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[nightlykora]

Forbidden Part 4

Sage

10:27 AM, Monday Nov. 16

Me - Do you like Kennedy

Her drink drippled down her shirt. 

Me - I know you like guys and girls. So you must like her. 

Sage - I havent liked her since year 10

Me - Well then why where you are staring at her stomach 

Sage - .....

Sage - shut up

Me - lol

She gave me a side eye. 

"Let's go swimming!" She said and walked her plate over to the dishwasher. 

"I don't have a swimsuit." Ash said in question. 

"We'll figure that out later." Sage said running the opposite direction of the stairs. 

Jarred chased after her and so did Ash. Me and Willow looked at each other and went after them to. I was the last one in the echoey pool room. Jarred was over by the hot tub messing with the settings box that looked like a light switch. Ash and Sage were staring at the pool. 

"What color do you guys want the pool to be?" Jarred asked not looking at us. 

"A ember color." Willow said. 

He pressed a few buttons, and the pool became the color Willow requested. 

"Well let's just swim in our under clothes."  Sage said as she unbuttoned the front of her night jumper leg first.

I honestly didn't rember her wearing that the day before but she did have a backpack, so it was probably in there.

"Yeahhh I'll be fine. I have some things I need to turn in online." I said and went to sit on the chair. 

I looked up after I sat down, and Sage had got to the top of the buttons. She clearly wasn't wearing a bra.

"SAGE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" I yelled.

Jarred turned to look at her clearly scared of what she was doing. As soon as he realized his face turned a bright shade of red. All he could really see was her back because she had taken her jumper off. 

"What?" she asked confusedly.

I signaled to her chest, and she looked down.

"Oh shit!" She said as she reached down for her jumper, "I completely forgot." 

"Sage! You can borrow my shirt!" Jarred said throwing his shirt at Sage still not looking. 

Willow jumped in the pool. Ash was still standing there. She turned around and looked at me. She walked over and sat at the foot of the chair I was sitting at and stared at the pool. I thought Sage looked different the day before, but I guess that was why.

"Jarred! This is a white shirt!" Sage yelled. 

He covered his eyes and started to run to the door. 

"I'll go get you a shirt." He said.

Sage just jumped in the pool without a care. It might have been because it was just us girls, but I didn't know. Willow was on a pool float and was looking at her phone. 

"Oh my god! Sage look at this photo Piper just sent me of her with Quinn." Willow said as Sage rested her chest on Willow's float.

Piper was Willow's older sister by five years making her 21 years old. She wasn't her entire sister, but her stepsister. Her dad had Piper in a marriage before Willow was born. Her dad divorced Piper's mom when she was one and meet Willow's mom and then had Willow and Dove in that order. Dove is 3 years younger than Willow making her 13. 

Sage's older brother was six years older than her, so he is about 23. Sage and Quinn had been inseparable till he left to travel with Piper on and off. Now it's just Sage and her mom because her dad had passed in a car accident when Sage was seven. Piper and Quinn had been dating for four years, but according to Willow, they liked each other when they first met. 

"Are they coming to Thanksgiving for me or for you?" Sage asked. 

"Probably you because they went to mine last time." Willow replied.

I looked at Ash who was still sitting at the edge of the chair. I sat down my phone, and she looked at me. 

"What?" She asked. 

"I'm kind of surprised you're not swimming. You love it." I said as she looked back at the water. 

She mumbled something.

"What was that?" I asked.

"I don't like swimming in bikinis." She said

I had forgot about that. I was the only one she ever told out of our whole friend group. Before we went to high school, she was a lot bigger than she was now. Because of that she had obtained stretch marks around and waist and became extremely uncomfortable about them. Personally, however, I thought they looked cute on her, but I never did tell her that. She told me that she thought they were a big deal and that everybody else would make fun of her, so she never told anybody but me. 

"Come here." I said and patted the side of the seat beside me.

She moved up and placed her head on my shoulder. I started rubbing her head and checking my assignments. I had an urge. I separated her skirt and nice shirt on her stomach. I saw her marks and traced them with my fingers. She looked at me. I fixed her clothes to cover it back up.

"Sorry. I don't know why I did that." I said and put both hands back on my phone. 

She sat up, "It's fine I liked it." She said and stood up. 

