I turned to run the other way, but there were lawn gnomes right behind me coming at me. God how I hate those things, they are so friggin' creepy. I turned back around and walked quickly towards him. "Come on Rachel!" he yelled.
"I'm trying Isaac. I am!" I yelled to him.
I was running to him now, but I wasn't getting any closer. "Just take my hand Rachel. I wont them hurt you!" Isaac said reaching out a hand.
I had to get to him, he would make me feel better, feel safe. "Isaac, I'm scared." I cried out.
"There is nothing to be afraid. I'm right here sweetheart, I love..."
"JOLEY!" Zac's voice called from somewhere, drowning out Isaac’s.
He had almost said it and now I didn't hear it. NO! "JOLEY! PLEASE I LOVE YOU!" Zac's voice called again, but there was something not right with his voice.
It was breaking, cracking. Zac was crying. "I NEED TO TALK TO YOU JO BEAR!" I wish he would just shut-up!
"Jesus Christ!" Isaac voice said sounding like it was right next to me.
I wanted to hear him say those words to me, I didn't want to wake up.
"What the hell is he doing?!" Isaac freaked as he jumped out of bed. "It's eight o'clock and he is screaming like that. I'm break his fucking neck."
I was so out of it that it took me a second to realize that it was Zac's voice. And a few more second to remember he was in jail last night. "Is that Zac?" I asked Isaac.
"Yeah! And I'm gonna kill him!" he said.
He looked very disheveled. His hair was everywhere. He had deep bags under his eyes, which were bloodshot from lack of sleep. He grabbed his sneakers and tried to throw them on quickly. "JOLEY! PLEASE, I'M NOT LEAVING TILL YOU TALK TO ME!" Zac yelled again.
"Is he crying?" I asked a little shocked.
Isaac, being half dead and angry must have gotten himself caught up in putting his shoes on feel flat. I heard the thump and the air exited his body rather roughly. "Oh my god, are you ok?" I asked sitting up.
"I'm fine," he growled.
I don't really know how true that was but he was so pissed he wasn't gonna tell me anything. He threw open our bedroom door, "I swear to god!"
"Isaac, oh m god. I'm so sorry! I don't know what's going on," I heard Joley say to Isaac.
"This isn't your fault. He's just an ass. Stay here Joley," he told her as I heard him unlock the door and pull it open.
"No, I'm coming Isaac." he sighed loud enough for me to still hear him in from the bed.
But, he must have let her go. It didn't hear much for a few minutes, until I heard footsteps come back in the apartment. "I could kill you!" Isaac said.
"Joley and I need to talk," Zac threw back.
"Well, you had to come here at eight o'clock in the freaking' morning? You couldn't wait till a descent hour or I don't know, maybe till I was awake?"
"This couldn't wait Isaac. I care about her to much to wait!" As crazy as Zac has been the past couple of months, and how bizarre the circumstance was right now, I still found it so damn cute how much they loved each other.
"Whatever, I'm going back to sleep. Let me sleep ok?" Isaac said sarcastically and came back into the bedroom.
He ripped his sneakers off and feel back on the bed. "What did they say outside?" I asked him.
"Huh?" he looked at me.
"What were they saying to each other outside?"
"I don't know!" he huffed, "I was cold and tired and I wanted to come back in and sleep."
"You mean to tell me, you went outside and you didn't pay attention to a word that they said to each other?" He stared at me for a moment.
"You're kidding me right?"
"No, Isaac, I'm not. I'm curious to know what happened between them."
"Arghhhh.... She told him she didn't want to speak with him and he begged her to come home. She said no, not till we talk about what you did yesterday. And he was like well then can I at least come in then and she said fine. That's what they said ok? Happy?" he was being an ass.
He was such a crank when he didn't get rest."Yes, thank-you was that so hard?" I threw back at him as he turned over and got comfortable.
"I'm going back to sleep, night," he mumbled.
I laid there for a minute or so, "So, you just lied to me?" didn't he just tell me that he hadn't heard anything they had said to each other.
"What the hell are you talking about?" he was annoyed and I chuckled slightly internally.
This was fun. "You told me you hadn't heard anything they said and that was obviously a lie because you just told me everything that was said. And just so you know I don’t appreciate being lied to.”
“I’m flabbergasted! I mean seriously. It wasn’t like I lied to you about me having an STD or the size of my penis. It was just about Zac and Joley and their stupid fight!” he said very annoyed.
“It doesn’t matter. If you can lie to me about stupid stuff then it can lead to bigger things. And Isaac we discussed this in the beginning, I need an honest man,” his cute little mouth feel open and he turned bright red and I smiled deeply to myself. Ha, I was getting to him.
“You know what!?” he said perturbed with just a little crust in his eye.
“What?” go ahead baby snap on me so I can have the hottest roughest morning sex ever.
God I was a dirty little slut. “I’m going to sleep! Please just let me sleep?” he was begging like a lost puppy and I thought for a second there might actually be tears.
“Fine,” I said so much for the morning sex, well maybe later.
