It had been a month since Jessie caught Chris with another woman. She was still devastated over it. She really thought Chris was different from the other guys she'd dated but he turned out to be just like them. Over the last month Chris tried to talk to her. She refused to talk to him. He kept calling and calling her. She was thinking about changing her cell phone number. She'd been so stressed out about it. The only thing that took her mind off of it was performing for the crowd. Everyone had a few days off. Jessie was sitting in her living room. Her house phone started to ring. She let the machine get it incase it was Chris. Sure enough it was.
"Hi you've reached Jessie I'm not here." "Leave a message."
"Jessie please pick up." "Just talk to me for two seconds." "Let me explain." "Jessie, Jessie I love you." "We can work this out." "Please call me back." "Bye."
She started crying a little. Her cell phone started to ring. She checked the caller ID.
"Hi John." She said.
"What's wrong?"
"He just called on the house phone."
"If you'd let me take care of it he wouldn't bother you anymore."
"No." "I don't want you to go to jail."
"I'll just bail myself out."
"I appreciate it but no."
"Ok." "Don't let him make you cry." "He's not worth it."
"I know it just still hurts so much." "I feel like such a fool."
"You're not a fool, he is."
"I really thought that he loved me."
"I know that's how I felt when Liz was divorcing me." "I felt betrayed and hurt." "I know it doesn't seem like it now but it will get better."
"I'm just glad I have the job to distract me." "I really didn't wanna come home."
"Change your numbers."
"I'm thinking about it."
"Cheer up I hate seeing you so sad."
"I'll be ok in a few years."
"You'll be ok before that."
"Let's talk about you now."
"Ok."
"Are you still not dating?"
"Why are you so concerned with my love life?"
"Just curious."
"No there's still no one."
"What are you gonna do stay single for the rest of your life?"
"Is that what your gonna do?"
"Probably."
"Then maybe that's what I'll do to."
"No you don't deserve to be alone your whole life."
"Neither do you."
"Yes I do every relationship I have turns to shit."
"It's just bad luck."
"Yeah well if it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all."
"You have good luck."
"How do you figure?"
"Well you're friends with me that's good luck."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"How?"
"With me around you'll always know everything's ok."
"That's true." "It has been since college." "One of these times though, you won't be there to protect me."
"Yes I will."
"I'm gonna get off here and go to bed."
"It's only nine o' clock."
"I haven't been feeling good."
"What's wrong?"
"Just a fever."
"When did it start?"
"It's been coming and going for a couple weeks."
"Have you been to the doctor?"
"No I have some medicine it'll go away."
"You should at least see the company doctor."
"I'm fine." "I'll see you at work tomorrow."
"Ok bye." "Feel better."
"Thanks bye."
"Bye."
The next day Jessie was at the arena. She was very hungry. She got some food and sat down at a table.
"Jessie." She heard from behind her. She knew it was Chris. She stood up and went to walk away. He stepped in front of her.
"Move Chris."
"Please talk to me."
"No."
"I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry."
"I don't care leave me alone."
"Jessie I made a mistake."
"You cheated on me." "I loved you."
"I know I feel terrible." "Please give me one more chance."
"No Chris, it's over."
"Please, I love you please."
"No."
"Jessie is everything ok?" John asked walking up to her.
"Stay out of this John." Chris said.
"I'd like to see you try and make me."
"Don't tempt me."
"Chris just go." Jessie said.
"Ok." He walked away.
Jessie turned to John.
"Thanks." She said.
"No problem." "Wanna come to my locker room and hang out for awhile?"
"Sure."
They went to his locker room. They were sitting on the couch.
"I can't believe he tried to talk me into getting back with him." Jessie said.
"Can I be honest with you Jessie?"
"Sure."
"I think you could do so much better then him." "You're a great woman." "Anybody that would cheat on you is insane." Jessie laughed. "What?"
"What you just said seems familiar."
"Well it should you said that to me the night Liz broke up with me at college." Jessie smiled.
"You remember that?"
"Yeah I wasn't that drunk."
"Do you remember everything that happened?"
"You mean when we kissed?"
"Yeah." "I can't believe you remember." "Why did you kiss me that night?"
"I knew you liked me."
"Oh I get it, you did it out of pity."
"No."
"Why then?"
"I liked you to and I wanted to kiss you just once to see what it felt like."
"That's really sweet." "What might've been." "It's strange to think about it."
"Would ending up with me would've been so bad?"
"I don't know." "You know, never mind."
"What?"
"Nothing you'll laugh forget it."
"I swear I won't laugh." "What?"
"When we kissed that night, that was my first kiss."
"Really?"
"Yeah." She smiled. He smiled back. Slowly he came closer to her face. "Oh god." She ran to the bathroom and threw up. After a few minutes she was done. John was standing in the doorway.
"Jessie you need to see a doctor."
"I am next week I made an appointment."
"Good."
Sorry for the delay. My monitor broke and I just got a new one.
