To Capture A Ring

Cat and Mouse

I woke up to the vibrations of my phone on my night table. Jordan's arms were still wrapped around me. I went to grab the phone, but then quickly realized it was Jordan's phone, and Stella was calling. As much as I didn't want to wake Jordan up in case he had to leave, I knew it was the right thing to do. It was inevitable. I leaned over from my upright position and gently placed a kiss on his lips. His eyes fluttered open. "Good morning, beautiful" he smiled before sitting up in bed next to me. "How did you sleep?" he asked as he reached to grab his phone off of the night table next to my bed. "Good, you?" he smirked "I slept great." he pulled the covers off of him, and swung his feet over the side of the bed as he opened his phone. I heard his phone vibrate before he answered the call. I tried to make myself look busy on my phone, but I was nosy as well.

"What's so important, Stella?" I scrolled down f*******: as I continued to listen. I couldn't hear her though. "It'll have to wait until later... No I'm not working, I called off. Fred, and Mariah were missing last night, turns out they were beat up and robbed, and left in the woods... I don't know... Yes I am... No, I'm busy... Stella, we're not dating anymore... Listen I gotta go, see ya." Jordan ended his call, and threw himself back on the bed. "She's so complicated. She says she has to talk to me, but apparently, it can't be over the phone for whatever reason. Nothing can be that important though. She can wait." I got out of bed, and went to my dresser, rummaging through it for an outfit for the day, before stepping out of the room to allow Jordan to change back into his clothes. I went to the bathroom, washed my face, brushed my teeth, got dressed and then walked out, throwing my pajamas into the hamper that was near the door.

I went back into my bedroom, Jordan was dressed, sitting on the bed putting his Converses on. "Hey, beautiful. I talked to Fred, he's awake, and he's alright, he had a mild concussion, but they discharged him an hour ago. We should go see him." I blushed but nodded in agreement. "Thank you. Let me call Mariah, and then we can head out." I pulled my phone out of my pocket and clicked my best friend's contact and waited as the phone rang. It went to voicemail but she sent me a text that said "Hey, I'm ok. My mom is going to take me to see Fred in a little while. I'm getting dressed. Meet me there? TTYL!" I rolled my eyes at her text. My stomach growled, causing me to laugh at myself. "Let's go get something to eat and then to Fred's house?" "Sounds like a date to me." Jordan declared. I looked at him, but he walked towards my bedroom door, so I tried to act unphased by what he had just said, but deep down inside my heart and stomach were both doing cartwheels out of pure excitement. He said date. I should probably slow things down, they're moving quickly, and he still talks to Stella. I am probably just going to get hurt in the long run. I guess the biggest question would be whether it's worth it or not. I broke out of my thoughts and followed him out of my bedroom, down the stairs, and out of the house as I called out to my parents telling them I was going out with Jordan.

We walked out of my house, and across the street to where his car was parked. He got into the driver's seat. He leaned across once he got inside his car, and he opened my door for me before I could get to doing it myself, I smiled at myself where he couldn't see, since he was sitting inside the car, and then I got in buckling up my seat belt after I sat down. He put his key into the ignition and turned it over and the car rumbled to life, he buckled his own seat belt, put the car into drive, and away we went, as I fiddled with the radio. He pulled into the Burger King drive-through, and we ordered our food, and pulled up to pay. I kept trying to hand him my money, but he kept insisting on paying for the two of us. "It would be a bad first date if I let you pay." he stated. I just laughed and rolled my eyes at him. After he paid for our food, we pulled forward to the second window, they handed us our milkshakes, then our food, and he drove forward and pulled into a parking space. He started sorting our food. He handed me mine. "Thank you." he leaned over, putting his hand on my cheek, turning my face to him and kissed me softly. "You're welcome, beautiful." he said as he pulled away.

We situated ourselves in our seats with our food spread out on the dashboard. We had all the windows rolled down, the radio was playing softly for some background noise, and we began to eat our burgers, and then we were finishing off with our fries. I was dipping my fries into my chocolate milkshake, when he began to try to steal my fries. I kept swatting him away, he didn't give up until I shoved a chocolate milkshake covered fry into his mouth to finally shut him up, so I could eat the rest of my fries in peace. He kept half of the fry sticking out of his mouth. "Fine you won't eat it, I will." I said leaning forward and biting the other half out of his mouth. His eyes widened in shock, he didn't think I would be courageous enough to try something like that. He swallowed his half and was just about to say something when we heard someone call out his name. "JORDAN!" We both looked and saw it was Stella walking up to the window. I rolled my eyes. I'm sure she is a nice girl, but I don't like her because of their relationship.

