Chapter Sixty-eight – Insecure crush.

Jasper didn’t stop about the bed. I wondered if there’s something else on having a soft bed or he just wanted to taunt me.
Jacob had been bored of the subject and rarely reacted.
“So do you think I can stop by sometime and see the legendary bed?” he asked for the millionth time.
I glared at Jacob for the thousandth time, “What makes the bed so legendary? It even had been peed on my baby brother”.
I added the last part with happiness.
Jasper reacted by scratching his skin, “I can feel the itchiness that would have descended on my body had I climbed that bed”. I smiled satisfactorily.
“I have already begun working on the project while you spent time sleeping at home”.
Jasper noted as he showed a detailed outline of our project on his notebook.
Showing the properties of each soil, water absorbance and size of particles.
“Good for you. The scare I got at that place was worth everything” I shrugged. He bit his lips while Jacob laughed.
Like didn’t we agree that Jacob and I find the soil while he arranged the theory.
We finished the remaining project and Jasper left to submit. We’d be the first to submit cos everyone would be waiting for the trip to uptown to get mud.
I met Chloe at the cafeteria.
“Where’ve you been? I was planning to come to your house?” she stuffed her half eaten bread into my mouth. I rolled my eyes and swallowed it.
“You have a phone. You can call” I said but that’s the thing about Chloe, she didn’t like calling much unless she was bored.
She preferred physical contacts and conversations.
“So Jacob spoke on how he got the mud by you two sneaking out at night” she raised her left brow.
I gagged as I ate. Did that dude go about telling everyone about it? What if news somehow gets to my mom?
“Don’t fret. He just told me and Sheena only. So give me a download” Sheena joined in as Chloe spoke.
I gulped down. I had some knowledge on boys. Whenever they make new and strange adventures with girls, they ramble on it.
I just hoped Jacob wasn’t that kinda boy. Especially as his twin keeps on talking about a ‘bed'.
Well, I gave shallow details like how I had to convince my mom to leave the window open but failed.
How the night had a good aura that day. And how I learnt about Jennie and how she is speculated to had died.
She spoke on her movie with Chris that day and I could only help but wish her well.
“So you really went out with Jacob that night?” Sheena smiled, “For mud you could get anywhere else?”. What was she speculating?
“And pay $100 for entry. I'm still thinking of going to the timber house really?” Chloe spoke on my behalf.
Sheena still gave me the unsure and insecure look. Made me wonder if she now liked Jacob.
“Why asking? Changed Crush?” Chloe asked on my behalf.
Sheena looked flustered and, accidentally or not, revealed that she was asking cos Jennifer liked Jacob so was surprised when she heard that Jacob and had gone out at night with me. So she told her?
“Why’d you tell her then? You know it was a project they left to do” Chloe seemed to be aware of Jennifer’s crush.
Why didn’t she tell me? So I won’t seem like a boy snatcher for both she and Sheena as I’ve been involved with Jasper once.
And if I remember correctly, Jacob and Jennifer were whispering to each other and laughing.
Looked like a romantic deal to me. Maybe he was involved with her. They looked good. J-couple. Smart kids. Good looks.
“It was a project. And who bonds over a scary night journey to a graveyard?” I defend.
She looked unsure, “Just saying. You seem to be getting lots of guys attention lately…”.
“And it’s that my fault? Everyone is entitled to crush on whoever. If their feelings get reciprocated, then good. If not, good still” I added not minding she was still talking.
I shot a glare and looked away. She shouldn’t begin using me as an excuse to feel insecure.
If I was getting attention that doesn’t mean anyone should feel insecure, if they did, their problem. I don’t even get why I was receiving attention, if I was receiving attention.
Jasper and Jacob never confirmed anything. And Reuben who seemed to have been confirmed, was not being crushed on by anyone.
“Well, I was just saying…”.
“Don’t make someone feel bad for being pretty Sheena. Crushes don’t last also” Chloe interrupts her. I blushed a little. So I was pretty.
Sheena had a defeated look and just sighed. Jennifer walked to us later with a drink.
“Hey all” she frowned when no one responded.
“And congrats Kiera for your team being the first to submit the Agric project. Where’d you get the mud from?” she asked like Sheena hadn’t given her a load down.
Sheena looked up at her and I guess, communicated telepathically in twins way, that she had said she knew.
“It was scary getting the mud though. I slept the moment I laid on my bed. That’s one of the reasons I ran late” I sniffed.
Jennifer had a piteous look, “Of course, that’s someone’s grave. It would be spooky. Take care though” she left.
Chloe began laughing and though I wasn’t sure why I joined her.
It was seven minutes to end recess so I decided to walk outside. Reuben was sitting outside alone. I went to bother him.
“Hey, someone bit you?” I smiled as I hit him slight. I tend to hit someone when I play. Its weird.
“Hmm. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. My dog’s sick. And you? How are you?”.
“Cool” I answered with a shrug.
We just stayed there. I ran out of what to say. I was so not a conversation starter.
“Sorry about your dog” I added when I remembered.
“Sure” he replied. We were silent again.
I made my way outta that place but then he paused me with, “Did Jacob really stay at your place for the night. Jasper said he came home by six today”.
My breathing hitched, “No, no, no. Jacob left that same night. Ask him where he was”.
“Oh, don’t worry. He was talking about a soft bed so I wondered” he sent me a small smile.
“No, he laid on my bed and saw it was soft but that’s all”.
Reuben’s head rose up when he heard that, “He laid on your bed? That means he got to your room?” his voice was fairly loud.
I was about explaining when I saw a familiar look. One that was passive on Sheena, insecure crush jealousy.