I am SO sorry that I haven't updated this for sooo long. Perhaps I owe you an explanation. Okay, here's the brief information- got a boyfriend, fell in love, got dumped, still in love. I'm dealing with it. Anyway, I'm back :D

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Tara was numb. All she could do was gasp. Her heart was racing, her eyes wet with unspilled tears.

"Do you know," asked Jack in a broken voice, "do you know how much it hurts to kill someone you love?"

"I'm going home," Tara said harshly. "Take me home."

Jack was making no noise except sobbing.

"And if you don't..." said Tara, "if you don't, I'll kill you. I swear I'll kill you. I never want to see you again."

Jack spun around then, his face streaked with kohl. "Please. Tara, please, no."

"Why not?"

"I love you."

"More than you loved my mother?"

"Oh, Tara..."

He turned away again.

"I don't love you," Tara said acidly, then she swung her legs over the side and climbed down onto the deck. She ran into her cabin and cried herself to sleep.

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Extremely short, I know. But I'm writing the next chapter now, so it'll be up later tonight/tomorrow morning.