My mate, My exception novel Chapter 26

As much as he pisses me off, I know that I'll forgive him soon. He knows it too, I can tell, he just wants to hear the words.

"Yeah okay." I simply respond.

He grins widely at me for the first time in years. "So now can I warn this Jake kid to not break your heart?"

I roll my eyes as I open the door, walking around to his side as he gets out.

"Too soon." I say to him, before walking towards the school. I hear him laugh and I thank God that for once, my life seems content.

If there hadn't been an absence of Jake that feels like a crater to me, my life couldn't be any more perfect.

After making amends with Jeremy, I've been in a good mood. It gets even better when I see Dylan at lunch.

I sat by Leah, hoping to avoid Dylan again but before Ali sits down on my other side, Dylan gets there first.

I am about to make up some excuse about why he can't sit there but he speaks up first.

"I want to apologize!" He says as quickly as he sees my mouth open.

My mouth remains hanging open as I let his words sink in.

Dylan. Apologizing. To me.

I wait for his explanation as my mouth blatantly hangs open, probably catching flies.

"We used to be cool, you know. We were just friends and it seems things got awkward pretty quick. I know you have something going on with that other guy, but that's okay. I just want to be friends again. I want to take you to prom, as friends, and then we can go back to how we were."

His confession makes me want to cry tears of joy.

"I agree, Dylan!" I happily confess. I did miss the old him that would always joke with me. "I don't think you and I would work as a couple anyway." I wrap my arm around him from the side to show my appreciation.

Now the school day is over and I head out to the car to meet Jeremy. I don't have soccer practice today because my coach cancelled it yesterday. A smile is evident on my face as I nearly skip over and get in the drivers seat. I hope that since me and Jeremy are on better terms, he may actually let me drive.

It happens so fast, I don't process much. I can only think about how Jeremy would have taken the side roads.

If you ever need a quick excuse to see your boyfriend, getting in a car accident is a good way to bring to directly to you.

The crash actually wasn't too bad. The Suburban, being much bigger than the RAV4 we were in did total our car.

The impact was on Jeremy's side, a little more towards the front of the car so it wasn't directly on him. We had spun out and were pushed across the intersection. Luckily no one else was in our way. Otherwise our car could have hit someone else too.

Jeremy is talking to me when the ambulances arrived on scene, so I am praying he was okay. They had to use a machine to pull the door off, since it was mostly smashed in.

I didn't want to leave the scene before Jeremy, but the paramedics insisted. Since I was able to exit the car much easier than him, the only hoops they had to jump through involved my stubbornness. I put up a little fight, but three paramedics could easily drag away a seventeen year old girl.

Now I sit in the ER and wait for time to move. I only hit my head on the side window and got smacked by the air bag. My head is throbbing but they don't think I will walk away with anything more than a concussion and some bruises.

They had called my parents when I was in the ambulance and they were both supposed to be here soon. As I sit in my semi-private room I see them bring Jeremy in and he is still responding to the doctors when they roll him last my room.