I, Rally4ever... have not now, or ever owned RFR... NOT SAYING I WISH I DIDN't but hey...IF IF DID OWN RFR... two certain people would be together by now...wanna guess who... read my story to find out... OF COURSE IF YOU KNOW ME...that won't be hard to see AT ALL! It's my signature...

And, in addition to not owning RFR of it's affiliates, Rally does not own the mini-song she uses in this part of the fic... The Trews do, and I give them due credit in a part of the story... I just don't wanna get "infracted" again, because it's a short road to suspension.

After her opening set was done,

she mouthed and gestured a quick,

"come on" to one particular person in the audience.

Lily looked past the curtain out on the crowd to find the familiar face she had been expecting to meet her backstage...

but she heard another known voice from behind her... River's. He started off by asking a question, and she didn't have the heart to tell him, "that he wasn't the one she was looking for after all...").

This night was just full of surprises, first reconnecting with Ray (over tree-forts and iced lattes. He was still a true friend to her...), and River showing up with a bouquet of white Lilies, well you just have to forgive a guy who shows up with flowers.

But something was still wrong, and it wasn't River, he had just confessed one of the most sweetest things of his life how he never felt this way before, and how she was always on his mind.

What Lily Randall didn't understand was... WHAT WAS MISSING?

This should be the happiest night of her life, she'd waited since she was seven for this moment... To know she was truly on her way, and she'd never been as sure of that as she was tonight. Opening for the Trews was an open door for "NO Man's Land."

She walked back down with River from backstage and rejoined the mob. Just in time, to hear the TREWs start their new song...

Funny, one second they were ROCKING OUT LOUD! And the next, they were softly playing a power-love ballad...

"I'd Love to say...

Do you love me?

But, I'm as humble as a bumble bee."

Somehow he has won Grace over by convincing her she was "more than enough." And being his girlfriend of four months... She should've been.

What Ray Brennan didn't understand was...

WHAT WAS MISSING?

Suddenly a reflection of light, shining off of familiar blonde hair caught his attention, and made him follow up to a pair of greenish-blue eyes he'd known forever...

She'd felt the weight of his stare upon her... even from across the crowded room and over River's shoulder,

she could still feel him, like always...

It made her turn and look up to meet the pair of eyes she knew would be waiting...

And The Trews played on...

"I walk away... if you come with me

or I may crumble for all to see."

They stayed like that for an eternity of a second before the song continued..

"I have the weather on my side...

Hey, by the way...

DID YOU LOVE ME?"

Oh, that's the question that was missing, which they never really answered. Though, if you'd been an outsider watching this moment... you would've known truth...

"The words, I mumble as she leaves...

I'll be okay...

as long as you want me...

but you don't fumble,

you don't grieve."

That's what they wanted, to still be wanted by the other. If nothing else.

It just wasn't the same without being able to share their lives together.

This night was a reminder of that.

It's like their friendship was murdered without a word and there was no funeral to commemorate the occasion...

And they didn't want to look back on it as a mistake, the kind a football player would make when he drops the ball he was running with...

Together, they could've never been a real mistake or accident, no Freudian slip here...

Ray and Lily were both proud of each other, one proud for the other living their dream and one proud for the other being able to be there still.

After all that happened, it was just too bitter-sweet.

Realizing this, Lily broke her gaze first and shrugged away and turned her head, like she'd done something... she knew was wrong.

What just happened between them?

It was almost as if they were all alone, except they were anything but.

And Grace could've told them that, 'cause she for one had seen the whole thing and was beginning to ask herself all the right questions. And...

IT WAS ABOUT TIME!