She took off her skirt slowly then her shirt. I was just starting. It was honestly kid of hot. She stood there for a minute.

"Oh, hell yeah Lynn," Sage said, "Look at those hips! Shakira who." 

Jarred came in with his eyes covered, "SAGE! HERES A SHIRT!" He said and ran out the door. 

Sage got out of the pool and slipped the shirt on and ran out the door.

[nightlykora]

Forbidden Part 3

Heather POV

It was maybe about 10 because I had fallen asleep somehow. I sat up and saw everybody else asleep and that Jarred was gone. I figured he was probably in the kitchen getting a drink, so I quietly walked down the stairs till I got about halfway down, and I heard someone talking. 

"So, what was all the screaming about earlier?" Rose asked. 

I thought she was talking to me till I heard a glass on glass, sound. I looked threw the slits in the stairs and saw Jarred and his mom having, what I was assuming was the leftovers of the milkshakes.

"It wasn't anything mom! Heather just screams a lot. It was warranted to." Jarred said and took a drink of the leftover shake. 

"It was over Sage, wasn't it?" Rose asked and Jarred shook his head sadly. Rose held his folded hands, "JJ! She's a very pretty girl. But if she likes girls you need to let her kiddo." She put her hand on his dropping head. 

I ran down the stairs and pulled out a chair on the dining room table.

"She likes guys to." I said out of breath. 

"How much of that conversation did you hear?" Jarred asked finally picking his head up. 

"Enough to know that you probably like Sage." I said realizing I probably messed up. 

What was strange about me just know figuring this out was that I usually knew everything.

 He buried his head in my shoulder. 

"Thank you Heather." He said with his voice breaking. 

The next thing I knew I was being hugged. I was confused at first, but then laid my head on his and hugged him back. Rose was smiling at me, so I smiled back at her. She got up without making a sound and went to her bedroom. I looked back at Jarred and ran my fingers threw his hair. I felt water on my shoulder. I tried to ignore it. 

"I should be thanking you to." I said as he instantly picked his head up. 

He really was crying, and it was the first time I had ever seen him cry. To tell the truth I had no clue why he was crying. 

"What did I do?" He uttered, wiping his eyes with his sleeves. 

"You let me do something I wanted to do for years." I said as he smiled.

"What? Watch Jennifer's Body?" He chuckled.

"Nope! You let me kiss Ash." I said and looked off to the huge kitchen. 

"You like Lynn?" He spoke in a way like he could have never guessed. 

"I like girls and I'm polyamorous. I thought it was obvious. I even have her name as "Mami" in my phone. Okay! Maybe I shouldn't have said that." As soon as I said that Jarred asked me for my phone to which I gave him it. 

He opened up the contact and texted it "this is lynn right" and sent it. We heard the ding upstairs and giggled. 

"You have Jay's number. What the hell do you even talk about?" He said out of curiosity. 

"No! Jarred! Don't!" It was too late. 

His eyes widened. 

"What the hell! This is from today to! Why didn't you tell me about this? You've even told him to stop! Why is he sending you these!" It was like rapid fire words, I couldn't stop him.

He got up and ran up the stairs. 

"JARRED STOP!" I was trying to breath as I ran and yelling wasn't helping, and neither was their big house. 

I heard running up the loud stairs and from Jarred's room.

"HEATHER WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPINING?" We had woken up Willow. 

Jarred was now in Jay's room and yelling. I ran in and they were on the ground throwing punches. I tried to pick him up, but I couldn't, Willow tried holding me back. Rose ran in yelling at her two sons, as she was also trying to pick Jarred up. No one could. I couldn't hear anything anymore. Never in my life would I have thought I would have caused so many problems. I screamed and I couldn't hear it. Willow pulled me out of the room into their huge hall bathroom. 

She sat down and I curled up into her arms. I started crying and she messed with my hair till I fell asleep. 

.....

I woke up breathing heavily and felt terrified. 

"HEY! HEY! HEATHER YOUR SAFE! IT'S OKAY!" Ashlynn was speaking. 

I looked at her and we were both in Jarred's bed. I flung my arms around her. I let go and cupped her head in my hands. It hit me. I made sure my glasses were on my face.

"JARRED!" I said and grabbed her by the hand and dragged her out the door. 

