Summerdays….*Chapter 22*

At Gabbie’s house, while Jared sits outside waiting for the fight to end:

“I DON’T CARE, WHY DIDN’T YOU FUCKING CALL ME?!” comes Shannon’s yell’s. “I TOLD YOU, I DIDN’T WANT TO WAKE YOU, AND BESIDES YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME IT WAS JUST IN MIND MESSEING WITH ME AND TO GO BACK TO SLEEP!” Gabbie yell’s back. “NO I WOULD HAVE NOT!” “OH YES YOU WOULD, I KNOW YOU SHANNON” “WELL I GUESS YOU REALLY DON’T KNOW ME BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE CAME OVER IF YOU CALLED ME TELLING ME YOU WERE CREEPED OUT AND ALL” “YEAH RIGHT!” “OH WHATEVER!” “YEAH AND ANOHER THING, MR. YOU HAVE TO CALL ME ABOUT WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING ARE WHEREEVER YOU ARE! YOU NEED TO WALK ON WHAT YOU SAY!” “WHAT?!” “YOU DIDN’T AND NEVER DO CALL ME WHEN YOU SAY YOU WILL, LIKE THIS MORNING, I WAITED AROUND THE PHONE FOR A HOUR BEFORE I GOT ENOUGH MIND TO GIVE UP!” “I WAS BESY, AND I WAS GOING TO CALL BUT I WAS LIKE A MINUTE AWAY FROM THE HOUSE SO….” “SURE, AND YOU WERE BESY LAST WEEK AND ALL OF THE OTHER TIMES!” “YOU KNOW I REALLY DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS!” “WELL THEN DON’T!” “FINE!” “FINE!”

And then Shannon storms out the door and into his car and goes. Jared waits a few minutes before going up to the house. When he walks up and knocks on the door, Gabbie yell’s, “Come in!” Jared walks in to find Gabbie in the kitchen making coffee with tears in her eyes. “Oh hey Jared, what’s up?” she says filling her cup up. “Um, nothing much. Are you ok?” “Sure, fine” Jared takes a good look at her. “You don’t look like it” “Don’t you fucking start” “Ok. Well all I have to say is that for someone who’s fine, your eyeliner is running” Gabbie puts her finger up to her eye and pulls it back to find it covered in eyeliner and tears. “Shit” she says reaching for a paper towel. “No no, that would just make it worse, here” says Jared giving her a tissue from the tissue box in the counter. “Thanks” she says wiping her eyes. “No prob, now sit down and tell me what happened” Gabbie sits down and asks him, “Did you hear us yelling?” “Yeah, um, sorry, I didn’t mean to hear, tried not to but…” “It’s ok, we really didn’t care who heard us, it seems huh?” Jared just nods his head and sits down. “So what started this?” he asks. “Well, he walked in and I was going to make us coffee and he asked me how my night was” begins Gabbie, “And I told him that I was really creeped out last night, and he went off yelling about I should have called him and he would have came over and blah blah blah. You heard the rest” “Yeah. Don’t worry about him, it seems he has some things to work out with himself” “You think?” Gabbie then gets up and walks over to the coffee pot and asks Jared, “Want a cup?” “Nah can’t, gotta meeting with the guys and, I came over for my wallet cause I left it here last night” “Oh, yeah I saw it on the coffee table this morning, was gonna call you about it, it’s still there in the living room” “Ok thanks” he then walks over and picks up his wallet. “Um, so we’re still on for lunch with Dee and Frank?” “Oh yeah, she called and asked if we were going, I said yes for me, don’t know what you and Shan are doing” “Well I’m in, I’ll ask Shan what he wants to do at the meeting” “Ok then, you better get going” “Um ok. Are you sure your alright?” “Yeah, I’ll live. Thanks Jare” “No prob” They hug, and Gabbie sees Jared out the door.

A few hours later:

Gabbie is just sitting around reading. Then Jared calls her saying that Shannon’s in on the lunch date with them. Gabbie calls Dee to tell her that they all are going. “Oh awesome hun! Still at two right?” “Yep, still two” “Ok. So do you want us to pick you up?” “That’s fine” “Ok then, see you then!” “Ok” Before they hang up, Dee says real fast, “Wait sec! Are you ok?” “Um, yeah I’m fine” “Sure? You don’t sound fine” “I’m ok” “Alright, see you later” “See ya” and they hang up. Gabbie sits down on the window seat and lets out a deep sigh. She looks at the photo with her and Shannon on the beach hugging, looking happy, not a care in the world. “Now what do I do?” she says to herself picking up the photo. “What do I do?”