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Post by Kourtni on Apr 27, 2009 7:04:49 GMT -5
Aw, so, the two of them dancing together was too cute...in my opinion. I absolutely LOVE this, but I'm sure you knew that already. Hehe.
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Post by smile♥ on Apr 27, 2009 9:43:42 GMT -5
Hehe, Thanks! I'm glad you love it!
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Post by smile♥ on Apr 27, 2009 10:10:13 GMT -5
Yay! I was going to text you this morning and tell you that I posted some more last night because I still don't completely understand this whole ridiculous time difference thing and I thought you'd be asleep. Hahaha
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Post by Kourtni on Apr 27, 2009 22:29:24 GMT -5
Hehe, Thanks! I'm glad you love it! You're welcome!
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Post by xtedheadx on May 3, 2009 20:21:07 GMT -5
Does anyone know how exactly to find this site? My computer received a new hard drive and I lost my bookmarks along with everything. It took me days to find a link which I ended up finding in my mom's favorites..god knows why?
Well back to the present. I'm extremely antsy for Teddy to figure this out =] but I'm going to wait patiently and enjoy the updates as they come.
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Post by smile♥ on May 4, 2009 10:31:29 GMT -5
you can google Teddy Geiger message boards and you'll get this one ...thats what i do when i'm not at my own computer
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Post by live.love.laugh on May 4, 2009 21:13:36 GMT -5
jamie i need more!!!
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Post by smile♥ on May 5, 2009 11:39:57 GMT -5
i know, i know! i'm working on more now though! so soooon...
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Post by smile♥ on May 5, 2009 23:39:27 GMT -5
"It's a world of laughter, a world or tears. Its a world of hopes, its a world of fear. Theres so much that we share that its time we're aware, its a small world after all..." -- Disney 'Its a Small World' 10
That night, I dreamt I was sixteen again and it was summer. I was in Chicago with my aunt and I was at the very top of the ferris wheel at Navy Pier. The view was amazing. Just as I'd remembered it. Teddy was next to me, staring out over the water quietly. I knew this scene. It was the day he told me that they were leaving earlier than they had expected.
"Should be a good time," he had remarked sarcastically about the long car ride home.
Then he turned to me and handed me a piece of paper that I learned had his email address on it. I gave him one of those shy, flirty smiles that only happen when you're sixteen and head over heels for a summer crush.
I felt the sun, warm on my cheeks, causing a glare in my eyes, and my memories were soon replaced with the interior of my bedroom. The sunlight streamed in between the blinds, and I rolled out of bed to open them before I hopped in the shower.
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"You ready to go?" Justin called out over the apartment. We were going to look at houses.
"Not yet, I've been trying to get a hold of Emma, but her phone must be off because its going straight to voice mail," I said as I hung up my phone and tossed it on the bed. "I want her to go with us."
There was a familiar knock on my door that only belonged to Emma. I jogged down the hallway to let her in.
"I've been trying to call you for an hour!" I laughed as I let her in. She stood there in front of my anxiously, playing with her hands.
"I - Tucker kissed me," she blurted out and her face started to turn red. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know he was going to... And I kissed back and I'm so sorry, I never wanted to do that to you. And I wanted to tell you before you left last night, but I didn't get the chance so I just left him there and went home. I'm so sorry."
"Emma," I laughed. "Breathe. Its ok."
"It is?"
I nodded and smiled, "I was kind of upset at first, but not at you, because I knew better, but then I realized that it kind of made sense. You two together. You make an insanely cute couple."
She blushed. "Thanks. But we're not a couple."
"Not yet," I laughed as Justin cleared his throat in the kitchen. "And anyway, a wise friend opened my eyes to the fact that Tucker isn't my type. And they were right."
She laughed as she watched Justin smiling smugly from his position on the counter. So he had been right. Big deal. He has known me since... forever.
"Ok, let's get going," I said.
"Where are we going?"
"To look at houses. I'm getting kicked out of my apartment, remember?" I laughed as I linked arms with her and Justin, pulling them out of my apartment.
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This is it. This is perfect. I can see myself living here. I stared at the small yellow house. Sure it needs a new roof, and the porch is in need of major repair, and the narrow gravel driveway is overgrown with weeds, but it will be perfect. It will be my house.
