… Well hey there! Look, I am so sorry that it's been forever since I last updated. I promise to try to update more frequently from now on. I know y'all have been waiting for a while, and I know that this is a short chapter; however, it really is a critical chapter. It introduces an obstacle that Jamie and Paul [may] overcome … Now, no more spoilers. On with the show. And don't forget: Read, love, review!
"I don't know, Mother… No, I don't know that either… All I know is I was at my hotel room in Seattle talking with Leonard. No, no she wasn't. Jamie was supposed to be out with a boy. No, Mother. He is a very nice boy. She was going out with him and meeting up with some of his friends… I don't know Mother. The doctor says that they're going to take her off the sedative in a few days. Right now, the left side of her body is so burnt from the fire that keeping her unconscious and unaware of the pain is protecting her. No, I don't know how she's going to deal with this.
"Yes, of course everyone knows. La Push is such a small town. Well, you remember it mother. Everyone already knew about the fire and Jamie probably before she even arrived at the hospital. No, I don't know how she's going to deal with all the whispers. She's already so shy and sensitive as it is. I don't know how she's going to deal with what those girls are going to say about her now. You know how judgmental the girls around here are. No, Mother, I was never that bad.
"This is going to crush her. It's just going to crush her. I guess that it's a good thing that she got accepted to Cambridge. Maybe getting out of the country would be a good thing for her," Jamie's mother murmured into her cell phone.
Wait! Jamie applied to a college in England? Like... the country? But she can't leave! I just imprinted on her!
Paul let out a strangled sound and Jamie's mother turned in his direction.
"Look mother. I have to go. Why? That boy that Jamie went out with just walked in. Okay bye Mother."
Jamie's mother turned around. "Hello Paul," she said tiredly. "So… How long have you been standing there?"
"She's moving to London?" He asked breathlessly.
"Cambridgeshire actually. And no. Nothing's definite. But she did apply. A few days before the fire, she got her acceptance letter." She looked at him with sympathy in her eyes. "I'm sorry sweetie."
Paul didn't say anything. He couldn't say anything. How could he when his soul mate was planning on moving to freaking England?!
"Is she planning on accepting?" He asked.
"What's keeping her here?" Jamie's mother dodged the question.
"That's not what I asked."
"I think she –"
"Ma'am," someone at the door cut her off.
Paul was wanted to kill the person who was interrupting their private conversation … until he saw who it was.
"We need to talk about Jamie," the doctor said.