JACK AND ROSE PRESENT TIME 2: JUNIOR YEAR
Chapter Eight
Rose woke up the next morning to find that
Jack still hadn't come back yet. She rubbed her eyes, they were soar from all
of the tears that had come from last night. She was really worried about Jack.
Her phone rang, and she prayed it was
Jack...but it wasn't.
"Oh, hi Dom," Rose said tiredly.
"Don't act too happy to hear from
me," Dominique said sarcastically. "How was your night?"
Rose started to cry. "Terrible...Jack
and I got in a huge fight, and he left. Dominique, I don't know where he went.
I'm worried about him."
"I'm sorry Rose," Dominique
replied. "Go look in the lobby and stuff. Maybe he slept down there or got
another room or something."
"Yeah...maybe I'll do that."
"Wanna know what happened with me?"
Dominique asked, even though she regretted it after. Maybe Rose was too upset
to care.
"What?" Rose asked, not wanting to
disappoint her best friend.
"Well I did go...and Tommy and I had a
blast, but it wasn't meant to be. He tried to kiss me, and when he did we both
started laughing. It was silly, but we know that we're too good of friends to
go out."
"Oh," Rose muttered. "Sorry to
cut this short, but I gotta go look for Jack. I'll call you."
"Alright," Dominique said.
"I'll see ya later."
Rose dressed quickly, wanting to find out
where Jack was. It was about 10:00 A.M. and Rose got more worried by the
minute. When she was finally done, she raced out of her room in search for the
man who had brought her here.
When Rose walked out into the hallway, she
couldn't believe what she saw. Jack had just came out of one of the rooms, and
he looked sick. He must have gotten another room...but, then she saw a women
come out of a door and wave goodbye to him...
Rose's heart leaped into her throat as she
realized what must have happened. As soon as Jack saw Rose his eyes turned
almost sad, and Rose just starred back at him. Had he done what Rose expected?
She didn't care. She walked back calmly to her room and shut the door.
As expected, she heard Jack come after her.
"Rosie," Jack said in a sweet innocent voice. "I need to talk to
you...please Rose. Let me in."
What would be solved if she didn't let him
in? Rose reasoned. She let him into the room and stared coldly into his eyes.
Jack dropped down to her knees and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm so
sorry..."
And, Rose knew what he did. "How could
you Jack?" Rose asked. She knew that their relationship was coming to an
end...he had slept with another woman...and she wasn't even that pretty.
"God Rose," Jack started, as he
cried. "Last night, when I left, I went to the bar. Luckily, they let me
drink without an I.D. I guess I had way too much to drink. I met this nice
woman who told me that she had a room that I could sleep in. I didn't know she
would sleep there also, I was too drunk to think. She must have put something
in one of my drinks...because as I was with her...I thought she was you. I know
that I didn't made love to her...but I did sleep in the same bed as her."
Jack paused, "She told me that I called her Rose the whole night..."
Was that supposed to make her feel better? At
least he was being honest, but Rose knew what she had to do. "We're over
Jack."
"What?" Jack asked.
"We're over..." Rose said as she
began to cry...again. "We're broken up."
"Please don't do this," Jack said
as he stood up and took her face in his hands and looked into her eyes.
"You don't know how awful I feel..."
"How do you think I feel?" Rose
screamed. "Jack...you just had sex with another woman!"
"I told you," Jack said back.
"I didn't make love to her. Yes, Rose, I know I made a mistake...a huge
mistake...but you have to forgive me. I love you more than anything!
Forgiveness is what love is all about..."
Rose looked back at the man she loved, yet
she hated now, too. "I always thought of you as a guy who would never hurt
me this much..." Rose muttered.
Jack was about to kill himself for being so
stupid. He was so drunk last night...he knew that woman must have slipped
something into one of his drinks...because when he had fallen asleep next to
her...he thought it was Rose. He would never be able to forgive himself for
this one...he really did mess up.
"It's really over..." Rose
muttered, as she took Jack's hands off her face.