Letting Go part 2
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Author's note - Ok, thanks for the reviews. I decided to make it quick and update ASAP. This is just a fun little fun fic. It will eventually become Jake/Penny, just give it time. Umm, well, read, review, and have fun. Now on with it.
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Disclaimer - hey, I don't own anything, this is just for my personal enjoyment. I do own Kris, Jess, and Geoff's/the coffee place.
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Giving Him Up
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Jake's Office
Dylan closed the door and walked to his desk.
Dylan - hey, we need to talk
Jake - about what exactly?
Dylan - about yesterday.
Jake - well, what about yesterday?
Dylan - you know what I mean, you said everything was fine, and obviously today it isn't.
Jake - yes, yes it is, I'm fine, perfectly perfect.
Dylan - Jake, I may not know you that well, but I know something is wrong. Why won't you talk about it with me, but you will with Penny?
Jake - Because, I can easily talk to Penny, it just comes naturally for me. Plus you're always to busy with Gavin to have a nice little conversation with me.
Dylan - Ugh, Jake, I'm never too busy to talk to anybody.
Jake - Umm, yes you are.
Dylan - Name one time.
Jake - That's not important, its just you've never wanted to talk to me before, why do you all of a sudden want to start now?
Dylan - Jake, I'm just worried about you, even more now, you've never been one to question me like that.
Jake - Well, maybe you don't know me as well as you thought.
Dylan - Whatever, let me know when you've cooled down so we can have a decent conversation
With that, she walks out the door. She walks over to Penny's desk.
Dylan - You try to reason with him, I can't get across to him.
Penny - You're probably going at it all wrong, you can't get mad at him, and he is easily frustrated. Here, lets both go in and talk to him, ok?
Dylan - Alright, Fine, it won't work though.
Penny - Oh, don't worry, it will.
Penny starts to think to herself 'Why on earth am I helping her, I honestly can't stand to be around her' She tried Jake's door, but it was locked. She grabbed out her key and then she and Dylan walked on in.
Jake - How'd you get in here?
Penny - Same way I got in early, *takes out her key* I made a spare key.
Jake - Alright, so what brings you to in here civilly?
Penny - Well, Dylan really wants to talk to you about earlier, and I'm just here to make sure she doesn't screw it up. Now go ahead Dylan.
Dylan - OK, Jake, last night, I didn't mean to tell you that you need to move out of my place, I was just angry. I really could use a roommate like you.
Penny's thoughts - Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have made friends with her, it all just came back exploding in my face.
Dylan - So, do you wanna live with me?
Jake - Umm, well, since my stuff is already there, sure why not.
Dylan - Great.
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After that Penny just left. She walked to her desk got everything she needed, and just left the building, not bothering to look back. It wasn't like anyone would notice her missing it would take a while, considering someone would notice all the dry sarcasm missing from the office place. She just started walking, she didn't pay attention to where she was going, just kept walking.
After sometime walking, she ended up in front of the coffee house she used to hang out at all the time. It had changed its name from Geoff's to simply, The Coffee Place. She walked inside and looked around. Besides the name, not much had changed. Sure things had been moved around a bit, but it was still pretty much the same. She went and sat on the love seat that was in the corner.
All of a sudden her old friend Jess came strolling in. Penny was surprised, yet wasn't ready to face her old friends, she had left them over 2 years ago and never contacted any of them afterwards. 'Sh*t, Sh*t, what am I gonna do?'
Jess - *just so there's no confusion, Jess is a guy, and Kris is a girl* Oh My God, Penny, Is that you?
Penny - Umm, ya, it is me, SURPRISE?
Jess - Oh My God, I haven't seen you since you left. How come you haven't called or anything?
Penny - Don't ask me, cuz I really don't know.
Jess - Oh, ok, well, hey, Kris is gonna be here any minute, we were just planning on catching a movie. Do you wanna come?
Penny - Well, If Kris is ok with it then sure. Are you two, ya know, dating?
Jess - Oh no, no, we're just gonna go see a movie.
Penny - Oh, ok, just wondering.
Jess - Its ok, well, we were planning on seeing A Guy Thing, I don't know how she talked me into it, but I've been drifting of sort of. I would have said yes to Crossroads. *Penny lets out a laugh* well, maybe not that far.
