CH 10- CAFÉ RUN-INS AND OLD FRIENDS-Jen's pov
I was sitting at a café me and Jackie use to go to waiting for my publisher. I am actually surprised that I came back to my home after so long, and got on the chatroom to find Jackie doing well with Nick. I feel sorry for Kevin though, and I feel so bad for not connecting with them sooner but no one has been in the chatroom and I tried to call home but my whole family moved, probably too sad about my 'death' to live there anymore. I didn't know where anyone was living anymore.
I looked around for my publisher then got up and went to get a drink from the counter. I looked to the door as it opened hoping for my publisher, but it was a group of 27 or 28 year olds. None of them looked familiar. As I got to the counter, two of them got behind me.
"What can I get for you today, miss?"
I wondered if they still have my favorite, "Do you still have a Shamrock smoothie?"
"We do. How many do you want?"
"One please."
"No problem."
I got my smoothie and sat back down waiting for my publisher. I decided to go back on the chatroom, and saw that no one was on. Great maybe I am getting on at the wrong time. I shut down my internet and opened my story just as Maria, my publisher came.
"Hello Maria."
"Hello Jen. Are you ready for us to go over your book?"
"Yes I am."
"Well it was very interesting. I love how it is like a children's book, like it is gentle. But it also could hit home with teens and adults. I showed it to my 5 and 13 year old daughters, and afterward they wouldn't stop saying how much they love it."
"Thank you, Maria."
"I also talked to my co-workers and we all think it would be a nice movie. What do you think about that?"
"Could I call you about it on a later date? I need time to think it over."
"Sure. Well that is all I wanted to meet up for. I have another engagement to get to, so I bid you good-bye Jen."
"I also bid you good-bye, Maria."
As Maria walked away, the waiter came up to me.
"I haven't seen you around here lately, Jen."
"Wow you look good John. How have you been?"
"Great. And you?"
"I have been great too."
"May I ask why you're not with your sister? And who that woman you were talking to was?"
"First, I don't know where my sister is right now. Second is that I was just talking to my publisher, she wants to make a book I wrote into a movie."
"That is great news. Take lunch on me for that."
"No I possibly can't do that."
"You must. It is on me. And if you don't, I'll fear you don't like me."
"Come on John, you're like my brother."
"Yeah is that why I recognized you and your sister didn't?"
"What do you mean? Jackie isn't here, is she?"
"Yes she is. She is right over there," He said pointing at the group that came in when I went to the counter.
"Jackie, can you come here please?"
"Sure John," at that statement the guy with blonde hair, I'm guessing Nick, glared at John.
"What's up, John?"
John pointed at me, "Recognize her?"
"Not really no. Should I?"
"John what is the world coming to when people recognize their friends that are like family but their real family don't recognize them at all," I asked, not expecting a answer from him, but just so I could see the look on Jackie's face, "Hey Jackie."
"Jen, is that you?"
"Finally you get it."
"I'll leave you two alone."
"Bye John."
I got up and hugged Jackie, and she hugged back weirdly. I don't blame her through, last time she saw me I was dead.
"It's like seeing a ghost, isn't it?"
"Yeah, it is. I thought you were meeting with a publisher."
"Yeah, I already met with her."
"So you wrote a book finally?"
"I wrote a book about six years ago."
"Really, But wouldn't you have meet with her then, unless you wrote another one."
"I did meet with her then, and I didn't write another one. She said her co-workers agree on making it a movie, because about all of the 1 billion people who read it were moved."
"That is awesome, Jen. I am so proud of you. So I got a question?"
"Okay, shoot."
"Why didn't you try to contact us?"
"Oh boy, I knew this was going to come up. I actually did try, I tried to call home but no one picked up, tried cells but they were disconnected, and I even tried the chatroom too, but no one has been on until today."
"Yeah, sorry about all that, we all moved and I went traveling with raven and the boys. We actually just got back here."
"Wow. Well I got out of my coma four years ago and started to write a book, finished it in the same year, and traveled signing autographs for it, so I just got back here too."
Just then two guys from the group Jackie was with came up. I guessed Nick because of his hair, and Kevin because of his eyes. I blushed looking at the table.
"Hey are you coming back over with us Jackie?"
"I'll be over in a second, Nick."
"Ok, Jackie," After that, Nick walked back, but Kevin sat down.
I looked up surprised, making eye contact with Kevin. I certainly knew it was him now. I was surprised to see surprise in his eyes.
"Hello Kevin, how have you been?"
Jackie walked over to nick at that point.
"You knew it was me?"
"Not until we made eye contact."
"Same here, you might have changed but your eyes will always be hazel."
"And your eyes will always be brown."
"So how have you been?"
"Uh-huh, not answering that."
"Why are you not answering it, Jen?"
"Because I asked you how you have been first."
"That is because I avoided it," I gave him a glare,"Fine, I have been miserable."
"Why have you been miserable Kevin?"
"How do you not except me to when I missed you so much?"
"You missed me that is sweet."
I had to laugh at his face, then when he looked at me mad. I got up and kissed his lips, and he smiled into my lips.
"Why are you smiling?"
"I have been wishing that I could kiss you for ten years, and now you are here kissing me."
"Ironic isn't it? I wished for the same thing."