The Truth

My Rock

"I love you so much" He cupped my cheeks and smashed his lips into mine, it felt so good, the familiar movement was perfect. "I love you" I laughed, rubbing tears from my cheeks, he finally put me down and hugged me, nothing ever felt so right in my entire life, all I needed was Jake, I fit perfectly into his arms.

He sat me down and explained himself, there were plenty of tears and apologies but we both knew that we had forgiven each other. I sat in his lap and kissed him again, a smile spreading across my cheeks.

"I'm going out!" Billy shouted from the kitchen, lightly closing the door behind him. "It cost me so much to move from Louis' and I end up with this" he laughed, setting me off laughing.

"I'm going to marry you one day and you can't stop me" he smiled, "even if I file a restraining order?" "Even if you do"

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"Are you staying?" He asked, "I dunno, Veronica is minding the kids at the moment and I only bought a one way ticket" I explained, stuffing my mouth with pringles. "Karen texted me while I was in the airport and she's staying with this guy from work for another week" I moaned, "Let me come, it's the least I can do"

"No, you have classes"

"Week off" he smiled,

"Liar" I laughed,

"So what? it's just college, I wanna see you more, I've quit and my mind is going back on track"

"I love you" I repeated as his finger trailed on my nose, "I missed this" I smiled, sticking my hand in his curly brown highlighted hair, "and I miss this" he cupped my cheeks and kissed me once more, "Do you really wanna come back to LA?" I asked, looking for his reassurance, "no place I'd rather be"

I helped Jake clean the place, make it look normal. He freshened up and for the first time he smelt like his old self, we went on a walk around campus hand in hand.

He led me over to a bench where we collapsed in exhaustion, I rested my head on his shoulder as we watched the sun fade behind the buildings, people rustles past us as if we weren't even there, his arm lay across my shoulder perfectly, everything was back to where it was supposed to be, every crack was filled and complete as if it never happened.

The dark sky absorbed the campus and the weather grew dim, I shivered in my light shirt, Jake passed me his hoodie and wrapped me in it, "Can I take your picture?" He asked as if I were some sort of model, "sure" I shivered, still recovering from the cold. He grabbed his phone and took about a million pictures, admiring them all and posting one on twitter with the caption; 'My rock and my princess, let's just take a moment to appreciate @VanessaAnderson'

"Sucker for romance" I giggled, "only because of you"

We strolled back to his flat and went straight to sleep.

I woke up to an empty bed so I went on my phone for about 20 minutes until I forced myself into the shower, Jake left a note, he explained that he had important classes and if I needed him just text him. I poured myself some milk coffee and decided to call Veronica,

"Hi" she answered, obviously in the hallway of school,

"How did you get to school?" I asked confused,

"The kids stayed at Johns and I walked" she explained, "Where are you?"

"With Jake, he's ok, he's quit and is coming to stay with us next week cause Karen is staying another week with her boyfriend"

"You left?" She shouted,

"Not the state" I whispered hoping that I'd be more innocent if I said it like that,

"Ok fine, fine but don't do this to me ever again, please" she begged as if she were about to cry,

"What happened at school today?" I asked in concern, hoping she wasn't having a bad time.

"Nothing" she lied, hanging up before I could ask again, "what's up?" Jake asked from the door, walking in with groceries, "Something happened to Veronica at lunch today and I'm not sure what" I answered, gathering my stuff and immediately booking a flight for the following morning, "pack your stuff, we leave at 5:30" I called from the bathroom,  "shit!"

"What?"

"My card is maxed out, Karen cut me off again!" I shouted, beginning to get stressed and angry, "Nessa, let me get this one" he insisted, "you pay for fucking everything" he laughed, he took my phone and put in his details and handed it back to me, pulling me in for a hug, "You always overthink everything, there's probably just a temporary block, you paid a lot with that card in the last week I'm assuming"

"Hi" I said into my phone,

"Finally wanna go on that date?" Adam chuckled,

"What happened at school today, with Veronica?" I asked,

"Stuff" he laughed, obviously about what happened,

"Stuff? What kinda stuff?" I panicked.

"That weird Gabbie girl thought she was you and when your sister said she wasn't you Gabbie freaked the fuck out, Veronica laughed when she said she wasn't you and it set Gabbie off. She started pushing Veronica around and saying something about a promise, something about being popular" he explained. "Gabbie has mental problems I swear, once she bit this kid cause he stepped on her page in the 5th grade"

"What happened to Roni? Was She ok?"

"Yeah, well Gabbie kisses this dude and your sister freaked and ran off" he laughed as this was any some sort of joke.

"Shit! thanks" I hung up before shouting at Jake to pack faster, I grabbed my phone and little did I know that the text I was about to send would get me in the most trouble I've ever been in.

(Thanks for 5k!!❤️💜 ilygsm And thanks for reading!💙)