Forgive Me- Part 1

Becca's POV

I'm really worried about Amelia... Yea she's been back at work now for a couple of days and she's started playing piano again which is great, but she never leaves the apartment unless it's for work. She doesn't even leave to go get her daily caramel latte. She says she's fine but I can see that this Jaime guy really did a number on her. She really likes him but she won't even text him or anything. God! I would take the old antisocial quiet Amelia over the hermit any day.

It doesn't help either that she's blocking out Isaac. She's spoken to him twice since Jaime left and that was only when I forced her to. Seriously, it's getting ridiculous. If she doesn't like him she should just break up with him already. I know she just doesn't want to hurt him but I don't think she realised how much worse what she is doing now is.

I walk up to her apartment door and unlock it with the key she gave me a year ago so I could take care of the place when she was back at her mums. I look around and find she's nowhere to be seen. I walk to her room, nope not there... Maybe she left? No, wait. I see a foot. I walk over to the door to her balcony and see her lying on her stomach reading a book; I can't help but notice that you can see her spine easily through her singlet.

"Amelia?" She jumped slightly before looking up and smiling at me.

"Oh! Hey Becca! I wasn't expecting you!"

"I know, I was bored and it's a Saturday so I decided to come over."

"Oh cool!" She looked back down to her book.

"Hey Amelia?"

"Mmm?"

"When was the last time you are honey?" Her eyes grew wide and her mouth dropped open. "You forgot again didn't you?"

"I didn't even think about it!"

"When was it?"

"Three days? Maybe four? I can't remember..."

"Shit Amelia! Come on, we are feeding you right now! Sit at the table, I'll cook you some chicken" she always had chicken breasts in her freezer.

I sighed as I cut up the chicken for her. She always does this. She doesn't get hunger pains so unless there is someone else in the house she forgets that she needs to eat. I tried to convince her to let someone, anyone move in with her because she loves to cook for others and would never let another person miss a meal but when she's on her own she forgets that she needs to as well. She doesn't do it on purpose. She honestly just forgets.

"I'm sorry Becca..."

"It's okay Hun, just please try to remember okay? You know it's not good for you"

"I know, I don't mean to. My mind has just been elsewhere recently"

Her mind has been on Jaime. She hasn't spoken about him since I first saw her after she got back from her mums but the smile she gets when she's thinking is the same as the one when she was telling me about him. But she's too stubborn to admit defeat. She won't call him, she won't give in and it's all because of Michael.

That fucking dickhead has destroyed her. She used to be out going and trusted so easily but now she won't even talk to people. That's why I want her to call Jaime so badly. The fact that she let him in her house; that she went out with him; that she spent any time with him at all is a big deal, and now she MISSES him? Amelia never misses anyone, she never has. She's never actually needed anyone before but now I can tell that she needs him. Even if she won't admit it.

I put the food in front of her and she digs in straight away. I smile and walk around her apartment until I see her phone. Should I? I unlock it and go through her contacts until I see him. Jaime. I copy the number into my phone and send him a quick text.

'Hello, we've never met but I'm Becca and I'm a friend of Amelia's. I really need to talk to you so please text or call me ASAP.'

I will not let Amelia get any worse. She's my best friend and I love her and if this Jaime guy can make her better I will not let her cut him off in fear that he'll turn out like Michael. She always does that. The second she gets attached she cuts them loose because she's scared of getting hurt again. But I will NOT let her do that this time.

I got a text from Jaime a lot sooner than I expected. It wasn't even a five minute gap.

From Jaime: What's wrong? Did something happen?

I smiled, he's worried, which means he cares. Hopefully this should work then.

To Jaime: Kinda, it would be easier to talk over the phone but I'm with her right now so I can't, would it be okay if I called you in like an hour?

From Jaime: yea of course.

I stayed with Amelia for another half hour to make sure that she finished eating completely and that she had a plan for dinner before I headed off.

Once I was back at my own place I called Jaime and he picked up straight away.

"Becca?" He sounded anxious

"Yea it's me"

"Thank god. Is Amelia okay? Did something happen?"
"She's somewhat okay..."

"What do you mean somewhat?"

"She misses you. She won't admit it but she does and it's starting to affect her health."

"What do you mean?"

"She's forgetting to eat which she only does when she's upset. I went over there today and found out she hasn't eaten in four days"

"Shit?! Really? What can I do?"

"You coming back to Canberra before you go back to America right?"

"Yea."

"What day?"

"The 22nd why?"

"Seriously? Will you be there on the 23rd?"

"Yea, our flight home is on the 24th"

"I need you to go to her apartment on the 23rd."

"She doesn't want to see me, she won't even let me through the door"

"She does want to see you, she just won't admit it; she's scared that you'll hurt her like Michael."

"I would never do that! Never!"

"I figured, but she needs you so you have to go over there"

"What if she doesn't let me?"

"I have a key, you will meet me on the 22nd, I will give you the key, and then on the 23rd you will go to the coffee shop she took you to, get her a caramel latte, and then go straight into her apartment."

"Two things, one, why can't I go over the night I get there? Two, what if she get pissed that I showed up and break into her house?"

"One, her birthday is on the 23rd of May and you would be the best present. Two, the reason she refuses to see you is because she knows that if she does she won't want to let you go"

"Shit! I need to get her a present!"

"Hence the caramel latte. She hasn't had one since you left, hell, she hasn't left her apartment since you left."

"Is she really that bad?"

"Yea, but she's too stubborn to do anything about it"

"Shit."

"So will you do it?"

"Of course. I didn't want to leave without seeing her again"

"Good."

"Hey Becca?"
"Yea?"

"Do you really think that's the reason she didn't want to see me?" He sounded hopeful and I couldn't help but smile

"I know it, she told me herself. She thought it would be easier than having to say goodbye" the line was quiet for a minute before I heard a faint thank you. We set up a place and time to meet and then hung up.

Hopefully now she can be happy. She really deserves it, and I feel that Jaime is the perfect person to do that. Hopefully seeing him will show her that too and she can break up with Isaac and get on with her life. I never did like Isaac, he's sooo not her type.

Notes

YAY ANOTHER CHAPTER!!!! haha God, i feel like I'm updating WAYYYYYY too much....