Title: Broken Hearts

Author: JSgal24JAG

Genre: general

Disclaimer: I own nothing except Jessi-Anna Gibbs and Chris

"Chris, are you sure you want to do this?" A young woman was sitting on the windowsill at the end of the hallway on the phone. She seemed to be hurting, but one couldn't be too sure. Her blue eyes were alternating between dry and tear-filled as she listened to the other person on the end of the phone.

"Yes, Jessi-Anna, I'm sure about this", was the reply to her question. Jessi-Anna Gibbs clenched her eyes for a moment, and then opened them with tears threatening to fall. She finished her conversation, hung up the phone, and then ran down the hall. She found her uncle's door open and she knocked. Her uncle looked up from the game that he was watching, and saw his niece standing there crying her heart out.

"Jessi-Anna, baby, what's the matter?" Danny Messer asked his 18 year old niece as she walked into his room in their apartment. "Do you want to talk about it?" Jessi looked up at her uncle, tears staining her heart-shaped face as she shook her head. He knew right then what the problem was. Her boyfriend of several months had just broken up with her, and she was screwed. He was all the way down in Georgia for college and she was up here with her 'uncle' in New York City. Both knew that keeping the relationship going while they were separated was going to be tough, but she had always kept an open mind about it. Now it had become official. He took the young woman into his arms as she quietly cried into his shoulder.

"Do you need me to find one of the girls?" Danny knew that this was going to be a touchy subject and that he was the worst person in the world for any type of conversation of this kind. Jessi-Anna nodded her head and Danny grabbed his cell phone. "Go ahead and text one of them. You can either go over with one of them or stay here and they can come over." He replied as she took the phone from him. She found the number that she had been looking for and dialed it. She talked to the other person for a few minutes, agreed on something, and hung up.

"Lindsey's coming to pick me up and take me over to Stella's for the night. Nice little girl's night for the three of us. Stella's kicking Mac out for the night, so he might end up here, just as a head's up." Jessi-Anna quietly said as she maneuvered out of Danny's hug and went to go find her stuff for the night.

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"Jessi-Anna, are you okay?" Stella asked as she let Lindsey and Jessi-Anna into her apartment. The drive over to Stella's had been quite disconcerting to Lindsey. Jessi-Anna was alternating between quietly crying or staring out the window at the New York skyline at night. Lindsey knew something was up as soon as her phone had rung with a text message. Danny never sent texts out, so she knew it was his niece. She had given the message for urgency needed, and Lindsey called to see what was up.

"I'm not sure, Stella." Jessi-Anna quietly replied as she sat down on the couch. "I mean, I think I am, but then again, I don't think that I am…. Honestly, I don't know." Jessi-Anna laid her head down on the arm of the couch, long blonde hair flowing in front of her face, and started crying again. "One moment, we are talking about nothing in general, the next, we are deciding on whether or not to end this whole damned thing!" She let loose a string of mumbled curses in several languages. Stella and Lindsey both raised their eyebrows at each other, as they understood some of what she had said, and let Jessi-Anna take a moment to catch her breath.

"Wow, I swear I heard some Persian in that mumbling", Stella replied as she grinned at Jessi-Anna. Jessi-Anna looked up, mortified as she realized what she had done.

"Uh, oops?" she smiled sheepishly at her 'uncle's' co-workers, and all three burst into spontaneous laughter.

"How are you dealing with this?" Lindsey asked after the laughter had died down. Jessi-Anna looked at her friend hard, and then put her head down. How do I tell them that the one guy that I thought I was going to be with forever has just busted my heart into a million pieces because of a long distance relationship that I thought we could do, he said that it was impossible? Jessi-Anna thought as she looked between her two older friends. Stella put her arm around the younger woman's shoulders and let her lean into her as she thought.

"It's tough right now. I thought that this would be able to work somehow with me being up here for school and him being down there for school, but I guess not." Jessi-Anna said bitterly. "I thought he was the one for me. I honestly had thought that I had found my guy in Chris, but I obviously was wrong." Jessi-Anna, on that note, burst into tears again, and Stella let the young woman cry on her shoulders for a bit. Lindsey reached out to hold Jessi-Anna's hand as her sobs started to dissipate.

"Jessi sweetie, I think that Chris had a good point for wanting to put your relationship on hold. Maybe he is the one for you. The thing is, maybe you need to go, try some guys out here, and then make the decision for yourself. Is Chris really the one that you see yourself with for the rest of time? Maybe you will find yourself some other guy that is better than him in so many other ways." Stella held Jessi-Anna and let the young woman think for a little bit. Lindsey looked over Jessi-Anna's appearance. I think she's taking this really hard. Chris probably had a good reason to go off this track for a little while. Lindsey thought before she opened her mouth.

"Jessi, I think that Chris was wanting to, maybe, reopen the relationship at a later time for you two. I know it's hard to understand but maybe he was thinking the best for both of you. I think he still loves you dearly, but he might have needed to see what else was out there before making his final decision." Jessi-Anna looked at Lindsey, knowing that this was something that she needed to hear coming from a friend and not her 'uncle'. She took this advice into account and thought for a little while. Lindsey got up for a moment and went to grab a wet paper towel.

"Here, I figured you might want to get cleaned up before we start to relax here", she said as she handed the damp towel to Jessi-Anna. Jessi-Anna nodded her thanks then sat up off of Stella's shoulder and to wipe her face off. The cool towel helped Jessi-Anna to relax and think about this whole situation.

"Here's a thought," Lindsey said, interrupting Jessi-Anna's thoughts. "Just remember all of the fun times you had with Chris. Maybe it won't be as bad as you thought it would be. Besides, who knows, you guys will probably see each other over your school breaks, right?" Jessi-Anna nodded. "Maybe you guys can do something together and talk this whole thing out face-to-face." Jessi-Anna thought about that for a moment, realized what Lindsey was saying, and brightened. This wasn't the end of the world for her; it was just a time to relax, pull back and focus on herself for a little while and then go for her own stuff for a time or two.

"Something tells me that what you said finally got through to that girl," Stella replied as she watched Jessi-Anna's countenance change for the better.

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A/N: This is based on a true story of something that happened to me last night. Break up with my boyfriend sent me into a tizzy and I ran to my resident assistant, who pulled me over and we talked for a good couple of hours. This story is the outcome of said situation, so I dedicate this story to my RA, Savanna. Thanks!