Lend Me Your
Heart
Fifty-Eight
Two months later, Joey and I were sitting in my room and I
started randomly crying like I always did when I heard music
blasting from Zach’s room.
Zach never blasted music before we started dating.
He couldn’t stand it, so the fact that he liked to play
loud music now baffled me.
I felt like he was growing and changing and I didn’t know
why or how and I just wanted to talk to him and make
sure he was still as sweet as he’d been before.
“You’re a mess, Layne,” Joey sighed, running a
hand down his face.
“I know,” I sobbed into my bed sheets, throwing my
favorite book on the ground.
He stayed silent for a moment before his head perked up in
excitement.
“What is it?” I muttered with my cheek squished
against my pillow.
“I have an idea,” he said, standing up and sitting on
the edge of my bed.
“I’m not going to try and talk him out of it,”
I said. “And I’m not going to ‘show him what
he’s missing’ by wearing sexy clothes.”
That was Casey’s idea a few weeks ago.
“No, no,” said Joey. “This idea is the best one
yet.”
“Hit me.”
“Jake Campiello.”
Jake Campiello was one of those stereotypical, bad-boy seniors
with scary clothes, a motorcycle, and a buzz cut.
“What about him?”
“He brings girls to college parties all the time. Flirt
with him and convince him to take you to one.”
“What kind of idea is that?”
“A good one.”
“What’s so good about it? Why would going to a
college party with Jake Campiello solve any of my hopeless
problems?”
“Well, if you wear something dramatic and we somehow get
Zach to see you leaving with Jake on his motorcycle, maybe
he’ll try to stop you or something.”
“And if he doesn’t?”
“Then you’ll go to a really awesome college party,
have a good time, and make him jealous.”
“He’s not going to be jealous if I have a good time
with another boy, Joey. That’s exactly what he wants. He
wants me to move on and meet someone else.”
“Yeah, but if that someone else puts you in
danger…” Joey started, smirking deviously. “I
mean, come on, Layne. Jake has danger written all over him. If
Zach really cared about you, he wouldn’t let you go
anywhere near that freak.”
“So you’re saying I should put myself in danger to
get Zach back?”
“What I’m saying is, I’d rather see you be put
in danger and rescued by your kind-of-boyfriend than see you sit
here and sulk all day, reading your favorite book over and over
and over and over-”
“Okay. I get it.”
“So, what then? You think it’s a good
idea?”
“I think it’s the only thing that’ll work, if
that’s what you mean.”
“Good. Now, let’s go find Jake, shall we?”
“Thanks, Joey.”
“That’s what I’m here for,
Layne.”
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takemetoneverland* · 1 decade ago
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Ahhh beautiful <3 I cant wait for the next chapter lovely <3