Happily Ever After.... Yeah Right!!

Part 40

Over the next hour, many things were taken care of. I was able to us a private bathroom, for starters. Officer Samuels also arranged that I was allowed out of my cell and in his office; the only exception was that my one hand was handcuffed to the chair I sat in. It was kinda annoying considering I had nowhere to run and nothing to run with, but anything was better than sitting on a metal bench in a holding cell. The best part was that Officer Jennings went out and bought me a bowl of hot chicken noodle soup.

After the soup was gone and going to the bathroom for a second time, I was seated across from Officer Lance as he called Miss Dolly and Jonas. The hardest part of the phone calls was that I could only hear the one end of the conversation except when Miss Dolly yelled in the phone, "Oh my gosh!"

In the following twenty minutes after calling Miss Dolly, she came running into the station shrieking, "Alexandra! You ran away and got arrested!"

Officer Samuels took the handcuff off my wrist, so I could go to Miss Dolly.

Miss Dolly didn't even give me a second to respond before saying, "How dare you run away and not tell me. Are you okay? I left work for a family issue just to get down here, so I need a huge explanation. Now."

I looked at Miss Dolly and said, "I'm sorry. I was just so frustrated and annoyed that I left. They had confronted Hunter and I as we walked inside the house. I finally blew. I left my phone behind because I didn't want to be followed." I hugged Miss Dolly and whimpered, "I'm so sorry."

Miss Dolly and I just hugged the way we did after the news of my parents' death. Together, in each other's arms not caring about the world around us.

Miss Dolly and I finished hugging and I was seated back down in my chair in Lance's office, but wasn't handcuffed to the chair. Miss Dolly talked with Samuels as I just sat and thought.

After seventeen minutes and forty-three seconds (What? I had nothing better to do.), I heard the station doors open. I turned my head enough to see the door. In the doorway was a guy dressed in sweats with a basketball in his arms. Jonas.

We made eye contact. I sprang from the chair and out of the office. Jonas dropped the basketball and ran towards me. When we reached each other I had tears in my eyes. Jonas stood in front of me and looked me up and down before embracing me in a hug. Jonas lifted me up and kissed me like he's never kissed me before.

As we were kissing someone must have come up beside us because I remember hearing, "You know there are other people in the room, right?"

We broke apart and looked at each other. Jonas was hot and sweaty because he must have ditched his basketball practice just to get here.

As we stood looking at each other, many thoughts engulfed me. I had no clue what Jonas thought about what I had done.

My question was answered when Jonas started to hum. The song he was humming sounded so familiar, but I couldn't make it out until Jonas sang, "If I got locked away, and we lost it all today, tell me honestly, 'Would you still love me the same?'"

I smiled as replied, "I think it's the other way around for our situation, but it still works." I was hesitant before I sung, "'Would you still love me the same?'"

Jonas looked me, but wasn't looking at me with his usually mysterious and loving eyes. His eyes were dark and hesitant. When he finally spoke, he confessed, "I don't know. I was freaking out. After our date, you seemed so happy and alive, so in the morning, I called your cell and there wasn't an answer. I thought you were asleep or busy doing chores, so I tried again later with the same result. I texted and called you over and over again. When I was finally answered it was five in the afternoon, and it wasn't even you. Hunter had answered the phone and told me that you had run away and didn't want to be contacted or found. How do you think that made me feel?" Jonas questioned, "I felt horrible. First because my girlfriend ran away and didn't want anyone to find her, not even her boyfriend. And because later I find out that you got arrested."

I watched Jonas pace as he spoke. He looks so hurt and betrayed. I didn't know how to respond because I had just realized, I made my boyfriend feel like I've felt all my life; Alone and Helpless.

I broke down. I feel to the ground and cried. Jonas looked confused, but took a seat beside me on the ground.

"Alexandra," Jonas whispered in my ear, "It's okay."

"No!" I cried out. "It's not okay. I just treated you like how the Jameson's treated me. You helped me and then I rejected you. I'm so sorry. I can't believe you even came. I'm such a jerk! I treated you just like all the other girls. I didn't think about you." I yelled at myself.

"Alex, stop," Jonas interrupted. "Stop blaming yourself. You have to understand something." Jonas held me in his arms. "Yes, you did just reject and shove me to the side, but I know you have your reasons. If I were a guy that just wanted our relationship for being popular, I would have dumped you the second I found out you were arrested and not have come. But what did I do? I ditched my semi-final basketball game to be here. I ran here the second I heard. I was so relieved and happy you were okay that I needed to see you. Alex, I love being your boyfriend. I love you."

I cried even harder. Jonas had just ditched his life to be with me. He loved me. I took Jonas's face in my hands and kissed him. In a heartbeat, Jonas was kissing me back with the same force I had.

When I pulled away, I looked at Jonas and sang, "If I got locked away, and we lost it all today, tell me honestly, 'would you still love me the same?'"

"Yes. I will love you, flaws and all," Jonas answered.

And to seal the deal, I kissed him.