My Whole Life Chapter 1, a dirty dancing fanfic

I do not own any movie that has been used as base for this story, this includes Dirty Dancing, Ghost and Bridget Jones.

My Whole Life

*Music is playing very loud*

I take the remote and turn the volume a little more up as one of my favorite songs starts. I take my glass of wine, I'm tipsy but not drunk yet. I hiccup as I bang my head on the rhythm of the music.

Dans la vallée oh oh de Dana lalilala.
Dans la vallée oh oh j'ai pu entendre les échos.
Dans la vallée oh oh de Dana lalilala.
Dans la vallée oh oh des chants de guerre près des tombeaux.

I sang with the chorus of the song. I empty the glass as I try to rap with the song. I take the bottle and look at it.

"Well, shit." The bottle is empty, I stand up and waggle a little towards the kitchen. Searching all the cupboards and fridge, nothing. Not even my favorite whiskey Jack. I miss my best friend Jack Daniels right now. I was in no state to go outside to the store and buy some alcohol, but I needed it.

*My phone went off*

I look around, the music still playing loudly in the background, I walk back to the living room and stumbled over my shoes. I screamed a little and fell flat on my face.

"Shit." As I lift my head up, giving a sigh, my phone is still ringing.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." As I crawl to the little table where my phone is standing on. I push myself on my knees and take the wireless phone.

"Hello?" I ask.
"Why did it take so long for you to pick up the phone?" It's my mother.
"I'm not in a state to have a normal conversation mom."
"You're never in a state to talk, what have you been doing? Are you drunk again?" I give a sigh and sit down on the floor against the couch.
"No, I wish I was but I don't even have my best friend Jack anymore." I look at my dress and played a bit with it.
"Can you please turn down the music?"
"What do you want mom?"
"I heard about the break up, I just wanted to know if I could do anything for you." Ah, the break up, that was the thing I was just trying to forget. Hence the drinking. Since mom didn't heard me replying, she just went on.

"You're coming to Paris for New Year's Eve. We have planned a whole buffet." Paris? I lived a third of my life in Paris, I don't want to go to Paris.
"But mom…" I try, with my blurry mind, to get out of this idea. Which, of course, is to no avail because my mother is always so persuasive.
"No but Baby, this time you are coming, uncle Pierre is looking forward to see you again and so is your godfather. It's been a long time, dad has booked you a ticket already. You depart tomorrow in the early morning."
"Tomorrow? But mom, I have a job."
"I know you're off this week for the holidays Baby, now start packing your bag." I looked at the empty bottle and pout a little bit, wishing I could drink something right now.

The song ended and I give a deep sigh.

"Guess who's coming to the buffet as well?" I had no clue what mom is talking about.
"Who?" I ask.
"The Castle's, you remember them? They're taking their oldest son with them this time. He's a top notch human rights lawyer now. Maybe you can remember it, you used to play naked in the paddling pool in summer." My mouth drops, I guess she's talking about James.

"Mom, don't even try to set me up with James. He's stuck up."
"Don't you say that darling, you might like him now. He's single again, after his wife cheated on him." I rolled my eyes, I just had a relationship, I'm not looking for a new one now.

"Mom, I'm not looking."
"You possible couldn't be so serious with that Lance…"
"Louis, mom, his name is Louis."
"I mean, you possibly can't be serious Baby. It's time you find someone who's stable and you can start a family with." I burped a bit and made a face of filth. Mom always starts about my love life as if I'm the biggest loser on this planet. Wait a second, I am the biggest loser of this planet.

"Are you done, mom? I need to pack my bag as you ordered me to come to Paris." Mom sighs.
"Baby, just give it a try."
"Mom, please. I need to pack my bag now. I see you and dad tomorrow. Give dad a kiss." I press on the red button and lay the horn down.

I give a deep sigh, well, it's packing a bag now. I moved to New York about three years ago when I got a job opportunity at a newspaper. I'm an editor, I edit the articles. I'm 30 years old and single again. My love life? Even cats have a better love life than me.

"Ugh." As I push myself up and walk to the bedroom, not lifting my feet up properly.

*The music switches when there was a loud knock on the door*

I stumbled to the door and look through the hole. I give a little sigh and open the door.

"Hey! We forgot our keys." Allen and Katy says out loud, both having huge smiles on their faces.
"Ugh." I say, but then I see them holding each a bottle of wine.
"Oh, wine." I wanted to grab but Katy pulls her arm back.
"Dear lord, you look like you've been ran over by a train." Allen looks at me up and down.
"You're tipsy, what have you been doing?" Katy asks as they both walk inside now.

"What can I say? I've got nothing to live for and I just ran out of alcohol. You're both my saviors." I closed the door and walk behind them, they look at the mess.
"We haven't seen you for two days Baby, look at this mess." Allen sighs and starts cleaning up the mess.

