Jackie was awoke by Jacks secretary
"Mrs. Kennedy?"
She stirred
"Yes?"
"Remember to finish packing you're leaving tonight at 10 pm"
Jackie sighed and the secretary left leaving Jackie to sit up in an empty bed in a room filled with boxes- in just one room was her husbands entire life. She remembered his journal and picked up the shoe box. The same pictures, the letter to her, a button, a pen, and his journal she opened to the next page
This summer has been relaxing it's making me feel more optimistic about this job going in to November.
Jackie touched the word. November. She hated the word, the thought of what was to come and little did he know. She kept reading as he reflected on his fall day on the boat.
Boating's a joy of mine and I love it in the summer and fall...
*
Jack and his family plus Bobby and Ethel board the boat, this is one of their favorite summer activities
"You ready?"
Bobby called
"Hell yeah!" Jack yelled, resulting in Jackie swatting his knee
"Language Jack" She hissed flicking her thumb back at the children, Jack laughed and yelled
"Heck yeah!"
They road in the deep waters taking in how beautiful the world can be. Jack loves this it takes him away from the stress and pressure of his job and the microscope the media and the citizens of the U.S. put him under day in and day out- always finding a way to place a blame on him. He coped in different ways some he wasn't too proud of, but this, this he loved.
"What?" Jackie asked sensing his stare
"I love you so much Jackie" she looked out at the blue waters
"I'm sure you do Jack." she always had the thought of his affairs in the back of her head something she now regrets.
*
"Knock knock?" Bobby entered Jackies room
"Oh hi." She said wiping more tears
"What's wrong? Oh yeah Jack um.... he's in a better place." she couldn't help but laugh at his attempt to comfort her
"Why are you here?" She pretended to look offended. Jackie loved his personality but she hated it now more than ever, it was so much like Jack it made her want to cry
"Wanted to see how this packing business was going." he looked around "so this is Jacks life huh?"
"That many years in a few boxes" she said nodding.
"Did you get that letter Jack wrote to you guys?"
"Guys?"
"It's to you and the children...he wrote it during the missal crisis incase ya know..." He shuffled awkwardly before shutting the door. Jackie scrambled to the box containing the letter she opened it
Dearest Jackie,
YOU ARE READING
Jacks Journal
Historical FictionIt's 1964 Jackie is preparing to move out of the White House in the months following Jacks passing in 1963 and she stumbles across a secret journal Jack had been keeping. She gets a look at her husband in a completely different and vulnerable way sh...