All of a sudden Kris comes walking in.
Jess - Hey Kris, guess who I found
Kris - Oh My God, is that Penny?
Penny - Ya, it is me, why is it such a big deal, I've gotten like, 3 Oh My God's. I always thought I wasn't that important, I just picked right out of the group. I didn't think anyone even missed me.
Kris - Is that what you thought? Penny, we were all crushed when you left, I know you only moved across town, but we are as far away from each other as we can be in Miami. We were just waiting for you to get a hold of us. I mean, if I would've known.
Penny - Its ok, I'm sorry, I guess I just never had time. So, I guess we better get going to the movies.
Jess - Ok, but you know we're coming back here to talk afterwards. We have some serious catching up to do.
Penny - I know, so, let's go.
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Both Kris and Jess insisted on having her sit between them, they bought her way into the movie, plus all her refreshments. All of the good times that those three had had together came flooding back to her. They had been the best of friends, plus Abby, Jake Nelson, not her Jake, and Joey. She and Jess had dated for a short period of time, but they broke up because their friendship was much more important. They were all really close, but Jess and her more than the others. Kris was always there for the two of them too.
Once the movie was over, all three of them walked back to The Coffee Place. Somehow, all three of them managed to fit on the two person love seat comfortably.
Jess - Gosh Penny, We've all missed you.
Kris - Ya, why didn't you ever bother to call?
Penny - I really don't know. Can we just talk about something happier, please. I've had a bad day.
Jess - Ok, well, Abby and Joey are engaged. The started dating right after you left.
Kris - Ya, and Jake left us for Seattle last year, but he's back now. He couldn't handle all the rain there, it was too cold for him.
Penny - Sounds like I've missed a lot. Man, some days I wish I would've never left. My new life is nothing compared to this life. I used to have fun all the time. *She sighs and looks at her watch* Shoot guys, I have to go. I have a few things to do tonight. Hey, call me, we'll do something this weekend, ok?
Jess/Kris - Ok, works for us.
They all hug and she looks at Jess for a moment before she leaves.
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She had jogged home, so it didn't take too long. When she walks in her apartment she nearly falls over. She sees Jake sitting on her couch.
Penny - Holy Sh*t Jake, you scared the crap outta me. How'd you get in here?
Jake - Hey, You're not the only one who has a spare key.
Penny - Ok, I'm not gonna bother to ask how you got that.
Jake - No, its yours, you have a spare set in your desk, so I borrowed them. What took you so long? I've been here for at least 2 hours.
Penny - I was just out with some friends.
Jake - Who?
Penny - Just some old friends, no one you would know.
Jake - Ok, well where'd you go, you just left work 2 hours early. I was worried about you. I went home for and hour and when you didn't answer the phone I decided to come over to see what was wrong.
Penny - Its nothing, I was just having a bad day, I'm sorry I didn't tell you I was leaving.
Jake - Well, Dylan is now living with me. Well, technically, I'm living with her, but same thing. I know this will bring me and her closer than ever. I can just feel it.
Penny - That's great Jake, well, I've had a long day, so you should probably get going.
Jake - Alright, bye Penny. I'll see you tomorrow, right?
Penny - Ya Jake, I'll be there.
Jake - Ok, see ya then Penny - Bye Jake
She closed the door and locked it. Then she went into her bedroom and got out all of her things, all her pictures of her and Jess, and Kris. She didn't have many pictures of the other three, they had never really been that close. They had just been friends of Jess and Kris's. Never really too important to her.
She sat there thinking about nothing at all for the longest time. All of a sudden she was taken out of her daze by the phone's shrill ringing. She paused, wondering if she should answer it or not. She decided to answer it, considering she never received many phone calls.
Penny - Hello?
Jess - Hey Penny, how've you been.
Penny - Well, since I last saw you, nothing really. I came home to find my boss sitting on my couch, that scared me a bit, but I've been fine.
Jess - What was your boss doing there?
Penny - Oh, he was just worried about me, I left work early today, no biggie.
Jess - Oh, so are you two seeing each other.
Penny - Well, we see each other almost every day, so ya, we are seeing each other, if you mean dating, no, not Jake.
Jess - Oh, ok, I was just wondering. No need to get huffy
Penny - Sorry, I just been getting a bit more on the sarcastic side, its what keeps me going these days. Ya, so has there been anyone special in your life?
