By: OrchidPrincess 1010

A VERY IMPORTANT A/N- This story takes place on the day Bridget was to leave Brown (she graduated)

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters you recognize; they all belong to Ann Brashares

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Chapter One: Bridget's Memories

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Bridget layed down on her average-sized bed staring at the white ceiling. Everything these past 5 years have been tremendously exciting and overwhelming. Bridget started to remember all the good and bad times she had experienced. Everything passed by so fast. From the first summer Carmen, Lena and Tibby and I have separated for the first time to now, I wish I could just slow down time. Bridget sighed as she slowly went through all the vivid memories; the summer she messed up with Eric, Lena had met Kostos in Greece, Tibby's friend Bailey had died, Carmen had met her dad's family, she had lost herself over the second summer, re-meeting Billy again, visiting her grandma Greta, Lena's heart breaking relationship with Kostos, Carmen's new brother Ryan, Tibby's relationship with Brian, her re-encounter with Eric in Baja, her first day at Brown (her college) and much, much more. It has been more than three years since Bridget has contacted Eric. They had broken up due to the fact that they could only spend 1 day a year together because Eric was the professional coach coaching the "Kickers" and had to travel around the world. As Bridget was deep in her thoughts, she decided to phone Tibby. Tibby picked up on the first ring.

"Hello?" answered Tibby

"Hi Tibs!" exclaimed Bridget

"Hi Bee! How are you?" asked Tibby

"Oh, I was just reliving those wonderful and heartbreaking memories" Bee replied.

"What a cheesy line." Tibby replied, laughing. "So are you coming back home after you graduate from college?"

"My life is a cheesy line" Bridgey laughed in reply. "Definitely, I'll be back home after I graduate. But I have to visit Greta first in Alabama. I'll come back home 2 weeks. Okay?"

"Sure"

"How is your movie going?" Bridget asked. Tibby had dropped out of college because she didn't like their way of teaching video producing. Instead, small video companies have hired Tibby to make direct videos for them.

"I'm not doing so well Bee. Brian and I have just gotten into this gigantic fight because he wanted me to move to Pittsburgh with him. I'm not ready for that yet." Tibby sighed.

"Go for what you want Tibby. Don't let others stand in the way of following your heart"

"Haha, another cheesy line from the oh-so cheesy Bridget Vreeland."

"Hey!" Bridget replied, feigning hurt.

"Anyways, okay. Thanks Bumblebee for the cheesy advice. I have to go now. Someone's been ringing my doorbell for ages"

"I think you've been eating too much cheese. Maybe that's the explanation for all your cheesy remarks" Bridget said teasingly.

"Ha. Ha. Ha. That was so funny I forgot to laugh." Tibby replied teasingly back.

"Okay, bye. I'll see you next week okay?" replied Bridget.

"Buh- Bye!!!"

Bridget flopped back down on the bed and continued to stare at the ceiling. 2 more hours until her graduating ceremony and her freedom will come.

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Sighing, Bridget picked up her bags and headed toward the airport taking one last look at her college dorm. The highly anticipated graduating ceremony was over and it was just as emotional as her graduating one from high school.

"Bye" Bridget whispered to her dorm room. She went to say goodbye to all her friends before leaving Brown forever.

Feeling as though her heart had dropped 30 centimeters down her body, she glanced at Brown one last time before she drove herself to the airport. When Bridget arrived at the airport, she hopped on the plane and started flying down to Alabama to visit Greta.

The second she reached her airplane seat, Bridget put on the hood of her hoodie and fell asleep, thoroughly exhausted. She had spent almost all night at the graduating party with her friends the night before. She had gotten a maximum of 3 hours of sleep that night. Now, she decided she needed the time to catch up on some much-needed sleep.

1 hour later Bridget woke up feeling some-what refreshed. She suddenly decided to clean out her purse out of pure boredom. Dumping everything on the table, she went through all her things. Soon after, Bridget came across this picture of her and her sisterhood. Memories once again flooded her as she realized how much she had missed her sisters. Frantically wiping away her wet eyes, Bridget scolded herself silently and told herself that she would be seeing them again in two weeks. She then quickly put all her stuff neatly back into her purse.

Slowly, Bridget felt tears drop down her face. But this time, it wasn't because she missed her Sisters. This time, it was because she would never come back to Brown ever again. She quickly turned toward the window to hide her face. Bridget didn't want to let anyone see her cry.

After 2 minutes of letting her tears drop freely down her face she felt someone's hand on her knee. Wiping away her tears quickly, she looked to see who it was.

Billy. It was Billy. Bridget let out a gasp and quickly looked out the window again to make sure she wasn't dreaming. Slowly she reminded herself that she was acting like a fool so she straightened up her face. Billy's hand was still grasping her knee. She turned around and smiled at him. Trying to act composed, Bridget said calmly, "Hi Billy, it's really nice to see you again."

Billy took his hand of Bridget's knee and looked into her face. "Bee? Is it really you? I wasn't sure. Gosh, I haven't seen you for years. You look beautiful, like I just saw you five years ago. I was just thinking about what has become of the Great Bee and there you were looking out the window. How's it going? Are you going to Alabama? Of course your going to Alabama, Your in a plane going to Alabama. It's so cool how we met on a plane." Billy said excitedly in one breath.

Bridget giggled. Billy looked more mature but he was still the same old, over-excited Billy she knew as a kid. He still looked as gorgeous as ever though. Smiling, Bridget replied, "Calm down Billy. We have 1 hour until the plane lands. We can talk." Hugging Billy, Bridget also added, "I missed you a lot. We haven't seen each other ever since the second summer (AN- Okay, let's just say that Billy already knows about how Bridget refers to her summers)."

Billy replied, grinning, "I missed you too. So tell me, what have you been doing in all these years?"

Bridget immediately started telling Billy about Brown, her soccer team, her college friends, her "sisters", and how she missed Brown already. However, Bridget left out the parts about Eric and her relationship with him even though they had broken up years ago.

Billy proceeded into filling her up about how her grandma's been doing and how his team won the state championship 1 year ago. It seemed that Billy was just returning back home to Alabama too. They both had avoided the subject about relationships.

Before they knew it, the airplane landed. Billy and Bridget had been so caught up into filling each other in on stuff that they barely noticed the plane had landed. When the plane was empty, Bridget and Billy were still blabbing on about their life. The flight attendant had to tell them the plane had already landed. Grinning sheepishly, they walked hand in hand out of the aircraft.

After Bridget and Billy both had their bags, Billy suddenly turned and looked into Bridget's eyes. He told her seriously "Bee, I couldn't stop thinking about you, and all this time, I've been wondering if you have a boyfriend or if you still feel the special spark I feel for you."

Shifting her feet nervously, Bridget answered quietly, "I don't know Billy. I had a boyfriend but we broke up years ago. I never had one since." Bridget had purposely left out Billy's second question because she wasn't sure how she felt for Billy.

Billy smiled, noting that Bridget had left out his second question. Not one for interrogating, Billy grabbed Bridget's luggage along with his and lead her to the exit of the airport.