Four Years after the epilogue of Always and Forever:
ALWAYS And FOREVER~~~THE SEQUEL
A/N~~This sequel begins at Andie's sixteenth birthday party. Andie's grown into an attractice teen with long red-blonde hair along with her father, Cooper Freedmans, bright blue eyes. Her brother, Chase, who's almost fifteen is a carbon copy of his father, Cooper. Noah is now almost thirteen and looks just like his momma and four year old brother, Drew. Both boys have Charlotte's eyes and blonde hair, along with her spunk.
Addison's daughter, Danielle, who's one year older than Andie has grown into a pretty brunette and Andie's best friend and confidant.
Violet and Pete are the proud parents of nineteen year old Lucas and twelve year old Lila (looks like Violet.)
Sheldon and Amelia are raising, Dylan, Amelia's twelve year old son with Cole, along with their own adorable four year old daughter, Sara (looks like Amelia.)
Jolie and Cole have Tyler who's now eighteen, along with twelve year old twins, Cole jr and Marley.
Marisa's also invited to the party, along with her twenty seven year old daughter, Alexis, and twelve year old Julia.
We begin:
The Sequel - Always and Forever
The large Italian restaurant overlooking the water is bursting with life tonight. Over one hundred party guests fill the catering room to celebrate Andie's sixteenth birthday. Pink and Purple balloons adorn the ceiling. Cooper brings Charlotte a martini. "Thanks. I needed this." Charlotte takes the drink from his hand.
Sheldon watches the group of teenagers on the dance floor. "Who taught Lucas to dance like that?"
"Me." Pete smiles. "He gets his moves from me."
Violet nudges Pete on the arm. "You wish."
"Hey!" Pete laughs and sips his beer "That's my boy, the ladies man." Pete watches Lucas dance with Danielle, Andie , Tyler, Chase and a group of other teens.
A little girl with long black hair runs up to Sheldon. "Daddy, guess what Dylan is doing?"
Sheldon looks down at his four year old daughter, Sara. "Do I want to know?"
"It's something bad. Daddy." Sara tells him.
Amelia scolds her daughter gently. "Sara, what did I tell you about being a tattle tale?"
"Tell me! Tell me!" A little four year old blonde boy bounces up and down.
Sara whispers something into four year old Drew's ear. "I want to watch them spit!" Drew yells out.
"Exactly, who do you want to watch spit?" Charlotte asks her four year old son, Drew.
"I wanna watch Noah and his friends have a spit race!" Drew jumps up and down all excited. "You wanna come and watch too, momma?"
"Oh, I wanna see this." Charlotte deadpans. "Where exactly is this spit race going on?" Charlotte asks four year old, Sara.
"In the lobby." Sara's points outside of the party room. "Lila, Marley and, Dylan, are spit racing with Noah."
Violet smirks at Pete. "Did you teach your daughter to spit too?"
Charlotte, Pete and Sheldon follow four year old Sara and Drew into the lobby.
"Look, momma. There's the spitting contest!" Drew runs ahead to watch his brother and his friends.
"I'm coming, Squirt." Charlotte's heels click loud against the floor heading towards the group of twelve year olds. Sheldon and Pete follow her.
"I won!" Twelve year old Lila does a victory dance.
"No, you didn't!" Marley shouts. "Noah clearly won that round!"
"What are you children doing?" Sheldon is the first to ask.
"Watch me, Dr. Wallace." Lila fills her mouth up with soda and shoots it as far as she can across the lobby.
"That's not a good idea, Lila." Pete tells his daughter, with the long curly brown hair.
"It's fun, dad" Lila tells Pete.
"It's disgustin'." Charlotte scowls. "Not to mention, I left a deposit on this place, which the management will keep to clean the floor, if they find out about this spit contest."
"Sorry, Momma" Noah tells her. "I didn't know you would have to pay money for it. I'm sorry."
"Watch this, momma!" Drew calls out before filling his mouth with soda and spitting it as far across the lobby as he can.
"No, Squirt." Charlotte tells little Drew. "We don't spit."
"But it's fun!" The four year old jumps up and down laughing. "Try it, momma!"
"Come here you jumpin' bean." Charlotte scoops him up into her arms. Charlotte looks over at thirteen year old Noah. "You see what you did, Noah. You're s'posed to be teaching your little brother to do right."
"Yes, ma'am." Noah answers.
"You and your friends are gonna clean this mess up." Charlotte tells Noah before carrying Chase into the party room.
"You're lucky you're the youngest kid in your family." Noah tells Lila.
"Why?" Lila asks.
"My little brother's a terror. Drew does whatever he wants and I always end up getting in trouble for it. You see how my momma blamed me cuz Drew spit after she said not to?"
