After my breakfast in the hotel, I went to Truncheon's. I pressed the button of Jess's apartment and an unknown male voice told me to come up. I stopped in the stairs looking stunned to the door of his place broken down.
"Oh, don't worry, those idiots only forgot it didn't open from the outside," someone said on my back. I turned to stare the person. It was a very tall and thin man, "I'm Chris," he added.
"Hi, I'm Rory," I shook his hand.
"Really?" he raised one eyebrow and a small grin played in his lips, "Well, it's very nice to meet you, Rory. Get in there, they're probably finishing their breakfast," he pointed to the apartment and entered after me.
As soon as I entered, I was introduced to Matthew, the guy who spoke to me in the intercom.
"Where's Anne?" I asked looking around while Jess filled my cup with coffee. Yes, I had breakfast already, but I couldn't say "no" to coffee, especially Jess' because Luke taught him well.
"She's coming," Chris answered. "She's only waiting for Sarah's baby-sitter show up," he added, making Jess and Matthew looking at him suspiciously, "What? -- I called her to see if she wanted a ride and she told me."
"Great, let's go," Matthew stood up and we followed him downstairs.
I started helping Jess finish organizing a shelf. We didn't say anything at first, and this was really bothering me.
"So, is Matthew always this harsh?" I tried to start a subject. It was a lame one, I know, but I couldn't stand the silence anymore.
"What do you mean?" he asked, not paying much attention.
"Well, I mean he didn't even let us finish our coffee...my coffee," I explained, I really wouldn't like to loose such a great coffee.
"You could have brought it down here, you know?" he chuckled.
"Oh, really?" I whined "Can I get it now?" But before he could answer me I interrupted him, "No way you're going to put your book in the shelf!" I grabbed the book protectively, "It should be on one of the tables."
He looked a little shocked to me before smirking lightly and saying, "Ok, go talk to Chris to decide where to put them." He gave me the other books, "and you can get your coffee on the way there."
"Thank you," I smiled and left.
After I was finished with Chris, I went to Jess, but I saw him with Anne. They were only talking, but it hurt. It really did, seeing Anne laughing so happily around him. She realized I was looking at them and waved for me, I tried to say hi and went out of there.
I hung in the bathroom for a while, just because I couldn't stand being there watching Jess with a girl that wasn't me and honestly being happy with it. I went back in there when a woman entered the bathroom, which probably meant they had opened the store already.
Luke was there, with his daughter, April. I spent most of the time with them, to forget how broken my heart was. It was working great until the open house was over and the store was closed again and all of the sudden, Jess, Matthew and Chris started to celebrate something. Luke joined them while his daughter told me a story of a boy she liked or something of that matter.
Finally, Anne went there too, and I watched her changing a few words with Luke, then she getting surprised and looking at Jess. And I watched her smile at him, open her arms and jump in excitement. I saw Jess grabbing her, and their faces getting closer, and closer, and closer, and...I couldn't watch it anymore.
I ran away to the little yard outside of the store, doing my best to hold back my tears. This time I knew why I was crying: I had just lost the only man I truly loved and it was all my fault, because I realized it too late.
I should have dumped Logan sooner. I should have got back together with Jess when he came after me in Hartford, when he opened my eyes. I should have ran away with him when he asked me too. I should have...
"Hey, there you are," someone interrupted my thoughts, someone I knew pretty well who was, "we're kind of having a party out there."
"Yeah, I know," I answered.
"Don't you want to know why?" he asked, and I could see him raising one eyebrow, even though I was staring at the floor, not him. I shook my shoulder. He sighed.
"My second book is going to printing," he announced.
"Oh, my God!" I looked at him, standing up. "Second book?! Jess this is so... congratulations!" my voice sounded a little more girly than I planned, but I didn't mind at all. I wrapped my arms round his neck and he placed his on my waist.
This is what it was supposed to be: a congratulations hug. But when his body touched mine, I smelled his cologne and felt him smelling my hair, what could I do beside kissing him?
He kissed me back. All I could think of was 'how could I have survived all these years without this feeling? This amazing feeling that makes me loose my breath and my heart jump out of my chest, like all the clich? say.'
I broke the kiss lightly, slowly opening my eyes, ready to tell him what I was feeling. But then, it all faded away with the image of Anne behind Jess looking at us with her mouth opened in surprise.
I said a dirty word.
Hey! Chapter 6 is finally here. Next one will be the last one. Nothing much to say, only that I'm really sorry for the wait and that I hope you guys like it.
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