Chapter 4:

Jason regretfully woke up the next morning in a strange city. He woke up regretfully because he was having an amazing dream about Courtney only when he woke up he realized he wouldn’t be seeing Courtney that day or any day in the near future. Guess I better get used to that, he thought sadly. He then found his wallet and took out his wallet and took out a picture of him and Courtney. Although he would have preferred a larger picture, they were all packed and waiting to decorate his dorm when he moved in later that morning. Jason stared at the picture and silently wished that Courtney was there with him.

“Next year,” he said wistfully and without realizing that he had spoken out loud. He was referring to the fact that after he had decided to attend Harvard, he and Courtney had discussed Courtney’s going to school in Boston after she graduated as well so that they would be close to each other. Courtney loved the idea, and personally, he couldn’t wait until a year from now when she would be in Boston with him. Jason was ripped from his thoughts when his mother came in.

“You need to get ready for breakfast,” his mother said. “The quicker we eat, the quicker you can get settled in your new dorm.” Jason did as he was told. When he was ready, he and his parents who had resumed their arguing went out to breakfast; Jason drowned them out by thinking of Courtney, who he missed more than he ever thought possible. He was so Courtney-sick that he ordered her favorite type of eggs because they reminded him of her.

***

Jason and his parents carried all his belongings up to his room, which was on the fifth floor of a building. Thank god for elevators, the three of them thought. When they got up there the first time, Jason discovered that he was on an all singles floor. He was both relieved and disappointed. Jason was glad to have the privacy a single provided, especially if Courtney were to come and visit, but he was hoping to become good friends with a roommate. On the other hand he wouldn’t have to worry about not getting along with his roommate.

“Do you want us to stay to help you unpack and get organized?” Jason’s mother asked once all his bags were in the room.

“No that’s okay,” Jason replied. He was looking forward to the lack of arguing that would occur once his parents were gone. “I can handle it. Besides, if you don’t leave soon, you’ll get back to Port Charles pretty late,” he added.

Once his parents had left, Jason began to unpack his clothes. When that was done he unpacked his personal effects. A good deal of the pictures he had brought were of him and Courtney. Sure some of them included their other friends, but as long as someone was to look at his pictures, they would be able to tell that he was taken by the beautiful blonde. Jason went about strategically placing the pictures around his room. The picture that had been next to his bed at home was placed next to his bed in his room. He loved the way she looked in it, and waking up to her face, especially when she looked as happy and beautiful as she did in the picture, was an amazing feeling. He just wished it wasn’t a picture he was waking up to, but Courtney herself. When he was done organizing everything, Jason looked around the room. A smile graced his face as he realized that Courtney was seemingly everywhere in the room. Then he left the room to go get something to eat.

As Jason exited his room, he bumped into his next door neighbor. Okay, it wasn’t exactly his next door neighbor since they both had corner rooms but close enough.

“I’m sorry,” the man said.

“Don’t worry about it,” Jason said. “I was going to look for the cafeteria. Do you want to join me?”

“Sure,” the man said. The two walked off and started talking. Jason was on his way to making his first college friend.

Chapter 5:

Five days after Jason moved into his dorm, Courtney stomped around her room cleaning. She went back to school in a few days, and her parents had decided it was a good idea for her to clean everything in her room. It was because before he started school every year, whether it was PCHS or as it had been for the past few years PCU, Sonny had always done this. It made sense for the time he had been attending PCU, as he wasn’t living at home and had to bring everything he wanted with him, but when he was still in high school it made no sense. The only conclusion she could come to was that her brother was just plane weird. Why Carly wanted to marry him was beyond Courtney’s comprehension.

Despite her anger over the task at hand, her mind continued to think happy thoughts, as it continually drifted back to Jason. It wasn’t anything unusual though; her mind seemed to be doing that a lot lately. They hadn’t seen each other in six days, but they spoke at least once a day. Although she was adjusting to life with out Jason, she couldn’t help missing everything from his presence to the feel of his lips like crazy. The time they spent talking on the phone was by far the highlight of her day.

She stood at the entrance to her closet, putting stuff of hangers or shelves, as she searched her closet for the backpack, which was somewhere on the closet floor. Since she only had a few more days of glorious rest and relaxation, she decided it might not hurt to put it back on the nail on her bedroom wall. Courtney was standing on a chair trying to put something on the top shelf when she lost her footing and fell. Somehow Courtney managed to land in a sitting position.

