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.

would help him reflect

were caused by the fact that he hadn't had sex for years.

silently went upstairs to

around each other, it was good that the tension from earlier

pour outside. Rachel pulled the duvet on top of her and tried to fall asleep, not wanting to linger around her thoughts for

eyes, all she could see

After midnight had struck,

had stopped. The sun was

the bright green leaves

and grass circulating in the air. Rachel stretched her body in front of

how it was doing. She was able to move it around more. After removing the bandage, she found that

she ran into

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

his eyes away from hers and looked down.

saw that she was only wearing

"It's better."

problem." With his head bent down and his sleeves rolled up,

stunned and

just earlier today. I forgot to

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

"Did you tell Dad?"

told him.

silent for a while and

used

strode downstairs, with Rachel slowly

her. "I'm leaving now. Call me if

head. She had nothing

asked, "Is there something you want to tell

blinked her eyes

his forehead. Seeing that she wasn't going to

he suddenly decided to move out? Was

to leave, she

was none of her business. If he wanted to leave, then that

night to decide whether