The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 29: The father son talk .Jordan attempted to do the dutiful son act by making dinner, healthy with salad because he worried about his blood pressure, and waited for him to come home. It was half five when the front door opened and Jordan braced himself with a small smile turning his back on him when he turned the sauce.“Are we going to talk about how you didn’t come home last night?”“I should have told you, I know, I’m sorry, I just fell asleep and didn’t wake up till seven the next morning. I didn’t mean to worry you but I was safe? That has to mean something.”“Yes, safe, but safe with who, Jordan? I’m getting really tired of waiting for you to tell me who you’re dating and why you’re so scared to tell me,” he said folding his arms over his chest and looked tired and frustrated.“I want to tell you.”“Just tell me, I’m your father, Jordie, why wouldn’t I understand?”“Because it’s who it is,” Jordan muttered turning the burner off bef
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 30: so it begins .Derrick looked drawn out and his eyes conflicted when he nodded slowly. “Okay.”“He’s wrong!” Jordan protested moving out of his arms and inhaling deeply when he stood in the middle of the floor. “I’m eighteen, I can make my own decisions about…everything. My career, my life, my love life, and he can’t force me to do anything.”“He just wants to look out for you,” Derrick replied softly lingering in the background.“My dad also said he’d support me in anything and he hasn’t.”“Can you blame him?”“I understand why he’s upset but telling me to end things with us? Yes, I do blame him.”Derrick sighed behind him before walking over and gripping his hand when he turned him around. “He’s your dad, he wants what’s best for you, like any parent would. This doesn’t surprise me.”“I’m not ending things!”“I’m not asking you to, I wouldn’t want that either, but you need to understand where he’s coming from, Jordan.”Jordan stared i
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 31: couples fight .The benefits of being in a fight with your dad meant that he wasn’t grounded and he could get drunk with his friends. He spent the night with Derrick instead of going home and to say things had been a little awkward between them was an understatement. Derrick wasn’t ready to talk to him and he couldn’t force him despite how much he wanted to pin him down and get it out of him. Jordan wanted to know all of them but speaking about the past was difficult in any case. During the night he woke up in his arms and chose to watch him sleep like a creeper. There was a soft almost vulnerable expression on his face when he slept and he wanted to see it forever. He wanted to help him, be there for him, and help him move on from what he was hiding so well. Ever since that day months ago his nightmares were few and few.There was the odd time that Derrick jerked out of his sleep with a gasp and Jordan pretended to sleep listening
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 32: the truth .Jordan wanted to get very drunk and he was glad to get going later when he went to pick up Shawn and meet the girls there. Their fake ID’s worked to their surprise but he honestly believed it was because the club needed it, the younger, the better, and especially with teenagers.“Tell me why we’re in a gay bar again?” Jordan questioned when they found Laura and Anna inside with drinks already.“Because they’re excellent,” Laura answered handing him a blue shot which he automatically downed with a wince.“I guess,” he muttered looking around looking at the different men and women lingering, some catching his eyes and looking interested, but he didn’t linger. “Can we just get seriously drunk?”“Yes,” Laura agreed grabbing his hand and dragging him with her when they found somewhere to sit.“I’ve never been here before,” Anna said with a small smirk and nudged Shawn and pointed to a guy. “Totally checking you out.”“I’m not int
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 33: perhaps for the best .Jordan hated how he felt, he hated how he felt clingy and desperate, and he hated how angry and upset he felt. School was a distraction but a bad distraction when all he wanted to do was run away and Shawn and Anna were a pain in the ass with their perfect relationship. His texts to Derrick were ignored, his phone calls declined and he had no idea what was happening. Their relationship wasn’t exactly perfect but he wanted to keep it that way. He wanted to keep their relationship and make it work. It was two days since Derrick told him to back off and made him feel unwanted.He was fed up and the only way to get him to talk to him was to go to the loft. Demi hadn’t been in school for days and he knocked hastily and waited. The door opened and Demi stood there looking pale and stared at him.“I guess you’re looking for Derrick.”“Yeah, I haven’t heard from him in two days. He’s my boyfriend, it kind of sucks,” Jor
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 34: it’s all over .Jordan couldn’t help but flinch when Derrick turned with a clenched jaw and punched the wall hard. The wall paper along with the wallpaper cracked under his fist and it left Jordan reeling when he stared at him.“She shouldn’t have told you.”“You shouldn’t be blaming yourself.”“It’s my fault!” he shouted turning grief ridden eyes towards him. Jordan could see the pain there, the raw emotion he hid well from him, and he couldn’t help but reach out for him. He couldn’t deny it hurt when he moved away.“Did you force the drugs and alcohol down her neck? Did you force her into it? No, I don’t think you did. It was an accident, Derrick, an overdose –” Jordan argued and couldn’t hold back the grunt of pain when his back hit the wall when Derrick slammed him against it.“You have no idea!”“I do, Demi told me!”“No, you don’t, Jordan, you weren’t there! You have from Demi’s point of view and she was just a kid at the time,”
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 35: they are just boys .“You’re making me feel depressed. You literally look like an extra from a shit zombie film,” Laura said slamming a hand onto his locker door when she closed it. “Five days, Jordan, five days of watching you walk around school looking gormless. Shawn all worried, Anna being the supportive and doting girlfriend and it’s disgusting. Now tell me right now what’s happened.”“This is a weird hello.”“Do not fuck with me,” she muttered pointing a finger at him. “I’m very intuitive when I want to be and I’m guessing argument with Derrick or you’ve broken up.”“Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner,” he muttered sarcastically facing her. “We broke up, five days ago. No, I don’t want to talk about it. Bye!”Laura gripped his wrist tugging him back when he went to walk away. “You really think that is going to work on me?”“Where were you four days ago?”“I had more important things.”“I have an important thing, I have a history e
The Bad Boy and The Sheriff’s Son.Chapter 36: be happy and forget .Derrick walked in to see Demi waiting for him when he got in with takeaway and dumped the stuff on the table.“You look peeved, what’s happened?”“I bumped into Jordan.”“Oh dear, how unfortunate, the world is ending,” she said in mocking tone appearing at his side and giving him a sad smile. “I saw him today in school, made up a bunch of crap about you being awful and horrible when really the moment you dump him you turn a corner!”“I did it for you,” he answered with a roll of his eyes.“You did it for yourself and because I saw you go for the vodka bottle and brought out my secret weapon.”“I did it because it brought back memories of…Laura. I don’t want to do something stupid.”“I admire that, I do, I don’t want you to die. I want you to be healthy, happy, in love, and loved right back…but you won’t let yourself and I don’t think you will for a while.”“Will you get the plates out?” he said turning towards her