Getting Older- Jiara

The aftermath

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General pov

"JJ" kie whispers out quietly, too stocked to move or to say anything other than the name of the boy she once loved. She imagined over a thousand times what it would be like when she and jj reunited.

She imagined that yes he would be angry at her at first, but it all blow over the moment she tells him that she missed him, that she loved him and that she's home and she's here to stay. But this exact moment is not how she wanted jj to know that she was back in town, not he drunk and will likely forget about her the next day.

She wanted this moment to be the moment that they would never forget. The moment that they would finally become one again, and the moment they both put away any stupid thoughts or passed hate for each other and they just be them again.

She's scared, god she's scared but she know that he had to get home safely. So instead of turning and running away like she oh so
Wanna, she reaches out with her other hand and touches his shoulder and calls out his name again.

I guess it was the way that she said his name or the way he rememberers the sound her voice oh so clearly. So instead yelling out and raging at her, he slowly let go of hand that was once tightly gripped in his hand and whispers out her name. "Kie" jj says shackly. "Is it really you". He says as he slowly reaches out his hand to make sure that he's not dreaming.

The moment his had hand finally reaches and touches her, they both let out a sigh as if they both was saying finally. Finally she was home, finally she was here and not just in his imagination. She was actually here with him, jj don't know whether or not to be relieved or to be upset. So instead of letting kie get a word out of her mouth he hurriedly runs to get away from her.

Kie knows that jj is most likely overwhelmed, but it doesn't stop her heart from hurting and it doesn't stop the tears to stop running down her face. So she does the next best thing she can do right now, which is to go home and get some rest. If this was the reaction she gets from him when she's drunk, she knows she's not going to like the reaction she gets from him when he's sober.

So she carried her weak legs and walked home because what else is there to do. She knows she's can't go after him because she knows that jj mostly like went to the cantue. And she knows that if she was to follow him then she would have to face all of them and kie doesn't think she's strong enough for that right now. Not when her heart is aching and crying out for jj.

By the time kie makes it back home, her face is red and her body is too tired to keep her going. So instead sleeping in a bed tonight she decides to just sleep on the couch. She's too weak to force her legs to carry her all the way up the stairs, and she's too weak to do anything about that right now. All she wants to do is sleep and to keep her mind off a certain blonde headed boy.

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JJ pov

She's here, she's actually here. God why is she here, after all these years why would she just show up and come back now. JJ's tired way too tired, he just wants to pretend that everything that just happened didn't in fact never happened.

Who the hell does she think she is just showing up and coming back unannounced. God he wishes she never came back, he doesn't think that his heart could take being broken again . He don't think he will be able to survive this time without her, he barley even made through the first time without her.

If it wasn't for the love and support of his friends jj sure as hell knows that he would've fell off to the deep end. He's tried of feeling that way. He spent way too many years crying, lying to himself, and just wasting himself away, and he wants more that. He wants that more than anything he ever wanted anything in his life.

JJ knows what he have to do and he wish he wasn't so drunk when he have to do it. He knows he have to tell the others about what just happened not too long ago. And he's scared to do it. He's scared because he know that he wasn't the only one that kie broke- he wasn't the only who she left. Although jj knows that his friends are was there for him whenever he needed it, he also know that they needed someone as well.

So when he's in front of the canute jj doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know if he should tell them right now or wait to tell them later. Or maybe he should let kie do it herself. Either way it goes all hell is going to break loose and jj knows he isn't going to be the only one giving hell to kie if she ever decides to show her face around here.

She doesn't belong with them anymore, not after what she's done. He gets that she needed some space, him of all people get that. JJ couldn't even  count the many times that he needed space from everything and everyone or the countless of times be blew his friends off because he was angry. But he always came back. ALWAYS , he didn't just ghost his friends and decides to leave them behind. He would never ever leave his family.

As he's pacing back and forth outside jj notices out the corner of his eyes, that John b is coming towards him. Shit he really have to do this right now he thinks. " hey buddy you doing alright" John b says as he finally makes it right in front of jj. " yeah I'm fine" I reply back too hurriedly. I guess he could tell something was off with me because instead of asking if anything was okay he asks if I wanted to go inside.

As I let him drag me inside I couldn't stop thinking about how I was going to tell him. Should I just get it over with and quickly tell him or should I sit him down first. I was so lost in my thoughts that I barley heard John come up behind me and ask if I wanted some water.  I thought that now was the perfect time, and that I should just rip off the bandage and tell him, so that's exactly what I do.

" hey jay do you-" "kie's back" I quickly tell him wincing at myself. I know I should've waited to tell him but I knew I couldn't. At first there was just silence and  I didn't know if he had heard me or not but when I heard the glass that was once in his hand drops and breaks against the floor I can tell he did.

"w-what" he manage to stutter out. I sigh as I repeated what I just had previously told him. "h-how, w-when did she even get back" he asks with authority, but all I can reply back with is a I don't know. After about of letting the new process and sit on his mind, I hear him sigh and sit down next to me.

By the look on his face I can already tell what he's thinking. "how do we tell pope and Sarah" he asks and I just tell him that I don't know. I can tell he's getting frustrated with my answers but I don't know what I could tell him. I don't know how to make things better, I never knew how. So we just sit in silence, not knowing what to do or even what to say.

" how are you" John b asks finally breaking the silence between the two. I tell that I'm fine but I can tell that wasn't good enough for him. "Jay come on dude, tell me" John b asks back worriedly. But all I can do is snap back at him and tell that we should get some sleep and we should worry this about this tomorrow.

I know he wants to push the matter forward but I also know that he wouldn't want to say anything that risks upsetting me even more so he just gets up and tells me goodnight while walking to his room and then finally closing the door. As he's gone, I'm then again left alone with my thoughts and I really wish I wasn't, because no matter what Kiara Carrera is still invading my mind leaving me sleepless.

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- hi! Hope you like the chapter. Next chapter is going to focus on pope and Sarah reaction to kie being back and there may or may not be a confrontation next chapter 😉. Until next time