Jordan Walters's Story

Chase


Chases story starts in the city. On the graffiti decorated rooftops. He sit's on the edge of the building. Hanging his legs over the edge. To the right of him is a pop can that's taller than a normal pop can. It's a Monster energy drink. He grabs it with his right hand and bring's it to his lips to take a sip. Then, he places it back down in it's original spot.

Sitting on the edge to the left of him is his cell phone. He had a phone that the keyboard slides out to the side so he can text better. He picks up his phone and cecks his texts. he had only one from Jordan saying "Yo! Where r u? U missed da first hour o skool man! If u aint here by lunch imma come look for you dude!". He didn't want to go to school. He had a black eye and a fat lip from when he was jumped in the ally by two gang members. "Ay! I'll b right dere! Dont go all gangsta on me now im on my way" He text back.

Then, Chase stood up. He stood on the edge for half a minute. Just looking down thinking about what he's going to say if anyone ask about the black eye or the fat lip. I'll just say I got in a fight or something. He thought to himself. Then he reached down and picked up his Monster can and cell phone. He put his cell phone in his pocket and through the can over the edge. Then he pulled the hood of his baggy grey jacket over his head and walked over the rooftops until he got to the rooftop across from the school. Then, he climbed down the fire escape and got to the street then walked in the school. Some people may think he's in a gang with a old grey jacket that was zipped up about half way, his hood over his head casting a shadow over his forehead eyes and to the middle of his nose, old warn out dark ripped up baggy jeans, old faded navy blue tank top that he wore under his jacket, and old wore out faded grey Jordan's. He really didn't want to be here, at school, and he really didn't want to talk to anyone. But, that didn't stop people from talking to him.


Jordan


Jordan just finished texting Chase when she walked in the front door of the school. She had a big bruise on her right arm about an inch or so below her shoulder. She didn't want anyone to see it so she wore he jean jacket that had the sleeves that she rolled up to her elbows. It was the perfect cover. She said he to some of her friends as she walked to her locker. She put in her combination 3-8-1-7 she thought as she put it in. When she opened her locker, anyone who was close by would be able to see a picture of her and Chase from her seventeenth birthday; on of the rare pictures that had Chase smiling; a Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded CD album cover, a Rihanna Loud album cover, and a picture of her mother and Izzy her pet hedgehog.

Jordan smiled as she looked at the pictures, and that motivated her for the day. She took a math text book out of her locker and headed to class. She didn't have any classes with Chase, but they had lunch together. So Jordan looker in her little notebook that she uses to organize her life. It was so crowded in that little book. The only person that would ever be able to figure out what was going on in that little book was Jordan herself. In it for lunch she put down Find Chase at lunch. She had other people she was defiantly going to talk to at lunch, but she could just find them. She needed to remind herself of Chase though. She wanted to see why he didn't want to come to school with her today.

Jordan then felt the sharp pain of her bruise. She looked around real fast to see if there was anyone else in the classroom. When the coast was clear, she slowly pulled her sleeve up to look at the bruise. "Shhhhhh!" She winched at the pain when her long finger nail scraped the bruise on accident. "Ouch." She said aloud quietly. There was tears in her eyes, but she held it in. When she heard someone come in the classroom, she quickly pulled her sleeve back down and opened her notebook and just stared at it.

Lunch, thank god! Chase thought as the bell rang for lunch. He didn't feel like going to lunch, but he had to because Jordan wanted to talk to him. He thought of Jordan as the little sister he never really wanted, but he put up with her anyways. 

"Ayy!" Chase yelled, a bit too angrily too, when someone had bumped into him in the hall. He was about to throw whoever did it against a locker, until he realized it was Rome. "Oh, hey, Rome." Chase said with a slight awkward smile. Yeah, he even had trouble talking to girls he's know for a long time, but they haven't talked in awhile so it's normal. 

"I'm good. I'm bout to go to lunch. Imma met up with Jordan if you wanna come?" Chase said. His hood was still up, so no one really couldn't see his black eye, but anyone could clearly see his fat lip. And with every fat lip comes a matching black eye when ever it comes down to Chase. 