Jess - There's been a girl here or there, but no one really significant, nope. What about you, are you like, secretly married or something?
Penny - Nope, I haven't seen anyone in a long time. I think, yep, you were my last relationship.
Jess - Geez, that's quite a long time.
Penny - I just haven't met anyone that I clicked with.
Jess - Don't worry Penny, someone is out there for you, I know that for a fact.
Penny - Thanks Jess, but I should be going, I gotta go to work again tomorrow, so I'll see ya on Saturday, OK?
Jess - Great, I'll call you tomorrow night and we'll plan everything then, ok?
Penny - Alright Jess, Talk to you then.
Jess - See ya Penny.
Penny - Bye Jess
Jess - See you Saturday
Penny - Alright, good night.
Jess - Good night Penny.
Penny - Ok, I'm hanging up now.
Jess - *laughs a bit* Alright, bye Penny
Penny - Bye now Jess.
She hung up the phone and sighed. She missed talking to Jess. They used to have the best conversations. This was nice too although she wished they had more to talk about. She was set to make sure that changed. She wasn't going to be separated from Jess and Kris again. It took to long to get over the loss of her two best friends. It was even harder getting over Jess. Even after they broke up she had still loved him. They had always been so close, it just hurt her to leave him without any contact.
She thought that her choice had been for the best, she tried to forget about them. All of them. It took a while, around 6 months of keeping herself from calling them when she was tempted. Finally, she had nearly forgotten about them, but not quite.
Now that she had seen Jess again, all of her feelings came flooding back. When she hugged him she never wanted to let go. Just looking into his eyes made her realize that she just had a crush on Jake. She could finally let him go, he deserved Dylan, and she deserved him. She was ready to move on, but just how far should she move on.
She didn't like being so far from Jess and Kris. It wasn't so easy to keep contact with people who lived so far away. If it things work out she would have a decision to make. Was her friendship with Jess and Kris strong enough to move her back across Miami, leaving Jake and Good Morning Miami all behind, without looking back. She wasn't too sure.
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End of Chapter 2, don't forget to R&R, and tell me what you think.
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Author's note - Ok, thanks for the reviews. I decided to make it quick and update ASAP. This is just a fun little fun fic. It will eventually become Jake/Penny, just give it time. Umm, well, read, review, and have fun. Now on with it.
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Disclaimer - hey, I don't own anything, this is just for my personal enjoyment. I do own Kris, Jess, and Geoff's/the coffee place.
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Giving Him Up
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Jake's Office
Dylan closed the door and walked to his desk.
Dylan - hey, we need to talk
Jake - about what exactly?
Dylan - about yesterday.
Jake - well, what about yesterday?
Dylan - you know what I mean, you said everything was fine, and obviously today it isn't.
Jake - yes, yes it is, I'm fine, perfectly perfect.
Dylan - Jake, I may not know you that well, but I know something is wrong. Why won't you talk about it with me, but you will with Penny?
Jake - Because, I can easily talk to Penny, it just comes naturally for me. Plus you're always to busy with Gavin to have a nice little conversation with me.
Dylan - Ugh, Jake, I'm never too busy to talk to anybody.
Jake - Umm, yes you are.
Dylan - Name one time.
Jake - That's not important, its just you've never wanted to talk to me before, why do you all of a sudden want to start now?
Dylan - Jake, I'm just worried about you, even more now, you've never been one to question me like that.
Jake - Well, maybe you don't know me as well as you thought.
Dylan - Whatever, let me know when you've cooled down so we can have a decent conversation
With that, she walks out the door. She walks over to Penny's desk.
Dylan - You try to reason with him, I can't get across to him.
Penny - You're probably going at it all wrong, you can't get mad at him, and he is easily frustrated. Here, lets both go in and talk to him, ok?
Dylan - Alright, Fine, it won't work though.
Penny - Oh, don't worry, it will.
Penny starts to think to herself 'Why on earth am I helping her, I honestly can't stand to be around her' She tried Jake's door, but it was locked. She grabbed out her key and then she and Dylan walked on in.
Jake - How'd you get in here?
Penny - Same way I got in early, *takes out her key* I made a spare key.
Jake - Alright, so what brings you to in here civilly?
