Inspiration [[Fan Fiction]]

[smile♥]

OK, its so awesome that Meghan is on Ted's side.
It will be interesting to see them try to ditch Daniel... hehehe

[XO_Emmaline]

I'm baaaack

Chapter Fifteen: Long Lost Present

I quickly showered and changed into sweatpants and a tank top, I felt the laziness creep in as I decided to skip drying my hair and putting in contacts. For now my glasses would do just fine.

I took advantage of the fact that no one was in the apartment as I stepped out of the shower. I ran over to our sound system and started playing wildly loud dance music, I danced like the freak I was over to my closet and pulled out the box, it was time to reminisce.

I walked into my still room and went over to the closet, I could still hear the music in the background and I could feel my pulse beating fiercely in my hands. Now was the time to pull back the memories. It was now or never.

My fingers trembled as I slowly slid the dusty cardboard box full of memories out in front of me. On top of the box was one of the many infamous Teddy hoodies. It was one that I had bought him for Christmas from American Eagle, which he had wanted to refuse. Too bad I never let him refuse anything I offer him. I picked it up and could still smell his distinct scent on the fibers. It was indescribable how Teddy smelt. It was the most amazing thing I’d ever smelt in my life. If I could, I would bury myself in the way he smells and stay there forever.

I smiled and pulled the hoodie over my frizzy curls; I picked up the heavy box the best I could and brought it out into the living room.

The air seemed a bit stiffer, and I felt like it was getting harder to breathe; I walked over to the stereo and shut it off with the click of a button and opened up a window a crack, letting the crisp air welcome my suffocating lungs.

It probably wasn’t the smartest idea to be looking through this stuff, but it needed to be done. I know that I need to except that Teddy’s a part of my life.

And I’m tired of acting like a b****.

I squeezed my eyes shut as I randomly stuck my hand in the box, it was kind of like that fishing game for little kids at fairs, they put the “fishing pole” behind the sheet and you don’t know what you’re going to get, you’re just standing there, praying that it’s not something stupid.

Or at least in my case, something painful. It mind sound kind of strange, but in the entire six years that I’ve had this wonderful box that my brother sent me, I still haven’t looked through it. I would always get a little ways inside of it and would give up, not wanting to remember. But now, now I wanted to remember, I wanted to at least allow myself to remember one section of my past.

After reaching into the bottom and waiting until I found something unfamiliar, I pulled my hand out, and saw something that I had never seen before. It was a leather bound book, and let me tell you, this thing was absolutely stunning. Over the cover was the title, simply marked “Memories”. I could smell the leather wafting up to my nose and I opened the cover gently; it sounded as if it hadn’t been opened in a long time (…Duh?), and a note fell into my lap.

My dearest Chrissy (Don’t you love me trying to be poetic? [[Insert laughter here]]),

I know you left, your brother told me about a few hours after he sent you off on the airplane. I must say that I don’t agree with your choice, but if you have to leave, I can only hope that you’re happy in your new life. We all miss you here, but I probably miss you the most.

Just know that I’ll always be here for you, and that I don’t want things to be bitter between us; I hope we can at least become friends.

Well, after your brother told me about your departure, I tried my hardest to get where you were out of him. I kind of failed at that, but he did agree to send you a present from me, so here it is.

It’s basically an entire photo album of us. Random pictures that you took of me and random pictures that I took of you, even some really bizarre random ones.

I hope you enjoy it.

LOL (Lots of Love)

Theodore x3

I set the paper aside and picked up the heavy book again. It was fairly thick, and I knew that there were probably hundreds of Candid shots of us in here. It was hard to believe how sweet he was after I left, and of course, then when I find him, I act like a complete b****.

He makes me feel worse than I did before right now.

I picked up the leather cover and opened it softly, wondering if I really wanted to look through all of the photos.

Of course I did.

The first pages of photos were all really random ones that he had taken of me in our senior year. It was back when I had straightened my hair everyday and had light blue streaks going through my hair. In one of the pictures I was holding a sign that said “I <3 my Teddy Bear!” and had a smiley face on it. The rest of the pictures were when I weren’t paying attention and were surprisingly good. Teddy and I were just good with cameras. It was kind of creepy.

