WAR AND PEACE
( CHAPTER EIGHT )
The group divided after deciding they'll meet up in the main street for the 4th of July parade. Everyone went their ways.
Jennifer looked down as thoughts traveled in her head. Stan being the reason of those thoughts. Ever since she saw him on the street everything was different, she felt different, and she didn't want that.
The blonde took her bike to the small backyard behind the house before going inside to eat some cereal. And meanwhile she did, the phone rang ten minutes later.
"Hello?"
"Do you know the sky is one of the most beautiful things that could ever exist?" She chuckled and tried playing it cool.
"H-hi" she paused knowing that on the other side of the line, Stan waited for her sarcastic response but it never came. "Why... why do you try? Why.. why are you w-with me?" Jen sobbed "I mean, there are a lot of beautiful girls around and pardon my french, but I'm not one of them"
You could here Stan's smile on the other side of the line. Not a 'I've wanted to make you feel this way all this time' or an evil one, just a comprehenssive smile.
"Jen— you're one of the most beautiful and smart people I know. You're wonderful and you deserve the world, and I love you and I'm sorry if I'm not enough but I try, you try, we try" he paused knowing he made her smile between tears "We're in this together"
Jennifer sniffed and laughed "Stan I, I don't deserve you"
"Believe me, I know"
She let out a dramatic gasp and hung up.
The phone rang again a minute later "You don't hang up on people when they're talking, Jennifer Crosley"
"Whatever, Stan... I'm happy I met you"
"You really like changing topics— Don't hang up!" They laughed. "Shit I gotta go, my dad just pulled up. Bye, love" he hung up.
Jennifer stood there with the phone on her hand agaisnt her ear.
"Promise me, promise me you're never leaving me"
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The next morning, well, 10.37 am, Jennifer called the Uris'.
"Who's this?"
"Stan! Hi"
"Hey. Everything ok?"
"What? Yes oh, well, I don't know...."
"Wah-what's wrong?"
"I-it's very complicated, Stan"
"You know you can tell me anything, love"
"Y-yeah I know, ok? Look, it's v-very hard to tell you this..."
"....Are you breaking up with m-me?" Stan asks after the short silence
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war and peace {stanley uris}
FanfictionIt seems since Jennifer Crosley started dating Stan Uris, things started to go down the well. Literally. From a clown in the middle of the street to her mother leaving, Jennifer tries to survive the summer of 1989 with her friends as they also try t...
