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The Missing Piece

Best Friend Encounters & Confessions In The Night.

Jana’s POV.
It’s days before our trip. That Friday, as soon as the bell rang for the students were dismissed, I stayed behind to grade the kids homework. As soon as i was finished, i cleaned up the classroom. While doing so, Alex comes into the classroom sitting on the desk and talking to me.

“Are you excited for the trip with your girlfriends?”, Alex asks in happiness.

I replied while putting the kids homework into the cabinet, “I’m super excited. I get to see Bailey.”

“You miss her, don’t you?”, Alex asks curiously.

“It’s been what, 3 years and we haven't seen her. I really miss the sister pact. It's not the same without her.” Jana says.

Alex says, “I’m happy that you're going on this vacation for Spring Break. You deserve it after teaching the little ones.”

I say with a smile, “Thanks.”

“Your welcome to call me at anytime during the break.” Alex says with a sad face.

“You're not going back home to your family for the break?”, I ask in curiosity.

Alex says, “Nope. I’m staying right here in California, just relaxing and grading papers.”

I say, “You sound like you got it all planned out.”

“Yepp.” Alex says happily and proudly.

“Promise me that you would take good care of my apartment while i'm away.” I reminded him proudly.

Alex knew that i was going to remind him again. He says, “I know. I know Jana. you don't have to remind me everyday about house sitting.”

I laughed slightly and says, “don't make me remind you again.”

“Please don't.” Alex says because he was sick of me reminding him again and again.

Alex continues to say after seeing me packing up my bag, “Well, i don't want to keep you. Goodbye.”

“Wait. you're not going home yet?”, I ask realizing that he had said goodbye.

“I was going to head back to my classroom to clean up.” Alex says.

I said to him, “I’ll help and we can head home together.”

Alex was happy and said, “Alright then.”

We headed out of my classroom. I turned off the lights and locked the doors. We spent a good 15 minutes cleaning up Alex’s classroom. It was rather more messy than my classroom because he was teaching 5th graders. Afterwards, we walked down a couple of blocks away from the school towards a small bakery shop. We sat there for a good hour talking, having a cup of coffee, and ate some desserts. And then drove home to the apartment complex. We went our separate ways. I came back to my apartment and started packing my suitcase. It was already 6:30PM at the time it passed. I had already finished packing my suitcase and getting a few last minute things when someone was at my door. The doorbell rang and i went to open it. It was Payton and Caroline.

So a few months ago when we planned this trip, we decided to stop by New York City at Bailee’s for 3 days then head over to Vegas together.

Me, Payton, and Caroline are going to carpool together. And so, Payton and Caroline wanted to sleepover at my place until tomorrow morning when we leave to NYC. They came into my apartment with their suitcases.

While they were watching tv in the living room getting comfortable, I ordered some Chinese food over the phone.

After 20 minutes, the doorbell rang again. I went to go get it and it was Alex this time. He was holding the Chinese food that I ordered.

“Hey.” I say with a smile.

“Did somebody order Chinese food tonight?”, Alex asks me happily.

“I did for us.”, I said confidently.

Alex questions me, “us?”.

“The pact is here to stay for the night.” I said as I pointed my thumb back.

“Oh, what fun.” Alex says.

“IS THAT CHINESE FOOD DELIVERY?”, Payton asks from the living room.

I asked Alex wanting to return the favor since he got the delivery for me, “did you want to join us tonight?”

“No, it's fine. You enjoy your sister pact fun. Go to bed early for your flight in the morning.” He says worrying for me.

“Thank you. Did you want anything from NYC or Vegas?”, I asked Alex curiously.

Alex said, “you know I like anything you bring back to me, Jana.”

I smiled and said, “okay, it's a surprise then!”

“I really like you Jana. These are my honest feelings and thoughts about you. I've watched you be with Max and it kills me inside thinking that you deserve someone much better than him. I'm not saying that it's me. I just thought that you should know.” Alex took a deep breath and says.

“I don't know what to say Alex.” I said not knowing what else I should've said.

“I didn't expect you to say anything, really. Anyways, Goodnight and have fun Jana.” Alex says.

