Hi people! Sorry I didn't update the next day but I was busy planning a party!! Yay!!neway, I want to let you all know, I screwed up and wrote that Winnie and Jesse were at the New York airport in the last chapter, they weren't, they're in Ohio. (go OSU and OU)
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At the same time Winnie was thinking I can't let him see me cry, over and over again in her head Jesse was having trouble thinking anything at all, it was like thousands of thoughts trying to get through the doorway of his mind at the same time.
But when she turned and walked away they all slipped through, stunning him for a few more precious minutes until he got them all sorted out.
It was like soccer moms on a Saturday when Kohls had a sale, all trying to rush in and out then get out of the parking lot to go get their kids. He couldn't think straight, so finally he went with the one thought that did come through the haze, "I can't lose her again."
Jesse ran the hardest he had in his life, hoping that his minutes of confusion had not let Winnie get away. He hoped with his whole being that she had not reached her car.
Then he saw her, she had reached her car, just. She was getting in and had just shut her door when he reached her.
"Winnie! I thought I'd lost you! How are you here? Why aren't you…" he couldn't bring himself to say it. He beat his fist on the window wondering why she wouldn't look at him. She was gazing straight out the front window. Then, Jesse watched a single tear roll down her beautiful face and it nearly broke his unbeating heart.
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Winnie sat in the car as Jesse tried to get her to talk to him. Yelling through the window's inch-wide crack and pounding on the window. She felt the tear roll down her cheek. But, that was all she would let him see. She shoved her key in the ignition and punched the gas pedal, leaving a stunned and devastated Jesse standing in the parking lot behind her.
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Jesse watched her little red sports car drive away. Is this what she felt like when she watched us ride away in our wagon? He thought to himself. If it was then he felt horribly that she had ever had to go through that.
He didn't have long to dwell on his feelings of sorrow before the questions overtook him again. Why was she still alive? Jesse and his family had gone back to Treegap many times in the last 227 years. Every time had been the same, they went back to Winnie's old house, then to the cemetery, hoping to find something different. That the last visit had just been a dream, but it wasn't, everytime they saw Winnie's tombstone, formally engraved: Winnifred Alma Foster
1708-1798
Beloved Wife and Mother who will be missed by all.
But, if she was alive, and she was in Ohio maybe she was going back to McArthur! Maybe he would be able to find her after all. He spun quickly and ran back to the airport to get Miles. They were going to find Winnie, now that Jesse knew she was alive he would never stop chasing her!
