Song: Jealous by Nick Jonas-cover sung by Andie Case

After that day everything just falls right in line. I just want to be with him and only him. I will always have my issues but with him he seems to understand me and gets me for who I am. All summer we find ways to be together. Of course he has to work most days and I end up finding me a part time job just to help pass the time away while he is at work. Right when school ended for the year my parents took me out to look for another car. This way I can drive myself to work without having to depend on them.

On days that we do get to spend time together it feels like we can't find just time for the two of us. Is we go to his house his siblings are always around and if we go to mine my parents refuse to let me close the door. So when we do get to actually find the time to be alone we end up making out.

We have to go back to school next week and I so dread it. I mean I'm glad that it is my senior year and all and this is the last year that I have to drag myself to school. Well that is if I don't go to college but my parents have really been pressing the issue all summer. If it was up to me I would do online classes it just seems more practical for me this way so I won't have to deal with the panic attacks.

It's a Saturday and I don't have to work today so I plan on spending the day in bed...not. My mom knocks on the bedroom door and then enters. "Hey you feel like going school shopping today?"

"Not really...I don't need anything."

"Come on, you can't stay in here all day and I'm sure you will need a few school supplies."

"I can use what I did last year; really mom it's no big deal."

"Ophelia, get up lets go."

I groan. I mean really, this is my senior year of high school and she still treats me like a first grader. I get up and throw on jeans and a shirt. I meet her downstairs. On the way to the mall she is asking me all these question about school and if I decided to pick a college and what career do I want to go into and then Kodiak.

"Ophelia, I realize it's an important decision in your life but you need to be thinking about your future. I mean college is very important and what about Kodiak, are you two go UK ng to be together or millions of miles away from each other?"

"I don't know where he is going to college?" I huff in aggravation.

"I was just asking...I figured you would want to go where ever he was going that's all."

"Mom I still have a whole year to decide," I groan.

"And it will be here before you know it. Ophelia I just want you to have it all planned out."

"I will mom...geez."

It takes her a while to park as everything is super packed this weekend. I guess everyone had the same idea. When she finally parks it's like we have to walk a mile away just to get to the building. By the time we actually step foot inside the mall, I am covered in sweat and irritated. She is going in and out of stores finding things and I casually walk behind her. It's  freaking way too crowded and all the people  that surround me are getting  on my ever lasting nerve.

"You could at least act like you are enjoying this," she tells me.

"But I'm not...and I want to go." I roll my eyes. "Mom like seriously this is giving me a headache." I place my hand on my temple. 

"Well alright them...how about some lunch?"

"Whatever," I huff. I know either way that I am not getting out of this to go back home to my room.

We end up at this restaurant on the outside of the mall. We don't do food courts because of all the noise in there. I don't even pay attention to where we are until I hear a voice off to the side. When I look up I see Kodiak waiting on one of the tables across from us. He doesn't see me. I watch as the group of girls flirts with him and he flirts back. The one girl has long dark hair with a little bit too much make up on and she keeps laughing and she slowly touches his arm. I get this really sick feeling  in the bottom  of my stomach. I try not to hear the conversation but I couldn't help but here her say something about seeing him later.

"So...you guys are going to be there tonight right? I can't wait to see you...you guys are freaking awesome. Especially you," she croons and bats her eyes at him.

He smiles back at her and I swear he is blushing some. "Thanks...yeah we should be there about nine. You should bring your friends out," he tells her as he gestures to the table.

"Oh...they will all be there...right girls...we won't miss it." She winks again and they all start smiling and giggling.

"So can I get you guys anything else?"

"Not at the moment but maybe later...here is my number." She hands him the napkin from the table with apparently her phone number on it.

He doesn't say anything to her but takes the napkin and places it in the little black book he is holding. He gives them the check and then leaves the table. Did he really just take her phone number...Really? I'm staring at this table full of girls and my mind is in shock; I try to tell my imaginationto stop playing out different scenarios. I know that just didn't happen.

"Ophelia do you know what you want? Ophelia...honey are you alright?" my mom asks as she looks at what I'm looking at. "Do you know them?"

"What?"

"Do you know them?" she asks again.

"No...sorry...uhm...can I just get chicken and fries."

"Sure..." the waitress comes to our table to take our order and then when she moves out to the way I see the group of girls giggling as they leave. He comes over to clean the table and the dark headed girls comes back to get her purse.

"Seriously...Kodiak...call me later so we can hook up." She flirts with him some more.

"I can't...Layla...I like you I do but I have a girl friend."

"I won't tell her if you don't...besides I think you are just saying that...I have never seen you with a girl. Where is she?" She looks around the room at all the tables trying to make some  kind of point.

He shrugs his shoulders. "She's probably at home."

"Yeah...sure...keep lying about it. Well my girls are waiting so I got to go. I will see you later right?"

"Yeah...I will be there."

I set my glass of tea down and tell my mom, "I will be back I got to go to the bathroom."

She doesn't say anything as I get up but I walk in his direction so that he can see me. I walk right past him and head to the restrooms. I bite my lip and fight back the tears. I don't know why I am upset I mean it's not like he is cheating on me but he still plans on seeing her later.

He sees me, of course he does because I made sure that he would. "Ophelia..." and looks back at Layla but he brushes her off as he follows me to the back. "Ophelia...wait up."

I grit my teeth as I turn to look at him...dammit with tears in my eyes. "Who was that? Are you seeing her?" I accuse him.

"Who? Layla...hell no." He grabs my hand. "Baby I wouldn't do that to you."

"She gave you her phone number. You planning on calling her later...hook...hooking up with her?"

He takes the note out of the book. "This is nothing...girls do it all the time. They see me in the band and they all get googly eyed when they see me out." He rips it into shreds.

"But you took it from her...where are you going later...you seeing her? Do you like her?" I just can't  drop it.

"Seriously hell no...Ophelia I told you that I am not seeing her or anyone for that matter. It's only you." He reaches up and wipes the one stray tear that falls down my cheek. "Look the band is playing tonight...you can come if you want. Hell everyone thinks I'm single because you never go."

I sniffle and wipe a stray tear from my cheek. "Fine I will go."

"You are going to come watch me play...tonight."

"Yes...I am."

He gleams with excitement.

"Don't get all excited about it. I'm only going to show ever girl out there that you are taken...you are mine."

He laughs, "I think I like it when you are jealous of me."

I slap his arm. "I don't like feeling this way...I don't like other girls looking at you that way." I walk past him but he grabs my arm and brings me into  him for a quick kiss.

I go back and sit down and my mom stares at me.

"What?"

"Nothing...you ok?"

"Yes...I'm fine. By the way I am going out later alright...I will be back home on time I promise."

Kodiak walks over to the table and mom my shakes her head. "Good afternoon Kodiak; I didn't realize you worked here."

"Yes...ma'am for about two months now. I just wanted to come over here and say hi. Well guess I better get back to work." He glances over my way. "So I will see you later?"

"Yes."