"You can come into my room, you know."

"I'm not really sure about that. Are you sure you're not going to sexually assault me again?"

"No promises."

Jesse rolled his eyes at me, still standing outside my hospital room. Wow, he was such a baby. He teased me all the time! Couldn't I just have some fun and do it myself? Apparently I couldn't, which just wasn't fair. He couldn't have all the fun all the time!

I knew he didn't want to be tortured again like he had the day before, but then again I knew he was trying to be funny as well as he continued to stand outside the door, where he knew I couldn't reach him. Actually, he could have stood a foot away from me and I still probably wouldn't have been able to grab him. I was still way too weak for anything like that...

Before I could say anything else to him, he walked into the hospital room before closing the door behind him. He plopped down in a chair next to me, eyeing me warily. So it looks like I couldn't tease him today... Too bad. That was just too much fun.

"I'm not going to attack you or anything," I informed him flatly, crossing my arms over my chest as I pouted. This was so unfair. I wanted to kiss him. Was he even going to let me do that? I had a feeling that he wasn't going to let me. "And I wouldn't even call it sexual assault."

Jesse smirked at me. "I would."

"I only kissed you," I defended, trying my best to sound innocent and sad like a child. "I'm your girlfriend, aren't I? I can't kiss you?"

"Your hand went down my pants," Jesse reminded me, in case I had somehow forgotten. "You tried to grab me there. I wouldn't call that just a kiss."

It annoyed me a little that Jesse didn't want to go any farther than just kissing with me. Yeah, I was sore and hurt right then, but I could go a little farther than just kissing. And ever if we were in a hospital, we could have gone a little farther than kissing. We hadn't even had sex yet! I'm sure all of my friends had already done it with their boyfriends... I couldn't help but feel bad about myself about it.

I really hated to admit it, but Alex's words were getting to me. He had made fun of us for not sleeping together before, and now I was really annoyed. I wanted to know why we hadn't done it yet when we had plenty of opportunities in Cabin B.

"Maybe I want more than just kissing," I informed him childishly, my arms still crossed over my chest. But I was still being truthful. I wanted to go farther with Jesse Jacobsen. "Maybe I want to go farther."

Jesse's eyes widened ever so slightly, and I knew I had caught him totally off guard. He wanted it too, didn't he? What if he didn't want to? He was a guy, wasn't he? Wasn't that all guys thought about? Why wasn't he all over me? It was ridiculous! What was his problem?

"No, Jordan," Jesse shook his head at me, pushing the chair away from me just a little.

"Why not?" I demanded, throwing my arms into the air and ignoring the slight pain I felt. The pain I was feeling in my heart right then hurt even more, as cheesy as that sounded. "Why don't you want to do it with me? Am I not pretty enough? Do you not think I'm going to be as good as other girls you've been with before? Honestly, Jesse, I didn't think you were that shallow!"

"I'm not shallow," Jesse sighed, rolling his eyes at me as he crossed his arms over his chest. "And that none of those are the reason why I'm saying no. I'm saying no because you're not ready."

"And how am I not ready?" I demanded once again, my voice cracking ever so slightly. I wasn't going to cry, but my throat felt dry for a reason I didn't know. "I think I'm ready! Isn't that enough?"

Jesse continued to frown at me. "No, it isn't. Because I know you're not ready."

"I am," I insisted, suddenly swinging my legs over the side of my bed for the first time since I was admitted into the hospital. Jesse's eyes widened even more when he saw my bare bruised legs coming from out of the blanket. I hadn't stood up at all in days...

"Jordan--" Jesse started, obviously not wanting me to stand up because he didn't think I was ready enough for it yet. But I didn't care; ignoring him, I forced myself off the bed and up onto my feet.

I was only able to stand for about three seconds before the pain in my legs caused me to let out a squawk of pain before falling forward into Jesse's lap. Ow... Why did I have to be an idiot and stand up? I hadn't felt pain like this since I first woke up...

My head against his chest, I whimpered, "Why don't you want to?"