"Speak of the devil." He said loud enough for Kennedy to hear, but he was really saying it to himself. He said this as Jordan walked up. For some reason Chase didn't think Jordan and Rome would get along. Jordan was part of the group that always bumped heads with the in-group, witch was the group Rome was in.




Jordan was walking down the school hallway going to lunch as she looked for Chase. She stopped to talk to one of her friends, Courtney. When they were talking, she saw the girl run into Chase. Yeah, she knew the girl but they never really talked much.

"Ay, Chase! Where the fuck were you, boy?" Jordan said as she steamed over to Chase and the girl. "Cee, what happened to your lip?" She added as she noticed his fat lip and she gently put her hand on his chin, using her thumb to gently feel the small cut on the bottom lip where it was fat and bruised.

Then she pulled his hood down revealing his black eye. "Of course." Jordan said quietly and a disappointing look washed over her face. She didn't like that he had gotten in a fight and got beat up. It made her feel like it was all her fault in some way. 

Jordan then turned to the girl that ran into Chase. "Hi, I'm Jordan." She said shyly with a shy smile and held out her hand to shake. Witch was awfully weird considering that Jordan had practically yelled at Chase just a moment ago. Then again, it is Jordan we're talking about.

Rome
Kennedy simply watched the interaction between the two, she felt a little out of place, a slightly jealous when the girl touched him. But she quickly shook the feeling she had no right to be jealous. This girl had obviously known him well and that was more then she could say, in a way she had kind of betrayed Chase, it wasn’t like her parents had told her she couldn’t hang out with him. In fact he was the only friend they actually like, when they choose to pay attention. She sighed slightly upset seeing the black eye and fat lip. She gave him a small sad look.

Before turning to the girl “Jordan Walters right?” she smiled “We have English together.” She said in a friendly tone that she was worried sounded to fake, but in all honesty she was being sincere, most people thought of her as fake because of her money and she always had a smile, people normally suspected her of being a bitch and she hated that.

She shook Jordan’s hand, trying to make it as sincere as possible. She glanced back to Chase “Maybe we should get you some Ice for that.” She offered, before looking back to Jordan “Maybe after we can all grab some lunch?” she asked, trying to hide the nerves in her voice, knowing this wasn’t exactly her crowed and she didn’t want to impose. She know she would get crap from her friends if she actually did have lunch with them, but she wasn’t the type of person to judge others and she would probably be the one telling her friends off if they said anything. "Oh...I'm Rome, by the way or Romie, whatever you choose is fine by me" she said giving her a smile.

Jordan listened to what Rome had to say. She was mildly shocked that, one they had a class together, and two that Rome actually paid attention enough to remember Jordan's first and last name. "Yeah." She said quietly, as she tried remembering all the people in her English class. Jordan sat in the back with two other friends of hers, Kayla and Nick. Rome must sit in front with all the bitchy kids. Jordan thought to herself, slightly smiling at her own remark.

When Rome said that they should get some ice for Chases eye, Jordan just nodded. She looked at Chase sadly, tears almost starting to form in her eyes, but she wasn't going to say anything. She didn't even want to know what happened. "Okay, let's go." Jordan said as she grabbed Chases wrist and started walking to the Cafeteria. She stopped almost mid step after they walked a few feet from where they were once standing with Rome. 

Personally, Jordan didn't want Rome to come to help with Chases messed up face, but she couldn't find it in her heart to just ditch her in the middle of the hall like that. "Wait here." She told Chase in a strong yet quiet voice as she put a hand on his shoulder and look him in the eye. Then she walked back to Rome. "I can't believe I'm doing this." Jordan said quietly to herself as she walked over to Rome. "Uhh…your coming too." Jordan said as she stood a little too close for her own comfort in front of Rome. Then she grabbed her wrist like she did chase and pulled her to where Chase was standing.

Jordan then let go of Rome's wrist and turned Chase around where he was facing the way to the cafeteria. "Let's go!" Jordan said loudly where both Chase and Rome could hear her over the crowd of students. Then Jordan pushed Chase along to the cafeteria. 




