Chapter Thirteen "Jeremy."

"Jake. What are you doing here?" I'm shocked and surprised, he clears his throat.

"I...um, you left this at my house," he holds my phone in his hand and I swallow, looking up at him and taking my phone from his grasp.

"Thank you," I smile slightly.

"Who's this?" Someone's voice interrupts us, I turn around to face mum. She looks between Jake and I with cocked eyebrows, I gulp. I know she's not going to care that I'm somewhat friends with a guy, but dad will. And any other guy in my family. "Well?" Mum crosses her arms over her chest when we don't answer.

"Oh this is my friend Jake, Jake this is my mum," Jake smirks slightly, why does he never smile? It's irritating and handsome at the same time. Mum grins and walks closer to us, extending her hand for a handshake.

"Hello, nice to meet you. Why don't you come in? Have some food and join our family," mum invites him in and he nods too eagerly for my liking. Mum ushers us outside to the table filled with everyone, everyone looks our way as we walk in with a new face. I watch my fathers reaction as mum introduces Jake, "this is Faye's friend, Jake. This is the Gang Jake."

"Hello," he says politely. Dad narrows his eyes at our close proximity, it's Jakes fault he's the one that decided to move really close to me. I side step away from him slowly and cough, Amy stands and moves her chair over so we can fit another chair in between.

"Grab that chair Jake," mum points to a chair in the corner. Jake wanders over towards it and I go sit down on my chair that I was sitting in before. Dad growls as Jake fits his chair in between Amy and I and takes a seat.

"Jake, do you go to school with my daughter?" Dad grumbles distastefully. Jake stares at him for a moment then replies.

"Yes actually, I do."

"So do you two like each other?" Nova asks.

"Is that even a question? Of course they like school other, look at them; young love, they're so cute together!" Amalia exclaims in excitement. My eyes widen and the water that was in my mouth comes right back out. Dad slams his fist on the table in anger, I can hear him breathing heavily and I can practically see steam coming out of his nose and ears. He's livid.

"Dad-" he holds his hand up silencing me.

"I don't want to hear any of it!" He spits out through clenched teeth, my eyes widen. He actually believes that Jake and I like each other? What a joke. I start laughing hysterically, ruining the silence between everyone. "What's so funny?!" He exclaims.

"Y-you actually think that I like him!?" My eyes water and I cough, the aftermath of my laughing fit.

"You two aren't dating?" Cadence questions in confusion. We both look at each other and start cracking up laughing at their assumptions, I sense dad calming down. "So you're friends?" I laugh even louder while he stops and everyone looks at me.

"You're not... friends?" Jarrad furrows his eyebrows, I'm about to open my mouth to say something but Jake interrupts me.

"Yes, we are just friends," he emphasises.

I purse my lips and don't say a thing because of the quick glare he sends me, dad smirks. "You sure that my daughter agrees that you two are friends? Her laughter kind of told me different," dad chuckles.

"Yes she agrees," Jake answers for me. I take a sip of my drink as everyone stares at me, waiting for me to spill the truth.

"Sure," I say. Titus raises his eyebrows at me and leans forward, resting his arms against the table and looking at me in an intimidating manner. Luckily for me, he doesn't exactly intimate me; I've known him my whole life. "Yes, we're friends," respond.

"Okay, but-" I cut dad off angrily by slamming my fist in the table.

"Quit it! Can we just continue eating our meal and stop all the questions?" Everyone goes silent after I snap at them, moments later their conversations strike again but this time not about Jake and I. I look at Brock and he smiles slightly, such a nice, caring boy that has been through more pain than anyone else i know.
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"I'm sorry about my family in there," I apologise feeling bad, I know that they are all a handful at times. Especially then. Jake leans against his car and crosses his arms over his chest after waving me off.

"Nah, it's all good. I'm sure all family is that protective and had that many questions when they see a family member with a boy. I'd be the same if I had a sister," he smiles.

"So you're the protective type too, aye?" I judge him cheekily and playfully.

He chuckles, "that's even an understatement, Faye. When someone I love has been hurt by someone, I will go out of my way to make their useless lives miserable."

I cock an eyebrow at his strong choice of words, "what if you had a girlfriend and she wasn't in danger but she had guy friends?" I ask him in curiousness.

