| Easy Love Chapter Three: And the Changes Just Keep Coming Two Days Later� Jack leaned into the door frame that led into his sister�s room and watched her flip through a very thick textbook. One pencil behind her ear and a highlighter in her hand she scanned the pages thoroughly. Her entire body trained and tensed. He sighed letting her know that he was watching her and she looked up at him with tired eyes. �Hey� how long have you been standing there?� �Just a minute or so.� He remarked walking in and grabbing a seat at the end of her bed. Reaching out he took one of the many books off of the bed and turned it so that he could read the title. �Renaissance Literature?� He asked with raised eyebrows. �Yeah� There�s a paper do this Friday and I haven�t even chosen an appropriate topic to do my paper on. I am so far behind that it�s killing me.� She practically shrieked. He shook his head. �Andie what are you talking about? Why are you even taking this class? You don�t need it� You don�t even have to go to school. You could be spending the last few months of your senior year on the couch watching good-brain cell damaging daytime television. You know I hear General Hospital has gone up tremendously in their ratings. You should see what all the buzz is about.� �I am not exactly a daytime television kind of girl.� She muttered. �You also aren�t the kind of girl to stay in a town and pass up a once in a lifetime opportunity for some guy either.� He retorted. �Jack please. Can we not do this right now?� �Then when? Because Andie we haven�t talked about it in two days. You haven�t offered one sensible explanation as to why you�re still here and not across the world drinking Italian Expressos.� She sighed. �You know why� I told you why.� �Because Dawson asked you to stay? Again I�m not hearing a sensible explanation. I have never known you to do anything based off of some whimsical emotion.� He remarked. She stopped in mid-sentence and looked up at her brother. �Is that what you think this is? That Dawson and I have this crippling emotional attachment to one another that hinders us from being apart? Well, that�s not the way it is! You don�t know the first thing about it!� �Then please explain it to me because I�m trying to understand Andie I really am. I don�t know what is happening but you have to give me something. The only thing I can think of is that you� you�� He hesitated. �What?� She asked already suspecting his next statement. �That you stayed because you care about Dawson more then you let on.� He replied. She scoffed and got up off the bed moving to her desk under the pretense of looking for something. �That�s ridiculous.� �Is it?� He questioned. �Dawson and I are just friends, Jack. We went through a lot together and share this bond that I�ve never had with anyone before. But that bond is strictly platonic. There are no romantic tones beneath our empathetic words.� Jack nodded. �Fine� but just so you know, if you did have feelings for Dawson, and you assure me that you don�t, but just if you did� it would be okay, Andie. You wouldn�t be doing anything wrong because you�re entitled to your feelings.� He replied. �But wouldn�t that make me somewhat of a hypocrite? I would be doing the same thing that I reprimanded Pacey and Joey for doing.� He shook his head. �No� because you came to understand how wrong you were. You accepted their relationship because you knew in your heart that the way you feel about someone isn�t in your control anymore then what that person feels for you. The heart wants what it wants and sometimes that�s an inconvenience for other people but that�s life. If we could all choose who we loved the world would probably be a simpler place� but as the case may be, we can�t.� She sighed deeply fidgeting with the highlighter in her hands. �And if I did have these feelings for a certain fair hared boy� do you think that there is even a remote possibility that he could reciprocate my affection?� She asked softly. Jack nodded. �I believe that it is a possibility� although with Dawson and the matters of the heart, he isn�t exactly the quickest kid on the block.� She laughed at his statement and rolled her eyes in an agreeing manner. �But you�ll never know until you tell him. You can�t hide here in your room, buried beneath a ton of textbooks and papers that you really don�t need to do. Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith and go for it.� He replied taking a stand. Walking over to her he kissed the top of her head and then was gone leaving her to her own thoughts. She stood there for a moment thinking over his words until she couldn�t think about anything else. With a certainty she hadn�t had a moment ago she grabbed her hat and jacket and was down the stairs and out the door, Jack watching from the foyer with a smile. Pacey and Joey lay on her bed cuddled together each with their own textbook desperately trying to submerge themselves in paragraphs of Social Studies and Economics. �So have you talked to Andie?� She asked trying to sound casual. �No not yet. I�ve barely seen her.� |
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