Chapter 16: Chapter Fifteen!

Mike’s POV

That stupid asshole of my brother. I thought he said he didn’t like Adds. Why the hell was he flirting with Adds then?

I ate my breakfast angrily while staring at the stupid news. I wasn’t even paying attention to the news but I found myself trying to listen to Adds and Ty’s conversations. I hear Adds giggle to something Ty said and that caused my jaw to clench. I didn’t know why I was so frigging jealous for though. I mean, sure, I liked Adds but who the hell cares?

You care. My inner voice told me. I ignored it.

I hear Adds giggle again from the kitchen and as I hate to admit, I was so jealous it wasn’t even funny. I felt like I wanted to push Ty out the window and kick him all the way back to College so that I can have Adds all to myself again.

I swear if Adds still has that stupid crush on Ty I was going to take Tyler and would beat him up senseless until he no longer looked attractive to anyone. That wouldn’t be it. I would then-

My thoughts were interrupted by the beep of my phone. “Ughh.” I groaned, rolling over to the other side of the couch to grab my phone.

One look at it and I throw my phone back on the couch, making it to bounce and drop to the floor.

“Shit.” I reached to grab my phone off the floor and settle on placing it gently next to me.

Annoying Heather was texting me asking where I was and if I wanted to hang out. Don’t she get it when I never text her back. I guess she doesn’t get the message that I don’t want to talk to her or hang out with her. She’s getting annoying lately with all the texts. She even called me in the middle of the night last week when I was having a fight with Adds, asking if I wanted to go over to her house because I seemed sad lately. Can she sound more desperate?

I finish eating the surprisingly good tasting pancakes. I guess that Tyler did learn how to cook better in college. He was in a college that offers good cooking classes since Ty wants to be a chef one day. I said that he would never make it but like I said, surprisingly, the pancakes tasted good. More than good actually. Delicious.

I heard Ty make an inappropriate comment about Adds’ legs again and I scowl hard at the television. I felt my blood boil that he was talking about my Adds like that but then again, Adds seem to like it since she giggled at that.

How many times does she giggle for him and not for me? That wasn’t fair. If I made a comment like that to her, she would slap me and tell me to shut up. Not before blushing but she would tell me to shut up. Not giggle like she liked someone.

I prayed that Adds no longer had a crush on Tyler because that would make me go crazy.

What are you doing man? You’re so pathetic. You’re Mike Jones. Girls go crazy and think about you all day, not the other way around. Go pick up a nice girl and have a good time.

I thought about this and agreed. I was not going to wait for a girl. They wait for me.

I took my phone and texted Heather back to meet me at her house so that we can watch a movie or hang out or something. I think, no I know that she had a heated pool in her basement since Heather’s parents were like loaded. We could go swimming or something. Yeah.

“Are my pancakes delicious or what? Addy seems to think so.”

I looked behind me and saw Tyler with his arms around Adds’ shoulders! I didn’t like the way he had his hands on my girl’s shoulders. He should really take them off.

When I realized that I was thinking this, I was like to myself, possessive much? I shook my head and replied to Ty. ”No, it was awful. Nastiest thing I’ve ever tasted.”

He gave me a smirk. “Yeah? Then why did you eat every single thing on the plate huh?”

I look down at my plate and look up to him. “Fine, you caught me. Cooking classes has taught you something.” I tell my brother and I stand up.

“I’m going to go out so you two have fun.” Not too much fun. I thought to myself.

“Okay!” Tyler gleamed. “We’re going to have so much fun Addy!”

Adds just gave him a weird look and burst out laughing. What was so funny about that? No one knows.

“Where are you going?” Adds asked me with a curious look on her face. “Can I come?”

I shook my head instantly. The reason I’m leaving is to get my mind off of you. I wanted to say but of course, anyone in their right mind wouldn’t say that out loud.

“I’m going by myself, you can stay with Ty.” With that, I go upstairs to stuff my swimming trunks in a blue Nike bag and grab my keys. I head back down and Adds was in the living room by herself. It looked like Tyler was washing the dishes. Ha, he can be my new slave. I thought to myself.

At the same time, I look at Adds and she looks at me. She had a sad look on her face and through her eyes, I could see that she didn’t want me to leave but to stay with her. I was fighting with myself whether to stay or not to stay. I desperately needed to get away from Adds though. I honestly was scared for what I felt about her because it felt like it was more than just a simple crush. Something was wrong with me too. Adds seem to be the only person on my mind lately and it was all the time. I needed to take my mind off of her. That was what made my decision. I muttered a ‘bye’ then locked the front door behind me, before making my way to Heather’s house.

Three hours later, my skin was all pruned with all the time I spent in the pool. The swim was nice and relaxing and as annoying Heather was, she was a good kisser so that took my mind off of Adds for like two seconds.

Actually, I didn’t really pay attention to Heather much today. Yeah, we kissed and blah blah blah but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking about Adds. My mission of taking my mind off of you-know-who didn’t work because whenever I kissed Heather, which was a lot of times today, a picture of Adds would come into my mind.

I would feel like I was cheating on her even though we weren’t together and were just friends. Best friends but in the friend zone, nothing more. That didn’t stop me from continuingly kissing Heather because I was thinking that the more I kissed Heather, the easier it was to forget about Adds.

Let me tell you. Forgetting the one person that’s been running on your mind the whole day for the past week is quite impossible. It’s like a prison that you can’t escape. It’s almost impossible.

I went to swim around the pool for a couple of rounds and then I stopped since my hands were dead tired. A couple of rounds isn’t a lot but wait until you see Heather’s pool. That is like enormous.

I walk up the stairs on the side of the pool to get out but then, someone grabs my wrists.