"First of all, you can't even stand up," Jesse informed me, placing both of his hands on both of my cheeks. "So sex is out of the question for a while. Second, you're still pretty clueless about everything."

"I shoved my hand down your pants," I was the one to remind him flatly now, but that only caused him to roll his eyes at me once again. "I don't really think I'm clueless."

"Jordan," he started, running his right hair through my hair. "You really don't know what you'd be getting into. You're just not ready yet. What if you get pregnant? That'll just add onto our problems right now. What would you tell your friends, who think you're single and hate me? If you were to get pregnant, it would not be a good thing considering we're both only eighteen and everything with Hunter."

"But we both know I'm going to have your kids," I blurted before I even realized what I was saying, biting my tongue after I had done so. Man, I was such an idiot! "I... I mean only if you want me to, of course!"

Jesse let out a small smile, bringing me closer to him loosely so his hug wouldn't hurt my bruised back. "I want you to have my kids, Jordan. I really do. It sounds amazing."

I couldn't help but smile at him, squeezing him as tightly as I could have without it hurting. "Well, that's good, because I want to have your kids, too. I can't wait to have your baby. It'll be the cutest baby that every walked the face of the earth."

"Babies can't walk," Jesse teased.

I smacked his arm lightly. "You get what I mean."

Jesse chuckled, but I could tell it wasn't normal. It just didn't sound... like his usual self. I couldn't help but wonder why. "Yeah..."

Before either of us could say anything, the door opened and in walked the annoying blonde that always had to interrupt at the best times.

I let out a loud groan. "God, get out of my room!"

"No need to call me God."

I rolled my eyes at Alex, crossing my arms over my chest. I was glad that the pain was starting to go away, but it was still annoyingly there. And so was Alex.

"My family's going to be visiting soon," I informed him flatly, my eyes narrowing at him as he plopped down into the chair that I had named the Alex Chair. "I don't want you in here when they show up."

"Jesse's here," he informed me, in case I somehow didn't know. "You should know that since you're sprawled out over his lap, which you shouldn't be doing, by the way."

"He's right, Jordan," Jesse sighed, lightly picking me up and placing me back into my bed before I could protest. "You can't even walk yet. You need to stay in bed and rest."

Sticking my tongue out at him, I tucked myself under the covers and turned to glare at Alex for ruining the moment I was having with Jesse. We were talking about our future! Our children!

"Out," I told him, waving him away from me. "I don't want you here when my family is."

Alex rolled his eyes, ignoring me with a wave of his hand. I felt my eye twitch. "Ah, come on, I'm just your friend. It's not like they'll think I'm having some type of fling with you or anything. Your family probably thinks that you're a lonely single girl."

I continued to stare at him flatly. "Get out."

"Don't be a meanie, Jordan," Alex pouted, crossing his arms over his best and sticking out his bottom lip. "That's not nice."

"Get out of my room," I repeated, ignoring what he had said. "Get out now."

"I'm going to go get you water, Jordan," Jesse sighed, standing up from his chair and heading toward the door. "Your voice is really crackly. I think your throat is dry."

I think he was right. I remembered when my voice had cracked when I had talked to him, even though I wasn't anywhere near tears.

"Get out," I repeated to Alex after Jesse had left. "Get out or I'll scream or something."

"The last time I was here, I walked in on you and Jesse doing something no one should see--"

"We were just making out! That's something couples do, you know!"

"And yet you won't have sex with him?" Alex asked, one eyebrow raised as he smirked hugely at me. He then crossed his arms over his chest and scoffed teasingly. "What a tease."

"I'm not a tease!"

"Your hand was down his pants!"

My face burning, I covered it with my hands so I wouldn't have to look at him anymore. So what if my hand was down his pants? I just did it to tease him! Oh, man. Maybe I was a tease! But he was my boyfriend anyway, so it shouldn't have even mattered at all! We were a couple!

"Whose hand was down whose pants?" a new voice asked, and this time I jumped in surprise, but I ignored the pain I felt in my back. But the only reason I had jumped was because I recognized that voice. And it definitely wasn't a person that I wanted to have known whose pants I had my hand down. Talk about awkward...

