Stuck in you

It was the best choice send Celine away.

"You don't have to apologize for this, you know," Rachel said. "I do hope that you can keep your word. We both know that if she comes to me and stirs up trouble again, Dad won't just drive her away from the city."

She was seldom mighty, but when she was, it deeply impressed Jack. It seemed that Celine had pissed her off too many times that she had run out of tolerance.

"It won't happen again. That, I can assure you." He paused and felt the embarrassment rising up in his head. "Before she came to you, I had already broken up with her. But I didn't expect her to cause you trouble."

Rachel nodded to indicate that she understood what he meant. She curved her lips into a small smile and said, "If you loved her so much before, why didn't you fight to stay in the relationship?"

Jack wasn't expecting for her to ask such a question. His face slightly darkened and silence lingered in between them. After a pause, he replied, "I thought that I could've maintained the relationship on my own for the both of us."

Rachel pursed her lips. He didn't seem to know how to be in a proper relationship. But then again, what did she know? She had never been in a relationship before.

She felt sympathetic with his answer. He thought he could've fixed the both of them, even when things had gone sour.

Seeing that there was nothing else to be talked over, Rachel stood up. "I'm quite tired, I think I'll head upstairs to sleep."

Jack stood up as well. "I'm going to bed too."

He caught a glimpse at Rachel's foot and saw that it seemed to be healing. "Your foot is looking much better. Does it still hurt?"

"Not anymore. Thank you for asking." Things got awkward real fast. It seemed that the intimacy that they had shared a few days ago was short-lived. They were back to being estranged with one another.

But Jack didn't think he did anything wrong.

He himself didn't understand why he started to have feelings for Rachel.

He couldn't even properly explain his feelings about her. But the truth was, his feelings for her kept getting stronger every passing day.

Even when he saw the miserable look on Celine's face, he could only feel pity for her, not love.

He felt surprised and ashamed at such a change of heart.

He had treasured Celine for several years. But he wasn't willing to fight for his relationship with her.

He started to doubt why his attitude had changed so suddenly.

He didn't know if it was even a good idea to be doubting himself.

help him reflect on his

that he hadn't

silently went upstairs to their

still awkward around each other, it was good that the tension from earlier had been

and tried to fall asleep, not wanting to linger around her thoughts for the

her eyes, all she could see was Jack's

around in the bed. After midnight had struck, she finally fell into a

next morning to find that the rain had stopped. The sun was shining

the bright green leaves as it

was a mixed scent of soil and grass circulating in the air.

foot to check how it was doing. She was able to move it around more. After removing the bandage,

left her room, she ran

the sound of the door opening, he looked up, and their eyes

tore his eyes away from hers

that she was only wearing a pair of white

"It's better."

problem." With his head bent down and his sleeves

slightly stunned and blurted out, "So

made the decision just earlier today. I forgot to tell

my luggage later. If you won't be home today, I can ask him to

"Did you tell Dad?"

already told him. Don't

for a while and replied,

used to

with

her. "I'm leaving now.

head. She had nothing

time, Jack asked, "Is

blinked her eyes and

hand to scratch his forehead. Seeing that she wasn't going to say anything, he turned

suddenly decided to

she didn't want him to leave, she

he wanted to leave, then that was on him. She should be happy, she'd finally

to decide whether he