My mate, My exception novel Chapter 30

"Your brother is a life saver." Jake says from the corner.

I jump in the air, his voice scaring me half to death.

"Why are you still here? I heard the front door close!" I whisper to him, not risking my parents catching us again.

"I did go out the front door but I came back for a proper goodbye." He smirks.

"This is not funny!" I tell him. "I'm probably gonna be grounded because of you and if they walk in on us kissing again then...." he walks up to me and hugs me, so I don't finish.

"I'm gonna miss you Jen." He says lovingly, ignoring everything I just tried telling him.

I sigh and hug him tighter, not knowing when I'll see him again. "You too." I quietly mumble.

I hear someone at the bottom of the stairs and I push him away. "You need to go." I say regretfully.

He leaves through my window, not without blowing me a kiss and I try to look casual.

My mom opens the door and sends me a small smile. I try to look annoyed.

"Your dad wants me to take your phone."

I almost want to laugh at the irony that I don't know where my phone is from Jake surprise appearance. It could be anywhere from the couch downstairs to the stairs to in here.

I look around my room and when I don't see it I suggest she looks at the couch. She says she will and leaves, but not before telling me one last thing.

"I think he's a keeper, if I must say so myself." She shuts my door after that and I smile. My mom isn't too bad.

I was never one of those people who was obsessed with her phone. I'm not saying I could get rid of mine and live without it, but I didn't spend much a lot of time on it. I only had six games, four of which I only played about once a month when I was bored. I had an Instagram and Snapchat, but no Facebook. I texted my friends often, but not many more people outside of that. In fact, sometimes I didn't even turn off my phone in church. I was just that confident that no one would try to contact me.

We hadn't been caught and I didn't think we would be. Jake was our human radar. With his exceptional hearing, he scaled out my window with any sign of approaching guests.

I wait on my bed and absentmindedly fix my pajamas. I don't have anything "hot"- if you know what I mean- to wear when Jake comes over but I didn't feel like I needed it. Whenever I am with Jake I feel relaxed. I am confident that I could wear old sweatpants and one of my brothers hand-me-down shirts and still be accepted by Jake. He has told me I was beautiful every night he's came. So I wear my light blue sleep shorts with a dark grey tank top. This is about as fancy as it gets for me. It also doesn't raise suspicion if one of my family members walks in.

After a good fifteen minutes I get a little concerned. He told me nine and it's now nine fifteen. I start to think of every worst case scenario until I realize what I did wrong.

Since Jake was unknowingly sneaking into my house every night, we had a code for when it was safe or not safe for him to enter. If I opened my curtains it meant safe. If I closed them, it meant that someone was in my room or that I wasn't in my room.

I thought this code was stupid, since Jake said he could hear anything anyways, but I think he had me do it for my own privacy as well.

I jump off my bed and whip my curtains open. I also open my window, even though Jake usually does that himself. Then I step back just as his head appears.

"Needed some alone time, Jennifer?" Jake asks in a taunting way.