You're Mine

 

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Chapter 1

Probably preschool. I think that was the only year we were actually friends. Isaiah and I would play together during play time. One time I got in trouble for running and got put in a time out. When I started crying, he told the teacher in his little lisp.


"Mrs. Toons! Dosie's kying!" He cried in his four year old voice.

Translation: "Mrs. Coons! Josie's crying!"

It was so cute.

We ate together and sat together. I should've seen it coming though. Considering the fact that the only real memories are from his house not school. I should've stopped hoping we'd become best friends again in third grade. My mom didn't want me around and I was only three so I couldn't be home alone.

So she'd take me over to Isaiah's house. We'd play up in his crawl space and outside with his horse and cousin. His sister would dress me up like a princess and do my make up then I'd watch cartoons or a movie. Isaiah and Aiden would run into the living room and I'd avoid looking at them cause I thought I looked ridiculous from the minute they entered the room to the minute they left.

We went to a graduation party. I don't remember whose it was but I remember me and Isaiah. The "big kids" were playing man hunt or something and Isaiah and I didn't want to. I don't remember why but he had a stick and hit me with it.

He hit me and he was laughing. We were only around four or five at the time.

"Ow!" My little voice rang out. I had a scratch on my arm. His eyes got big. He kissed it then hugged me.

"I'm sowwy!" He cried out with his little lisp. Everyone outside aww'ed.

As we got older we started drifting. By fourth grade or so my mom started letting me stay home alone and I didn't see Isaiah as much. I saw him at school but didn't think anything of it when he would only smile at me and we didn't really talk anymore.

But we got to about seventh grade and we didn't even look at each other.

The beginning of eighth grade was when I realized Isaiah and I were no longer friends. I developed a crush on him so I started paying more attention to him but also avoided him. I could see how he had gotten cuter, taller, and more outgoing but I also noticed he totally ignored me. I figured out that we wouldn't become friends.

But it was also when I started to not care. My grades started dropping quickly in subjects easy and hard. I became a fangirl. I got an iPad at the beginning of the year. An iPhone in February. My life became introverted.

Eighth grade was when I developed depression and social anxiety. I didn't know what it was at the time so I tried to hide myself from the world under baggy sweatshirts.

I didn't exert any type of energy into any aspect of my life. I became constantly irritable. I fought with my mom more. I read and wrote until four in the morning. I was always tired.

Since I also basically discovered social media in eighth grade I kind of stopped talking to people. I didn't hang out with people outside of school and didn't pay attention to people at school.

Freshman year I'd become pretty outgoing, not too shy anymore. But I still didn't talk to him. I had pretty much put the memories behind me. I barely thought about how we used to be friends and I didn't let it get to me.

I just didn't know it affected him.

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Chapter 2

Isaiah was in my biology class. The year before I had become more and more introverted but this year I’d become more outgoing. It was mostly in my first hour, French, but third hour I was becoming pretty outgoing. It had all started in about March and it was now towards the end of May. Although in seventh hour biology, I was still the same as I was at the beginning of the year.
Quiet, slightly shy, and always blushing hard. Although I was getting better even though school was out in basically two weeks. It was a Friday so we had that weekend then a week and four days. Luckily we had a three day weekend and I only had two more classes left for the day.
"Hey Josie, you ready?" Tara asked.
"Yeah." I said and we walked out of English. We walked to biology, after waiting for her boyfriend.
I sat down and started playing 2048. I was hopelessly addicted to that game. The class started but I just kept playing. I was gonna fail the class anyways so I wasn’t about to start doing work with two weeks left. When class was over I had eighth hour. You only had an 8th hour if you were failing a class.

I was failing two.

"Josie write your advice." Tara said. I read her dream and wrote what I thought. She'd been having problems ever since her miscarriage. I slid her the paper and got on Twitter. Everyone was working so it wasn't quiet because they all worked together. Like the rest of the class. The bell rang and I went straight to eighth hour since my best friend Alexahad to go home. I wrote the whole time. I walked to my locker after class and grabbed my jacket and purse. Then I went to the band hall and found my sister.
"Tatum let's go. I wanna go home." I said and she got up. 
"Oh okay then." She looked at her friend Mae and laughed. We all walked out to the car, Mae and Tatum talking the whole time. We split off at our car and left. When we got home I got on my computer, scrolling through my timeline on twitter.
A little after my mom got home I took a shower and went to bed.


