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Come What May Part 3
By aragorn_8
Jacob and Justin walked up to the school from the bus stop in the morning, grass, flowers, and trees with leaves on them were out.
They walk inside and started going down the hall, when suddenly, Justin felt someone tap him and he turned around and was met by a bark that came from one of the tappers. During the last month, a rumor had started that the tappers orignaly went to Mary Queen of Peace, the school on the other side of the road, and transfered to MacDonald Drive, just to cause trouble there and make MQP a better school by ruining this one.
Justin ignored them and so did Jacob as they continued on.
“I’m going to beat the crap out of one of them soon, I can feel it.” Jacob whispered as they walked. Rick caught up to them and started walking with them.
“Did you hear?” Rick asked.
“No what?” Justin asked.
“Roberta and Shane broke up! No one saw it comming either!” as Rick said this, Jacob’s eyes lit up.
“Why’d they brake up?” he asked, trying to sound casual, but it was hard to hide his excitement.
“I don’t know and she won’t say. The only other people who know is Shane, Joline, and Megan.”
Soon enough, Robyn walked past them, a sad look on her face. “Hey, Robyn.” Justin said. “I just heard about you and Shane. I’m really sorry.”
The excitement in Jacob left when he saw Robyn hug Justin. “Thank-you.” she said, hugging Justin and wiping a tear from her eyes. She sniffled her nose and walked away.
“Thinking about asking her out?” Rick asked Justin as they walked.
“Yeah.” Justin said. “But first I’m going to wait to see if she likes me.” Justin looked down a side hall. “Well catch you guys later.” he turned and walked down another hall.
“Oh Jacob, you’re coming to my house tonight, right?” Rick asked as they continued walking down their hall.
“Yeah.”
“Good. Robert Peirce’s birthday party is tonight.”
“So? I hate him! He’s short, he smokes, he acts cool, and he hits on every girl in site and most of them think he’s cute! Why should I want to go to his birthday?”
“Because Robyn might be going.”
Jacob was totaly caught off guard. A stunned look came across his face. “Don’t act so surprised.” Rick continued, smiling. “I knew you had a thing for Robyn. I’ve seen the way you look at her. The way you looked at her and Shane. Well now Shane is out of the picture. Tonight can be your chance to get to know each other better. Talk to each other.”
“But we’re not invited...”
“That’s the thing about Robert’s parties. Anyone’s invited. You just have to show up.”
“So we’re going right?” Jacob asked, suddenly changing his tone.
“Oh, of course.” Rick smiled. He knew this would be good. He also knew that Robert liked Robyn as well and personly asked her to be there while they were on the school bus. He wanted Jacob to go out with her, not Robert, so that’s why he told him about the party.
At Lunch, the group went back to the Kazeebo again, except this time, Shane wasn’t with them and Robyn looked sad. As they sat and eat, Robyn, Joline, and Megan sat together and talked about Shane, but Jacob couldn’t hear too much.
Suddenly, a rock flew by Weasel’s head and hit one of the wooden struts and falling to the ground. They all stood up fast and started running away, and a group of kids from MQP started chasing after them, throwing rocks.
Rick and Robyn ran in a diffrent direction and Rick stopped and stood in front of Robyn.
“Look! That kid’s trying to protect his girlfriend!”
Jacob looked back when he heard that and even though he knew they wern’t going out, he felt like a ton of bricks hit his heart.
“Hey you!” Jacob yelled. The MQP kids turned to look at him and Rick and Robyn turned and ran, and caught up with the others and soon, they were all running again, the MQP kids throwing rocks.
One rock hit Robyn in the back of the leg and she tripped and fell. Jacob looked back to see how far away the MQP kids were and saw that Robyn had fallen. He looked and saw that the MQP kids were almost at her.
He ran back to her and picked up a rock as he did and threw it at the MQP kids to keep them back. They started swearing and threw a rock at him, but missed and hit the pond, splashing water up.