We ran down the stairs to the kitchen. They were all sitting there but Jay. I let go of Ash's hand and ran to hug him. 

"You're okay! Is Jay okay to?" I looked at him after and he was just confused. 

"Why wouldn't me and Jay be okay kid?" He asked with pure confusion. 

It was all a dream. From the time we started playing truth or dare till this morning. 

I ran to Rose and hugged her as she dropped her spatula on the counter. She rubbed the top of my head. I really had no motivation for this I just did it. I let go of her and ran to Jay's room and through the door. He looked up from his phone and moved the cover up too his neck. 

"JAY!" I yelled loudly. 

I sat next to him, and he moved over. 

"I know this is like really random. Did you and Jarred have a fight yesterday?" As soon as I spoke he sat up and the covers fell down. 

He a thin body but looked so chiseled when he wasn't. I couldn't help but look at him. It was kind of hot to be honest. It was obvious he was only wearing underwear, but it honestly didn't bother me. 

"What the hell would me and JJ have a fight over?" He paused then continued, "This is about that nightmare you were having. Isn't it? You sleepwalked to halfway up the stairs to my room then to the bathroom and ended up cuddling next to Ashlynn. All the while you were talking about me fighting JJ."

"How did you-"

"Security cameras." He butted in. 

Jarred POV

"What's her deal?" I asked.

"I have no idea! She woke up screaming. Then she took my hand and ran down here." Lynn said taking a bite of toast. 

"What time did she fall asleep?" Sage yelled from the bathroom.

"Who fell asleep when?" Willow asked from the stairs. 

"Oh, my lands! I thought you were both asleep!" Lynn said. 

"Well what time did she fall asleep?" Mom asked as she sat the eggs down on the table. 

"We found out she was asleep after you asked what we wanted for supper. Then Lynn fell asleep in an instant after you left like she was a robot." I told my mom. 

Sage walked out of the bathroom and sat down by Lynn. Willow also sat down but on the other side of the table. 

"What dream did you have last night?" Sage started, " You were saying Heather's name in your sleep." She nudged Lynn in the arm. 

"OKAY! What do you guys want to drink?" Mom asked adverting the words Sage had just said.

Heather POV

"So do you know what time I fell asleep?" I asked while he opened up his phone. 

"Well, I went to into JJ's room to see what the yelling was for, and I saw this." He showed me his phone. "It wasn't really important, but you can see you asleep."

It was a picture of Sage and Jarred with Willow yelling at a horror movie, and Ash was asleep on Jarred's bed. I looked at myself, I was passed out on the floor. 

"I need to go talk to Ash!" I said and got up to run. 

I ran through the door down the stairs into the kitchen. They were all eating because Rose had stopped making food. Ash was just sitting there eating calmly. I looked at Ash and told her we needed to talk outside. She followed me outside and shut the door. 

"I had like the strangest dream ever and I need to talk to you about it." I said as she looked at me.

"Oh my god! I had a strange dream to." She said with a smile.

"On the count of three let's just say what was strange about it okay?" I told her with a rush of adrenalin coursing through my body, "One two th-" I stopped. 

"Girls, I have to go pick Nicholas up from the airport. I'm taking Jay, and I usually would put Jarred in charge, but Sage is the oldest so she's in charge. Be safe and come inside soon, okay?" Rose said and just as soon as she appeared she disappeared.

Ash ran after Rose inside and I followed her to go eat. I sat down by Sage who was looking at her phone. She was looking at a picture of Kennedy. I guess I should say a picture of her nonexistent abs. I reached for a plate and put sausage and toast on it. Ash sat by Jarred in front of me. I took out my phone and opened Sage's contact. 

[nightlykora]

Forbidden Part 2

Sage POV

"You're welcome my little flower." Rosey said as she kissed his forehead. 

She walked out the door and waved. 

"Oh my god! We should so take a picture for my Instagram!" I said happily. 

"Sure!" Heather said putting down her slice of pizza. 

I took out my phone and held it up to make sure everyone was in frame. 

"Lynn what are you doing? Get in frame bro!" Willow said jokingly. 

"Okay fine!" Ashlynn said and scooted into the shot. 

I took the picture and tried to figure out the caption.

"What should I caption it?" I asked mainly everybody, but Heather was the only one to respond. 

"Hanging with my bffs." She said bluntly with a mouth full of food. 

