Chapter Nineteen

Jessica arrived at the hotel a little before ten. She parked the car and walked into the lobby. She went up to the desk and asked for Dave's room. She was told it was room 456 so she made her way up to the fourth floor. She found room 456 and hesitated before she knocked on the door. Dave opened it and smiled.

"I'm glad you came. Come in."

Jessica walked past him and into the room.

"Sit down." Dave said pointing to the couch.

Jessica sat down and looked around.

"So I take it you read my letter all the way through?"

"I wouldn't be here if I hadn't would I." Jessica said.

"No, I guess not. Look I don't know what to say to make you stop hating me. All I can say, is I'm sorry for leaving you, I'm sorry for promising you something and not keeping my word. I'm sorry you had to go through so much in you're life and that I wasn't there for you. Jessica, I'm sorry for everything."

Jessica was taken aback at Dave's sudden straight into the problem approach.

"Look, Dave I'm not mad at you. Yes, right now I hate you but I just need answers and maybe I'll get over it."

"I told you all that happened in the letter. Other than that all I can say is sorry and try to build a relationship with you again."

"So that's it? You just forgot even though you said you wouldn't?"

"I was selfish. I know that, but Eddie he told me about his family and how much he loves them. It made me realise that my family love me or loved me and I loved and cared for them."

"Alright. If you really want to work things out then I guess I could give you a chance. But, if you fuck up again I'll never forgive you."

"Alright, I'll do anything to be you're brother again."

"But you're leaving tonight. How are you going to actually prove all this to me?"

"Well, I have a plan, more like an idea, but I need to know something first."

"What's that?"

"What's going on between you and Randy?"

Jessica smiled. "We're friends right now. I'm 17, if we were going to be together, like as a couple I'd wait until I was 18 for anything like that to happen. I'm not a horny little girl Dave. Randy respects that."

Dave smiled. "I know. Ok, so my plan or idea whichever is, would you like to come with me?"

"What?"

"Would you come with me tonight. Come meet my family?"

"You have a family?"

"Yeah, my wife, and three daughters."

"Wow..I'm an aunt."

Dave laughed. "Yeah, so would you like to?"

"What about mom and the others?"

"Well, I was thinking if you came with me and met my family, we could get to know each other again and work at them later."

"I don't know what to say." Jessica said.

"Say you'll come with me."

"When do we leave?" Jessica asked.

"Well, this afternoon usually but since you need to do things, we'll leave around 6pm."

"Ok, I'll go talk to mom, and give my car back to my friend. See you later."

"Come back here."

Jessica nodded and left the room. As she made her way back down to the car she thought about weather or not she was rushing into things. She was excited but nervous about getting hurt again. All she had to do now was tell her mom and Casey and Dean that she was leaving. That she wasn't looking forward to at all.