Jacob helped Robyn up and they started running with the MQP kids in close pursuit. Jacob looked ahead and saw that the others were too far ahead to help. As they ran, Jacob reached down and picked up a rock and threw it behind him and hit one of the other kids in the shoulder and caused him to fall back.
Jacob and Robyn reached a second Kazebo and started to climb. Jacob let Robyn go first, helping her climb as he quickly followed. Once they got to the top, the MQP kids started climbing as well, but as they got close to the top, Robyn and Jacob started kicking them in the faces, causing them to fall back to the ground.
After a minute of that happening, the MQP kids gave up and left. Robyn and Jacob climbed down and started walking.
“Why’d you come back to help me?” Robyn asked. “If they had caught you, they would have thrown you in the pond!”
“Is that concern I hint in your voice?” Jacob smiled and suddenly Robyn shoved Jacob and he went flying into the pond.
“No!” Robyn said. “It’s just...it’s just...ohhh, it’s just that if you were caught, I would have been on my own and they probably would have caught me too.” she turned and stormed off and Jacob slowly climbed out of the pond, dripping wet. It was a good thing it was a warm day.
That night, Rick and Jacob walked inside Robert’s house, party music going on. Robert Peirce was sitting on the couch with Robyn, eating cheesies.
Jacob saw it, and suddenly felt sick. He wanted to crawl up inside a hole far from the party and die, but he knew he couldn’t.
Him and Rick walked further into the rom and saw a bunch of people they knew, and a bunch they didn’t, most from the Smoking Area of the school, who hung out with Robert. Rick went over to a group of kids he used to know and started talking with them.
Jacob started to turn away, but heard his name get called out. He turned around and he saw Robyn looking at him. “Jacob, Come here.” he turned and walked towards her, his legs feeling like jelly.
“Robert, this is one of my friends, Jacob.”
Jacob forced himself to shake hands with Robert. After that, Robert stood up and held up a remote and pressed a button. The music stopped and everyone looked at him. “It’s time to play the games now!”
There was a bunch of cheering. “We’ll be playing spotlight!” even louder cheering. Spotlight was a game for the night. It was a lot like hide and seek tag, but with a flashlight. Whoever was It, had a flashlight and shined it around, while everyone hid. There was a Homes you had to get to, but if the beam fell on you, and the person who was It, said your name while the light beam was on you, you were Out.
Evreyone rushed to get their shoes and jackets on. Once evryone was outside, they did highest number thing to decided who was It first. It ended up being Robert. He closed his eyes and started counting as evreyone ran and hid.
Jacob was walking down a dark dirt trail, going through a short patch of woods. Suddenly, he heard, “Ready or not, here I come!” he whipped around and saw the flashlight turn on and start to swing around and he found himself frozen on the spot as the beam came close a couple times.
“Psst.” Jacob heard a whisper. He whipped back around, and started looking. “In here!” he turned and saw Robyn on one side of the woods, in a thick patch of bushes. “Hurry!” Jacob turned and saw the flashlight beam starting to head toward him. He started running and just as the beam got to where he was, he jumped and landed on the other side of the thick bushes, next to Robyn. The beam fell on the bushes and swung all the way around, out of view.
“That was close.” Robyn said as she helped Jacob up into a sitting positon and helped brush branches and needles off of him. He looked up at the same time she did and they looked at each other in the eyes for a minute, before both quickly looked in diffrent directions.
“We should stay here.” Robyn said. “The bushes are thick.” suddenly the beam fell right next to Jacob’s head and was about to move in his direction.
“Crap!” Robyn and Jacob whispered. Robyn grabbed jacob’s head and layed flat on her stomach, forcing Jacob to lay on the ground as well.
“Olly Olly Ox’n’ free!” Robert called out. That meant he gave up. Robyn and Jacob stood up and walked out onto the path, just as people were coming out of other hiding spots. They saw Robyn and Jacob approch them together, needles and twigs on their cloths.
“Ohhhhh! What were you guys doing?” a kid asked with a smile on his face and the other kids started laughing. All but Robert.
Robyn and Jacob’s faces went red. “It’s not what it looks like.” Jacob said, defending himself.
