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nattinatalia · 2 years ago

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But one thing that he couldn’t believe was that you thought that he didn’t love you which couldn’t be further from the truth. - WELL DAMN ACT LIKE YOU LOVE HER

“Break ups are for people who were in relationships. It was your fault, I already know, but go on - LMAAAOO URBAN 💀

You took a deep breath before inserting the key and turning the knob and walking into the foyer. All you could do was pray that you weren’t too late - HE BETTER BE ALONE AND THEY BETTER MAKE UP AND HE BETTER FINALLY ASKHER OUT OFFICIALLY NO BULLSHIT

Meet Me Halfway Part 2

AN: Let’s GOOOOOO

Synopsis: Once Jack made his intentions clear to you, it was too late and you needed to put some distance in between the two of you not wanting to get hurt any longer. He finally confesses why he did what he did, but is it enough for you to give him a second chance?

Pairing: Jack Harlow x Reader

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It had been about a week and Urban knew that something was wrong with his best friend no matter how many times he would brush him off. He knew Jack like the back of his hand and could tell what kind of mood that he was in and it was only a matter of time before he broke down and told him so he decided to confront him about it first.

They had just finished a match at Mockingbird Valley when he finally cornered him because as far as Urban could see, this had gone on long enough. .

“That’s it. What the hell is wrong with you and don’t say nothing is wrong because it isn’t true.” Urban blurted out and it was taking everything for Jack to keep it together.

“Y/N.” He simply answered without expanding or giving more of an explanation.

“Oh, what about her? How’s she doing? Did you make her your girlfriend yet because I don’t know why the fuck it’s taking you so long. We literally all have bets on when it’s going to happen and your mother started it, but don’t tell her I told you that.” Normally, Jack would have laughed but in that moment, he knew that he fucked up and that you even speaking to him was probably never going to happen again.

He didn’t know what he was going to do without you. It had only been a week and he honestly felt like his life was already falling apart. You had been a part of his daily routine for almost two years, so the fact that it wasn’t the case anymore was obviously going to bother him.

Once you left out of the hotel suite in Paris, Jack simply sat on the bed and played with the Cartier bracelet that he had gifted you and sitting in silence.

You had given it back and left without another word no matter how many times he told you to keep it.

He bought it for you and it was yours.

There was no way in hell he was about to give it to someone else.

Tears escaped his eyes when it hit him that this was all his fault and that he should have told you sooner.

But one thing that he couldn’t believe was that you thought that he didn’t love you which couldn’t be further from the truth.

He did love you.

He was in love with you even though he definitely didn’t go about it in the best way. When you mentioned that all he did was take and kept going, he had a realization.

You would do anything for him and you would drop whatever you were doing if he said that he needed you. He did spoil you to no end, but what he failed to do was give you that same treatment in return. He had been selfish and was only focused on his well-being while not even bothering to look at the entire picture to see that you were in fact hurting too.

Hurting because of him.

Which is the last thing that he ever wanted to happen.

“She… well… we basically had a break up.”

“Break ups are for people who were in relationships. It was your fault, I already know, but go on.”

“URB!”

“What?! Only telling the truth!”

“She got fed up with me because I’m scared to commit to her.”

“And did you tell her why?”

“No.” Jack quietly muttered while scratching the back of his neck.

“What the hell? Why not?! That was the perfect opportunity for you to tell her. Y/N is amazing and she’s not going to hurt you like that other girl that we don’t speak of.”

“I’ve been blowing up her phone nonstop and leaving messages and she won’t give me the time of day.”

“I’m actually surprised she stayed this long. That girl loves you and you love her. Anyone can see that. You let her get away and it’s no one’s fault but yours.”

“Do you think you could talk to her for me? I’m out of ideas and don’t know what to do.”

“Me talking to her is supposed to do what exactly? It seems like her mind is made up. HOLD ON, this happened while you two were in Paris?! I thought this was the trip where you were supposed to ask her to be your girlfriend! Cartier bracelet, anyone? That shit we had to search around for for months!”

“I was supposed to but then… I asked her to come on tour with me instead. I got nervous.”

“You have got to be the biggest dumbass I know.” Urban answered while hanging his head and all Jack did was sigh.

“From that point on, her entire demeanor changed and we got into this huge argument. She gave me the bracelet back too.”

“Can you blame her? You’ve been stringing her along for almost two years and she finally realized that she deserved better. We all told you to tell her how you felt.”

“But, she’s mine! She’s my girl and no one else’s. Where the hell is she about to find someone better that does all the shit that I do for her? I only saw my future with her and no one else! I don’t want anyone else!”

“Oh, is that so? So, where’s your girl now?” Urban asked while taking in the surroundings and throwing up his hands in disbelief.

“She blocked me on everything. My next move was to DM her from my other instagram.”