"Are you sure this is the one you want?" Justin asked as he looked down the street, across the two acres that separated my future house from the house that Matt Saracen used to live in with his grandmother, now he's married and his mom lives there with her. He visits her everyday.
I nodded. "This is it."
"Ok," he laughed as he pulled out his cell phone and dialed the number on the for sale sign in the front yard. "This is a total steal," he said when he hung up. "He's on his way now so we can make an offer."
I felt nervous and excited and happy. I had made this decision all on my own. I'm going to be a homeowner. I walked through the house one last time to check everything out a second time, just to make sure there wasn't anything I missed the first time. This wallpaper will have to go.
By five o'clock that evening, I was officially the owner of a small yellow house on Wildflower Road.
- - - -
"I'm a homeowner," I said proudly as I talked to Not Saying later that night.
"Thats a big responsibility," he replied. "But totally awesome."
"I know, I'm excited." I smiled to myself. "So what's up with you?"
"Me and my friend are going to this bar... I can't remember the name of it. But first, he's insisting that I have to have a Swizzler from the Alamo Freeze."
Did he just say Swizzler? From the Alamo Freeze? He's in Dillon?
"Oh. That sounds like fun," I said awkwardly as I felt my heart nearly beat out of my chest.
"Yeah, should be a good time." There it was. That was what was so familiar.
"What's the name of the bar you're going to?"
"I think he's making me go to a strip club, actually," he laughed. "The Landing Strip? I think... I'm going to suggest something else... Like this bar we went to the other night."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, his date was pretty mad at him though because he wouldn't dance with her, so I did." He told me. Surely the world was not this small.
"Thats nice," I said.
"Yeah, she's pretty cool. I've met her somewhere before."
"On the road maybe?" I suggested.
"No, before all this," I could see him shaking his head and thinking hard about where he had seen this girl before. "But I can't place it, ya know? I hate it when this happens."
I let out a nervous laugh. "Yeah me too."
"Tucker's ready to go, soo..."
"Later, Not Saying." I laughed.
"Later, Lyla."
"Justin!" I yelled loudly. "I want a swizzler!"
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miss_laughter
Underage Thinker
"and so the lion fell in love with the lamb..."
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Post by miss_laughter on May 6, 2009 1:41:15 GMT -5
Amazing. Simply amazing!
just so you know, I always read your updates; however, I don't always have the time to respond. sucky. I know.
I have loved loved LOVED all your past chapters so far and I cannot wait for more!! ;D
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Post by smile♥ on May 6, 2009 10:17:29 GMT -5
thanks!
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Post by Kourtni on May 6, 2009 11:31:59 GMT -5
Aw, she got a house of her own! That's so cool. And the ending where her heart was like beating real fast, loved that whole part! This is one amazing story!
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Post by live.love.laugh on May 6, 2009 19:13:25 GMT -5
amazingly done! woot!
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Post by Kourtni on May 13, 2009 9:00:18 GMT -5
I miss this. =(
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Post by smile♥ on May 14, 2009 8:36:07 GMT -5
"I don't wanna be lonely no more, I don't wanna have to pay for this, I don't want to know the lover at my door, Is just another heartache on my list..." -- Rob Thomas 'Lonely No More' 11
"So how was your night?" I asked him the next day as we talked on the phone.
"It was ok. I'm not much of a stripper guy, but Tucker had fun," This was the first time he had told me who he was staying with, and I wondered if he had realized he had just told me. "What about you?"
"Oh, well, ya know. Justin and I ate dinner and then we went to Home Depot to look at stuff for the house."
I thought back to the Alamo Freeze the night before, when I had watched Teddy walked in so calmly, so carelessly, as if he didn't have a clue about me.
After they had ordered, he had come over to our table to talk to us - and to get away from the cashier who had been trying to flirt with him the whole time. He gave me a smile as he sat down, but it didn't give anything away. It could have been just an ordinary simple smile.
"You guys should join us," Teddy had suggested after telling us his and Tucker's plans, but Justin spoke up.
"We're actually going to Home Depot. Plus, I'm not exactly welcome there anymore." Teddy gave him a look and he just shrugged.
"Well, at least give me your numbers and if you're done at Home Depot when we decide to go over to the bar, you guys can come."
"I don't have a cell phone." Justin said, and I saw a look of surprise on Teddy's face. I guess he thought everybody had a cell phone these days.
