~Chapter Twenty Five~

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**Hannah POV**
Ugh... they've been gone for an hour. I called Jacob 15 minutes ago but who knows what my brother is capable of. I can't lose Jacob... I already lost Mark a long time ago...

*FLASHBACK TO 7TH GRADE*
"Mark! Stop it!" I giggle. Mark is tickling me. The sun peeks through the curtains in the windows, creating our shadows casting on the walls.

Mark stops and I breathe heavily and look into his blue eyes. He looks into mine. We lean in and kiss. It feels right. It also feels wrong.

I'm moving in a week and I haven't told Mark... I pull away and stare at Mark. I hug him tight.

"Hannah, what's wrong?" He's concerned.

"Mark... we need to talk." I take him to my bed and we lay by each other and I rest my head on his shoulder.

"Ok... you're gonna hate me for this..."

"Hannah, tell me..."

"I'm moving in a week..."

"What?! You didn't tell me this?? How long have you known this?!!" He gets up and paces the room, running his hands through his hair.

I cover my face with my hands. I take them off with bloodshot eyes and smeared makeup.

"3 months..." I whisper, staring out the window and rubbing the pillow in my lap.

Mark turns around, his eyes bloodshot, too.

"I love you, Hannah... goodbye." He leaves my room and slams the door behind him... I never saw him again until I moved and I hit him with my skateboard. We acted like it was nothing.

**BACK TO PRESENT**
I don't want this to turn out like Mark and I... I can't lose Jacob... if Jacob finds out who I dated before him... who knows what he'll think... Jacob thinks I know Mark as his friend and nothing more...

The door downstairs opens and closes. For some reason I don't have the urge to run downstairs so I stay upstairs to wait.

Jacob emerges through the door.

"I'm back..." he looks at the ground.

"You know, don't you?" I look at him and whisper.

"Which part?" Jacob mumbles and sits down in the rolling chair.

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**Jacob POV**
"Why is she do afraid of falling in love?" I say while avoiding a pothole.

"Jacob... like I told you earlier, she dated someone before you. When she lived in Stewartstown she... um... dated... Mark..."

My face drops.

"What?" I stop the bike in the middle of the road. "WHAT?!" I slam my hands on both handle bars.

"I know... but then we moved and she didn't tell him until a week before she did move... Mark basically walked out on her and said bye." Damian spits on the ground.

"That asshole..." I whisper. I turn the bike around and pedal back to her house. She's got some explaining to do.

I get to her house and walk upstairs, waving at her mom on the way. Easing the door open, her eyes go wide.

I sit down in the chair. She's got quite the explaining to do...

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HEYYYYY!! I'm gonna write the next one right after this! 🙃💕

HEYYYYY!! I'm gonna write the next one right after this! 🙃💕

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