“It is going to take some sort of miracle for her to talk to you again and forgive you. Man the fuck up and tell her how you feel.”

“But, what if it’s too late?”

“As long as your ass is breathing, it’s never too late. However, if it is, you have no one to put this on but you. That girl would do anything for you and you took advantage of that shit. But I mean you do crazy things for the people you love. Just… if she ends up giving you a second chance, I will kick your ass myself if you mess up again, best friend or not and I know your mother will help me. Now, if you want her back so badly, go to her.”

“Will you come with me for backup?”

“I’m coming with you for one reason and one reason only. To get those raspberry cheesecake cookies she makes. Let me text her now to ask her if she’ll make some for me. I’ll tell her I have a photoshoot to do in Atlanta and ask her if it’s okay to come by and see her. The two of you better get back together for all this unnecessary stress you’re putting me through.”

Jack was anxious the entire flight and getting on Urban’s nerves. It was to the point where when they finally touched down in Atlanta, he was the last person that he wanted to be around, however, one thing that he was always going to do was support his best friend. Your boutique wasn’t far from the airport and Jack was getting more and more nervous as they got closer.

It was now or never.

“Y/N!” Urban exclaimed as he told Jack to walk a few steps behind him and let him enter the boutique first just in case to soften you up.

“Hi, Urby.” You quietly answered as you reached up to hug him.

“Y/N…. Please don’t take this the wrong way. Only telling you this because I care about you, but honestly? You look the same way Jack does. Like absolute shit.”

“It’s going to take some time, but I’ll be okay. Here let me grab your cookies from the back, hold on.”

Once you came back out, you handed the container to him, but you felt like he wanted to say something else with how nervous he looked. That could only mean one thing and you immediately sighed knowing where this was going.

“You brought him with you didn’t you?” You asked and Urban didn’t get a chance to answer because you heard his voice from behind you.

“Y/N, baby, please talk to me.”

“Welp, that’s my cue. Thanks for the cookies, Y/N, and Jack I’ll be outside.”

“URBY!”

“Talk to your man.” He responded as he was stuffing one of the cookies in his mouth and walked out the door.

"Y/N, come on. Are you just about to ignore me forever?"

You muttered a quiet "fuck" under your breath before turning around to be face to face with the one and only Jack.

Urban wasn’t lying, both of you looked like absolute shit.

"If that's what it takes then yes. One less headache that I have to deal with." You answered him while shrugging.

It was taking everything in you not to reach up and hug him so you took a few steps back so that you wouldn’t be tempted.

You should have known that this would be one of the first places he looked when you decided to stop answering him since Atlanta was like a second home to you and this was where you would spend most of your time.

"I.. you know how much you mean to me."

"Do I? I don't think I was asking for too much, but at the very least, I deserve an explanation. I don't only want half of you, I want all of you or nothing."

"You have me!"

"No, I have the idea of you being a hopeless romantic who is scared as hell over his own feelings. You literally do everything that someone does in a relationship with me, but…. you just expect to string me along like it's nothing!? But oh, I mean so much to you, right?"

"Babe…"

"Don't call me that unless you mean it and right now I don't know if you do."

“I do mean it and I do love you! I’m in fucking love with you!”

“Jack, just leave me alone. I’m tired of this.”

“That’s all you have to say?!”

“It took you how long in order to be able to tell me that?!”

“I was scared, okay! I…. I know you aren’t like her, but… I…. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if we got into a relationship that ended with both of us being hurt. You don’t deserve that.”

“But we weren’t even in a relationship and you ended up hurting me anyway.”

“I thought that if we did everything without the title, it would be easier for me to move on just in case you didn’t want to be around me anymore. Now saying this outloud, it literally makes no fucking sense, but this is where my mind was! I wouldn’t be able to take getting cheated on and used again. I know you wouldn’t do that to me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you along the way, but I did! And I don’t want to be without you. Please just give me another chance. I will do anything for you to forgive me. You’re it, you’re it for me. The wife that I always envisioned was you. You were never a placeholder because you were already in your rightful place.”

“Jack…”

“Please, baby. One more chance? I promise everything will be different this time around.”

“Stop calling me that because I’m not your baby.”

“But….”

“I… I need time away from you. What you just told me was a lot to digest and I… I love you but you already knew that. Right now, I can’t give you an answer.”

“Y/N…” Jack once again felt his eyes brim with tears and once you noticed, you quickly followed suit.

“I don’t want to simply tell you no just because I’m mad at you because that wouldn’t be fair. I need time to think about it.”

“Well, how much time?”

“I don’t know, Jackman. But only being away from you for one week is not enough. I can definitely tell you that.”

“That’s fair.” Jack responded and wiped away his tears with his sleeve seeing as his eyes were now red and they matched perfectly with yours.

