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Ch. 10: Pain struck (Cindy's P.O.V)

I stayed in my room, crying my eyes out, when I heard my mother's voice from the other side of the door.

"Cindy, Libby is here." My mother said comforting, "Do you want me to send her up sweetheart?"

"Yes mom." I muttered from my pillow. I had told my mom everything that had happened as soon as I had burst into the door. She had been completely understanding, but when I brought up how Jimmy knew, she actually defended him. What the hell happened? Why was my mom defending him? Wait. Did she want me to be with Jimmy? I thought to myself. She probably thought the boy genius she wanted me to destroy was now the best guy in Retroville for me. I mean my mom had stopped bashing Jimmy when I started dating Nick. It was like my mom could tell he wasn't good enough for me. While I started to question my mother's motives, Libby had already entered my room and sat on her favorite chair.

"Ok girl, what are you so deep in thought about and why the hell did you do that to Jimmy?" She asked me angrily.

"Libs, first Jimmy should of at least had the decency of telling me and second I'm shocked that my mom is not bashing Jimmy anymore, even after this." I replied as I put my chin into my pillow.

"Wait, your mom hasn't said anything bad about Jimmy? Not even once?" Libby asked incredulously.

"Yessss….ever since I had started dating Nick. She stopped bashing him. I mean hell she even uses his first name when she asks about him." I muttered to my best friend.

"Why didn't you take that as a hint that something was up with him, girl?" Libby asked immediately.

"I don't know. I wasn't thinking about it at the time. But I'm so stupid to have trusted and been attracted to either of those jerks, Libs." I cried out to my best friend.

"Jimmy isn't a jerk girl. Tell me would you have believed him if he had told you before he left, honestly?" She asked me, those big brown eyes staring straight at me.

"Well….I don't know. Ok." I muttered as tears flowed from eyes like a cascading waterfall. In my mind and my heart, I knew I wouldn't have been able to believe Jimmy even if he told me. At the time, I had been really cruel and mean to him (insufferable if you will). If he came to me with this, I probably would have hit him in the face, thinking it was some retaliatory remark for the pain I was causing him.

I sighed and looked at my best friend. Without even having to say anything, Libby began to speak.

"Cin, you really need to apologize to him. You really hurt him. What you said really broke his heart. He was so close to crying when you left, but I was able to calm him down."

My eyes watered when she told me he wanted to cry. What have I done? I never meant to hurt Jimmy. I can't believe I could be this cold-hearted and do this to him.

"Libby, do you think Jimmy will forgive me?" I whispered, holding back my tears.

"Of course, Cin," Libby replied, "Jimmy loves…." She was cut off by Sheen's ringtone.

Libby looked apologetically at me and I smiled and said, "You should answer that girl."

She smiled and answered her phone.

"Hey Sheen. Why yes I'm at Cindy's. You're outside." She said while dragging me out of bed leading me to the window. Sheen was outside in front of Jimmy's house as they were getting out of the hover car. He was wearing an Under Armour t-shirt, which I figured meant they must have just got back from tryouts. Jimmy got off the hover car and I could tell he was feeling extremely dejected. I can't believe I hurt him so much. He looked up towards my room and I swear I saw him sigh as he headed into his house.

"Oh my god, Sheen. That's wonderful!" Libby screamed, awakening me from my trance. "So you and Jimmy are the first freshmen to play your respective positions on varsity in Retroville High history."

I smiled when I heard the news because Jimmy definitely deserved this honor. He worked his butt off and it couldn't have happened to a better person.

"You can bet I'll be there every game, love. I'll talk to you later. Bye Sheen." Libby hung up and looked at me.

"So girl, what do you think?" She asked.

"I need to apologize to him before it is too late." I replied, looking at my best friend. Libby looked back at me and nodded in agreement. We watched the guys throwing a football around for a while; seeing Sheen getting hit in the head after he was too busy making kissy faces at Libby was hilarious and momentarily snapped me out of my depression. A couple of hours had passed as we turned from watching the guys to having a marathon of Gossip Girl and eating strawberry ice cream. It was around 9:30 when Libby left my house. When she left, I started to think about my apology to Jimmy. My mind was drawing a blank, so I decided to take a shower. When I returned to my room, I looked up at the house across the street to see him at his desk (like myself) with his hands covering his face. I was so tempted to call him, text him, Facebook him, or anything for that matter and tell him how sorry I am, but I didn't know what to say. My body froze where it was and my voice was as quiet as the wind. When I finally looked up, the light in his room was off signaling him already going to bed. So without thinking, I turned my light off and whispered to myself, "Goodnight Jimmy."