At Jane's place a few hours later both Jacqueline and Jane are cuddled together on the bed in the living room, fast asleep. Jane with her head on Jacqueline's shoulder their hands entwined not wanting to release each other even in sleep.
Startled awake from the sound of a phone, Jacqueline slowly and mindfully pulls away from the slumbering girl, not wanting to wake her. Quietly slipping out of bed, she moves to the coffee table where they set their phones at.
Seeing that it was Jane's phone that got a text Jacqueline sighs running her hands through her hair. Not wanting to look she picks the phone up and goes over to Jane sitting next to her sleeping form on the bed.
Brushing her hair from her face "Darling, it's time to get up."
Jane stirs, opening her eyes, which lock on Jacqueline. "Hey you." She softly rapts out.
"Your phone went off. I didn't want to check it." handing the phone over as Jane pulls herself up sitting against the headboard of the bed.
"You could've checked it." She smiles at her "But thank you." Taking the phone and pulling up her texts.
It's a text from Ryan. Jane, I need to talk to you. He never even replied last night she was hoping he was understanding she didn't want to talk to him.
Seeing the worry lines across Jane's face, she sets her hand on Jane's lap in concern. "What is it darling?"
Showing her the phone "It's Ryan even though I told him I didn't want to talk to him."
Another message comes in this time with a picture of Jacqueline and Jane at the park when they were embraced.
Jacqueline gasps as she sees the photo. Jane turns the phone back to see what the gasp was about. Dropping the phone to the bed, her hands coming to her face in mild shock.
Jacqueline pulls Jane in her arms as she sees the girl shaking. Holding the girl close, Jane wrapped her arms around the older woman trying to steady her breathing.
"Just follow my breathing baby, shh, there you go deep breaths." She soothes by running her hands through the girl's hair.
Moments later Kat walks in, instantly worried when she sees the situation in front of her. Rushing to the bed, on the other side of Jane. "Hey what's wrong?" She questions them, her hand on the back of Jane in concern.
Lifting her head from Jacqueline, Jane finds her phone showing it to Kat. Kat's jaw drops at the message.
"He was following you guys?" She spits out angrily.
Jane shrugs, turning toward Kat, not leaving Jacqueline's arms. " I don't know but I thought I saw him at the park when we were leaving. And then I just got that before you got here."
" What do you want to do?" Kat asks, taking the girl's hands in hers. "I'm texting Sutton."
Pulling out her phone Kat texts Sutton to come to Jane's. Not letting her know why, just that there was an S.O.S situation. " There Richard and Sutton should be here soon."
Both nod their heads in reply. " Thank you Kat."
Jacqueline places a kiss on Jane's head before she gets up from the bed. "I'll be right back sweetie, going to the bathroom." She says squeezing Jane's shoulder in love.
Jane just nods her head, watching her walk through the french doors of her bedroom to the bathroom. "Kat get us when Sutton gets here please?."
She nods "of course babe. Are you okay?"
"We kissed right before that picture was taken. It was magical, but now I feel like it was tainted with him watching us."
"Aww tiny Jane." Kat coos out. " Don't let him ruin it!"
"I'll try not to." She sighs out before heading into her room to wait for Jacqueline.
While sitting on the bed waiting for her editor Jane's mind is racing. First, thinking about what's going to happen next. Then to think about what Ryan wants to talk about and why he was in that park when they were. Is he following her or was it by chance? She wonders. And finally to that amazing kiss. The feel of the editor's lips on hers was better than she ever imagined. And she imagined it a lot.
Jacqueline comes out of the bathroom several minutes later, she pauses seeing Jane in the room. Instead of alerting Jane to her presence, she just looks at the woman in front of her. How did she get so lucky to have this woman care for her. She thinks.
Just watching Jane she's able to see all the different emotions pass over her. From worried, to anger, to love. Once the tears begin to show in those gorgeous hazel eyes Jacqueline kneels in front of the girl.
One hand resting on the girl's knee, the other wiping the tears from her eyes. "What's going on in that pretty head of yours?"
