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Ways of Life! - Chapter 10
Roswell
A teenager walked down the street. He was tall, had short blonde hair and melancholically eyes. Despite this expression his steps were elated. School was out and he was looking for a job. A boy in the blue and yellow jacket of the Roswell-High greeted from the other side of the street where he chatted with a girl. Jake waved back and went on. Suddenly he stopped in front of a large window. "Help wanted!" he read on a sign.
Thirty minutes later he was on his way home. Mr.Parker had finally agreed and Jake was a waiter in the 'Crashdown' now. It had been a weird feeling to talk to his… well, 'grandpa' wasn't right, because Liz wasn't his mother. But she was the woman his father loved and his mother was dead, so… Jake sighed. These thoughts never delivered the right answers. But okay… why not thinking about his parents now he knew who they are?
He had left Max and the others two months ago. Kyle, after he had celebrated his engagement, had visited his father to tell him the news and to ask whether he could give a 'distantly relative' shelter. Jim and Amy, married for nearly 5 years now, agreed. And that's how Jake came to Roswell. He had Kyle's old room, went to school, he liked the Valentis andsurprisingly he missed his former foster-parents – they had been good to him and he felt guilty for leaving the Bradleys withoutexplaining. On the other hand he was happy… no agents, no problems at school, a weakly dream-meeting with his father and the others and a good relationship to Jim and Amy. It seemed to be his chance for a normal life – he was grateful and he nearly dared to hope.
Jim and Amy sat in the kitchen when Jake came home. Jim glanced at his wife and she nodded in response. They had waited for this moment to come. They had waited for the feeling to be sure they could make Jake a part of their family. Two months seemed to be less time than they had expected it would take. But – as said – they were sure. The boy was an enrichment for their life. He had a difficult past but he was so full of hope and eager to experience the taste of life. They wanted to support him in every way they could and to be more than just the people who gave shelter to him and enabled him to go to school in Roswell. Amy and Jim hoped to become a part of his life he would remember with a feeling of love when he once would leave Roswell. They knew he would one day. It was the nature of the problem with the 'Czechoslovakian' group. They might want to stay but in the end… Of course the Valentis wouldn't tell Jake what they thought – not yet. They suspected he would be startled by such early words about family and love. But they wanted to give him something.
"Hi", they heard his voice after the front door closed. Jake came into the kitchen and smiled. "I have a job!"
Jim and Amy smiled back and Jake took place.
"Congratulations, Jake", Amy said and meant it. "And where?"
"The 'Crashdown'." Jake looked into their understanding faces and let his breath out.
Finally Jim said: "Well, this relation seems to stay in family. I think you will like the atmosphere of the restaurant."
Jake nodded. "I think so."
"Will you tell them…", Amy asked carefully.
He shook his head - "Not yet." – and smiled again: "Someday… – The Evans are often there, aren't they?"
Amy and Jim nodded unison, and then looked at each other. Amy got up and took a book from the shelf. "We want to give you something."
Jake raised an eyebrow. "A book?"
Amy gave it to him. "Yes, a book."
Eventually the boy felt the importance of this moment and looked at the little black book in his hands.
Jim and Amy left the room without a sound. Jake sat down and opened the book. Obviously it was a diary…
24. September
My name is Liz Parker and 5 days ago I died. But than something really exciting happened: I begun to live.
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AN: I know it is short and I wanted to write two more chapters but decided to write only this one and to end the story of Jake. (And in case you find this disappointing, you know how to tell me, don't you?)
The other chapters should tell you how Kyle asked Melissa to become his wife and how Jesse and Isabel met on the way to Boston and then reunited with the others. Further it should tell you how the idea developed that Jake could live in Roswell and what Max, Liz, Michael, Maria, Isabel and Jesse want to do next. I even wanted to try to write about the birth of the baby :-)
But hey! I decided not to write it down, because… The story was already ready in my head. There I wrote these two chapters. But to write it down here also… well, I guess there was a lack of motivation… You know what motivation can be? – Statements, reviews, critics… something like this. And to be honest: I was really lazy, too. I only wrote this last chapter so that you guys also know how the story ends.
Okay… so, thanks for reading "Ways of Life!" - and thanks for the review, Red-rumm ;-)
I hope we will meet in other fanfics again…
June22