When it Rains and Rains

Chapter 13 - Make You Feel My Love

Adele – make you feel my love

Jack’s POV:

I walked away from Scar, my heart breaking. How could I be so stupid? How can I just walk away from her when she just asked me to help her? I knew that my life would never be complete without Scar in my life, but at the same time I could not stand by and watch her spiral out of control. But she asked for my help, does that mean she wants to change?

I began to pace up and down the street, pulling at my hair in frustration.

Why am I so stupid? How can I just let her go?

Suddenly a car pulled up next to me on the side of the road and the driver wound down their window.

“Hey Jack you ok man?” the driver shouted out to me.

I looked up at the driver and found Nick sitting there.

“Hey man yeah I’m ok. I guess.” I said as I wandered over to the car.

“So why are you pacing up and down a random sidewalk and not home with that hot girlfriend of yours?” Nick joked.

I tried to fake a smile, but Nick saw right through it.

“Jack what’s wrong?”

“Scar and I broke up.”

Nick’s jaw dropped. “What? When did this happen? When I saw the two of you, even I could see you were completely in love, and that’s saying something.” Nick exclaimed.

“I, ah, I-“I began then paused. “Do you want to go and get a drink?” I asked him.

“Yeah sure, jump in I know a nice place a few minutes from here.”

I nodded and quickly ran to the other side and jumped into the passenger seat. I put on my seatbelt and Nick took off. Five minutes later we pulled up at a nice pub. We walked into the pub and found a table at the back of the pub out in the back garden. It was only mid-afternoon so the sun warmed up the area. We sat down and ordered a quick meal and a drink.

“So spill.” Nick said.

“Well what’s there to say, I proposed she said no and I left.” I spat out quickly.

“Wait, you proposed?”

I nodded my head.

“And she said no?”

Again I nodded my head.

“Why?”

I let out a deep breath. 

“Well she’s going through a few issues at the moment and I guess things weren’t meant to be.” I told him blankly.

“What do you mean issues? What sort of issues can stop the two of you from getting married?” Nick asked.

“Scar has been a little depressed lately.”

“I’m not following.”

I looked down at the table and fiddled with my drink before I decided that it was ok to tell Nick the truth.

“Well ever since Jai died she was always down, never her old self. But ever since the five year anniversary of his death a couple of months ago she has gotten worse. She’s been drinking a lot and taking drugs. Over the past couple of years she also took to self-harming, but the past couple of months she’s gotten worse. The day of Jai’s anniversary I-“I began to stumble over my words. “I found her unconscious, there was so much blood.” I choked out, tears determined to escape my eyes, but I kept strong and held them back.