In Between

Chapter 5 - She's Back

Jasper's anxiety grew proportionally to the number of rings he heard on the phone. He was almost sure she wasn't going to pick up so when he heard her husky voice on the other side calling his name he almost dropped his phone in surprise. His heart was beating so fast that he momentarily thought that he was going to pass out or something. Leaning on the wall beside him he tried to figure out what to say. He really called on an impulse but now he was lost in words and thoughts and emotions and couldn't tell her just like that what his thoughts were about the emoji souvenir that she had send on the text. What if that didn't mean nothing after all. What if it was all his imagination. She would hang up on him for sure.

"Jasper, what do you want?" He heard her ask not so softly this time.

"I'm sorry I call... I... Well...Hope I didn't wake you, I... I don't know the time there and... I..." He was babbling.

"Jasper spit it out!" She barked over the phone making him retract in reaction almost like she was right there barking at him.

He needed to figure out fast what to say because he was sure she was going to hang up soon. Noticing that one of the security doors was not closed, Liam came to his mind and he found the perfect excuse to call her. He really needed her help on this one. Like Mr. Hill had mentioned, Liam was now totally out of control and probably Eleanor was the only one that could bring some sense to him.

"It's your brother, Liam is fighting again and I'm afraid that something could go really wrong. I fear for his life Len and he simply doesn't listen to me!"

"Liam is fighting again? Why?" She sounded concerned.

"I think mostly because of the new King and maybe because of his ex-girlfriend too...I really don't know because he simply doesn't talk to me!" Jasper said with real concern. The truth was he really was worried.

"I need to check with Sebastian, but I think we can come back to try to put some sense in his head." She informed after a long painful silence.

Jasper felt uncomfortable by the way she referred to Sebastian like he was something more than he wanted to think he was. But he tried to clear his head from that kind of thought because this was after all for Liam. Without planning he'd ended doing a good thing and winning the opportunity to see Eleanor was just a bonus. Did he really do that? Did he really call her and convince her to come home?

"Thank you, Len. I hope you could help because I really don't know what to do anymore.!"

"Thank you for calling Jasper. Don't tell anyone that I'm coming ok? I don't want a big thing about it and hopefully it's just for a day or so!"

"Of course, don't worry about it!" Jasper reassured her hoping for more than a day in her company.

She hung up without even saying goodbye, leaving him staring at the phone and playing their conversation playing in his head over and over. Hearing her voice again gave him a mixture of hope and fear that he couldn't clearly explain. But he decided to focus on the good part of all of this and smile at the possibility of seeing her again, for real, like flesh and bone, very soon.

Eleanor hung up without saying goodbye mostly because she couldn't say goodbye to Jasper. It hurt her too much doing it and she protected herself from it.

She was concerned about her brother, but the only thing she could think of was how she was going to face Jasper after she had a dream with him every night since she had left. Good dreams and bad dreams, but always the same subject, Jasper was always the focus of the dream. It bothered her, she even had sometimes an urge to beat herself for it but it also made her feel closer to him somehow.