"I'm just…" I thought, wondering what to tell her. Could I trust her enough to tell her my secret? In fact, I hadn’t told my mother yet, so I definitely couldn’t tell Jessica about it.
"Well, I'm just a bit scared that all," I replied, not exactly lying or telling the whole truth.
"It's natural to feel scared Mel; even I was scared when I married Steve. Don't you remember?" Jessica reminded me. A year ago, she was in my position and two weeks before her wedding was crying almost everyday, scared that he wouldn’t turn up and that they wouldn’t be happy. To this day, when they were around each other, they were always happy and smiling as though they had just met and to be honest, I was slightly scared about the same thing myself. I had heard so many tragic stories about couples that had gotten married and the idea of it happening to I and Trevor broke my heart.
"I remember. There's something else though," I started, feeling a sudden urge to fill her in on what had been happening for the last couple of weeks.
"My ex-boyfriend that I dated four years ago, in college, is in town," I informed her, waiting for her reaction.
"And…" Jessica urged, seeming to have a weird look in her eyes.
"Are the feelings flooding back?" She questioned with a sense of understanding.
"Only a tiny bit," I lied when actually, all of my feelings had come flooding back, so fast that I seemed to be drowning in it all.
"I know exactly what that feels like," Jessica sighed sadly, linking arms with me as we turned into the children's play area. Luckily it was only two o'clock, meaning that the most children were not out of school yet, therefore it was pretty empty.
"What do you mean you know what it feels like? I'm sure you have no idea," I scoffed, shaking my head at her attempt to understand me.
"It happened to me, except the person didn’t just appear in town suddenly, but had always been there," Jessica stated, releasing my arm to sit on a swing.
Jessica had been through it. I was not alone. This meant that if she could do it then so could I.
"What happened? Did they still love you?" I quizzed, joining her on another swing.
"No, they didn’t." Jessica answered, so quietly that I almost missed it.
"Do they still love you?" She replied, staring at me, her chocolate brown eyes burning into mine with sadness and curiosity.
"They claim to…It feels as though nothing bad ever happened between us when he's around and it's annoying because something did happen, which had hurt me deeply. It's not fair that my feelings have turned back on so suddenly after so many years apart. Jennifer wants me to speak to him tonight so that I know that I'm making the right choice marrying Trevor, but I know I am. I'm almost certain!" I rushed, breathless.
"Almost?" Jessica repeated with a small, cheerless smile.
"I say that you should go and meet him. If you're almost certain, then it wouldn’t hurt to be one hundred percent certain now would it?" Jessica advised and with a sigh I reluctantly agreed.
"If anything, I'll go with you to where ever you're meeting the guy to make sure that you don’t back out or panic." She added, making me smile. I definitely needed her calm aura around me when I went to do this. I just had to think about what I was going to say to Trevor, since we were supposed to go out to dinner tonight.
"Can't I do it another night because I'm supposed to be having dinner with Trev---," I began.
"Nope. Otherwise knowing you Mel, you'll never do it and tell him that your spending a couple hours overtime with me, to catch up on some work that you missed out on, on Monday," Jessica suggested. I didn’t want to lie to Trevor, I mean he was my fiancé, except I had to make sure that I was making the right choice, one that I wouldn’t regret for as long as I lived.
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He Came Back To Make Me His.
General FictionMelanie fell for Stephen in college, only for him to soon turn against her. Four years later, Melanie's engaged, when Stephen returns, telling her three things that she was definitely surprised to hear. Firstly, that they were soul mates. Secondly...
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