Surprised by the action. "I don't know honestly," Jane shrugs. "We finally kissed. I told Kat that I feel like our moment was tainted." she whines out with tears slipping out again.
" Oh darling no." Jacqueline's hand going to Jane's neck pulling their heads together. "Nothing about that moment was tainted. Please don't think that. It was as they say magical." Wiping the tears from her eyes. "Jane" she whispers softly before taking the lips in hers once again.
Jane responds, returning the kiss immediately. Arms wrapping around the woman pulling her in close. Tongues asking for entrance and granted, as they kiss deeply forgetting the world around them. That first kiss was like coming home, but this one feels like a promise. A promise that nothing can come between them.
A knock on the doors to Jane's bedroom brings them both back to the real world. They slow the kiss down, not wanting to part just yet, lips still together as they calm their beating hearts from the heat of the kiss.
Jacqueline pulls back, nipping the lips in hers. "See, nothing can ruin our kiss." Fingers running over said lips she just kissed before placing another peck against them.
Smiling at one another Jacqueline stands pulling Jane with her. "We should get out there."
"Thank you." Jane squeezes the hand still in hers.
Seeing Jacqueline raise an eyebrow in question, Jane brings her hand to her cheek to whisper softly "Thank you for catching me." Before gracing their lips softly once again before pulling back and exiting the room.
Out in the living quarters Kat is showing Sutton and Richard the messages when the ladies grace them with their presence.
Spotting them Sutton runs to Jane wrapping her in her arms. "Oh babe, I'm sorry!"
Jane brings her arms around Sutton. "It's okay. Sorry to bother you guys"
Richard who is sitting on the couch. "Jane, it's fine. I know when I married Sutton she came with the two of you." He laughs out shrugging.
"You better believe it buddy!" Kat adds.
Jacqueline laughs at the antics. "Sorry, I just wish I had friends as close as the three of you are."
Pulling away from Sutton, Jane turns towards Jacqueline. "Aw babe." She coos out.
Jacqueline moves to sit down on the stool by the counter, squeezing Jane's shoulder on the way by winking at her. "I need a drink."
Kat jumps up going to the kitchen. "What shall we have, wine, vodka or some scotch?."
" Wine for me is fine." Jacqueline says.
Richard asks for a scotch, Sutton and Jane both having Wine.
Kat gets everyone a drink, herself included before sitting on the bed. Jane joins Jacq at the counter as Sutton sits next to Richard. Each taking a sip of their drinks.
"Should we be worried about Ryan?" Sutton breaks the silence amongst the group.
Jane sighs out reaching for the editor's hand. "I don't know. Maybe I should just text him back about meeting him to see what he actually wants."
"That's up to you Jane." Jacqueline squeezes the hand in hers. "I am worried though. Was he stalking you or just happened to see us at the park?" She questions.
"I was asking that very question myself."
"You don't have to meet him alone if you don't want to." Kat let's her know.
"Yes! We will go with you!" Sutton adds.
Jane smiles at her friends, thankful to have them in her corner.
A phone goes off making everybody jump. Jane's phone is sitting on the table, Sutton looks at it shaking her head it's not hers. They remember to breath checking their phones. Jacqueline getting hers from the table in front of the couch.
"It's mine." She breathes out before sighing deeply. "It's a message from Ian. Letting me know he's going back to the Ukraine tonight and would like to see the boys for dinner. They are still with my mother." She glances at Jane, before replying back to Ian. I'm picking the boys up at five.
"When do you have to go get them?" Jane asks her over her wine glass.
Glancing at the time, seeing it's four in the afternoon. "In about an hour. My mother took them to the museum today. They love it when she takes them." She smiles walking back over to the counter taking her seat again.
Another text from Ian comes in. Okay. We should probably talk before I leave.
"Jacq, you okay? What is it? " Jane asks in concern, hearing the sigh leaving the woman's lips.
"He thinks we should talk before he leaves."
"Oh" slips out before Jane gets up walking to her room.
Feeling a little hurt Jacqueline stares at where Jane walked away.
