laughs.
“Can I talk to Jimmy?” I ask.
“Sure” she says and calls for Jimmy.
“Hello” Jimmy says.
“And I thought you were gay” I say.
“What a great welcoming to your future Uncle” he says jokingly.
“Oh my god I can’t believe it” I say “Two of my fave people getting married sooner or later”
“Aww I’m one of your fave people” Jimmy says.
“Yeah you're awesome” I say “But seriously I thought you were gay”
“Well you definately know I’m not gay anymore” he says.
“You wanna talk to mum?” I ask.
“Yeah” he says.
I pass the phone back to mum.
Mark is looking at mum with a quizzical look, I’m guessing mum hasn’t told him.
“Jimmy and Kerrie are engaged” I whisper to him.
“Oh that explains a lot” he says.
I ran back to my room and make a e-mail for everyone saying:

Hey everyone,
I don’t know if you know that Kerrie is now engaged, and to Jimmy who thought that. I seriously thought he was gay, Anyways can you guys do me a big favour and go to Kerrie’s and congratulate her? I would be very grateful.
Love
Jacquie
xoxoxox

I send it to Gerard, Mikey, Ray, Matt, Paula and Frankie.
Oh my god I still can’t believe it.
I turn on my stereo. Ooo Anthrax just what I like but I feel like … Smashing Pumpkins I just got their CD “Siamese Dream”, I put it on and I listen to Cherub Rock.

I walk out to the living room to check if Mum is still on the phone, She isn’t she's talking to Mark really happily, I listen in.
“It’s so great that they are together” Mum says.
“Yeah, I could kinda tell Jimmy liked her though” he says.
“You could?” Mum says.
“Yeah” he says.
“Okay” She says and spots me “So what do you think Jacquie?”
“It’s great” I say.
“Hey Jacquie I need to talk to you” Mark says.
We both look at Mark.
“Umm sure” I reply.
He walks over to me and we walk into my room.
I mute my stereo.
“So” I say.
“Well I’m not copying Jimmy in anyway but I was wondering can I umm marry your mum?” he asks.
“Well sure of course, as long as you're nice to her I’m good” I say.
“Thanks so much, when do you reckon I should ask her?” He asks.
“Umm well not now you should wait a month or two 'cause if you do it now its gonna look like you are copying Jimmy” I say.
“Okay thanks again” he says and walks out my room.
Man everyone wants to get married, Who knows, I might have Andrew at my doorstep asking me my hand in marriage. DAMN I gotta study for a test tomorrow. I quickly pull out my book of notes from English and start reading.

11pm…
“Night Mum” I say to mum as she walks to her bedroom.
“Night, you know you should get some sleep for that test” She says “Did you study?”
“Yes Mum I studied, I will go to bed in like 5 minutes” I reply.
“Okay night” and she walks inside her room.I get a drink of water and go to bed.