Chapter 6

I'm sorry for not updating yesterday…Give ya two words…springtime lethargy -.-

Thanx for the reviews!

I guess it will take a little longer (more than a day) till I post the next chapter…Gotta go to school tomorrow :(. But I'll update as soon as possible.

Here we go…soppy …in some kind (Don't think I'll just let them be happy, nahhhhhh…I luv writing dramatic parts most) ;)

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Parker ran as fast as she could. She heard Jarod screaming her name. Why couldn't he just go back to Zoe? One more time she had to fight her tears; everything could be so wonderful if there wasn't the Centre. If she let Jarod love her they would use that to catch him – to kill them both. No, that would never happen.

"Parker wait!" reaching Parker, Jarod grabbed her arm.

"Let me go, Jarod! Please just let me go!" unable to play the ice queen, Parker couldn't look into his eyes. She knew if she did she would break.

"I won't." Jarod whispered, carefully whipping away her tears.

"Jarod I…"

"Don't." he placed a finger on her lips before kissing her gently.

In the first moment, Parker thought about pushing him away – but she couldn't. Instead, she closed her eyes and kissed him the way she had always dreamed of.

When the kiss ended, they stood there for a while, simply hugging each other. When Parker was able to think again, she suddenly jumped back.

"God! What am I doing!" Parker looked at Jarod, shocked and confused. Before turning around and running away, she whispered "I'm sorry, J."

Jarod stood on the street, a tear running down his face, watching Parker run away. He wasn't strong enough to follow her another time – Only to find out that he couldn't change anything.

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Parker sat on her sofa, confused and unable to think about something else than the kiss. She needed to talk to someone about it. She just needed to talk. But was there anyone she could trust enough to share this secret with? Sydney? Yeah, Sydney was good; he always had a piece of advice…Even if nobody asked for it.

"Sydney? It's me…Could you come around?"

"Parker?" Sydney asked worried. Parker sounded as if she had cried "Are you all right?"

"Sydney, please just come around… I need to talk to someone."

"Aren't you with Jarod anymore?"

There was silence for a moment "No I'm not." Parker managed to say and hung up.

Sydney immediately left his office. This wasn't the Parker he knew. That definitely meant something – probably something bad.

Opening her front door, Parker gave Sydney a short look before continuing staring to the ground "Hi Syd."

She led him into her living room. When they sat down, Parker hid her face behind her hands "I did something incredibly stupid."

Sydney had no idea what this was about. But maybe she had… Suddenly worried, he asked "Have you done something to Jarod? Is he all right?"

"In some kind…It's just not the way you think." Parker answered, still not looking at him. "I can't … I tried to forget that Carthis thing - but what happened today…Syd I don't know how to go on."

"What happened?" trying to calm the completely confused Parker down, Sydney took her hand.

"Jarod… We… When we were on Carthis, we almost kissed. It was hard enough to tell him that this wasn't the different ending he was looking for but he didn't accept it. We had a talk about it and when he hugged me his girlfriend came in – quite a bitch, by the way. As you can imagine, she didn't like what she saw and after a short discussion I left. I didn't want to ruin his relationship. But he…" her voice broke "But he came after me and we… kissed." She gave Sydney a pleading look "Help me to forget it, Syd. Help me to go on. I don't want him to end like Tommy. I don't want the Centre to kill us."

Sydney was shocked. He hadn't expected something like that to happen. But though he was shocked, he had to smile. "You love him don't you?"

"I do. But there's no way…" Parker began, but Sydney interrupted her.

"There's always a way. Does the thought of living with Jarod scare you that much?"

Before Parker could answer, Sydney's phone rang. "Excuse me."

Sydney took out his phone and heard a sad and confused voice "This is Jarod. I need to talk to you…"

To be continued

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I know this is a short chapter – even for me – but I have some school stuff to do (yeah…I was TOO lazy the last two weeks -.-)