I am so unbelievably super sorry… to all 5 of my little readers.
I had a pretty hectic week last week so I promised I would update this weekend. I'm a big procrastinator, I know. But I stayed home sick today, so I shall now update this amazingly beast story of mine. Ha.
So this chapter is dedicated again to Soldierfortheliving. Ok, why don't we just make the whole friggin story dedicated to him/her.
So this chapter is actually dedicated to Aqumarine304 and my #1 Australian viewer! AH! International! How many can say they have Nicaraguians (actually Nicaraguans, but I think Nicaraguian makes them sound all reptiley and cool… I'm not weird, I promise.) and Australians reading their story? Ya, probably a lot.
So this shall be JT's POV. I may switch, but who really knows?
Weeee'rrrrreeeee….. OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD! Nah, we are actually off to read the story.
(JT POV)
I am an absolute genius. Really, sometimes I surprise even myself. 'Can you fluff my pillow?' Brilliance. And I came up with it within five minutes of waking from a coma.
I really couldn't stop smiling. Have you ever had that happen to you? I can't wipe this grin off my face, and I love it. A lot had happened in the last 10 minutes.
"Can you fluff my pillow? Don't underestimate me so much Lib." He said breaking the silence. Her mouth hung open, she exhaled then formed it into a little smile. But the silence remained. The smile left her face and she glanced to the corner of the room, thinking. Her eyes came back to me. Liberty just stared at me, expressionless for a minute. I thought she may pass out. I thought she might smile. I thought she might hit me over the head with her bookbag. She didn't do any of those.
She cried.
Like flat out bawling.
I knew I should apologize, but since I wasn't sure what I should apologize for, I went with my best bet. I apologized for EVERYTHING.
"Libery, I am so sorry. I don't think you'll ever know how sorry I am for everything that happened. I will have to live knowing that I hurt you in so many ways for the rest of my life. I am sorry for the baby. I am sorry for the drugs. I am sorry for the adoption. I am so sorry for leaving you during all of it. But I never stopped caring. I had Toby check up on you the whole time. I kept worrying that you were in danger. I told Toby I was concerned for the baby, but I think he saw right through it. But I shouldn't of had to be there for you through Toby. So mostly I am sorry I denied caring for you. I am sorry for Mia, I am sorry I almost left without telling you this."
I took a breath. Liberty kept staring with tears in her eyes. She had stopped crying, but it looked as though she might bust at any moment. Her lips formed what I think could burst into a smile if I kept going.
"But you should know, I wasn't leaving you twice. The first time I left, I went after Mia. The second time I left, I went after you. When you told me you loved me I was shocked and didn't know what to say. It's no excuse, I know. But that's why I was out there; I was looking all over freaking Toronto for you. I was going to tell you… I love you too."
Both her eyes and mount broke down. Now she was crying. But she was smiling. That old Liberty smile only I could bring to her face when she was upset. The same smile no one had seen in a long time. She was doing the same cry the girl from the Notebook does in the commercial. That cry where you laugh and smile but still break down. All for some guy that doesn't deserve you.
"And I'm not denying it now. I don't know why I did then. You were right, I am a complete idiot. Some idiot who got myself stabbed and left the one person in the world who matters most to me for a girl you could find twenty more of down the street. You are amazing Liberty and I would be an even bigger idiot if I lost you on my second and last chip."
I had never admitted any of that to anyone in the world, not even myself. But it was the cold hard truth.
Liberty came over from the bench she had been sitting on and kissed me. In my mind, I started going crazy.
She pulled away. "It's more like your seventh and last chip." She said matter-of-factly.
Now it was my turn to cry. No, no JT. You're a guy. Still, my eyes watered like crazy. I was so unbelievably happy right now. I couldn't believe I had almost lost her. I wanted to go marry this girl right about now.
I laid there, still smiling to myself, still playing the flashback in my head. But this time, the ending was the same. The perfect fairy tale ending that you would see in a Disney princess movie. I could grow to like this. It was like a little "The best of Liberty and JT" video playing constantly in my head.
Liberty had left about an hour ago to inform every one of my waking. I stayed here smiling like an idiot as nurses gave me strange looks when they came by. They probably thought I was a mental patient.
This seemed way too unreal though. Was I dreaming still? I pinched myself.
Nope.
Maybe it seemed so unreal because I was actually happy for a change. Correction: Insanely happy. I hadn't been truly happy since… well I guess since that summer. That summer literally changed my life. I became a true father that summer. I had got a girl pregnant in high school. I was the kind of guy everybody looked down on. But that summer… was officially the best time of my life. But during school, in my beat up car, after Liberty told me… from then on I just had this feeling in my stomach. I wasn't sure what it was. At first I thought it was maybe butterflies from the news. But it never went away. Not after the drugs, what I really thought would cure it. Not after the adoption, or even Mia. Mia made it worse actually. I had soon realized that it was Liberty. Not actually Liberty, but what I did to her. I blamed the pregnancy on me, and I couldn't live with myself. When I had started dating Mia, I thought I would forget about Liberty and everything would be fine. Thinking about it now made me realize how much more of an idiot I was. Forget about Liberty? Please. Dating Mia hurt Liberty worse. I hadn't known I was still mad at myself until that feeling in my stomach got worse every time I just saw Mia. It lightened when I saw or talked to Liberty. Why hadn't I realized? I guess I thought it was just a coincidence.
But today, the feeling went away. The moment I had kissed Liberty. The moment everything got better. My stomach stopped hurting… and started flipping.
Ah! Did you like it? I kinda like this one. I'm totally in love with the title.
I hope yall liked it!
Do you guys know what I was talking about with the notebook commercial? Well they always play the same commercial whenever they show the movie on ABC. And whats her face does this little cry when Noah says "I want all of you, forever." Go look it up.
So during JT's little… what would you call it? Love declaring speech. Ya. So during that, I didn't put any description. At first that was accident. But now I am saying it was on purpose because I want you to imagine how he was saying it.
So ya. Pretty darn proud of myself.
I think I MIGHT know where I am going with this story. But who knows, it will probably change in the next 5 minutes. But I can promise it will be long. Again sorry for the extremely late update!
Love yall :)
