Jaime's Point of View

I couldn't sleep last night. I sat in bed worrying about Rosaline for hours. She never responded to my texts or calls yesterday so I'm still freaking out. I mean with her father and all, who knows if she's okay or not. I would've gone over to her house, but she's never given me her address.

I talked to Vic about it yesterday. I asked him to text her, I thought maybe she was mad at me. After she didn't reply to him either, I started panicking. What am I supposed to think? What am I supposed to do? She could be in danger and I wouldn't even know it. Maybe I'm overreacting, but with her situation I can't stop stressing. I care so much about her, I wouldn't want something bad to happen.

Right now, I have the worst headache. My eyes hurt, my body aches, my mouth is dry, and my hands won't stop shaking too. My mind is going crazy, a thousand thoughts per minute. I think the best thing I can do is get out of this lonely, quiet house. Maybe I'll go get some tea and head on over to the Fuentes' place. It's 8:30 a.m., I'm sure one of the boys has to be awake.

I took a short amount of time to get ready. I quickly straightened my hair, making it stand up in the right places. Then I threw on a Vans crew neck, my skinny jeans, and put on my black slip-on Vans. I grabbed my wallet, phone, keys, and skateboard before running out the door.

The coffee and tea shop was right down the street from my house. In a matter of minutes I was standing in line thinking about what to order.

"Hi, how can I help you?" the lady behind the counter asked me.

"Can I get a twenty ounce, iced, spiced chai tea?"

"Sure thing! That'll be four eighty-five."

I paid the lady, soon after, my tea was given to me. I took a sip of the sweet goodness. This is just what I needed.

I left the small shop and started making my way to Vic's house. His house was in the next neighborhood over, so the trip will take longer. I pulled out my phone and clicked the Pandora app. I shoved my earphones into my ears as Linkin Park Radio started playing. The skate over there was peaceful. The breeze ran through my hair, "Numb" played through the speakers of my earphones, and the chai tea made my taste buds sing. By the time I arrived at Vic and Mike's house I was significantly calmer.

I rang the doorbell and looked through the window waiting for someone to answer. Normally it's rude looking through people's windows, but we're best friends so it doesn't matter. After a few seconds Mike appeared wearing only boxers, he looked like he just woke up.

He opened the door. "Yo, what's up Jaime?"

"I just needed to get out of that god awful house. Can I kick it here?"

"Yeah of course, come in."

We began to walk up the stairs towards his room. The house seemed lifeless. It's a Thursday, so his parents are both at work. "Is Vic still sleeping?" I asked him.

"I think so. I'm not exactly sure, I just woke up."

We walked into his room. I sat on his bed as he put on some shorts. I guess he could tell something was wrong because he asked me, "Man, is there something bothering you?"

"It's Rosaline. Yesterday she never answered any of my calls or texts. I'm just really worried about her." I told him.

"Maybe she needs space?"

"I guess that's a possibility." I paused, "She wouldn't answer Vic's messages either. And you see, she has serious problems at home, so I'm afraid something bad happened."

"I guess all you can do is wait for her to answer back. Just be patient and try not to think about it too much." He shrugged towards me. "Do you wanna play some songs downstairs to get your mind off things?"

"Yeah, I think that'll help. We might wake up Vic though."

"Oh well, his fault for being asleep." The both of us started laughing.

We were downstairs in the huge practice room. Mike was playing a beat on the drums while I strummed some chords on a guitar. Playing along with Mike helped get Rosaline off my mind, but I was still anxious to hear back from her though.


Rosaline's Point of View

I woke up to loud banging on drums and electric guitar. For a moment I was confused, I had forgotten that I fell asleep at Vic's house. I looked over my shoulder to see that Vic had moved in his sleep. He was now lying next to me, his head level with my shoulders. He was sleeping on his stomach, his face turned towards me. His mouth was slightly open, a bit of drool dried on his chin. I don't think I've ever seen a guy sleeping, it's kind of cute. When I fell asleep with Jaime he was awake when I passed out and awake when I had opened my eyes. I felt like a creep staring at Vic, so I turned around.

A few minutes later I heard groaning coming from him. "Rosaline?" he said quietly and disoriented, still half asleep. "Are you still here?"

"Yes, Im still here." I giggled. I looked over at him, his eyes fluttered open. "Good morning." I smiled.

"Good morning." he replied, smiling back. He sat up and stretched. "Why the fuck is Mike playing this early? Is tony here as well?" he asked himself aloud. "Should I check it out?" he questioned me.

I nodded then I yawned.

"I'll be back." he said. He then got up and left the room.

Several minutes later he came back in. I could tell there was something wrong by the look on his face. "So?" I asked.

"Well." he began, "I thought Tony was here but it's actually Jaime. I pulled Mike out of the room to talk to him. He said Jaime was freaking out and needed to get out of the house. I told Mike that you were upset and needed a place to stay last night and explained to him that Jaime can't know you're here."

"What do I do?"

"I asked mike to keep Jaime busy. You should text Jaime right now and ask him if he wants to hang out here. Then we'll pretend like you just came over."

"Okay that should work."

I pulled out my phone and texted Jaime: Hey baby, do you want to hang out at Vic's house? I'll explain to you why I wasn't replying in person.

A few seconds went by until he answered: Yeah, I'm actually already here. I'll see you in a bit.

Vic and I waited 10 minutes before proceeding with the rest of the plan. "Okay, so now we'll act like I just let you inside. So you'll sneak out the window, go over to the front door, and ring the doorbell" Vic said to me.

Vic opened his bedroom window for me to crawl out of. As I was putting on my shoes someone opened Vic's door. Vic forgot to lock it after talking to Mike.

I heard Jaime's voice, "Hey Vic, my lady is coming over, let's do --" he cut off his sentence after seeing me. "Rosaline?"

Shit.

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