“Don’t go yet.” Heather said, pouting her lips. If I didn’t realize that I had a crush on Adds and this was a few weeks ago, I would’ve just attacked Heather and kissed her since well, Heather was hot. But this is not a few weeks ago. This is a few weeks after and I do have a crush on Adds. I couldn’t help but to compare Heather to Adds. Heather was too desperate. She tried too hard. I thought to myself.

“Uh, I need to go now.” I tell her. She responded by batting her eyelashes that were in clumps by all the waterproof mascara that she put on.

I compare this to Adds. Adds doesn’t put on makeup. She has natural beauty.

‘Don’t need makeup, to cover up’

Ugh. What the hell? Why was a One Direction song popping up in my head and why was I singing along to it? Adds is corrupting me with her boy band music.

“I have to go Heather, I’ll see you tomorrow at school.” I tell her before I grab a towel, and dry myself off. I head back upstairs to put on my clothes and leave.

When I got back outside, it was still bright and I was driving to Austen’s house. Maybe he’s available to play video games or something. That would surly take my mind off of Adds, hopefully.

When I get to Austen’s house, I ring his bell and was greeted by the one and only Melly. Or Mels, as Adds preferred.

“Where’s Addy?” She asks while giving me a hug.

“Glad to know you don’t really care about me.” I grumble.

“No, of course I care about you, I love you!” She said, pulling back from the hug.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Hey Mike! Stop flirting with my girlfriend, get your own!” Austen yells and suddenly, he appears behind Melly and hugs her from the back. She leans her head back on his chest.

“If you guys are going to be all mushy mushy coupley, then I’m going to leave.” I complain.

Melly pushes Austen back and he makes a pout at her. She pecks him on the lips and turn around to face me.

“What’s wrong Mike? You don’t seem too happy. You’re rather grumpy today.”

“Nothing.” I said.

“Tell mee!”

I didn’t respond. I looked at her with flat eyes.

“Please?” She tried.

I still didn’t answer her.

“Fine! Where’s Addy?” She asks.

“At home.”

“Finally! He talks!” She exclaimed and Austen laughs at this. “Wait, why is she doing at home then? Was she home alone the whole time? Is she sick? Is that why you both didn’t come to school today? Because you were taking care of her? That’s so sweet!”

“Dude, did you feed her candy?” I whisper ask Austen. He looked guilty so I take that as a yes. Melly always talks non-stop when she eats too much candy.

“Hey! I heard that!”

I shrug. “Adds isn’t sick, she’s at home with my brother.” I tell her.

Her eyes widen. “Your hot brother?”

I gave her a look. “Yes, my hot brother.” I responded dryly.

“Haha, you think your brother is hot!” I face palmed myself.

“Austen, you shouldn’t have given her candy!” I yell at him.

“It’s not my fault she distracted me then grabbed the chocolates out of my hand!” Austen defended himself.

“So why are you here?” Melly asks in between me and Austen’s small argument.

“Uh, I can’t just come over?”

“No. There has to be a reason.” She looked at me in suspicion.

I didn’t respond to Melly’s comment and Austen started to talk. “Cool, you’re brother finally paid a visit after a million years. Tell him to come over here so we can hang out.”

“Great, everyone wants to hang out with my brother and not me.” I mutter under my breath.

I thought I said it quietly but apparently not.

Melly then spits out sentences like how an arcade game spits out tickets.

“You’re jealous!” She exclaimed like it was the answer to everything. My eyes widened in shock at how she can figure it out but then I recompose myself so that my face doesn’t show any emotion.

“Addy wants to hang out with Tyler and you feel left out. Then you’re jealous of them because Addy is hanging out with Tyler and not you. Then you feel upset about this because Addy always hangs out with you and now that something changed, you don’t like that. And then you come over to our house and Austen also wants to hang out with Tyler because he is cooler maybe even cooler than you so you feel like everyone is ditching you for Tyler. I won’t though Mike. You’re my best friend!” I didn’t have time to even process what she said to me before Melly flung herself at me, enveloping me into a big bear hug.

“Aww, don’t feel left out. We’re best friends forever!” She screamed.

For a small girl, she was pretty strong because she gave me a bone crushing hug.

“You’re-killing-can’t-breathe-” I utter out.

Austen takes this as a sign to pull Melly away.

“Bad!” He scolded her with a finger pointing at my “best friend that won’t ever ditch me.”

Melly just pouted. “Sorry. I just felt very hyper for a second. The energy is gone now, don’t worry.” Austen leans down and kisses her on her forehead. “It’s okay.”

“Let’s go inside and discuss your sudden jealousy over Tyler and Addy’s relationship Mike.” Austen smirks then gestures me to go inside his house. I run my hand through my hair. How come I feel like the next few hours are going to be torture?

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Haha, this chapter is finally up! Okay, first of all, I'm going to give shoutouts to a couple of people. Shoutouts to LittleGirlThatCould for voting, jordiin for voting, makesha2015 for voting and fanning, Vedika_girl_14 for being a commenting, fanning, and voting, Lovely143 for fanning and reading, and smiley447 for commenting. Not to mention, all those readers who added my story to their library. You guys are all amazing and awesome fans. I really appreciate it that you all take your time to read my story so a big thank you to all of you!

Now back to this chapter, I like Melly or Mels, however you want to say her name. She's like a hyper girl and is fun to write about. Hehe, if you liked this chapter, vote or comment. Reads are more than enough though. :) Aww, I have a sore throat D: That's bad. But look on the bright side, I have awesome fans. I came home to check my email and got like 11 emails from Wattpad. That made my day. Hehe.

Alritey, so the side obviously has nothing to do with the story since well, Harry isn't a character in my story but he's so adorable! Just look at that. ♥ All the boys are perfect. They have beautiful personalities and are just absolutely amazing. :) Anyway, this is it. Until next time fellow wattpadders. -karenn xx