The Reasons Why I Need You

15. Reasons (pt. 3)

"Why are we at a hotel," I ask Jared as I watch him walk to the front door.
"Final destination," he says turning around to face me. "Come on, let's go."
"Umm no. My parents will kill me," I protest not leaving my spot right next to his car.
"They don't need to know."
"They'll find out."
"No."
"Jared! They're my parents! Of course they'll find out!"
"Emma, stop worrying and come with me."
"Not this time. Not this time," I say before turning around to get in his car. Right before I put my hand on the handle of the door to open it I hear the car lock. "Jared!"
        "Come with me Emma."
        "Why?"
        "I need to show you something. And I want to spend time with you... Sweetheart."
        "You know I hate it when you call me sweetheart, Jared."
        "Emma, now is not the time to fight with me... I need you."
        "No you don't."
        "Yes I do."
        "Jared, you don't," I snap while crossing my arms. "As for showing me something, what is it?"
        "Come with me and I'll show you."
        "You know what, I'll walk home," I scoff and turn around to leave. "This is stupid."
        "No it's not, stop acting like you want nothing to do with me! Because if you didn't, you wouldn't have wanted to come to our next destination."
        "What if I'm not acting! I'm being real with you, Jared. I don't want anything to do with you anymore. I'm not going to be brought to hotel for whatever reason you want me here. Bottom line is it's stupid."
         "Okay, I'll take you home. And for the record, I'm done with you too.  My goal was to get you out of your shell and it looks like I did just that. So I guess no prom, no lunches, no anything. We're done," he says to my surprise. Wow. I guess he is done. But to my surprise I wasn't happy, I was actually kind of sad. Sad that he gave up on me, finally.