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Chapter 6: I forget how fragile you are

"Do you know where Jenna went today, it's getting pretty late." Betty asked the other two girls.

"No, she said she was going to look around today and that was early this morning before I went to Medda's." Clara said, with a little worry in her voice.

"That was around nine, right?" Betty now asked scared something might have happened to her. Clara nodded her head. "And it's almost eight. Maybe we should go and tell the boys." At that moment Jenna walked in through the door with none other than Spot.

"Jenna where were you, we were starting to get scared something happened to you!" Betty said running up to her giving her a tight hug, glad nothing happened to her new friend.

"Are you alright?" Clara asked relieved that she come home with Spot. Even thought she didn't seem that friendly to Jenna when they first met, they both got to know each other pretty good, during the time Clara didn't work at night.

"Ya I'm fine. I had gotten lost and ended up in Brooklyn. And then I found Spot and I stayed with him the rest of the time. I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scared. I'm sorry." Jenna apologized feeling bad that she had worried them.

"It's ok. As long as Spot took good care of you." Betty said looking at him waiting for an answer.

"Of course!" he said looking at her and then over to Jenna and smiled.

"Thank you, for walking me back. I know I would have gotten lost again." Jenna said with a light giggle and he chuckled as well. "Would you like something to eat or drink? It's the least I could do for bothering you."

"No it's alright. If I'm going to stay at the lodging house I better get there soon."

"O I'm sorry."

"Don't worry." he looked at the floor. "Are you going to Medda's tomorrow?" then looking back at her. It was like they forgot they weren't alone.

"I think so." was all she said.

During this time, Betty looked between Spot and Jenna wondering what was going on. It didn't seem like Jenna had a crush on Spot but then again she didn't know what she was like when she crushed on someone. But Spot, his attitude, the air around him seemed different as if he knew Jenna would be special in his life but just not quite sure how. As if he was falling head over heels for her.

"Well, I'll see ya tomorrow then around 8?" Spot said looking at her and opening the door.

"Ya. See you tomorrow." she gave a shy smile and he left. She just watched him as he closed the door and stared at it for a moment longer until she heard someone.

"Are you alright?" Clara asked, she too had noticed what was going between them.

"Ya, of course. I'm a bit tired now so I think I'll head off to bed, see you tomorrow." and with that she walked to her room smiling and closed the door behind her.

"What was that?" Betty asked looking at Marie and Clara.

"I don't know." Marie said shaking her head and both looked at the bedroom door again. They dismissed it for the night and thought it would be a good idea for them to go to bed as well, since they thought they could just be imagining things.

Later that evening at the Lodging House

"Hey Spot, what are you doing here?" Jack asked noticing his friend as he walked inside.

"Nothing much." Spot laid down his cards, saying that he folded and was done for the night. "Jenna had wondered into Brooklyn today, got lost and one of my newsies found her. So she stayed around while I did some stuff and I brought her home a couple of hours ago."

"So you spent the day with her and brought her home?" Jack said and Spot nodded. "And nothing happened? You didn't make a move or nothing?" Jack asked.

"No!" Spot said.

"Wow, I'm impressed. You're really changing." Jack said impressed with Spot. "Come on, I wanna talk with ya." And they left the lodging house to walk around in the night of New York.

Around midnight

She rose from her bed seeing the moonlight shine through the window. She looked over to her roommate glad that she was fast asleep. She got up from her bed and started to walk slowly to the living room, trying her hardest not the wake anyone. She got to the front room and paused for a moment. She thought about what to tell the guys. Jenna had something she wanted to tell them but it wasn't an easy decision she came to. She thought and debated about it while she was Brooklyn. For a couple of hours she pretended to be asleep so Betty wouldn't bother her. She walked to the door and opened it very carefully and left.

On the streets near the Horce Greeley Statue

"So Spot, you're really changing huh?" Jack asked.

"Ya. I feel more myself this way. Like how I use to feel when I use to be thirteen." Spot said smiling.

"Does Jenna have anything to do with it?"

"No" he said. "She just makes me feel more like myself. Like she wouldn't care if this is who I am."

They walked for a couple seconds before Jack stopped Spot. "You hear that?" Spot listened for a second.

"Footsteps." he said and he looked over to an alley. "In here." and they both hid the ally's shadows, the same ally from four days ago. A moment later five men walked by and Spot thought they had looked familiar. "Hey, I saw them here four days ago."

"What?" Jack whispered confused.

"I didn't tell you. When I was going back to Brooklyn I saw five men and hid. Those are the same guys." Spot said softly. They watched them and then a few minutes later they heard light footsteps and Jenna walked by towards the men.

