/ hold you through the night *

[zoe carolyn van wright]

time was moving quickly. time was moving way too quickly. it seemed to zoe like it was just a few short months ago that she was in middle school, and now she was almost a junior. people sure weren't kidding when they said that high school flew by. when she was younger, yeah, she didn't believe that. naw, it would take forever, because high school was hell and all that, blah blah blah. and sure, the beginning of your freshman year might be kind of rough and all, but for zoe? not so much. she'd gone to the same middle school as a fair number of the kids, and when she showed up in the halls of carson high, they already knew what they were dealing with. she got hardly any of the shit the rest of her classmates did. there were a few kids who didn't know any better, of course. but they soon learned. and just like that, zoe was fine, while the rest of her class around her was downright terrified of getting stuffed in random trash cans when they least expected it. heh. life was good.

and zoe could sure say that now. not long ago she had just told her boyfriend that she loved him, and he'd told her that he loved her, too. and upon hearing those words... yeah, they were some of the best she had ever heard. ever. in her entire lifetime. in had been a while after that experience on the beach before zoe had been able to stop randomly smiling in public, or by herself, or just in general. and already, she was really thinking about going farther than they had. she loved jamie, and he loved her. when two people loved each other, they showed it, right? they pledged it to the world? the only thing was, zoe wasn't so sure how jamie was going to take that. she knew he was easy to anger, and hell, she was too, if not worse than he was! it could easily turn into a fighting match if he disagreed. but at the same time, zoe knew that she had to talk to him. she really wanted to know what he thought. because, well, he mattered to her. she loved him. he was the only boy she'd ever loved, actually. tough, violent, showoff, little zoe, and she'd only really dated one guy ever, and that was jamie. and she loved him.

there were butterflies in zoe's stomach as she walked to lunch. she was going to try to talk to jamie about this, and now. he would sit by her at lunch; he always did. she didn't doubt that. the hard part would just be saying that, or really, just getting him to agree. but she was serious about their relationship, and you know what? she didn't care, he should be too. zoe piled the chicken strips, salad, and applesauce onto her tray nervously, grabbing a bottle of water before paying for her food and going to sit down at their regular table. it wouldn't take long for jamie to get here. and then.. she would have to say it... gulp. oh man, he better take this well.

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[jameson robert bolton]

YOUR BANNER HERE !
{ IF YOU FALL FOR ME I AIN'T EASY TO PLEASE I MIGHT TEAR YOU APART }
TOLD YOU FROM THE STARTBABYFROM THE START
- - - - - - I'M ONLY GONNA BREAK BREAK YOUR BREAK BREAK YOUR HEART

ugh. chemistry. what the hell was this anyway? numbers, letters ... formulas? equations. oh dear, jamie could go on and on and on about what he didn't know about this class. he had missed a good month of this class, give or take a week, because of his ... erm ... injuries. a month ago he had taken a little spill and managed to crack open his skull. there was a long scar on the back of his head from it, and his hair was still growing back from that part from when the doctors had to cut it off. it looked ridiculous. no, he looked ridiculous. he could barely keep his eyes open, he was covering his scar with his hand and trying to keep up with notes on the other, and he was sneezing constantly. there was something in this room that always made him sneeze, and it looked like he wasn't the only one. several other students were sniffing and sneezing around the classroom, so at least jamie didn't look THAT different from them.

the teacher turned around to stop writing on the board and had just opened his mouth to speak when the bell rang. the sound was horrible. it seemed to pierce into his skull through the cut he had and echo around in there. with knives. KNIVES, I TELL YOU. jamie groaned and slowly stood up, grabbing his binder and textbook and he was the last to leave the classroom. the tall boy yawned and stopped right outside of the door. what time was it? the students seemed to be walking whatever way they wanted, and that was cool. jamie wasn't going to judge them. but, that made it difficult to tell the time. he pulled out his phone from his pocket and was about to open it when he was lightly pushed forward. "uuugggghhhh." today was not his day. the teacher apologised, then sped off to the staff room.

jamie looked again at his phone and saw that it was 12:09. excellent. that meant it was time to eat. so, he made his way to the cafeteria. he still had his books in his arm, so he picked up a tray and put some chicken strips on it, along with an unnecessary amount of ketchup and a bottle of orange juice and balanced his books and his tray with both arms. he didn't even have to look to tell that zoe was sitting at their usual table, so he headed over to it and her. using his foot, he pulled out his chair and tossed his books onto the empty one beside him. jamie put his tray on the tabletop and sat down with a thud ugh. why was today so ... bleh? he looked up and saw zoe, then smiled. she could make any situation better. like, anything. jamie cleared his throat and managed to talk his first real words today. "hey zoe." he gave her a sort of shy smile, the kind he always managed to smile around her, and then picked up a chicken strip and started ripping it up into small bits. taking your anger out on cafeteria food is where it's at.

