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Love is Strong	By : harry102 Category: +M through R > New Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Views: 8124 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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It was two days shy of his eighteenth birthday, a little over four months ago, when Jonny received a very unexpected package in the mail. The return address was from a bank in Orlando, Florida and Happy Birthday Jonny was scrolled above his name and address on the brown envelope. His training made him automatically suspicious...Random package and unfamiliar handwriting. He remembers feeling for the bubble-protected contents inside the envelope and concluding that there was just a small box inside...nothing to worry about. As always, his curiosity won out over everything else. His father was in his lab, Race was reading the paper, and Jessie and Hadji were engrossed in a game of chess. They were all busy, so Jonny took the opportunity to sneak up to his room and open the package.

He remembers sitting in the middle of his bed and feeling a little nervous as he used his pocketknife to slice open the package. He cautiously looked inside and confirmed that it was just a small box. So he turned the envelope over and dumped the contents onto his lap. Not only did a tiny velvet box fall out, but also another smaller envelope that clearly had a letter inside. The first thing Jenny did was open the small box to find a silver heart-shaped necklace inside. He couldn't think of why someone would send him this, so he immediately tore open the other envelope to find out who it was from. When Jonny read the first line of the letter, it slipped through his hands out of pure shock. 'Could I really have just read what I thought I did?' he remembers asking himself. He recalls repeating the line several times in his head, while picturing it as he had seen it on the paper:

*Hi my little man.*

As he said these words again and again in his head, Jonny realized that he was hearing his mother's voice. She was the only one that had ever called him little man. 'But how could this be from her?' In his confusion, he looked over at the velvet box again and noticed that the necklace had a clasp. He quickly reached for it and opened it up to find the old picture of his mother and father inside. It was at that moment that Jessie came barging through his door to challenge him to a game in Questworld. Her loud entrance brought him out of his state of shock, and he quickly threw a pillow over the letter and necklace on his bed. As soon as she saw his face, he knew she could tell something was up, but he covered. He agreed quickly to the game and then ushered his very suspicious best friend out of the room.

Jonny had never lost more pathetically to Jessie in Questworld than he did on that day, and he had never cared less about it. When he didn't assault her with a barrage of excuses as to why she'd been able to beat him, Jessie cornered him with a worried look in her eyes before they could get back to the main house.

"What's wrong?" he remembers her asking him softly as she grabbed his hand and massaged the back of it with her thumb. Her tender touch almost made him tell her everything, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Besides, he didn't really know all the facts anyway. All he wanted to do at that particular moment was run up to his room and read that letter to figure out what was going on.

"Nothing's wrong, Ace" he tried to assure her in a voice that was a little too shaky to be convincing. "I just didn't get much sleep last night" It was an outright lie and they both knew it, but she thankfully didn't push him. He thought he saw a hurt look in her eyes, but was sure he imagined it when she smiled at him a second later and said, "I'm always here for you Jonny."

"I know Jess, me too," was all he could get out before hearing Mrs. Evans calling them for dinner.

Jonny doesn't think he's ever eaten dinner so fast before in his entire life. When his father questioned him about it, he lied and said he needed to get back up to his room to finish a history paper due the next day. He avoided Jess' curious stares for the rest of the meal, and then excused himself.

After leaving the table, he dashed up the stairs, closed and locked his door, and then grabbed the letter and the locket from under his pillow and finally began to read slowly. He doesn't doubt for a second that he's read the letter more than a hundred times since that night. Hell, he doesn't even need to read it anymore. He can recite it from memory if necessary, but he still reads it anyway, finding comfort in the handwriting...her handwriting.

Sitting on his bed tonight, four months later, he finds himself reading it again:

*Hi my little man. Now don't you dare scoff because I don't care that you're eighteen. You will always and forever be my little man. If you're reading this today, Happy Birthday Baby, and I'm so sorry that I'm not there to share this day with you. I know that if you're reading this something must have happened to me, and I'm so sorry for that. I know I promised that I'd never leave you, but I will always be in your heart and in your soul. Hey, just look in the mirror because I'm in your eyes sweetheart. At least that's what your father swears. Do me a favor and tell him that I love him, and tell him yourself too because God knows that he loves you. You know, he cried the day that you were born. Not nearly as much as me of course, but he did. I will never be able to thank your father enough for making me your mother. The day you were born will always be the happiest of my life. You and your dad are the single greatest joys I have ever experienced, and I love you both so much. Take care of each other.

I'm sure you've noticed the locket by now, and are wondering why in the heck I 'm giving this to you. If I've taught you nothing else, I hope that I've taught you that nothing is more important or powerful than a real and true love. Not everyone in this world is lucky enough to experience a love like that. I was with your father, and I pray to God that you find someone someday that makes you feel the way your father makes me feel. The picture on the inside of the locket is of me and your father on our one- year anniversary of dating. We went to Disney world, which explains the Goofy T-shirts. Your father gave this locket to me on our wedding day. He snuck into the bride's room before the ceremony started because he wanted me to wear it as I walked down the aisle. I wasn't worried about any silly superstitions about seeing him before the wedding because Lord knows our love was stronger than anything else in the world, especially on that day.

