Please don't compare me

A couple of hours had passed and Marco and Jenny had just been sitting on the couch watching TV. Jenny was okay for the most part, she was trying to calm down. She knew that is was just her boyfriend. Why couldn't she get past this? Marco looked down at her, she was curled right beside him, trying to put a brave face on and he knew that. He was just worried about her and wondered if there was anything he could do for her.

"Look Jenny" Marco said softly as he turned around to face her. "The last thing I want to do is make you uncomfortable, I love you. I just want to know if you are somehow trying to compare me to Andy and that is what's making you nervous."

Jenny's eyes were about to tear up. She didn't want to put Marco in this position, not the one that she loved, it wasn't fair to him.

"I'm so sorry Marco! You don't need this and I'm just making it worse for you. I think I may just go." As jenny started to get up, Marco grabbed her arm. Jenny looked down and there it was, the vision of Andy grabbing her arm and throwing her back down on the couch in that trailer.

Jenny quickly pulled her arm out of Marco's grip and just stared blankly at him. She didn't want to cry but she felt like she couldn't help it.

"Jenny I….." Marco started to say, but by the time he found the words, Jenny was already up and heading for the door.

"Jen, please just talk to me!" Marco was desperate; he couldn't stand to see the girl he loved with all his heart in such pain.

"I can't Marco!" Jenny shouted. "You don't understand, I'm just fragile right now, I can't explain it but I don't know if I'm ever going to be okay again."

"Yes you will. I'll help you, you just have to let me in that's all" Marco interrupted, desperate to calm her down.

"I know and I love you for it but I just can't…" Jenny couldn't and she wouldn't do it, she wouldn't put the man she loved through her own pain.

"Andy may not have physically attacked me at that moment but I know that if I had stayed, he would have done something. And I also know that it's my own damn fault. You warned me not to go see him and I did it anyway! God, I'm so stupid!" Jenny threw herself onto the chair, crying harder than ever.

Marco got up and moved over to where Jenny sat. He put his arm around her and just sat there in silence, letting her get all her tears out before he spoke.

"Jenny, we have already been through this, its okay. You made a mistake; nobody is perfect…except you are to me." Marco smiled.

Somehow this forced Jenny to look up and smile back a little. She looked back down and realized that Marco fingers were laced through hers.

"Seriously Marco, how can you still love me? I went behind your back." Jenny could feel herself about to cry again.

"I told you, you made a mistake. We all make them. We would make for a pretty boring couple if we didn't make mistakes once or twice right?" Marco joked, hoping to cheer Jenny up a little.

This helped Jenny to smile a little more. She looked at her boyfriend and couldn't understand how she got so lucky. Here she was, struggling to figure out who she is and making tons of mistakes along the way. She had no idea that the very first day she would walk into PA, she would end up meeting the guy of her dreams, a guy that is so accepting of her that it almost makes everything unreal.

Jenny smiled and leaned in to kiss her boyfriend. It seemed like there was no need for words at that moment. She just knew that she just wanted to be with him right then.

The two of them spent the rest of that night on the couch, just in each other's arms, knowing that they both have found the person that they were going to spend forever with.