Penny - Well, Dylan really wants to talk to you about earlier, and I'm just here to make sure she doesn't screw it up. Now go ahead Dylan.
Dylan - OK, Jake, last night, I didn't mean to tell you that you need to move out of my place, I was just angry. I really could use a roommate like you.
Penny's thoughts - Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have made friends with her, it all just came back exploding in my face.
Dylan - So, do you wanna live with me?
Jake - Umm, well, since my stuff is already there, sure why not.
Dylan - Great.
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After that Penny just left. She walked to her desk got everything she needed, and just left the building, not bothering to look back. It wasn't like anyone would notice her missing it would take a while, considering someone would notice all the dry sarcasm missing from the office place. She just started walking, she didn't pay attention to where she was going, just kept walking.
After sometime walking, she ended up in front of the coffee house she used to hang out at all the time. It had changed its name from Geoff's to simply, The Coffee Place. She walked inside and looked around. Besides the name, not much had changed. Sure things had been moved around a bit, but it was still pretty much the same. She went and sat on the love seat that was in the corner.
All of a sudden her old friend Jess came strolling in. Penny was surprised, yet wasn't ready to face her old friends, she had left them over 2 years ago and never contacted any of them afterwards. 'Sh*t, Sh*t, what am I gonna do?'
Jess - *just so there's no confusion, Jess is a guy, and Kris is a girl* Oh My God, Penny, Is that you?
Penny - Umm, ya, it is me, SURPRISE?
Jess - Oh My God, I haven't seen you since you left. How come you haven't called or anything?
Penny - Don't ask me, cuz I really don't know.
Jess - Oh, ok, well, hey, Kris is gonna be here any minute, we were just planning on catching a movie. Do you wanna come?
Penny - Well, If Kris is ok with it then sure. Are you two, ya know, dating?
Jess - Oh no, no, we're just gonna go see a movie.
Penny - Oh, ok, just wondering.
Jess - Its ok, well, we were planning on seeing A Guy Thing, I don't know how she talked me into it, but I've been drifting of sort of. I would have said yes to Crossroads. *Penny lets out a laugh* well, maybe not that far.
All of a sudden Kris comes walking in.
Jess - Hey Kris, guess who I found
Kris - Oh My God, is that Penny?
Penny - Ya, it is me, why is it such a big deal, I've gotten like, 3 Oh My God's. I always thought I wasn't that important, I just picked right out of the group. I didn't think anyone even missed me.
Kris - Is that what you thought? Penny, we were all crushed when you left, I know you only moved across town, but we are as far away from each other as we can be in Miami. We were just waiting for you to get a hold of us. I mean, if I would've known.
Penny - Its ok, I'm sorry, I guess I just never had time. So, I guess we better get going to the movies.
Jess - Ok, but you know we're coming back here to talk afterwards. We have some serious catching up to do.
Penny - I know, so, let's go.
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Both Kris and Jess insisted on having her sit between them, they bought her way into the movie, plus all her refreshments. All of the good times that those three had had together came flooding back to her. They had been the best of friends, plus Abby, Jake Nelson, not her Jake, and Joey. She and Jess had dated for a short period of time, but they broke up because their friendship was much more important. They were all really close, but Jess and her more than the others. Kris was always there for the two of them too.
Once the movie was over, all three of them walked back to The Coffee Place. Somehow, all three of them managed to fit on the two person love seat comfortably.
Jess - Gosh Penny, We've all missed you.
Kris - Ya, why didn't you ever bother to call?
Penny - I really don't know. Can we just talk about something happier, please. I've had a bad day.
Jess - Ok, well, Abby and Joey are engaged. The started dating right after you left.
Kris - Ya, and Jake left us for Seattle last year, but he's back now. He couldn't handle all the rain there, it was too cold for him.
Penny - Sounds like I've missed a lot. Man, some days I wish I would've never left. My new life is nothing compared to this life. I used to have fun all the time. *She sighs and looks at her watch* Shoot guys, I have to go. I have a few things to do tonight. Hey, call me, we'll do something this weekend, ok?
Jess/Kris - Ok, works for us.
They all hug and she looks at Jess for a moment before she leaves.
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She had jogged home, so it didn't take too long. When she walks in her apartment she nearly falls over. She sees Jake sitting on her couch.
