Beautiful Broken Rules (Broken, Series #1)(93)

I started the CD off with a song by “Of Monsters and Men,” about a guy that loved a girl, even though she can’t love him back. It seemed fitting to begin this story of songs for him like that. The CD flowed into other songs about how I wouldn’t be the same without him and then finally, the last couple of songs spoke about how much I loved him. I planned on telling him I loved him in person before he listened to it. He deserved that. The more songs I would come across, the more excited I had become to see him. I decided to call him to find out when he would be home. I knew that he had practice soon, so I had to wait until later in the evening. The phone rang twice and went straight to voicemail. That was weird, so I sent him a text.

Me: Hey, I know I upset you the other day. I want to make it up to you ;-)

By midnight, there was still no response from Jaxon. Neither him nor Jace were answering their phones or coming home. I had gone out to the parking lot numerous times to check to see if the motorcycle or truck were back. I was starting to look like one of those crazed jealous girlfriends. Quinn told me she had talked to Cole, but he wasn’t with the guys. I hoped that they were okay. I tried calling two more times before I went to bed, but then my calls just started going directly to voicemail sometime after ten o‘clock. I’ll just have to catch him tomorrow between classes, since we didn’t have any together on that day.



Chapter Seventeen

Don’t Do This

The next morning I woke up and decided to curl my hair in loose waves and leave it all down. I put on a little bit of mascara and lip-gloss. I’m not going to lie, I was trying to look good for Jaxon. Neither he nor Jace had come back last night, so I’m just hoping that he’ll actually be at school today. Then I remembered Jaxon saying, that if they even missed one class, they would be benched for the championship game tomorrow. I knew he wouldn’t risk something like that.

I didn’t see him until near the end of my lunch break. I was sitting at the table with our regular group. Quinn was telling Cole about the new students she was tutoring this semester, which not surprisingly were all female. I had almost given up on the idea of seeing him at school today at all. When I saw him through the windows of the cafeteria coming across the courtyard, I decided to go and meet him. He was walking with two girls I had only seen a few times before. They seemed to be animatedly talking to him, while he just nodded his head. I could tell he wasn’t paying attention to what they were actually saying.

I turned and smiled at Quinn, “I’m going to go talk to him, kay?”

She nodded her head, but she looked unsure. She wouldn’t be this weird if it was Cole out there and she needed to apologize. I should be the nervous one; I was going to tell him I loved him. I jogged out into the courtyard and met up with him in the middle.

“Hey, I‘ve been trying to call you,” I smiled up at him.

He didn’t smile just nodded his head back at me, “I noticed.”

I looked at his two groupies and said, “Okay, you ladies can run along now, I’d like to talk to my boyfriend.” They huffed and looked up at Jaxon to say something different, but he didn’t, so they walked away sulking.

“Em, I don’t think we should be together anymore,” he finally spoke.

“Why do you have to do that? Why do you have to purposefully call me Em whenever you’re mad? Don’t be childish, Jaxon,” I replied angrily. This is not how I wanted to begin this conversation.

He took a deep breath. “Emerson, I don’t think we should be together anymore,” his voice sounded flat and lifeless.