She hadn't heard from Jonesy in hours. He had left the mall with Jen in a hurry and they hadn't said anything before they left, nor had they said anything since then. She was worried, sure, but the girl had to sleep, it was getting later and later, and if nobody was going to call or text her, why should she wait?

The phone rang at 2:30 the morning after they left the mall in a hurry and Nikki knew right away something wasn't right. She grabbed the phone, pulling it off of the charge she had it on, pressing the accept button, and stumbled out onto her balcony, pressing the device against her ear. "Jonesy, are you okay? Is everything alright?"

"Hey, it's me."

"Jen? Why do you have Jonesy's phone?"

"Nik, there was a car accident. His Dad just got taken off of life support. My Mom made the decision and he left the hospital, I don't know where he went, can you come help? Please?"

"I think I might know where he is, it's alright. I'll call you as soon as I find him, okay? Don't worry." Nikki hung up the phone, running to her dresser and pulling out a sweatshirt, screaming for her parents as she grabbed her car keys and a flashlight. She explained where she was going on her way out the door as her parents rushed to get their clothes on to go to the hospital to be with Jen's mom.

Nikki pulled her car into the parking lot at the hiking trails. She got out of the car, cursing when the first of the thunder sounded, lighting flashing in the sky. She flicked on her flashlight, pulled up her hood, and started jogging down the path until she got to the place where it veered off into a manmade path that led to a clearing.

There, in the center of the clearing was a hunched over figure. She ran towards it, turning off the flashlight, sitting down when she got close enough and putting her arm around her boyfriend. "Jonesy, I'm so sorry." She told him as he turned his head, revealing his tearstained face, only to hide it in her neck, one of his arms looping around the front of her waist, the other looping around the back, his fingers interlocking at her side in a remorseful death grip. "I'm so sorry, baby." She cooed, arms around his shaking shoulders and petting down his hair, reaching one hand up to pull up his hood just as the clouds broke and it started to pour. "I'm so sorry."

After about 5 minutes of sitting in the pouring rain, Nikki pulled him off of the ground and walked him to her car, sitting him in the passenger seat, soaked clothes and all, buckling his seatbelt for him and sitting the door before going to the other side of the car.

They drove together back to Nikki's house, her practically carrying him inside and sitting him down on the carpet in front of her fireplace, she threw in some firewood and a fire starter her Dad had made out of scraps of sensitive documents before lighting it on fire and taking off upstairs, but not before she had put the kettle on the stove. She grabbed some of Jonesy's extra clothes he kept there for overnight purposes and changed quickly into one of his oversized sweatshirts that reached her knees and pulling on some knee high black socks before she decided to throw the wet clothes in her bathtub and run downstairs again.

She pulled Jonesy up, pulling off his soaked hoodie and throwing it on the floor, his band t-shirt soon to follow, quickly being replaced by a dry sweatshirt to he wouldn't get sick. His belt and jeans came next, again, both going in the pile with his shoes, socks, t-shirt, and sweatshirt while she helped him into a new pair of pajama pants.

She hung up all of his clothes, grabbing a bunch of blankets and pillows from the linen closet and taking them into the living room, laying them all out on the floor, grabbing some folding chairs out of the closet as well and making a makeshift fort while Jonesy got a much needed nap. When the kettle went off she was quick to take it off the burned so the high pitched sound didn't wake him up, pouring the hot water into one cup and dumping some instant coffee, sugar, milk, and hazelnut creamer into a coffee cup for herself and stirring it all up. She leaned down on the counter, pulling her phone out of the sweatshirt pocket and starting to send a text to Jen letting her know they were okay as she sipped on her coffee.

Whilst going through some emails on her phone she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist and felt Jonesy's chin rest on the top of her head. "Thank you." He told her. She simply sat her phone and her coffee on the counter, turning in his embrace and cupping his cheeks in her hands.

"I do it because I love you." She told him as he leaned down and pressing his forehead against hers.

"I love you too, Nikki."

And so, for the next week until Jonesy's father's funeral, thanks to investigation into the crash and the cremation, Jonesy and Nikki camped out in the fort they'd made, cuddled, drank coffee and hot chocolate, and watched movies.

Okay, so we're starting out rocky.

But it'll get better, I promise.

I think at least.