Lips Of An Angel

Call Me If You Need Something

The next time you saw Jack was 3 weeks later at your lawyer's office. You decided to proceed   with the divorce even though at this point neither of you exactly wanted to. You just thought it was still the right thing to do, and Jack went along with it because he thought that maybe if he finally let you go it would help your relationship. You and Jack kept sneaking looks at each other as your lawyers talked.

"Are you sure this is what you want?" Jack whispered to you. You let out a soft sigh.

"It's what we need to do." You whispered to him, and he nodded, sitting back in his chair. It wasn't what you wanted, especially after the night Jack spent at your apartment.

It took a couple hours until you could leave, both you and Jack walking out at the same time. As you both reached your cars you noticed how Jack hesitated before he opened his door, hesitating again before he got in.

"Wait." Jack called out to you, making you turn to him before you could get into the car.

"What Jack?" You asked, sighing softly.

"I know this isn't what we should be doing." Jack sighed, running his hands over his face. "But I have something I wanted to give you. I almost brought it with me today, but I got to scared. Can you come over so I can give it to you? Or I can come over to yours, whatever you want. If you don't want me to that's fine, I get it. I just realized the date, and I don't know, I feel like I should give it to you now just in case we never see each other again." Jack rambled on, his voice cracking towards the end, trying to hold his own tears back.

"The date?" You asked, looking at your phone, seeing that three years ago was the day you got married.

You were getting divorced on your third anniversary, though did it even count as your third anniversary? You weren't together for most of it. Part of you counted it, because you loved each other the whole time, but the other part didn't, because would two people who loved each other really cause each other the amount of pain you did?

"Uh, yeah." You said, pushing your hair out of your face. "I'll come over to yours." You said before getting into your car.

The drive to Jack's apartment was short, but it felt like it took forever. You weren't sure why you agreed, but that went with a lot of your relationship with Jack, you didn't know why you did what you did, but for whatever reason it felt like the thing to do. Plus, Jack had a point, you didn't know when you were going to see each other again, so why not delay that a little longer.

You walked inside Jack's apartment with him, it obviously felt different than any other time, neither of you knew what to say. Jack took his jacket off, placing it on the back of a random chair.

"Make yourself comfortable." Jack told you, and you nodded, sitting down on the couch. "I'll be right back." Jack said before walking into his bedroom, you leaned back on the couch, playing absentmindedly with a bracelet you had on.

Jack walked back out a few minutes later, holding something in his hand. Jack sat down next to you.

"I'm going to explain first, then I'll give it to you." Jack told you and you nodded.

"Ok." You smiled softly at him, you could tell he was nervous, and you wanted to calm him down. This wasn't a side of Jack that you, or anyone really, saw of him often.

"I've had this for two and a half years now, I was going to give it to you the day you said you wanted a divorce, but that didn't seem like the right time." Jack said, laughing to himself softly. "Not that this feels like the right time either, but I just need to give this to you. My original plan was to surprise you with it when we got back from that tour, but it got done early and I picked it up on my way home after my flight that day, I thought you were going to take me back, and that giving you this would help you realize how much I love you." Love, not loved.