Luke Pell was on the chopping block during Monday night's Rose Ceremony on The Bachelorette, but his last-second love admission sent JoJo Fletcher down a spiral of confusion and emotion.
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"Because of airline delays I flew into Texas the morning of our date, so if anyone was in the Austin airport that day they can blame me for any restroom lines! I ended up having to curl my hair and do all of my makeup in the airport bathroom (yes I was one of thoooose people). But hey! I had to look cute for my cowboy, right?!" Fletcher wrote in her People blog.
"Going into Luke's hometown, something I was hoping [for was to] reconnect on that feeling I had on our first one-on-one. I felt like he and I had reached this emotional depth so much faster then any of my other guys. And to be honest I felt I had kind of lost this over the past few weeks."
Fletcher felt Pell's hometown date was the time their connection "would come back" to them.
"Meeting Luke in his hometown square was so surreal! I absolutely loved it. What you didn't see in the episode was a lot of familiar faces for Luke. Every corner we turned there was someone he embraced with a warm hug or a firm handshake," Fletcher explained.
"It was either his childhood teacher or his neighbor or his boss from his summer jobs in high school. Seeing how deep his roots were in this hometown community made me more and more excited to see him with his family."
Fletcher then thought the drive to his family's home was "unbelievably beautiful," however, she noticed all the cars parked outside and thought "something was up."
"I would be lying if I said I wasn't totally nervous about walking into a huge party of Luke's closest friends and family. He could have warned me! I remember shaking in those cute cowgirl boots he got me when I walked up. But just as quickly has those nerves had come -- they washed away. I felt so welcomed and right at home. This is the kind of future I dream about," Fletcher said.
Fletcher was unfortunately a tad disappointed though watching Monday night's episode unfold on television.
"Watching back and hearing Luke speak about our relationship with his family I almost wish he could have been so open with me. Hearing him say he was falling in love with me in interview but not saying it to me at the end of our date killed me," Fletcher confessed.
"I remember thinking, 'If you're so confident in a future, why aren't you as confident in your feelings?'"
Fletcher cried with Pell when he told her that she had his heart, and when he asked if they were happy tears, she assured him they were. However, in her blog, the Bachelorette told the truth.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOW"When I started to cry, it was because I was so terrified that this wasn't feeling as right as I expected it to feel. And everything I saw for me and Luke's future started to crumble in my mind," Fletcher said.
Once everyone flew back to Los Angeles, the Rose Ceremony commenced right in an airport hangar.
"This Rose Ceremony was the absolute hardest one yet. I walked into that airplane hangar with such anxiety because I was about to send Luke home. I thought in the beginning of this journey -- because of our first one-on-one and our connection -- that he would be one of my final guys," Fletcher wrote.
"But if this experience has taught me anything, it is that you really have to take each relationship day by day. Because you really don't know how it will end up evolving. I was ready to make this painful, but in my mind, right decision. That is, until Luke pulled me aside."
Pell told Fletcher in that moment that he loved her, and then she walked away bawling her eyes out, not knowing whom to eliminate from her Final 4 suitors.
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