So, this is dedicated to Wall-flower1999. Thanks for your support!
This is the first piece of 'Spotlights' hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer- I'm writing fanfiction, aren't I?
Prologue
I slammed my hand against the dashboard as I turned a sharp left. Tears streaked my face, as I flew down the interstate. Her bright eyes flashed in my mind as I my fingers fiddled with my phone. I didn't care that there could be people calling the police system, I wasn't thinking straight. The speedometer was at eighty. Surprisingly, there weren't many people on the road- it was hailing outside like the world was screaming with me.
"What?" an impatient voice. "Chloe? What's up?"
Tori. Her voice was coming through the speaker. I took the phone from my ear and stared at the blue iPhone 6. I strangled sob ripped my throat as I placed the phone back to my ear.
"I'm not her," I sobbed, taking a right off the interstate to her aunt's place.
"Derek?" Tori's voice went up an octave in surprise. "What are you doing calling on Chloe's phone? Better yet, why are you crying?"
"She threatened me. Threatened. Told me she would, I didn't think she would. I honestly didn't-" I choked again and blubbered as I took a left at the light.
"Threatened? Didn't think she would? Mind filling me in here, Derek? What's going on?"
"You don't where she is?" I asked, fear slipping into my voice.
"No!" Tori's voice reflected mine. "Why? What happened, Derek? What did you do?"
"I was an idiot!" I shouted into the phone, shooting fast towards Ms. Fellows' house. "What do you think I did, Tori? I messed up and I don't know where she went! I should've listened."
"Derek! I can't help you if you don't tell me." Tori's voice was impatient, as if she was trying to calm down.
"I was a jerk, and rude, and all the things she called me. She said she loved me, like she actually meant it, in public. So, when we got home I told her she should stop saying that in front of everyone. Chl- chl-" I choked on her name, not able to say it.
"Derek, breathe."
"She said that she wasn't kidding this time. She meant it- and- and she kissed me. There, in our bedroom, not in public. She'd kissed me. I only kissed her when I was irritating her and she'd never initiated it. I pushed her away and said she was stupid and that she was being an idiot. That I didn't love her. I do. I do. And she said that I shouldn't lie. That she was sorry for keeping me in the dark, for never telling me. I told her that this was her imagination. She'd shaken her head, and told me I was lying to myself. I had given her some sarcastic comment or another and she threw a pillow at me, actually crying. She told me about how I that's all I did. Teased her, joked with her, was a rude jerk. She called me all these horrible things, each piercing and hurtful, and I didn't understand why it hurt. She said she was done. She wasn't going to live with someone who didn't care at all. She wasn't going to live with someone like me."
"Derek, how about you-"
"Let me finish!" I sobbed. I had to get this off my chest. I had to. I was going to tell someone. "She said she was going to leave and I grabbed her arm and told her she couldn't. A flicker of hope of had been in her eyes and I'd smashed them. I'd told that we couldn't have the press thinking that their was something wrong with us. That we had to stay together. She'd glared at me and pushed me away just so that she could run off into the bedroom across the hall. I hadn't thought about it, I hadn't thought she'd come in after I'd fallen asleep." my voice got faint, thinking of what I'd woken up to. The room tattered, the house tattered. Everything that had been of the two of us had been ripped so it only belonged to me. I had everything of mine in the house and everything of hers gone. Then I'd begun sobbing and realized she hadn't been lying. I'd grabbed my coat and everything I'd needed. I don't think I even locked the door.
"Derek, are you sure she wasn't still there?" Tori's voice was normal now, like she was no longer worried.
"Yes!" I screamed before I broke into another round of sobs.
I saw her Aunt's red-brick house with white trim appear out of the trees. I slowed down and pulled up to her house. I didn't even pull the keys out of the ignition. I just jumped out of the car as I dropped Chloe's phone on my seat, the faint 'Derek's coming from the speaker as I slammed the door closed and jogged up to her door.
"Is she here?" I said, not even caring that Dr. Fellows was taken in my horrible appearance in a very shocked brown stare.
"W-what?" the stutter and her voice caused me to choke as sobs sounded again. It sounded so much like her.
"Is she here?" I growled, stepping back to race back to my car and get back on the road.
Lauren smiled, sadly, before saying, "She warned you. Maybe you should've listened."
"And I didn't." I said, tears flowing down my face with renewed force. The heat burned as I let them flow, my eyes burning, the way my heart was screaming.
I raced back to my car, saw that Tori had ended the call and tried Simon.
"What up, Chlo?" her name caused me to break all over again.
"Girl, what's wrong?" his voice was so frightened for her. He cared and he wasn't afraid to show it. I slammed my hand on the steering wheel and sobbed. "Chloe? What happened? What did he do?"
"What I did is something most likely unforgivable." I said through choking sobs as I tried to find my way to her dad's house.
"Derek?" his alarm was almost exactly like Tori's. Surprised and suspicious. "What did you do?"
"I lied to her. I was an idiot. Deserved every name she ever called me. I just- I want her home. I'm ready to get on my knees, I just want her back."
"She finally told you she loved you, and you, being the complete idiot you are, denied that you felt the same way?"
"What else?" I growled, taking the right into the actual city that Lauren lived on the outskirts of.
"Well, how about you think for a change. What should you have done?" the line went dead. I slowed at that and thought about what he said.
I ignored the streams of salty tears, the burning sensation behind my eyes, my dry mouth- I listened to my heart and played every memory I could think of that Chloe seemed genuine in.
"Well, what did you expect?" she asked, elbowing me in the ribs- gently. "I told you that you can never master my skills." the breakfast I'd planned was utterly destroyed- pancakes burned as were the eggs and the kitchen was a mess. She settled against my back, her arms wrapped around my waist.
I didn't get it, why was she acting like this? Instead, I pushed her arms off and turned to face her, my arms crossed.
"Yeah, well I don't seriously care. Fend for yourself." a look of hurt-
I hit my head against the headrest of my seat and groaned. Hurt. Even back nine months ago, she'd been trying. And I'd ruined every one of her attempts with a rude remark.
I wanted to slap myself and wished I could go back to when this was simple- call her phone and ask her out. Yeah, well being a celebrity wasn't that easy.
Especially not when your entire marriage was a scam.
How about that?
Review and I hope to get 'First Name' up next!
Thanks and Toodles,
-DJ