That’s probably how we ended taking a ton of photography classes as electives instead of Speech and Drama, like we were supposed to. I hated public speaking anyways. I could talk and be loud around people I knew, but then when I’m around a ton of people I don’t know, I get shy.

Another thing about the pictures is that they were all edited in Photoshop. Not edited as in “Oh my god, your face is so incredibly fake!”, but it was lighting changes and fading in some spots. And then there were the incredibly amazing ones where he would make everything black and white except for something random in my background.

One picture stuck out to me on the entire page though, it was one that I had taken while I was sitting in the back seat of his parents’ car and he was in the passenger seat, I was messing with his camera when I took one random snapshot. It showed both of us through the side mirror, both our eyes were incredibly serious, but now he had edited it even further. Everything in the picture, except for the mirror and everything inside of it had been turned black and white.

It was as if we were the only two in the world.

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Thoughts? Feelings?

Constructive criticism is advised. :]

[smile♥]

Thats totally awesome!
I love that she's going back and looking over her past.
Now all she needs to do is apologize to Teddy and they can live happily ever after!!
Hahaha

[miss_laughter]

That was incredable!
Wow. Total blast from the past for her.
I would love if my boyfriend did that for me, but I'm usually the one taking all the pictures. lol

I seriously can't wait for more! ;D
♥

[XO_Emmaline]

The next chapter is like... the MOB. :]
as in.... Teddy gets ATTACKED.

but its kind of funny. and written terribly.
because this stuff is like.... a year old.

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He gets attacked in a good way?
Or like he's walking down the street and someone mugs him?
LOL
You say everything you've posted is written terribly, but I think its great!

[XO_Emmaline]

ummmm.... you'll see what i mean by attacked. :]

and it is pretty bad, my writing has matured GREATLY since writing this stuff.

[XO_Emmaline]

Major Warning: The next chapters kind of suuuuuck. In my opinion.
I want to re-write this all over again. =|

ANYWAYS.... Read. And Enjoy. It's kind of short though.

Chapter Sixteen: Stalkers

I watched Meghan dig through Billy’s desk, she was looking quite frazzled as she started slamming shut drawers and opening up new ones, you could tell she was frustrated; if she didn’t find whatever she was looking for soon, she would probably kick something really hard.

“Billy knows what Chrissy’s favorite type of Chinese is… but I can’t find the notebook that he keeps that kind of stupid stuff in. Like, he writes down a ton of random stuff about the Seventeen staff, it’s insane.” She looked up at me and then took her cell phone out of her purse.

“Crab Meat Rangoon, either get that or McDonald’s fries with a vanilla shake.” It was sad that after six years I still knew what her favorite fast foods were. They could’ve changed, but you never know. “Oh, and she’s absolutely in love with scones… and cupcakes. Let’s get a variety of crap, and then she’ll definitely love us.” I walked over to the other side of the room and sank down into one of Billy’s comfortable chairs.

“… You amaze me, Teddy. How do you even know that? Wait… stupid question, nevermind.” She picked up her purse and tugged on my arm to get out of the chair.

I guess it’s time to leave.

We walked through the lobby and out the door, letting the cold air hit us with a shock; we walked through the streets quickly, trying to get to the first store possible. We finally found a small ice cream shop on the side of the street and walked inside, hoping that they would have Chrissy’s favorite concoction.

“Do you guys have Birthday Party ice cream?” my voice was slightly muffled as I spoke, I was just hoping that they had it, otherwise we were going to have to go somewhere else to find good, quality ice cream.

“OH. MY. GOD. IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS STEPH?” I froze as I heard a shrill, teenage girl’s voice drift from the front of the store. Now I remember why I should’ve worn a hat. And sunglasses. And a scarf.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my fans, and they most definitely aren’t annoying or anything, but it sounds like a group of girls… a very large group of girls. Oh, and there’s the fact that I don’t have a sharpie with me.

I turned around slowly and saw that I was right. Suddenly, there was a huge swarm of girls in the ice cream shop, all looking at me with wide eyes and hopeful smiles.

Oh, the joys of my life.

“Holy. f***.” Meghan was looking at my frantically, trying to figure out what the hell we were going to do with all of these people standing around us.

