Chapter 7

4:15

Tru and Jack sat in his truck outside the teenagers house again. Tru was bored. This was her most boring assignment for a rewind she had ever been on. Tru sighed and Jack looked over at her.

"If this is boring you, you can leave."

"Nope. I can't leave, not until I know you're not going to die."

"How sweet. You really care Tru." Jack said, being over dramatic. He placed a hand over his heart. "It gets me right here." Tru glared at him.

Jack's cell phone rang and he reached in his pocket and glanced at his caller id. He stared at it a moment and stuck it back in his pocket.

"Not going to answer it?"

"Not important." Jack stated as the ringer stopped and they were bathed in silence once again.

"Are you ever going to tell me what you did after you saved this girl? I mean, you save her and then you wind up dead. What happened?" Tru asked. Jack sighed.

"There's something's that are better off left alone." Jack said, his voice sounding distant.

"What aren't you telling me?" Tru asked, turning to face him. Jack was silent for a moment. He turned to her and Tru didn't like the look in his eyes.

"There's a lot going on that you don't know about Tru. Be thankful for your ignorance to the way things are." Jack stated. Before Tru could ask anymore, his phone rang again.

"Must be important." Tru stated. Jack frowned and answered the call, opened his door and closed it. He walked a ways down the street, out of Tru's earshot. Tru watched him, wondering what was so secretive about this call.

"What!" Jack demanded, annoyed that Carrie couldn't leave him alone.

"Where were you Jack?" She demanded.

"I've been busy." Jack answered, not bothering to explain the rest of his day.

"Obviously. Now Jack, why didn't you meet me? Is it a rewind day? You usually tell me these things." Carrie said, sounding hurt.

"Tru's been following me all day Carrie. I can't loose that girl. I can't let her know you know me."

"Richard wants to see you later." Carrie told him.

"Why? I spoke with him earlier today." Jack stated, wondering what the man had to say. He had made it perfectly clear that he was expendable to their cause.

"I called him. He seemed concerned you missed my meeting."

"You did what!" Jack hissed, knowing perfectly well what Richard's interpretation of him missing that meeting would be.

"I was concerned. I thought maybe he had heard from you is all." Carrie stated and Jack's eyes narrowed. Jack was about to tell her off when the teenage girl left the house once again. He knew she'd go and talk to her friends where she'd be harassed because of her choice in boyfriend and begin to feel no one liked her. She would get depressed and leave and go to the tallest building in town and attempt to throw herself off of it.

"I have to go. We'll talk later." Maybe. Jack hung up the phone and jogged back to the truck.

"What was that about?" Tru asked as he opened the door and climbed in.

"Nothing important."

"Looked kind of heated to me." Tru stated, watching as he started the car and pulled out into traffic, keeping the teenager in perfect sight. "Do you even know this girl's name?"

"No. I don't need to." Jack stated, and Tru could tell something about that phone conversation had made Jack annoyed. His jaw was clenched and his eyes were narrowed slightly. "She's going to meet her friends because she had a fight with her parents. She's going to get there and she's going to still feel alone; like no one cares for her. From there, she'll go to the tallest building in town where we're going to meet her." Jack stated, turning left at the next street.

"We?" Tru asked, looking incredously at him.

"You do this more than I do." Jack stated.

"You saved her yesterday." Tru pointed out.

"Maybe I'll screw up today." Jack suggested, making another right.

"Maybe." Tru agreed, and they sunk into silence once again as they drove towards the end.