He smirks, "she wouldn't even have any guy friends because I'd scare them all off. Any guy is a potential threat against me and my girl." I gasp, how can he think like that? I don't even have any guy friends really only family friends who aren't even my friends, except Tyrese of course. Other than that I hate Chad and the rest are practically younger. But if my boyfriend tried to ban me from seeing Tyrese then I would literally die and probably break up with him. Guys need to remember that we aren't some toys and puppets that they can control. We can be friends with whomever we want to. Oh, plus there's Tyler and Max; I guess we're friends now. Not too sure about Jake though, he's bipolar and annoying.

"And what if she were to defy you?" I cock my eyebrows up. He smirks and uncrosses his arms, kicking off the ground and moving closer to me.

"Then I'd have to teach her a lesson," he whispers huskily in my ear making me shiver.
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"How was your long weekend?" Mr Carter asks, I still don't know his first name. If I did, I would just call him that instead of mr Carter to hopefully annoy him.

"It was interesting, how was yours?" I ask him.

He shrugs, "pretty good I guess."

"Can you continue on with your story? I haven't heard more in what feels like years and I'm desperate to know what happens next," I eagerly lean forward, he sighs dramatically and continues.

Flashback Mr Carter's pov
"She was amazing, literally the best 5 hours," Conrad smirks proudly at his accomplishments.

"She might have been amazing in bed but she's a leech outside of it," Jonty comments, snickering slightly.

"She won't be. We made an agreement that we only do it once, no feelings attached," Conrad says just as the leech herself comes down the hall and straight to us. I don't really pay attention as she grips onto him like the leech she is, instead I look at something better.

The blonde haired, green eyed girl stares at the book in her hand while silently walking down the corridor of the school. "Jeremy. You okay dude?" Jonty snaps me out of my trance, I shake my head to rid my thoughts of her.

"Yeah... you guys go ahead, I'll catch up with you's later," I walk off not letting them say a word. I follow her, feeling entranced by her. She's... no, don't say it Jeremy. Snap out of it! She halts her movements and turns around, her eyes meeting mine as if she knew she was being followed.

She sighs in annoyance, "are you following me?" I scoff at her true assumptions.

"This is my school to you know, just because someone's walking behind you doesn't mean they're following you." She bites her lips and looks around me then back at me.

"Then where's the rest of your gang? They're usually following you everywhere," I growl after she says this and move closer to her, towering over her frame in anger.

"They aren't my puppets, they're my mates," I say through clenched teeth.

"Sure they are," she says, sarcasm lacing her voice. I push her up against the wall, her breathing hitches and her eyes widen.

"You don't know a f**king thing about me, Kate," her mouth parts and she looks for a way out. But my arms stay around her, caging her.

"How do you know my name?" She asks, demanding for an answer.

I chuckle, "I know everyone's name sweetheart."

"I thought you didn't notice anyone but you and your two boys," I raise my eyebrows.

"I know everything about everyone, so if they mess with me I'll know their weaknesses and their strengths and their past," She gulps and clenches her eyes.

"Do you know my past?" That's when I see it, the fear in her eyes, her hands are shaking and I actually feel bad. That's when I realises, there's more to her than she lets on. Someone hurt her and I'm going to find out who.

"Not yet."
Flashback over- Faye's Pov

"So your name is Jeremy! Finally! I don't have to call you mr Carter inside my head and out loud, it's beginning to irritate me," Jeremy Carter. What a cool name. Almost as cool as Faye Lacuna. But not quite there.

"Right..." he trails off.

"Are you still friends with Conrad and Jonty?" He clenches his eyes shut, something definitely is wrong. "Jeremy?" I question softly.

"I'm still friends with Jonty, but in my heart I will always be great friends with Conrad," I scrunch my eyebrows together.

"Did he betray you or something?"

"No. He saved me, then he died because of it."
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Before you guys say Jeremy Gilbert, I will stop you right there. NO JEREMY CARTER! It actually annoys me so much when I include a name like Shawn and you'll be like Mendes? No! I make my characters up, this is not a fan fiction. No offence but I don't like Shawn Mendes, don't have a go at me! I don't hate him I'm just not one of his fans, I'm a fan of Tom Holland, Zendaya and Zac Efron but not Shawn.

But I remember I included a name once and people started saying omg as in Shawn Mendes' sister? I DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE HAD A SISTER! Or maybe it was some other famous person, I can't really remember.

I thought that I'd rant to y'all about this, I needed to get this off my chest. Plus, I advise you to not update your Snapchat, the new update is terrible.

Keely