She figured she better just go out and have a good time. Riddick was trying to pretend she hadn't said what she said. She could take a hint, he didn't want her but he didn't want to lose her as a friend. "I guess that's better than nothing," she thought. She found her new clothes on the bed, they were perfect. It was funny to picture Riddick is some women store picking out clothes for her but she thought it was sweet just the same. She, unlike Riddick, spent all of her extra cash (what little she had) on clothes. Her side of the closet took up about 85 of the space and Riddick never complained, even when he opened the closet door and shoes fell out. She got dressed and walked out of the bedroom.
Riddick was sitting on the couch waiting for her but got up as soon as he heard her coming. "Thanks for the clothes, they're beautiful and I had a pair of shoes that matched perfectly." Riddick always thought that Jack was beautiful but the outfit made her look gorgeous. "This is going to be easier than I thought, what guy wouldn't want to spend the rest of his life with someone so perfect," Riddick told himself. "Jack I have something to tell you, well ask you, before we go." "Please don't bring up what I said before, I can't take any more humiliation," Jack pleaded on the inside.
"I think I know what you were trying to say before and I think I know why you ran away. You were afraid I was going to reject you. So I have decided that since I am the man I will take the chance. Hopefully I didn't misunderstand you again because then I will be the one rejected. But I figure better me than you. I have had a lot more experience in being rejected, not by women but just in general."
He was rambling and he knew it. He was usually such a quiet person, Jack was really the only person he ever had long conversations with but even to her he was rambling. It finally clicked inside her head what he was going to do, she felt relived but at the same time sad that she didn't have the courage or enough trust to be able to say what she wanted to say.