Chapter 9

The day John went to the hospital to see if Jenna was still there. He went to straight to her room, looked through the window. To his surprise, she wasn't there. John then asked one of the nurses if they had seen Jenna. They then said that she had been released that afternoon. He knew that something wasn't right. I hope she's back at the bar and not doing anything else, John thought as he made a mad dash out the front door of the hospital.

"Where are you going?" Dorian asked as he saw John run out the front door in a hurry.

"I gotta find Jenna. She's already been released from the hospital and I have a bad feeling..." he paused as he started walking to his car.

"Bad feeling about what?"

John shook his head, "I don't know. I just have a feeling that something's going to happen. She isn't in the best shape and that worries me."

"If you don't love this girl, why do you care about her so much?" Dorian asked as they got into the car and started to drive off.

"Ok, now that is none of your business."

Dorian just let out a little laugh and rolled his eyes. Yeah like I haven't heard that a million times.

"I have a history with her...that's why I care."

Oh please. You love her. You just won't admit it, Dorian thought to himself.

John then suddenly hit on the brakes and stopped the car. He looked out the window and saw Jenna standing there in front of them.

Jenna stared at John for a second. She dropped a guitar pick in the street, hoping that John would see it and then hurried to the back door inside the bar.

John then knew that Jenna was ok. After he parked the car he went to see what Jenna had dropped. He didn't recognize the guitar pick and didn't know if it was for him.

"Go inside," John said to Dorian. "I'll be there in a little bit"

Dorian nodded without saying anything.

John then went to the back of the building and opened the door, hoping that he would find Jenna before she went ok. He noticed her walking passed him and grabbed her arm. "Hey," was the only thing he said."

Jenna then looked up, a little shocked. "Hey... um...what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see you earlier and you weren't at the hospital."

"John I'm fine. Really... I'm fine." She let go of his hand and tried to get away from him.

"No you're not Jenna!" He walked a little faster and got in front of her. "I know something's wrong. Why won't you tell me?"

Jenna tried to start walking down the hallway. She didn't want to tell him...but she stopped and looked at him straight in the eye. "You want to know why I can't tell you?" Her voice started to break and she was almost in tears. "Because I love you, goddammit!" Jenna turned turned around and started to hurry off, leaving John all alone.

He knew that she loved him...but just didn't know if he could love her back. And it mad him angry with guilt. He stormed out of the building and almost punched the wall, but he realized it wouldn't do him any good. He opened the front door to the bar and tried to look for Dorian.

"By the look on your face I can see that didn't go well," Dorian said as he found John.

John shook his head. He didn't want to tell Dorian what had just happened. He was still angry, and mostly with himself.

But something else was going to happen that night that was going to be totally unexpected for John.