The Last Goodbye

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Andre was the first to get to speak to Jade. Andre was escorted to the visitor room while I hung alone in the cell. After what I figured was about an hour, Andre was brought back into the cell.

"How'd it go?" I asked.

"It was hard but we had a good talk."

"Did you ask her about the lie?"

"Nah...I couldn't bring myself to do it. I was just thinking about how she's going to be gone and I didn't want what we had to end on a bad note. She says her parents already dropped her from school and they will be gone a couple of days after we get out."

"Damn..."

"Beck, she'd like to speak to you next," said the security officer, holding our cell door open.

"OK," I replied.

I got up and walked with the security guard to the visitor room. It felt actually being in here because you see it in TV a lot but you never actually think you'll go through it. They brought me to a room with desks, phones and glass windows. I sat down at one of the desks and looked through the window. Jade was sitting on the other side, holding the phone and wiping a tear from her eye. It was so strange to see her like this. I grabbed the phone on my side and held it up to my head.

"Hey," I mustered.

"Hey," she mustered back, trying to straighten her face.

"How have you been?"

"Crappy, that's how I've been doing. My parents already dropped me from school. I'm going to be gone in a few-"

"I know. Andre told me when he came back in."

"This sucks...this is the closest I've ever felt to any group of people..."

"We're really going to miss you..."

"So..how's it been in there?"

"Meh, not much different from confinement in your house."

Jade gave me a weak smile. Ugh..it made me melt inside. I had no idea what to say since this could be the last time we ever talk to each other. I had to ask...

"So...I had an interesting talk with Andre. It was about what I thought could be your baby."

"What are you talking about?"

"Andre told me you two never had sex and there was no way you could ever get pregnant."

"Oh my goodness...why are you asking me this now?"

"Because I want answers. Why did you lie about Andre and why did you lie to me?"

"Do you really want to get into this? Is this how you want things to end?"

I stopped myself. I understand why Andre didn't ask her. He even told me this was why. He couldn't have his relationship with Jade end on such a bad note. I was being selfish. I didn't want my friendship with Jade to end this badly, with me in jail and asking her questions.

"No...I'm sorry. I was out of line."

"It's fine...After all of this, you deserve to know."

Jade took a deep breath before continuing.

"Early on when I was starting to gel with you guys, my parents found out. Naturally, they wanted to stop it and keep me under their power. So they made me tell that lie to you to strain our friendship and I'm so sorry."

"But why did you do it? You could have never told it and they would have never known."

"Because they threatened me. They told me that if I didn't go through with their plan, they would hunt each of you down one by one and kill you. Starting with you and Andre. And I was too scared to go against them."

Jade was tearing up again. I tried to comfort her but then again, there was only so much comforting I was able to do when we were separated by a wall of glass.

"That's awful. So they've been planning this from the beginning..."

"I'm so sorry, Beck..."

"It's OK. It's not your fault. I'm sorry we couldn't help you. And I'm sorry I told them even though you told me not to."

"It's fine. You only wanted to help..."

We stared there at each other longingly. I realized this could be my very last chance to tell her how I really felt. Nothing else mattered. It was time for the truth to come out once and for all. It's not like there would be any consequences; I could very well never see the woman of my dreams ever again. So I had to tell her.

"Jade?"

"Yeah?"

"There's one last thing I really really need you to know. If I had told you this earlier, none of this might have happened."

"What is it?"

"Jade, I lo-"

"Time's up," said the security officer.

The phone cut off and all I could hear in the phone was a droning beep. I looked through the glass wall. Jade looked at me distraught. Her mouth moved but there was no noise. Did my message even get through before the phone got cut off? Who knows? But based on her expression, I hoped not. The security began to grab my arm and begin to drag me back to the cell.

"Wait! I still have to tell her how I feel!" I shouted at the security officer.

"And I still have to win a gold medal in figure skating but we can't always get what we want, can we?" he replied.

As I continued to try to resist, only to find it futile, I cast one last look at the glass wall. Jade stared at me through it and gave me one final wave goodbye.

Holy crap it's been almost a month since I last updated? Man, how time goes by. Sorry guys!

ohsnapitzJess: Seriously, don't worry about it. =) And thanks for the love!

Courage1220: It took me a while to realize 'Oh crap, I didn't think this through well...why did Jade lie?' but then we have an answer now. =)

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