You're So High Maintenance | Jaele (Completed)

38. But Your Lies Ain't Working Out, Look Who's Hurtin' Now

It may not have seemed like it much but Savannah was seriously panicking.

Why did Jackson want to speak to her?

Not just that. Why did he want to speak to her privately?

"You look like you're about to have a panic attack."

Savannah was worried so much about what could have gone wrong that she didn't really consider what could have gone right.

She also didn't really consider what she had looked like from Jackson's perspective.

She probably looked traumatised that Jackson had called her back.

Like she had just seen a ghost or something.

"Oh no, I was just wondering why you called me back. I hope I'm not in trouble or anything."

"Nah, you're not in trouble. Don't sweat it," he responded, tapping his bed so as to indicate to her to sit down.

She did so reluctantly, with Jackson smiling.

He called her back so that he could have known more about her.

Starting with how resilient she was.

"So you really came all this way just to tell me about my past?" He double checked. "Dang. My sister's got skills. No one has ever gone that length just for me before. I really appreciate it."

"You had to know about your past, Jackson," Savannah replied sternly, staring at him from the corner of her eye. "And I wasn't going to stop until you found out about it. I'm sorry if it offended you."

It did at first, but Jackson was over it.

At the same time, he knew finding out about it was going to hurt and offend him in some places.

But he was grateful. That was why he had brought her back. To thank her.

After she acknowledged it, the two of them also opened up about a lot of things.

Salvador had still timed Jackson so he couldn't have spent a long time with Savannah and vice versa.

Savannah told Jackson things she had never told everyone and Jackson did the same with her.

She told him her traumas, her insecurities, all the dark secrets about her past. Jackson had his turn before she did.

Savannah may have just met Jackson today although it felt as though she had known him all her life.

Then again, she was supposed to. Jackson was her brother at the end of the day.

Salvador indicated that their time was up by banging on the door, whilst complaining that he didn't have all day.

Just before standing up, Savannah wrote her number on a piece of paper in case Jackson ever wanted her to visit, or he needed anything.

"Maybe we can meet up after you get out of prison. I don't just want us to meet in prison. No disrespect."

"None taken, I don't blame you. And that might take a while. I recently had a parole hearing but the parole board wouldn't let me go due to my anger issues last minute."

Before Salvador had gotten even more fed up than before, Savannah got her things and she left.

Jackson saved her number, and it was as he had done so that she remembered something just before she was supposed to leave.