BOOMSHACKALACKA! I'm back! It was yesterday I posted my last chapter... Whatevs, I'm still back. I went to a bookstore yesterday and I already finished one of the books I got so I'm writing more now. I'm excited about this chapter.
Somehow, the younow broadcast was only two days ago. It felt like it had lasted forever. That the kiss wasn't online for the viewers to see. That is was all a dream. Maybe it was and all I needed was for someone to pinch me and wake me up.
"Zoe!" I yell as I hear knocking at the door, she had gone on one of her morning walks again. Despite her being so organised all the time, the one thing she can never remember is keys. House keys, car keys, keys to her 4th grade diary which she cried about for hours. But it didn't matter, because I was always there to open her doors, with my own hey. Or pick the lock of her diary with a spare bobby pin I had. I pretty much ran to the door and pulled it open. But it wasn't Zoe. "Finn?" I asked, surprised. If anyone other than Zoe, I would expect Jack. But then I came to my senses, why was he here? "What's wrong? Are you okay?" I ask.
"Jack. He's got a lot of stuff to tell you." Finn pants and puffs.
"Why didn't he call or text or something? Or why didn't he come himself?" I question.
"He... He did. But he panicked and now he's hiding in..." He pauses and scans the hallway, "that closet." He points to a door about twenty metres away.
"Why?" I say, still confused about it all.
"Just, please talk to him. I need to be at a lunch meeting in half and hour and I can't look after him all day." Finn pleads.
I raise my hand to gesture that I'll be back in one minute. I jog to the bathroom and brush my hair a bit and then put it up in a ponytail. I run back to the door and walk over to the closet Jack's in. I knock twice before opening the door. He's sitting behind some boxes with his legs crossed.
"Jack? Are you okay?" I ask, switching on a light so I can see.
"Bella..." He whispers and gets on his knees to hug me.
"Why are you in a closet?" I whisper back.
"Um, I don't know, I intended to hide in a bathroom or something but this was closer." He says.
"No, I mean, what is the purpose of your hiding?" I ask.
"Oh, yeah, so I was putting a book back on my bookshelf today," He begins.
"A book back on a bookshelf?" I say, sitting down in a cramped space between more boxes. He shushes me and continues.
"That's not why I'm here, just cause of a book. Well it kind of it, but it isn't. Anyway, I found and old book I had from years ago. And there was a note from my old self. Age 7 or something. Seems like I had my priorities sorted out then, and my goals and what I would do once I achieved them." Jack says, he sighs and scrunches his nose a little before relaxing and taking a deep breath. "My 7 year old self also knew what love was when he saw it. And he planned ahead for when that special person came along..." He says, his voice slowly getting softer.
There was a quick knock on the door followed by Finn saying he had to go. "Dammit, I had this planned out nicely with no interruptions. He totally just ruined it!" Jack exclaims. I giggle a little and open the door a bit.
"See you later, Finn. We're okay." I say and shut the door again. "Go on," I tell Jack. He breathes another sigh and relaxes his shoulders.
"I found this," he says, pulling out a silver chain necklace with an elegant little heart pendant attached to it. "And this," he tells me, holding up what appears to be a charm bracelet.
"Your 7 year old self had a good sense of jewelry fashion." I smirk. And then I noticed Jack was wearing a charm bracelet and a necklace just like the ones he had shown me. He smiled and cleared his throat.
"My 7 year old self never anticipated how long it would be before I met the special person," he says softly. "He also never anticipated that it would feel this nerve-wracking and nauseous and that I would be totally terrified of what the girl would say." Jack holds up the necklace and bracelet and I can see his hands shaking and his bottom lip quiver. "What I'm trying to say with all this is... I think I love you, Belle. No, I don't think, well I do think but... ugh! I know I love you." He says.
I feel my mouth drop and my eyebrows raise. "I said it. I love you, Bella. I knew from the moment I accidentally tripped you over in that shop that you were special. And to be honest, when you agreed to go to dinner with me I literally did flips when Finn and I got home. I broke a vase in the lounge room trying to do two consecutive ones." He says. He raises and eyebrow at me. "This necklace and bracelet are for you. If you accept them."
I still stare at him, mouth open, right now I don't know what's on my mind. A minute ago, Jack was a goofy, adorable, boyfriend. And now he sits there, still goofy, still adorable, but this time, our relationship could go either way and he's risking that. I smile and laugh a little.
"Oh my god, what?" Jack exclaims and his expression drops into a look of total terror, which only makes me laugh more. I clamber onto my knees and he does the same. I hold my ponytail up and twist my body around so Jack can put the necklace on. He sits there for a minute, surprised before realising I was him to put the necklace on me. I can practically hear his smile beaming as he fumbles with the clasp.
"Fuck, 7 year old self couldn't have got an easier to do up necklace?" He whispers, but it only take him a couple of more tries to get it done up. I turn around and kiss him, running my fingers through his hair.
"I love you too, Jack." I say inbetween kisses. His smile is so big it's almost uncomfortable but I try not to let it bother me too much. I've just had Jack Harries tell me he loves me, and I love him back. I take Jack's hand and open the closet door, turning off the light and leading him over to the hotel room.