Still Can't Get Over You

Chapter 12

Saturday Afternoon;
H's POV;

It had been a quick week; hanging out, getting to know Shannon again, seeing the bond rebuilding between him and his sister was something that I knew both were happy about and seemingly basking in.

Sitting on the floor of the room in the hotel where the reunion was being held tonight; Shannon, Dylan, Claire, Matt, Jeff and I were watching Corey on stage with the other members of Stone Sour rehearsing.

Carmine had opted to head out to visit Dylan and Shannon's Mother; he wanted to get to know the Mother of the woman who he was going to be marrying in a year's time. And I knew that he was planning on maybe getting to know a little more about the woman that he was planning on spending his life with.

Jim kept looking at Claire; his eyes burning with all the things that he felt for his woman. It was more than obvious that the love that they shared as a couple just seemed to get stronger as the days went by and I hoped that Shannon and I could be half as happy as my two friends.

If it weren't for Dylan I would never have met these guys and never have the strong bond that we all shared as a group. Where Shannon had said that he, Jeff, Matt and Beth were the core group; that was much how it was with me, Dylan, Claire, Corey, Roy and Jim. As a group we were always together or hanging out with one or the other.

The sound of the doors at the back of the room opened causing Dylan, Matt, Jeff, Claire, Shannon and myself to turn and see who was intruding on the rehearsal. Instantly Dylan was groaning as her eyes moved to the stage where Corey had looked up; their eyes locking on to one another and almost just as instantly as the door had opened, he was down off the stage and striding towards her.

"What is it?" I asked at the same time as he reached her and helped her to her feet.

"That's Jake," She sighed dusting herself off and looking at Corey who reached for her. "Just give me a moment yeah?" She asked.

Corey nodded and stepped back from her as she turned her eyes landed on Jeff for a split second who seemed to be instantly struggling with the weight of her eyes. But it had been like this almost since she had arrived; the two refused to talk about it and every time he walked in to a room she would walk out, every time he tried to talk to her she would completely blank him.

Now here she was willing to talk to a man who had done far worse things to her in the past but as that thought entered my head I knew it to be wrong; Jeff had been out of line when he had done what he had. Dylan had fallen for him hard and he had kissed her then ran off in the opposite direction without so much as an explanation.

The sigh escaped his lips as she walked away, his hands all but throwing in to the air as he turned away and moved towards the stage where he began prowling in a determined pace clearly frustrated by the fact that she wouldn't even look at him now.

"Who is Jake?" Jim asked approaching where we were stood watching as Dylan came to a stop in front of the man who had played that cruel joke on her all those years ago.

The smile played on his lips as he greeted her softly, the two slowly slipping in to a conversation, Dylan seemed slightly on edge, her hands stuffed in to the back pockets of her jeans.

"Jake is the piece of shit who..." Corey started but couldn't get the rest out as he thought about what his best friend had been through and I knew that if he could erase those horrible memories from our best friends mind then he would in a heart beat.

So instead we listened as Shannon explained what had gone down, his own temper clearly visible in the way his hands were curled up in to tight balls as he explained that Jake was now the owner of this hotel.