LOVE REUNITED, LOVE REKINDLED

PROLOGUE

2006

Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, Shannon McGee, and Kayla Greene were standing outside the former Ambrose living abode in Boston, Mass. Dean, his mother and father were moving away to Cleveland, Ohio.

Dean, Seth, and Kayla had called Boston their home for a long time. Shannon had moved to Boston from Austrailia when she was 16. These four people attended the same school together. They did so much together. Parties, sleepovers, went to the movies. They had a very strong bond. They were very, very close friends. They even had a name celebrating their relationship. Club DKS.

Now, Club DKS was going to be one less with Dean gone. It was in the plans that after graduation, the Ambrose family would move away. Dean planned on enrolling into the police academy. Seth wanted to be an architect. Shannon wanted to become a personal trainer while Kayla wanted to become a teacher.

The car was loaded with the Ambrose' belongings. The parents were sitting in the front seat of their car as Dean was saying goodbye to his friends. It was going to be extra difficult to say goodbye to Kayla cause she was his girlfriend.

"Well, guys." Dean began. "This is it. Ohio bound."

Seth stepped forward. "It was nice knowing you, Dean. I'm gonna miss making fun of your long hair."

"Oh stop. That is one thing I won't miss," Dean joked before Seth embraced him.

"It's been a pleasure knowing you, Aussie." Dean said stepping in front of Shannon.

"Back at you, Patriot."

Dean hugged Shannon gently after Shannon kissed his cheek. He moved towards Kayla, taking her hands into his. This was, indeed, the hardest goodbye he would say today. The woman he had grown to love looked up at him with tears in her soft green eyes.

"I wish you didn't have to go."

"Me neither."

Dean reached up with his right thumb and wiped a tear away. "Please don't cry. You're too pretty to cry."

He pulled her close into his arms, rubbing her back as she sobbed softly on his shoulder. Dean pulled away and held Kayla at arms length.

Kayla's eyes were downcast to the sidewalk. Dean placed a finger under Kayla's chin and lifted her head. He closed the gap between them in a lingering gentle kiss on the lips. Seth pulled Shannon to his side as they watched the final loving exchange between this woman and this man. The kiss broke moments later. They glanced into each other's eyes one last time.

"I love you," Kayla whispered.

"I love you too. You were the best thing to ever happen to me."

Dean placed a butterfly kiss on her right cheek before walking to the car and settling into the backseat. The car engine came to life and it made Kayla's heart skip a beat. The car began to pull away and her heart raced. Kayla ran along the sidewalk as the car was driving away. Shannon chased after her. Kayla came to a stop at the corner as the car was no longer visible. She panted as she lowered herself to the sidewalk on her knees. Shannon caught up with her and lowered herself next to her heartbroken friend. She wrapped her arms around Kayla and just let her cry.

Dean stared out the window of the moving vehicle. His mother's left hand reached back and rubbed her son's right kneecap. His father looked in the reaview mirror at his teenage boy.

"You gonna be alright, son?" his father asked softly.

No.

"I'll be fine." Dean answered.

Dean's mom pulled her hand away. He just sat in the back seat of the car in silence. When he was saying goodbye to his 3 best friends in the whole wide world, he was able to hold his tears at bay. Such was not the case now. He couldn't hold them back anymore. Dean leaned his head against the glass of the window and let the tears in his sorrowful blue eyes fall. He just let them fall.