Chapter 2
The night Annie got accepted to the FBI internship; Jeff knew he was freaking out because everything was changing. He couldn't stop picturing a future with her and what coming home to her and their kid would be like. The reality was it wasn't going to be real, and that made his heart ache and want a scotch. She was leaving and all he could do was let her go. To Jeff, he truly believed Annie could be president, she had so much drive- and the kiss, the tender kiss goodbye, broke his heart.
Annie was so busy preparing to leave she didn't re-address what Jeff was trying to say without saying... His heart wanted her, but he let her go and all he could do was kiss her goodbye. Annie was right, if he didn't he would have regretted it for the rest of his life.
Two weeks later he drove over to what will now just be just Britta's apartment, he wondered briefly about what will happen to the spare rooms with Abed and Annie gone.
He arrived early; they decided to have a casual pizza together before they left. Britta and Abed practically ignored Jeff entering. Consumed by the TV show they were binge watching of Jeff's Netflix account, Jeff herd them grunt, "Hey Jeff!" in union followed by Britta commenting after sipping her third beer, "Pizza should be here in 10." Jeff helped himself to two beers in the fridge and headed over to Annie's room. Lightly knocking on the open door, he loitered in between the doorframe. Annie looked up from her task, she had the contents of what she would be palming for her carry-on luggage laid out in the bed. Her room looked quite sparse now, the stuffed toys were gone, her movie poster of Charlie St, Cloud was no longer on the wall, Jeff realised he was holding his breath and felt quite stiff, taking a deep breath in and a step into her room Jeff breathed in what he could only describe as expensive shampoo and conditioner.
She smiled up at him as he walked in, shutting the door a little with his foot as he walked in, he handed her a beer. He wanted some privacy, even though he didn't know what he wanted to say.
"Abed and Britta have been watching FBI shows to give me tips, him and Britta have been powering through Criminal Minds, White Collar and Bones, I've been letting them give me the highlights but I've been to busy going over the FBI handbook and talking to my coordinator to arrange board. I'm only allowed to live with other FBI interns that have a background check."
"Why didn't you tell us you were going for the internship?"
"To be honest, they do a pretty thorough background check & I had to answer honestly questions on my previous drug history: I went to rehab Jeff, I couldn't lye about that… I didn't think I'd get passed the application, let alone get to the interview stage."
"That won't hold back the Annie I know."
"I really want this to work." For a moment he wished she meant 'us' but her headspace wasn't there. "I've packed things I'm taking, since I'll be gone over summer I've packed my stuff in boxes so Britta can have my room. It's true, I don't know if I'll be back after summer."
"The FBI would be fools not to keep you around." And then Jeff realised, he was the fool.