Sunday came and I slept till noon. But then my mom had to interrupt me and I was annoyed.
"Get dressed were gonna go get food and we're coming right back." My mom said leaving my room. I layed there a little longer until my mom said she was gonna leave in like fifteen minutes.
As much as I loved sleeping I hated being alone so I got up and went to the bathroom then came back and quickly got dressed in a t-shirt and shorts. Then I just put my old neon colored converse.
We got in the car and we decided on Dairy Queen. As we were driving my mom decided it'd be okay to take the way that goes past Isaiah’s house. She drove near it and I wasn't paying attention at all.
"Hey I'm just gonna pull in. I see Isaiah outside." My mom giggled. Yes, giggled.
"No, really? We're just gonna show up at their house? We haven't talked to them in like a million years. This is so awkward." I said.
I sat in the car as Tatum and my mom got out and I saw his mom, Linda, walking outside to greet us. My mom and Linda greeted each other and started talking as if Isaiah and I never stopped being friends. Our moms were friends in high school so that's why Isaiah and I knew each other. Besides the whole, same preschool teacher thing. I got out after sitting for about ten minutes.
"Oh hey Josie. Wow she's getting tall. They look just like you." Linda said to my mom as I walked towards the little group they all were standing in. I glanced at Isaiah and and he was looking somewhere else. But Tatumi was cracking up cause she knows how I am around hot guys and thought this was just hilarious.
"This is just fantastic." I whispered sarcastically to her. We stood around as our moms talked and then we went through their house to the side yard. After we were there for a while we walked out back to the backyard and said we were gonna go.
"Alright we need to head out. We were planning on going to Dairy Queen and then going right back home." My mom explained. But then Linda replied and they started talking again.
"Hey kids." Mitchell, Isaiah’s dad, whispered and motioned for us to come inside. We walked inside and our moms didn't even notice. Mitchell walked away and we were just sitting there. I had never been so glued to my phone in my life.
"Okay you guys are gonna take the Mercedes, Tatum you'll drive, and you're gonna go to Dairy Queen. I want some chicken, order what you want." Mitchell said walking back into the room handing Isaiah some money. We all just kinda looked at each other then got up and walked to the front door. We walked out to the car.
"Soo Taatumm you can drive now." Isaiah said handing her the keys. At least she could answer like a normal human being and form actual words. I wasn't really paying attention to their conversation.
"Oh shit. Guess were not going there." Tatum snorted driving past Dairy Queen after we saw it packed and the drive-thru was backed into the street. We drove back.
"Tatum when did you get so old? I always thought you were only like a year older than us. I mean you're three years older than us. You're graduating." Isaiah said. Tatum laughed.
"I don't know." She answered. But I could tell she was a little in shock like me because we haven't spoken to the Callahan’s like this in about seven years. We got back and explained what happened to Mitchell.
"So what's plan B?" I hid my startled reaction to that question. We decided on Angelo's. Our moms had moved to the dining table while we were out. Mitchell came back in the room.
"We'll go in the flex this time." Tori said getting the keys from our mom. Mitchell handed Isaiah even more money as if we had used the other money.
"Dude, what's your problem?" Isaiah said loudly as he was texting when Mitchell put the money in his lap. I couldn't help but wonder, maybe he was texting one of his friends freaking out that we were here like I was. I had about three of my friends texting me to keep me occupied so I wouldn't be too awkward and just look around. We went to the flex and this time I got in the front seat.
"Whoa this is cool. The inside." Isaiah said about the interior of the flex. The lights and the inside is pretty cool. We drove to the carry out Angelo's and placed an order for a large spaghetti pizza. The funny thing was Isaiah never had shoes on the whole time. We got back to the house to wait. It was usually a thirty minute wait.
"I think it's been half an hour." Tatum said suddenly as we were all lounging around watching tv.
"Yeah we should probably go get the pizza." Isaiah agreed. We all got up and went to the flex, Isaiah had shoes this time, and drove to Angelo's. We got the pizza and came back.
"Alright what did'ja get?" Mitchell asked clapping.
"Spaghetti pizza." Isaiah said. Mitchell poured people glasses of root beer and then everyone got in line to get a piece of pizza.
"Moove homie." Isaiah said to his dad chuckling. Mitchell was serving the pizza.
"One piece?" He asked me.
"Uh, ye- yeah." I had to clear my throat because this was making it, I think, the second time I'd spoken since we got there. Which was about two hours ago. So needless to say, my throat needed to be cleared.
We ate- or should I say, I ate in silence as the three adults laughed and talked like they had never stopped seeing each other. Tatum and Isaiah would occasionally chime in and talked a little while I was quiet and didn't say a word. He probably thought I was a freak.
We watched a little more tv after we ate because our choice of watching The Wolf of Wall Street was quickly dashed by the parents after the first five minutes of the movie started. We were gonna watch a fucking movie while we ate as if being there that long wasn't enough. Then we finally announced we were gonna leave. For real that time.
"Okay bye. Thank you so much." My mom said.
"No problem. Bye!" Linda called. We waved and got in the car and left. The whole ride home we talked about the weirdness of the night and the three and a half hours we just spent at the Callahan’s house.
We got home around 10:30 and I got in the shower. I had one thought running through my head until I fell asleep.

What the actual hell was tonight?

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