Miss Jackson

Chapter 23

I get out of the car and walk up to Dallon's house. I let out a quick sigh and knock on the door. After a few beats, the door opens and it's Breezy-Dallon's wife- holding their son Knox. She scrunches her eyebrows and then they go back to normal.

"Hey Brezz" I wave awkwardly.

"Hi Brendon..." It comes out as a question.

"Dal here?" I question.

"Yeah, in his office...Brendon, you do know he's furious with you?" She asks.

"Yes, that's why I'm here." I squeeze past her and run upstairs. I turn to my right and walk down the long hall to the end and lightly tap on the door.

"Yeah?" He asks and I open the door. When he sees me he gets angry and stands up. "Brendon, get out!" He shouts. I inch back but stand my ground.

"No, Dallon. Man, I need to talk to you and I get that your mad at me, I would be mad at me too but you have to listen to me" I start.

"I don't HAVE to do shit. But you NEED TO LEAVE" he gets louder. I close the door and walk closer, making no move to leave.

"Dallon, I know that I seem to into my relationship to even speak to you for a second but the last week of my life has been shit. I haven't had time to talk to anyone outside of my house. If you just give me a minute I can explain" I tell him. I gesture to the chairs asking him to sit so I can talk. He rolls his eyes but sits down and so do I.

"You have 5 minutes" he glares.

"Dallon man, you're my best friend. I've known you since college. Weve been through everything together and before Delilah" he rolls his eyes at her name. "Before her, i thought the best I got in terms of any sort of relationship was you. But Dal-man. We use to spend so much time together that I didn't think it would be that big of a deal if once I got in a relationship I spent more time with her. She's the best thing to ever happen to me and I hate being away from her. And I know that doesn't sound good" I look down and then back up. "Dallon, we're friends, we're not in a relationship other then friends. Do you remember when you first met Breezy, you brought her everywhere. You were so infatuated with her that it didn't matter what was going as long as you two were together" I pause because he nods, knowing I'm right. "You see my point then. Dallon, I'm so in love with her and I can't stop it. Please just bare with me right now.....when I was gone for 2 weeks Delilah was in trouble. And something happened to her that I completely forgot could happen if I left for a while. So since I got back I've been taking care of that situation with her help of course. So I'm sorry and I'm sorry that I'm moving. But Delilah can't stay here and I don't want to stay here either"

"So is that it, you're just sorry for leaving me behind. I mean, if I hadn't called when would you have told me? The day you're leaving?" He sits up.

"I was going to tell you soon. I had just figured it out myself."

"Tell me, are you leaving because of just Delilah or because you want to leave too?"

"I want to leave too Dallon, I don't want to leave you, I'll miss you too much but I want to leave" I shrug. "Delilah is the love of my life, you have to understand where I'm coming from. You still have your life figured out, your wonderful wife and 2 amazing children. What else could you need? But me, I'm still figuring things out and if I need to leave this state to do it then I will" I say to him. He stays silent for a little and then readjusts his sitting position a few times. He opens his mouth to speak a few times but then says nothing.

"You need to move with Delilah, somewhere else to figure you're life out? Why?"

"Because where we're going is where my new job is and where her fucked up family isn't"

"Where?" He asks.

"Phoenix" I nod.

"Arizona?!" He stands.

"Where else?" I raise my eyebrow.

"That's what? Like a 4 hour drive?" He Ruffles his hair.

"5 and a half" I shrug. He nods and turns around and then back to me.

"Dallon, this really isn't a big deal. I'll visit when I can." I stand so we're eye to eye. "We're best friends but we have our own lives. If I can visit, I will. If not, then I won't" I shrug, putting my hand on his shoulder.

He shrugs off my words and then pulls me into an unexpected manly embrace.

"I'll just miss you" he tells and pulls away.

"I'll miss you too Dal but we have a month" I remind him and he nods.

"Honey" Breezy knocks on the door and we both turn to watch her open the door. "Amelie wants you to read her a bed time story. Could you?" She asks innocently.

"Yeah, give me a second" he looks from Breezy back to me. "Is this it for a while?" He asks gesturing from himself to me.
"No. We can hang out before I leave" I pat his shoulder as I come up with an idea. "How about a few nights before I leave we just go out and do whatever. Just the two of us. How's that?" I ask.
"I guess it could be fun" he shrugs with an almost smile.
"Alright, I'll see you later then?"
"Yeah, go run home to your girlfriend" he laughs. I laugh too, patting his shoulder once more and running downstairs and out to my car.