Waiting on You

Chapter 28

The car bumps along the frosty road, the dark scenery outside flickering quickly as we drove.

The radio played quietly in the background, but I wasn't listening to the song that was playing. My head test against the window, my breath creating a cloud. The moon danced along the glass.

My heart beat faster and faster by the minute, butterflies forming in my stomach. I close my eyes, waiting.

"Do you know what you are going to say?" Jules asks me, shattering the silence that hung in the air.

I breath out shakily, wishing that he question would somehow include an answer.

"Not really..." I admit.

She sighs. "Well this trip better be worth it."

I smile slightly. Don't worry, I think, it will be.

We pulled off of the highway and into a neighborhood, everything black and blue from the darkness.

"What's the address?" Juliette asks.

My heart starts pounding in my chest. We were close, I was so close to Jacob after this whole time, I was going to see him. What had changed? Where had he been this whole time? Had he been in contact with anyone else? I was going to see Jacob.

I hand her the piece of paper and she squints at it, taking a sharp turn after putting it down. "Just a couple blocks."

I look around the car, trying to find something for my hands to play with so I could get my mind off of what was going to happen next. Even though it would be soon.

My fingers find the shoebox and I look through all the items, trying to find something that I may have missed. This had been too easy. After all this time, it was finally happening.

Juliette clears her throat and I look up at her, my hands frozen. She raises an eyebrow and I slowly lift them out. "You're gonna freak yourself out, Ror," she says, her palms sliding around the steering wheel. "Just sit back and relax."

I shake my head. "I can't. Now I am forgetting what I was going to say."

She stares at me and I gesture for her to look back at the road. She rolls her eyes but does as I ask. "Just say what comes to mind. We both know that you were never good at that with him, so nows your chance to fix that."

My heart sinks. She was right, I never really spoke my mind when I was with Jacob. After all, that was why I was here today.

The houses outside in the neighborhood are nice. None of them were as nice as Jacob's old house, but I still couldn't help but stare.

"Did he move or something?" She asks, following my gaze outside.

I shrug. "I don't know. All I know is that one of these houses is the address on the piece of paper.

Suddenly, Juliette's phone buzzes and we both jump. "Who is that?" I ask, craning my neck to see the name on the screen.

She scoops up the device and angles it so that I can't see. Jules always hated it when I looked at her phone.

"It's Belle," she groans, tossing it to me. I fumble with it in the air before letting it come to a rest on my lap.

"What do you think she wants?" I ask, staring at Belle's name in bold letters on the screen.

"Well answer and maybe we'll find out!" She screeches.

Normally I would have laughed, but right now I was not in the mood. My hands shook so violently that I had to press them on my thighs to try and make it stop. Sweat ran down the back of my neck, even though Juliette's car didn't have air conditioning.