Title- Second Chances
Summary: A Hollywood Heights fan fiction. This story is about getting a second chance at a love you never thought was possible to even have the first place.
Authors Notes: I pretty much have this whole story outlined, though I am sure that I will make some changes along the way. Updates will most likely be once a week as I have limited internet access due to the fact that I practically live in the middle of nowhere and high speed internet is not available in my area, which means that I have dial-up and it's a complete nightmare. Instead of getting frustrated with the amount of time it takes to upload things through dial up, I will be taking my trusty flash drive with me on my son's weekly library trips and borrowing their high speed internet. I hope you guys like this story. I usually write Soap Opera couples (General Hospital) fan fiction but teen soaps (i.e. Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill) are quickly becoming my guilty pleasure. I'm not a professional writer by any means so chances are good that this will be the worst story you have ever read. However, I am a 20 something stay at home mom to a newborn, a toddler and a kindergartener, and getting lost in the world of fan fiction make believe has kept me from losing my mind Again, I hope you like it, but even if you don't let me know.
PROLOUGE
"Loren" my mother's soft voice brought me out of my light sleep. I opened my bleary eyes and smiled up at her and Max. They both returned my smile, but I could tell by the look in their eyes that the news wasn't good. I pushed myself up into a sitting position on my bed so that they could both sit down and they did. Max on one side and mom on the other. I couldn't help the small smile that graced my lips. It was a family moment and to say I felt blessed at that moment wasn't an understatement . Max Duran had moved into our house nearly six months ago and my mom was the happiest I've ever seen her. I was happy about it as well. I loved Max. He loved me too. I felt it in the way he talked to me, the way he gave me advice...everything the former Rock Star did showed me that not only did he understand that my mom and I were a package deal but that he wouldn't have it any other way. We were a family, even if that did mean that someday it was very possible that my boyfriend would be my step-brother. Speaking of my boyfriend..." How's Eddie?" I creaked out in my sleepy voice. I saw mom and Max exchange a look and it made me uneasy.
Max took my hand in his. He stroked it gently. It was the same way I'd watched him stroke Eddie's hand almost every day over the last six months. My uneasiness grew. "What's going on you guys?"
"Eddie's awake," my mother said gently. I didn't pay attention to the tone she used to tell me the news I had been waiting all these months to hear.
"He's awake?!" I jumped off my bed and headed for my closet ready to get dressed and get my butt down to the hospital. I couldn't believe it. Eddie was awake. Finally after months of being in a coma, he was finally awake! Forget being a singer, this had been my dream for so many months now. I pulled a pair of jeans out of my closet and pulled them on over the boxer shorts that I always wear to bed. I grabbed a t-shirt as well but before I could put it over my head my mom pulled it out of my hands. For the first time, I noticed the sadness in her eyes. "Mom, what's going on. " She took me by the hand and led me back over to my bed. Mom and Max exchanged another look and I knew that something was terribly wrong. "Just tell me, "I begged. "Eddie is awake, but he has amnesia. " Max told me as gently as he could. Amnesia….like in the movies? "What do you mean, like, he can't remember the accident?" Max shook his head, "not just the accident, Loren, he can't remember anything that happened in the last six months." This could not be happening. "He doesn't remember me?" Max shook his head. "The last thing he remembers is being on tour. He remembers the concert at the Avalon but nothing after that. He didn't even remember meeting Nora. I started to explain things to him ,but the doctors said that we can't bombard him with information because it will confuse him and it could prevent him from remembering things on his own. We have to let the memories come back in their own time so for now, we just have to follow Eddie's lead." I didn't even bother to wipe away the tears that fell from my eyes. He had a head injury that much had been clear the night that we had gotten the call that Eddie's body had been found in the parking lot of an Ojai gas station after someone had stolen his car. The carjacker had beaten Eddie up pretty badly and I will never forget that vision of his bloody and beaten body. We thought for the second time in a week that he was dead but then mom had found his pulse, it was weak, but it was there.
We had taken him to the hospital and less than an hour later; the doctor had informed us that Eddie was in a coma .By then word had quickly spread that Eddie was alive and the waiting room was filled with people that loved Eddie. My mom, Max and I were there obviously. Mel and Adam had shown up and surprisingly Phil and Adrianna had come as well. Jake, his wife Tracey and Kelly were there and Chloe, who had just earlier that day been released from the very hospital we were gathered in, had also shown up. Her presence should have annoyed me but for the first time since I have known her I didn't mind her being around. She had cleared the matter of who pushed her off of Max's balcony up and Dylan Boyd was already in jail and the charges against Eddie had been dropped. I actually found myself being grateful to Eddie's ex-fiancée. All I have wanted since then if for him to wake up and for him to be okay. I guess my prayers have been answered. Maybe I should have been a little more specific in my nightly conversations with God.
As I sat there between my mom and Max with tears streaming down my cheeks, I felt my heart break into a million little jaggy pieces. I heard my mom tell me that everything would be ok. I heard Max tell me that Eddie loved me even if he couldn't remember it. He swore that the doctors said it was entirely possible that Eddies amnesia was just a temporarily condition. I knew he believed that was the case, but I didn't. I knew exactly what this was. It was what I had been waiting for all this time. From the moment I won the songwriting contest, I knew it would happen. With every kiss that Eddie and I shared, it was always in the back of my mind. I was after all, Loren Tate. Good things didn't just happen to me. Eddie's accident, his amnesia, it was the other shoe finally dropping. Nothing in my life would ever be the same again.