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[zoe carolyn van wright]

you know that feeling you get when you're having a bad day, and you think and say that it couldn't get any worse? when it truly does feel like nothing could make your day any worse than it already was? yeah, it wasn't such a great idea to voice that opinion of yours. because when you say that, well maybe it's karma that acts on it or something, but your day almost always does get worse. it could start out with the fact that you're just bummed because a package you were expecting didn't come in the mail or something. and then you're out of your favorite kind of soda, and you're already pissy about the first thing, and you think your day can't get any worse. oh believe me, it can, and after you say something like that, it probably will. life tends to be a bitch like that here and there. quite often, actually. and then you can just say that your life sucks, right? naw, that probably would come back to bite you in the ass too.

but zoe, at least right now, she couldn't say that about her life. in fact, she didn't think that she had ever been happier at any other time. her high school years, so far, were the best she'd ever had in her (so far) short life. yeah, it had its bumps, it had its ups and downs. but overall? definitely some of the best. she couldn't really complain in the long run. maybe in twenty years she would be looking through her yearbook of life at carson high, and think damn, wish i could go back to that time. so really, zoe didn't understand how so many people whined and complained about their lives and how it couldn't get worse and all that. because in a few years, it's probably going to be a hell of a lot harder. but at the same time, she understood. zoe, like other teenagers, didn't quite appreciate the way the prior generation treated them and told them that what they were going through wasn't hard. because it was. there was a lot of stress put on today's teenagers. they had to worry about keeping their grades up, probably getting a job, and getting into a good college. it was a lot of work, especially when you were young! you'd think they would understand, having been there one day theirselves.

well, apparently not. people tended to not understand unless they were going through the same thing at the same time. maybe it was so painful that the generation above them didn't want to relive it or something... hmm, that was a possibility. highly unlikely, though. as highly unlikely as it was that jamie was going to take it easily, what zoe wanted to talk to him about today. but she would have to try with that. she was only a few bites into her salad when, before she knew it, jamie was there. she heard his quiet "hey, zoe" and right then it didn't matter how nervous she was, because he was there. she set down her fork and looked over at her boyfriend with a grin, her face melting at that shy smile he always gave her. damn, he was so adorable. "hi jamie." she leaned over to give him a quick kiss on the cheek while he tore apart his chicken strip, and she leaned back to take a few more bites of her salad. hm, how to start this? zoe took a deep breath. "so..." oh, wow. so? smooth.

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[jameson robert bolton]

{ IF YOU FALL FOR ME I AIN'T EASY TO PLEASE I MIGHT TEAR YOU APART }
TOLD YOU FROM THE STARTBABYFROM THE START
- - - - - - I'M ONLY GONNA BREAK BREAK YOUR BREAK BREAK YOUR HEART

a lot of things were going haywire today. to start it off, jamie had woke up thinking in french. no, not english. french his first thought? il fait froid. he was cold. actually, he didn't even notice that he was thinking in his second language up until he was actually talking. he asked him mom what time it was, en francais, and she just stared at him with a confused look. after that, jamie had spoken english for the rest of the day until now. well, he wasn't really speaking now. he was more concentrated on his chicken strips than worrying about which language he was going to speak. actually, he should stop concentrating on his chickens, and start concentrating on his girlfriend. she was much more important than chicken strips. actually, she was much more important than pretty much anything, according to jamie.

when zoe kissed him on the cheek, he smiled again. she was just like ... awesome. before, of course, a long time ago, he did not think that. but now, she was the girl that he wanted and had. since that day at the mall, his life had gone uphill, as opposed to the steep downhill slide he was going through before. of course, he was still going through rocky areas, but she was there. and it's a good thing, too. jamie didn't know what he would do without her. jamie put some chicken in his mouth after smothering it in an unnecessary amount of ketchup. god, ketchup was his favorite condiment. it was like, just purely awesome. but he never did like tomatoes. i guess it was all the processing that the ketchup goes through that makes it taste good. like, fantastically delicious.