Penny - Holy Sh*t Jake, you scared the crap outta me. How'd you get in here?
Jake - Hey, You're not the only one who has a spare key.
Penny - Ok, I'm not gonna bother to ask how you got that.
Jake - No, its yours, you have a spare set in your desk, so I borrowed them. What took you so long? I've been here for at least 2 hours.
Penny - I was just out with some friends.
Jake - Who?
Penny - Just some old friends, no one you would know.
Jake - Ok, well where'd you go, you just left work 2 hours early. I was worried about you. I went home for and hour and when you didn't answer the phone I decided to come over to see what was wrong.
Penny - Its nothing, I was just having a bad day, I'm sorry I didn't tell you I was leaving.
Jake - Well, Dylan is now living with me. Well, technically, I'm living with her, but same thing. I know this will bring me and her closer than ever. I can just feel it.
Penny - That's great Jake, well, I've had a long day, so you should probably get going.
Jake - Alright, bye Penny. I'll see you tomorrow, right?
Penny - Ya Jake, I'll be there.
Jake - Ok, see ya then Penny - Bye Jake
She closed the door and locked it. Then she went into her bedroom and got out all of her things, all her pictures of her and Jess, and Kris. She didn't have many pictures of the other three, they had never really been that close. They had just been friends of Jess and Kris's. Never really too important to her.
She sat there thinking about nothing at all for the longest time. All of a sudden she was taken out of her daze by the phone's shrill ringing. She paused, wondering if she should answer it or not. She decided to answer it, considering she never received many phone calls.
Penny - Hello?
Jess - Hey Penny, how've you been.
Penny - Well, since I last saw you, nothing really. I came home to find my boss sitting on my couch, that scared me a bit, but I've been fine.
Jess - What was your boss doing there?
Penny - Oh, he was just worried about me, I left work early today, no biggie.
Jess - Oh, so are you two seeing each other.
Penny - Well, we see each other almost every day, so ya, we are seeing each other, if you mean dating, no, not Jake.
Jess - Oh, ok, I was just wondering. No need to get huffy
Penny - Sorry, I just been getting a bit more on the sarcastic side, its what keeps me going these days. Ya, so has there been anyone special in your life?
Jess - There's been a girl here or there, but no one really significant, nope. What about you, are you like, secretly married or something?
Penny - Nope, I haven't seen anyone in a long time. I think, yep, you were my last relationship.
Jess - Geez, that's quite a long time.
Penny - I just haven't met anyone that I clicked with.
Jess - Don't worry Penny, someone is out there for you, I know that for a fact.
Penny - Thanks Jess, but I should be going, I gotta go to work again tomorrow, so I'll see ya on Saturday, OK?
Jess - Great, I'll call you tomorrow night and we'll plan everything then, ok?
Penny - Alright Jess, Talk to you then.
Jess - See ya Penny.
Penny - Bye Jess
Jess - See you Saturday
Penny - Alright, good night.
Jess - Good night Penny.
Penny - Ok, I'm hanging up now.
Jess - *laughs a bit* Alright, bye Penny
Penny - Bye now Jess.
She hung up the phone and sighed. She missed talking to Jess. They used to have the best conversations. This was nice too although she wished they had more to talk about. She was set to make sure that changed. She wasn't going to be separated from Jess and Kris again. It took to long to get over the loss of her two best friends. It was even harder getting over Jess. Even after they broke up she had still loved him. They had always been so close, it just hurt her to leave him without any contact.
She thought that her choice had been for the best, she tried to forget about them. All of them. It took a while, around 6 months of keeping herself from calling them when she was tempted. Finally, she had nearly forgotten about them, but not quite.
Now that she had seen Jess again, all of her feelings came flooding back. When she hugged him she never wanted to let go. Just looking into his eyes made her realize that she just had a crush on Jake. She could finally let him go, he deserved Dylan, and she deserved him. She was ready to move on, but just how far should she move on.
She didn't like being so far from Jess and Kris. It wasn't so easy to keep contact with people who lived so far away. If it things work out she would have a decision to make. Was her friendship with Jess and Kris strong enough to move her back across Miami, leaving Jake and Good Morning Miami all behind, without looking back. She wasn't too sure.
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End of Chapter 2, don't forget to R&R, and tell me what you think.