Chase just went along for the ride and had basically a blank face the whole time. He knew that Jordan was defiantly sad, mad, and disappointed in him. And he was pretty sure Rome felt the same as Jordan in that part. But he defiantly knows that this isn't going to end well. He's afraid one of the girls are going to end up snapping. And if it's Jordan. He ain't going to know what he'll do. Yeah, Chase knows Jordan can be nice and caring, but he's met the mean side and he doesn't want Rome to be on the other end of that mean side.

Rome
Rome smiled to Jordan “I uh…I really don’t have to” she said nervously as the girl pulled her along. Soon the three of them getting to the nurses office.
“I’ll get the ice” she said as she set down her book bag, heading to the nurse grabbing a pack of Ice, her volunteering in the office a lot knowing exactly where it was. “This should help with the swelling.” She said in her naturally sweet voice as she wrapped the pack of ice in the brown paper towel.

She gently placed it on his lip. Taking a small breath as she looked to Jordan “Here you should…” she trailed off, trying not to make it as awkward. She knelt down digging through her bag pulling out a small bottle of Tylenol, handing Chase two of the pills and a bottle of water. “Should help with the pain” she smiled.

“Hey, Candy, what the fuck you doing with these losers?” The voice was familiar to Rome, her ex-boyfriend, who if you asked anyone was still completely in love with her.

She was almost positive that he had been the reason she stopped hanging out with chase now thinking about it. She stood up seeing him of course with a football in his hand. It’s not even football season. She thought rolling her eyes.

“Why don’t you mind your own business, or are you still too busy obsessing over me Derrick?” she asked irritated with him.

“Whatever babe, you know you still want me.” He smirked grabbing her by her wrist rougher than necessary. It was evident that he had been drinking, which in all honesty wasn’t hard to get away with at this school.

She rolled her eyes “You’re lucky I don’t tell the couch you’ve drinking.” She threatened, causing him to shake his head and leave the office before he caused a bigger scene. She knew how to deal with him even if he scared the shit out of her.

She tucked a strand of her long dark hair behind her ear trying to get her composure, remembering she was still in the presence of Chase and Jordan. She gave them a smile as if nothing had happened, grabbing her book bag. “I should get going.” She said trying to keep the fact that she wanted to cry under control. “It was nice seeing you again and Nice officially meeting you Jordan.” She smiled as she started to head out of the office before turning back to the two.

“Hey, uh…I’m having a party at my house Friday night, you guys are welcome to come.” She said in a casual tone choking back tears. “You still know where I live right Chase?” she said glancing to him.

Jordan took the ice pack from Rome as she gave it to her. As Jordan gently padded the ice pack on Chases lip she looked him in the eye. "Your a dumb ass, you know that?" She said quietly with a slightly sad look on her face. Chase just simply nodded, rolling his eyes slightly. "Uhhuh! Now don't you go rolling your eyes, Cee." As Jordan said this, she switched to padding Chases eye with the ice pack. 

Jordan stopped with the ice when she heard someone defiantly call her and Chase losers. Normally, she would give that well known football player a piece of her mind, but he was too busy messing with Rome. Jordan being the person she is just looked away. She didn't want to see anything bad happen.

When Derrick left, Jordan looked at Rome. Jordan and Chase were sitting next to each other on the doctor like bed. Jordan was just holding the ice pack in on hand while the other one was resting on top of Chases hand. Jordan looked at Chase, wanting him to say something. When he didn't say anything and looked at Jordan then nodded his head to were Rome was standing. "You don't have go, Rome." Jordan said in a small quiet voice knowing that's what Chase wanted her to do.

When Rome mentioned the party, Jordan looked at Chase with a pleading look. Jordan just loved parties, but there was no way she was going to an in-crowd party with out Chase by her side.




Chase looked up when Derrick came in the office and called, most likely, him and Jordan losers. Chase flinched, wanting to get up and pond the living shit out of him for, one, being drunk and touching Rome while he was drunk, and, two, for calling Jordan and him losers. When Rome made Derrick leave, Chase eased up a bit.

Then, when Chase heard Rome say she should leave, he instantly looked at Jordan. Sure, Chase would have said something to Rome, but he honestly wanted Jordan and Rome to get along. The only way that'll happen is if they become friends. And Chase is taking it upon himself to fulfill that action.