That’s actually a pretty good question.

“Uhh… Do you guys have a back way out?” I turned around to the guy at the ice cream counter who looked excited by all the costumers, yet at the same time, very worried about the fact that he would probably run out of ice cream. He looked at me as if finally realizing who I was.

“Yeah, but I’m not allowed to let costumers use it; seeing as you’re Teddy Geiger and you bought some ice cream, I’ll just let you through. Especially seeing this… problem.” Meghan and I slid underneath the counter and all of the girls looked at us with their mouths open, I wasn’t one to run away from fans, but I had melting ice cream and a girl problem to try and fix.

We quickly ran out the back way with the help of the ice cream guy and started walking down the street at a fast-set pace, trying to weave in between the busy shoppers and tourists spread out through the streets.

“GET HIM!” Meghan turned her head sharply and then grabbed my arm and broke out in a dead set sprint toward her apartment, the fan girls weren’t going to give up just yet. I started pushing myself to run faster, and I knew that Meghan was behind me, but not very far.

We were just out of reach from the apartment, and they were gaining on us fast, the traffic of the tourists was working in their favor as we pushed through the crowd the best we could.

“f***. I lost a shoe. d**n! Those were freaking expensive!” I looked down to see her running with one bare foot; she would’ve had time to go get her other shoe, but then I wouldn’t be able to get into the apartment. Well, Crystal wouldn’t let me in, that’s for sure.

“I’ll buy you new ones, I swear, just keep running. We HAVE to make it back to the apartment before we die.” I kept on running, half pulling Meghan along with me.

“Jesus Christ! Are they like Cross Country runners or something? That’s definitely not fair!” I turned my head slightly to see how far back they were, and the odds weren’t looking very good for us.

I felt a tugging at my clothes and went under in the crowd, ice cream first.

[smile♥]

I loved it!
I thought it was hilarious!
Revenge of the Super Fans!
Haha
More soon?

[XO_Emmaline]

Haha. maaaaybe. :]

and I like this chapter. at least the plot of it.

although it would suck to go get ice cream and get mobbed.
this makes me feel horrible for the Jonas Brothers.

[smile♥]

Haha, yeah it would be terrible to be taken down by a mob when you've got the delicious goodness of ice cream in your hands.
I'd have to stand up and fight back.
hehe

[XO_Emmaline]

Hahahaha. But Ted wouldn't. He's too nice.

And the specific type of ice cream that they had.
Is delicious. Birthday Party ice cream is like... heaven.

unless your lactose intolerant.
then.... I'm sorry you can't taste the delicious-ness.

[miss_laughter]

holy monkeys!
they lost their ice cream..that's just a sad day in itself.
and that totally sucks they were chased.
super psycho fans are scary! I feel bad for all celebrities who have had run-ins like that with fans.

can't wait for the next update!

[XO_Emmaline]

Chapter Seventeen: Listen to the Thunder

I finished looking through that wretched photo album.

Yeah, it might have taken me around, oh, I don't know, three hours, but I did it. Each photo brought up a certain memory, or something slightly hilarious between the two of us.

I missed us. I missed us very terribly.

I still can't believe that Teddy had given it to me... well, more like the fact that I hadn't seen it until now. I had basically given up on photography since I left Rochester, it was just one more connection that I had to Teddy.

One more connection that I really didn't need.

Picking up a camera again would just bring back everything that I was trying so hard to forget. I knew remembering how Teddy and I were behind the camera would break me apart completely; we were both so consumed inside of what we were trying to capture, that essence. It was as if a fire had ignited inside our bodies. A fire that couldn't be put out. And to both of us, nothing meant more than capturing that one hidden meaning that no one else could find.

Of course, we were both extremely bizarre kids. Neither of us were necessarily considered "normal". Or, at least, we didn't fit inside the popular-perfection-cookie-cutter. Whether he was dissecting Teddy Grahams in class, or if I was being loud; it always seemed to drive certain people up the wall.

There was only one very specific difference between us.

It wasn't very specific either.

I could never focus on anything for more than two seconds, not unless I found it interesting. But Teddy? Oh, man, Teddy could focus on something; you would just have to ask. Maybe you would have to ask twice, but he would pay attention... eventually.

