Summary: Randy is going out with the most popular girl in school, but he finds love while on a summer vacation. What was meant to be a summer fling, turned out to be more than expected… RandyxMickie, RandyxMaria, and other characters.
Randy was sitting on the plane to New Jersey reminiscing on his life as of before yesterday. Yesterday was the day his girlfriend told him that they needed to 'take a break.' Before yesterday, everything was going great. He had a great life: he was the first-string quarterback on the football team; his girlfriend was the captain of the cheering squad. But now his parents had to ruin the summer for him. He was going to be alone for 2 and ½ months. Everyone will have to go on with their lives while he had to start a new one. He would be so bored. Then, he thought about his beautiful girlfriend: Mickie James. He thought about how she looked when he told her that he was going away for the entire summer. She was on the verge of bawling her eyes out. He could remember it like it was yesterday, because it was yesterday.
--Flashback--
"Randy, we need to talk." He hesitated while she sat him down.
"Randy, I know that you're going away this summer, and you know I love you," He knew what was coming
"But…" He added onto her first statement.
"Randy, what do you want me to do!? I can't just sit around here all summer wishing I had you here while you're frolicking through the flowers with some Hawaiian chick you just met. I don't want to have a boring summer!"
"First of all, I'm going to the New Jersey Shore, and, second, I wouldn't be doing that if I had a girlfriend, and third, I went last summer and the summer before that. Why is it so different now?"
"Because we're dating, Randy! And it's just for the summer. We can go back to normal once you get back." Mickie promised
"But nothing will be the same when I get back." Randy retorted.
"I just want you to have a good time and not feel attached while you're away."
"You're just saying that to make it seem like you have me in mind when making this decision! You just don't want to have a boyfriend who isn't even in the same state as you!"
"Now you know that's not true!"
"Do I? You just want someone to make out with while I'm gone without a guilty conscience."
"That is not true, Randy!" She said on the verge of tears.
"It's just the summer. I guess I'll try to deal."
"Thank you!" She said, her tears miraculously disappearing from her eyes.
Randy just stayed silent.
"How about one more kiss?" She asked.
Randy stood up from the steps of his front porch and leaned into her waiting arms.
-- End Flashback--
As much as he wanted to say that the last kiss he shared with his former girlfriend was the best kiss of his life, he couldn't. He didn't know why that kiss was different but he tried not to let it bother him.
When the plane finally landed, he followed the endless line of passenger out of the doors and into the overly packed airport in Newark.
.:.
Maria looked out the window as the plane began to descend to the destination, New Jersey. Not only would her summer suck, but so would her senior year of high school. After three amazing years at her high school in Ottawa, her parents gave her the horrible news.
--Flashback—
"Were moving to St. Louis?!?" Maria screamed to her parents.
"I'm really sorry honey but your father got transferred." Her mother said in a calming voice.
"How could you do this to me?!? I'm gonna have to leave all of my friends! And what about Phil? You know my boyfriend?!?" She exclaimed.
"Maria please don't worry, you'll gain so many friends in Missouri." her father said.
"We're gonna make it up to you, don't worry." Her mother said.
"O yeah? What are you gonna do? Let me go to the beach for the summer?!"
"If that's what you want?" Her father answered without hesitation.
"Are you freaking serious!?" Maria exclaimed in disbelief. "You're going to bribe me to go? That's a little pathetic."
"We just don't want to have to force you to go. We want you to want to go."
"In your dreams..." Maria mumbled under her breath.
"Maria, sweetheart, you can pick where we—"
"Why can't I pick where we live?"
"Maria, this is for your father's job. He can't just say no to a promotion this big!"
"Fine, take me to some tropical island, buy me whatever with all the money we're supposed to be getting from this, but I will NEVER want to go to St. Louis, Missouri." With that she stormed out the door and walked to Phil's house to tell him about her move.
As she walked the 3 blocks to Phil Brooks', her boyfriend's, house, she thought about how she should tell him and how he would react. She wasn't sure how he would take it but she would just tell him right away. No beating around the bush. She arrived at his house faster than desired, but she marched right up to his front door and knocked.
Roughly two seconds later, Phil Brooks opened the door and pulled Maria in for a sweet and tender kiss. Once he pulled away, Maria looked him straight in the eyes and said, "My family is moving."
"WHAT?!" Phil asked in astonishment.
"Yeah, my dad got transferred there and I'm moving at the end of the summer to St. Louis, Missouri."
