I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and soon found myself in Central Park. "Why did ya do that?" I asked myself, "Ya like him, he likes ya. Why'd ya run away?" I knew why, I was still scared to get attached. I was scared he would hurt me like Race and Sean had. At least I had closure with Race. I left Sean and my life in Montana before anything could happen, good or bad. A light bulb went on in my head and I raced back to the lodging house. "Jack! Jack! Where you at?"

Jack came down from the bunkroom, looking half-asleep. Apparently my walk was longer than I had thought. "What?" He asked, looking a little irritated. I hoped it was from being wakened up in the middle of the night and not our little encounter on the roof.

"I'm going to Montana."

Jack suddenly became fully alert, "What? Why? Cause the thing on the roof? I'm sorry 'bout that. Please don't go! Not again!"

"Jack!" He wouldn't stop begging me to stay, "Huh... Jack? Jack! I'm just going to see an old... friend. I'll be back in a week."

"You'se coming back?" I nodded. "Oh, okay then. When ya leaving?"

"Right now."

"I'll walk ya." He ran upstairs, put on his clothes and shoes, and then set off to the train station with me.

When we got to the train station Jack and I looked at each other in awkward silence.

"Well, I'll be seeing ya. Bye Jack." I said, spitting in my hand and then sticking out my hand to shake. I didn't know what else to do.

"Bye Chrys." He also spit and shook my hand. He still holding my hand he pulled me into his embrace and hugged me. We just stood there, in each other's arms, I really didn't want to leave his arms but my train was going to leave.

"Jack? I gotta go now."

"Oh," he said as he let me go. I hopped in the boxcar and found a decent hiding spot. Curled up I waited in anticipation for the long ride to Montana to come to an end.

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A/N: Okay that was a REALLY short chapter... Sorry, it just felt like a good place to stop. School starts tomorrow so updates might not be fast as before, but I'll try my hardest!

Next chapter Chrys sees Sean for the first time in years! I don't know what I'm gonna have happen between them yet, but it should be interesting!

Okay, so even though this chapter was super short, you still need to review! If not, it might take a long time to update! Yep, you guessed it, blackmail! So get to reviewin' and I'll get to typin'!