Lila laughs. "Let's clean this up fast so we can go outside and finish the spitting contest."
The group cleans up the soda before going outside for more spitting games.
Meanwhile in the party room, Cooper, Violet and Amelia watch the older teens dance. "My days of being able to move like that are over." Violet says.
"Are you kidding? Cooper smirks. "I can still move like that."
"Let's see." Amelia challenges him.
"You're on." Cooper smiles. "But outside, Andie will kill me if I embarrass her in front of her friends."
"Oh, this is going to be fun." Violet gets up and follows Cooper and Amelia outside. Cooper holds his drink in his hand and starts moving to the music ,which can be still be heard outside. Violet and Amelia laugh at him. "Let's see you do better!" Cooper challenges them. Violet and Amelia start shaking their hips to the music.
Andie walks outside the restaurant to meet Nicky, who's waiting on a bench outside the front doors. Nicky's grown into a tall, muscular nineteen year old with bright blue eyes and straight dark hair that hangs down to his shoulders. He works as a construction worker during the day and plays in a band at night.
"You came?" Andie smiles.
"I got you this for your birthday." Nicky hands her a little box wrapped in yellow paper with a pink ribbon.
"What is it?" Andie asks.
"Open it."
Andie sit's next to him on the bench and rips open the wrapping paper. She pulls out a charm bracelet with a Beauty and The Beast charm on it."
"It's looks like the charm bracelet I lost on the bus in first grade, except it didn't have a Beauty and the Beast charm on it."
"I got you that charm since I used to call you Belle when we were kids."
"Thank you." Andie smiles. "I love it."
"I remember you cried that day on the bus after you lost your charm braclet. I told you I would buy you a new one." Nicky looks at her. "I have a real job now so I could afford to buy it for you."
"That's so sweet. I can't believe you remembered that."
Nicky smiles and looks up.
"Isn't that your father?" Nicky points towards three adults dancing on the grass about fifty feet in front of them.
"Oh my God, it is." Andie answers.
"Are they drunk?"
"You don't know my father." Andie rolls her eyes. "He can be such a big kid sometimes. My momma says he's her fifth child."
"Ha!" Nicky laughs.
"They can't see us over here, can they?" Andie asks him. "I'm not supposed to be hanging out with you."
"Nah, the tree's blocking us, besides," Nicky tells her, "just because our parents hate each other doesn't mean we can't hang."
"I know." Andie tells him.
"We're not little kids anymore. We shouldn't have to sneak to be friends." Nicky tells her.
"It's better this way." Andie pulls a strand of her long red hair behind her ear. "I don't want any problems with my father."
"Thanks for telling me about your party."
"I figured there's so many people here my parents wouldn't notice you."
"I better get going." Nicky gets up.
"Wait a minute." Andie pulls him back down on the bench. "When can I see you again?" Andie asks Nicky.
"I don't know. Why?"
"Do you want to go with me to see that new movie Selena Gomez is starring in?" Andie asks.
"Are you asking me out on a date?"
"If you call going to a movie a date, then yeah, I guess." Andie swallows, nervously waiting for an answer.
"Then, okay. It's a date. I'll pick you up at the end of the street next Friday night. Around seven?"
"What about tomorrow night?" Andie asks, hopeful.
"Sorry, Belle, but I have to work tomorrow night. The band's playing at Geogio's."
"Okay, so, it's a date next Friday night." Andie smiles.
"It's a date." Nicky salutes her with his hand as he walks to his car in the parking lot.
Andie turns to go back in the restaurant and is startled to find someone standing right behind her. "Alexis? What are you doing here?"
"Having a cigarette." Alexis takes a puff. "You better be careful." Alexis warns Andie.
Andie flips her long red hair back. "Why?"
"Dating an older guy, you know?"
"Nicky's nineteen and I'm sixteen. It's only three years."
"Nineteen year old guys expect more on a date, if you know what I mean."
"You don't know Nicky." Andie defends.
"I'm twenty seven, Andie. I know what nineteen year old guys want, been there, done that"
"Please don't say anything to my parents, Alexis, please?"
Alexis puffs on her cigarette. "I won't say anything to your parents but you better know what you're doing, kid."
"I do." Andie walks back into the party.
"How'd it go?" Danielle runs up to her and asks.
"It went great! I'm going to the movies with him next Friday night."
"Did he ask you out?" Danielle asks.
"Not exactly. I asked him out." Andie tells her, Danielle laughs.
"I need to ask you something, Danielle."
"What?" The two girls walk to the bathroom together.
"Have you banged it with Lucas yet?" Andie asks her best friend.
Danielle applies her lipstick. "No, but not because I don't want to. Lucas wants to wait until my prom."