Now, when Rome said party, Chase let out a kind of annoyed sigh. He knew if he said he didn't want to go to no party, Jordan will just keep begging him until he says fine. He looked at Jordan then rolled his eyes. "Okay, we'll try to make it. And yeah, I remember where your house is." He said standing up. 

Jordan said "Yay!" as she watched Chase say that they'll try to make it. Then when she noticed who else was there, she coughed a little and said "Uhh…I mean…cool." She said, a slightly awkward smile came across her face. Then her and Chase laughed a little. 

"Hey, let's go to lunch now." Chase said as he looked at Jordan. "You wanna grab some lunch with us, Rome?" He added, turning to Rome. He wanted her to have lunch with him and Jordan. He wanted to catch up with her and he wanted Jordan and her to get to know each other. He thinks it'll be good for both of them.

Rome
She smiled when they said they would try to come, maybe they would show the people she called her friends how to really party. She thought for a moment when they invited her to lunch, in all honesty she wanted to go to the bathroom and pull herself together after what had just happened. She gave a small sigh looking between the two friends.

“I…um…I guess if you don’t mind.” She said in a small voice.

Soon the group heading into the cafeteria to get some lunch, Kennedy sat quite for the most part not wanting to interrupt them, though she seemed to feel more comfortable here with Chase and Jordan then she ever felt with her own friends, even though they were getting weird looks. It was completely uncommon for the two groups to intermix. She pressed the calendar app on her IPhone. Of course she had work right after school, which she honestly didn’t mind. She didn’t have to work, but it was something that got her out of the house and she really liked working at the Motocross shop. She glanced up to the two as she tucked her phone in her pocket.

“So I know chase likes to rap…what about you?” she asked making casual conversation with the girl. Before glancing to the door way of the cafeteria seeing one of her old classmates. Freya and she had been photography partners and they actually got along fairly well. She gave her a small wave.

Rome
Rome smiled thinking for a moment “I like everything really” she shrugged taking a drink of her water “Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Drake, um…really anything that you can dance to” she smirked “Dancing is my life, contemporary to be exact” she sighed thinking about it. “Though I would have to say Sarah Mclachlan is my favorite artist to perform to.” She smiled nervously “I’m sorry am I talking too much, I tend to do that when I get nervous” she admitted taking another drink from her water bottle.

“You know I’ve heard Chase, and I’m sure your amazing, you two should put something together for the talent show I hear there’s going to be scouts there. You never know might be your big break.” She said looking between Jordan and Chase.

She sighed as she looked down to her notebook that she had out jotting things down like she always did. She liked to keep her mind always occupied. Even though the things she wrote down didn’t really make sense to anyone else, her short poems made sense to her. “If I didn’t have such stage fright I’d try out for the talent show.” She frowned looking down at her notebook.

Jordan looked around, still not really like the attention, then she turned her attention to Rome with a small smirk on her face. "What kind of dancing do you do?" She said. "Do you do like ballet or something?" Jordan added with a small laugh. Jordan likes dancing too, but not the kind of dancing that she would do on stage or anything. Yeah, she likes party and club dancing, figures.

Then when Rome said that she had stage fright, Jordan said "I used to have stage fright too." with a reassuring smile. "Then I met this guy underground." She added with a smile pointing her thumb at Chase. "That was the funnest time I've had underground." She said, looking at Chase, but still telling it to Rome. "I think doing the talent show would be fun." She said with a huge smile looking down as she put one of her legs over the other. "Don't you think so too, Cee?" Jordan added, looking at Chase with a smile.

Then when Chase just got wide eyes, Jordan laughed. "I ain't doing anything I write up, though. There ain't no way I'mma do that." She said shaking her head a little. Then she looked around at all the students in the cafeteria. They were still looking at them and whispering. "You know what. I don't feel like going to the rest of the classes today. Ay, you guys wanna ditch?" She said, shifting eyes between Chase and Rome. She knew Chase was going to say yeah, but she didn't know about Rome.




Chase widened his eyes when Rome mentioned that him and Jordan should do the talent show. He was okay with it, he just didn't want to me the laughing stock of the school. Chase thinks that he's a horrible rapper. But, he'll end up needing to do it anyway now that Rome had to go and mention it in front of Jordan. "Well, we ain't doing anything I write up either." He said,looking at Jordan.

