Re: The Story Begins Here: NYU School Campus

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn gave another strained smile. Seemed like those were the only ones she knew to give. "I know. I don't think you're jerk enough yet to do that intentionally."

She bit her lip and then willed herself forward. She crossed the distance between them and reached up, giving him a hug.

[Guest]

James wasn't really expecting Evelyn to hug him. He brought his arms from down on his side and returned the hug.

He could smell her perfume in their embrace and he pulled away, "Right so um... I'll go so you can um...wow." He laughed sheepishly.

He cleared his throat, "Okay let's try this again, goodnight Ev." He smiled at her.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn had a sudden urge to laugh. James was never flustered. She stifled her lip to hid e her grin and turned away. "Night."

The moment she was near her dorm building, though, her smile faded and she heaved an annoyed sigh. How the hell were they ever to be friends if they couldn't even manage a damn hug without it jarring them? "Chemistry", he called it.

He'd made a joke about that sometime in junior year. About how the only sparks between them were the ones he'd use to blow up her house. Evelyn smiled wistfully, wishing it were true.

Damn chemistry.

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[Guest]

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Jacob heard Seth whislting after him and debated stopping at all for him, he knew Seth would just stand there and be all "what the fuck" and after he explained he would just stand there and lecture him about how he was so stupid and he should have listened to him, and he wasn't in the mood for it. He could just avoid him, but it was obvious that Seth wasn't going to take Jake avoiding the matter any longer so he found a table near a tree where two nerdy looking guys were studying.

"Hey!" Jake yelled approaching the table, the two of them cast their gazes from their science books and seemed to cower in their seats, at the sight of the livid Spaniard.

"Get lost!" He ordered them, and the two quickly grabbed their things and scattered away clumsily to avoid being beaten up, Jake sat down at the table acting as if nothing had just occurred waiting for Seth.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth grinned as he approached Jake, amused at his tactics. He swung a leg over the bench on the other side of Jake's across the table, and sat down, propping his chin up on one hand. "So apparently when you say "nothing", I should take it to mean "more teen angst than One Tree Hill"?" he asked cheerfully.

[Guest]

Jake tried to fight back a grin, but felt his lips twitching. Damn Seth for being able to make him laugh even when he wanted to be mad just for a little bit, Jake sighed and felt himself calming down a bit but he was still frustrated.

Why did things have to get so freaking complicated? Why couldn't they ever just be simple?

He let out an exasperated breath, "Things are so fucked up."

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth studied him for a moment. "You want a drink?" he asked abruptly. "You know what they say about alcohol and misery. Sober can't take it, but drunk will."

[Guest]

Jake snickered looking up at Seth, as appealing as alcohol sounded at the moment he knew if anything it just made shit worse for him, "Thanks but I think this is a problem I need to solve without Jose."

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth nearly fell backwards off his bench. Okay, this was serious then...

"Jake, what....I don't get it. How did...I mean, um..." He blinked. "I thought you hated her."

[Guest]

Jake shrugged, "I don't know I thought I did.. I mean I do... I mean..." Jake sighed frustrated and confused at this whole situation. He didn't know how many times he had to repeat this to himself. Majority of the time he couldn't stand her, they were always fighting and arguing, and especially when they were around Alexis or Seth their arguments usually became worse.

Whenever though they were alone, even if they got into an argument they would fight for the five or ten minutes and after that was over it was like it never happened, Jake would say something stupid and she would laugh and then they would actually get along and laugh about stuff.

Jake knew he wasn't rebounding on Evelyn because he was over Rachel, he had no desire to ever be with Rachel ever again and he remembered rebounding with Lola's best friend Brooke. So what was Evelyn then? She wasn't exactly a friend, and he honestly hadn't really liked a girl since Rachel.

He didn't want to like a girl though or anyone for that fact, he wanted his emotions and his vulnerabilities to be his to control and only his, he didn't like it when other people controlled him and it was exactly what Rachel did, "Dude I don't know... its like its so different when I'm hanging out with her, like there were times where we actually just got along like she was one of my friends. Like its weird I will fight with Lola and I'll stay mad at her and won't talk to her, but I would fight with Evelyn and five minutes later we would be talking about something else like that fight didn't just happen."

Jake stared into Seth's blue eyes, "Dude I can't like her, I don't want to like her. I can't be in this relationship shit anymore. I know I'm over Rachel, I hate her and I've already rebounded... I think no I think I have feelings for Evelyn and its just I know you were trying to keep this from happening, but I can't , I can't, I just." He sighed again running a hand through his hair.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth drummed his fingers on the table, musing. He glanced up at Jake's pained expression and then away.

Seth really didn't know what to say. He figured he could try though. "It might be a passing thing. You'll find a cute girl this weekend and hook up with her and forget Red exists, man," he said reasonably. "Isn't that how you got over Rachel?"

