Seal The Deal

Epilogue

Jessie's POV

After exactly three months spent devoid of Landon's presence, I was dressed in school's uniform with my high ponytail, no longer blonde and a pair of Louis Vuitton heels which were just recently released.

The two months were extremely hard as I tried to get over him with the help of a summer vacation to the Hamptons along with Edward and Hira. No tears were involved, just a strong feeling of loneliness and constant flashbacks of memories with Landon were the complete summary of my three months of trying to get over my fake engagement.

Now, I was better although deep down I was still unsure of how I would feel when I meet him. My heart felt empty when I got out of Jamie's car to be face to face with Landon's silver Aston Martin. This was definitely not a good start, I thought.

Today, I was a senior but nothing changed except for the fresh adrenaline for a new beginning. I put my new Prada bag into my locker although I missed my old one but Edward had insisted that in order to get started on a new change, all my things also needed to be replaced so the feeling of change would be more apparent. His theory was instantly proven wrong when a certain guy with dark blonde hair was spotted. He was as gorgeous as ever and he looked even more messy today. His dishelved hair and the loose tie made my heart clench in pain but it was all just the start until my eyes met his ocean blue ones.

They were hard as ever and no signs of emotions were visible and he looked away immediately before continuing to talk to Nick with a sense of indifference and confidence.

He looked just fine. Heck, he looked even finer.

I was suddenly angry for the reason that I was drowned in an unexplainable gloomy feelings all throughout the summer break and by looking at his current demeanor, I was sure that he wasn't like me. He was just getting along fine with everything whereas, in my case, I was left with nothing but sorrow and pain.

We avoided each other throughout the whole day, not bothering to even look at each other everytime we passed each other.

When it was time to go home, I was surprised to find Nick standing beside me with a common bored expression on his face. I turned to give him a questioning look as I shut my locker preparing to walk out of the school.

"Why are you both so stubburn?" I heard Nick muttered under his breath.

"Landon is definitely hurting and I know you are too. So why not just put your pride aside and talk to each other instead of feeling all sad and depressed?" He asked me, his usual bored tone was replaced with genuine curiousity and I realised that this was the longest sentence he had ever spoken to me.

"I don't know." I admitted while sighing, looking down on the floor, too embarassed to look at him.

Nick heaved a small sigh before giving me a look.

"Just don't spend the rest of your life regretting." He retorted before walking away leaving me speechless and unable to think of anything other than defeat.

Jamie was in the car as she drove us to McDonald's. I bought one cheeseburger and a bottle of mineral water.

I was thinking of visiting the old man and Jamie agreed to it. It used to be our tradition to visit him and handed him food everyday because we believed that he deserved more than that.

"I'll be back." I said and Jamie nodded before I went out of the car with one burger and a bottle of water in my hand as I approached the homeless man.

I handed him the food and drink and smiled at him after he thanked me. I spotted the coat Landon had handed him back when Landon and I visited him, this made my heart churn in a bad way. I sighed before trying to push away any thoughts related to Landon.

I was about to walk away when I heard soft footsteps. I turned around to find myself staring at Landon who had a lunchbox and a can of orange juice on his hand. He, too seemed pretty surprise at my presence and his blue eyes were full with shock.

"Hi." He said, more out of manners than anything. The shock expression was still evident in his face.

I casted him a guarded smile as he handed the food and drink to the homeless man who then flashed him a grateful smile and thanked him before drinking from the bottle.

Landon turned to look at me without uttering any words and we stared at each other awkwardly not exchanging any words.

"I'm leaving! I can't wait for you people to oggle at each other! Landon take Jessie home!" I heard Jamie shouted before her car sped away in an instant.

I was cursing in my head and I knew Landon was too but instead he walked me to his car.

Being in Landon's car brought back so many random memories with him and I couldn't help but smile at the beautiful moments we had shared together in this silver car.

Landon turned to look at me suddenly. He didn't start the engine and his eyes were no longer hard and guarded instead, they turned especially gentle.

"I'm just going to blurt anything in my mind right now." He spoke.

"I fucking miss you, Jessie."

"And after all those times trying to get over you, I still can't seem to get you off my head." He added and he seemed to be out of breath when he said it.

"And I think I like you too much to care about who my family wants me to be with for the sake of connections."

A small smile made its way to my face and his gaze was filled with raw complicated emotions which was hard for me to decipher but one thing I was sure, it was the look of affection and determination.

"Let's make a deal." He suggested with a charming smile on his face.

"A deal that consists of being honest with one another and staying together regardless of what our families want. In other words, a deal which would only be sealed by us, not our fathers."

"So what do you say?"

I paused momentarily and couldn't help but chuckle at his suggestion.

I stood on my tiptoes and gave him a kiss.

And that was the story on how we sealed our deal; our own deal.

The End.