"Well, okay. I'll go with it." I replied.

I typed it in and added a few emojis then posted it. I wish I was joking but I'm not, because within five minutes we were watching the movie, barely making a dent in it and I got a notification. 

Somebody had commented on the photo. I opened it up and read it. 

"OMG of course all of the gay planterheads r hanging out"

I felt my face stiffen. Our friend group had been called the Planterheads since we meet Heather and Lynn. The people that didn't like us called us Planterheads only because one of them somehow knew that all of your names were something to do with plants. Now where they got the gay thing from, I had no idea, because as far as I knew they are all straight. 

I felt a hand grip my shoulder as a tear fell down my face. "Are you okay Sia?" It was Ashlynn. 

I touched her hand. "Yea. I'm fine." I responded and put my phone down. I forgot to turn it off and me and Lynn both went for it at the same time. She got to it first and fell over trying to get to it. 

"What are you doing Ash?" Heather asked her.

Now everybody was looking at us now. 

"Oh, she just got a DM and I wanted to read it." Lynn scarily said and gave my phone back.

"Thanks Lynn." I took the phone back and looked at it. By now it had turned off, so I turned it back on and saw my lock screen. It was a picture of all 5 of us again at Jarred's house but we where all laying down and I had put tiny hearts around all of us. My phone read my face and unlocked. I opened the DM. It was from one of the nicer girls at school named Kennedy. Kennedy is the head of counsel. Meaning she constantly gets to talk to all the teachers and principle about things like new students and how to improve things at school. She was also very pretty. The DM read: "Hey Girl!! Thanks for posting because you reminded me that I needed to tell you that your giving the new girl a tour of the school on Tuesday. Her name is Crystal Doyle. She's a year 11 in Ms. Madison's homeroom. I think that is your homeroom right? The tour starts at 8 and goes till 11, so you'll miss the first three classes.  Principle Carter said you could bring one of your friends from our school. He also wanted me to tell you to "please meet In Principle Carter's room". Anyways, have a good break. See you on Tuesday!"

"Oh my god." I said and everyone turned to look at me.

"What?" Jarred said. 

"I have to give the new girl a tour. They have 500 students and of course picked me." I said miserably. "But Kennedy said I could bring a friend." This time I spoke in a more relaxed way.

"OH! I'll go! I think it'll be cool to meet the new girl." Willow said.

"Fair enough." I said and shut my phone off, "Welp, lets continue watching the movie." 

.......

Ashlynn POV

A while later we got in to... THAT scene and I was having like a full-on gay panic crisis. I looked at Heather who was looking at the TV all confused like with her eyes popping out of her head. I scooted closer to her. We both looked at each other dead in the eyes. I rested my head on her shoulder and put my hand on her leg that was crossed. We stayed like that till the next "THAT scene".

.......

"THAT scene" was full of heavy breathing. Of course, Jarred's older brother Jay was home and wasn't, literally anywhere else. 

Now, like Jarred, Jay's name resembles their parents' names. Jay's resembles Nichy's. Nicholas means victory and so does the name Jay. They wanted to go with Nico, but thought it was too close to Nicholas. 

Jay came busting threw the door seeing all of us for the first time in a few months. He looked at Jarred and said, "What the hell are you watching?" 

Jarred paused the movie and just looked at him. Jay broke the eye contact and looked at Heather, who was still letting my hand rest on her lap. 

"Oh, hey - hey Heather." He said as his voice cracked when he said Heather's name. 

It was widely known among all of us but Heather, that Jay had liked her since he first saw her. I knew this and picked my head up along with my hand. 

"Hey Jay!" Heather said happily. 

I turned my head to Jarred and he knew instantly. 

"Jay get out! It's just the Titanic." He said with zero emotion. 

"Whatever nerd. Just don't be watching weird shit." He said and turned around and left, also slamming the door.  

After that I never did go back to laying on her shoulder. 

Once the Titanic was over, Sage and Heather ended up crying, I was unfazed. Next, we watched Mean Girls and nothing of note happened. Then we watched Luca and I realized how gay the undertones were, and Rose brought in a platter of all different types of bread, cheese, and meat. Next, we watched Jennifer's body and realized Megan Fox is hot AF. Finally, we ended it out with Tangled, to get a stop time of 7:14, with Willow asleep.

