Chapter 9: Rejection
Setting:
the next morning
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Zack
woke up late the next morning, alone. He was slightly worried, thinking that
something happened to Jessica. He
frowned, remembering Jessica's mysterious behavior from the day before. He
remembered thinking that she was hiding something from him. His suspicions were
confirmed when he got up and out of bed, and found that Jessica hadn't left a
note. Zack sat down on the couch, deeply
in thought. He couldn't believe that after all this time, all those times that
he and Jess promised each other to always be honest, that she was hiding
something from him. 'Of course,' he reasoned with himself, 'he could be wrong
about this.' 'But,' a deep voice in the back of his mind argued, 'your
instincts have never been wrong.' Glancing briefly at the clock, Zack knew that
he would have to have a talk with Jessica whenever it was that she actually
came back.
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The
first thing Jessica saw when she got home was Zack sitting on the couch. And,
well, believe it or not, but, he was glaring at her. Jessica sat down next to him on the couch,
putting the sweetest expression on her face that she could muster. "Zack,
what's wrong??" Zack glared at her for a moment, before answering with, "I
don't know Jess, I guess I just get a feeling, that you're hiding something
from me." Jessica turned cold inside.
'Does he know, did he guess??' Jessica nearly screamed to herself inside her
head, her thoughts in turmoil. She
raised her head to look Zack in the eye, her eyes as cold as
the
pangs of regret her gut was sending her, she continued with, " you know, that's
why I think we shouldn't see each other anymore." Zack looked like Jessica slapped him in the
face. "What??!!" "Jess, what the hell brought this up??" Jessica shrugged, "like I said before, we're
just too different, it wouldn't work." Jessica got up from the couch, not
taking notice that Zack was following her. He followed her into the kitchen before,
catching by the elbow and spinning her around to face him. "What's that
supposed to mean??" He demanded, scared that Jessica might say the very thing
he was afraid of her saying. "It means, I don't love you anymore, Zack, we're
through." Zack nearly collapsed on the floor, following Jessica's
heart-wrenching revelation. "No, Jess,
God no." He pleaded, "you don't mean that." Jess smirked, in spite of the
agonizing pain that she was feeling. "I do mean that, goodbye Zack."
Jessica
walked away, leaving Zack too heartbroken to answer.
tbc……………