Rumors.

One horrible flaw of high school is the rumors. Rumors can completely destroy people's lives and can just punch a hole in their social life. I can gladly say that I haven't had much experience, but there are people around me that I care about that have been hurt by rumors. And even though I haven't been hurt specifically hurt by a rumor, one has hurt me because of what I found out about someone because of a rumor that went around about us.

So just as the whole mess with Jake was settled and forgiven, a rumor went on about us saying that we were going out. And usually, I don't really care about rumors and I just ignore them. But then Jack came up and asked me if I told everyone that we were together. Of course I told him I didn't and that he shouldn't care about rumors. But then things got sort of complicated when he told me that he loved me. This wasn't the first time he'd said this to me, but of course I thought it strange that he would tell me this after we'd settled that we were just going to be friends. So just out of curiosity, I asked him if he actually meant it. He replied that he did and that he wanted me back. That was when my life got horribly complicated. I had two choices. 1. To get my life back to the way it had been for the past few months, just as I'd wanted to do for the past while. Or. 2.To say "You had your chance and now it's too late" and say good-bye for good. Because there is just one fact that I had to acknowledge. Jake just wasn't good for me and I had to move on. So I went with the second option even though the bigger part of me wanted so bad to have him back in my arms and to just hold him and make sure that no one but me got to have him. But the more reasonable part of me decided that listening to the selfish part of myself would just hurt me in the worst ways and that I had to listen to what my head told me to do rather than my heart.