I ran into my room and slammed the door shut. Why didn't I just tell him? When he finds out, I don't even know what will happen. I don't want to know.
I pulled off my pants and threw a pair of leggings on. After grabbing a blanket I fell into bed for sleepless night….
"How could you let this happen? How could you let this happen right now? You were on the pill!"
"Jackson, please, I didn't mean to." I pleaded, he couldn't leave me now.
"Just forget it, I'm done with this Melissa."
"Please Jackson." I was crying by now, leaning into him but he just pushed me away.
"I'm done with you."
I broke down falling onto my knees as I watched him walk away.
Walk away from me.
Walk away from us.
Walk away from our baby.
"Ahhh!" I woke up with a scream.
I was shivering. I pulled the covers onto me hoping it would help but it didn't. Tears were flowing down my cheeks.
I checked the clock and it read 4:35. It was morning. There was barley any light and I knew I had to tell him. I couldn't wait anymore.
I pulled out my phone and after a few rings he answered:
"Hello?" I could hear his sleepy voice from the other end.
"H-Hey, um, c-can you meet by the woods?"
"What? What's wrong Mel?"
"Just-Just please come." I said hoping he would stop asking questions.
"Alright but I want to know what's going on."
"You will," was all I said before I snapped the phone shut.
I slipped on my shoes and headed out the door quietly. I was lucky my parents didn't hear me wake up and I wasn't about to ruin things now.
After I knew I was safe I made my way down the familiar path to the woods. Jackson and I would meet here, well we used too. Things had changed, that was an understatement. I mean, I barley even talked to Nathan. I did at lunch but not the way we used to.
Taylor, Taylor was just Taylor, nothing to be said. She focused more on school but mostly she just hung out with her friends.
Daley was busy being student council president and Nathan's new girlfriend.
Eric was busy being a comedian. Making a joke every chance he had and chasing after girls. He had changed after being on the island but in some way he stayed the same.
Lex, we barley saw him now that we were seniors. I missed him, Jackson did too.
Abby just hung out with Ian and Jory. It was nice to see their friendship hadn't changed. I was jealous.
We had all changed. We told each other we would always be friends, we were but something was just…I don't even know, something was just off.
Snapping out of my thoughts I walked over to the tree, our tree, Jackson and I's. He had carved a heart with M+J in it. When we used to come here we would just sit under it and talk and kiss. But we weren't like that anymore. That was from the summer before, when everything was dream to me. I wanted to go back so badly.
That was when Daley, Lex, Nathan, Taylor, Abby, Jory, Eric, Jackson, Ian, and I were all still close.
"Mel." I heard Jackson' voice in a hushed tone that gave me chills.
I looked at him, the boy I fell in love with. The boy I gave everything to, the boy that I would love forever.
His piercing blue eyes were like an ocean. You look in and just see blue. You couldn't see anything else. I wanted to see a horizon. I wanted to feel some sort of security again and I did as soon as he pulled me into a hug.
I didn't even know why but I hugged back and we just stood there in each other's arms. Pulling back he said, "Please tell me what's wrong, Mel."
"Remember this summer when we had sex?" I could see the surprise on his face because he was wondering what this was all about.
"Yes, I was there." He said with a slight smile trying to lighten the mood.
I just shook my head and turned my back to him. Within a moment his arms met my shoulders.
"I'm sorry," He said while his warm breath flowed into my ear.
"What is this about?" He asked, trying to clear up the confusion.
"We used protection right." It was more of a statement rather than a question. I was just trying to find some reason why this happened.
He was quiet.
"Is something wrong?" He asked.
"Just answer the question Jackson!" I was getting frustrated now. It was like someone just threw me in that bucket of ice water because I felt the security that I had been previously experiencing wash away.
I watched his face turn from a confused one to a hurt one. Guilt washed over me.
"Please, just please tell me." I said in a whisper.
"Yes. We always did. You were on the pill and I always had a condom on me." He even pulled one out of his pocket to show me.
I was on the verge of tears so I sat down with my back against the tree trunk as I tried to come to a conclusion. Maybe I'm not pregnant. The test could be wrong, couldn't it?
But I knew it wasn't, I was just looking for a reason.
I put my head between my knees and sat there for a moment, trying to calm myself down. He crouched down and pulled my head to look at him.
"Tell me what's going on." I could tell from his tone that he was serious.
I got up and he did with me, thinking I was about to tell him but I didn't; I just ran, ran through the woods, trying, trying to get away.
Finally, I reached the stream and sound of the flowing water calmed me down again. I bent down and splashed some water in my face.
"Melissa," was all I heard. Jackson kept yelling my name. I wiped my face with the back of my sleeves until the only moisture left was what was left of my tears.
It's time Mel, you have to tell him.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Tell me if you like the longer chapters because I was looking at my other story, "Two Roses" and I had very short chapters. So please tell me what you think by dropping a review! A special thanks goes to Dally2 for all her help!
