Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Harper Subject: Forget About It: chapter 3 {Forget About It is pure fiction. As I am writing this story, I am above the age of 21. If you want a story with lots of sex, look elsewhere. This is a love story. Seeing as it is a love story, sex is in there, but it's in realistic balance in the characters' lives. Any similarity to any real events, names, or life events is purely accidental. If you are a underage, (according to your state laws as a minor), if this literature is offensive to you or to anyone around your viewing area, or it is illegal for you to view such content where you are reading it, stop reading the story. This story cannot be distributed in anyway, shape or form without my expressed consent.} Forget About It Chapter 3: Marvelous Discoveries (Ben's view) How many times will this chick call me?! Allie has gone nuts! Calling me at all hours of the day, leaving me crazy messages like "I still want you" "I miss you" "Come over"... that last one being left at one o' clock in the morning! What is going on with her? I mean I have no problem going back out with her but she's just being too crazy for me to even think about that. Ugh! She's calling me right now, again! "Hello?!" I say, basically yelling at her. "Hi, I'm sorry did I catch you at a bad time?" "No, I'm just mad right now." "At what?" Jesus! Did this girl ever quit?! "Why" because bitch, I can be! "This guy pissed me off yesterday and I'm still mad," I very badly lie. "What did he do? Are you hurt? Who was he?" "Calm down Allie! I'm fine." "Well who was he?" "A very bad dude!" I say, tired of being on this subject. "Why do you keep calling me?" "Listen, Ben, I need you back in my life. Ever since last week when we broke up... I've been a wreck. I'm losing my mind, I'm thinking about you day and night and... and I just need you Ben... I need you..." As soon as she gets done talking, there is yelling outside. "I got to go. Bye" As I click the "End" button I hear her try and say something. Oh well. I rush to my window to see what the commotion is about outside. I see Jake yelling at his phone. (Jake's view) "Why are you doing this to me?" I say, crying at the fact that Monica was dumping me. "Jake, did you seriously think this was going to work. You're in Missouri! I can't do long-distance-relationships. I'm sorry." "No you're not! You wouldn't be doing this if you were sorry. Why even let me believe that we were going to work if you knew that you weren't going to make "us" work?" "I wanted to help you through the move. I knew that it wasn't going to be easy for you so I wanted to at least try to give you something positive to look at." "Wow. Not even two days after the move you're going to go and do this. Why not wait five more months till I'm ready to get married to you?! It hurts the same anyways." "Listen Jake, you are 17 years old. Start acting it." At this she hung up. Was it possible for my life to turn around twice in the same week? Why is this happening to me? What the fuck did I do to deserve this? "Jake?" I turn around to see Ben standing in his lawn looking very concerned. "Are you ok?" "Yea," I say wiping tears from my face. "Just got dumped, don't worry about me. Ha" "Oh... I'm sorry to hear that Jake." "Psh it's really whatever. You know, the funny thing is that every relationship, every friendship that I've ever been in, it's ended like this, like no one cares about me anymore. I'm just a piece of trash to everyone." "Hey, Jake, don't be like that." "I'm sorry, it's just, have you ever felt this way?" "Yea, actually, I have." Ben suddenly tears up and starts to cry. "I didn't mean to bring up stuff I'm sorry." "Can we go inside? I don't want the whole neighborhood to see me like this." "Yea, that's fine. My house or yours?" "Yours please." We walk to the door but we are interrupted by Ben's dad storming out of the house and across my lawn. "And where the fuck do you think you're going Ben!?" "Dad..." "He's just coming in to play some video games sir." "No! No he isn't! Get your ass inside the house Ben! And you," he says directed towards me. "You should learn to keep your fuckin mouth closed when no one is talking to you!" I can't handle too much of this shit so I end it here, I burst into tears and run inside. (Ben's view) Not even an hour has past since my dad blew up. I think he might've heard the conversation going on and knew that he hasn't always been the best parent. Meanwhile, Jake is hurt. Last I saw of him he was in tears running into his house. How could my dad be so heartless? I have to see Jake tonight so I can apologize and make sure he's ok. "Ben honey," my mom says knocking on my door. " heard about what happened outside. Are you ok?" "I'm fine. Thanks." "Can you open the door for me?" I get up and open the door for her. She walks in and gives me a hug. "I'm sorry. You don't deserve how your dad treats you, but it's not him, you know that." "Then who is it mom? Who is it that's making me feel so...useless? Huh?" "Ben, I'm sorry." That's all that she can say? Wow. "I'm going out." I walk past her out the door and outside. I see Jake's house from the corner of my eye but I don't go there. I walk to the park next to my school. As I'm walking around the corner, I see that freak staring at me again from his window. I flip him off and scream, "fuck you" and run off. (Jake's view) Sitting inside a slide, crying. I have definitely had better days. Shit is shit though and it's time to leave it in the past, even if the past is two hours ago. "Skies are crying, I am watching, 
 catching tear drops in my hands
. Only silence, as its ending, 
like we never had a chance. 
Do you have to make me feel like
 there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have
. You can break everything I am
 like I'm made of glass, 
like I'm made of paper 
go on and try to tear me down 
I will be rising from the ground
 like a skyscraper, 
like a skyscraper" Singing? I peek ever so cautiously out of the slide I'm in to see Ben swinging on the swing set. Did he follow me here? I've never heard the song he's singing before but the words are so empowering. "Ben?" "Ahh!" he screams. He turns around and I start cracking up. "What are you laughing at? Haven't you ever heard a 17-year-old boy sing?" I can't stop laughing at him. Soon I'm on the floor rolling around. "Get up! Ha ha. You're embarrassing me." Ben starts laughing with me then we are both on the floor in tears from laughing so hard. After about five minutes of that, we go and sit down on the double-slides they are slanted so that we are looking up at the sky. It's around nighttime and the sky is getting dark. "Hey! Look, it's the first star in the sky." "Ha ha yea, that's cool." I look beside me and see Ben fascinated at the sky above him. He has some issues, that's for sure. I really think that I can bring something to the table to help him through some stuff. "Hey Ben?" "Yea?" "How would you feel about me and you... you know..." "What?" Before I can finish my question a car pulls up on the road next to the park. A man and a woman get out and walk away from the car very casually. Before I can even form a guess as to what's happening, the car blows up. Ben and I look at each other like, "what the fuck?" then we rush to our houses, dialing 911 on the way. Ok so I added a mystery to the plot of this story. I'm brainstorming what conclusions I have to the end of the next chapter but be aware that the man and woman weren't the only ones in the car... BUM BUM BUUUMMM! Lol I hope you guys are liking this story and I got some good e-mails from you guys so keep them coming and don't bbe afraid to share the story with others. Have a good week J. Oh and how is the length of the chapters? Too long or too short? E-mail! oh and the song Ben was singing in this chapter is Skyscraper by Demi Lovato. It just came out today and it has a very strong message. Listen to it i dare you to.