The Angel's Departure pt 16



It was different to be back on a normal schedule without thinking about being taken away from the people she had now thought of as family. Jean was relieved that she did not have to go anywhere against her will, but she began to miss her parents and sister. School was so much better when she did not have to worry about who she talked to and ate lunch with. Jean wished that her sister could come to Bayville High, then at least she could see her everyday. Decisions are so difficult in the matter of where you will be happy for a long period of time.

"Jean?" Scott said breaking her haze of concentration. He was right next to her with a concerned look on his face. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, what did you want?" Jean asked pulling the rest of the books she needed out of her locker only for them to all end up on the floor. Jean was amazed at what she had done, she had never been this out of it at school especially. Scott quickly retrieved Jean's fallen books from the floor and helped Jean to her next class.

"You okay, Jean?" Scott asked again.

"Yeah. Well, no not really."

"What's wrong?"

"I think maybe I should live with my parents and my sister," Jean confessed.

"But why?" Scott asked surprised and afraid of what she was saying. He did not want to lose her after they had fought so hard to keep her. Not that he did not like her parents and her sister, it's just that he did not want them to take Jean away. Why was she thinking this? "Jean you can't!" he blurtted out in frustration.

"Scott," Jean said looking into his eyes, "I'm still thinking about it. Don't worry."

"Why not? You're thinking about it in the first place, so that itself worries me. I don't want to lose you again."

"I'll see you after school, okay?"

"Okay."

"Please don't tell the others Scott?"

"Okay I won't. See you after school."
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"Hi daddy, yeah it's me," Jean was talking on the phone to her father with only Scott in the room. "I kinda wanted to talk to you about something. About coming home...no there's nothing wrong. I just miss you and mom and Sarah. Okay, yeah I understand. Okay goodnight." Jean hung up the phone and sat next to Scott on her bed.

"So? Do they want you back?" Scott asked her thinking he knew that they would have said yes in an instant.

"They said that now that they know why I'm here and met everyone that they don't want me to leave. They said we'll have plenty of time on weekends and school breaks."

"Good, I knew I like your parents," Scott said hugging Jean relieved that she was staying and he was not losing her again.

"Uh huh sure."

"What?"

"You're so funny Scott Summers. You would have been so angry if I left and you know it!"

"No of course not. I wouldn't miss you," he said trying to hide his feelings from her, but was not doing a very good job at it.

"So what homework do we have to do?"

"Homework!? Let's forget it till later and go out to a movie first," Scott suggested and they left the mansion for the movies.