A Second Chance

I'm Broken

Jacks POV

(Two months later)

I wake up and look around me, this isn't my room.

I turn around and see an attractive blond girl sleeping next to me, holding on to my chest. I don't remember her name but I know what we did last night.

I sigh as I settle my arm around her.

Then as i look at the sleeping girl I think back to last night. And I realize how I've become a monster.

I'm broken again, I never thought I would feel this way again. This time though, the fault is on me.

Since Taylor told me I could possibly be the father of her child, I stood up to the challenge and will accept whatever results and consequences lay ahead of me.

I've also become a new person, a broken man.

Every night is the same: get up, go to the bar, go to work half sober, go back to bar, drink the time away, pick up a girl, and take her home.

When I wake up I feel regret, even thought Elsa had broken up with me back in Norway, every time I think back to what I've done I get the worst feeling in my chest.

I always feel like I cheated on Elsa, then I realize she's not mine anymore.

I look over at the clock and see it is now 8 in the morning. I'd better get up to start my day.

I roll out of the bed carefully to not wake her and change into my clothes, which had been scattered all over the floor.

I grab a piece of paper from her and wrote her a quick goodbye and thank you.

I leave the house and lock her front door for her. My car is still in the drive way, so I get in and drive to my job at the auto shop.

My friend hiccup is already there changing the tiers on a truck.

"Hey, bud." I say with a monotone as I put my denim jumpsuit over my clothes and wear the company hat that says 'hey, I'm jack'.

He looks up and grins as he shakes his head. "Hey, Jack. Doing the walk of shame again, I see." he said giving me a hard time as I looked at my schedule for that day.

"Yeah, well... at least I get something." I grin back and grab a rag to tie around my belt loop. "Things with Astrid okay?" I ask as I look over to the other side of the truck and pop open the hood.

"Yeah... just great, actually.... I'm thinking about asking her... to m-marry me." He stammered as I look up from the engine to his nervous face.

I slap his back and smile. "Go for it." I say whole hearted.

He nods and fiddles with the bolts in his hand. "So, you thinking about finding that special girl? or is the place to try them all and see who you like best?" he said cockily as I threw my rag at his face and chuckled.

"No... you know that I'm waiting to see about the possibility of me being the father..." I tailed off as I thought back between Elsa and the baby.

Hic is the only one besides Sandy who knows about Elsa.

And Hic always gave me crap about how I let her go so easily, he says that I 'didn't try hard enough and didn't fight for her' but if he'd seen the disgusted face she had towards me...the he'd know why I left that night.

I felt that ping of pain in my chest and when back to looking at the dead engine.

"Yeah... I know. How much longer till the kid arrives?" he asked as he rolled the last tire away.

"She's five months." I answer as I spark the engine back to life. "Finished." I say with a smirk and get down to change the oil.

"Not too much longer." he added

"Yeah, we'll see soon enough."