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~ Story: Once and Again.

~ Chapter title: Forgive me.

~ Authors: Isabelle8888 & JamiesAngel2008

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Jamie slowly opened her eyes, she looked at her watch, and it read 11:35pm.

" Oh no, I have to get home." Jamie said as she stood from the ground and drove home.

The last thing Jamie wanted to do was go home. What Landon did was unforgivable. Jamie knew her and Landon weren't the best of friends, but on some level, Jamie considered Landon a friend.

Jamie walked in the house, it was dark.

" I guess everyone is asleep, good, I don't want to explain why I was out late." Jamie thought as she walked to her room.

Jamie entered her room and grabbed a towel and a nightgown and went to take a shower.

As Jamie was washing her chest and arms, it hurt because of the burns from the hot soup that was pored down her shirt.

Jamie finished her shower and went back to her room.

She wasn't sleepy, so she decided to write in her journal, it's something she use to do all the time but now since she's all ways busy, she doesn't have the time.

Jamie sat at her desk, near the window and began to write what she is feeling:

I started me new job today, I was happy until Landon and his friends walked in, I knew there was going to be trouble. I would never put it past Dean, Eric, Tracey or Belinda to do something like throw food all over me, but I thought Landon wad different, I guess not. It really hurt me that Landon would do something like that, I've known Landon most of my life, and a part of me use to care about him, now it's different. I don't think I can ever forgive him.

I saw the look on his face, I could see it in his eyes, he didn't want to, but to please his friends, he did. That's how it started, Landon hurting me to please his friends.

Before Landon meet Dean, Belinda Eric or Tracey, I would have called us friends. We never hurt each other's feelings, we've all ways picked on each other but never hurt each other. Now I'm going to bed, I have to work tomorrow's morning and afternoon shift because one of the other waitresses called out. So I volunteered, to do an extra shift, I won't be home till at least 11pm, but that's okay. I don't want to be home more then I have to.

~ The next morning~

Jamie woke up and went to the bathroom, it surprised her that Landon wasn't in the shower, using all the hot water and taking up her time.

When Jamie came out the bathroom, she went back to her room and changed in to a blue dress shirt with a tan skirt. Then she went down stairs and spotted Landon on the sofa, watching TV, she paid him no attention and walked in to the kitchen. On top of the counter, there was a note from her father, it read:

Jamie,

I was asleep when you go home last night and I didn't want to wake you. I have a minister's retreat in Colorado, Cynthia is coming with me. We should be back in a couple of days. Please try and get along with Landon, please. I love you and if I can, I'll call you tonight.

Love,

Dad

" Well this should be good." Jamie said out loud as she balled up the note and placed it in the trash.

She took a look around the kitchen and realized she wasn't hungry. It pained Jamie that her father had to leave the same day as her 20th birthday. She kept asking her self 'does he remember, it's my birthday?' It hurt to know that her best friend, her father, forgot that today was her birthday. Jamie put the anger she was feeling and went back to her room.

She didn't say a word the Landon and the same went for him.

As she entered her room, she looked around.

When Jamie was little, her and her mother decorated Jamie's room together.

Jamie is now 20 and her room looks like it belongs to a child. After her mother died, Jamie didn't want to change the room. She left it alone because it feels like her mother is in the room with her.

Jamie sat on the edge of the bed and placed her face in the palms of her hands.

" Jamie?" Landon asked from the edge of the door, he could see that something was bothering her.

" What do you want?" Jamie asked as she kept her head down.

" I wanted to say, I'm sorry about yesterday." Landon admitted, he is truly sorry, he felt he had no choice, he never meant to hurt Jamie.

" Really? You're sorry? What do you want from me? You want me to jump up and down and say ' I forgive you'. Landon that's never going to happen." Jamie said as she rested her chin on her knuckles and looked Landon in the eyes, she wanted him to know, she's very serious.

" Jamie, I didn't have a choice." Landon said.

" You all ways have a choice, you just decided to make the wrong one and it wasn't the first time. You're all ways trying to please your friends and do what they say. Landon, grow up and be a man, make your own decisions." Jamie said as she stood from the bed and stood right in front of Landon. " Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get ready for work." Jamie said as she closed the door and left Landon standing on the other side.

What she said was the truth, he's just never heard any one say it before.

Jamie changed into a uniform, which is, a black pair of slacks with a white dress shirt, tucked in to her pants. Finished off with a black tie. Jamie tied her hair in to a high pony tail, then grabbed her keys and went to work.

Landon was surprised, about how Jamie acted. She usually says nothing and brushes it off, today was different.

He walked in his room and laid back on his bed. It's really bothering him that Jamie is pissed at him, it's slowly eating him up.

" I have to come up with a way to get her to forgive me." Landon said as he looked at the ceiling.

Landon laid in hid bed for about an hour before it hit him. He now knows what he could do to get Jamie to forgive him. Landon put is plan in to motion, he just didn't know Jamie would be home very late.

Jamie still has about 45 minutes left to her afternoon shift before she could go home. Today was very busy, she has never been this tired. Now, the day is ending, there's maybe five customers.

" Is there anything else I can get you?" Jamie asked the elderly woman, sitting at the table, finishing off a cup of coffee with a piece of lime pie.

" No, thank you sweetie, I'm fine." The elderly woman said.

" Jamie, you can go, I can handle it." The other waitress said.

" Are you sure?" Jamie asked.

" Yes, I'm sure. Go home and get some rest." The other waitress said.

"Thanks." Jamie said to the other waitress and drove home.

Jamie existed her car, then walked up the stairs of the porch and walked in the house.

On the coffee table was a chocolate cake that read ' happy birthday Jamie' and a long black velvet box, with a card.

Jamie sat on the sofa, in front of the coffee table. Then she opened the card, inside it read:

Jamie,

I am very sorry about yesterday and for hurting you, that was never my plan. I forgot that's were you worked, if I had remembered, I would have never gone their with my friends, I know how you feel about them.

I know you must be upset the your father had to leave town on your birthday, this is my way of trying to cheer you up. I wanted to be their when you opened the box on the table, but I didn't know when you would be home so, I guess I have to wait till tomorrow to see how you like it. If you still won't forgive me, that's okay. I just hope you enjoy your gifts and have a happy birthday.

Love,

Landon.

Jamie closed the card and placed it on the table then opened the box.

Inside the box was a locket Jamie lost when she was 13, her mother gave it to her for her 11th birthday. Inside was a picture of Jamie's mother holding her for the first time at the hospital and on the other side was a picture of them at the lake.

That locket means the world to Jamie, when she lost it, she cried for days.

Jamie held the locket in a tight grasp and placed it near her heart and began to cry. This was the best present Jamie could have asked for and the last person she expected to give it to her was Landon.

Jamie ate a piece of cake and then put it in the refrigerator.

She put the locket around her neck and vowed to never take it off.

Jamie walked upstairs, she passed Landon's room, and the door was opened. She took a look inside and saw him asleep with his feet hanging off the bed, which made her smile.

She slowly waked in to his room and placed a kiss on his cheek, then whispered ' thank you' and left the room, making sure she didn't wake him.

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