Farewell Grant High PT2
Grace and Jack were sitting down in the living room at the Bowman's house. No one dared to say anything, the room was filled with silence. This was it. The decision had been made. They couldn't be together, and they both knew that.
"Grace?" Jack turned to look at her, and he was surprised to see that her eyes were watery, and he was even more surprised to see a tear falling down his own eye. He knew that it was over and that they didn't want to be together anymore. He even knew that it was better if they weren't together, but that didn't make it feel any better. Grace was always going to be his first love, and he would never forget her. Moving on would be difficult, and he just hoped that it would be worth it.
"Yeah," she choked on her tears as she looked at him. She hadn't expected to feel this way. When they decided to break up she thought she'd be happy. She realized that she needed to re-evaluate herself and make some serious changes, and breaking up with him was much needed. But a flood of memories pushed inside her brain. The first time they had sex, the day her father died, their talks over the summer, everything.
"I want you to know that I really appreciate you being there for me in high-school...I know we made a lot of mistakes, but I'll always love you I just hope you realize that."
"Yeah...I'll always love you too."
"I wish you the best of luck," Jack said, getting up from his seat. Grace got up too and slowly made her way towards him. She knew better than to give one last goodbye kiss, because that could turn into something more. So instead they hugged, and he left without another word.
Despite the tears she felt a smile creep onto her face because she knew that this was the best decision she had made in a while. She needed to focus on herself, and better herself. It was time to put all the drama behind her.
Before she could reflect more on it she felt her phone ring. She grabbed her phone from her pocket and was surprised to see that it was from Adrian.
"Adrian? Hey what's going on?"
"I don't know Grace I just...can you come over?"
"Well it's kind of late so-"
"Ben kissed me," she blurted out.
Grace paused for a second, unsure of what to say. She was completely shocked.
"Grace? Are you there?"
"I'm coming over," Grace said excitedly, and then she hung up.
Ben was sitting in the car, in his father's driveway. He honestly didn't want to go home. He didn't feel like talking to Leo, and his kiss with Adrian was the only thing that was on his mind at the moment. He didn't understand why he did it, or what he was feeling, but all he knew was that he craved Adrian's lips on his even more now that he had left.
He tried to shake his head of these thoughts and distract himself with something else. He took his cellphone out of his pocket and realized that he had had it off all day. He turned on his phone and he noticed that he had a voice-mail from Amy. He froze for a moment, unsure if he should listen to it or not. He had been waiting for this moment all year, for Amy to contact him first and have a real conversation with him, but now that the moment was here he wasn't sure of what to think.
He reluctantly listened to the voice-mail, noticing that his hands were shaky, and his heart beat was increasing. As he listened to it he couldn't help but smile again. Amy was stuttering, and it reminded him of the little freshman that he had first laid eyes on. The band geek that he had been head over heels in love with. She was apologizing to him, and being completely honest with him for once. That meant something to Ben, no, that meant everything to Ben.
And Ben Boykevich was a forgiving person, so he felt no bitterness towards her. He wouldn't not accept her apology. She was Amy Jurgens after all, his first true love. The question was, was Amy Jurgens the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with?
And that's when he started to think of Adrian again.
"So he just kissed you?! Out of nowhere!"
Adrian couldn't help but chuckle at this, "Grace calm down please!"
"I'm sorry it's just...wow! I thought he was in love with Amy, not that it matters since Amy got married to Ricky right?"
Adrian shrugged, "I don't know if they actually got married. I haven't heard anything about it, and to be honest I don't want to know. It's none of my business anymore. You know Omar came by too..."
"Really? What'd he want?" Grace asked, "Wow two guys in one night, get em chica."
Adrian rolled her eyes but laughed, "Stop, no Omar came over because he wanted me back, but Ben was here so he accused me of cheating and called me a slut...And then Ben stood up for me. After Omar left he just kissed me."
Grace noticed something about Adrian. Her eyes lit up when she talked about Ben. Her face glowed when she talked about the kiss, "Adrian are you happy that it happened?"
She sighed, "I don't know. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel Grace I mean I just ended things with Omar. I don't wanna jump to the next guy, especially not Ben. Ben deserves more than that."
"You really care about Ben don't you?" Grace gave her a small smile.
"Yeah...well all of this talk hurts my brain. Let's watch a movie or something, you can spend the night."
Grace giggled, "We haven't had a real girls night in a while."
"I know..."
"I'm picking the movie!" They both exclaimed. Adrian and Grace laughed loudly when they said this and Adrian shrugged, "I'll let you pick the movie this time."
"Seems like you have a lot going on," Dr. Fields said, "I haven't seen you in quite some time so there must be something on your mind."
"I thought I was better. I thought I didn't need to see a therapist anymore...but I'm still messed up, and confused about everything...I thought I made so much progress, but I can't even see where my future is leading me, and now I've lost Amy too."
"Ricky you have made great progress. You're not sleeping around anymore, you're taking care of your child, and it's only natural at this point in your life to not know where you're headed. As for Amy...Some things just happen son. You guys are still so young and she wants to experience new things and new people, which is common."
"I just thought...if I married Amy and we took care of John I would be different than my parents. I wouldn't be such a screw up, and I could make up for hurting her all those years ago. It's like I...I owed it to her to be a good man. And I owe it to John to be a good parent. I knew that we were drifting away a long time ago," his eyes were getting red and watery now, "But I got her pregnant," he gritted his teeth, "I did this to her and us, so how could I just not be with her after everything I did?"
"Ricky you don't have to be with Amy to treat her well. You can be a good friend to her, look out for her, and support her, and you guys can work together as friends and take care of your baby."
"It's just...it's a strange feeling. I've never been dumped before, or felt so alone. I've never not had a girl."
"Well maybe now it's time to stop focusing on being with someone, and work on yourself. This is a fresh start for you."
A/N: I'm thinking of having one last part to wrap things up, but we'll see. Thanks again for reading!