When Jordan mention ditching, Chase stood up right away. "May we go?" He asked Jordan, holding his hand out to help her up. "We shall." Jordan replied, taking Chases hand and standing up. "Your coming too. Weather you want to or not." Chase said, looking at Rome with a smile. His smile faded a little when the smile made his lip hurt a little. But he was still smiling.

"You can't force her to ditch, Cee." Jordan said, trying to keep a straight face, but failed when she laughed and shot her hands over her mouth to hide her smile and laughter. "Oh well, she going." Chase replied, looking at Jordan. Then he turned his attention to Rome. "Come on, Romie." Chase said, helping her up. "Let's go to the roof tops!" Chase said a little too loudly once they were out of the school. He went and pulled the ladder down from the fire escape and let the girls go up first. Then he lead the way to the top of the escape and helped the girls up on to the roof top of the building.

First, he helped Jordan up. He was already on the roof and was going to pull the girls up. He reached down and grabbed forearm of her right arm with his right arm and she did the same. With Jordan's free hand, she pulled her self onto the rooftop as Chase had his hand on her back, making sure Jordan wouldn't fall. Once Jordan was on the rooftop, he did the same and helped Rome up.

Once Jordan was on the roof, she went all the way to the other side of the plane sandy white rooftop and sat on the edge with her knees up to her chest and her arms around her knees. She just stared out over the other rooftops of the city while Chase and Rome were left alone. "May the lord protect me as the world gets hectic...my voice projected, my life reflected." Jordan said quietly to herself, closing her eyes as she said it and went into her own little world for that moment.

She smiled to Jordan “Contemporary mostly, ballets not really my thing” she giggled “Too girly.” She said putting her notebook into her bag when they mention they were going to ditch taking that as her cue to leave. She was quite surprised when Chase demanded she come with them.

“I really shouldn’t” but it seemed she had no chose in the matter.

Rome thought about using the excuse she would get in trouble if her parents found but, but she knew full well Chase knew better than that, in fact anyone who knew Rome knew she was always alone, in that be house Which didn’t exactly make her comfortable. She smiled when he called her Romie, it felt god to her him caller her that again after so long. She followed them up the latter to the roof tops. Enjoying the view once she got up there. She glanced to Jordan with a small worried look. She didn’t know her well but Rome had a tendency to worry about everyone.

“It’s been forever since I’ve been up here” she admitted giving her old friend a smile. She use to come here all the time s she wouldn’t have to be home alone. “Is she okay?” she finally asked, glancing from Chase to Jordan.

Chase smiled a little as Rome smiled at him. Then when she asked if Jordan was okay, he glance over to Jordan. "I don't know. She does that all the time when ever we ditch and come up here." He explained. "Whenever I try asking what's wrong, she just blows it off and says she's fine then she starts joking around, so..." He paused. Thinking about what to say. "I'm sure she's fine." He added, swinging his arm and snapping his wrist. Then he laid down on his back. "Why don't you try talking to her?" He added before he put his ear bud's in and turned on a really strong rap Eminem song. Not one of the meaningful ones raps, but a very strong cruse langue song. Tuning everyone out.

Chase personally wanted to know what was wrong with Jordan, but when she keeps blowing him off and saying nothing's wrong and she fine, he has to believe her. He's not like Jordan and can make them do stuff. Well, with her anyway. "Just talk to her!" Chase said loudly looking up at Rome. He couldn't hear a thing over his music. There could be a shooting going on right by them, and he wouldn't notice. He closed his eyes and put his hands behind his head and laid there listening to music in his own little world. Just hoping that Rome goes talk to Jordan in the real world and finds out what's up.

Rome
Rome jumped a bit when he yelled at her not that she was scared it just caught her off guard. She sighed, what in the hell was she supposed to say to her, she had just barely been formally introduced to her more or less an hour ago. She walked over to the girl sitting down next to her hanging her legs over the edge. She didn’t say anything. She kept running different lines through head on what to say.