Obviously not noticing that I was practically freaking out when I saw the person in the doorway, Alex grinned and let out a loud laugh. "Oh, just her boyfriend's."

The man in the doorway's eyebrows rose as he looked over at me. "Boyfriend?"

I was going to kill Alex!

"Yeah, they're both completely wild when they're together--" Alex started once again, and I reached out to yank his hair just to shut him up.

"Alex! Shut your mouth!"

"Oh, come on," he smirked, dodging my hand as he swiftly moved away from my grasp. "Why would he care?"

"Because he's my brother!" I shouted, trying not to be too loud as I covered my face with my hands so I didn't have to look back over at Austin. He wasn't exactly the over protective type, but he definitely wasn't uncaring. He wanted to kill Dallas for what he had done to me back in freshman year, and the only thing that stopped him was their friendship. But if I could remember correctly, Austin didn't exactly like Jesse since he picked on me all the time back when Austin was in school with us.

Oh, this wasn't going to go well.

"Oops," Alex blinked, obviously having no idea what he was supposed to do now. He grinned nervously before slowly getting out of his chair and practically running out of the hospital room.

"You jerk!" I shouted after him, even though I knew it wouldn't do any good. "Come back here now, you coward!"

Austin rolled his eyes at me, walking over and sitting down in the chair that had been preoccupied by Alex seconds before. He crossed his arms over his chest before leaning back and crossing his legs. "So... you want to tell me about this boyfriend of yours?"

"Not really."

"Jordan."

"It's not anything you need to worry about," I excuse, waving my hand in front of my face to ignore it. "It's not anything special or anything."

Austin didn't look convinced. "Come on, Jordan. I flew all the way from Europe for you."

Damn it. He got me with the guilty card. I couldn't tell him about Jesse! What would happen if Hunter found out that I had a brother? But he did live in Europe, which was across a huge body of water... Would it be safe to tell him about Jesse and me?

But Austin knew who Jesse was. He never really liked him because of how much he made fun of me. Austin was two years older than us, so he was a junior when I had first met Jesse. I then realized that he was the same age as Hunter as well, which I couldn't help but cringe slightly at the thought of that monster...

Before I answered my brother, I quickly grabbed my phone to text Jesse to tell him that he shouldn't come back to my room yet because Austin was there. After I had written the text as quickly as I could, I tucked my phone under my leg just in case Jesse texted me back. I didn't want Austin reading my messages.

"So," I started, looking around the room a little. "How's Rachel? Did you propose to her yet?"

Austin's eyebrows furrowed at me, and I knew that he knew that I was only changing the subject so we wouldn't have to talk about my boyfriend.

Rachel was Austin's European girlfriend that he had met the first week he was in Europe. He was head over heels in love with her, and everyone in my family loved her as well. She was super nice and pretty, and I had been urging Austin to ask her to marry him ever since I was sixteen-years-old.

"She's fine," Austin said simply, shrugging as his arms stayed crossed over his chest. "And I haven't asked her to marry me yet. But back to you. Is there something I need to know?"

"Nope," I said quickly, still looking around the room so I wouldn't have to meet his eyes. "Not at all. Where's Mom and Dad?"

"Back at the hotel," he answered, and I could tell he was getting impatient. "They sent me here first. But seriously, Jordan. Tell me the truth. You can't hide this from me."

"Do you remember Jesse?" I asked, biting on my tongue after I had said it. I didn't want to tell him like that! Of course he remembered Jesse, he was the worst thing that had ever happened to me throughout my freshman, sophomore, and junior year!

"Jesse Jacobsen?" he asked, his eyes going wide.

Gulping, I nodded at him. It wouldn't be that bad to tell my brother, right? I mean, I was going to have to tell my entire family if Jesse and I wanted to get married and have kids... But right then just didn't seem like the right time. I mean, I was in the hospital! And not to mention that Hunter was still out there... But Austin lived all the way in Europe! Once he went back, I knew he would be safe.

"I'm... I'm going out with Jesse."

