love in the 21st century//jancy

25.

j: well nance, you win.

j: i learned wonderwall for you :)

Message read at 2:56 pm

j: nancy? is everything okay?

n: can't talk. call u later

Message read at 3:02 pm

n: hey, i'm gonna call you as soon as i get home from the hospital. i just really need to hear your voice right now...

j: hospital????

j: nancy, what's going on???

n: i'm not gonna call tonight, i'm sorry

n: i need to be with my family. especially mike.

j: nancy i'm really worried. please tell me what's going on!

n: my dad left this morning. just packed his bags and walked out. he said he was tired of my mom.

n: he wrote a note apologizing to us though. as if that makes anything any better.

n: he never wanted us anyway.

n: i have no idea where he is.

j: nancy i'm so sorry...

j: i don't even know what to say.

j: how is your mom?

n: fine, apparently

n: i found out she's been sleeping with this disgusting dick billy that i used to go to school with

n: it's disgusting she's like twice his age???

n: turns out she was cheating after all

n: everything is messed up and i just don't know what to do.

j: can i call you?

n: mike is asleep next to me. i don't wanna wake him up.

j: why were you at the hospital?

n: oh that. yeah, as if anything could get any worse.

n: holly fell and broke her arm.

n: plus i think mike tried to OD on his antidepressants.

n: he swears he wasn't, but he's got a lot of issues going on with him, and he's not coping very well.

n: i don't know what to do. i feel useless and hopeless.

j: i'm so sorry nancy. i guess what you need to do is just be there for all of them as best as you can.

n: i'm not strong enough for that. i can't be head of this household. i can't protect us.

j: you have to try. at least until your mom gets back on her feet and mike starts feeling better.

j: it's gonna be hard, but sometimes life just throws disasters in your way, and you have to step up and be the best that you can to overcome it.

n: you're the best, you know that right?

j: i don't know about that. just trying to help.

n: you're so great. i wish you were here. i feel like it would just be so much easier. i can barely even handle mike alone.

j: you can do it, nancy. things suck right now, but things will get better. i'm not saying it'll be tomorrow or even this year. but they will get better.

n: i just wanna murder him, you know?

n: my dad, i mean. for leaving. for being so distant from us all our lives. especially mike. he needed a strong, protective father figure in his life, and ted wheeler just couldn't step up and keep his life from being ruined.

j: i know that feeling, trust me. i had a dad most of my childhood. a shitty one, but i had one. will is the one suffering. i mean, he has mom, and she's fantastic at taking care of him. i just wish lonnie wasn't such an asshole so that will wouldn't be in the state he's in.

n: we're a grade a tragedy, aren't we?

j: we make hamlet look like a comedy.

n: ha.

n: i'm gonna go, jonathan.

n: thank you for talking to me.

n: and thank you for learning the song. :) maybe tomorrow will be kinder, and you can sing it for me.

j: of course. :)

j: please call me if you need anything.

j: even if i have to use every bit of my money to buy a plane ticket to get to you, i'll do it.

n: why do you bother with me? you're obviously too good for me.

j: you're obviously wrong, because you are too far out of my league, nancy wheeler.

n: goodnight, jonathan. :)

j: goodnight, nancy.

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hey, so i wasn't planning on continuing, but I was struck with sudden inspiration. Hope this is satisfactory? Anyway, leave comments, votes, etc. And be sure to check out my other Jancy fic, "Dear Nancy." It includes Lumax and Mileven too!