“I just thought this would have played out differently.” You quickly said and Jack simply nodded.

You had seen Jack cry plenty of times before, but this… this was different simply because he was crying over you. That was the last thing that you had ever wanted to happen.

“Just.. whenever you’re ready I’ll be here. But um, here.” Jack simply placed his house key in your hands and you started to shake your head, but he wouldn’t take it back from you.

“No, ba–, sorry, Y/N, keep it. Because when you’re ready to give me an answer, you’ll know where to find me. Even if we don’t end up being together like I want us to be, you’re still my person and my safe haven. I meant it when I said that I’m always going to be here for you. I’m sorry that I hurt you and I’m sorry that I hurt us.”

Now, both of you were full blown crying in the middle of your boutique and you were happy that you didn’t have any customer appointments at the moment. The next one wasn’t for another hour and that would give you enough time to get yourself together.

You simply nodded as Jack stepped closer to you and he was actually surprised that you didn’t move away.

He placed a kiss on your forehead before quietly leaning down to whisper in your ear.

“I love you and I’ll be waiting for you. No matter how long it takes.”

When you had gotten home that night, you were laying down in your bedroom, playing with the key in your hands.

You could leave and get on a plane right now

But no, you had to take your time to think about this and think about what would be the best thing for you.

You were pissed, hurt, but the love you had for Jack wasn’t going to go away overnight and truth be told you didn’t want it to.

He said no matter how long it takes.

—-

Jack was determined to keep himself busy in hopes of getting his mind off of you, but it just wasn’t working out in his favor.

Urban thought him getting ready to go on tour would be the perfect distraction, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth.

When he was around others, he was putting on a good front and not letting anyone catch on to the fact that he was definitely in a depressive state, but he had to keep going no matter how much all he wanted to do was lay in his bed and think about you all day.

Performing did help and it let him put his focus elsewhere at least for a few hours, but when it was over it was right back to square one.

And that’s when PG definitely noticed something was wrong.

They were reaching the end of tour and with the last show being in Atlanta, Jack was hoping that you would show up.

He let his team know if you were to magically appear and attend any of his shows to let you through with no problem.

There were a total of three shows left and you hadn’t shown up once, but he was still holding out hope. Any time he had an event in Atlanta, you always made sure to show up and support him.

You had unblocked him on everything although the two of you really weren’t communicating often. The last thing Jack wanted to do was for you to feel as if he was smothering you.

“Yo, where’s your girl?” 2fo finally asked, seeing as it’s been awhile since he had mentioned you when he would normally talk about you all the time.

“We’re not really talking right now.” Jack quietly answered while taking another swig of his sparkling water.

“Oh?” Shloob said while looking over at him in disbelief.

“She um, she wanted some space from me so that’s what I gave her.”

“Don’t worry about it. There’s plenty of other girls. But I mean, there’s really no one like her and she is the whole package but….”

“Shloob, I get it.” Jack said not wanting for him to go on any further.

“Look, she’ll come around. She loves you and all of us can tell.”

“Yeah, but I probably waited too late to tell her the same thing in return.”

Just then Jack's heart skipped a beat when he saw that he had a text from you and immediately opened it.

You- Just wanted to wish you luck for your show tonight. Been seeing little clips from the entire tour and I’m so proud of you. We’ll talk soon.

Jack- Thank you, I appreciate it. Have you been okay?

You- I’ve been making it. Take care of yourself, Jackman.

“She’s done with me.” Jack exclaimed while throwing his phone to the side of the couch and Urban immediately picked it up to see what he was talking about.

“What the? How the hell did you get that from a simple text message?” He asked while looking over what you had sent him.

“Take care of yourself? She might as well had left me blocked for all of that.”

“Your ass is reading entirely too much into this. And you’re about to give yourself a coronary with how worked up you’re getting over this. Take this as a victory, she unblocked you and she’s texting you back. And the first thing she says is that the two of you will talk soon.”

“She doesn’t want to be with me. Not after everything I did, or didn’t do in this case. And I don’t have anyone to blame but myself.”

“And answer Maggie because she asked me why you’ve been dodging answering questions about Y/N when she asks. You know she already has her outfit picked out for when the two of you get married.”

“Well, she’ll definitely be disappointed when I tell her that it’s probably never going to happen.”

“Maggie is definitely going to kick your ass because she already calls Y/N her daughter. Hmm, maybe she can marry Clay instead so that way she’ll still be in the family.”

“Don’t start.”

“It was just a suggestion!”

“A suggestion that’s about to get your ass kicked.”

“Don’t get mad at us because you fucked your girl over no matter how many times we told you to tell her how you feel.”

“We have to be real with you. Been that way since day one and that’s not about to change.”