"Welp! That was the strangest bunch of movies that I watched ever." Sage said, "So are we sleeping over? Cause if we are I'm glad I brought spare clothes." 

Jarred looked over at Willow who had crawled up into his bed during Jennifer's Body. "I guess so. I just have to tell my mom." He said matter-of-factly. 

It was like clockwork, because as soon as he said that Rose walked in.

"Okay kiddos! I just finished up the laundry and found a shirt of Willow's from last week. So, I thought I would bring it up here and ask what you want for diner." As Rose said that she looked at Willow who was on Jarred's bed. "Oh, well I'll just set this by her." She walked over and sat it on the bench at the end of the bed. 

"Well, I have been craving rice and strawberries." I said. 

"Oh yeah and chicken." Sage said happily. 

"If I'm going to cook for you, I'm going to need to know your guy's allergies since it's been so long. I probably should have checked before, but nobody's hurt." Rose said with her hands folded and looking at all of us as she spoke.

"Oh yeah! I can't have tuna or shrimp." I said. 

"That's a strange mash up. But I trust you." Rose said and walked off happily then shut the door.

"What are we gonna do now?" Sage asked. 

...

"We should so play truth or dare." Jarred said, "Heather should go first." He continued as he ate the last piece of bread from a few hours ago. 

"Jeez! I was not expecting that. Okay well. Sage, truth or dare?" Heather said curiously. 

"Let's start this off well. Dare!" Sage replied quickly. 

"Hmm. I thought you would pick truth. Yes! Okay! I dare you to call your crush." Heather spoke in a very proud manner when she said this. 

I looked at Sage and she looked terrified. I knew she didn't want to do it. 

"Past or current?" Sage said as she got out her phone. 

"You can choose, but you have to tell us." Heather said probably to be nicer to her. 

"Well, were going with past for sure." Sage opened up her text messages and went to a one with a bunch of emojis. 

I looked at her phone and she was turning on the speaker. She used her two fingers and put them on the bridge of her nose. 

Sage spoke first when the person answered. "HELLO! I'D PERFER IF YOU DIDN'T SPEAK!" 

"What are you talking about Sage? Are you okay?" It was Kennedy from the student counsel. 

My mouth fell open. 

"KENNEDY! IT'S A GIRL?!" Heather said very loudly. 

"Why are we yelling?" Willow had woken up. 

"Okay! I'm sorry Kennedy I have to go! Bye!" Sage said rather quickly. 

"Well, we are playing truth or dare and just found out Sage used to have a crush on Kennedy from student counsel." Heather said. 

Willow looked at Sage shocked. 

"I'm playing this shit."  Willow said and slid off the bed on to the floor by Jarred, "Heather hurry and pick the next person." 

"Jarred can go." She said. 

He instantly turned and smiled at me. At that point I had no clue what he was up to. 

"Hey Lynn. Truth or dare?" Jarred asked me. 

I stared to speak, "I'll pick dare to keep a streak going." 

"I dare you to kiss Heather." He said bluntly.

I looked at Heather. "I couldn't possibly." I shook my head as I said it.

"A dare is dare. I give you consent." Heather said as I turned to Jarred and his mouth fell open. 

I faced Heather again and crawled on my knees over to her. I sat on my knees and looked her dead in the eyes. He never did say how to kiss her. I grabbed her head and kissed her on the cheek. 

"Doesn't count Lynn." Jarred said and I turned to see him. 

He was faced backwards. 

"I'm not looking but Will told me." He continued as if he knew everything. 

"You never said how I had to k-" Heather had pulled me into a kiss. 

"Oh hell yeah! You go Heather!" Sage was yelling happily. 

"There! She completed her dare!" Heather said joyfully.

I looked at her and she wiped her mouth off with her arm. 

After that nothing really eventful happened till Rose brought in the food she had been making for 45 minutes.

*Knocking* The door opened  and Rose was carrying two separate trays. 

"Tonight, I made Hawaiian chicken with coconut rice. Along with some Strawberry milkshakes topped with fresh strawberries from our home garden!" Rose said and sat the trays down, "I figured Willow was up when I heard screaming." 

"Thanks Rosey!" Sage said.

"Yeah thanks Rose." Me and Heather said at the same time. 