I wasn’t going to be able to sleep but I was comfy and warm so I wasn’t about to move. I laid there for a while and started thinking about this dream that I had. What the hell did it mean? I mean it’s not like I need him.
We are just dating casually with no strings attached and I don’t care that Isaac hasn’t said he loved me. It’s not like I love him or anything. We care about each other and it’s perfect the way it is.
I looked over at him and he was so cute and well he was the only man that I have ever met that hasn’t been intimidated by my sexuality, but still it couldn’t be love could it? Oh boy this I didn’t need. “No, this is bullshit! You have been doing this shit day in and day out and then you get into a bad mood and you get in my face!” I heard Joley yell.
Oh, now this was good. I listened closely not wanting to miss one word. “What the shit, Joley? What the shit?” Zac yelled, it was the only thing he yelled.
“Are you kidding me, Zac? That’s what you have to say to me?” she yelled back.
“Well, what do you want from me? I told you that I was sorry and that I never meant to hurt you and that I was so depressed about what happened and that I love you!” his voice was breaking again, like he was about to cry.
“What the hell!?” Isaac said suddenly, sitting straight up with his eyes open real wide.
“Shhh..., I’m trying to listen,” I told him.
“Trying to listen? Trying to fucking listen? God damn it, I’m trying to sleep. So they need to shut-up!” he was ready to rip his hair out.
“Oh be quiet and go back to bed,” I told him.
“This isn’t about you loving me Zac. This is about the way you treat me when you get all pissy about something between you and Taylor. I’m tired of being the one you take it out on. I’m tired of being the one who gets the bad sides of you. Where is the Zac I used to know?” she was crying that I could definitely tell.
“How the hell am I supposed to sleep with them screaming back and forth to each other? Huh?” he asked getting his face three inched from mine.
“Well.... SHUTTING UP would be the first thing to do and I’m trying to hear this so lay down and go to sleep!” he was pissing me off.
“Rrrrrr...” he growled throwing himself down and covering his ears with a pillow.
“I’m right here Joley I never left. I have been right here. Why can’t you see that?” he begged.
“Because your always in a bad mood and we are always fighting and you just.... what aren’t you telling me, Zac? There is something you are hiding and that’s what’s doing this to us!” she was hysterical.
I felt so bad for her and I hoped to god that they worked this out because there was no doubt in my mind that those two are meant for each other.
Isaac sighed and tossed and turned for a moment, obviously still not blocking out their voices. “There is nothing Joley, nothing. I would never hide a thing from you. You are my everything.” Oh I wish that I was watching them right now.
“Then why Zac? Why do I have to be in your brothers apartment on a Sunday morning asking you these things? Why do I have to visit you in jail at three A.M.? Why am I crying hysterical and you’re the reason I’m like this? Why damn it!?” I heard her start sobbing and I felt so bad for her.
I feel like since Isaac and I became a couple I bonded the most Joley, so I feel connected to her. “Joley, please don’t cry. Please, sweetheart!”
“Don’t Zac!” she yelled threw sobs, “please, just don’t touch me right now!”
“Then what can I do? I can’t look at you just crying and not do something. Please Jo Bear, please?”
“Please shut up!” Isaac yelled sitting up again, “That’s it. That’s it I can’t take it anymore. I need sleep and they just keep fighting and I’m gonna scream in two seconds!”
Isaac jumped out of bed and grabbed his pillow. “Where are you going?” I asked him.
“No Zac, No! I’m hurt and if you hold me, I’ll forgive you!”
“I’m going out onto the couch so I can’t hear them fight,” he complained.
“Are you that stupid or are you just trying to amuse me?” he really didn’t think that the living room was gonna block the sound.
“What?” he was serious.
Why, god, why? “Ok, Isaac, you do that,” I told him.
He walked out of the bedroom bringing in the noise of their fight even stronger, “Forgive me Joley. Please forgive me,” Zac sounded like he was on his knees.
Their voice were growing louder and louder and I could tell that Zac and Joley were now in the kitchen. “What the hell!?” Isaac complained again.
“Isaac... we are trying to have a private conversation do you mind?” I heard Zac say to him.
“Private conversation? Private Conversation? Your in my god damn house and you are telling me I need to leave. This is ridiculous. I swear to god!” I heard Isaac get off the couch and come storming back in.
He slammed the door behind him and didn’t even look at me as he stormed into the room, “Isaac where are you going?”
He glared at me, “I’m going to take a shower!”
“Why?” “Because I can’t sleep now I’m up and it’s not like they are gonna quit fighting anytime soon!” I rolled my eyes. He was such a pain in the ass.
“Joley, please, Joley. Let’s try to work this out. Come home and we can talk just me and you?” Zac asked her and there was a strange sound of silence for a moment.
“Ok,’ she finally responded.
I heard a knock on the bedroom door and Joley peaked her head in, “I’m gonna go Rachel. I’ll talk to you guys soon. Thanks for everything,” she said quietly and I smiled.
I was glad for them and I hoped they worked it out, but Isaac is going to be furious when he comes out here and he could have slept. Oh well, I thought as I rolled over to try to go back to sleep myself.