"What's happening?" Jack asked, confused as to why Jenna would be out her at night with five men.

"They're meeting. I don't know exactly but I know that they are friends from her hometown."

"Hey fellas." Spot and Jack could hear her say.

"Hey." They all replied.

"Nathan, I need to talk to you for a moment." she said and started walking off to Spot and Jack's alley.

"How are you holding up Jenna?"

"Good." She tried to smile to show that she was happy but failed. "Nathan I been thinking. I'm suppose to start a new life. And as much as I hate it, you guys aren't a big part of it anymore. I'll always remember you and stay in touch with you but we'll be living on opposite sides of the country. So I've been doing some thinking. I know I asked you stay for two weeks, till I get settled in but if I'm going to be doing this alone it's not fair of me to ask you to stay here."

"What are you trying to say?" Nathan asked. He had an idea but wasn't quite sure, the guys had even talked about it before they met up. In the meantime Spot knew what was going on while Jack was scratching his head in confusion but was becoming very interested.

"What I'm saying is, leave when you guys want to leave. Don't stay here for me." Jenna said trying to be strong. "I have to learn to protect myself. There's no more going to Brian to cry on his shoulder, there's no more taking the horses out and racing in the valley. As much as I don't want to admit it, those days are gone. They'll be gone for the rest of lives. I can't do the things I once did. After what McClaire put my family through. I still have nightmares about them. So I need you guys to leave as soon as you can before I start running to you for help again. I need to be strong for you guys, my family and myself." At this point she was speaking quite loud and the guys could hear her and decided to some over to see if she was alright.

"What are you talking about being be strong?" Nathan said concerned. "You just told me not but days ago that you can't be. But you're going to have to learn to be but this isn't the way to do it. You can't let McClaire's doing affect you this way. You think you're being strong but I can see the little girl in your eyes waiting to come out. I can see the tears wanting to come out but you won't let them, you think that's being strong?" Nathan was yelling at her now and he had walked towards her making her back up against the wall. Spot was now ready to help her if need be and so was Jack. It was silent for a couple of moments the guys looking between their two leaders, Nathan stood in front of her looking at her and Jenna depended on the wall for support with her eyes closed, ready to cry. "Look Jenna, I'm sorry, I had no right to go off on you like that. I just think that moving here isn't the best solution. You should be home, where all your friends are, people who can help you cope with this." Nathan said a little softer this time. He put his hands on the wall on both sides of her, leaning down to be face level with her. She opened her eyes and a single tears broke the watergate.

"Nathan, I appreciate your concern but you don't know what it was like for me to live there." She paused. She was only looking at Nathan aware that there were more people in the alley but she didn't care. "If I go back there it will be the same. My future will be the same as my past. I know you don't think it's a problem but it is and it's going to be something that will never change." She said in a Irish accent, crying lightly, she didn't bother wiping them away. Nathan had backed away a little noticing that their arguments were always the same. They would start out one topic and then go to the next but that was normal with Jenna, she always avoided the true topic so she didn't have to deal with it.

"I trust you and I'm sorry." the tension that was once in the air had dissolved. Things were back to normal before they started fighting. He took at a hankie and handed it to her.

"Thanks." she said taking it and wiping her tears away. Nathan watched her and then look over to the guys.

"We'll leave the day after tomorrow." he said.

"Ok." She looked at him and the rest of the guys and smiled. "I think you guys deserve a night out on the town. You guys wanna met me somewhere tomorrow?"

"Ya." excited that they get the night to just hang out.

"Ok, met me at Medda's tomorrow around eight thirty?"

"Ok." they said.

"Good, see you then." she said. "Look Nathan I'm sorry." This was the guys cue to leave.

"Don't worry. I'm just going to miss you more than you'll know. And I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you. Sometimes you try act like you're this strong person but I forget how fragile you are." he said bringing his hand and rubbing the back of against her cheek.

"Thanks." she said. She gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. As Spot was watching her, he became jealous that she had given him a hug and kiss, let alone that he would touch her. He didn't even get that when he brought her home that night.

"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow. It called Medda's." she said still in irish accent, knowing that he forget what it was called.

"I know, I heard you the first time." he said, as if he would to his mother. They started walking out, Jenna had stopped because she was going the opposite direction as the guys and Nathan kept walking. The guys left the square and Jenna just stood there watching them walk away. After a moment she left and Spot and Jack came out from the shadows.

"What was that all about?" Jack asked.

"It's a long story. I'll tell you on our way back to the lodging house." Spot said and the started heading back home.