The Boys Are Back

Chapter 17

It was Saturday morning, the morning of Miss Harper's wedding. Soon to be Mrs Stryder. I was at Maddy's and we were going to get ready together. I had a sleepover at her place and we were currently chilling. I was making a Snapchat video of myself singing flashlight by Jessie J. Maddy kept making appearances in the video. I'm gonna post it on my Instagram page.

"Cause you're my flashlight oh", I sang and ended the video. I checked the time. "Yo Madds, it's 10:45. We better go shower if we wanna get dressed on time", I said. "Calm down Jo. The wedding is still at 1 o'clock. We got plenty of time", she replied.

I sighed. I saw a text from Tony. He sent me a picture of himself in a suit. He looked pretty hot. He captioned it ,'how do I look?'. I smiled coyly at my phone. Ever since Jordan's party where Tony and I exchanged numbers, we've been texting non stop. I even saved his contact as charming.

'You look dashing', I replied. I remembered when he asked me to be his date to his Uncle's wedding which was today. I was ecstatic but I had to turn him down because Miss Harper really wanted the whole squad there at hers.

It was one of the hardest things I've been waiting for him to ask me on a date? "Ooh, he looks nice", I heard from behind me. I was startled. "Hey keep your eyes outta my phone", I glared. Or should I say tried to because I sighed and flopped back down on the bed. I held a pillow to my face and screamed into it.

"Are you still upset about cancelling on Tony?" Maddy asked while petting my back. "Mmm-hmm", I mumbled into the pillow while nodding. "There there", she cooed, "if he really likes you he'll ask you on another date".

I sighed then sat up. "I know", I whined, "I just hope he likes me enough to ask me on another date soon". I leaned my head on her shoulder while she stroked my hair. "He will. Don't worry", she reassured. We stayed like that for a while until I got a notification on my phone that Jake wanted to FaceTime me. I accepted.

"Hey Josie", he greeted smiling. "Hey Jake".
"Hold on lemme add the others"
In a second my screen was divided into four. I smiled when I saw them. "Hey guys. What's up?" I greeted.

"Hey Jo". "Sup Josie". "How did your studying g" Justin asked me. The real reason for the sleepover was so we could help each other study. The guys did their own studying at home. Our end of semester exams were approaching.

We have only three extra curricular activities before we go on winter break, the Halloween dance, the talent show and the homecoming week - the pep rally on Wednesday, the basketball game on Thursday, the football game on Friday and the dance on Saturday. A week later, we have our exams and then winter break.

"Well, it was okay. We got a lot covered. What about you guys?" "Oh, it was great really, thanks to Jake of course". I saw Jake's cheers tint pink at that. Maddy perked up at that. "What did you mean thanks to Jake?" She said. Jordan and I shared a look and sang the line 'what do you mean?' by Justin Bieber. Everyone else rolled their eyes.

"I'm serious guys", she whined. "Jake is actually really smart", I replied. "Yeah, he has a really high IQ and is very intelligent", Jordan continued.

"He may act like an idiot most times because he is, but he's literally the smartest of all of us", Justin finished. "Wow", Maddy said looking pleasantly surprised. "Oh you guys stop. I'm blushing", Jake gushed.
"But then if you're so smart, why do you act like an idiot most of the time?" Maddy teased.
"Hey!" Jake whined.
"Ooh burn", Jordan laughed, "she got you good man".
"Yeah sure support your girlfriend", Jake pouted.

We all saw Maddy blush at that. "He's not my boyfriend", I heard her mumble. Jordan smirked. I cleared my throat. "So anyway Jake, don't forget you have to tutor me in calculus". "Yeah sure", he replied.