"Maybe you should go talk to her Jacq." Richard says, not liking the hurt look on his friend's face.
"Yeah." She breathes deeply before following Jane.
She knocks on the door once before entering, closing the door behind her. "Jane?" She calls out sadly. Seeing said woman laying on the bed, her back to the door.
Jane stays silent, hoping the older woman just goes away so she doesn't see her tears. She's not sure why she had that reaction about Ian. She knows Jacqueline doesn't love Ian, but Ian is the father of her kids.
Jacqueline decides to crawl in next to Jane on the bed. Laying on her side behind her writer, bringing her hand up to slowly move the hair behind Jane's ear before sliding the hand down her side. Placing soft kisses on the back of her neck.
Hearing Jane's breath quicken with each kiss, she continues. Moving to Jane's ear, she softly whispers "Don't run away from me darling." Pulling Jane into her, her arms wrapping around her from behind.
Not being able to stop the tears, Jane cries out. "Jacq -" turning so she's facing the woman. "I'm scared, I love you so much. I don't want to lose you. I can't lose you." She sobs in the arms of the woman she loves.
Hands slide up to Jane's face wiping the tears -as tears start to fall from her own eyes "Oh Jane, You're not going to lose me baby, you're my home remember." She tells her promisingly before kissing the soft lips
"I love you too if you hadn't noticed already." She cries out, pulling back from the kiss to look into the writer's eyes.
Jane, seeing nothing but the truth in those ocean blue eyes, lowers her head to Jacqueline's shoulder. "I'm sorry." She sobs into the woman.
"Jane, look at me." She softly pleads, pulling Jane from her shoulder. "Do not apologize. I'm scared too sweetie. But please do not run away from me."
Nodding her head "I won't. I won't, Jacq."
"I'm gonna have to go soon, Before I do -please tell me why you just walked away like that." She asks, caressing Jane's cheek.
Inhaling deeply before letting her breathe out. "Ian." She mumbles out eyes downcast. "At Sutton's wedding I saw you in a heated discussion before you came back over to me. Was that about me?"
" Jane," she says while lifting the girl's chin to look at her. "That's a complicated answer. It wasn't as much about you but about me." She pulls away sitting up against the headboard.
Jane sits up taking the editor's hand in hers not wanting to lose the contact. "Jacq, you can tell me. What about you?"
"My truth Jane. I told you earlier that I was with Ian because it was easier than letting my truth out. Then letting everyone know that I preferred girls over boys. I found myself in college but then I was assaulted -" she pauses, shaking her head. "I was assaulted for who I was Jane, for liking girls so I hid."
Jane, shocked by that revelation, immediately pulls Jacqueline to her. "Oh baby I'm sorry. Why didn't you tell me before?" Her hands running up and down the woman's back.
"It wasn't important then." She shrugs, pulling back. "Jane, I'm done hiding that part of me. What you saw at Sutton's wedding was Ian not liking that my feelings were showing."
"You, coming over to me?" She asks, perplexed.
"More like not being able to stop watching you from afar." She grabs Jane's hand in hers playing with her fingers. "I never told him the truth, you know. He overheard me a few weeks ago when I was talking to the boys about it. I didn't know he was there." She sighs out looking at Jane.
Jane squeezes the fingers in hers, glancing at the clock on the wall she sees it four forty-five. "It's almost five. You have to go soon." She says sadly.
Pulling the writer into her lap "Jane I wish I didn't have to. I don't want to have the conversation that is going to happen but it needs to happen. Ian isn't happy about what he overheard. Which is why he was so irate at Sutton's wedding. I don't know what's going to happen but it's time Jane. It's long past time."
Jane wraps her arms around Jacqueline's neck, leaning their heads together. "Aren't we a pair?" She laughs softly
Smiling, rolling her eyes at the girl before taking the lips near hers for a soft sweet kiss.
Humming from the lightness of the kiss Jane pulls back, butterflies in her stomach from the simple yet informing kiss they just shared.
"I love you Jane"
"I love you too Jacq"