"My pleasure kids. Oh by the way. You can stay the night since it's already eight. I texted everyone's parents." Rose said as she turned to walk to the door.

"Thanks Ma'am." Jarred said as Rose left.

[nightlykora]

Forbidden Part 1

Ashlynn POV

MY GIRLS and jarred g.c.

8:06 AM, Sunday Nov. 15

JJ - anybody up?

Me - Heather slept over so now were at church

JJ - you're on your phone in church girl??

Me - I'm in the bathroom 

Will o - Bro can yall get a private chat. U woke me up.

Sia - Yeah its 8 in the morning on a Sunday let us sleep

JJ - chill. i'm bored 

❤️Heather❤️

8:07 AM, Sunday Nov. 15

❤️Heather❤️ - Hey!! Where are you!?! Your dad is looking for you church just got over.!!

I had been hiding out in the bathroom because of the last song they were singing.

Me - Tell him Im in the bathroom I'll be out in a second

❤️Heather❤️ - I'm sorry about that last song. 

Me - Its fine they sing it ever November I'm used to it

I opened the group chat back up, and walked out of the bathroom.

MY GIRLS and jarred g.c.

8:09 AM, Sunday Nov. 15

JJ - soooooooo how's church in the bathroom??

Me - Its already over

Will o - I thought heather didnt like church????

❤️Heather❤️ - I don't. I went for Ash. 

Sia - Ohh of course u did u would literally die for lynn

JJ - shut up sage. 

Me - What did you want originally JJ

JJ - i wanted to ask if any of you wanted to come to my house and we could do something?

Sia - ... Me and Willow wanted to do the same thing at my house 

JJ - sick. see you then

Sage POV

WILLA

8:17 AM, Sunday Nov. 15

WILLA - Are u sure u want to go over there. I can go to ur house if u want me to.

Me - No I think itll be fun if all 5 of us would hang out again

WILLA - Ok. See u then ❤️❤️

I was getting ready to headed over to Jarred's place. I didn't have a car, so I walked and I knew what he had wanted to do when he asked us to come over. He wanted us to watch a movie. He had a really good taste in movies. Mainly movies that I liked. 

Heather texted the group chat that they were close, and I said I was on the way. 

Ashlynn POV

Me and Heather got out of the car, and I waved bye to my dad. 

"Are you sure you wanted to come?" I asked Heather

"Of course, I am! I love hanging out with Jarred and you!" She said. I felt my face blush. 

We were about halfway up the longest driveway ever when Heather said, " We should totally stay the night!" 

I looked at her and said, "We have school tomorrow! We can't stay girl!"

"No, we don't, its International Day of Tolerance! We don't have school till Tuesday!" She said. 

"That is the most random holiday that they pick for us to be off. Like at that point just give us International Donut Day off." I said. 

I looked at her and she snorted. I looked back up the doorstep and knocked on the doorbell. We heard running down the stairs. It was Jarred. 

"I"LL GET IT MOM! Ow! I"M FINE!" He yelled.

The door opened. 

"Oh, hey girls. I thought you were Sage." He said sadly. 

We started walking through the grand doors. 

"Of course, you did." Heather chuckled and said. 

"Shut up Heather!" He said jokingly. 

Jarred had been friends with Sage since they were babies. Then, when Jarred and Sage were in year 4, they meet Willow who was basically, according to Jarred, a social outcast in a new world. While they were meeting and being friends, me and Heather were in a different school meeting too. Finally, the conclusions of our friend group, was when me and Heather meet Sage and Willow at our all-girls high school, and we got introduced to Jarred. Now were in year 11 and Jarred, in year 10. I would spill all of the secrets but, I think you'll figure it out as we go.

"Soooo. What do you want to do?" I asked Jarred.  

"Well. I was thinking we could watch a movie." He replied. 

Jarred's house has always been the place to watch movies and hang out ever since the day we all became friends. It was the place where I told Jarred about my crush on Heather and Jarred swore he was straight after we all thought he was crushing on a guy. To be honest this place has more memories than that, but if I told you all of them, we would have a million words in this part and would be here forever. 

Sage POV

*Knocking*

"Sage honey! Can you get that please? I don't want my package stolen!" My mom asked.

I was making sure it was the right outfit I wanted to wear to Jarred's. Blue jeans with a few small rips in them, and a shirt he got me for my birthday. 

