Hey! It's Dia! Here's the tenth chapter of Loveless! I hope you enjoy!

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Loveless

Chapter 10

Jack's POV

"Is something wrong Celia?" I asked.

"I'm just a little tired…."

Then she fell asleep on my shoulder.

'Doesn't this feel nice?'

'Well uh, um…'

'It does and you know it!'

'N-no! Stop saying things to me!'

'Put your arm around her.'

'Excuse me?'

'I said—'

'I heard what you said. But, why should I?'

' Cause uh… she's cold! And you have to keep her warm!'

'It's summer.'

'Just do it!'

My arm suddenly jerked up and went around her shoulders. What made it do that?

I didn't want to move her while she was sleeping. She had a hard time with Victor, so I understand. I wanted to go somewhere else though, because if anyone came and saw us, then that would be a problem. I sat there for a while with Celia still sleeping on my shoulder. The sky was getting dark so we had to leave soon.

I gently shook her. "Wake up Celia."

Her eyes slowly opened. She looked very beautiful when she was doing that. Wait. What?

"Is that you Jack? What are we doing here?"

"We were talking but then you fell asleep."

She looked around and then she looked at me and saw that she was leaning on my shoulder. Oh, and I still had my arm around her.

She suddenly got out of my grasp and her face turned red. A part of me felt sad that she wasn't leaning on me anymore, but another part of me felt relieved that we wouldn't be caught in an embarrassing situation.

"I-I'm sorry! I d-didn't mean to fall asleep on y-y-you!" She was stuttering very badly.

"It's okay, I don't mind." I smiled at her. "You were probably tired from that incident that happened earlier."

"Oh. W-well I'm still sorry."

I chuckled. "Well, we still need to get home, Vesta and Marlin (AKA: freak) are probably worried about you."

"Yeah, you're right."

"I'll walk you home Celia."

"Thanks."

We walked together in silence. I didn't really like it, so I decided to start a conversation.

"We've been spending a lot of time lately haven't we?" I asked.

"Yeah. Why do you ask? You don't want to spend time with me?"

"No! It's not that! It's.."

'It's that I'm starting to feel strange around you for some reason.'

"It's what Jack?" She asked with a curious look on her face.

"It's that I'm just glad to spend time with you. That's all."

"Oh. Well I'm glad to spend time with you too." She had this beautiful smile on her face. Why am I saying such weird things!?

When we got to Vesta's door, Celia said goodbye to me and went into her house.

'What is this weird feeling I have when I'm around Celia? I've never felt this way about Muffy before. What is it?'

Celia's POV

I can't marry Victor, because I'm already in love with Jack. If father would've just gave me a little more time then maybe Jack would grow to love me too. But even if Jack did fall in love with me father wouldn't care; all he wants is money. Mother would agree with me, but she's been sick lately. Father wouldn't even let me talk to her on the phone!

"Why is my life so complicated?" I fell back on the bed.

'I need to get my rest; I'll try to sort some of this out tomorrow.'

And I went to sleep for the second time that day.

"Celia."

"Who's there?"

"Celia, it's me."

A beautiful woman in a flowing white dress was floating in the sky. It looked like I was in some kind of meadow.

"M-mother?"

"Yes Celia. It's me."

"What are you doing here?"

"I just wanted to tell you to be careful."

"Why?"

" You will have many ordeals in the future."

"How will I get through them?"

"All you have to do is believe what your heart tells you. You'll be fine if you do that."

"But why are you telling me this Mother?"

A smile appeared on her face and she disappeared .

"Mother? Mother!"

"MOTHER!" I looked around and I wasn't in the meadow anymore. I was in my room and it was morning.

'What was that dream about? Was it foretelling a future event?'

A voice interrupted my thoughts. "Celia! Time for breakfast!"

"Coming!" I'll just have to think about that later.

We all ate breakfast in silence like we usually do. But then Vesta asked,

"How did the meeting with Victor go?" I thought this was coming sooner or later.

"It was fine. He's nice." I lied. I didn't want Vesta worrying about me.

"Really? Well, that's great to hear Celia!" Vesta said.

knock knock

"I'll go get it!" I went to the door and saw Nami.

"Hi Nami, what do you need?"

"There's a phone call for you at the Inn."

"Well, I'll be right there." I went to Vesta and told her that I had to go.

"Okay Celia. Go on, but I need you to come back!"

I walked to the Inn and saw Jack walking out of his farm.

"Hey Celia! Want to do something?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, but it has to be later because I have a phone call."

"Oh, well okay then."

"Sorry!" After I said that, I walked into the Inn.

I picked up the phone and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Celia, it's me."

"What do you need father?" He sounded heartbroken.

"Your mother, she-"

"What happened to mother?" I was starting to get worried now.

"S-she died from h-her illness."

"N-no. You're lying! She didn't! She didn't!"

"C-Celia, it's true. She did. I can't believe it either! The woman I truly loved died right in front of me! I wouldn't lie about that!"

"Father, I have to go now." Tears were starting to fall.

I ran out of the Inn as fast as I could. Since people are at the Goddess Pond, I decided to go to the beach. I heard Jack call for me.

"Celia! What's wrong?"

But I didn't answer. I just kept running. When I got to the beach I fell to the ground. I didn't even try to get up. I couldn't move.

'Mother. Why did she have to die? She did nothing wrong. They took her away from me. Tell me Goddess, why didn't you help her? Why did she have to get sick? Is the Goddess even real? Why do I believe in something that's not real?'

"Celia! What happened?" That was Jack's voice.

I still didn't get up. I couldn't even look at him.

He crouched down and put me up in a sitting position.

"Tell me Celia. Tell me what's wrong."

I couldn't keep it in. I had to tell someone. "M-my mother, s-s-she…"

"Yes?"

"She died! My mother died! I can't believe it!" I just had to let it out.

He hugged me close to him. "There, there. I'm here. You can talk to me. I've been through this before." He stroked me gently on my back.

"Y-you have?"

"Yeah. The reason I moved here is because my father died and I took over his farm."

"I bet you didn't c-cry like me." I said in a regretful tone.

"No, I did cry. So it's okay, you can let it all out."

He didn't have to tell me twice. I cried into his chest while he was holding me tightly. I let all of my feelings out. I just can't believe that Mom would die during one of the hardest times in my life. Every time I had a problem I would ask her for advice; I would always go to her. I can't do that anymore.

After a while I stopped crying. I felt a little better because Jack helped me. If it wasn't for him I probably would've felt worse.

"You can let me go now." I told him.

"Okay, but are you alright?"

"Yeah. I'm fine, thanks to you."

He turned his head so I couldn't see his face. "No problem."

"Okay. I guess I should get home. Vesta needed me to come back."

"Well, see ya." He still had his head turned away.

"Okay, bye." And with that, I left.

I looked back at the beach and he was still sitting there. It looked like he was thinking about something.

'I hope he's okay. He looks sad.'

That dream I had, did it mean something? Was that mother's last message to me? What does all of this mean?

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