"You're going out with that moron who made your high school life miserable?" he asked, his eyes going wide in shock. Oh, no... please don't let him be angry! "Why are you going out with him? I thought you hated him more than anything."

Even though it wasn't going to best so far, I couldn't help but realize how good it felt to tell someone that I was going out with Jesse. I wanted to shout it out into the sky and tell everyone that I was absolutely in love with Jesse Jacobsen. And I was planning on doing that after Hunter was gone. I couldn't wait to tell everyone, especially my friends.

"I love him," I whispered, happy that I could finally tell someone the truth. "I really do."

Austin blinked. "Since when?"

"Since Grandma died," I answered quietly, now staring down at my knees. "He comforted me when no one else did. He was there for me when it seemed like no one else was. He's always been there, in his own weird kind of way. He's always been there for me."

"That's not what I remember," Austin told me, shaking his head in disapproval. "I remember how you would rant and scream about how horrible he was all the time. You couldn't stand him one bit. That's someone there for you? It doesn't really seem like it."

"You haven't seen him in two years," I fought back, crossing my arms over my chest and staring at him flatly. "He's a lot different than he used to be."

Austin still didn't look very convinced. "I'll believe it when I see it."

"Alright," I challenged, grabbing my phone from under my leg and pulling it up to my face as I typed a message to Jesse on the screen. "I'll tell him to come here right now because you want to see him. You'll see how much he's changed."

Austin didn't say a word.

I pushed send, feeling confident enough to show up my brother. But after thinking about it for the next second and a half, I realized that I had made a mistake. I didn't want Austin to know that I was going out with Jesse! Not yet! I didn't want anyone to know! Especially when Austin had heard Alex say--

"So, you stuck your hand down his pants?"

Oh, my God.

"He's my boyfriend," was all I could say, since how was I supposed to explain myself when it came to something like that? I couldn't just say that I stuck my hand down his pants to tease him... Actually, I couldn't really say anything! How was I supposed to respond to something like that?

"You're only eighteen, Jordan," Austin sighed, rubbing his hands over his face.

"Yeah, I'm eighteen," I nodded, crossing my arms over my chest. "Jesse and I haven't slept together yet, so you don't have anything to worry about. I'm not pregnant or have any disease. I haven't ever slept with anyone. Are you happy now?"

"Too much information," he groaned, still covering his eyes. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at him.

Sure, he didn't have to worry about me bring pregnant or having and STD, but he sure had to worry about whether or not I was safe outside on the street anymore, because I didn't think I was. I was sure Hunter was watching me everywhere I went. He was probably outside of the hospital right then...

I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to think about him being so close to me after what had happened.

When the door opened and Jesse entered, I was still scared and nervous. What if Austin didn't like him? What if he thought that he was the same irresponsible, stupid kid that picked on his little sister all those years ago? I really hoped he approved of him...

"Austin," Jesse smiled, just enough to seem like a cool and calm friend of mine. "It's been a long time. I haven't seen you in years."

"But you've been seeing a lot of my sister, haven't you?" he asked, his arms crossing over his chest once again.

Oh, no!

Jesse looked over at me and gave me a secret look that asked me if I was insane, and it sure felt like I was. Why did I have to tell Austin that I was going out with Jesse? Especially since he never really liked Jesse since he always made fun of me!

"Um..." was all Jesse said, obviously not knowing what he was supposed to say. But I didn't blame him! I really hoped that Austin wasn't hoping for a reply to that, because how could anyone respond to something as embarrassing as that?

"I told you, Austin, we haven't done anything yet," I groaned, covering my burning face with my hands. "We haven't done anything at all!"

"Uh," Jesse blinked, looking at me for help now.

My eyebrows furrowed as my eyes narrowed. "Blame Alex."

Understanding flashed his face, and I knew he was going to kill Alex when he was out of the hospital.

As he should.

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Jordan gets out of the hospital in the next chapter. Writing about characters in hospitals depresses me a little. :/

But the chapter I've been waiting to write FOREVER is like two or three chapters away. I can't wait!

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