My Heart CH.8

My Heart: A Joshayley Story CHAPTER 8

NOTE: Hanna Beth is who I imagined Jaelyn to look like, haha. ----------->>

HAYLEY'S POV:
I took a deep breath and stared right into his scared face, boring my eyes into his. He was expecting me to yell, of course, I could tell by the nervous way he curled and uncurled his fingers and trembled slightly. Instead, I smiled.

"Josh..." I began, "I'm glad you told me the truth, but you don't have to go on lying to me just to...you know, hang out and all that. You could have just asked."

His shoulders dropped, relaxing a bit. "I know, but come on, that's what every other guy would do. It's so damn typical."

"Yeah, and it's so damn easy and normal," I told him, laughing. "And anyways, I would have liked the easy approach better." I looked around the parking lot and realized our potential ditch plan was now over. "So..now what?"

"I don't know. Go back to school? Fake a parent's note? Something to get us off the hook," he suggested. "I'm sure everyone is looking for us in the classrooms now, and we have no excuse."
"I like the parent note idea. That's probably the easiest way to go. Hopefully the secretaries are stupid enough to believe us."

"Yeah. Hopefully," he replied.

JOSH'S POV:
Thank God. For a second there I thought I would be dead meat. Hayley could have screamed at me, and it would have scared me to death. I wouldn't want to mess with her, I knew deep down that this girl was tough. And I didn't want to lose her, either, she was so different from everyone here. I liked her.

"We need to get some paper," I told her, as we both walked back towards the school.

"Duh," she answered. "How are we going to make a note without it?"

"Right. We can go down to Henry's General Store. Henry has...everything."

"You sound like a commercial ad," Hayley noted, amusement in her voice.

"Thanks," I said sarcastically. "Now I feel much better."

She laughed at me again. "Hey, we gotta act fast because third period begins..." I looked quickly at my watch and back at her, "in thirty minutes."

JAELYN'S POV:
And so Hayley and Josh think they could get away quickly. Without anyone seeing.

Yeah. Right.

I'm no stalker, but seriously, sneaking away from the school parking lot is the stupidest thing they have done yet. Honestly, why the parking lot? It's so exposed. So obvious. Of course I noticed them run off.

But whatever. They are so dead. By the end of second period I swear I will personally go to the office to tell them about their little rendezvous. But anyways, detention together would probably be the downside of this plan. They would spend it together, and mingle and maybe come out as boyfriend and girlfriend. Oh God. I could puke at the notion.

In twenty minutes I would go to the office and tell them it was all Hayley's idea. That way, maybe Josh would be let off the hook and that stupid redhead would sulk in detention.

HAYLEY'S POV:
Henry's General Store was very...general. It was small, with a bunch of different aisles. It had an egg farm in the back, where cartons and cartons of eggs were kept in a refrigirated room, while chickens who laid the eggs were kept in their pens outside of the store. Candy bars adorned the front of the store, beside the cash register. Strange music played. I felt like I was in an old farmhouse, if it weren't for all the modernizations.

"Hey Henry," Josh said casually to the man at the front counter. "Do you have any formal doctor's note paper? I've got a little issue."

"Oh yeah?" Henry replied, with a heavy southern accent, "What is it this time?" Henry started pulling out a pad of yellow paper and a pen. He handed it to Josh.

"I don't want detention. My friend and I...well, we tried to ditch but..." he paused and shook his head. "It's a long story."

"Whatever you say, Josh," Henry said with a wink.

"Wh...Henry?! It's not like that. We're not..." he stopped and looked at me quickly, and then looked back at Henry. "Don't say anything," Josh told Henry sternly, his finger out pointing at him like a mother would point and scold her child.

Henry laughed, and his breath smelled like cigarettes. "Ok."

Josh finished writing us both notes. "Let's just say it was a coincidence that we both had a doctor's appointment...at the exact same day...and time." Josh shook his head, suddenly disappointed. "They will never believe us," he said with a sigh.

"Josh," I said, grabbing his hand...which was strange because I was suddenly used to doing that now, "you're giving up too fast. Let's just see what we can do." He smiled at me, hope infused into it. God, I loved that smile. This whole crush thing was getting way too complicated.

We walked back towards the school, and the we heard the faint bell ring. "Oh crap, come on!" Josh told me, picking up his speed. We ran, my hand in his, towards the office at the very front of the school. Finally, out of breath, we reached the office door. Josh pulled it open for me like a gentleman, but I didn't expect what I saw.

Jaelyn was there.