Kate sat on the curb waiting for Jesse, and when she saw him in his new Range Rover, she stood up. She noticed when she grabbed the door handle to open it, he looked away out the window.

When he pulled away there was silence between them both.

“Look Jess, I-” she started, but was interrupted.

“You know I’m only doing this because it sounded like you were in trouble or something, not because I love you anymore.” After he said that it got quiet again for the next five minutes. I really screwed up. God I HATE Landon!

“Thanks Jesse, for picking me up. I didn’t know who else to call…”

“Oh so that’s all I am, just someone you know will always be there, well sorry Kate, but I can’t, and I won’t. I’m not a rebound guy either. You may think I’m always going to be there, but I wont. So don’t get used to me dropping what I’m doing to come and be your personal driver.”

“I know, I can explain everything, but it may take a while…”

“I have a while. you don’t expect me to drive 20 minutes to get you and not get an explanation do you?”

Kate told Jesse all about Erin and how she was abused by Landon, and how she met Landon for the first time and seeing him again the night of the accident, then what he said about Jesse in the gardens. She even told him what Kerry tried saying that day at her house about Jesse loving her. When she was through clearing it all up, Jesse said to her, “did he try to hurt you?”

“I don’t know, but I don’t think I would have stayed around long enough to find out if he started to.”

He can’t possibly still care about me, could he? Sure he asked me, but that has to be some sort of common courtesy. She thought.

I have to tell her. I want to tell her. I love her so much, but she can’t know, not after how tuff I’ve been. Jesse played in his head.

When pulled into Kate’s driveway, they both sat there for a few seconds.

“Well, thanks again, so much,” Kate said.

“Yeah,” Jesse whispered, “I guess I’ll see you around then,” he said a little louder. And with that Kate opened the door and walked up the sidewalk to her house. “I love you more than you can imagine,” Jesse said to her after the car door closed.