With a Chance of Jake

The One I Fell in Love With

"Ok mom. I'm leaving", I yelled walking out the front door. Zach and his friends were here to pick me up for the beach. I ran outside and Zach called me from a BMW. He had saved a seat next to me in the front so I got in. "Wow, another birthday gift", I asked. "I guess you could say that, It's kind of like an early birthday gift...... To myself.", he said. "Seriously!? You bought this? That's a lot of money" "Yeah well it was no big deal." I looked in the back and said hi to Aramis and Amanda. "Soooo, me and my friends were having a party at my house tonight. Did you want to come?", Zach said. "You guys have a lot of parties don't you?", I replied. "Yeah, well its summer in L.A., how could you not" "Sure ill come", I said. I looked at my phone and there were 2 new messages from Jake. I called him and when he answered, he sounded really tired. "Hi", he said. "Hey, are you ok?" , I said. "Yeah, it's just that we were up filming until 5 am last night, and I couldn't go to sleep after. I'm super tired now" "Aww. Well I should let you sleep", I said, about to hang up. "No, no. I wanna talk to you. What are you doing?", he yelled. "Heading to the beach with Zachary Gordon." "Really. How'd you meet him.", Jake asked. "Well he was at a diner that I went to after I left the airport. He's really cool.", I said and Zach smiled. "Who's that", Zach asked. "Oh, Its Jake." "Hi Jake!", he yelled. "Well i don't know if you should be hanging out with him", Jake said. "What, why?" "Well I heard from my friend Jeff that he's pretty wild", Jake explained. "Oh Jake. I think ill be fine." "Ok, but just be smart Ash. Be the smart, and beautiful Ashley I know. The one I fell in love with. I gotta go, we're almost on set" I was speechless as he hung up. DID HE JUST SAY HE FELL IN LOVE WITH ME? IN LOVE. OH MY GOSH. I started to scream, but Zach caught me. "Are you ok", he said. He had caught me smiling and shaking. "Oh, um yeah. Im fine." I turned and looked out the window as we drove down the Los Angeles highways. He said he fell in love with me.

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That day was the best day I'd had at the beach. Even though people kept coming up to us asking Zach for autographs, he didn't get upset, and he made sure I had everything I needed, which was kind of weird, but I just liked the idea of everything I needed: Chairs, drinks, towels. The addition of a shirtless Zach also helped with making it the best beach day too. Jake called me about 4 times to check up on me. I didn't understand. Why was he so scared about me hanging out with Zach. He wouldn't tell me, but I knew it had to be something bad.

At around 6, We packed up and headed to Zachs house for his party. "If you haven't been to a Zachary Gordon party then your really missing out", Aramis said. "Yeah it can really get crazy", Amanda added. I thought about how it could get soo crazy, but nothing came to mind. Then I remembered what happened at the beach. Whenever someone would come over to Zach to ask for a picture or autograph, he would tell them to come to his house at around 7. Did he really invite all those people to his party? I doubt they would all come but, that could certainly mean crazy!

We got to Zachs house at around 6:30 and he ran inside to start setting up. The house was huge, probably bigger than mine, and Jake's put together. There were 3 floors, and the ceilings were incredibly high on each floor. There were barely any walls. the kitchen opened up into the dining room which opened into the living room. Each of the rooms were huge, and filled with sparkling clean furniture. In each hallway, there were pictures and Zach and his family. On tables, there were priceless artifacts, and collectables. "Wow", I said. I assumed that Aramis and the rest of Zachs friends had been there a lot because they immediately ran into the kitchen and into the fridge. They knew where everything was. I walked around looking at all the picrures of Zach growing up and his family, and then I came to a room on the second floor. The door had a big sign on it that said "Do not enter." The sign didn't look like a real "Do not enter" sign, but more like a sign boys just put on their doors. I reached for the knob, but someone grabbed my hand. It was Zach. "The signs there for a reason", he said. "Oh I see, no girls allowed?" "Something like that", he said walking me back over to the living room. Just then somebody rang the doorbell. Aramis answered the door, but then he called for Zach who was sitting on the couch with his arm around my shoulder. Only when he got up is when i realized it. I picked up my phone and saw the picture of Jake and I that I had as my lock screen. "You know what. It's been months since I've been to a big party. I'm gonna have fun", I said turning off my phone. I hadn't really paid attention to what was going on at the door, but when aramis walked into the kitchen, I heard glasses clinking, and then he yelled "Hell yes. Tonights gonna be great!" I looked back towards Zach who was stuffing something in his pockets, but I didn't really know what that was either, and when he sat down and put his arm around my shoulder, I let him, and leaned my head on his shoulder, totally forgetting about Jake.