"Yeah! I just have to get there first." I said. 

I jumped over my bed and ran to the door to make sure our package wasn't stolen. Once I reached the door, I opened it quickly. It was Willow. 

"I thought we could walk over there together." She said with a smile. 

"Oh, yeah! Sure. I just have to find shoes to wear." I didn't think she would be here. 

.....

I found decent shoes and a sweatshirt and me and Willow started walking. Jarred's house was a mile and a half away so I would usually jog there myself. Now I was with Willow, and we just walked there together. 

Ashlynn POV

We were sitting on Jarred's bedroom floor with bowls of snacks around us. 

 "Soooo. What kind of movie do you want to watch? I don't think Sage is coming." He said.

We sat in silence for a minute or so when Heather finally said, "The Titanic."

"Oh, that's a good one." I said grabbing a few pretzels from the bowl right beside me. 

"I haven't saw it since I was 14." Heather said, " How bout you?" She said and turned to Jarred.

"NOPE! So is it on like Hulu or something?" He asked.

"It's on Netflix." I said. I watched it 2 years ago and I knew it was on there. 

"Well, that's on my tv so hol-" He cut off and ran to his door because the door had rang. "I'LL GET IT AGAIN MOM! IT'S SAGE!" He said running down the stairs. 

I looked at Heather and we both smiled. I stood up first and turned around to help her up, by holding my hand out. She smiled at me again and took my hand. She got up and tripped on the back of her long blue dress from church. I caught her and we were hovering in a dip type way. 

Willow flung the door open, and we were just all staring at each other. 

"Am - am I interrupting something?" She asked. 

We stood up and somehow were still holding each other's hand. I looked down and yanked my hand back. 

"She was getting up and tripped. So, I helped her. " I said. 

"OH MY GOSH IS THAT YOU SAGE?" It was Jarred's mom Rose. She was Sage's mom's best friend and is how Jarred and Sage met. 

We all ran down to go see her. 

"ROSE!" Willow said running down the spiral staircase. 

"OH MY! YOU'RE ALL HERE! Okay! Bring it in!" She said with her arms out stretched. 

After we all gave her a hug, she offered to make us pizza. To which we obviously agreed to. Then we all ran upstairs into Jarred's room.

We all sat back down, me, Jarred, and Heather on the floor, with Sage and Willow on the beanbags by us. (The beanbags are very uncomfortable to me, which is why I never sit there.) Me and Heather were a bit behind Sage and Willow with Jarred.

"What are we watching?" Sage asked looking to the huge TV. 

"Well, before you two came here, we agreed to watch the Titanic." Jarred said. 

Willow choked on popcorn and quickly took a drink. 

"Is that the one with Kate Winslet?" She asked, still recovering. 

"Yeah why?" Heather asked.

"Oh no reason. Just wondering." She said back. 

After we started the movie about 10 minutes in. Rose brought in pepperoni pizza and sat it down on a type of place mat for hot dishes, while Jarred paused the movie. 

"Is this homemade Rosey?" Sage asked. 

Rose said she called her that because when Sage was a toddler, she couldn't pronounce Rose without the "y". 

"Of course. I don't think I've bought frozen pizza for a while dear." She said and stood up with her hands folded on top of her apron. 

When I met Jarred for the first time, it was at this very house. Here is where I also met Rose. She was like a mother figure I needed. My mom left to visit her parents in a place called Skid Row or something and I haven't seen her since. But Rose was always here. At first, I though she wasn't married, but I found out she was married to a man named Nicholas, but we all call him Nichy when we see him. Another thing about Rose is that her and Nichy agreed to name Jarred after her. Jarred means Rose, and Nichy agreed because he loved the name.

"Ashlynn sweetie." It was Rose. Her hand was on my shoulder. "Are you okay?" She asked me. 

"Oh, what? Yeah! Sorry. I zoned out." I said shakingly. 

"Okay if you say so. I just want to know if you wanted the curtain closed." Rose asked. 

I looked past Heather out the double glass doors to a small balcony, with the bright sun shining threw. 

"Sure. If everybody else is okay with it." I said. 

"Okay. Well. I'll shut the curtains and let you kids watch your Titanic." She said as she walked over to the doors. 

"Thanks, Ma'ma." Jarred said.