The One Who Truly Loved Me

The Big Leap

Quietly opening up the basement door to her immense surprise was still unlocked at this time of the hour tucking her head into the small open just for the briefest of moments to listen around for any sign of life anywhere finding nothing but pure silence radiating through the hair opening the door the rest of the way casually making her way inside silently closing the door behind her with a flick of her wrist slowly Jackie applies the lock with a click before very quietly she makes her way back over towards the basement's couch. A couch that looked untouched from the last time she had been there. Even the blanket that had been draped over her was still in the same spot she had left it dangling over the arm of the couch. A blanket that as she stares down at it unknown to her knowledge her lips curl upwards into a slight smile. A very rare smile. A genuine smile in which very few have ever seen coming from her. And it was all thanks to one individual. Someone that she never thought would ever do such a thing. Never say so many kind words to her before in a single night.

A night that she knew was far from over. Knew was only just beginning. And that being said gently she grabs the blanket from the armrest as she silently takes off her shoes before slowly she lowers herself down to lay across the couch making sure to snuggle the blanket all around her as her eyes remain glued to the ceiling above her. An ordinary ceiling. A few spots here and there that needed some work done. Needed to be cleaned if the spider webs she sees were any indication. Something that would make her scream in fright on any ordinary day. But not today. Not when she had so much on her mind.

And it all started with a kind gesture. An emotional reveal that had tugged hard on her heart strings with every single second she heard him speak. This reveal that was still very fresh in her mind playing over and over again like a broken record. But it was a reveal that gave her a lot of things to think about. First starting with her ex. Michael Kelso. A boy that she had fallen head over heels for at a young age. A boy that for some odd reason intrigued her even though she knew that he could be dense at times.

Dense? More like a total idiot.

But a boy that had slowly won over her heart. A heart that she very gently put into his hands hoping he would never do anything to ever hurt her. How wrong she was. So very wrong. He had hurt her. So many times. He had cheated on her. More or less in front of the whole school with the school slut herself Pam Macy. God she hated him so much at that moment. Hated how he had broken her trust without so much as a second thought. Trusted that she swore she would never put in his hands ever again. But she did. She did and she would painfully regret it when history would repeat itself once again.

He had cheated on her once again. Only this time it was with somebody worse. A girl that was considered to be Point Place's biggest slut. The young woman living in the house she currently finds herself in. A woman that as an image of her face comes flooding into her mind she can't help but glare daggers at the ceiling hoping against hope that something bad would happen to her. But as quick as that thought comes into her mind it quickly dissolves as though a bucket of cold water had been dumped on her. She couldn't wish that. Not because of her. No she detested the tramp. No she couldn't do that to the rest of her family. A family that she has grown up with. A family that she could argue she was closer to than her very own.

But that was a thought for another time. For now she needed to get back to the present and with a shake of her head all thoughts of the Forman family disappear as her mind back tracks to her ex boyfriend. A ex that she would call boyfriend one last time despite everything. Despite the advice others had given her. Despite the painful memories that once again surfaced into her mind. Despite the pain in her heart that was still there.

And she regretted it. She has regretted it and has payed for it with so many small cracks to other relationships. Cracks with her relationship with her own family. A crack that had formed when against logic of her mind pleading with her to do the opposite she had decided to choose this ex boyfriend over her father. A father that had cut her off completely making her fend for her own. A good life lesson but a lesson she never wanted to live through again. Especially if she ever had to wear that cheese maiden outfit again. A thought that makes her shiver and bring the blanket even closer to herself. A relationship that was very slowly starting to mend back together once she had told him the news. News that would bring a surprising result. See him do something that he had rarely done before. A simple hug. A hug that she couldn't help but melt into feeling completely safe forgetting all about her ex boyfriend. This ex boyfriend that has made one question been constantly on her mind for the last week.