"so..." jamie took a break from his chicken and looked up at zoe. something was on her mind. he could tell, because she was talking. and because she just looked thoughtful. he swallowed the chicken and ketchup that was in his mouth and set his fork down for a moment. if she was going to talk, he was going to give her his attention. of course, she could have it whenever, and right now was one of those times. he looked down at his food for a moment, expecting her to continue on with what she was going to say. when she didn't, he looked at her again with a questioning look. "so ... what? what's up?" he shrugged while he spoke. this couldn't be that big of a deal. or ... maybe it was. because why else would she hesitate with what she was saying? usually, if she had something on her mind, she'd say it. she was that sort of a person. that's one of the things that he liked about her. there were many things, but that was one that just stood out to him right now.

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[zoe carolyn van wright]

zoe was having second thoughts. no, not about her relationship with jamie in general, oh god no. jamie was the only stable thing she had in her life! well, besides her parents, but they didn't really count with something like this. okay, so that was an understatement overall, because zoe loved her parents. she loved them unconditionally and they were, well, just really amazing. they cared for her no matter what, and zoe couldn't quite understand that. she had screwed up so many times in her past, and yet they would still do anything for her. well, maybe not quite anything. but still, you get the point. a lot of people didn't like their parents, or didn't get along with them, but zoe couldn't say that. if she called up her dad and told him that she needed to borrow some money, hell, he'd send her a check in the mail the next morning. in a way, they were probably too trusting. teenagers these days, they could really be a handful. they could easily pull a quick one on you. wow, who says that? but back to the point. most parents nowadays wouldn't be so trusting of their kids, especially when, well, your kid is zoe. she was one nasty little spitfire when she wanted to be. well, not that her parents always caught the worst of that side of her. she knew when to ham it up.

usually, though, she didn't have to. her parents were that... well, that great. most kids nowadays didn't get that kind of luxury. most parents weren't going to go and just hand out money if their daughter needed it with no questions asked! yeah, zoe was just definitely lucky in that department. zoe was lucky in general! right now, she didn't think it would even be possible to complain about her life. yeah, she was nervous as hell for this upcoming conversation, but just the fact that she was going to be having it with someone... that alone should have been enough to show just how lucky she considered herself to be, just how great of a life she thought she had. she had her loving parents, and now she had her loving boyfriend. her loving boyfriend, who she was going to talk about moving on to the next step of marriage with. but hadn't she just said earlier that she was already having second thoughts? yes. about the marriage dealio. what if she was too young? was she jumping the gun with bringing this up? zoe and jamie hadn't even really been together that long. long enough, but not as long as a lot of, if not most, couples wait before getting married. they weren't even out of high school yet. hell, zoe wasn't even considered varsity yet! maybe.. maybe this was too quick...

no. it was too late. zoe had already brought it up, or at least started to. that meant there was no going back now. the worst that could happen would... shit. what could the worst be? obviously how jamie took this. what if she totally freaked him out? hell, it probably already would. he was seventeen, for god's sake. what seventeen-year-old boy wouldn't be freaked out by this? hopefully jamie, right? hahah. no, he would probably take this all to be a joke or something. or at least something would have to go wrong. he probably wouldn't take this honestly and really give his true opinion about it. that would be too easy. zoe frowned a little into her salad, and finally looked up at jamie. it was now or never... okay, just now, because never wasn't an option now that she'd brought it up. dammit, why was this so hard?! zoe swallowed and took a deep breath. "don't... don't freak, okay?" oh nice, so smooth, again. you're really going about this great, zoe. "but i've been thinking, about, um..." her eyes strayed down to the table again, not sure how she exactly wanted to word this whole thing. "going to the, uh, next step with our r-relationship." did she just stutter? "about, well.. getting married." and that was it. the words were out. practically feeling the blush that she almost knew for certain was on her cheeks, zoe stared down at the table. goooood.