Jack’s phone started ringing in Urban’s hand and his eyes went wide when he saw that it was a facetime call from you and quickly shoved it towards Jack and screamed at him to answer it.

“IT’S HER! ANSWER IT!”

“WHAT DO I SAY?!”

“I DON’T KNOW, SOME MUSHY ASS SHIT TO GET HER TO FORGIVE YOU! HURRY UP BEFORE SHE HANGS UP!”

Once he hit accept, he saw your beautiful face come into view and he had to do a double take.

You had cut your hair and it was now burgundy, which he remembered saying that you were going to do once it got closer to fall.

“Y/N…”

“Hey, you by yourself?”

“Um, give me a minute.”

Jack then went into the back of the tour bus where he knew that he would be able to have the most privacy. He closed the door behind him before sitting down and continuing his conversation with you.

“You cut your hair. You look so gorgeous.”

You gave him a small smile and felt your cheeks growing hot.

He still had that same effect on you and you definitely weren’t surprised.

“Thank you, I decided that it was time for something different.”

It was quiet for a few seconds when Jack couldn’t help himself and blurted it out.

“I.. I miss you.”

“I miss you too and I just wanted to call and check on you since it’s been awhile.”

“So, have you given any more thought about what I said?” Jack asked hopeful.

“I have and I’d rather speak with you about that in person and not over facetime.” You answered being completely honest.

“Oh, okay… ummm..”

“For No Place Like Home I designed a few outfits for you to wear so I’ll get one of my assistants to bring them and make sure that you get them.”

“Thank you, I appreciate that. But…Wait, you’re not coming?”

“My schedule is tight and I’m due to be in Milan that Monday so I’ll probably send Alicia.”

“Well, what about the Atlanta show?”

“I’ll still be in Dubai.”

“Wait, you’re in Dubai?”

Jack had taken both of you there after you two had been “seeing” each other for a year.

You didn’t even get a chance to answer Jack as he heard a male voice call for you.

“Y/N! You ready? It’s almost 6 and it took me forever to get these dinner reservations.”

Jack couldn’t see his face, but his heart immediately dropped to the floor.

“I’m ready, just give me a few minutes and I’ll be there.”

Jack wanted so badly to ask who that was, but one thing he didn’t want to do was get you upset with him and bottom line, it really wasn’t his business.

“I have to go, but I’ll talk to you soon, okay?”

“Okay, I love you.” Jack said loud enough hoping that whoever was in the room with you could hear him.

Your heart immediately skipped a beat.

“I love you too. Have a good show.”

Once you hung up, you turned around to see your cousin, Terrell, staring at you and smirking.

“Oh, that was lover boy, I take it?” He asked as you were slipping on your shoes.

“Yeah, been thinking about going to see him. Maybe I will go for his show in Louisville on the 18th. Been missing him and I figured that it was time that he got an answer from me.”

“You can do whatever you want, you’re the boss and I’m just here to assist you. If you want to go and see him, go ahead. I can finish up everything here and if I need to ask you anything, I know where to find you.”

“T, I love that man to death, but what if….”

“We’re not doing the made up scenarios in your head. He lost you once and he would be an actual dumbass to do it again. I mean you see how hard he’s trying. He’s giving you your space while also checking on you from time to time. If he wanted to move on, he would have. It’s been what? Almost four months? You must have a chokehold on this man and some bomb ass pussy because what man do you know is going to wait that long?!”

“I just want to make sure that I’m making the right decision. In not so many words, he told me that he wanted to marry me. And I'm ignoring that last part.”

“Well, shit…. When are we going to start planning? Hurry up and tell this man that you want to be with him before it’s too late.”

All you did was sigh as the two of you hopped on the elevator to ride it down to the lobby in order to catch an uber to the restaurant.

“You know what? Forget this. Your ass is going to be in Louisville on the 18th and I’m booking your flight as we speak.”

“But Terrell!”

“Stop being scared and putting yourself in your own way. How are you ever truly going to be happy if you continue to do that?”

“I… guess you’re right.”

“I can’t wait to meet him and by that phone conversation he probably thought you had a new man and that’s why he said that he loved you so loud. So that I would hear it.”

“I noticed that too, but he should know better than that. At the end of the day, I’m always going to choose him.”

“Well, shit honey. Then after dinner, we got a man to get ready for. What’s his favorite color?”

“Purple.”

“Oooh shit, I got ideas brewing and he isn’t going to know what hit him.”

Your heart was beating a thousand miles per hour as you were playing with Jack’s house key in your hands. It was around 3 in the morning on December 17th and there you were standing outside of his house looking like an actual creep. You didn’t know how long you had been standing there, but it was long enough to realize that you couldn’t feel your face anymore.

It was now or never.

You took a deep breath before inserting the key and turning the knob and walking into the foyer.

All you could do was pray that you weren’t too late.

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