“It really isn’t.” Robyn agreed. “I only let him hide with me because he was standing in the middle of the road. He would have got caught, so I felt sorry for him and let him hide with me.”
The others joked as they all got ready for round two, but before they could start, a red jeep pulled up and Rick ran over to Jacob.
“That’s my mom, come on.” Rick ran towards the jeep and Jacob walked fast towards it. He kept looking back and foward again, and when he looked back, he kept looking at Robyn and a few of the times he looked back, he saw her looking at him as he went towards the jeep.
He got in and as the jeep pulled out and drove off, Jacob looked out the back window as Round 2 started and Robyn and Robert ran together, going to the same hiding place and he felt his heart sink. He sighed and turned back around to face the front.
As the jeep drove, Jacob started singing.
*Start of TONIGHT AND THE REST OF MY LIFE.*
As the Jacob sings, there’s another montage of scenes. Over the weekend, Jacob, Rick, and Robyn hang out and it shows Robyn and Jacob laughing over something stupid that Rick did, the three of them walking into a video store and renting movies.
JACOB
Down to the earth I fell
With dripping wings,
Heavy things won't fly
And the sky might catch on fire
And burn the axis of the world
That's why
I prefer a sunless sky
To the glittering and stinging in my eye
During the next verse, the following montage happens:
Jacob, Rick, and Justin walking around the halls at school, and they pass by Robyn, Joline, and Megan. As they pass by, Jacob and Robyn look at each other in the eyes and both smile a little bit.
Jacob, Rick, and Justin running from the Tappers and as they do, Jacob sees Robyn and as he runs, they make eye contact again.
Jacob, Rick, Justin, Joline, Robyn, and Megan are all sitting together at lunch and eating and laughing. Jacob and Robyn are sitting next to each other. Jacob spills juice on Robyn and quickly grabbs a napkin and starts wiping it off her pants. Robyn had also grabbed a napkin and started to do the same, but they both suddenly stopped and looked up at each other.
Robert is sitting with his friends, his friends talking, but all Robert is paying attention to is Robyn and Jacob, a scowl on his face.
JACOB
Feel so light
This is all I wanna feel tonight
Feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life
Gleaming in the darksea
I'm as light as air
Floating there breathlessly
When the dream dissolves I open up my eyes
I realize that
Everything is shoreless sea
Weightlessness is passing over me
The next Montage shows Robyn and Jacob hanging out in school together and Robyn laughs at somthing Jacob said and lightly and playfully pushes him. Robert is watching from hsi locker.
Robert tries diffrent things to get Robyn’s attention, but her and Jacob just walk by him, ignoring him.
JACOB
Feel so light
This is all I wanna feel tonight
Feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life
Feel so light
This is all I wanna feel tonight
Feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life
The song ends, but the music is still lightly playing through the next couple of scenes.
Jacob is at his house at night, in his room, writing a story on his computer. Suddenly his phone rings.
“Hello?” he asked.
“Hey, it’s me, Justin.”
“Oh hey! What’s up.”
“Not much. Look, I just got a call and someone wanted to know something.”
“Who?”
“Well you have to guess that. I’ll give you a hint. You’ve been hanging out with her a lot latley.”
Jacob thought for a minute. “Joline?”
“No. Someone you hung out with more.”
Jacob suddenly realized who. “R...Robyn?”
“Yep.”
“What’d she ask you?”
“She wanted me to find something out about you.” Justin answered.
“What?” Jacob asked.
“She wants to know if you like you.” Jacob felt his heart thump, his legs go wobbly, his hands start to sweat. “Well, do you?”
“Y...y....yes.” Jacob finnaly managed to whisper. Justin laughed a little bit. “Hey Justin, can you do me a favor?” Jacob asked.
“Yeah, sure, what is it?”
He couldn’t belive what he was about to do. He’s been dreaming of this for so long and no it might come true. He felt his throut go dry. “Could you...” he coughed to get his throut back to normal. “Could you call Robyn back and...”he paused. “And ask her out for me?”