“I know I don’t know you very well Jordan, but it’s obvious something is bothering you.” She said in a soft concerned tone. “And you don’t have to tell me, I really have no business asking. But, sometimes it helps to have someone to talk to” she said not looking at Jordan, but looking out across the roof tops. “I would never say anything to anyone.” Her voice was faint almost too quiet to catch, she wasn’t even sure if Jordan had heard.

It was quiet for a long moment, before Rome decided to speak again. “I’m sorry, for my weird imposition today.” She sighed “But…thanking for inviting me, I know your group and my group don’t exactly get along.” She said in and honest voice.

Rome
Kennedy glanced over seeing her touch her arm. She wasn’t stupid she knew something was seriously wrong. She didn’t say anything as she reached into her bag to get the small bottle of Tylenol she always carried on her giving her two and handing her water bottle. She saw the tear, but she knew girl code, if you don’t like being asked when you’re upset, you don’t ask someone else. Then the question came, and then the accusation. She stayed quiet for a long moment, it almost seemed endless.

“I’m talking to you because you obviously mean a lot to Chase, and you must be a pretty great person in his book.” She smiled to Jordan “So if you mean something to him, you mean something to me.” She said in a calm tone.

She thought for a few moments about how exactly she was going to word her next answer.

“Chase…ha, I’ve never thought of him as more than a friend. He’s really cute of course, but even the group of girls I hang out with think he’s cute.” She laughed at the thought.

“Besides, even if I like him…WHICH I don’t” she smirked “I would never want to screw up what’s left of our friendship.” She spoke with Jordan as if they had been friends for years.

Rome glanced down to Jordan’s arm “Who’s doing it to you?” she spoke in a hush tone as she glanced back up to Jordan “You may be able to hid it from Chasey, but, Derrick use to do that to me.” She said taking a small breath, swallowing hard at the thought.

Rome
Rome took a deep breath, she had a saddened look on her face and whatever was bugging Jordan was causing her to cry, which made Rome physically hurt from the inside out. She swallowed as she took a drink of her water.

“Listen Jordan, I’m not going to pry and telling Chase is up to you.” She said in a quiet voice. “But, you shouldn’t just keep everything bottled.” She regretted the words as soon as she said them. She was surprised she didn’t choke on her own advice. She kept everything bottled up, she wasn’t exactly trusting and she didn’t want to burden anyone else with her problems. “I just would hate to see you get hurt and it would kill Chase.” She frowned gently.

She sighed as her cell phone vibrated in her pocket. She pulled it out rolling her eyes when she saw a text from her mother. “Of course” she mumbled under her breath, taking a deep breath and closing her eyes. Before opening them back up seeing the time. She hadn’t realized how late it had gotten.

“Shit” she said tucking her cell phone back in her pocket and pulling out her note book, jotting something down quickly. Folding it over once and handing it to Jordan.

“I have to get to work.” She smiled as she headed over to where Chase laid giving him a soft kick, then giving him a playful smile waving by. Before quickly taking two steps at a time as she climbed down the latter, running to the school parking lot and getting into her car. She wanted to beat the traffic.

"Oh, hey, Rome. You work here?" Jordan asked with a slightly confused looked, but a small smirk. Then she walked over to the front desk where Rome went. Jordan nodded and smiled at the person that was checking out. "Chase had to go to work. So I decided to go walk around and look for a place to stay for the night." Jordan added as she leaned on the desk. She had a straight face then looked at her phone, trying to remember why she was here in the first place. "Oh, and Chase wanted me to tell who ever worked here that he'll be here after work to look at some bikes. I don't know if that mean anything though." Jordan added as she remembered what Chase had text her.

"Well better get going." Jordan said, slapping her hand on the desk gently a few times with a slight smile on her face. Then she turned around and started walking towards the door. I could always see if any underground-ers has a place I can stay. She thought, nodding her head a little. She had one ear-bud in. Listening to Marilyn Monroe by Nicki Minaj. She didn't even know she started humming to the song. She must have been doing it the whole time and she hadn't even noticed.

Rome
Rome quickly finished checking the person out. Chase must have an appointment with Andy. She thought to herself, giving the man a smile before running over to Jordan grabbing her arm gently.

