Saving Him

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I have been sitting here for three hours... Still singing. "Cole's bringing sexy back, yeah! oh wait he's already done that, yeah!" I sang in the tune of 'Sexy Back' by Justin Timberlake. Even when I'm mad, I can only think about how attractive Cole is. I'm pathetic.

There's a knock on my door and I sit up from my laying position that I was in. "Yeah?" I call out to whoever is on the other side.

My door opens and in comes Jake. "Hey." He greets, walking towards me, turning off the music and then sits on the end of my bed. I watch him cautiously as he does all this.

This is weird.

I raise an eyebrow and look up and down between him and my bed. "Uh, what are you doing in here?" I ask, extremely confused. Jake rarely comes in my room. The only time he does is when he is sneaking out and needs a cover or money. Yup, he's smooches off of people.

He lays a hand over his heart and fakes a look of hurt. "I can't just come to say hello to my sister?" He definitely wants something.

Shrugging, I give him a disbelieving look. "You haven't before..." I mumbled. He stands up and walks to the opposite side of my bed, then sits down with his back rested against the headboard. "Comfortable?" I ask with an amused expression. I copy the position he's in.

He nods. "So... Why does Cole look like shit?" So that's why he's up here. Everyone just needs to mind their own business. What goes on between Cole and I, is only between him. With Jack, Jake, Cara, and even Molly putting their noses in our business is making me upset. If they only knew what was really going on...

'That's impossible...' I thought in my head. Seriously, Cole always looks good. "Perhaps he's tired." It's partly true...

He rolls his eyes and gives me a 'do-I-look-stupid' look. Frankly, I'd say he does look stupid but whatever. "Diana, I'm not stupid. Did you guys break up?"

Why do people assume this all the time?! "We weren't dating."

He huffs. "Seems to me you are." He's just asking for me to slap him.

"Well we aren't." I snapped at him. He can be so annoying at times. Scratch that, he's annoying all the time.

Trust me, if Cole didn't have as much baggage as he does, I most likely would have said yes. It's just the fact that he is in a gang. The last thing I need is to be in a relationship and then worry about if the person I'm dating is going to die or night. I guess either way I care...

He raises an eyebrow and smirks. "Then why were you singing about his 'sexy' muscles?" I blush, he heard me! How embarrassing...

"I was not!" I hit his arm and he laughs. "Gosh, you're so annoying!"

"Why don't we get out of here today?" He suggests.

I raise an eyebrow at him. "It's," I look at the clock on my side table. "two am, dad would be pissed." I tell him.

He shrugged and waved it off. "Nothing new, so what do you say?"

"Where would we go?"

"There's a party at this guy, Tony's. So get dressed because we're leaving in ten minutes." He demands as he walks out of my room. Who the hell has a party at two am on a Tuesday, well now Wednesday? College kids...

I put on a pair of black skinny jeans with a basic white V-neck t-shirt and then my converse. Yeah, I don't really like dressing up. After I finished I go downstairs and see Jake waiting by the door for me. Cole is sitting on the couch looking confused. "Where are you going?" Cole asks as he starts to walk towards me.