Justin laughed. “Sure buddy. I’ll call you back in a few minutes then.”
“Ok.” so they hung up and for the next few minutes, Jacob could barly stand the tension. He had never felt like this before. He went to sit on his bed, but couldn’t stay still for long, so he stood up and paced back and forth in his room, which seemed to only make his stomach feel worse.
Suddenly the phone ran and he ran and picked it up. “Hello? Justin?”
“Yeah, it’s me.” he said, almost in an excited tone.
“Well, what did she say?” to Jacob, waiting the next two seconds for Justin to respond, seemed like waiting 2 hours.
“She said Yes.” Justin answered.
Jacob couldn’t belive what he just heard. Was that a yes, or did his mind make it sound like a yes. He heard Justin laughing. “Are you sure? Are you telling the truth?” the way Justin was laughing sounded strange. Something was up.
“Yes, I’m telling truth!”
“Yeah right.” Jacob sighed, knowing he was a victim of a prank.
Justin suddenly stopped laughing. “Dude, I’m serious, she said Yes.”
Jacob’s face lit up again. He knew that tone better. Justin was serious. “You’re serious, arn’t you?”
“Of course!”
Suddenly it seemed like nothing else mattered to Jacob. Justin continued. “But I like her too, so it’s my job to give you this speech. If you hurt or, or break her heart in any way, I will be forced to put 4 years of friendship behind me and kick your ass.”
Jacob smiled. “That’s ok, you have nothing to be worried about. Oh, by the way, Thanks!”
“No problem. Good luck, man.” Justin hung up and then Jacob did as well. He looked out his window at the night sky as the music suddenly started getting louder again. He looked up at a star.
Robyn looked out her window as well and looked up at the same star that Jacob was looking at.
JACOB AND ROBYN
This is all I wanna feel tonight.
Everthing is waves and stars
The universe is resting in my arms
I feel so alive
This is all I wanna feel tonight
I feel so light
Tonight and the rest of my life
The next morning, Robyn is on the school bus, talking to Rick, Joline, and Megan. Robert is sitting a couple seats behind them, listning in, not looking very happy. Then again, neither did Joline.
Jacob was already inside the school with Justin, waiting for the bus to pull up. Suddenly the doors opened as the bus students from Portugal Cove walked inside. Jacob smiled as he saw Robyn walking towards him, smiling. Rick was right behind her and Megan was next to her.
Joline was in front of Robyn and as she walked by Jacob, an angry look on her face, she turned and pushed him into a locker. “You Jackass.” she whispered to him as she turned and continued walking down the hall.
Jacob looked at her as she walked away and back and Robyn. “What was that all about?”
“Who knows?” Robyn and Jacob hugged and walked down the hall, Jacob’s arm around Robyn.
That night, Jacob was at home, talking on the phone with Robyn when there was a knock on his door. “Look, I’ve got to go.” he said. “See you tomorrow in school.”
“Bye.” they hung up and the door to Jacob’s room opened. His mom and dad walked in.
“Jacob, Honey, you better sit down. We have some bad news.”
“What bad news?” Jacob asked, looking back and forth between the two.
“Well,” his father began. “We’ve been here for 6 years already and in the military, that’s a long time.”
“What are you trying to say?”
“We got posted.” we answered.
Jacob laughed one of those ‘I can’t belive it’ laughs. “To where?”
“Alberta. Wainwright to be exact. We’re leaving this summer.”
“But, I don’t want to leave.” Jacob couldn’t belive it! He finnaly started going out with the girl of his dreams, and he found out he was moving!
“It isn’t our choice.” his mother said. “We’ll let you think things over. It’ll be good to have a change in scenery. It might prove better for you. After all, you’re not doing that great in school here and I hear that their school’s up there are top-notch. It’s for the best.”
His parents turned and walked out of his room, closing the door behind them. Tears came to Jacob’s eyes as he punched his bed and threw his pillow with all his might against the door.
7/26/2002 4:49:00 PM
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