Reconnecting With My BFF

I woke up Monday morning feeling really great. At first I wasn’t sure why I felt so great then slowly I started to remember everything that happened the day before. I couldn’t believe that in less than 24 hours, I managed to get talking to the two most important guys in my life and things seemed to be going my way.

The only thing that I was confused about was my late night realization. Why has Josh been calling me and blocking his number? Why didn’t he speak to me in all the calls that he made to me over the past month? There were a few million more ‘whys’ but I wasn’t able to answer them myself. I decided that the next time I spoke to him I would bring those questions up.

I stayed in bed, just laying there staring at the ceiling as I smiled and daydreamt about Josh. I was excited that he was giving me another chance; at least I hope that’s what he’s doing. I know he said he wanted to talk but some of the things he has said seem to point to him wanting to try again. I won’t screw up this time!

It was about 20 minutes later when I heard Jordan walking around out in the kitchen, so I decided that I would get up. Pulling on a sweat shirt over my pj top, I headed out of my old room.

When I got to the kitchen Jordan was standing at the counter pouring milk on his cereal, same old routine, I smiled. He turned from the counter to put the milk back in the fridge and caught me smiling at him.

“Good morning,” he smiled and continued what he was doing. “You know where everything is; feel free to get yourself something to eat.”

While he took his bowl and sat at the table, I headed over to the counter and pulled out the toaster so I could make myself PB&J on toasted bread.

In between mouthfuls of fruit loops Jordan filled me in on some of the things he had been up to in the last month. “I took Jenna over to see my mother,” he told me.

I stopped what I was doing and turned towards him. I wanted to ask him if his dad was there and if he was an ass but I just asked, “How did that go?”

He took a deep breath and shrugged, “Mom loved Jenna, and she couldn’t get over how much she looked like me. Jenna was thrilled to have someone new to impress and bring under her spell.” Jordan laughed, “She’s so funny Anna, and she just does these things that make me laugh all the time. Like the other day,” Jordan went on to tell me a story about Jenna trying to help him with her room; I didn’t really think it was all that funny but I gave a little laugh anyway. “I guess you had to be there,” he said finally, taking another mouthful of cereal.

“Probably,” I told him as I sat down at the table. “So I take it Heather is letting you have Jenna over nights?”

He nodded, “Yeah. At first she didn’t really want too, she was worried that I wouldn’t be able to handle her by myself.” I lowered my head; I knew that Heather was only letting him have her overnight before because I was there. “But with Hank’s help, I was able to convince her to give me a chance and I promised I would call her if I had any problems. I guess I did ok, Jenna was as happy when I returned her to Heather as she was when I picked her up.”

“That’s great Jordy!” I beamed at him; I was so happy that he was fitting into the ‘daddy’ role better than he ever thought he would. “Heather and Hank are still together?”

“Yes they are.”

“How do you feel about that?” I knew that he still had feelings for Heather, so I wasn’t sure if anything had happened while I wasn’t around.

“Hank’s a good guy; he stepped up and took care of both Heather and Jenna. Jenna loves him and since he seems to be on my side when I ask Heather for time with Jenna, there’s not really anything bad I can say about the guy.” Jordan stared at me for a moment. “He asked about you the other day, said he hadn’t been in lately and was wondering how you were doing.”

“I noticed he wasn’t around much, I used to see him all the time with Jenna when they waited for Heather to be done work.” To tell the truth, I was kind of hoping that I still would’ve ran into Hank, at least that way I would’ve known some of what was going on when Jordan and I weren’t talking.

Jordan nodded, “Yeah that’s my fault.” I frowned and he explained. “Now that I go over there after work to spend time with Jenna, Hank is able to do some things that he wants while Heather is at work.”

“Oh, there for a moment I thought you were going to say you told him to stay away from me!” I laughed.

“I didn’t tell Heather or Hank that we weren’t talking,” Jordan glanced at the left over milk in his bowl. “I actually didn’t tell anyone that we weren’t talking, besides Bella because she asked what was going on.”

“What?” I found that a little hard to believe. “Didn’t anyone notice that I wasn’t around here anymore?”

Jordan shook his head and I started to feel a little upset that no one noticed. “Then again, I didn’t have anyone over and when anyone asked, I told them you were busy doing your own thing.” He looked up at me, “I didn’t think that it would last as long as it did. I thought for sure that you would call me a couple days after you left.” Jordan sighed, “It wasn’t until a couple days after you left, when you didn’t call me that I realized just how badly I screwed up Anna.”

“Jordan,” I reach out and put my hand on his arm. “You weren’t the only one who screwed up; I didn’t help matters at all.”

“No,” he shook his head. “You didn’t but I took things way too far. If I were you I wouldn’t even be talking to me now.”

“Well it’s a good thing you aren’t me!” I smiled at him. “I am glad that we are friends again Jordy, I really missed having you to talk too.”

Jordan grinned, “I really missed you too.”