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“Yeah, that’s it Thomas. I ‘bagged’ Jules because somehow this is all going to be mine right?” I gestured to the room.
I leaned against the banister, the wood creaking beneath my weight, as I crossed my arms over my chest.
“God you’re testy. Something botherin’ you man?”
“Why are you doing this Jesse? The truth.”
“Dude, you’ve got to relax!” He sat quiet and narrowed his eyes. “Is this about Tanen’s party? Because I apologized for that already! I’m sorry! How many more times can I say it?”
“This isn’t about Tanen’s party and you know it.”
“ I’m just taking her to a film Elliott. We’ll talk. I’ll get to know her. I’m doing this for you remember? Then, I’ll bring her right back here. No harm. No foul.”
“No! I mean, no,” I added quietly, “You can bring her back to my place afterwards.”
I smiled.
“Okay.” He eyed me carefully, the corners of his mouth turning up. “This is serious for you, isn’t it Elliott?”
“Very.” I walked across the room and stood over him. He didn’t even flinch. I kept my arms crossed. “I don’t feel the necessity to tell you how much I love her Jesse and that if you let one strand of hair on her head get harmed that we’ll have serious problems.”
“If it wasn’t necessary, then why did you even bother to tell me?”
I stared him down but turned toward the hallway when I heard Jules’ padding down the corridor. She was a vision in dark red. Dark red with dark hair. Wow. Jesse stood up next to me and elbowed me.
“Don’t piss me off Jesse,” I gritted through my teeth.
He rolled his eyes at me.
“Hi Jesse!” Jules said.
“Hi beautiful,” he responded.
I could have hit him. He left my side and grabbed Jules to hug her. I really could have hit him.
“That was.....unexpected,” she said with a laugh.
“Well, I figure I’d make a concerted effort. You know? For Elliott’s sake.”
I snorted.
“Here,” he said, “I got you something.”
He pulled a little book from the back of his jeans pocket and handed it to her. She took it and read the title. Her eyes shot wide.
“The Complete Collection of Poems by Edgar Allen Poe! How did you know I wanted this?”
“I remember you mentioning it at lunch two weeks ago.”
Jerk. I wanted to have been the one who thought to give that to her.
Jealousy is one of those things that seem to take you over, clouds your judgment and makes you crazier than you ever thought possible. It does funny things to me because I’m ninety-nine percent sure I think I go a little out of my head. Green doesn’t even begin to cover it. I was jealous. Insanely jealous because I knew how things went down when girls were with Jesse, not that I couldn’t trust Jules, it was he who couldn’t be trusted.
Before Jules, if we were at a party, or anywhere in public really, Jesse was the one the girls made a beeline for with his pretty boy features and trendy clothing. So, naturally I may be a little self-conscious about this whole thing.
I am by no means a ‘pretty boy’. I’m tall, big, broad, yet lean. I have hard, rugged features, except for, I’ll admit, a bit of baby fat on my face. I don’t wear any kind of hair product. I’ve never even seen moisturizer. I wash with bar soap and if someone dared to come at me with an emery board I’d tell them to stick it where the sun don’t shine. I only wear cologne because Jules seems to like it.
o;Hey Elliott,” Jesse said, totally disregarding Jules. “What do you think? Huh?” He asked pointing to the new tattoo on his neck.
