Jack's POV:
I wake up and I smell something baking. I am so going to love living with her. I get out of her bed and I realize I'm wearing my clothes from yesterday. "Hey Nyssa!" "Yeah Jack!?" "Can I shower!?" "Sure! But wait a sec!" "Okay!" I open my suitcase and grab clean clothes and Nyssa runs in. She was already showered and ready. "I need to show you how to work it, it took me and Bonnie a week to figure it out when we first moved in."

I follow her into the bathroom, a lot of it was cleaned up, all of Bonnie's stuff was gone and rest of the stuff was Nyssa's. She slides their black and red shower curtain to the side and turns on the shower. "Wait a bit and the water will be hot." "Thanks." I kiss her quickly and she walks out closing the door behind her.

Half way through my shower, "hey Jack." "Yeah." "You forgot your towel," she laughs. "I did?" "Yeah, here take this and hang it on the towel rack thats in front of you." She sticks her arm in and she was holding a towel. "I wish you didn't already shower." "Why?" "So you can join me," I smile to myself. Her hand started to shake and I grab the towel from her. I knew she was blushing madly at that. This was the first time we would actually be alone all day with no plans. But I promised Bonnie...
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We eat breakfast and she starts to clean up, "I'll take care of this, you start packing." "But-" "No, you pack. I clean up." She leaves for her room and I clean up which took a while. I heard her stereo blast her iPod while we worked, that will be the last thing that we'll pack up.

After I clean up I go in her room and see that half of her room was already packed. Only stuff that was left was the really big stuff. "Okay, well you can take your book shelf, but I don't think you need your bed since we'll be sharing mine." I pack up her book shelf items while packed up the rest of her clothes. "Please be careful with that!," she squeals. I was holding a ceramic art peice. I flip it over and it was a horse on a flat peice of ceramic. "Did you make this?" "No, my friend did. She.. she used to cut. So please be careful with it."

It was amazing, I wonder who the girl was. I neatly pack her art work up, then her books, then her CD's with her DVD's. She goes to her poster wall and takes down the AP posters, "your not keeping those?" "Where would I hang them at your house?" "True. But at least keep your good posters." She throws away the AP posters and neatly rolls up her good posters and puts rubber bands around them. We were done packing up her room within a hour.

"Okay, I'll do the kitchen, you can do the living room. I wish me and Bonnie decided what we would do with the big stuff." "Give her a call." She pulls out her cell and calls Bonnie, having her on speaker. "Hi Nyssa, whats up." "What are going to do with the big stuff, like the TV, couch, our beds." "Shit I didn't think about that." "Well Katie is moving out soon, I was gonna give her my bed. Can we give her the table with chairs, coffee table, and tv?" "Sure, we don't need them anymore anyways. But what about my bed." "I heard she's living with one of her friends." "You know what. Leave it all." "What?" "We can sell Katie and her friend our apartment, and we can leave them that stuff." "That actually works!"

"So how did yesterday go with your family Nyssa." "It went great. My family likes Jack, which surprises me. Talk to Jack for a minute, I have to go to the bathroom." Nyssa walks to the bathroom and I grab the phone and take it off speaker. "Hey Bonnie, I have a question." "What is it?" "Who's Carter." Bonnie went quiet. "Bonnie." "Nyssa should tell you not me." "I feel like she won't. And why do I feel like he's the reason she's so innocent."

"How do you know about Carter." "We ran into him yesterday." "Oh no..." "Bonnie who is he." "I'll say this quick okay. All of it quick. So you better keep up." "Okay I will." "Carter is a total dick and a pervert, and he knew Nyssa was as innocent as innocent can get when they first met when they were 16. This was before me and Nyssa met. He forced her to kiss him thirty minutes after they met and since then she's been different. He was supposed to be her date to homecoming but she didn't want to go with him anymore. He stopped talking to her after a week and moved on to random girls and had sex with them."

This guy was worse then me, and I actually stay in contact with the girls I had sex with. I never used them like he did. "A few years later, me and Nyssa met. That same year, she ran into Carter again and he claimed he changed. He invited her to his house, but from what she told me I stopped her. I knew what was going to happen, he was going to rape her. You don't need to be a genious to know that. But ever since that one night when she first met Carter, Nyssa's mind changed. I guess thats when her mind put up the wall of innocence to stop her from going to far. Keeping her mind stuck at 16 with stuff like that."

I knew just by seeing how Carter talked to and treated Nyssa yesterday, that he had to be the reason she was so innocent. "Jack you have to keep her away from Carter. I don't want her going back to that point. He's the reason it all started." I hear the sink turn on. "I promise Bonnie." I hang up when Nyssa walks out. "What happened?" "Bonnie had to go." "Oh okay."

Thats when I noticed how hollow she's been all morning. Her mind was racing and thinking about Carter. "Nyssa." She looks up at me, "I know your thinking about him." She looks away, "Nyssa I know he's the reason your the way you are. I could tell as soon as I met him. I swear that you will never see him again." "How Jack," she whispers. I didn't know. I just held her and kissed her head. "I don't know Nyssa, but I won't let him hurt you again," I whisper in her ear.
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We talked to her sister Katie and her parents and they agreed to letting Katie and her friend moving in during the summer before they started their fall term at UCF. So it made packing for us easier. The lease will still be under Nyssa's name and her parents will pay for it until Katie and her friend can pay for it on their own.
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It was the next day and we were sitting in the airport. Nyssa had her head resting on my shoulder and she was slowly falling asleep. We been here for a hour. "Nyssa wake up, we're boarding soon." I got us first class this time so we'll be more comfortable. They call for first class and we board the plane. "I never been in first class before." "Isn't it nice?" "Yeah."
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We land in Baltimore and Nyssa was more excited then before we left for the airport. "Welcome to your new home state." "I can't wait to move in!" I smile at her, pull her in and kiss her deeply. She kisses back and wraps her arms around my neck pulling me closer.

We have a few days before we leave for the UK, and we'll use that time to move her stuff in and then maybe. We'll have our first time. Maybe. I want her first time to be special, and I didn't want her mind stuck on Carter. I want her mind fully clear of her past before we have sex so her memories don't take over her. Just because the voice is gone, doesn't mean her memories are.

And I'll wait. I'll wait till she's ready.