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[jameson robert bolton]

{ IF YOU FALL FOR ME I AIN'T EASY TO PLEASE I MIGHT TEAR YOU APART }
TOLD YOU FROM THE STARTBABYFROM THE START
- - - - - - I'M ONLY GONNA BREAK BREAK YOUR BREAK BREAK YOUR HEART

the silence that had followed jamie's question was inevitable. at that moment, he started to feel like he really needed to have a smoke. maybe two. or three. then jamie re-thought his cravings. chain smoking was only going to make him run out of cigarettes faster. this would prove a problem to him, since his mother had caught him smoking. she couldn't get too mad at him though, since she was an avid smoker herself, and said that jamie could only have a pack a week. a fricken week. jamie could go through two a day if the situation really called for it, perhaps even more. if his common sense wasn't tingling, he'd excuse himself from the table and go outside for a smoke. however, jamie knew something was up and zoe wanted to talk about something. and if zoe wanted to talk, jamie wanted to listen.

he had been subconciously stabbing at his chicken strips with a plastic fork, almost to the point of no return. jamie wasn't like, viciously stabbing it. just sticking the fork in there repeatedly. his light green eyes eventually went from zoe to his chicken, and he pushed it to the side of the plate. ew. he took another piece of chicken, dipped it in the ketchup, and put it in his mouth. okay, maybe he was using the ketchup a bit too excessively. but who gives a damn? it's fucking good. you know what else would be good? a cigarette. damn, jamie. get your mind off of that. it's girlfriend time now. and even though jamie was addicted to nicotine and countless other substances, he'd always choose zoe first. so, he manned up and took another bite of chicken. he could feel zoe looking at him, so he slowed his chewing and he looked up at her.

god, she was beautiful. jamie was one lucky guy. actually, he was an extra lucky guy. extremely lucky. what would've happened if, after he had spontaneously kissed her at the mall, she had totally made a fool out of him and told the whole school what sort of a creep he was? the chances of zoe liking him back were slim to none, and the gods of dating must've been on his side that day. okay, so, she was nervous. this made jamie's stomach start to tie in a knot a little. usually, zoe wasn't hesitant at all. she had said 'dont' freak'. what the hell? usually when someone says 'dont' freak', you freak out even worse. jamie almost felt uncomfortable keeping eye contact with her now. so many things were running through his mind. was zoe going to break up with him? no. no no no no. she couldn't. she wouldn't. she had her fucking name on his shoulder, for fuck's sake. and that shit is permanent. to try and calm his nerves, he swallowed the piece of chicken that was in his mouth and replaced it almost immediately.

that didn't help at all. he was freaking out, although he looked totally fine on the outside. he had perfected this technique long ago, back in the jurassic period. jamie kept chewing, although his chewing got slower, and he finally brought himself to make eye contact with zoe again. "going to the, uh, next step with our r-relationship." jamie raised an eyebrow at this statement, and before he had a chance to think of anything to respond with, like a simple 'what do you mean', she spoke again. "about, well.. getting married." what the fuck?! jamie sharply inhaled, sending the piece of chicken down his throat without his prior consent. within a millisecond, he was fine, but still. what the fuck? marriage? at a time like this? jamie was supposed to be graduating this year. he was turning eighteen in less than a month. zoe was in her sophomore year. she was sixteen. they were in absolutely no position to get married. of course, jamie loved her more than anything. and he knew, way back down under all his hardcore and toughness that she was, indeed, the girl that he wanted to marry and spend the rest of his life with, but he couldn't do that now. "er, what?" he had his eyebrows raised to pretty much their full potential, but he tried to make it look like this wasn't all such a shock to him. "like, now?" right now, jamie couldn't handle it. no. he could barely handle school, let alone a 100% totally sure lifelong commitment. eating chicken right now was out of the question. being a chicken, however, didn't seem so irrelevant here.

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[zoe carolyn van wright]

in just two short years, zoe would be finishing high school. it was kind of a horribly terrifying thought, if you really considered it. once you hit high school the time just really started to fly, faster than you'd ever known it to before. especially in comparison to middle school! damn, those can be some of the longest, not to mention worst, years of your life! back when time used to drag on... and on... and on. and you really wondered how adults could go around and whining and complaining to you all the time about how life was so fast and you better appreciate it now, blah blah blah... but once you moved on to high school, it was like BAM, fast forward button! all of a sudden you had so much to do, so much to worry about, and most definitely not even nearly enough time to deal with any of it. and suddenly, you understood those adults who had been telling you for years that life went too fast. it hadn't seemed before, when they originally told you, that they could ever be right. naw, they were just all whackjobs, totally messed up in the head after so many years of being on this earth. but for whatever reason, high school was the first point in life where it started to go way too fast. zoe, for one, was most definitely happy with where she was. she wouldn't mind staying a sophomore forever. she wasn't a frosh anymore, and yet she didn't have to worry about taking the act and getting into colleges and all that. yeah, being a sophomore was definitely a pretty good thing.

