Together... and Apart

Part 23

(November 29th, 1995, Los Angeles) Sorry for a huge jump </3 Oh and by the way, the words that are written in italic are things that happened in the past. Enjoy :)

David's POV:

Jennifer and I have been now seeing each other for more than ten months, and if you ask me, we've gotten extremely close. Nearly inseparable. Sure we've had our mishaps... actually, a lot. We've been fighting more often now, mostly referring to the topic of our secret relationship. See, I want to just tell the world now, on the other hand, she still wants to stay in secrecy. She's not an open person, honestly, she's a closed book that won't ever open. We still love each other, but the love isn't as powerful as it was before... it's like everything has changed. 

Matt already kissed her, tried to ask her on dates, flirt with her... stuff like that. And me, the overprotective boyfriend that nobody even has a clue about just stands there. I mean, what can I do? Our relationship is a secret. Once we've had a fight so bad, she ended up storming out. The horrible memory still lingers in my head... every, single day. 

"Jennifer...  I know you don't want to, but I think we should just reveal our relationship to the world now.." I offer, the tone of my voice remains calm.

"Dave, we've been over this like a hundred times. It's not happening." she responds sternly.

"But why? If we love each other so much than why don't we just start tell-"

"No..!" she yells back, I can see tears starting to form in her sapphire eyes. She looks into my eyes for a quick second and turns around, folding her laundry. I feel my heart start to sink in my stomach. I'm probably going to regret asking her this question... but I need to know.

"..Do you not l-love me..?" I ask her quietly, my voice quivering a little. She turns around right away, anger plastered all over her face. She seems hurt by what I've just asked her. I shouldn't have said that... I'm so stupid.

"Is t-that what you really think this problem is about David?" she asks me. I don't know how to respond. All the emotions on her face are confusing me so much. Anger, sorrow, pain. The tone of her voice was not soft like the usual, it had more power to it. Yeah she was mumbling a bit, but she said it clearly for me enough to hear it. I stay speechless, just standing there. I feel my eyes starting to water even more. She exhales deeply as I watch a tear roll from her now broken but beautiful eyes. 

"After all this time, this is what you think?! That I don't love you?" she says again, this time raising her voice while a gush of regret flows all around my body. Tears are streaming down her face, tears I've never seen before. 

"Am I doing something wrong?! Because please... tell me if I am. I've never even been in love before so I don't even know how to show you much I-"

"You've never been in love before.." I interrupt her. Holy shit. I never knew that.. it breaks my heart but at the same time makes me feel so loved by the most amazing person in the world. I never should have doubted about her feelings for me. 

"I didn't know how... and now the one person that I love the MOST in the world thinks that I don't..!" she continues, at this point she's sobbing. I feel so terrible about this, I screwed it up. I turn around for one quick second and back at her to apologize to her, but she's gone. 

That was probably the worst night of my life. I was sure that our relationship was going to end, but she came back. We didn't see each other at all apart from being on set, we barely even talked to each other. I then realized how miserable life is without having such an amazing person. I thought it was over, forever. But it's just the beginning.