Chapter Eight
Bulletproof means designed to resist the penetration of bullets or any other harmful weapons.
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Jessamyn's pov
Early in the morning at six thirty am, my mum called me when it was still dark outside because of the autumn turning to winter weather soon facing time for her to have an inspirational talk about my life knowing that I had class later on today listening to my mum goes on about many of the world's strongest people go through the exactly what I happened to me next, she was speaking about motivation to be better than my criticizers frankly enough, I was feeling bulletproof right after the words of advice from my mother.
It was like my phone was psychic by playing Bulletproof by La Roux in my earphones around nine thirty am when I started singing out loud along with my roommate Rochelle who brought me a cap that said female boss for all of the girls in my friendship group as we continued sing to our heart in content until we were almost late to our classes.
Thankfully, we made it to our classes on time looking stunning as ever walking past the haters and parting ways to the classroom then my professor was teaching us the philosophy of life assigning us homework to do eventually, she dismissed us all, never allowing me to feel sorry for me.
Natalia, Charlie, Rochelle, Avena and Tristan all rushed toward me pulling me in a bone-crushing hug including Asher.
Nobody noticed that I had this weird paralyzing that I was going nowhere even now I was faced with overcoming my fear before it ate me alive or the floor started swallowing me up, ignoring all the other students in the hallway's looks of pity at me.
However, I've been smiling underneath the pain was very draining and faked it until I made it work also, I might have realized that I might need therapy living through so many emotions right now.
"You didn't call me yesterday. Shame you missed out on an amazing opportunity," he said nonchalantly to me.
One of my best outfits today to make me feel better and never ashamed of my insecurity was my scar on the back of my head I was wearing a top in bold print scars may fade but the pain stays longer with black high-waisted jeans, a puffa jacket unzipped and white/ black high-top trainers than on my face was simple light makeup because I didn't want to look like I cry myself a river even if I know the truth but here we were singing let it go together by James Bay laugher out loud not caring who hears us walking toward an empty art classroom to go painted out all of our frustration.
Furthermore, I realized that there was no need to cry over the past when I could focus on the present and future as Fletcher was standing out of the room for being the most chaotic person ever, one time the boys spent a whole cleaning the whole classroom or his parent had to pay the dean more money to pay for cleaners to clear up the whole paints fights predicament that happened he got ban from ever stepping a foot into this classroom ever again last year that what i had found out from Mason.
"Miss out on what opportunity exactly?"I asked him, bemused.
A blank art canvas, a girl who fought with so much laughter and love to overcome her nightmare alongside her friends who stayed by her side no matter what we were all there for each other being a bunch of problematic young adults who might be damaged by our past or life experiences trying to heal what was broken in us.
I always wanted to stare up at the sun or the night sky because something as gorgeous as it has never been broken in life unless rain was when the sky fell upset crying its sad heart out, in the meantime, I gazed up at the night sky with me sitting down on the grassy ground staring up in the sky in wonder dreaming of all the endless possibility that may come my way knowing that I never felt more at peace at this moment realizing that one of my worst nightmares were finally over than soon come to the tsunami of many of crowds would rush over me to asked questions about it.
"Late night, midnight calls-"
He gets interrupted by Fletcher who decides to say this. "oh, I get why you wanted her to call you last night," added Fletcher.
Everyone else looks over at Fletcher not amused by him adding double meaning behind Asher's words as they continue painting for the time being when Rochelle shakes her head at Fletcher as everybody was thinking it yet none of us was saying it out loud and then I saw a tall shadow hovering over me who was my Mr.whiskeys eyes, and instantly our hands accidentally touched while they were still painting, he looked me like really looked at me with his smile slightly curved into a smirk there were almost ten minutes for us to spend in this room before we go to our other classes which mean ten minutes for the paint to dry, now we all took our artwork alongside us within the remaining minutes of our break we sat outside on one of those benches.
"Very mature of you, Fletcher," said Grayson ironically.
Every single moment spent with my friends was the best part of my day as I was listening to folks' music called Use Somebody on low volume through my earphones taking slices pieces of peaches out of a tiny container in my bag to eat them and then he wrote on a piece of paper asking me if I was still up for tutoring him tomorrow so I was going to be burrowing many books from the library tonight to use it to help him study tomorrow night.
Amongst, my friends kept asking me if I was going to be okay when they had to go to their classroom as we all started getting up off the bench to walk back into the academic building towards our classes and then I didn't even know that my shoelaces untied themselves until he steps in front of me to go down on his knees to tie them for me because he didn't want me to trip over myself always caring about my safety.
