Chapter 9….

Molly was waiting for carly to get back after she stormed off when her cousin walked back into the house;"What are you still doing here?"

"I wanted to wait for you and explain that jack didn't show up here this morning because I told him to."answered molly;"He came because he loves you and wanted to be with you even if you guys are having some problems right now."

"I love him too and miss him too,moll,it's not like I'm enjoying this or something."sighed her cousin;"I just don't know how to get passed what happened and I don't think jack does either."

"You guys won't be able to fix things if you keep avoiding eachother."warned she her cousin;"Why don't you just call him up and ask him to come over."

"What good would that do?"asked carly with a faint smile;"Jack has enough on his mind right now and I don't want him to come for the wrong reason."

"What would be the right reason?"began her cousin hesitating;"What would jack need to do to make things right with you again,carly,to fix things between you two?"

"What happened wasn't all jack's fault and the things that I have done are part of the reason why things between us got so screwed up."answered she tired;"I always try to do the right thing and trust jack enough to be honest with him,but each time I end up screwing things up again."

"It runs in the family."smiled molly as she put her arm around carly;"Hey,jack loves you even if you do sometimes screw up and he's not mr. perfect either."

"I know and I love him too,molly,so why can't I just trust him to tell him the truth instead of lying to him and taking matters into my own hands?"asked her cousin and began to cry;"It was suppose to be forever this time."

"It's be okay,sweetie,you guys will work things out again."said she,holding carly tightly as she cried;"Maybe you guys just need some counseling or something to really deal with those issues."

"Maybe."answered carly and quickly wiped away her tears when there was a knock on the door and she could see it was jack through the glass;"What is he doing here?"

"What do you think?"laughed her cousin as she quickly went to open up the door before carly had a chance to do it;"Hey,jack."

"Hi."said he looking a bit uncomfortable while he came into the house and looked at carly;"I came to see if you were okay."

"No,carly isn't okay and she needs you,so sit down and stay with her while I go home to my husband."smiled molly,ignoring the angry look her cousin was giving her,and walked out the door;"Behave yourself,kids."

"Sorry about that."started her cousin blushing as she turned her head away so that jack couldn't see that she'd been crying;"Don't listen to her,jack,I'm fine and you don't need to worry about me."

"No,you're not fine and molly's right,so I'm not gonna let you send me away this time."answered jack worried while he sat down next to carly and made her look at him;"I'm staying right here."

At al's janet was having lunch with liberty when dusty walked in,so liberty quickly got up;"Look,mom,I just remembered I have to be somewhere in ten minutes."

"And you suddenly realize that now?"asked she irritated as dusty walked up to their table and looked at her daughter;"I don't like being set up!"

"I didn't set you up and I really do have to be somewhere."smiled liberty and walked away;"Hi,dusty,bye mom."

"Liberty!"called her mother on after her;"Get back here,young lady."

"Hi,janet."said dusty while he sat down;"I'm glad that I ran into you again."

"Don't start again,dusty,I'm not in the mood."answered janet annoyed and got up;"There's nothing that you can say that will make me forget what you did."