a/n: my first fanfic. so bare with me.

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Chapter one

The run away bride.

As Lottie paces back and forth in her white wedding dress she grows more and more nevus as that time gets closer to her having to walk down the aisle and take some vows.

What am I getting myself into and I mean, do I really love him or is my heart playing a trick on me. Michael is a really great guy, but do I really want to spend that rest of my life with him, she thought.

Just as she finished thinking the doors opened and her dad stepped through. "Are you ready sweet heart?" her father asks smiling, but it soon went away as he saw the look on his daughter's face. "Sweetie what's wrong?"

"Daddy I don't know if I can do this." Lottie began.

"Do you have cold feet? You know your mother was that same way before we got married." Her dad leaned forward and stroked her cheek.

"No daddy I don't have cold feet. I just don't know if I really love Michael or if my heart if just playing tricks on me again." Lottie knew that her father's heart must have sank when she said that. Michael was actually one of the very few guys that her dad liked.

"Just follow your heart Lottie. Sure I like him, he treats you well, but I can't force you to marry someone you don't love." Her father said smiling. "Thank you daddy. Can you go out and tell him that I'm truly sorry?" she said giving her father a look that was always able to make him give in. "sure sweetheart." He goes to head for the door. "Oh and daddy?" he stops and looks at his only daughter. "I'm going to go live in London" Lottie looks down at her fiddling hands. When she looks back up at her father, she sees him smiling sadly at her. "It's your life to live now. Just make sure you call me when you get there and you are settled in and come over here for visits any time you can." He tells her as she makes her way towards him.

Once Lottie is standing in front of her father she throws her arms around his neck for a hug- probably one of her last hugs for a long time- from him. She kisses his cheek and takes a few steps back to give her father enough room to slip though the door.

Lottie steps off the plane in London, England. She heads over to the baggage pick-up area to find her bags. She gets her bags and as soon as she turns around and takes a few steps she runs into someone.

As she is about to crash onto the ground below her, two strong hands grab a hold of her arms, catching her in midair, and pulling her towards its body. "Sorry about that. If I would have known that you were going to turn around I would have stepped out of the way." Lottie looks up at the person that had caught her, and her eyes meet with his light brown ones. "No it was entirely my fault." Lottie says as the man lets go of her arms and she takes a few steps back. She extends her arm. "My name is Lottie."

"Little Lottie?" that man asks. "Jasper? Is that you?" Lottie asks him as her eyes grow wide. He just nods.

"Oh my goodness I haven't seen you since I was ten. Look at you."

"Look at me? Look at you!" Jasper says while looking her up and down, noticing how well she grew up. "What are you doing back in London?" "Well I decided to move back here. I was actually supposed to be getting married yesterday, but…"she was cut off by Jasper. "What happened? Did you catch him with someone else?" "What? No, I realized that I didn't really love him so I left him at the altar; more like my dad did, but still." "Ah I see. You're playing runaway bride" Jasper just said smirking and crossing his arms over his chest. "Yeah pretty much." Lottie confesses with a guilty look on her face.

Jasper shakes his head while slightly laughing. "Same old Lottie." Lottie just giggles and shrugs. "So what are you doing here at the airport?" "Well I just got back from a trip in Australia." "No way, I have always wanted to go there!" "I know. So where are you staying at?" "I don't know yet I left before I could book a room at a hotel." Lottie explains while scratching her temple. "Well you can stay with me. I have enough room." "I don't want to be in the way." "You won't trust me. Besides it gets lonely in the house by myself." Lottie sighs and gives in. "Alright."

"Great!" Jasper said pulling her bags from her hands. "I wasn't going to take no for an answer anyways." He says with a sly smile.

"I swear you have not changed one bit. Well I take that back. You got taller, and cuter." Lottie says walking ahead of him. "So I got cuter huh?" Jasper says trying to catch up to her and walk along side of her. "Yeah." Is all Lottie is able to say, because once they step outside they are automatically swarmed by screaming girls and camera flashes?

"What's going on?" Lottie asks clinging to Jasper's arm. "Did I mention that the reason I was in Australia was because I was filming a movie? Jasper replies.

"It must have slipped your mind." Lottie laughs a little. To protect her from being smacked in the head by outstretched arms from fan girls and cameras from paparazzi who were trying to get a picture of him with Lottie, Jasper wraps his arms around her covering her up.

They stay like that until they are able to begin walking and reach his car. Jasper helps Lottie into the passenger side of the car. He puts her bags in the trunk and hops into the drivers side.

As they pull out of the parking lot, the camera flashes and girl screams stop. "Well I can see the headline in the paper tomorrow morning, 'Jasper Thompson has seem to have found a new girl. Turn to page 2 for more information.'" Lottie says with a small laugh.

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a/n: i know it's sucky. but it will get better. this is my first real story.