Fire in her Heart and Ice in her Veins.

Chapter 20

Monday, August 15, 1979. 1:30 a.m. 

Jacks POV....

I can't sleep. I've been lying in bed for the past four hours thinking about Wes and what he did to Chelse. I am so overwhelmed with emotion right now, its keeping me awake. I want to comfort Chelsea and tell her I'm sorry for everything and that I'm here for her. 

 I screwed up big time when I just let Chelsea walk out of my life. I I thought with my fists, not my head and look were that brought me. No roommate.....no friend....no....no Chelsea. 

I'm so stupid for acting like that...but I can't change the past. If I only knew....I could've stopped, helped her. But I didn't know her story.

What Rizzo told me about Chelsea and her past, has never made me feel so helpless before. I wasn't ready to hear this. I had no idea of the things she's been put through. I need to talk to her. 

(Chelseas Story)

Third Person View...

Chelsea Evans had a good and normal life. She had loving parents, lots of friends and got good grades at school. She never thought that she would be losing her mother before she was in high school and it destroyed her. Her mother and her were like best friends. They spent every free moment together and had big dreams of Chelsea playing professional hockey. 

Chelsea went from being the loud, energetic, chatty girl to being dead silent, tired and never talking. She didn't like talking about her mom after she died and tried her best to move on through playing hockey. 

Hockey was were she could be herself and it was were things never changed. It reminded her of her mom and she felt very close to her whenever she was at the arena. She remembered her mother telling her that she didn't want Chelsea to stop living life when she was no longer there. She wanted her to have fun, make memories with friends, talk to some boys...celebrate her young years. 

The summer following high school, she shut out the whole world but knew once school started, she needed to listen to her mothers advice. Chelsea began to talk more in class and play sports again. She even started talking to boys and had a few flings over the years with guys from her hometown. Although through all this, Chelsea still felt like she was more alone than ever. 

Then, Jayce Connors came into her life. 

They met through friends at a party in the summer of Junior year. Jayce made Chelsea feel like her head was up in the clouds, falling madly in love together. They spent every waking moment together and became everyones favourite couple. 

They were perfect in every way. 

Chelsea thought her boyfriend was the most perfect guy...but then she started to see all the flaws in perfect. After a year of dating, Chelsea noticed how Jayce was starting to change. He wasn't acting the same as he used to. His grades in school started slipping, all those scholarships that he had lined up were pulling out and he was starting to lose himself. 

Chelsea knew this was because of his dad because he was always hard on Jayce. Mr. Connors was a solider who fought in Vietnam when Jayce was just a toddler. He apparently used to be very good at football and was offered to play in the NFL before he was deployed. When he returned, with a painful memory and one leg less, he was never the same. 

Chelsea has seen and heard how hard Mr. Connors could be on Jayce and she knew that this new behaviour was because of this. She tried hard to be patient with Jayce, but his temper was only getting worse and worse. 

Jayce was starting to get controlling and abusive to Chelsea, hitting her when she did something he didn't agree on. Jayce didn't like Chelsea spending all her time at the arena and would get angry with her when she couldn't spend time with him because she was training for hockey.