"Jordan, I need to talk to you!" he sighed "Stella, there isn't anything to talk about!" he argued. "Yes, there is. It's really important." I rolled my eyes. "Then talk." he said with a bored tone. "I can't talk to you about it with her around." I chuckled. "Sure you could. If it was so important, you would just spit it out. You wouldn't talk to me on the phone, and now you have me in person, and you still won't talk. I'm starting to think you're just trying to waste my time." he was clearly getting frustrated with her. She looked at him, then she nervously glanced at me, but then looked at him. After taking a deep breath, she said "Jordan, I'm 6 months pregnant. That's why my dad hates you, because he knows the baby is yours, and is due to be born at the end of summer right before school starts again." All the color flushed out of Jordan's face. "Jordan say something" Stella pleaded with him. Awkwardly, I gathered my things, cleaned my mess and then said "I think you two should probably talk. Um, congratulations." I said scratching the back of my head before I opened up the car door, getting out, and at a fast pace I walked away. I heard the car door open and shut and heard Jordan call out after me, but I just kept going. I didn't turn to look back either. I didn't want to be around any witnesses because I didn't want anyone to see me bawl my eyes out. I was crushed.

Why is my luck so terrible? I can't even call my best friend to talk to her about this because it unfortunately isn't my business to be sharing and while I know Mariah would keep her mouth shut, that isn't the point. I was taking a bunch of shortcuts through yards and alleyways trying to keep my mind off of Jordan. I was still going to Fred's to see him and Mariah. Due to everything that had just happened between Jordan and Stella, I doubt I will see him again today, as if that was such a bad thing.

After walking for what felt like an eternity, but in all reality it was only a half hour, I was finally at Fred's house. I walked up to the door, and knocked loudly. His mom answered the door and immediately pulled me into a hug. "Thank you for helping my son." she said, hugging me tightly. I could tell she was grateful. "That's what friends are for." she released me and opened up the door, allowing me inside. "Fred and Mariah are in the living room honey." "Thank you" I said politely before heading into the living room to join my two friends. They were both playing Black Ops 2 on TV. I sat down on the couch next to Mariah and joined in on the fun too. We were all super involved in the game that none of us realized Jordan showed up, and he brought the she-devil with him, as well as Markie and Brianna.

I avoided making eye contact with Jordan. My feelings were hurt. I refused to even speak to him. "How about we all go play some paintball?" Fred asked. Jordan shook his head. "Can't." Markie let out loud "LAMEEEEEE." I tried to hold back my giggle. "Come on, it'll be fun!" Fred pressed. Jordan shook his head. "Go ahead babe, I'll watch you play." Stella said. I rolled my eyes. "No, that would be boring for you." "Come on, let's play. There's enough of us to be a good game of guys vs girls." Markie insisted. "No, because Stella could get hurt. Dude, she's literally 6 months pregnant." Everyone drew in breaths of surprise. "SHE'S WHAT" Markie said loudly. "Pregnant." Stella added. Markie glared at her and said "You're just trying to baby trap him." Stella's eyes filled up with tears as she reached out and slapped him. Before you could even blink, Brianna reached out and slapped Stella across the face, "You may be pregnant, but your face is not, and I will not tolerate you hitting my boyfriend." I snickered, watching Stella's surprise as she held her reddened cheek before she ran out of the house crying. Jordan ran after her. "Babe, wait!" and just like that, they were gone.

"I refuse to be around that brat" Brianna stated angrily, sinking into the recliner. "Same." I agreed. Markie, and Mariah agreed too. The only one who wasn't on the same page as us, was Fred. "If we refuse to be around her, Jordan will stop coming around, probably less and less, until he is completely gone." I adjusted my position in the chair and watched as Markie jumped up. "That's it regardless, they have a baby coming. His life is over. But we can't even be too sure that Stella's baby is even Jordan's baby, because Jordan caught her cheating on him multiple times this past year. He wasn't sure how to leave her, but he'd been emotionally unconnected with her for the past 8 months. She is just baby trapping him." We all listened to Markie rant, and as he spilled the beans, telling us everything.