i heart you

Chapter 10

The school bells rings as they both realize it's the end of lunch break. "The bell..." Jabeen points out . "I guess I have to leave for class." Jabeen says as she tries to get out of this awkward situation. "Wait, what's your class ?" Luna calls from behind while Jabeen tries to make a run. She turns her feet around facing Luna replying , "Literature." Luna's face wears a smile. "Oh! Mine too. Let's go then . " Thus , they start walking to the class leaving in the middle of the tour, ignoring an important sentence .

After school ends, Jabeen was waiting for Lisa and Michael since she can't go home all by herself . She spots Lisa walking out of the entrance with Amber and two other girls she didn't know . Lisa walks past her talking to them ignoring Jabben . Jabeen stops her , "Hey Lisa," she walks forward standing in front of them helplessly . "We were supposed to go home together." Lisa rolls her eyes at her sarvastically saying , "It hasn't been a day and yet you started calling it home . Not bad."

The others chuckles except Amber keeping a straight face hearing Lisa while Jabeen continued , "Sorry , if that was offensive for you . But you have to understand I don't know where to go . I don't know the roads and I accept that I am helpless. " Seeing Jabben annoyed and her words were honest , Lisa calmed herself down. She realizes she isn't the only one who has to deal with a stranger living under the same roof.

"It's okay." She replies normally .

"Actually I am not going home right now . I am gonna hangout at Amber's . But you can go with Micheal I guess . If he doesn't have band practice today. ''

Jabeen eased down thinking maybe after all Micheal will finally start talking to her .So, thinking about the opportunity she agrees nodding while Amber interrupts , " She doesn't have to . I mean she can come with us." She looks at Lisa trying to convince her meeting her eyes while Lisa is astonished. "You want her to hangout with us ?" She says while Amber smiles saying , "Yeah. Let's really bond with your foster sister . Shall we ?" Jabeen is confused at their sudden friendship. "Are you sure ?" She askes in hesitation .

It was a surprise for Jabeen to see Amber behaving nicely. She couldn't but to think the whole time in the car, why was she being so nice? When in the morning she gave the quite the opposite expression. Jabeen was sitting in the middle while the girl on her right side was fixing her makeup and the girl on her left kept snoring the whole time burdening her head on Jabeen's shoulder.

It took 20 minutes to reach Amber's house. Twenty minutes of torture for Jabeen. Rock music bumming her ears , Amber driving the car recklessly which was proved by the continuous car horns and lastly Lisa doing God knows what. Finally, they reach the place, the girl beside Jabeen rose from her sleep fixing her hair. Jabeen cleans the saliva from her jacket with disgust using a tissue. She opens the window to throw the used tissue but seeing the view her mouth drops. '' Alright girls. We are here. '' Amber says as she got out of the car. The girls beside Jabeen gets out as Jabeen finally felt free. She took her head out of the car as the sunlight mercilessly falls a over her . She could barely keep her eyes open. She took her hand using it as an umbrella to look at the mansion. Amber's house looked like those 90's rich mansions which to add a house which will probably be used in a horror movie. It was covered with black stone, not to mention the room in the tower reminded Jabeen of those movies where the ghost usually stays. She takes a gulp as she walked to main door following the others. The door opens with a face of their butler. He gives a warm smile as Amber enters ignoring the gesture. She went straight to her room while Jabeen rotates her head to look at each corner. The house looked modern in the inside even though on the outside it looked quite the opposite. She stops walking when finds herself at Amber's room. Her bed was queen sized covered with white clean sheets. It looked so inviting that Lisa didn't mind to jump on it to lay down. There was a big window through which the backyard pool could be seen. Amber goes to the washroom while Jabeen walked to the window looking at outside bewildered.

Amber was living the life of a princess. Jabeen was thinking, what could her dad be to win such comfort? Did he rob a bank? Jabeen's mind wonders as she smiles thinking about her weird conceptions. '' What are you smiling at weirdo? '' The girl with red curly hair asks as she made her way to sit on the bed. Listening to her Jabeen's face shows a fork of irritation as she spoke,'' Excuse me? What did you just call me? '' Jabeen's eyes were red which scared Missy as she exclaims, ''Never mind'' while Lisa is still on bed punching her face across the soft white pillow. Amber got out of the washroom with a towel cleaning the drops as she looked at Lisa saying,'' Has she fallen asleep? '' Jabeen's eyes falls over Lisa's shoes as it was making the sheets more dirtier. Amber throws the towel on Lisa as it falls on her butt. Lisa not raising her head keeps the wet towel down. She turns her face around still not removing her head from the pillow, '' I am bored'' she sighs making a baby voice. Amber takes out her moisturizer from the cupboard as she laughs, '' The only time I don't hear you say that word is when we decide to get high. '' Jabeen's eyes widens as she hears that word. Remembering those memories she left at home.

Amber rubs the moisturizer on her face as she caught Jabeen looking at her. Jabeen was admiring her skin that how flawless it looked even without the heavy makeup she uses. Amber feels awkward with her gaze as calls Lisa ignoring, '' What do you want to do, i***t? '' Lisa got sitting on the bed Indian style replying, '' Let's play truth and dare '' She looks at Jabeen as Amber was shocked. '' Why would you want to play that silly game? '' She removes her eye contact from Jabeen as stares at Amber replying, '' Just curious. '' Jabeen felt something is wrong. Maybe Lisa wants to find out some secrets about her so she tries to say, '' I have to go somewhere. '' '' Go, where? '' Lisa questions getting out of the bed. '' The last time I heard you don't have anywhere to go. '' she says as she walked up to Jabeen. Jabeen looks aside staring outside, '' I meant outside. '' ''No you can't leave'' Jabeen raising her eyebrows replies, '' Why? '' she crosses her arms as Lisa replied excitedly changing her serious look, '' Because we are all playing. '' looking at Amber. Amber was confused of Lisa's behavior. According to her, she never looked this challenging. They called Amy from outside stopping her to talk with her boyfriend. '' I just left an important call. This better be good. '' Amy says as she sees Lisa putting a blanket on the floor. '' What are we doing exactly? '' she asks confused. Missy replies, '' Our Miss Wilson wants to play a little game called truth or dare. '' She chuckles as Lisa got up after finishing. '' Come on.. we are not in fifth grade anymore Liz, '' Amy says. Lisa releases a breath saying, '' Seriously, the last time we played it was yesterday guys. '' She looks at Amber for help as she smiled sitting on the floor before everyone. ''Come on... It's just a game girls. ''

Jabeen's quietness was speaking her panicking situation. She didn't want to spill her guts out. But of course, she could lie. They all sat together as Lisa spinned the bottle. It rolls turning to Jabeen remarkably as her heart skips a beat. Lisa says softly narrowing her eyes, '' Truth or dare, Jabeen?'' While Jabeen brainstorms if it's too late to escape .