Melissa had had another boyfriend before Jackson. He was her first everything and sometimes she regrets ever getting involved with Nathan McHugh in the first place but she had done it and it had ended five years later.
Jackson knew she was still hurt from the experience of her first love and heartbreak and he was sorry he hadn't been there in her life sooner than he was now but he was there whenever she needed him most and that was all that was important right now. Jackson thought.
She was in bed late at night trying to forget it all and not cry in front of him.
But she had pushed the memories away so long ago after he cheated on her with Daley's neighborhood wh*** as she liked to say, and Jackson knew that somebody had forced them to come back up hitting Melissa like a load of bricks.
Her eyes soaked, her heart hurt as she remembered everything they used to do slowly one by one.
"We built a place from the ground up." she said remembering what it looked like and what they had experienced there and describing everything to Jackson.
He would always listen to her even if he didn't like what she was talking about.
He was so solid and she needed that right now.
"I used to wear his clothes Jackson. We- used to- wear each others clothes."
She was clinging to Nathan for dear life three years after they had first met. His orange shirt that had a tiger on it was over her back and her face was buried in his chest returning after their adventures on the beach.
Damn he was a good you know what. she remembered how he had tsught her what to do and how her body had responded to his. How Nathan told her he wanted four kids in the future and to be married with her by his side.
She even had started preparing for it. Constant practice and Melissa had drems of finding herself pregnant with his chikdren and giving birth to at least two of them (Last time she had counted).
She grabbed Jackson and he pulled her up as she retold him the story of the little biracial boy that was Nathan's son to be.
" I nursed it and than he comes into the room and I go "This is your son." then I wake up."
She retold another dream and he was surprised to hear his name come up.
"I had it in the back of a taxi in New York City and Nathan got mad at me because I told him it was yours. "It's Jackson's baby." I said.
He started thinking how good of an idea that would be. If he and her actually had a child together. He would ask her one day. Soon if she kept this up.
"I know Mel. I know" Jackson soothed his best friend. He was upset sometimes that he couldn't be the first one to do everything with her.
She had already blown that five years ago and she knew how much he wanted to be the first to touch her body the way Nathan had and how much he wanted her to be talking happily about him and their plans for the future.
Jackson was jealous. Nathan had gotten her first and he was angry.