When he gave it to me, he told me that he loved me more than anything, and that our family would be his life for the rest of his life. We sealed our love that day, and we've never let anyone come in between us. This locket is a symbol of that love. It's a symbol of true love sweetheart, so do me a favor and give it to your true love. Put a picture of the two of you on the other side of this locket, put it around her neck, and never ever let her go. Love her and fight for her, and I know she'll be the luckiest woman in the world. I love you more than words can express little man.
I love you, Mom.*

Jonny can't help the tearstains that mark this letter. It makes him so happy and so sad to have it all at once. If he didn't know it before he received this letter, he certainly knew after that Jessie is his true love no matter how much he’s tried to fight it. He's had a crush on her since he was thirteen, but the events of the last few months were what made him realize that it’s so much more, this letter, her leaving, and now Jordan Matthews.

The day after receiving his mother's package, Jonny managed to avoid his family. However, lying awake in his bed that night he knew that he wouldn't be able to do it again the next day since that was his actual birthday. He doesn't know why his mom's package came two days before. Maybe the bank mixed up the days, or maybe his mom wanted to give him some time to absorb her message so he wouldn't be too upset on his actual birthday. He likes to think the latter is true.

On his birthday, Jonny put on a brave face and actually really enjoyed the day. Race took him sky diving to congratulate him on becoming a man, his father bought him a new car, Hadji created a new Questworld game for him, and Jess got him tickets to see his favorite band, The Rolling Stones. All in all it was a pretty great day. He decided to look upon his mother's letter as an amazing gift, and he planned on taking her advice as soon as he got up the courage to do so.

After his party was finished and everything was cleaned up, Jonny found himself sitting by the cliffs overlooking the ocean outside the main house. He was just thinking about how he was gonna take his mom's advice when two arms snaked around his neck in quick hug, and then a warm body dropped down beside him.

"So how's your birthday been treating you, Hotshot?" She questioned him with a smile on her face. The wind was blowing her hair all over the place, and he couldn't help but think how beautiful Jessie really was. He remembers that every time he looked at Jess over the month before she left his emotions got so mixed up. He loved her. She was leaving. He loved her. Did she feel the same way? All of that went through his head every time their eyes met.

"Not bad, not bad," he finally answered, nodding his head up and down.

"Glad to hear it," she replied while trying to tuck her hair behind her ears with no real success. He swears he could watch her do little things like that all day with rapt fascination.

"There's only one problem though," he piped up with a sly grin.

"Oh, and what's that?" she asked coyly turning towards him.

"Well," he stopped for a second and then sang softly, "I can't ...get... no... satisfaction."

"Aww, poor baby didn't get any on his birthday?" she questioned jokingly.

"I didn't say that now," his grin getting wider. "I just said that I wasn't satisfied," he finished and turned his body more towards her.

"Are you flirting with me Jonny Quest?" she asked demurely.

"Maybe," he replied still smiling, and then looked back out at the ocean when her gaze became too much for him to handle right then.

"Wow," she said in an awe-inspired voice. "I had no idea you were such a ladies man, J."

"Yeah well, ya know," and he sniffed like he was cooler than James Dean. "I don't like to brag or anything."

He heard her giggling softly at his words and turned to see that she was now leaning back on her elbows and gazing up at the sky. He couldn't help but notice her beautiful body and the way that it was responding to the slightly chilly August breeze. She was only wearing exercise shorts and a tiny tank top, and clearly no bra.

When he finally reached her face again, he saw that her eyes had returned to him. He was sure that a slightly guilty look must have crossed his face, but he thinks he hide it quickly. He saw her shiver, and automatically asked if she wanted to go back inside. She told him that she wasn't cold, so they remained in the same position staring at each other, and then the stars, and then back at each other for a few slightly awkward moments.

He felt like they needed a tension breaker, so the next time he caught her eye, he gave her a devilish smirk and with complete faux sincerity declared, "You want me."

That caused her to press herself back up into a sitting position and laugh out loud. Jonny's not sure if she laughed like that because she thought the idea was absurd or because he had just shocked her by saying it.

Once she composed herself, she brought her face closer to his. He saw this as if it was happening in slow motion, and when there lips were only inches apart, she smiled and whispered, "You wish."

He waned to retort with a witty comment, but couldn't get anything to come out of his open mouth. They were once again just staring at each other, but this time she was the first to look away. As they sat there side by side, entertaining their own thoughts, Jonny was trying to figure out what just happened, and whether or not this was a good time to tell her how he felt.

The next thing he knew, he felt her playfully kick his leg and then stand up. He had lost his nerve, so he stood up to go back to the house with her. As they walked back, she looked up at him. He was about a full head taller than her. "So, you liked my present then?" she asked

"Are you kidding me? I loved it. I don't know how it's possible that I didn't know they were coming to town though," he said.

"Well," Jess started conspiratorially, "I went to great lengths to keep you in the dark. I wanted you to be surprised."

"I was definitely surprised. I really love it Jess, thank you," he said whole-heartedly. "It's just that," he had begun, but she cut him off quickly.

"What?" she asked sounding concerned.

"Well," he continued, "It's just that the concert is on the night before you leave for school. You know, I kinda wanted to hang out with you then," he said looking down. He hated to think about her leaving.

"Oh, so you weren't planning on taking me with you then?" she asked with a smile in her voice.

Jonny's head shot up at this immediately with an uncontrollable smile. "Well under normal circumstances of course I would, but I didn't think that's how you'd want to spend your last night at home. Plus your dad probably wouldn't be too happy about it."

"Yeah," she kind of sighed. "He probably won't be, but he'll get over it. Besides, there's no one I'd rather spend my last night in Rockport with than you, Hotshot."
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