chapter 6

Jake's POV

It was stupid not to tell her. I thought. Now she was going to fall in love with Chase like she fell in love with me.

I wasn't not blind or stupid. I knew Chase was winning this war and all I could think about was how I didn't tell her.

I never lied. I loved her and I still do. It just seemed more complicated. I had to leave and I couldn't say goodbye. Goodbye would've sucked. And if I said goodbye, oh God if I said goodbye and she had cried, I would've never been able to leave.

How hard would've it been to tell her my mom had Cancer and I needed to leave and take care of her. She knew I lived with my dad and Kelly. She knew my dad and mom had gotten a divorce long before she had cancer. She would've understood that I had to go. And at the time I thought she wouldn't recover, I thought I'd being staying with her for some time.

It was stupid and I wasn't thinking straight, but how the hell was I supposed to pick been the girl I loved and my mom?

I just wasn't supposed to choose.

I didn't think I'd break Skye's heart. I sent her roses, with a tiny card trying to explain the situation. I truly thought she'd read them. But she didn't.

Now I'm going to have her being kissed and touched by other guys and I hated that. Adam go only do so much. Especially when it came to Chase, because he seemed to be blind to the idea of Chase and Skye hooking up. Which they were clearly going to do ifI didn't find away to stop it.

I missed her, I seriously, one hundred percent missed

A football came flying at my head and I didn't even try to catch it or block it. It hit me and stopped my train of thought completely.

"Wastin!" Adam yelled from across the field as he jogged towards me. When he reached me he finished his thought, "What the hell was that?"

I shook my head and forced a laughed hoping it sounded more realistic than I thought it did, "Nothing, I was day dreaming."

"About what, dude?" he questioned, "You looked so intense."

"Nothing," I reassured him, but then my curiousity suddenly spiked and I couldn't help asking, "Where's Chase?"

He shrugged. "I was wondering the same thing," he mused and then a sly grin crept onto his face, "I bet he's sneaking around with some girl. You know how he is? He likes his girls kind of like little kids like their toys. He wants something when some one else wants it and once he gets to play with it for a week or two he'll dump 'em."

My heart stopped when I heard that. He was going to break Skye's heart, probably worse than I did. I at least had a good reasonor at least I thought it was a good reasonto leave. And at least I'd tried to explain why I did what I what.

But how was I supposed to tell Skye if she hooks up with her brother's best friend he would make her his little play thing before dumping her. How was I going to tell her without appearing jealous or like I was just messing up Chase's chance with her? Otherwise she definitly wasn't going to listen to him.

I had to go tell her.

Now.

Chanse's POV

I was actually going to take Skye out. Like on a date. I've kind of waited a while for this. Well, more than a while. Like I promised I was going to make dating me awesome for her, hopefully with the intenttion to make her forget all the bad stuff I'd done to her in the past.

And I've done a lot of bad stuff to her.

A lot.

I was just about to get out of my car, across the street from her house, when I saw a car pull up. If I hadn't known what Adam drovea black pick up truck then I would've panicked, but that was not a black pick up truck in the Barker's driveway.

I wondered who it was before remembering I'd seen that car before. I was the day I dragged Skye out of Jake's car.

Jake, I cussed.

I whould've known this was going to happen. I assumed she'd probably kick him out quickly and then I could go get her for our date. She didn't kick him out. I sat there for forty five minutes before I slammed my car door Open and stomped up to Skye's house.

I was going to kill this kid.