It's Only Because I Love You (J.M) [COMPLETE]

chapter 11

L A U R E N

Josh left the room and Jack looked at me. He had a weird look in his eyes, as if he knew something.
"Lauren, you doing anything tomorrow?" Conor asked. He sounded very suspicious.

"No, why?" I didn't want it to seem obvious that I thought they were up to something.
"Oh its just, I'm not doing anything tomorrow and everyone else seems busy so I wanted to know if you wanted to go get Starbucks with me or something?" After thinking for about a second I replied.

"Of course! My love for Starbucks is nearly as big as my love for Josh! How could I say no."
"Cool, we'll go sometime in the morning if thats okay with you?"
"Yeah sure!" So he doesn't sound as suspicious. There's a genuine reason behind it. He probably sounded like it because he didn't want it to sound like a date or something. I hope.

J A C K

I'm going to tell him. Lauren's not going to be here so he can't freak out at her. He's going to freak out at me instead! I'm a little nervous about it but he needs to know.

THE NEXT DAY

C O N O R

We're both ready to go. Honestly I feel bad for taking her and leaving Jack on his own. Really they should all talk this through together. I guess he's just trying to protect her really.

We arrived at Starbucks and both of us only fancied a hot chocolate. I bought her a drink being the gentleman that I am... Sort of, and we sat in to drink it. Honestly, we spoke about the most random things and she seemed happy. She seemed genuinely happy. No one has seen her this happy since before the incident. After then all her expressions seemed different and it's like she was a new person.

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We had both finished our drinks pretty quick and I hadn't heard from Jack. I know he said he's going to talk to him as soon as we leave.
"Ready to go?" I asked her.
"Yeah. That was fun. We should do it again sometime." I agreed. It was fun. But then it was also just a way to get her out the apartment.

L A U R E N 

We arrived back and I heard talking going on inside. There was lots of talking. I heard I'm sorry's coming from Jack and there was sadness in Josh's voice. I unlocked the door and walked in to them sat on the sofa talking. I shushed Conor and tried to make sure it wasn't obvious we were back.

"But yeah I don't want her having the fear of the fact it could be yours but it could be mine! And I'm so fucking sorry I did it! You know I liked her from the day we first met. I was probably just cought up in the momemt. And like I said im sorry." I walked in and they looked round to me and Conor.

"You shouldn't have to be sorry Jack. Why should you be sorry when you did nothing wrong. Is this why you took me out Conor? So they could talk this through? I should have been here when you spoke about it! Have you told him the truth Jack? The whole truth!" He stayed silent.

"Exactly! Okay well Josh should know. If I have to be the one to tell him I will be. I don't care about the truth. Because the truth is I'm pregnant and it could be either of yours! The truth is that I'm the one that started this mess! I'm the one who made the first move. It wasn't Jack, it was me. All me! Now I don't care what you do about that Josh but I don't want you knowing lies! It would have been said sooner or later so it's best to be told now! There. There's the truth!" I felt the tears dropping down my face.

Josh blankly looked up at me and said,
"Okay."
"Okay? What do you mean okay? Aren't you mad at all?"
"Well of course I'm fucking mad because my fucking girlfriend fucked one of my best friends! But you told me the truth. So, okay." This doesn't seem right. Any normal person would be freaking out. I guess it's going to take a while to process in his head.

(No a/n once again. Why was I so boring?!)