"Oh." Andie nods.
"You're not thinking about banging with Nicky on your first date, are you?" Danielle asks.
"I don't want to." Andie tells her. "But, I saw Alexis outside and she said that's what nineteen year old guys expect on a date."
"Nicky knows you're only sixteen. I don't think he expects it. And if he does, tell him you're not ready yet."
"Maybe, I am ready." Andie smacks her lips together.
"Tyler really likes you." Danielle tells her.
"I know."
"Don't you like Tyler?" Danielle asks.
"He's nice, but that's the problem. He's like too nice."
"So, you like bad boys?"
"Nicky's not a bad boy. He's just older and more intriguing I guess." Andie explains. "Tyler's more like my brother."
Addison walks in the bathroom. "Here you girls are. I've been looking all over for you."
"Sorry, mom." Danielle tells Addison. "We were reapplying our make up."
"Well, come back out to the party. You're the birthday girl after all, Andie. We can't have a party without the birthday girl and her best friend." Addison leads the girls back into the party room.
"Where'd you find them?" Charlotte asks Addison.
"In the powder room, where else?"
"Sit down Andie. Daddy and I have a surprise for you." Andie sits down. A picture of her as a newborn baby shows up on a large screen accompanied by the song 'Here comes the sun.'
"You were so cute." Danielle tells Andie. "Look at all your red hair." Next a picture of Andie at her first birthday party appears. "There's my mom holding me in the background." Danielle points. "Wasn't I cute?"
"There's you, Chase!" Lila points out a photo displayed of Andie sitting next to Chase soon after he was born.
Andie's eyes start to tear. "That must be me on my first pony ride."
"It was your first pony ride at your second birthday party." Charlotte puts her hand on Andie's shoulder.
"Look! There's us playing with Freggly." Chase points out and Andie smiles.
"There's one of me and you when we were about three and four years old, at the park." Danielle laughs. "We were adorable. Look at my long French braids."
"And my little page boy haircut." Andie smiles.
"That's you on your first day of kindergarten, Sweet Pea." Charlotte tells Andie. "You were so excited to ride the bus." Andie smiles when she notices Nicky in the background of the picture. "Isn't that Nicky?" Danielle asks.
"Yep." Andie smiles.
"He was a cutie." Danielle smirks.
"He still is." Andie tells her.
"Look! There's you and Tyler dancing at Jolie and Cole's wedding."
"Where's me?" Four year old Drew shouts out. "I don't see me!"
"That was before your time, Squirt" Charlotte picks her four year old son up and holds him on her lap.
"There's me." Noah points to a picture of Andie, Chase and Noah sitting on Santa Clause's lap. "I was the baby of the family back then. Good times." He whispers to Lila.
They continue to watch the display of photo's of Andie's life leading up to her sixteenth birthday. When it ends the DJ plays the song Butterfly Kisses. "May I have this dance?" Cooper holds his hand out to his daughter. Andie gets up and follows Cooper to the dance floor.
Sam asks Danielle to dance while Pete dances with Lila. Cole dances with Marley while Sheldon dances with four year old Sara.
Charlotte holds Drew on her lap and watches. Tears leak down her face as she watches Cooper and Andie dance to Butterfly kisses. Violet starts to shed tears and soon Addison is teary eyed watching Sam and Danielle dance. Addison wipes a tear from her face. "They grow up too damn fast."
Amelia looks over at them. "Don't tell me you're all crying?"
"You wouldn't know." Charlotte tells her. "Sara's four, you and Sheldon still have a lot of time left with her."
Chase pats his momma on the back, " Don't cry, momma."
"K, I'll stop." Charlotte sniffles and wipes her tears away.
Fifteen year old Chase sighs. "This is depressing, momma. Can I ask the DJ to play something else?"
"As soon as this song is over you kids can go back to your music." Charlotte tells him.
"Good." Violet sniffles, "I could use some cheering up."
"Geez mom, it's not like someone died." Lucas tells Violet.
"We miss our babies." Violet tells him.
Cooper tries to hold back the tears while he dances with Andie. "Are you crying, daddy?"
Cooper wipes his nose. "No."
"Daddy?"
"What?"
"Don't ever stop calling me your Andie Candy, no matter how old I am."
"Got it," Cooper smiles. "Andie Candy."
The song ends and the teens all bounce back on the dance floor. Cooper walks over to Charlotte. "When do we get to dance?"
"About that, I was thinking you and I could go away this weekend, just the two of us."
"I like that idea." Cooper presses his lips into Charlotte's
"Eww!" Four year old Drew yells at them. "Don't do that!"
Charlotte looks at Cooper. "This weekend. Just me and you."
"I can't wait." He smiles at her.