Flashback

The dark clouds were starting to settle in and I could silently hear the thunder coming from a few miles. Most people thought that I was insane for loving to run out in the rain. To dance, sing, just... go crazy.

Of course, Teddy didn't think that.

Okay, I'm lying. He did at first, but then I made him stay with me through a storm.

He ended up falling in love with me even more than he already was.

What can I say? I'm addictive.

We were walking side by side, hardly paying attention to where the other one was walking, our hands were of course, linked together as we randomly bumped into each other.

Somehow being with Teddy always set me at a peaceful calm; he was just always so laid back, which was incredibly hard for me to do. I didn't know what I wanted with my life, I didn't know where I was going, my parents yelled at me, most of my family hated me. No one could really help me.

Not until Teddy came along.

He always seemed to make me feel better about my life.

He basically was my life.

I let go of Teddy's hand and started running, farther into the horizon, as far as my legs would carry me. I could run for a long time if I set my mind to it, but now I just decided to run until Teddy caught up.

Which of course, by catching up, he tackled me straight to the ground.

I started laughing as we rolled down the hill together; he was tickling me, making it harder for me to breathe.

"Teddy? I need to ask you something." I was turning serious, which wasn't like me, but lately I had been dwelling on something extremely bothersome. I just... didn't understand.

"What's wrong Crystal?" He was laying down now and my head was resting on his stomach, moving along with him as he breathed. It was soothing.

"Why...? Actually, never mind. It was a stupid question anyways." I rolled over onto my side so he could see my face, and he took one of my hands in his, feeling the smoothness of my palm against his.

"Tell me. You know if you don't tell me I'm going to assume something. Something extremely horrible, too." He reached his hand over to stroke my cheek and I sat up, stretching forward.

"What's the point of lying to someone if they're going to find out eventually? I know it's random but... oh, never mind, it's just another stupid problem with my family. I'd rather not thing about that right now. Good thing I still have Alex on my side.

"Even if he did get kicked out of the house." I pushed myself onto my feet and then held out for my hands to help pull Teddy up playfully.

"Right now I'd rather act like I was three and run through the field holding your hand." I gave him a wink and started running away, leaving him in my dust.

"Chrissy! No fair! You're supposed to wait!" I was giggling as I turned around, watching him come after me. Of course I was going to let him catch me, it was always more interesting that way.

I felt him wrap his arms around my hips and pull me up into the air, I squealed as he started spinning us around and around, making the whole world blend in with everything.

Suddenly, everything had changed.

We saw the first strike of lightning and stopped goofing around. Teddy's face was in complete awe as the rain started to pour down on us, everything started to go chaotic as the wind started to blow, threatening to rip a few plants out of the ground.

"Whoa." Teddy grabbed my hand and started twirling me around, going back to being silly.

"Whoa is most definitely an understatement." I wrapped my arms around his neck and gave him a kiss on the lips.

"I'm going to repeat what I said before. WHOA."

We both started laughing, letting the rain fall.

End of Flashback

I picked up my giant purse from the kitchen counter and found a pair of flip-flops. I didn't care how cold it was, I need shoes that I could put on easily. I pushed open the door and walked out of my apartment building silently, as if waiting for something.

And then I saw them, standing in the middle of the street. It was hard not to smile as I saw them, really.

It was Teddy and Meghan, both covered in Birthday Party ice cream, what a pleasant surprise.

"I'm glad you both know that I needed ice cream, but really, did you have to cover yourselves in it?" I was trying not to laugh as Teddy picked up a handful and chucked it at my arm.

For once, it actually hit me.

"You know what Chrissy? Meghan and I don't really like crazy people anymore. Now, can I take a shower in your apartment to get all of this crap off of me?" His voice was in monotone and he had no emotions written on his face.

"Sure, but let me do this first." I reached forward and took some of the ice cream off of his face and then tasted it, smiling the entire time. "It tastes delicious, just as always." With that being said, we all walked back into the apartment building, looking forward to be clean.

[miss_laughter]

YAY! she was actually nice to him!
hooooooray! ;D
we might be getting at something here.

let's wait and see...

p.s. fan-tab-ulous update my dear!