Chapter 2
Soon after New
Years, Tony and I went back to Scotland. He resumed the role as Rector and I
continued taking my classes there. It felt very strange coming back to school.
I’d get a lot of stares from people as I walked by, and whispering behind
my back. I felt so uneasy walking around campus, and it was only the first week.
Who knows how long this would last? At least Theresa was still talking to me.
Even some of my teachers were giving me disturbing glares during class. I
couldn’t take it anymore!
I skipped lunch
one day to visit Tony and to tell him what was going on. On the way I passed by
Nannette’s desk. I wonder what happened to Nannette after we last saw her.
Was she still living and would she come back? Maybe Tony and I really did kill
her. As long as she’s not causing any more trouble and I didn’t have
to see her, she really didn’t matter. Frustrated as I was, I opened the
door and walked straight into Tony’s office. I leaned up against the door,
closed my eyes and sighed.
“What’s the matter dahling?”
Tony asked as he got up from his chair and joined me at the door.
“Everybody in this school is the matter! Ugh it’s
torture!” I covered my face with my hands as Tony guided me to his couch.
“Sit down and tell me what’s going on.”
“Everywhere I go people are glaring at me in a disgusting way for
some reason! People just stand there and stare at me. The whole University knows
about us now Tony.”
“I’m sorry, Jen. Just ignore him.
Let our relationship be their problem, not ours.”
“They even
whisper and talk about me behind my back! I mean, these are people I’ve
never even seen or met before. I have such a bad rep now! What am I gonna do? I
couldn’t be comfortable in an environment where people are talking about
me and saying bad things behind my back! I’d be so paranoid walking
through the campus!”
“Aww you poor thing.” Tony put
his arm around my shoulder and squeezed it tightly. “So what are you going
to do? Quit school?”
Well the thought
actually had crossed my mind. I wanted to take a year off after graduating from
high school but my aunt advised me not to. Until I discovered who Tony was, then
I considered giving college a chance.
“Jen, you’ve gone
quiet. Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about quitting
now.”
I sat up straight and Tony released his grip from my
shoulder.
“I have actually thought about leaving school.”
“But Jen, you have to stay in school.”
“Do I?
Look at my life, Tony. I’m stuck in this school that doesn’t even
have the major I wanted, I have no job, and nobody wants me around. I
don’t even know what I’m doing here.”
“So are you
saying that you regret coming here?”
“No, of course not. If I
didn’t come here, we never would have met. I could be living in California
wasting my life away over there without you.”
“You’re
not wasting your life away, dahling.”
“Yes I am. I could
never make up my mind on what I wanted to be when I got older. You know that
question, “What do you want to be when you grow
up?”
Tony nodded and ran his hand through
his hair.
“I wanted to be a famous actress, but not too famous,
whatever that meant to me back then. I was always scared that my dream would
never come true.”
“Your day will come, I
promise.”
“Yeah when?”
You’re still young and you’ve got a lot of time to decide what you
want to do. Things don’t come custom-made for you to use at that
second.”
“Ugh I’m so confused. I SHOULD be going out
there and doing something to start a career somehow instead of sitting on my
lazy ass all day.”
Tony smiled and pulled me close to him again.
“Now there’s the spirit. Look, if you want I can help you
make some connections with theaters and agents to help get you into acting and
stuff.”
“That would be real sweet of you, hon, but maybe not
until the summer. I’m going to just suck it up and stay here and face the
humiliation of the school. Who cares what they think about us, right? So what if
the school’s against me. If I ignore them enough, they’ll leave me
alone.”
“Exactly. They just don’t know what
they’re missing in not knowing you. It’s their loss.”
“Thank you, Tony. You’ve been a real help.”
“Don’t mention it, luv. Remember what I said to you when we
first met? ‘If you have any problems or anything you want to talk about,
you come see me. My office is always open.’”
“Yes, and
you were so
right.”
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