So, this is the next chapter and also the last one...
Just enjoy reading as you always did :) !
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A few days later...
Jess is sitting in the dining room, having breakfast. But she's not there.
'Where could she be? I hope nothing serious happened the last night. I've got to search for her.'
He knows that her disease has gotten worse and that she gets weaker every day.
He's lingering through the rooms and the hallway, but he can't find her.
"Are you looking for Miss Gilmore?" a nusre suddenly asks.
"Yes I am."
"I'm so sorry, but-"
"What's wrong?" he cuts her off. "What happened? Where is she?" Now he's afraid.
"This way" she says and leads him into a dark room.
He enters the tiny bedroom and looks around. He goes to the small bed and finds her in it. She's sleeping.
He sits down on a chair and watches her sleeping.
He knows that the end is near. 'NO! Stop thinking that! It's not the end!' He shakes his head. 'She'll be fine again. Yeah, she'll be fine again.'
She's moving and he looks into her pretty face. Her skin is pale and looks like fragile porcelain. 'She's still so beautiful! After all these years she's still as beautiful as she were when we were young.'
She opens her eyes and looks into his eyes.
"Jess, you're here." She says quietly.
"Of course! I won't leave you alone." He takes her hand.
"Thank you."
They are there in this room, together, not talking, just enjoying to be near to each other.
"It was because of me, wasn't it?"
She turns her head slowly and looks at him. "What?"
"Your divorce. It was because of me."
She nods. "Yeah it was. I couldn't stop thinking about you and he was so jealous! It just didn't work." She smiles.
"Who was it?"
"Don't ask that!"
"But I have to know it. Who was your husband?"
"Don't.", she whispers.
"Rory! Tell me! Who was it?"
She doesn't look at him as she says "Dean."
Noone says a word. They're just sitting there, thinking.
"Tell my daughter that I love her. I'm gonna take care of her." She says suddenly.
"I'll tell her that."
"And take care of my books."
"I will."
"In our next life we'll do it another way. Our time together was too short. I missed you so much and now that you're back I have to leave you. I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I'm glad we had those last days together and wherever you're going, I promise that I'll follow you."
„Yeah. One day we'll be together again. I promise!", she says, smiling at him.
He nods, looking at her.
He palms her cheek as tears roll down. She trembles under his touch and closes her eyes. With his thumb he wipes the tears away.
„Jess?" she asks quietly.
He looks at her. "Yeah?"
"I love you."
He smiles at her, not able to say something.
Her breathing is getting flimsier and the grip of her hand weakens.
„I'm so so sorry. Please stay with me!" Her hand is getting heavier in his.
Tears are falling down his cheek as he begs: "No please! Stay with me! You can't leave me here alone! Please please please! You can't. You can't. Please you can't go. I don't want to lose you again! Stay here! Stay!"
He sobs: "Please Ror, I love you. Stay with me!" But she's not reacting anymore.
He grabs her hand tighter and lays his head down beside her body.
Under tears he cries: "Why? Why did you do this? I love you so much! Why did you go? I always loved you! Why did you go? What shall I do without you? Come back to me! Come back!"
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He sat there a long time. He held her hand and cried for her and now he's lying in his bed, still crying.
'That's not fair. I just got her back and now she's gone again. Why? This is so not fair! I can't live without her. I've done that a long time and I'm sick of being alone and lonely. She was the one who made me laugh, who made me happy. But now all that happiness is gone. Gone with her.'
Tears are rolling down his cheek, dripping onto the pillow but as he finally falls asleep he knows that he's going to see her again.
THE END
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Honey