--- "Love didn't hurt you. Someone who didn't know how to love hurt you. Don't confuse the two"
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"Come in!" a dazed Jack shouts as she leaves her maroon tinted closet turned makeshift red room. Kate, Ashley's mom, flicks on the bedroom light as she enters with a tray of food and a neatly wrapped box
"I know that your birthday is not till tuesday but I thought you'd want to open this one with me" Kate smiles as she hands the box over and sits at Jack's paint stained desk "it's from your dad" she smiles
Jack takes the box tenderly as she sits on her paint splatter styled bed spread, she stares at the box with caution
"Are you going to open it?" Kate beckons only to shrink down into herself at the wounded stare jack holds
"Um, maybe later. Wouldn't wanna open a present early" she dismisses before slowly placing the box down on her feet beside her sock clad feet
"Of course" kate smiles "have you maybe thought about having a birthday party? I'd be nice to invite all of your friends" the woman smiles warmly as she slides the chair closer
"Yeah. Uh, just maybe not this year. I'm not quite settled" Jack plays off as she looks at the scattered boxes on her floor
"Yeah, well there's always time to change your mind" Kate chuckles stiffly as she gets up. She pauses once she's stood in the door way with her back facing Jack "he asked me if he could call, I told him I had to ask you first of course. But he's really changing"
Kate turns around for a response but jack has already placed her clunky headphones on at full blast.
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Toby walks beside JT and Jack aho are kicking a rock back and forth on the pavement.
