Broken Glass [ a jackxpenn fanfiction ] DISCONTINUED

chapter o n e [ reunited ]

JENN'S POV

I looked around the waiting area of the airport for Jack, and, to be honest, I was nervous. We hadn't really talked since the New Year's kiss, and between New Years and March, a lot of time passed. Even though we both swore it was a friendly lock-of-the-lips, something deep inside me changed.

The summer of 2013, all of Fab Five hung out together, and Jack and I had a sort of.. thing going on. We flirted with each other, but had no intentions of dating. Well, kinda. Since that summer, I had a small crush on Jack. 

And when we kissed in the first few seconds of 2014, I fell in love. Great way to start the new year, eh? Fall in love with your best friend, who, by the way, lives on the other side of the country. I tried to move on, but I was always thinking about him. His big, brown eyes and soft brown hair and soft, luscious lips-

"JENN!" His angelic voice called me. And even though I tried so hard to contain my nerves, I ran up to him, and he caught me, almost falling over. He spinned me around, and I wished for these few seconds to last. Just me & him, staring into each other's eyes. But unfortunately he set me down delicately.

"So, how have you been?" I asked him. Phew. I didn't stutter, like I always did when I was nervous.

"Good. Yeah. Pretty good." He said, with a fake smile on his face and I knew something was wrong. "How have you been?" He asks.

'Miserably.' I wanted to tell him. I wanted to say everything that has been going on for the past months. "Great! Great. Great.." I repeated the one word like it was my motto or something.

JACK'S POV

"Great! Great. Great..." She repeated the same word over and over again like even she didn't belive it. I took her hand in mine, and gazed into her big, beautiful, dark blue eyes. 

"You can tell me if anything's wrong, and I'll tell you if anything's wrong. Okay?" I said, even though I didn't want her to fall in love with me out of pity. I'm a real man. I want her to fall in love with me slowly at first, then all at once.

"Okay." She said, and for a second, I leaned in for a kiss. But then she took my bags and started walking towards the exit. WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO EMBARRASS MYSELF.

The car ride was awkward, to be honest. There was an akward silence that I couldn't seem to break. We were stuck in L.A. traffic when Jenn turned the radio off. I looked at her, she looked like she wanted to say something but didn't know where to start.

"I missed you." I confessed. It was true. I wrote Jenn all over a piece of paper because I missed her so much. In the end, a jock ripped it out of my hands and ripped it to pieces, chanting 'Not gay but still acts gay!' over and over again. I ended up crying myself to sleep.

"I missed you too. I have a feeling we should kiss" She said, and I was shocked to hear that. Then I sadly realised she was only quoting Pitch Perfect.

"I sometimes have a feeling I can do crystal meth but then I think, 'Hmm, better not' " I said, and she giggled. At last, jackxpenn was normal again.

- - -

" THE TWO LOVEBIRDS ARE HOME!" Jc yelled after opening the front door of the O2L house for us.

" THE HALF OF JIA SHOULDN'T BE TALKING" I yelled back, and Jenn high fived me.

Later, we were sitting on the only (!) bed in the room that we'd be sharing for these few days. We were talking about the summer and our memories and somehow we got on the akward topics.

"I said I'd trust you with my secrets. Dad left me and my mom a few days after you left. My mom... we started fighting a lot more often after that. One day, she didn't come home. When she didn't come home for a whole week & didn't return my calls or messages, I knew something was wrong. That's the real reason I moved in with Andrea. I didn't want to be a part of my broken family anymore." Jenn said, tears glistening in her eyes. I opened my arms wide and she hugged me, wetting my shoulder with her tears.

"Well, I haven't been better. My parents fight a lot. My dad ignores me and my mom wants me to be who she wants me to be. At school, they call me gay and stuff like that, even though I'm not gay. And there's this one girl I really miss" I said, stroking her hair.

JENN'S POV

"..And there's this one girl I really miss" he said and my heart dropped. He doesn't like me- he likes another girl. I wonder who, she must be really lucky. (a/n : stop being such naive dorks and date already adfghjkl) 

"Oh." I nodded. "She must be a keeper."

"She is. She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, and her eyes are like gems. Her hair is soft and silky and I love her nose. Her laugh is the most adorable thing ever" Jack said, and I nodded, feeling incredibly jealous of her (a/n: more like incredibly jealous of myself lol). Unlike her, I wasn't really pretty, my eyes were a dull blue color, my hair was always getting in my eyes. My nose was huge and my laugh was very annoying.

Just then, I heard screams from downstairs, which only meant one thing. Pizza. We started running downstairs & reached the pizza just before all the slices were taken. 

"Jenn, have you been crying?" Jc asked me and I looked at my reflection with the help of my knife. Just like I guessed, my eyes were red.

"No, I was smoking pot" I said sarcastically and I looked at my laughing friends. Connor, Ricky, Kian, Sam, Trevor, Lia,Anthony, Rebecca, Andrew and Jack. Only Jc wasn't laghing. He glared at Jack, which made him stop laughing. 

Jc was really protective of me. He was like a brother to me. Even though a lot of people shipped us, we were only bestest friends (a/n: yesh, i just said bestest. deal with it). But if he really disapproved of Jack, I was in trouble. I grabbed my phone and quickly texted him under the table.

Jenn: do you rlly think he'd hurt me?

Jc: ur right. but why were u crying?

Jenn: i told him about my parents & got a bit emotional.

Jc: u sure u can trust him?

Jenn: my heart says yes.

- -  A FEW HOURS LATER - -

"TREVOR SHUT YOUR TRAP WE WANT TO SLEEP!" Rebecca yelled, after hearing Trevor sing Echo (a/n: guess what i'm listening to rn. just guess) for the billionth time. The kid had a great voice, but midnight is not the time to blast your song and sing to it. Very loudly, may I add.

Soon, everything quietened down and the only thing I could hear was Jack & my breathing. I couldn't really sleep, so I tried to free myself from Jack's tight hug. Yeah, we were spooning. Now ssh.

But unfortunately, I woke him up & he shined his phone's flashlight in my eyes.

"Let's go downstairs to get an Arizona." I said, grabbing his hand and leading him into the kitchen. I sat down on the marble counter, opening my can.

"We need to talk about the New Year's kiss.." I told him.

a/n : yass first chapter sweg! btw if you find passionate making out too hot for you, don't read the next chapter ;)

and i drew the picture to the side.