My mate, My exception novel Chapter 18

I nod again breathless at his beautiful words. "You're sweet." I tell him simply. He laughs and shakes his head. "I'll even forgive you for making my first kiss so abrupt." I say teasingly.

His face pales and he quickly hugs me, taking me by surprise. "I'm so sorry Jen. I had no idea it was your first. Please forgive me." He begs. I can't help but giggle.

"I will. As long as you promise to make my second ten times better."

He nods while leaning in, trying to fulfill my somewhat joking comment.

And he sure as hell does.

My phone buzzes from where it rests on my lap and I quickly pick it up. After sliding my phone open I see a text from Jake.

See you at six then;) he responds to my previous text.

It's Monday and I am sitting in my third hour class. I have been texting Jake all day and have made plans to see him tonight, since I don't think I can wait much longer anyways.

After our conversation yesterday, Jake stayed at my house the whole rest of the day, leaving before I ate dinner. My parents are true believers in family dinners and although I'm sure they would have welcomed Jake to dinner, I wasn't ready for that. Therefore, I snuck him out before they called me down.

This morning I felt the same symptoms I have been feeling the past week, but they weren't as bad as previous days. It's like my body finally understood where the symptoms were coming from and decided to go easy on me.

So let's just say I am way too excited already.

I imagine Jake and where we will go tonight. I imagine his lips on mine and his hands in my hair, leaving those welcoming tingles on my skin...

"Jennifer, number twenty seven, please." My monotone and always grumpy teacher breaks me from my thoughts with his question.

"What?" I ask frantically flipping through my notes.

"You have some serious explaining to do, Ifer!" She says- very loudly I might add.

"Do you really have to do that every time?" I ask her readjusting my backpack. "And what is it that I need to explain?"

"Yes, I do. And I'm talking about your guy!" She exclaims.

"Oh," I mumble. "How did you even find out about Jake?"

Riley slows to a stop and abruptly pulls me back next to her. I love Riley and all but I am going to smack her with all this jerking around. "JAKE?" She practically screams for the whole school to hear. "WHO THE HELL IS JAKE?"

When I only answer with a confused glare she frantically waves her hands in front of her like an idiot and says "I was talking about Dylan! He says you ditched him at the party on Friday night!"