"Really; are you sure that you didn't misunderstand them?" He asked her as he took her hands in his.
"Yes, Phillip, I'm positive. I just don't know what to do."
"What is there to do? What are you talking about?"
"Phil, I'm talking about us. You said yourself that long-distance relationships never work! We're going to be so far away, I won't be able to stand it!"
"Maria, we'll work something out."
"That's just the thing, Phil, I don't think we can."
"Wait, what?!"
"I just don't know what to do!"
"Maria, we'll make it work. Don't talk like that."
"O, Phil!" Maria said as she hugged him tighter.
"Maria, I promise you that we'll stay together."
--End Flashback—
Then she remembered what she was trying to block out of her memories for the entire plane ride. It happened a few days after she had told Phil.
--Flashback—
"Maria, we have decided to go to New Jersey."
"WHAT!? What happened to St. Louis?"
"No, we've decided the Jersey shore for vacation."
"OK, I guess that's fine. When are we going?"
"5 days."
"OK and when will we get back?"
"2 months later." Her father mumbled his answer.
"WHAT, MY LAST SUMMER IN OTTOWA AND I CAN'T EVEN BE HERE!?" Maria asked her parents in disbelief.
"You suggested it. We went online and found a beach house for rent. It's very nice, but the man said that we had to be there for the entire summer, otherwise, he'd have to find someone else to rent it."
"Then why couldn't he just find someone else?!"
"We just wanted to make you happy. You said that you wanted to go to a beach, and with this price… we just couldn't pass up the deal."
"Just like how you couldn't pass up the deal for more money with dad's promotion? And, just so you know, if you want to make me happy, then let me stay here."
"But we just can't do that, sweetheart."
"I can't believe you!"
"We'll be back for another week after the trip to pack up the rest of our things and say goodbye to everyone before we go and you could--" Maria's mother tried to finish but Maria had already ran upstairs to her room.
The Next Day
Maria walked to Phil's house to tell him the bad news. She could've texted him last night but she needed to tell him this in person.
She knocked on the door. And he answered.
"I'm going to New Jersey for the rest of the summer." She mumbled, almost inaudible, but he still understood. And yet he questioned her.
"What; for how long?"
"I'm leaving soon, and then I'll be back at the very end of the summer, for the last week."
"I can't believe this!"
"Me neither, but I don't know what to do."
"Let's just try to get through this. We'll find someway to work it out."
Just then Maria's cell phone rang. It was her mother telling her that she needed to get home so that she could finish packing.
"Phil, I need to go."
"Why can't you stay?"
"I need to finish packing. I'm going to be gone for a while…"
He pulled her in for a kiss. Maria pulled away and walked down the three steps that led to the broken concrete outside his house.
The nest couple days, Maria had tried to get a hold of her boyfriend but he kept ignoring her. She tried to call him, but he wouldn't pick up. She tried to text him, but he wouldn't reply. She tried to go over to his house to talk to him. But either his mother said that he wasn't home or no one would even answer the door. Finally, on the afternoon before she left, she had gone over to his house. For once, Phil answered the door.
"Why have you been ignoring me lately?" She demanded.
"Maria, I've been thinking,"
"Ok…"
"And I think with you leaving, we should break up."
"WHAT!?"
"I know that it's sudden,"
"Only a lot…"
"But, I can't be waiting for you the entire summer, only for you to come back for a week to run off again. I just can't handle it."
"I guess I understand where you're coming from."
"Good, but Maria, we can still talk and be friends right?"
"Why should you care?"
"Because, over the years, not only have I loved you—"
"Phil, save it!" Maria interrupted him. "If you did love me then you would believe our love would last through anything." Maria started to walk away, but Phil grabber her arm and turned her around and gave her a kiss, but Maria pushed him away and started to run. She ran right home and went straight up to her room and started to cry as she looked at all of the boxes surrounding her. She knew her life would never be the same after tomorrow.
--End Flashback—
She started to tear up as she knew that her life had changed after yesterday. She snapped out of her reverie when the pilot announced their arrival. She looked out of the window and watched as they slowly descended onto the paved blacktop that was the beginning of her future summer. Maria unbuckled her seatbelt as she stretched out of her seat. Looking around at her surroundings on the plane, all of the tourists, their carry-on bags receiving the light that was lost while in the overhead compartment, she now realized that this wasn't her future, it was her now, and she needed to forget about yesterday.