The Lock To His Key

46. "Im sorry." 🫡

(Jackson's Pov)
11:30pm
I was gonna wait till tomorrow to apologize, but I couldn't sleep.

Nervously, I knocked on Isabella's dorm.
She opened it wearing her bra and shorts.

Memories from when slept together flashed. The touching, kissing, all of it.

Her face dropped when she saw me.
"What do you want Jackson?"

Her hand shook around the doorknob.

"Can I talk to you?"
"No."

She was about to shut the door, but I wedged my foot between.

"Please, I'll be quick."

"I don't fucking like you, I don't wanna talk to you, I'm only putting up with you for a month. When Mattheos back you're done."

"I need to apologize."

"Jackson don't do this now, I beg. My minds already fucked with you back, and Mattheo gone. I can't have this."

"Why not?" I said.

"I don't need more things messing with my mind. Especially after Grayson found the video. I know he found it before you came, but what if you planned it. You spent five months dating me just to make the video, you easily could've told him over the break."

"I would nev-"
"You would." She said interrupting me.

"I spoke to Draco, he told me about the shit that happened."

"Like what?" She asked.

"He spoke of a guy named Cormac, what him and his friends did to you. Was Cormac the same guy at the party who tried to-"

"Fine, make your apology quick." She said stepping out.

She stood there with her arms crossed, and I lost all sense of what I was gonna say.

"Come to my dorm so we don't get in trouble."
"I'm not going into a room alone with you."

"Relax. I'm not gonna do anything."

We apparated to my dorm and went inside.

"I'm sorry." I said.
"No fucking shit."

This was gonna be hard.

"Draco told me you have trust issues."

"You fake dated me. Of course I do. And if you're here to tell me everything that's wrong with me, don't." She said.

"I'm not good at this." I said.
She walked to the door, but I stopped her.

"I never would've posted it if I'd known the damage it would do."

"I don't care if you regret it, the fact is you did it. And Jackson you hurt me more then anyone else ever has."

"And after talking to Draco, and hearing the shit you've been through I get it."

"Jackson you know what I've been through, you were there."

"But I didn't know what was going on inside your head. I never intended to hurt you." I said.

She didn't reply.

"You have to remember I had nothing against you. I didn't hate you I was just-"

"Tryna do a job. That's what you were doing, making easy money by pretending to like me for five months."

"It wasn't pretend, I did like you. But the guys would've been pissed if I stayed with you.
Isabella I couldn't."

(Isabella's Pov)
I don't forgive him, and nothing he can say will make me.