Devon's POV:

We were both sitting on the couch with one thing on our minds. How close we were to kissing. We weren't paying attention to how my mom was here or the movie. All my thoughts were on how close I was to him and how close he was to me.

"Hey boys how's the movie?" My mom asks walking over to us. "We're doing good" I saw looking over at my mom. We pause the movie and we all have a conversation. I introduce Jake to my mom. Me and Jake then finish up the movie and then go up to my room. Jake kept looking around my room. I show him my podcast set up and how it all works.

We didn't really know what to do because of the whole we almost kissed thing. I did want to bring it up but I didn't. Then we heard my mom knock on the door and then open it. "Hey it's getting late you should probably start going home Jake." My mom says. "Can I drive him home? Because you know it's late and we don't wanna worry his dad" I say looking over and Jake then back at my mom. "Yeah that makes sense but don't take too long" she says leaving. Me and Jake just look at each other.

I then bring him to my car and open the door for him. I get into the car and we're both just sitting in silence. I start the car and then I start driving him home. I put on some music, the song that starts playing is Sarah by Alex-G. "I really like this song" Jake mentions. "Really? Well you do seem like someone who would like Alex G" I say. "Well I do like him" he says looking over at me smiling. We go back to listening to music while I'm driving him home.

After a few minutes we're at Jake's place. I stop the music and we both look over at each other. We both aren't saying anything. But after a few seconds Jake breaks the silence. "So about the thing that almost happened" He says. I was about to say something but he spoke again. "I'm sorry about that, if you want us to forget about it that's perfectly fine" he says. I just stare at him wondering why he's even apologizing. I was the one who started it.

"I don't think I want to forget about it" I say. He looks confused, but a good kind of confusion. We're just staring at each other. Again, well this time we both are thinking one thing. How we both wanted the same thing. I then feel his hand on my face. We start moving closer to each other.

We were so close again until I pulled away. I didn't want to but I only did because I saw Jake's house door open. It was his dad, he didn't look so happy to see us. Jake turns around and sees his dad. He looks over and me and his face looks pale. Jake's dad speaks breaking my thoughts "Jake get in the house right now" he says in a stern tone. I look at both of them, a billion thoughts going through my head at once.

Jake gets out the car and goes into his house. Jake's dad goes into the house and slams the door. I don't hear anything, no yelling, screaming, hitting. I just hear nothing. I start driving home still thinking about it. Jake's dad seemed pissed, really pissed. I tried not to worry that much about it on my way home.

I get home and go straight to my room. My mom went to bed early because he has an early shift in the morning. I just fell on my bed and just looked up at the ceiling. I had too many thoughts going through my head to go to sleep. I stayed up for an hour just laying on my bed thinking. I then fall asleep thinking about him, about Jake.

I woke up tired, I didn't want to go to school. I then remember yesterday and it all feels like a blur. I remember what happened but it just all seems to blur into one big thought of worry. I start getting ready for the day and I have a quick breakfast and then get on the bus to school. I just put on my headphones and look at my phone the whole time on the way to school.

I go to all my classes and I notice Jake wasn't in science. I go to lunch and I see Jake sitting with Nadine and Lexy. He looks up and sees me. I smile, but that quickly goes away when I see him get up and leave. He looked worried, I sat next to lexy and they both look at me. "What was that?" Nadine asks. "Yeah did something happen between you two?" Lexy adds. "Nothing bad happened I don't know why Jake left" I say looking down at my food.

I was worried about him, about what happened last night with him and his dad. I tried not to think about it but that was the only thing on my mind. I try going through my day without trying to worry but that just kept making me think and worry about it more. I take the bus home and when I go home I do some homework that I have. It helped me get my mind off of just everything.

After a few hours it was dark and it also started to rain. My mom still wasn't home because she had a night shift, again. I was writing ideas down for some future podcast stuff when I heard something. I took my headphones off to see if I could hear whatever I heard again. I did hear it again, it was a knock. I open my door and no one was there until I heard it one more time. I quickly turned over to my window where I saw someone.

I walked up close to my window. I then saw who was at my window, it was Jake. I quickly open the window and there he is. I didn't know what to think. He was standing there outside my window soaked because of the rain. I immediately pull him inside and look at him. I then look more closely at him noticing that he's been crying. "Hey, sorry for um showing up here out of no where. I didn't know where else to go" he says just above a whisper.