too bad that life never worked it that way. it didn't give a damn whether you enjoyed where you were or not. it didn't matter to life. nope, life was just going to be all buddy buddy with time and start running off into the great oblivion and going faster than any human on earth ever wanted. well, probably almost all humans. not everyone. however, for once, zoe was actually part of the majority in this situation. now, that was odd. zoe was never part of a majority. in almost everything that she did, zoe liked to stand out. no, that was an understatement. she did like to stand out in everything that she did. literally everything. you liked a new song? zoe already had it blasting more loudly from her stereo than you did. you failed a test? don't worry, zoe failed it worse! she was always one who wanted to be in the spotlight with everything. she never blended in, ever. just that much was clear by the way that she was dressed. have you looked at her outfits recently? she didn't exactly wear things that were the norm for most people nowadays. she didn't run around in american eagle jeans and hollister tees, or throw her hair up in a messy bun randomly midway through class. she enjoyed wearing her bright, flashy outfits and well, yeah, simply standing out. that was the person she was, the person she had always been, and probably would always be.

people didn't change, after all. zoe knew that. everyone else should know that, too. sure, they could think that they changed, they could even act like it for a while. but they always ended up going right back to the same person that they always were... and even if it seemed like they never did go back, oh don't worry, they were still the same person on the inside. it was very rare that a person could ever really change, one hundred percent, and especially changing for the better. that rarely ever happened. hence why zoe, over the years, had learned of this. it was the main reason she'd stopped giving.. not really second chances so much as forty-third chances. but that was besides the point right now.

what she really had to focus on was jamie. jamie, her boyfriend, who had just reacted to her proposition, well, probably the exact way that he should have, or at least the exact way that zoe should have expected. she frowned, looking at him with a serious face. "yeah... now." she sighed a little, her eyebrows furrowing. great, now she was going to get mad at him? this was really going to go over well. zoe took a deep breath, completely ignoring her food now, her main focus on jamie. "i mean, why not? we're in love... people do that when they're in love..." for whatever reason, she could already feel herself starting to get irritated and worked up about this whole thing. dammit, she really shouldn't have even brought it up. there was no way she was going to get it all into jamie's head.

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[jameson robert bolton]

{ IF YOU FALL FOR ME I AIN'T EASY TO PLEASE I MIGHT TEAR YOU APART }
TOLD YOU FROM THE STARTBABYFROM THE START
- - - - - - I'M ONLY GONNA BREAK BREAK YOUR BREAK BREAK YOUR HEART

jamie had never thought about marriage. i know, i know. when people say that they never think about marriage, most of them have it all planned out right down to what color their panties are going to be that day. it was horrid. but for as long as jamie had remembered, great details of getting married were not considered a normal thinking activity. a lot of his time was spent think about drugs, zoe, drugs, or spencer. oh, and drugs. like it was stated eariler, throughout the course of jamie and zoe's relationship, jamie had decided that there was a 99% likelihood of marrying her. just not when he was eighteen. of course, he was legal age in most countries to get married without parental permission. and he was pretty sure that his father would sign him over in the blink of his eye, but his mom ... not so much. jamie is to his mother like spencer is to jamie. they just can't be seperated, whether the first party wants to leave or not. it's like a cage.

and zoe? well for fucks sake, she's only sixteen. she would have to have consent. unless they ran away together and got illegally married and came back and told nobody. but that was highly unlikely. her parents would have to sign some consent form or something, and jamie highly doubted that they would do that. because, really, if you had a daughter like zoe, would you let her go off with some piece of trash like jamie? i wouldn't, that's for sure. jamie had only met her parents once or twice, and he didn't think he did too bad. he had covered up his tattoos and tried to find clothes without skulls or offensive language on them, but still. he hated meeting parents. he had trouble impressing his own, he didn't need another two. that's mainly why he stayed out of long-term relationships like this. but really, this wasn't too bad. and jamie actually meant it when he said that he loved her.

