Losing You: a prequel to It's Not Over by Melissa M. Marlow Read Free Book Online

just missed her too much. 
    Matt gave up and went home.  I wasn’t moving from this dorm until I saw her.  Kevin got another call and he was very reluctant about letting me stay, “If I have to come back here tonight you are going to jail.”
    I nodded, “I will behave.”
    He ran off and I walked back up the stairs.  I sat down leaning against the wall across from her room.  I didn’t want to disturb anyone so that I would go to jail, but I wasn’t leaving either.

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    Monday morning Kevin walked down the hall towards me.  He pulled me to my feet, “Have you been here since Saturday?”
    I nodded, but didn’t have anything to say for myself.  I didn’t want to leave until I talked to Jess.  Karlie walked out, and directed us down the stairs to the lounge area.  Kevin led me to sit on the couch.
    Karlie started, “We need to make an arrangement.”
    Excitement filled my inner core.  Jess wanted to arrange a meeting with me.  Kevin sat down by me.  Not sure if Kevin intended on restraining me or preventing any outburst on my side, but the support comforted me.  Karlie paced back and forth in front of us as I watched her, anticipating how this would go.
    She stopped and directed all her attention to Kevin, “He can’t stay in our hallway.”
    As Kevin peeked at me I wondered what this had to do with Jess and my reunion.
    Karlie, a furry red, shouted, “Paul, she has to be able to go to class.”
    This is going to be easy.  I leaned back, crossed my arms over my chest, and confirmed, “Fine.  As soon as she sees me I’ll leave.”
    “No, Paul, you can’t be in charge.  Kevin, tell him he is going to hurt her worse if she can’t go to class.”
    Raising his eyebrows with a glance at me, “She is right.  You don’t want to hurt her, do you?”
    That isn’t my intention.  I shook my head and stared down the hall, “So, what does she want?”
    “She wants to go to class without worrying about trying to avoiding you.”
    She shouldn’t be avoiding me at all, “Can you tell her I will go away, but after she sees me?”
    Karlie shook her head no.  No matter what I said Karlie didn’t agree with me and neither did Kevin.  Both of missing classes wouldn’t fix anything.  Wanting her to stay here at this school happened to be a benefit for me, because I would have time to win her back.  Letting them think that they won this argument.  I reluctantly agreed with stipulations, “If she gives me her class schedules I will clear out before she needs to go to class and I will stay away until the class is over allowing enough time for her to make it home.”
    Kevin, more perceptive of my inner thoughts, established, “Paul, she needs to be able to eat, do her laundry, and go to the library.  The girl needs her life back.”
    Not agreeing, I just wanted them to think I agreed, “Fine, I will give her space.”
    Karlie walked away going up the stairs.  I looked at Kevin pulling out the box with the ring.  I handed it to him, “She’s supposed to marry me someday.”
    He took the box examining the ring.  Handing it back to me, “So, what happened?”
    My business had to come first for a couple of reasons, and both of them had to do with her.  “I screwed up by not putting her needs first.”
    As if he understood he grinned, “Okay, we’ll figure something out, but you can’t make her see you if she doesn’t want to.”
    We both watched Karlie coming back with a paper in her hand.  She handed it to me, but waited my scrutiny out.
    With careful planning she would have to run into me, but girls are smart.  I had to make it sound like I wasn’t giving up yet, “I will clear out an hour before she is supposed to go to class and I will be back an hour after she is done with class.  I will also give her two hours for dinner, laundry, and whatever else she has to do.  That is the best I can do unless she just talks to me for 5 minutes, it’s all I am asking.  If she doesn’t want