Downstairs Janine heard the crash and yelled, “Is everything okay up there?”

“Yeah,” Courtney called down. She wasn’t lying; aside from the fact that it would hurt to sit down for a few days, she was fine. When Courtney found her backpack, she was surprised to see that there was still a binder in it. Glancing at the trash can by her desk, she noticed it was full so Courtney decided to stuff the binder in one of her desk drawers. The drawer Courtney chose was pretty full, but she didn’t think the binder would cause a problem.

“Damn it,” Courtney said when she noticed the drawer would only open an inch. Nothing was going right today. She attempted to pull papers from the binder out of the drawer, hoping the binder would close enough to open the drawer, take the binder out, and stuff the binder somewhere else, but she couldn’t stick the her fingers far enough into the drawer. What she needed was a pair of tweezers. Unfortunately, the tweezers were down in the kitchen, where Janine was. The last thing she needed was for her parents to find out she was cheating on the room cleaning. ‘Guess I’ll have to be creative,’ Courtney thought.

Ten minutes later Courtney was still trying to open the drawer when the phone rang. She picked it up only to be greeted by Jason’s voice. Finally something was going right.

“How are you?” Jason asked.

“Awful,” Courtney answered. She then explained everything that had gone wrong that day and Jason attempted to cheer her up. In Boston, Jason was thinking, ‘this would be much easier in person.’ Once Jason had succeeded, the couple talked about anything and everything until Janine threatened to take away Courtney’s phone privileges if she didn’t finish cleaning her room. Left with out a choice, Courtney and Jason regretfully said goodbye.

Chapter 6:

The next morning, Jason raced to get ready for class. He through his clothes on and grabbed a candy bar, which would have to serve as his breakfast since he had only a few minutes to get to his first biology class. Either he had forgotten to set his alarm or he had been so caught up in his dream about Courtney that he hadn’t heard it go off an hour ago. Whatever the cause he woke up ten minutes before class started.

He had finished getting dressed as well as eating the candy bar with six minutes to get to class. Hygiene would have to wait. ‘Oh well,’ he thought. ‘It’s not like I’m trying to impress anyone.’ As the clock continued to tick, Jason raced out of his dorm, down the five flights of stairs (he figured the elevator was too slow), down the street, and around the corner. He barely made it to class in time. Looking around the room he found his neighbor and newfound friend, Kyle, who motioned for Jason to take the vacant seat next to him.

“Where were you man,” Kyle asked.

“I overslept,” Jason said with a yawn. “Did I miss anything?”

“Nah,” Kyle replied. “The professor got here about a minute before you did.”

Before they had a chance to talk further, the professor began to speak. “Good morning and welcome to Introduction to Biology also known as BI-130501. My name is Professor Hill and I will be your instructor. Today, our first meeting, is in our smaller lab group for labs, which meets once a week; all three of these groups combine for the lecture once a week, the lab groups meet again with a TA once a week to go over the material in smaller groups. In this room you will have an assigned lab partner who you must sit with at all times.” The professor then went on to name the lab pairings. Jason was assigned to work with a girl named Samantha McCall, and Kyle was assigned to work with a woman named Amy White. Jason met up with Sam and they chose a lab bench in the middle of the second row.

The first thing that came to Sam’s mind when she met her lab partner was, ‘Wow, he’s hot.’ She was totally captivated by everything from his muscles to his tan, and she knew that she would soon find herself daydreaming about the man. Sam was thrilled to be working with him and hoped to become more than lab partners one day in the near future. They sat their in silence, as Sam waited for Jason to say something. After five minutes, she realized he wasn’t going to say anything. ‘He must be the strong, silent type. I like that in a man then again I also like men who are weak and talkative,’ she thought.

“I’m Sam,” she said breaking the silence.

“Jason,” he said. Now that the introduction was out of the way they began to converse. It wasn’t that Jason had a problem talking with people; it was just that he hated to be the one to break the ice. Still, the person he felt the most comfortable talking with was Courtney.

The professor had instructed them to exchange dorm info, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. As Jason was getting out a notebook to write down Sam’s contact information, a picture of Courtney fell out of his bag and onto the floor. Not noticing something was there; Sam shifted in her chair and stepped on the picture. Jason felt a surge of pain shoot through his body as Sam desecrated the picture. Although he knew that she hadn’t meant to step on it, he was still angry at Sam for doing so. Realizing she had stepped on something she picked it up and looked at it only to see a beautiful blonde.

“Who’s this?” Sam asked.