"yeah... now." jamie sighed. the eighteen-year-old ran his hand through his already messy hair and stopped when he got to his scar. he habitually ran a finger across it, then stopped when he realised what he was doing. he wasn't allowed to touch it. he had just gotten his stitches out and if anything disrupted the rest of the healing process, he could get it infected. his hand dropped on to the table and he shook his head, although it was barely noticeable. now? jamie couldn't do it. he knew he wanted to, but they were way too young. sure, jamie wanted to grow up quickly, but this was just too much. much too much. and as for this conversation, jamie was absolutely speechless. what was he supposed to say? though? "oh, yeah, zoe, i love you and all but i'm not gonna marry you." no. that was just dickish, even for jamie. "i ... " his voice broke off. he had just said something for the sake of saying something. his brain was trying to process all of this and what he was going to say with what little brain cells he had left.

he inhaled deeply again. she had just said that this is what people who are in love do. but most people who were in love weren't in highschool. sure, kids said they were in love, but that was usually just so they could stay in the relationship for the sex. that, or it was their 'first boyfriend/girlfriend'. jamie had had girlfriends and boyfriends before, but never really felt much for them other than they were hot. he usually just felt for them more as friends. his relationship with zoe, however, was something totally and completely different. he knew that he was her first serious relationship, and that she loved her. and he could tell that she meant it because she acted the same way that he did when he was around her. and, she basically just told jamie that they were going to get married. jamie furrowed his brow. oh dear, it looks like his angry brain cells were taking over. "zoe, you're like, sixteen." he looked up at her and raised an eyebrow. "don't you think you're just a bit young to be making decisions like this?" but really, who was jamie to be calling her young? he had been sixteen once, too. actually, only two years ago. but then again, when he was sixteen, he didn't think about marriage. he thought about getting high and getting laid. what a life.

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[zoe carolyn van wright]

during high school, you had to make a lot of decisions. generally these decisions focused on what you were going to do with your life after high school. if you were going to go to college, or if you were going to go straight into the work force, or even into the armed forces. what classes you were going to take during high school just to get wherever you wanted to be getting with your career after these years ended. you had to decide, if you wanted to, where you were going to college. you had to make so many important decisions that would affect you for the rest of your life. but generally, the list of those decisions didn't include marriage. usually, marriage was something you waited years before deciding on. not when you were sixteen and only a sophomore. hell, you didn't even have to worry so much about college choices when you were only a sophomore! when you were a sophomore, the only things you had to worry about were... well, keeping your grades up, probably. being a sophomore is pretty cushy, as zoe had said earlier. definitely not the year to worry about marriage.

sure, she was in love with jamie. he loved her too. and yeah, when people are in love and they know it's right, they'll generally get married. but so soon? not usually. if they had been older, maybe. just add two years to each of their ages and it would probably be acceptable. still early, really, but still acceptable, too. however, sixteen and eighteen? it wasn't normal. it was almost unheard of nowadays, actually. years ago, of course not. they would both have been married off by now! then again, zoe and jamie would have been completely different people if they were born in like, the seventeen hundreds. first off, they wouldn't be named zoe and jamie. they'd probably have names like mary and thomas. and they would have been wearing petticoats and trousers. mary would have been confined to the home and doing housework, and thomas would have probably been a farmer or something. because long ago that was like, all people did, apparently. or maybe that was just what people today were taught to think, or just assumed it.

well, thankfully, this wasn't the seventeenth century. zoe was zoe, not mary, and jamie, thank god, wasn't thomas. they weren't all puritan do-gooders nowadays. instead they were... well, themselves. and that alone was saying something. they were unique, right? so that meant that it didn't matter that it was probably waaaay too damn early to get married, because they were unique. zoe knew that, well yeah, it was strange and unheard of in these days, but she was ready. they were in love, so really, what the hell? might as well get married now, hey? rather than waiting however many years? why should they waste any time? and why couldn't jamie just get that easily? why did he have to be such a thomas and make sense?! who made sense anymore, hey? she frowned, looking jamie dead in the eyes. "no." who really gave a damn if she was sixteen or not? did it make any difference at all, if you were in love? "i'm ready jamie, i love you." she sighed, still staring at him, almost in a glare. "who gives a damn how old we are, really?" as she'd said, it was still love. who cared?

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