“Night Alex.” I said back to him.

He gave me the bag of food and left. I closed the door behind me and walked towards the living room. I unpacked the food and put it on the table. Payton starts questioning.

“Who were you talking to at the door?”, Payton asks.

I said not making eye contact with Payton, “just Alex.”

I could feel Payton's eye staring into my soul and so she questions, “just Alex?”.

“Alex was nice enough to hand me the food delivery at the door, that's all. No big deal.” I said as I walked to the kitchen to get plates.

“Jana. I really like Alex and you together. You two are definitely a perfect match for each other.” Caroline says confidently without thinking.

Payton says to Caroline, “Don't put things in her head. She'll change her mind about Max.”

“Alright you two. That's enough. Have you two even talk to your mans about the vacation?” I said and asked Payton and Caroline.

“Gary knows. I told him last week and we've been talking about how i needed the vacation since I've been working so much.” Caroline says while watching tv.

Payton says to Caroline in her ‘know it all’ tone, “duh. I think all of us needed this vacation.”

I stopped Payton from being mean to Caroline and said, “don't be miss know it all towards Caroline. What did I tell you about teasing her??”.

“Anyways. Kevin knows. We're kind of having problems at the moment.” Payton says sadly pushing her food with the fork.

“Well, don't let our personal problem affect this vacation together as the sister pact.” I said proudly reminding them both.

After dinner, we took turns washing up and went to bed early. By 11pm, Payton was already asleep in the living room. I was still awake and stood outside my balcony looking up at the sky. Tonight had clear skies and it was beautiful that night. I thought about what Max asked me the other night we had dinner together. 10 minutes later, Caroline came out to talk to me.

“You're not sleeping yet?”, Caroline asks me.

“I couldn't sleep.” I said while looking up at the beautiful clear skies.

Caroline asks, “something on your mind?”

I said as i continued looking at the sky, “lots of it.”

“You want to talk about it?” Caroline asks me.

“If I tell you something, would you not tell Payton or Bailee? I especially don't want Payton to know. She'll flip out, you know how she is.” I begged for this secret to not get to Bailee or Payton.

Caroline says while looking at me, “of course. You can tell me anything.”

I said to Caroline, “a couple of nights ago over dinner, Max asked me the most important question.”

“He asked you to marry him?”, Caroline knew and asks.

I nodded and said, “after we marry and settled in, we would move to London. He would go there for his job and i would find one as we’re there.”

Caroline explains, “it's not easy as it looks, Jana. for him, it might be easy to get a job anywhere but for you, it's different. Your an uprising inspiring teacher. It's harder than you think.”

“I thought so too, Caroline.” I said knowing what's come next.

Caroline continues on asking me, “so have you given him an answer yet?”

I said, “i told him that i wanted to think about it before i made the right decision.”

“How did he take it?” Caroline asks.

I said, “he was fine with it but i know he isn't.”

“The funny thing is, Alex has always been there for me since education school. He even told Max about taking good care of me the way he does. Alex is the ideal boyfriend that I always wanted. Max is like a person who's next to me but not physically there. Always busy and working.” I continue on saying.

“I know what two years of being in a relationship can do to you Jana.” Caroline says knowing what I'm going through.

I asked, “are you and Gary having problems again? I know you two have some complications here and there lately.”

Worried Caroline says after sighing hard, “we talked about how he was going to either move back home or stay here in LA once his internship was over.”

“Did you guys figure out a plan?”, I asked curiously.

“Of course, I wanted him to go back home where his family is. They really miss him. At the same time, i want him to stay here with me even if it's just for a couple of months.” Caroline says as she looks at the sky.

I said, “you know what you should do, Caroline. You have to let him go home and then let him see his family. Don't try to be one of those girlfriends.”

Caroline sighed again and said, “yeah, we’re just going to be away from each other for a short while. We’ll get to see each other again. It's going to be okay.”

“Everything will be okay, Caroline. I believe in you and Gary.” I said with confidence.

Notes

Happy First Chapter!
I hope you guys enjoy!

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