Summary: On the count of ten, I lost my other half.
Author Notes: I'm considering making this into a chapter story, so please let me know what you guys think. Thanks.
Chapter 1: On ten
Jade West never realizes how lovely she is, and hearing her voice wavier from the other side of the door as she counts, as she waits for me to twist the handle, and tell her I love her, is the worst feeling. Maybe we're the worst couple because of me.
I sit there for maybe an hour or so trying to focus on playing cards with my friends, instead of letting myself be consumed by the sudden loneliness running through me. But I know letting her go wasn't going to be easier, I just didn't think it would be this hard either. It's getting too hard.
After we finish the fourth round of poker, I head back to my place. My heart nearly stops then beats out of my chest as I see her sitting outside of my RV. She looks so broken sitting there all alone, with her leather jacket being the only thing protecting her from the cold.
"Jade?" I say as softly as can, not wanting to scare her off. "Almost three years Beck. And THAT'S the way you break up with me," her sharp tone pierces through my entire body. Her pain so palpable I almost feel it more than mine own. "I'm sorry." My words hang there lamely for which feel like forever before she looks up at me with tear stain eyes, and asks in what I can only describe as wounded "For what Beck? For embarrassing me, for hurting me, or for ever saying you love me?" How do you make ever thing better when you're not even sure how it got there to being with?
"Jade." I say again, trying to think of something, anything to take us back to the start, when we were happy. "I still love you, I'll always love you." I don't know what I expected to hear. I was hoping she would tell me she loves me too, but instead she scoffed. "Right, because when you love someone, you break up with them instead of trying to make it work. My dad is like that Beck, but I never thought you would be." With that being said she stands up and walks away. But right before she gets to her car, she turns back around to really look at the boy with her heart one last time. 'At least not to me', she adds silently.