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Chapter Twelve – Come in With the Rain Part II

As soon as they stepped through the door Lydia went straight to the kitchen. She set Jack on the floor and began drying him with a tea towel. The puppy made small noises as it tried to climb in Lydia's lap in an attempt to get as close to her as he could. "It's okay Jack. I'm going to get you all dried off, and then we'll find you some food and a nice, warm place to sleep. Jude, can you see if you can find any food for him?" When she didn't hear any movement she looked up to find Jude staring down at her in disbelief. "What?" She asked.

"You're kidding right?" She shook her head. "We were just running around in the middle of a hurricane for a dog!" He said, slightly raising his voice.

"Jude, he's a puppy! A helpless little puppy that was alone out there, he could have died."

"So could have you. You ran down the marina in the middle of the storm, you were almost swept off the docks. Then you wouldn't have been able to save anyone."

"I had to save him; he's got no one else."

"So you risked both of our lives for a lonely dog?"

"I never asked you to come with me. Okay, I would have found him if you were there or not!"

"You're unbelievable, there is no way I was going to let you go by yourself, and you know that!"

"What do you want me to say? I'm sorry that we were in a dangerous situation, but I'm not sorry I went after him. I'm the only person that would have gone after him, just like you're the only person who would have gone after me."

"Lydia, I just got you. After sixteen long years I can finally hold you and kiss you whenever I want. And, I care about Jack too, okay but I'm not willing to lose you for him." When Lydia remained quiet Jude left the room. She didn't realize how close he came to losing her, he had to watch her risk her life and it scared him to death. He had the girl of his dreams, and he loved her, he always had. She was the one person who knew everything about him, the one person whose touch could instantly calm him, and as selfish as it was, he wasn't ready to lose that yet. He didn't know if he ever would be.

"Did he ever cheat on me?" Davis was taken aback by the question. The two of them had been having a good time, hanging out in the staff room when she asked the question. When Davis didn't answer right away she looked at him. "He did, didn't he?"

"Not that I know of." She gave him a disbelieving look. "I can't guarantee you that he didn't, but I promise he never mentioned it to me, or led me to think that he did. Do you think he did?"

"Part of me does. It's just the only real reason that I can come up with. He must have fallen in love with someone else."

"It's not easy to fall in or out of love. To fall in love you have to give your heart to someone, and to fall out of love you have to take it back."

"I almost wish that he was moving, or his mom hated me. Just some reason for him ending it that doesn't involve falling out of love. How can you take back your heart when the other person still wants it?" Tears began to fall from her eyes, Davis wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulder.

"Love's not fair, people get their hearts broken every day, and it's a tragedy, but unfortunately it's also life."

Her car stopped and she was stranded on the Tree Hill Bridge. The rain was too much and her engine flooded, that's what she got for driving a Ford.

After she fed Jack she entered the living room to find him. He was sitting on the couch staring off into space. "I didn't think." She said. "I just acted and I shouldn't have, I'm sorry that I scared you." Jude motioned for her to join him on the couch, she sat down next to him, but was afraid to look him in the eye.

"Just promise me that from now on, before you do stuff like that you'll think of me first."

"I promise."

"How's Jack?" At the sound of his name the small dog came barreling into the room. He hopped up on to Jude's lap, set his head down on his leg and closed his eyes.

"He's tired." Lydia laughed, "I think we're all a little tired." Jude wrapped his arm around Lydia's shoulder.

"It's been a very long, cold and wet day. It looks like the rains slowing down, before you know it this hurricane and this day will be over."

"As much as I love the rain, I'm really looking forward to seeing the sun again."

"Yeah, I know how you feel." Jude grabbed a blanket from the back of the couch and wrapped it around them. Together, they drifted off into an easy sleep.

"It looks like the rain has stopped." Davis said as the two kids passed by the front doors of the school.

"I hope my phone works now, I need my dad to come pick me up."

"I can drive you home."

"Really?"

"Yeah, it's not a problem." They hopped into his Jeep and began making their way home.

"Today was fun." Jenny said.

"Yeah, it was nice to just hang out and forget that there was a world outside the gym walls."

"It really makes you not want to go to school tomorrow." She laughed.

"I'm hoping they'll give us another day off to recover from the storm."

"That would be awesome." She said as they pulled into her driveway. "Thanks for driving me home, and talking me off the ledge today."

"It was no big deal. I know things have been confusing for you lately, but if you need to talk, about anything, I'm always around."

"Thanks Davis, you're a really good friend." She leaned over the console and gave him a hug. She politely smiled and then made her way to her house. Once inside she explained to her dad what had happened and then went to her room. She crawled into her bed and pulled the covers up to her chin. It's difficult to fall in and out of love.

When the rain finally did subside Sawyer got out of her car and walked to the end of the bridge. She then made her way down the grass to the cement walls under the bridge where she and Alex had sat. As soon as she sat down she could feel the tears beginning to fall. She felt bad about what she had done to Jenny. She thought she could go through it as long as she had Johnny, she would feel bad but it would be okay because she really loved him. But Jenny loved him too, and she couldn't take knowing that she was the reason her heart was breaking. She hated feeling sorry for herself; all it did was remind her that Alex was right. She was a hypocrite, it was her fault she was sad, no one made her hook up with Johnny, she knew he had someone else but she did it anyway. She was selfish, and she was tired of feeling bad.

Sawyer wiped her tears away with her sleeves and made her way back to her car. She put her keys in the ignition and gave a silent prayer that it would work. She turned the key and her car came to life. She kissed her steering wheel and thanked god. She played around with the radio until she found a song that she liked, put her car in gear and began to drive home, the sun was shining and she had a feeling that tomorrow was going to be a better day.

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