“Stay with me!” She offered “My parents aren’t home you could ride with me to school tomorrow and then after you could just come back for the party.” She smiled to her jumping at the chance to have someone with her. She couldn’t begin to put in words how much she hated being alone. “If it would make you feel better we could invite Chase and he could spend the night to.” She offered “You would be doing me a huge favor” she pleaded with a smile

Rome waited for Jordan to reply she hoped she would say yes. It would be good for the both of them seeing as they were both close with Chase, well for the most part, she hoped they could start hanging out again. She felt her phone buzz in her pocket.

“Sorry one second” she smiled to Jordan reading the text from Freya, she had met the girl through Andy and they got along really well. She loved hanging out with Freya, though there schedules were different not leaving them much time to do so.

She thought as she typed a reply to her friend:

Sure thing! Glad you’re coming hopefully we can do some serious catching up :D by the way who’s the lucky Mr.? Anyone I know? Lol jk! But seriously?

She teased her through the text not exactly sure if it was a guy, but figuring it could be.

She pressed send before she glanced back to Jordan.

“So?” she asked.

Jordan looked at Rome with a slight smile. "Okay." She said quietly. "I'll just hang here a while." She added with a blank face. She was a little nervous to have Rome see where she lived, being in the poorest part of town and all. Jordan's phone then went off. "Who's this?" She said as she looked at the caller ID and didn't know who it was. "Hello?" She answered in a shy voice. At first her face looked a little scared then it looked a little mad and irritated. "Chase, boy, why ain't you using your cell to call be?!" She yelled in a quiet voice. "What are you talking about butter and popcorn?!" She said a little louder. "Fine, bye." Jordan said. Then she looked at Rome and was going to try to explain, even though she wasn't sure herself what just happened. "That was Chase. He said he'll have to wait 'til tomorrow to check out those bikes 'cause something happened to his phone." She explained looking down at her phone and ID-ing the number that Chase called from as 'Chase's Work', just in case something like this happened again. Then Jordan sat back and waited to leave.

"It's okay." Jordan said, referring to the car. When they pulled up to the apartment building, it was one of the poorest buildings. It didn't even look like people should be living in it. Her slight smile that she wore on the way there faded. "Uh...y-yeah." Jordan said, taking a deep breath then getting out of the car. She walked up to the building, and went in side. A few minutes latter she came running out of the building with a slightly small stripped black and white backpack on her back. She was carrying her jacket and Izzy, who looked very small. She didn't have her jacket on so you could clearly see the bruise on her arm. When she got in the car, she leaned her head back and tried catching her breath with her eyes closed. "Okay." Jordan said once she got her breath. "Let's go." She added, still slightly out of breath from running.

(It's okay. I understand. Imma end up being like that in a few weeks when school starts again.)

Rome waited in the car for Jordan or what she would assume was her new friend hopefully. She smiled as Jordan came back to the car. Rome mostly chatting trying to keep the car from being silent or awkward. She typed in the code on the fence once she got to her gate which probably was the only thing that made her feel safe. She parked her car, helping Rome carry some of her stuff in.

“Ahh…Mrs. Billings you’ve brought a friend” Alfred Smiled

“Yes, Alfred…this is Jordan” she smiled looking to Jordan “Jordan if you need anything don’t hesitate, Alfred is a huge help!” she smiled, glancing to the stairs seeing Quinn trotting down. "Oh, Jordan I hope you don't mind Quinn." she said kneeling down kissing the dogs nose like she always did.

The two heading upstairs, the Billings Estate was huge, if you didn’t grow up there it was easy to get lost. Rome opened up the door to a room that was right across from her room.
“Sorry, I hope this room is all right, It’s my brothers.” She sighed looking it to the room “He, kinda has a weird scene of style” she giggled softly. “I figured you like to have your own room, if you decide to stay tomorrow night, I’ll give you one of the guest rooms” she smiled “Anyways, My room is right here” she said pointing to the door across the way it reading Romie in dark purple lettering. “If you want anything to eat or drink don’t hesitate, staff works 24/7 and let me know if you need anything or just want to hang out!” she smiled “Make yourself at home, I’m going to go get out of these cloths.” She smiled heading across the fairly big hall.