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Chapter 6

I'd never felt safer in all of my life until I felt myself in Jack's arms. He was so big and so strong, but he was so gentle and careful with me.

We walked back to the LH hand in hand, swinging them back in forth as we walked across the cobblestone roads.

A raw nerve was struck in my brain as we neared the LH and I saw Sarah waiting for Jack outside of the big oak doors. She waited with two boys, one around our age and one who couldn't be any older then seven.

The smile faded from Jack's face as we neared our home and I felt his hands slowly slipping away from mine.

"Jackie!" Sarah yelped from across the circle as she broke into a run to meet him.

Looking back at me hesitantly, he broke into a quicker walk to meet Sarah in the middle. He looked at her blankly as she wrapped her arms around his torso moving them all around his back and arms. "Say that you love me Jackie," she said when her hands finally had reached his head and lingered in his blonde hair.

Not to offend her he put his hands around her hips and slowly pushed her away. "I don't think I can do that Sarah…I did love you, at some point or another," he said with a shaky voice, "but I don't think I do anymore."

Her eyes opened as wide as they could get and her mouth dropped to the ground as she literally just stood there with nothing but the look of amazment on her face… as if those fateful words hadn't registered in her mind quite yet.

He gently cupped her head in his hands and kissed her on the cheek, then grabbed my hand and we walked into the LH together. Every so often he would just bend his neck down and kiss my cheek in the sweetest way, for no reason other then that he felt like it.

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I climbed into bed with him that night, not because I wanted this to be a night of firsts but because I needed to feel those arms around me.

"Bailey," Jack whispered into my ear while he stroked my hair, "where are you from?"

"Brooklyn," I whispered back to him, "why?"

He then pulled me in closer to him and kissed me. He kissed me good long and hard, just like he had kissed Sarah the day before. His hands roamed my backside and mine dwelled on his face and hair.

He then pulled away from me and put his soft lips to my ear, "I love you Bailey," he whispered.

As if I had just been shocked I jerked up suddenly, leaving the safety and warmth of Jack's arms.

"What did you just say?" I asked him, tears emerging from the darkness with my back turned to him.

He sat up, puzzled at why I had just ruined our perfect moment. He then tilted his head and kissed my cheek from behind, his lips so supple and soft. "I love you," he whispered to me again.

These words gave me the chills, as if they had come from a bad dream. They haunted me in that instant until I stood up from the bed and walked out of the room. I sat on the stairs collecting my thoughts, wondering why those words had affected me in such a way.

If that was the first time anyone had ever told me they loved me, then why did it sound so familiar? What was it about those three small words that frightened me so much?

Why was I afraid to return Jack's love?

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