"Leave it Allen." I walk to my bedroom and take my small suitcase for hand luggage. Katy looks at Allen, who only pulls his shoulders up. She gives the bottle to him and walks to the bedroom. I'm looking in my draw for some undies. I take my tiger print one and hold it up. Katy looks at me.

"What are you planning?" I lower my hands and sigh, throwing the undies in my suitcase, together with some other ones too. I took some socks, and panties. If I ever will put them on. I walk to my closet and look at my clothes.

"You're going somewhere?" I sit down.
"I have no choice, mom and dad have booked me a flight to Paris. I need to spent New Year's Eve there. They're organizing a buffet or something." Katy sits down next to me and I sigh again.
"Why do I have such parents?" Katy snorts at my question.
"You should be happy that you still have them Baby. Come, I'll help you." Katy stands up and walks to the closet. Allen is cleaning the living room.

"Of course I'm happy I still have them. It's not that. Mom heard that Louis dumped me and now she's being all her again." Katy looks at me.
"I need wine." I say and Katy chuckles.
"You'll get your wine in a bit. Let's get you packed first." Katy takes my broken white dress and a jeans, some black pants and a black mini skirt. Also some shirts, I give a sigh.

"You know how long you'll stay in Paris?"
"I don't know, hopefully not too long." Katy smiles.
"It will be a good way to forget about Louis. Who knows, maybe you meet someone in Paris." I look at her and shake my head.
"You sound just like my mother." I stand up.

"What's bothering you?" She looks at me as we walk to the living room, it's like the alcohol has vaporized out of my body now. I take the bottle and sit down on the couch. Allen and Katy sit down at each side of me, all three of us giving a deep sigh.

You make me wanna call you in the middle of the night
You make me wanna hold you till the morning light
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul

I listen to the lyrics and instantly I start to cry, it's totally uncontrollable. They both lay their arms around me.

"Why me?" I ask.

I know this is a feeling that I just can't fight
You're the first and last thing on my mind
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul

"You should stop crying about that idiot, he has no idea what he's letting go." Allen says, I look at him.
"I love you Allen, maybe you should make a baby with me, that would at least please my mother." Allen looks at me, it's silent for a few moments, and then we burst out in laughter.

"Do you really need to go?" Katy asks and I look at her.
"I'm afraid so, you know that my mother won't stop calling me if I'm not going. She says that the Castle's are going to the buffet as well." Allen spills his wine and coughs.

"You're not serious Baby?" I look at him.
"I am." I sigh and drink on the bottle.
"Guess who's coming with them?" I imitated my mother's voice, making them both chuckle.
"James. Darling, you remember him? You used to play naked in the paddling pool in summer." They both stop laughing now, looking at me with serious faces while I drink on the bottle again.

"Did you really?" Allen asks.
"Yeah, I was like 6." Allen looks at Katy, who shakes her head at him.
"Don't think about it, both of you."
"Doesn't James have a brother?" Allen asks curiously.
"Yeah, Johnny, but I have no clue about his whereabouts."

*The music changes and the phone went off again*

Katy grabs the horn and answers the call.

"Hello?"
"Is Baby there?" It's Louis.
"Why are you calling here? Haven't you done enough already?" Katy asks, I look at her and want to take the horn but Katy jumps up, not letting me. Allen grabs me.

"Give me the phone please." I pout.
"No." As Katy has her hand over the mouth piece.

"What do you want?" Katy asks.
"I would like to talk to Baby, I want to tell her that I want to have a chance again." Katy sighs deeply.
"And then what? To dump her again for some blonde slut? She doesn't want you again, she's going to Paris tomorrow, just leave her at peace." Katy ends the call and lays the horn down.

"Why? What did he say?" I look at Katy.
"Nothing important, you need to move on. Who knows, maybe James is okay after all." I roll my eyes and drink on the bottle now.

Eventually the two of them brought me to bed, made sure my alarm is set and that my suitcase is ready. I have the best friends ever.

This story is with the characters from Dirty Dancing, and based on the movies Dirty Dancing, Bridget Jones and even Ghost, and maybe even other movies. You know, just ideas and things from the movies. It's not gonna be a big story, for me this is not a big story, but I might be writing a sequel on it.

Billy isn't in this one, I know, I know, I guess most of you want to have him in it but I couldn't really find a good part for him so I left him out (he might be in the sequel). Penny hasn't got a big part either, neither does Lisa and Neil.

To get confusion away later, here's a little background;
Both Johnny's and Baby's parents moved from the USA to Paris in France because of job opportunities and dreams, the kids weren't born yet when they moved, they all speak English, native, but the kids understand and can speak French since they went to private school in Paris when they were young. So their origin is from the USA, but the parents live in Paris.

If you have any questions, or suggestions, let me know.

P.S.: I wrote this one in a few days time , so forgive me for not going further with the old ones. I'm looking into them.