"I have a crazy idea. Why don't we go mark a tree down by the lake after school?" suggested Rochelle.
I was going to be okay as long as I had these people by my side every single day, I switched off my music put my earphones in my pocket laughing at a funny joke that Asher had told me while some of the girls on campus had begun to started crowd around him whereas I continued to listen to Mason talk with Rochelle eventually, the laughter came from the girls chatting to him but I could feel his eyes looking at me for the whole time as our eyes met only for a millisecond.
Furthermore, I smiled up at him and realized that every single girl loves a strong confident boy like him I thought to myself that he was the only one who made me feel like I didn't have to explain myself to or the way he told me that he didn't believe all the other rumours about me.
His ego was the biggest thing that I knew about him other than when he grinned at me, I noticed that he had dimples on one side of his face on his cheek regardless of whether or not I might found his dimple cute however, I was still getting to know what his personality traits were like too.
"No, it doesn't sound crazy at all," said Mason understandably.
Returning my focus to my friends and talking about a couple of different types of interesting things with each other.
"On a count of one, two and three. Tell me what was the most humorous, cheesiest, craziest or greatest pickup line that you have ever heard," said Avena with a laugh.
Quite frankly for me, it has been a very long time since I've dated anyone who I like for three years now I've been very single and focused on my recovery to even remotely meet a boy, but this made me realise that I have forgotten to look for Erick to tell him that I was going to be free next week Wednesday evening for our date because I was the queen of being completely occupied with coursework, two jobs, having a social life and possibly practising some ice skating techniques moves together me and Asher.
"Did you fart? Because you completely blew me away." Said Rochelle with the most impassive face ever.
Ohh, my gosh, I couldn't even stop laughing when I heard that pickup line even though it wasn't the good kind of funny nonetheless it was the worst kind of funny that was what made it so hilarious and then the expression on Rochelle's face made me laugh even harder than the actual pickup lines itself though because she was saying many words that we were all thinking about just with the look on her face.
Positively I was dying of laughter at the moment not to mention that whoever says that needed to go through the entire internet to find a more appropriate pickup line than that to be honest, the end of the story was that she had turned this guy down due to how horrible it sounded.
Natalia shrugged for a second "Excuse me, did you fall out of heaven because you are an angel to me?" she smiled and said, "I don't mind this one though because I rate it a six out of ten."
Today started to already begin to brighten up for me as we all were chatting about how people were using those pick up lines on us, honestly, we were comparing them from the worst to the best ones in a long list nonetheless, my friends made me laugh so much, I needed lighthearted and funny conservation to help me make it through these long days during overthinking everything completely inside of my mind.
Three out of ten for the first one, it was quite funny, the next one that Natalia said had more points than the other ones that were badly laughable truly wasn't expecting some of them and then following after that Grayson said some of his pick-ups lines that he would most likely use on girls. Not going to lie but some of those pickup lines were kinda sweet as we ranked them in the top seven leaving some space for Wyatt and Asher to tell us about their pickup lines to take the top two first ones on the list.
"Are you a parking ticket? Cause you've got fine written all over you."Wyatt said while looking at Avena.
A seven out of eight for Wyatt ones.
"Four and four become eight, but you and I can be fate." I laughed at how forward and cutesy my one was.
However, he momentarily just smiled more at me, smoothly wrapping his arm around my neck as we walked into class like this, sitting at our desks and waiting for our teacher to begin with his lesson plan right now.
For a second, he played with my curly hair. "Can I borrow your phone? I need to call God and tell him I've found his missing angel," he whispered softly in my ears a pick-up line.
Nearly getting kicked out of the classroom by our teacher as he started telling me more pick-up lines to keep me smiling and laughing almost ending up choking on my bottle of water that I was drinking even though we were lucky to have a substitute teacher in the last half hours of class today because we had already finished the work that the teacher has given the sub to teach.
At the end of the class, we were playing a game where we got given questions by our teacher about who would we save if we were all stuck on a desert island of how many people to save.
For instance, an army veteran, a terminally sick eight-year-old, a GP employee and a plane pilot.
A moral high ground was really hard to take even if I wanted to save all of them as we discussed this in our group of five at our table in class the others had chosen an army veteran, a GP employee so it was down between the last two a terminally sick eight years old boy who was going to die in two months or a Plane pilot I was thinking with my heart because who knows the scientist might come up with a cure or medicine to fix that little boy problem although a couple of boys in my group thought otherwise except for one girl and Asher who seems to agree with me.