Ta-Da
"Should someone go after her?" Dougie spoke up. Shortly after Jackie left, Danny had stormed from the room slamming his bedroom door shut.
"No, she wants to be alone," Megg gave him a weak smile before continuing, "she will be ok. I know where she is going." Tom, Dougie, Becky, and Harry stared at her not believing that she would know that.
"Would you care to enlighten us?" Becky asked for everyone.
"Not really."
The five of them fell into silence; Tom broke it a few minutes later, "Should we talk to Dan?"
"Let's wait until morning. Then he will be sober, that and right now I just want to…" Harry made strangling motions with his hands. The others agreed before heading off to bed, they would wait until morning to tell Danny how much of an idiot he was being…something he really needs to know.
The next morning, Harry, Dougie, and Tom sat in the kitchen waiting for Danny to come down. Becky had gone home and Megg had left in order to get back to her dorm before Jackie.
"Danny! Can you come in here!" Tom called when he heard foot steps coming down the stairs. A couple of seconds later Danny appeared in the doorway.
"Take a seat," Tom motioned to an empty chair across the table next to himself but across from Harry and Dougie.
"What's going on?" He asked cautiously sitting down.
Harry folded his hands on the table, "Jackie."
"What about her?' Danny crosses his arms across his chest in defense.
"You called her a whore!" Harry had no problem yelling this at his friend.
Danny shrugged, "How else do you explain it."
"Where do you want me to start," Harry challenged him.
"How about you start with you."
"Well for one thing it was six years ago," Harry leaned across the table. "For another I have a girlfriend and I just see Jackie as a friend, nothing more. I've known her for ever. We lived down the road from each other, we grew up together, or course there is going to be a connection of sorts between us."
Danny seemed happy with his answer because the next thing he said was, "Sam?"
"Sam is thirty," Tom began.
"What's your point?"
"He is thirty, married, and has two kids. Jackie met him at college; they have many of their art classes together."
Danny was going him a blank look, "What about…"
"She baby sits his kids," Tom finished.
"How do you know?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow.
"We asked Megg after you went to bed," Tom answered with a shrug.
"What about Matt? They were all over each other last night." Danny wanted to hear them try to explain this one and by the looks on Tom and Harry's faces, they had nothing to say.
Dougie smiled, "Matt's gay." The other three looked at him in shock. "What? They told me last weekend when I met him. And the club last night, it's a girl thing. They go to gay bars and such because they can dance and have fun with out getting hit on. Jackie is comfortable with Matt, she can have a good time and not worry about him trying to take her home at the end of the night." The other three stared at him, wondering where he had gotten all of this from.
"I'm going to go take a shower…" Danny said slowly. He stood up from the table and made his way back up stairs and toward the bathroom while thinking about how much of an ass he had been.
Jackie waved down the first cab that she saw and gave the driver the address. The driver grunted in acknowledgement and drove off. Jackie leaned her head against the window and closed her eyes. She though that Danny was different from other guys. She thought that they could take to each other and the fact that he had not come to her about this before made her upset. She was confused as to why he would think that she would treat him like that.
The cab came to a stop and Jackie passed her money to the driver before getting out. She looked up at the house. The brick exterior towered menacingly above her, reminding her why she hated coming here. Taking a deep breathe of cold air she started up the stone walk way. In front of her stood a thick wooden door; her hand froze inches away from the doorbell. Taking another deep breathe she pressed the little glowing button, hopping that someone would still be awake. Then she waited, she was just about to give up and leave when she heard the door being unlocked. As the door opened she saw was greeted by the familiar face of a much older man with thinning white hair.
"Jackie?" he sounded surprised to see her standing on his front steps.
"Hi Grandpa." As much as she hated her grandmother, she loved her grandfather. The two of them were exact opposites, when old Mrs. Fisher would comment on Jackie's love life, he would laugh at Jackie's attempts to get around his wife's 'suggestions' as she called them.
"I think I have just what you need," he ushered her into the house with no questions asked. That was another thing she liked about him, she did not have to explain how Danny's words had driven her to her grandparents' front door.
Thanks for the reviews, they keep my sane when the people in the next room over wont stop playing the same song over and over and over and over... blame them if this chapter wasn't so good.