“My girlfriend, Courtney” Jason said. He smiled as soon as he said her name, which always seemed to do that to him.

‘He has a girlfriend,’ Sam thought bitterly. ‘This isn’t good.’ She needed more information so she could formulate a plan. “Is she here with you?” Sam asked.

“No,” Jason said sadly. “She’s back in Port Charles. She’s a year younger than us.”

‘A long distance relationship,” Sam thought. ‘This could work to my advantage.’ She spent the rest of class trying to think up ways to break Jason and Courtney up so she could have him to herself.

Chapter 7:

The next morning marked the first day of Courtney’s senior year. She got up extra early like she always did on the first day of school so that she could pick out the perfect outfit, but for some reason she didn’t care if she scrubbed it or if she wore nice clothes. In the end she opted on wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, a light pink tank top, and pink flip flops. Since she didn’t have an appetite, Courtney didn’t bother to eat breakfast. Her lack of appetite was because she was worried about what school would be like without Jason and wondered if his absence would ruin her senior year. Once Courtney was ready to leave, she got into her car and began to drive towards Port Charles High School. Driving to school was a new experience for her as for the past two years Jason had always driven her to and from school. A tear escaped her eye, smudging her makeup as Jason’s absence came to mind once again.

As Courtney was getting out of her car, she spotted Emily and ran up to her. “Hey,” she said.

“Hey,” Emily replied excitedly. “We’re seniors!!!!!!”

“I know,” Courtney replied. She was excited as well. Even if Jason wasn’t here with her, she was a senior. ‘How can this turn out to be a bad year when I’m a senior?’ she asked herself. ‘It can’t. It will be different, but still great.’ What Courtney didn’t know was that although she was right about her senior year being different from the years that had come before, she couldn’t have been more wrong about it being a great year. In fact, soon things would take a turn for the worse.

The girls then walked into the building and towards their lockers where they met up with Penny and Lois. The four girls were glad to see that they all had lunch together. Courtney had her first two classes with Emily. Lois was in her first and fourth class while Penny was in her second, fourth, and last class.

***

A few hours later Courtney stood in the lunch line in order to buy food. Standing in front of her was Jax. When he realized she was standing behind him, he turned around and started flirting with her. If that wasn’t bad enough he talked about how great they would be together and even had the nerve to imply that she should cheat on Jason with him. Courtney did her best to block him out so that she wouldn’t punch him. It wasn’t working, but she had to keep her cool; it was a bad idea to punch someone in the lunch line. Finally, she got her lunch and headed towards where her friends were sitting. Unfortunately, Jax followed her and refused to stop talking. The girls continually switched tables hoping that Jax would leave them alone. When there was only five minutes left in the period, one of Jax’s few friends called him over and Jax finally left them alone.

***

The rest of Courtney’s day was going fine until she reached her last class, English. The desks were arranged in a U shape and she sat down next to Penny. About a minute later Jax walked into the room and sat across from Courtney. His presence made the class unbearable. Courtney tried to pay attention to the teacher as he talked about the course, but it was not easy, as she was extremely uncomfortable. This was because Jax wasn’t paying attention to the teacher; instead he spent the entire class period staring at Courtney and her breasts.

If the class wasn’t bad enough, Jax followed Courtney from the classroom to her locker. Once her locker was closed, she turned around. Jax gently pushed her against her locker with his body and began to kiss her vehemently. His body was pressed against her and he slunk his hand up her shirt, into her bra, and began to massage her right breast. Courtney tried to push him off her but couldn’t.

Finally when he was done, Jax pulled away and said, “That was great. I can’t wait for more.”

Courtney grabbed her bag, ran to her, car, drove home, and ran to her room. She was crying the entire time. As much as she tried to she couldn’t help but feel awful and dirty because of what Jax had done. Part of her didn’t want Jason to know but the rest of her new that he needed to know. Besides, he always made her feel better. Once she had composed herself she called him.

“Hello,” Jason said when he picked up the phone.

“It’s me,” Courtney said as she held back tears.

“Hey baby,” Jason said noticing that she sounded upset. “How was your first day? Is everything okay?”

“Can you beat up Jax for me?” Courtney asked.

“What did he do?” Jason questioned. He had never liked Jax, especially since Jax never even sought to hide his crush on Courtney. Courtney explained everything. By the time she was done, she was crying hysterically. With every word, Jason grew angrier and his blood boiled more. He swore he’d get revenge and make sure Jax learned his place.