"Here," I said, picking up an clean napkin with the Alamo Freeze logo on it and writing my number down. "I'm not making any promises though. Fixing up a house takes a lot of thought and a lot of decisions, so we'll probably be up all night."
He nodded and smiled. "Ok, well, just in case."
"I had a burger and some ice cream last night from that place Tucker made me go to. It was pretty good." He said. "I saw that girl I was talking about before. But she was with this guy. I don't think he's her boyfriend, but he sure does worship the ground she walks on."
"Oh?" I didn't know what to say to this. Sure, I knew Justin still had feelings for me, and I sort of still felt the same way as well, but I didn't think it was obvious to everyone around us.
"Yeah. She'd be crazy not to get back together with him."
"Well maybe she's afraid of getting hurt again." I said, wondering if he really did know who I was. He had done a pretty good job so far of playing it cool if he did.
"What about you?" He asked curiously. "Are you and your man ever going to get back together?"
"I have the same worries as the girl you were talking about," I said, just in case he didn't know... "I might get hurt again."
"Again?"
"It was a long time ago..." I didn't like talking about it.
"Tell me anyway."
"Ok, so we had been dating for a while and it was close to graduation and prom and all that stuff. I started hearing rumors that he was cheating on me, and everybody would stare at me in the halls. And I asked him about it one day and he denied it. So I believed him.
"Well, one day, this girl, Anna comes up to me and asks me how I'm doing since the break up and the news." I sighed. "I didn't know what she was talking about me and she said something about how Justin and her had been together for a while and she was pregnant now. She had said that he had told her he and I were broke up, but we weren't - at least he had never said we were broke up and I wasn't planning on breaking up with him."
"So what did you go?"
"I went over to his house after school... Her car was in the driveway. I let myself in and I could hear her giggling in his bedroom. His brother was on the couch asleep, but when I walked in, it woke him up. When I opened the door, they were lying on his bed together, kissing and making out. I turned around and walked off."
"Did he come after your or anything?"
"Yeah... And I punched him in the face." I laughed. "He had a black eye for two weeks."
"Remind me to not ever make you mad at me," he laughed, and I couldn't help but laugh as well.
"But I was depressed and all that, so I would just rather not go through that all again."
"Oh, well.. Maybe things are different now. Was the girl really pregnant?"
"No, she just said that. She was a pathological liar."
"See... Maybe things are different now. You should give him a chance." But the sound of sadness in his voice told me he didn't mean what he was saying.
"But... What if there's this other guy that I am interested in?"
"How do you know this other guy is interested in you?"
"Because I've known him for a while. We talk a lot, and it just feels right, ya know?" I wondered if he knew that I was talking about him.
"Lyla... I..." He did understand. "I can't."
"Why?"
"I have to go. I'll talk to you later, Lyla." But I knew he wouldn't call again. I could just feel it.
"Bye." I said flatly.
"Don't say bye... Bye is for people who will never see each other again."
"Bye." I said, and then I hung up.
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He didn't call again. So I went back to the old me. The boring, predictable me, who worked, went out with Justin, and insisted to my best friend that I was fine when I really wasn't.
I had offered to help Justin with the house, since I didn't have anything better to do, but he told me no, so for a month and a half, I didn't even see the place. He made sure to keep me far away from it so that I wouldn't be tempted to help.
Then finally, one day, he slipped an old faded blue bandana over my eyes and helped me into his truck. I knew where he was taking me. The house was finished.
"Ok, now," he said after he had led me to the middle of the front yard. I pushed the bandana down around my neck and I saw it.
It was amazing. He had painted it blue instead of keeping the yellow color, and the porch was bigger now. It extended the whole length of the house, and on one end, he had installed a hammock to remind him of being at the beach - his second favorite place in the world.
"I love it," I told him.
"You haven't seen the inside yet," he laughed and pushed me inside. There was all new carpet and fresh paint on the walls. The kitchen appliances had been updated and the floor replaced. Even my bedroom looked amazing with a coat of sea foam green colored paint.
"I love it," I said again, and I did something I never thought I would do again. I kissed him.
Maybe it was the heat of the moment. Or maybe I was thinking that Teddy had been right, I should get back together with Justin. But I knew I didn't want to feel lonely anymore. So I threw all my worries about heartache out the window. And maybe something about it did feel right, but nobody could have been more surprised than me when I woke up next to him in the apartment the next morning.
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