Kate was sitting with Rebecca on her couch, tear stained cheeks, and clutching to a pillow.

"So you told him?" Rebecca asked, Kate gave her a slight nod

"Well what did he say?" She asked

Kate raised her body so she was sitting, pillow in her lap, hands crunching it at the top; she wiped a tear away before replying "He said that he really didn't want me to leave"

"You should have seen his eyes, they were sad and full of guilt, but I had to do this" She finished

Rebecca reached out to rub her shoulder "Why Kate?" She asked "Why do you have to do this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm saying that you and Jack are good together, why can't you just be together"

Another tear escaped her eyes before she said "I told him that I loved him Becca"

Smiling sadly at her friend "I know you did, and I know you do"

Running a head over her forehead and down her cheek in frustration "He didn't say it back, and then when I told him I was leaving, I gave him another chance to tell me how he feels, and he didn't take it" She cried out

"He told you he wanted you to stay, maybe that's his way of showing how he feels" She tried

Kate shook her head; tears flowing down her cheeks "At least go and talk to him again"

Kate thought about it and decided that she would, tomorrow she would go see Jack again, and she couldn't walk away without one more try.


Jack was sitting on his couch watching the game highlights, Aaron was out with his friend for the day, so he had some times on his hands, he heard the phone ring, getting up to answer it "Hello"

"Hey Jack"

"Kate, Hey what's up?" Jack said lamely

"I was hoping maybe we could talk" She said hopefully

"Yeah, of course we can" He told her glad she still wanted to talk to him

"Okay, can I come over, or do you think we should meet up somewhere?" She asked

"No, Aaron's not here, so we can talk here" Jack informed her

"Okay, I'll see you soon" and with that she hung up and made her way over to Jack's

Hearing her knock at the door, and letting her inside, they walked into the kitchen to talk

"Do you want something to drink?" Jack asked

"No, I'm good thanks" She replied

There was an awkward silence between them, Kate hated that their relationship has become a bundle of awkward silences and painful conversations.

"Jack, how do you feel about me?" Kate said breaking the silence

"You know how I feel about you Kate" he answered

"No Jack, I don't I want you to tell me, please tell me"

Jack took a breath, he was never good at this kind of thing, and now she was just calling him out on it

"I want to be with you Kate" He said "I like how I feel when I'm with you, and the person I am with you is who I've always wanted to be"

Kate stood in front of him, her eyes were crying now, she took a few steps towards him, looked into those gorgeous brown orbs "Do you love me?"

Jack's breath hitched and he looked into her eyes as if searching for something, raising his hand to his her face, softly rubbing the tears away with his thumb, smiling at her slightly, but not saying anything.

"You can't say it, can you?" She asked her voice getting caught in her throat, tears spilling out even more now, Jack was still completely silent and she stepped back, making his hand fall to his side, He could swear he felt a cold drift the second his hand stopped making contact with her face

"I love you Jack" She said "And I can say it because that's how I feel about you"

"Kate" He finally spoke

"Jack, do you have any idea why I love you?" She asked "I mean do you know what you did for me?"

Jack shrugged his shoulders, feeling his eyes fill up with tears

"I love you, because before you come along I was just floating along, wasn't going anyway, I was stuck in the current Jack, than I meet you, you walked into my life and you made it so much better, that is such an amazing thing to do for someone, and with you I thought that finally I reached the shore, I wasn't floating anymore, you were my shore"

"Guess I was wrong huh?" She said with a bitter laugh

"No Kate, I care about you so much, I do, please don't go" He said walking over to her and wrapping his arms around her shaking body, he could feel his shirt getting wet with tears as he held her

"I love you but I can't stay" She said kissing him quickly "Because I deserve to loved back"

And just like a few nights ago she was gone again. But this time she wasn't coming back.


The next day, the day before Kate was leaving, Jack and Aaron were at his parent's house, his mom was pushing Aaron on the swing out in the backyard, and Jack and Christian were in the kitchen.

"Drink this" His father said handing him a coffee "You look like crap"

Jack grabbed the mug and took a sip "Yeah, well I haven't been sleeping very well lately"

"What's the reason for that son?" Christian asked

"Kate's leaving, she's taking a job out of town" He said quietly

"Out of town how?"

"Iowa" He replied

"Wow, that's far from California" The older man stated

Jack nodded "its 28 hours45 minutes" He started "About 2000 miles away from here"

"Well you've obviously been thinking about this" His father said to him

"She told me she loved me dad" His son blurted out

Christian looked shocked at this outburst "Wow, so you told her you love her too"

Jack looked up, he hadn't expected his father to think that any son of his could love a girl like Kate "No I didn't"

"You don't love her, cause son it seemed to me that you were head over heels a few weeks ago" He said

"It did?" He questioned, his father nodded

"Do you love her Jack?"

"Why do you care Dad, you never wanted us together" He shot out

His father came over by his placing his hands on the table "Jack, if this doesn't work out, you can't blame this one on me, and this one is going to be all on you"

"Do you love Kate?" He asked again after not getting his answer the first time

Jack looked down at the table, scenes replaying in his head like a movie, the soccer game, the butterflies he got when he first saw her, his heart pounding in his chest when they danced, the way his heart skipped a beat when they first kiss, playing football with Aaron and the way his son attached himself to her , the way he felt when he heard those three words come out of her mouth, it was the way he always felt when he was with her, amazing and in love.

"Yes" He said "I'm so in love with her"

"Than why are you sitting here telling me?" He asked

The older man walked over and placed a hand on his sons shoulder "Listen Jack, I know I didn't make it easy on Kate or you to be together, but the truth is she made you happy, and I was happy for that"

"Don't make the same mistakes I made Jack, Don't be the kind of guy who finds love and lets it slip away, you have to hang onto that kind of love, the kind you have with Kate, because think about how many times are you going to be that lucky son?"

They finished their conversation with that, and Jack took Aaron home and put him in bed. Walking downstairs looking over at the couch the memory of him and Kate watching the game together all cuddled up on a rainy day flashed through his mind. He shook it off, he had to get out of this house, everything in it reminded him of her, so he walked outside and backyard football flashed through his head, he would never be able to forget about her, to be honest he didn't want to. But what could he about that now, she was leaving tomorrow and there was nothing he could do about that now.

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