2nd Chances

Chapter 10

It had been a week since Roxy said those things in her father's office and Jamie returned to New York. She entered in her empty house and tossed the keys as custom. She took off her heels and pushed them under the table. She looked over to the couch and remembered the day Jamie came over for lunch more or less.

She felt tears well up in her eyes and her heart ached. She wanted him gone that day more than anything. She wanted things to go back the way they were, now that she had just that. No more whispers and snickers when she went out for lunch, in fact no one noticed her at all. Stephanie and Adam didn't talk to her unless they absolutely needed to. Stephanie pretty much hated her now; she accused Roxy being a traitorous brown nosing douche bag except Stephanie had used much more colorful language.

Roxy wiped a tear from her cheek and turned away from the couch. She thought she would be happy having things back the way they were but she was absolutely miserable. Veronica still wasn't speaking to her and the house seemed to be haunting her. She trudged towards the kitchen to start dinner but only threw it out when she was finished. She wasn't able to stomach anything despite her hunger; her stomach clenched on itself and threatened to reject anything she ate.

She asked herself for the millionth time, if she did the right thing why did she feel so awful. She let out a loud sigh to break the silence as she dragged her feet towards the bathroom. She slowly took off the clothing staring at her reflection as if she expected it to tell her what she needed to hear but of course it only mimicked her movements. She stepped under the steaming hot water trying to ease the stress that attacked her body ignoring the fact it scalded her skin pink.

Once the water had gone cold she stepped out and wrapped herself in a yellow fluffy towel, yellow was supposed to make people feel better or so she had heard but she didn't feel better. She walked into the living room and picked up her cell phone where it laid near her keys.

She needed her friend and needed to fix things between them. Especially since it was probably the only thing she could be able to fix out of this whole mess. Her spirits rose slightly upon hearing Veronica's voice. They talked for hours. Roxy apologized for the horrible things she said, and Veronica tactfully avoided mentioning Jamie, and when the call finally did end Roxy smiled sadly. At least she still had her best friend.

A month passed and things with Veronica had gotten back to normal. Veronica was now for the first time in her life in a serious relationship with the guy she met in New York, Michael. He seemed like a really great guy from what Veronica told her. He flew in every weekend to see her. Roxy made a point to not be anywhere around when he was in town. The first time he saw her she swore he was going to run over to her and snap her neck the way he looked at her when Veronica wasn't looking.

During that month Roxy decided to sell her grandmother's house. The silence was haunting her and made her think about Jamie nearly constantly which made her heart break all over every time she woke up or came home from work. She hoped he didn't suffer too much because of her but then realized she was nothing special He probably already had another girlfriend before the week was out; guys like him never stay single for long. Every time she thought of him with another woman made her feel so jealous that she wanted to scream till her throat was raw. Of course she realized she had no business being jealous! She shouldn't even be allowed to miss him as she did considering all that she had done.

Now two months passed, Roxy stop up from her desk and picked up the papers that her father needed that morning and headed to his office. "You look horrible," her father stated harshly and she shook her head with disbelief.

"Well I'm not exactly feeling that great nor am I sleeping that well," she confessed with a little bitterness in her voice and he glared at her darkly.