I know you're all going to hate me for this chapter, but I couldn't think how to continue it so I just left it there. Sorry, I will update as soon as I can! Thanks again for all the support I've been getting (:

Chapter 5

[3 days later]

"Morning Gorgeous" Jess's eyes fluttered as she was awaken by a half naked man holding a tray full of food. She rubs her eye lid slowly as she focuses on the tray, pancakes, orange juice, strawberries and a little daffodil to finish it off.

"Morning" she smiled, finally sitting herself up, it felt like months since their first encounter and now they had been living everyday like a married couple. They went everywhere together, held hands in public and definitely made sure that everyone knew they were a couple. Everyone except their friends of course, who were still on their camping trip, little did they know what was going on back home

"I made you breakfast" said Nick as he laid the tray gently on her lap, as he sat stroking her hand over the duvet

"Yeah I can see that" it wasn't that she didn't like Nick, can she definitely did, but over the last few days, Jess found him a little bit clingy. It was nice at first, but now it was getting old. He was sweet, but a girl needed her space.

"Do you want me to feed you!" his eyes widened as she just stared back in confusion

"You want to what?"

"Feed you, It'll be fun"

"For you maybe" she mumbled under her breath, she was probably going to regret this later, but she became nice Jess and sat there with her mouth open waiting for the little toot toot train to come. She literally felt about five. Nick needed a baby not a girlfriend.

"All finished" laughed Nick as he began to reach over to wipe her mouth "and here's your reward" he reached up and gave her a kiss before bringing the tray to the kitchen. She looked around the door before grabbing her clothes and shooting into the bathroom; locking the door behind her. The coolness of the door seeped through her oversized pyjama top and she sunk down the door, embracing the little bit of freedom she had before...

"Jess...Are you in there?" before Nick happened

"Yeah"

"Can I come in?"

"Why?"

"So we can brush our teeth together, like we do most mornings" she sighed, that was another thing, every morning, like clockwork, they would get up and stand next to each other brushing their teeth together. Since when did Nick turn into this lovey dovey person. He had always been the calm cool one, well he appeared to be but then again Jess had never dated him before, maybe that was why Caroline dumped him. It all started to make sense now.

"Erm...well I'm in the shower" she instantly ran to turn on the shower, as she could hear the gush of water stream out the head piece. Nick started to turn the door handle but with no success

"Since when do you lock the door? Jess I've seen everything, no need to hide from me" if only that was the problem. Pacing up and down the bathroom she tried to master up some lie to get him to leave.

"I'm...I'm...on my period!" she mustered out as her eyes squinted, Really Jess? She thought to herself, as she began silently hitting her head against the wall.

"Oh...I'll leave you to it then" He's gone? HE'S GONE! She felt like shouting out, in the three days they had officially been together this was the first time, she was alone. Why didn't she think of the period thing earlier? With a sigh of relief she started to get inside the shower. She was going to make the most of this, even if she was in the bathroom for hours, she was in a Nick free zone.

Jess never thought she'd say this but she was glad to be finally away from him.

Nick slumped down in the living room, thinking about what just happened. Jess had been acting weird recently around him and he couldn't think why. Did she not like him anymore, because he sure as hell liked her. It was weird though, he hadn't been in a relationship for quite some time since Caroline and it would seem that he was out of practise.

At the beginning, they were really close, she was nice and they did everything together but as the days grew on, she became more distant, she didn't want to be with him anymore and it was upsetting him. The more she wanted to be alone, the more he wanted to be with her, to make him feel like they were still close. Fair enough, it had only been like three days and you can't base a relationship on that, but was he doing something wrong?

He sat silently with his head rested on the pillow behind him; he could almost hear Jess singing in the bathroom. What was wrong? He focused her ears to the stopping of water and the silent door creaking as it opened

"Jess?" there was no replied "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, fine!"

"Should I –"

"NO!" he was broken midsentence by her shriek "I mean don't come in, I'm doing lady things" Nick heard the door shut again, and he found himself alone once more. It was so strange, he needed to confront her once and for all, this wasn't right. He wasn't going to be treated this way with no explanation. Forcing himself off the couch, he marched over to her door, put his straightest most serious expression on and loudly knocked twice.

"...yes"

"I demand you let me in"

"You demand?" he could hear edge in her voice, maybe he was ready for confrontation, she sounded angry

"Jess...please just let me in, I need to ask you something"

There was something in his voice that made her nervous, what did he want? Surely, he didn't know she was lying, did she? After throwing the last remaining piece of clothing, she opened the door

"What do you want to ask me?" her head lolled against the door frame as she searches his eyes for some clue

"I want an explanation"

"For what?" she started to panic, he knew, I bet he knew all along, she thought. This wasn't going to end well was it

"You know exactly what" Jess could feel the beads of sweat rolling down her face, she can't cope with this kind of pressure and before anyone could stop her she, blurted out

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to lie, I'm not really on my period, I promise"

"I knew something was...wait, what?"

"I lied...I just didn't want you to come in the bathroom, I'm sorry" it wasn't what he expected, if he was being honest, that didn't even cross his mind. She lied about her period...okay?

"Will you ever forgive me?"

"Erm...yeah sure but I also wanted to ask you something else"

"What?" with the guilt off her shoulders, she wasn't prepared for what he had to say next

"Why have you been acting weirdly around me lately? You don't want to do anything together anymore, it's like you're..." he couldn't finish his late word; he wouldn't admit that maybe this was mistake, and she clearly didn't like him.

She had to be serious now, she couldn't just avoid his question

"Because, recently we've been together too much and well I like having my own space. Don't get me wrong, being with you is amazing, more than I could have ever imagined, it's just I didn't expect to be with you this much" she could see the hurt in his eyes, how could she just stand there and say these things to him. She did still like him.

"So what do you want me to do? Tone it down? I'll do anything for you" Jess knew that he meant it, but was it enough. Actions spoke louder than words, did she have the heart to tell him no. The biggest question was, should she listen to her heart or her head.

© Ms Zola, May 2012