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  1. ErikModi

    She is the One

    Ah, so happy Jack and Kayla are back together. Jack and Vanessa fizzled remarkably quickly, and Jack and Kayla are in a much better place to be better for each other now then they were at the end of last year. Looking forward to what happens next. Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into this.
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    Yeah. . . I’m giving these new relationships a few more months, tops, and I see Kack back together by the start of the next school year. I think Jack and Kayla just needed some time apart to define themselves as individuals. Who is Jack when he’s not “Kayla’s boyfriend,” who is Kayla when she’s not “Jack’s girlfriend?” They needed to work on themselves alone a bit before they could work on themselves together. I think Vanessa has some kind of social anxiety, which is not wholly compatible with extrovert Jack. I like her, she’s cool and I hope they can stay friends, but I don’t see them going the distance. Love seeing Jack seeing Kayla being bright and shiny like when they first met, finding her happiness again.
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    I don’t think it’s really as bad as all that. Sure, she doesn’t make a point of inviting Jack around to meet her friends, but it’s more out of legitimate concern that he’ll have nothing in common with them (them being all people she knows through her vet classes) than any kind of fear that he’ll steal them from her. She just wants more “me things” in her life, which is perfectly understandable. Even before they broke up, she had given Jack permission to to go and do things and have fun without her, and only requested the same from him. That’s not bad, that’s mature. Could Kayla have put more effort into the relationship? Maybe. But she also has to spend a lot of time, energy, and focus on her schoolwork, because that’s important to her too, and Jack did (and does) his best to respect that. Asking her to take time off from studying and projects to spend on him would be as bad as her asking him to skip an audition or rehersal to focus on her. That’s not fair, that’s not healthy. It’s why I wasn’t surprised when Jack and Kayla did break up, much as it pained me to read it. They’d been heading this way for awhile now, they just didn’t have the time, energy, or I think maturity to spend on each other and genuinely repair things. Them both jumping into new relationships is a bit suspect. . . they don’t have time for each other, but they do have time for new people? But new relationships are just fundamentally different from established ones, the cracks are deeper and take more effort to fix.
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    Okay. . . Jack and Vanessa are charming enough together I don’t feel quite so bad about Jack and Kayla anymore. I’m still hoping they’ll come back together at some point, but. . . well, we’ll see how it goes. I’m not sure if Kayla is running an Operation: Jealousy on Jack or not, or if she even knows for sure. It makes sense she’d talk to him about Kyle, but also that she’d be hesitant about it. They are still friends, and that is the sort of thing friends share, but they’re also ex, so that makes things complicated. Kayla’s seen how emotional Jack can get, she should legitimately be worried news of her love life will cause him to fly into a rage or fall into a depression, thinking or feeling or realizing the breakup was a mistake and he now wants her back. That’s not where his head’s at, and we know that, but she’s not in his head like we are. At the same time, there’s hints that she’s searching for a reaction from him when she brings it up that she’s not getting, and it bothers her that she’s not getting it. That she wants him to think or feel or realize the breakup was a mistake and now wants her back, like she wants him to start fighting to get her back. But again, that’s not where his head’s at. And I don’t say that to paint Kayla as manipulative, to vilify her or say she’s evil. Just that there might be a part of her – a small part she doesn’t really realize is there and doesn’t want to consciously acknowledge – that either wants to pettily prove she’s better at moving on than Jack is or make Jack want her again. I don’t think that’s the only, or even primary, reason she started dating Kyle, but it may potentially be a small part of the reason. It may not be. Yow, what a cliffhanger, though. “Boom. . . naked girl.” Can’t wait to see what’s next!
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    She is the One

    Well, with the overall length. It just feels like things are picking up speed. Maybe that’s just Jack glossing over an entire summer in a handful of chapters. Which is understandable, reading about his physical and mental therapy sessions and repeated conversations wouldn’t necessarily be interesting. It’s just an impression. Like things are suddenly moving towards a point, or a goal. Or a conclusion.
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    She is the One

    Damn. I have got to stop checking this forum when I’m not caught up on the story. A while back I read mention of the car crash, so I raced to get caught up, petrified it was going to be Rhona, Tara when she went for a run and didn’t come back for awhile, or even Kayla. Then I checked back yesterday, and saw mention of a break up. So it was with great trepidation that I finished Chapter 150. Shit. But. . . can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Jack and Kayla haven’t been healthy for awhile now. It’s actually been rather painful seeing how little they’ve been enjoying each other’s company sophomore year of college. Props to them for recognizing it isn’t working out anymore, and they can’t keep just trying to fix it. And there’s been subtle hints all along that, by the time Jack is writing to us, Kayla isn’t in the picture anymore. Like, a time he said that if he had a picture of her, and her permission, he’d include it for us, indicating Kayla isn’t easily accessible to ask for permission. And a few other things, nothing I can really quote off the top of my head, just subtle phrases when “Modern!Jack” is talking to us where it seems like he should be mentioning Kayla being around too, but doesn’t. Maybe he’s just not doing it to preserve suspense, but I’ve long had a sneaking feeling that, by the time Jack is writing all this down to share with us, Kayla is of the past. I’ve been bedding that feeling down with the title. If “She Is The One” is true, then that’s Kayla, and if she’s not The One, then this is one hell of prolonged prologue. If “She Is The One” is not true. . . I really don't want to think about that. I hope that’s not the case. I hope that by the end of the semester Kayla has realized there’s a big Jack-shaped hole in her life, and Jack has realized there’s a big Kayla-shaped hole in his, and they come back to their relationship with new maturity and perspective to rebuild it better than it was before. But I’m not holding my breath. But fuck, the romantic in me is taking this hard. It almost feels like I was the one who got dumped. I love this story because the romantic side of me, the side that needs to believe in True Love, gets deep satisfaction from Jack and Kayla being each others’ The One. I’m really hoping that isn’t completely over, or if it is, True Love is still out there for both of them and we’ll get to see it. But, yeah, it’s been hard. Chapter 150 definitely earned its Wham Episode status. Anyone else getting the feeling that we’re kind of hurtling towards an ending? Like Chapter 200 might be the conclusion of Jack’s story?
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