[Guest]

"Dude if I wanted to hook up I would have when all those damn hoes were with us on Saturday night? I mean honestly since this whole thing has happened I was kind of like who cares if I hook up? Seriously when the hell do I ever say that?!" Jake exclaimed shocked by his sudden change in pattern with girls.

"Besides dude, it was easier for me to get over Rachel cause we broke up near the end of the school year and I went to prom with Brooke, and me and Brooke had our thing for a little and after we graduated I was only in Brooklyn for three weeks before I took off back home for the summer. It was easier for me to get over Rachel because I didn't have to see her every day, I know Rachel goes here but she's not just right next door like Evelyn practically is." Jake drummed his fingers on the table he was really having issues with this, he was not ready to like someone even though he was over his ex.

Jake threw his hands up in the air and groaned, "Fuck her man! I just wanna have fun, I wanna party and hook up and race my damn car and try to not get arrested. I don't want to worry about some damn female."

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth nodded, seriously hoping this worked. And if he were honest, single Jake was way more fun than Jake-with-girlfriend had been. At least with Rachel. Probably with Evelyn too.

"I don't get you. You screw around with so many girls, or at least, you used to, but then the only one you seem to never agree on a single thing with is the one you fall for. That's fucked up, and you need to get over it.I know you said that you get along with her but all I see you do is bicker over anything and everything. Seriously, it'd be a hell of a relationship if all you ever did was fight."

[Guest]

"Whatever Seth, its over. I need to get back out there, these last two or three weeks have just been hell and I want to be with you guys having fun and not spending half of my time ripping my hair out over the fact that Red has my phone which at this case I just have to get a new one she can keep that one." Jake said thinking about his phone and having to re enter in about one hundred or so contacts.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth nodded and looked glum. "I have a few um...photographs in my wallet that I can't replace. I need to get that back. How're you going to get everyone's numbers again?"

[Guest]

"Fuck I don't know, actually I can just post it on Facebook or something again and have people take it down that's not a problem. Fuck I just don't want to have to file it under my damn insurance, I've already had it replaced three times and they do that for free and after that I have to pay three hundered bucks and god damn it at this rate I'm gonna get fucking fired since I have no clue if I've had to work or not since Eric doesn't believe in Facebook." Jake groaned this was really pissing him off, if she had just given him the damn phone all that dumb shit he said to her could have been avoided.

Plus of course pissing her off probably meant she was gonna drop it in the garbage disposal or something.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Drop by Starbucks right now," Seth suggested. "Tell Eric your psycho uh, ex, Rachel stole your phone. He's a moron, he's gonna buy it. Besides, if Rachel could, she would steal it."

Seth shifted in his seat. "I can just get you another one, you know? My dad's friend is on the shareholders board of directors or some shit at this place and he can get you a better model for free."

[Guest]

"I'll tell him later, I don't feel like going anyway, they need to learn to work without me. Not that he wouldn't buy Rachel stealing my phone, hell even if I told him your cat stole my phone he'd believe me." Jake said, knowing that sadly that was the truth that Eric was easily fooled and him being so nice he really believed a lot of peoples sob stories.

"Yeah have him get me another one, and I'll pay him back I'll feel bad if I don't." Jake said, figuring he needed to get the newer one anyway, plus after the whole incident with that iPhone, he was really turned off from getting one.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Nah, you don't need to pay," Seth said, waving his hand. He frowned. "What about the other stuff on your phone though? You've had it for a while. It'd have a shitload of photos and videos on it."

[Guest]

Jake had his phone for nearly two years of course it had a lot of photos and videos.

He had a a lot of pictures from back home, his car, him and Lola. Jake took pictures of his parents and with them.

He had tons from parties of course, and hell Jake even had photos and videos from when him and Rachel were dating and some of him and Ryder too.

"Hell yeah there's a lot of stuff on the memory card, I've had my old phone for like two years worth of memories on that thing." Jake frowned thinking about it.

[Tiger-Lily]

"You're really going to let her keep it?" Seth asked him skeptically.

[Guest]

"You think I want her to have it? Hell no!" Jake stated, it was his memory card she could have the phone but he wanted that back at least.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Then what do you wanna do?" Seth asked, hoping this would involve some illegal but creative plan.

[Guest]

"The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world." Jake grinned, now having that out of his system he needed to devise a plan.

"In all seriousness though we need a plan. I don't think the intial one will work anymore.."Jake thought.

[Tiger-Lily]

"I can't think of any other way of getting to wherever Red might've put your phone without using the ledge," Seth said. He straightened. "Hey...what if....what if we use Lucifer as a bribe to get them to open the window? What if he starts whining and showing that he's like starving or some shit. You think they'd open a window then? I mean, yeah, it could backfire..."

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