BROKEN (Sequel to Behind The Lights)

Zac's POV

"Zac, where can I put this?" She asks me, carrying a massive cube made out of marble. As she walks into my living room.

"What the hell is that?" I ask her, in confusion. Jess and I are finally moving in together after 3 months of dating. And she's been bringing in random shit.

"It's decoration, and it looks posh." She says in an annoyed tone.

"Well it's stupid. You've got tons of random shit Jess." I try to annoy her even more. I love it when I get a reaction out her and she tries to defend whatever it is that she feels is important to her. I've always loved how unapologetically herself, she is.

"Well I can easily take all my stupid random shit back to where we came from." She threatens, as she lays the cube thing down on the shelf below the TV and turns around, staring me down dead in the eye.

"Oh you wouldn't." I say in a deep voice, as I take slow strides towards her, not breaking eye contact.

"You don't know what I would and wouldn't do." She answers back with a smug look on her face as I get closer to her, I lean into her, taking her chin in between my fingers, I tilt her head up to look at me. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that she's here and she's mine.

"Well I won't let you." I whisper, as I'm now only inches away from her lips. I move in closer, parting my lips to take hers but she makes a swift move to pull away, turning around and walking towards where she came from, without saying anything. There was no way, I was gonna let this moment pass. That just turned me on.

Without hesitation, I run after her, grabbing her by the arm and spinning her around, in one swift movement, I threw her over my shoulder as she lets out a shriek, in shock which soon turns to laughter.

"You're crazy! Put me down!" She screams in between giggles. I throw her on the couch, and immediately get on top of her.

"I told you, I won't let you." I say, closing the gap between her lips and mine.

5 months ago

Jessica's POV

"Come away with me," Andre asks. We're having dinner at his office. He's been working really late and I wanted to surprise him with dinner.

"Heh, where to?" I ask him, stuffing my mouth with the noodles I'd made us.

"Italy?" He says, more like ask.

"ITALY?!" I ask in surprise. I was not expecting that at all. I thought he was gonna say somewhere at least within the U.S.

"Yea, I thought it'll be nice for us to get away for a bit. Forget about everything that's going on here and just focus on us. You could eat as much pizza as you want and we can just relax." He says.

"I don't get this kind of body from eating pizzas Sir." I joke.

"I know, but you're beautiful either way." He says cornily, of course, why did I expect an interesting comeback from him?

"Hmmm Italy doesn't sound too bad, I'll need to check with my team to see if I can take some time off." I tell him but couldn't help my mind from drifting to Zac, he'd just gotten out of the hospital a week ago and is spending time with his family in England, I need to talk to him, I miss him and I want to know if he's okay. But I also promised Andre to keep my distance.

2 weeks later and I'm in a car with Andre and we're heading to the airport. We're finally going to Italy. I haven't heard from Zac since he got out of the hospital, I even texted him but he never got back to me, maybe he's completely moved on. Well, then I should be moving on too, what's important is that he's alive and well and is happy, right? But then, why do I feel such heaviness?