JAM just gets harder to write. Sigh.
Disclaimer: Yeah. Because I own The Office.
"We'll see. I'm sure you guys will... find your way back to one another someday."
Pam blinked, trying to steel herself from the memory. How could he even say something like that? As if he knew.
It was getting harder and harder to remember why she fell in love with Jim Halpert, why she left everything, why she spent so many nights thinking of him instead of doing something useful, like she was now.
Packing her box with the few things that sat on her desk, she sighed. Why was she even packing? Most of this stuff could just be thrown away. It was the same stuff you found in a junk drawer at home.
But one thing would stay here.
"You can keep this. I won't need it."
That's what the note said, when she'd set it on his desk and put the jellybean dispenser on top of it. He'd remember her like this, sentimental, sweet, a plain girl from Scranton. The girl he didn't have to save anymore.
She wasn't sure how the city would change her. For better, or for worse. But she needed to leave here of she wouldn't be able to breathe, be able to sleep.
Be able to live.
She'd come here early enough so she wouldn't have to run into him. Told Jan that if they could keep her leaving a secret, then Michael couldn't make a big deal out of her leaving. Because he no doubt would.
But he was still there, when she was walking to her car.
"You're going." He seems a little dazed, a little confused, and she wants to smack him. Yeah, she's leaving without telling him about it. How does it feel?
"Yeah, I'm going." She doesn't know what he's going to say or what she should say, so she goes with what is customary when people leave. "Bye."
"No," he says quickly, grabbing her arm and looking like he might cry. She doesn't want him to cry. She's only seen him cry once.
"I'm evolving," she says in a mean voice, the words sounding sour on her tongue. His mouth drops a bit, like he can't even believe she's throwing those words back in his face.
"Pam," he pleads.
She drops the box.
And kisses him.
Maybe it's the fact that she instigated the kiss, maybe it's the fact that he joins in, maybe it's the fact that it feels right.
Pam isn't sure.
But she keeps kissing him.
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