Kerry was too tired to call Kate by the time she thought things threw. This is probably Jen being a wee bit over dramatic, Kerry plopped into bed, I’ll call Kate first thing in the am.

Kate waited up an extra hour for Kerry’s call that night since she was with Greg, but Kerry never called. I can’t believe it, it’s like she doesn’t care. And there is no way she didn’t see all the missed calls and the messages.

At 10 Sunday morning Kerry called Kate, not sounding the least bit worried.

Kate: This is big Kerry, where do you think she’s gone to?

Kerry: I think you need to simmer down a bit. Jen has a car, money, and a phone. When she wants to come home, she will. I know Jen. It will all blow over in a couple days.

Kate: Kerry I can not believe you! We don’t know where she is, her parents are out of town so they don’t know about any of this, and if something happens to her, god forbid, how will they know?! How will we know?!

Kerry: KATE! Shut up! Jen’s a sensible girl…she’ll know what to do.

Kate: Whatever Ker, if you aren’t even going to attempt to talk to her, then I’ll do it by myself. But I’m on my way out to the hospital and I don’t have time for you being a pain in the ass!

Kerry: Why are you going to the hospital?
Kate: Family stuff, you don’t know. –Click-

Sure Kate felt a little guilty for being that blunt with Kerry and just say it was family stuff. Kerry was family to her, but no one outside of direct family knew about Erin let alone meet her.

Kate went to the hospital and as it turns out, the doctors ran one final test and didn’t like something they saw in Erin’s x-rays. They found a small bruise on a bone and decided to keep her an extra five days, so she couldn’t go home Wednesday.

When she parked the car in the visitors section, she saw Erin was sitting on a bench with a bag in her hand.

Kate: Hiya! Ready to go home? Mom’s going nuts making a big dinner and stuff for tonight.

Erin: *sigh* Home…Yeah I can’t wait to get OUT of this place! The smell really gets to you after a while…

Kate: Haha, let’s hit the road!

In the car on the way home Kate was telling Erin about Jen and the email and how Kerry wasn’t showing a nice reaction. Kate tried calling Jenny over and over but kept getting her voicemail.

Jen had the top down cruising on I95. She drove all night and was 40 minutes out of her destination: North Carolina. She’d been talking to a guy she met on the Internet who lived on a beach there. There’s no better place than the beach and a hot guy! Party time!

Jen found the house and called Jeremy, the guy who lived there. It was the cutest house, small but nice and had the perfect location. She was starting to think she didn’t really want to go home to Chris and everyone else. He hadn’t even called once, and Jen was sure someone told him what was going on. At least Kate called…a little too much though. I guess one person cares.

When Kate pulled into her driveway with Erin, she saw a familiar car across the street. “Shit,” she mumbled under her breath.

Erin: What? Who is that guy?

Kate: My x, but I don’t know what he’s doing here. He should be with his kinky new girlfriend…what a ho.

*getting out of the car*

Erin: Maybe…maybe you should go talk to him? I don’t think he came over here just to sit in his car Kate.

Kate: You’re too nice of a person you know that! Haha, I guess so. You can go on in, dad and mom are waiting for you.

Kate dragged her feet all the way across the street to where Jesse was waiting in his car. When she got to the door, he opened it and stepped out. In the background she heard Ryan Cabrera’s 40 Kinds of Sadness playing.

Two days chasing me around
I go crazy when you're outside of my world
When you're outside of my world
No sounds singing me to sleep
I don't want the room to breathe
Just be with me
Just be with me

I feel 40 kinds of sadness when you're gone
And I feel the same thing always happens when you're gone
And I know your just around the corner
But just around the corner is not enough

Kate: Where’s your little annoying girl, Cammy is it?

Jesse: Kate don’t be like that, please. Look…for everything that happened, I am sorrier than you could ever imagine. I wish I listened to you in the car. I wish it was me that got hurt not you. And for the way you’ve been treating me, I deserve it. But I would have rather died in that car than have you hating me. I want to go back and take away everything that happened, but I can’t do that. You mean the world to me, you are my world. I don’t know how I make it through a day knowing you aren’t at the other end of the phone or that I can’t hold your hand and kiss you or just hold you in my arms. Because when you’re with me, everything is okay. Just knowing I hurt you tears me up inside and I cant live knowing you don’t like me. So please, will you forgive me?

Kate was crying before he was done with the second sentence. She threw her arms around him and nuzzled her face into his neck and whispered “I love you.”


After saying bye to Jesse telling him she'd call later and before going into the house, Kate tried calling Jen one last time for the day.
This time, she answered.

Jen: Hello?

Kate: Jen! I finally reached you! Are you okay? What' going on?

Jen: I'm fine, totally fine.

Kate: Where are you?

Jen: Oh, at a friends house *giggle*

Kate: Are you at Shelby's or something?

Jen: Hah, no.

Kate: Well...when are you coming home? tonight?

Jen: Nnnope.

Kate: The next day?

Jen: Nope. nor the day after that or the day after that. Look Kate i'm not coming home for a while so just forget it okay? my parents are gone they wont even know whats going on with me. i'm not going to die or anything just give it up and please dont call me anymore, i'll be home when i'm home!

-Click-

Kate (to no one): Well that went well...