LOGINAimeeIt had been a day since Jayden came to Aimee’s house sick, and last night he had had a nightmare and then said he was a bad boyfriend because he was sick.Although she had laughed about it, she couldn’t stop thinking about his words and his nightmare when she was alone in her room. She kept wondering what Jayden considered a good boyfriend, and more importantly, what kind of experience he had with his mother that the wound was still buried so deeply in his heart that it could resurface in his weakened state.“Wow, thank God, it’s finally down,” Aimee said, looking at the thermometer that showed 36.6°C.“I told you I’m feeling better,” Jayden replied, staring at the thermometer in her hand.He had been telling Aimee since morning that he was feeling better, but she didn’t believe him. Part of the reason was because she wanted to make sure he was perfectly fine before letting him go, and the other reason was that, knowing Jayden, he would leave as soon as he felt better, and she w
JaydenJayden ran home after saying goodbye to his friends, but upon reaching the complex, he saw the red-haired woman leaving, dragging a heavy box behind her.He stood frozen in shock, and when their eyes met, the woman sighed and closed her eyes. Jayden forced himself to approach her then.“Mom, where are you going?” he asked, his voice hiding a tremble.The woman sighed again and opened her eyes. “Jay,” she called with an exasperated sigh. “I had wanted to leave before you came home.”“Why? Why are you leaving?” Jayden asked.The woman smiled sadly and tousled his hair. “I’m sorry, Jay, but I can’t stay anymore. I have to go.”“Why?” Jayden repeated, his vision turning blurry as the woman began to take a shapeless form in his eyes. “Why do you have to leave? We are a family.”“We are, Jayden, but I have to leave,” the woman said.Jayden heard the sound of a car and turned around to see a cab parking in front of the complex. A man climbed down from the car and stared at them. Jayde
AimeeAimee had to stop herself from pacing around like someone whose wife was in the labor room. Jayden was seeing a doctor, and she could only wait outside with Gary standing beside her. She tried to sit, but sitting only made her more restless, so she could only stand, pace back and forth, stand again, and then pace back and forth.“You seem too restless. It can only be a common cold,” Gary said.“How come? He was fine yesterday!” Aimee replied.Gary shrugged. “Well, he must have caught the virus earlier but just didn’t notice. Seeing how he works two jobs, it’s easy to miss the symptoms because of stress, and he was pretty laid-back yesterday.”“You don’t know that!” Aimee said. “What if it was because we made him walk home late last night? What if—”“Miss Aimee, calm down,” Gary said gently. “He will be fine. We are already at the hospital. At most, we would arrange a private ward for him.”Aimee sighed and nodded. Gary was right. She knew he was. She just had to be patient until
JaydenJayden had fallen asleep as soon as he fell onto the bed after taking a shower that night. He had actually thought he was going to spend the night going through everything that had happened at the festival, his confession and his possible relationship with Aimee, but he never knew he was so tired that he would fall asleep almost instantly.When he woke up in the morning, he felt feverish and wondered if he was coming down with something, but it had been so long since he got sick that he didn’t even have any go-to medication anymore. The last time he had gotten really sick was a week after his mother abandoned them, and that was already six years ago. Since then, he had only ever dealt with headaches or maybe a little cold, which a day or half a day of rest and aspirin usually fixed.So, he didn’t feel bothered and decided to get some aspirin on his way to work since he didn’t have any at home anymore. As he tried to carry on with his daily routine, however, he noticed that his
AimeeAimee had found it hard to sleep last night. She kept replaying Jayden’s face with the fireworks behind him as he confessed his feelings to her. She would hug her pillow and squeal, kicking her legs in the air, then cover her flushed face and repeat everything all over again. She couldn’t find a comfortable spot to lie on her bed and kept turning and tossing around until the first break of dawn.Seeing the rising sun and knowing she would get to see Jayden again in the afternoon to confirm that they were truly dating now, she suppressed the excitement in her heart and forced herself to catch a few hours of sleep so that she wouldn’t be meeting her boyfriend with eyebags.Although Aimee said that, she still woke up after only a few hours of sleep, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t go back to sleep, so she decided to find something to do to pass the time. But then again, time was sluggish, and even when she felt like at least an hour should have passed, it would end u
JaydenHe did it!He actually did it. Wait, what does this mean? Is he dating Aimee now? Is she like...his girlfriend?Jayden’s face heated up immediately, and he was glad that there weren’t many people in the train, otherwise, how could he calmly sit while they watched him blush so badly?He glanced at the girl sitting beside him, her hands clasped on her bag and her hat tucked under her armpit. None of them had said anything since they got inside the train, and frankly, Jayden didn’t know what to say.Somehow, Aimee didn’t hold his past mistakes against him. He could still remember the way the fireworks reflected on her face, how a tear had run down her cheek after hearing his confession, and the panic that gripped him at that moment, thinking she was going to tell him it was already too late.But instead, Aimee closed the distance between them with slow steps and placed her head against his chest. Even thinking about it now, Jayden still stiffened just as he had back then. He never
AimeeAimee watched as the students climbed into the school bus. She couldn’t say why she didn’t go in immediately, or why she didn’t take Cindy and Nica up on their offer to sit together. All she knew was that her eyes wer
JaydenJayden lifted the mattress and fetched out the tin hidden beneath it. Instantly, he noticed how light it felt, and his heart missed a beat. He knew what that feeling meant even before he opened it. His breathing tur
AimeeIt had been two weeks since Aimee started at her new school and a month since she moved to this town, this small, simple, easygoing town that felt nothing like the life she had known before. So far, she was loving
JaydenThe sound of the bell was always louder than it needed to be.Not in volume.In timing.It marked the end of something that never really felt like it had started properly.Jayden closed his notebook slowly, not beca







