An Everlasting Love
Flirtation101
Author's Note: Thank you for all of the reviews! I was planning on updating this weekend but my great-grandmother died. I was at the wake/funeral all weekend, so I really couldn't get on the computer. But thanks for all the words of encouragement! It means a lot to me, especially now. Currently, I'm in school writing this. I have a sub in my writer's workshop class, which basically means study hall. So I'm going to see how much writing I can get done in one class.
Disclaimer:I don't own anything.
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Chapter Four:
On Top of the World
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My
heart is empty without you
Sometimes you don't know what to do
And
I need you tonight
I'll fall asleep and it's alright
Close my
eyes and I'll be by your side
Let's spend tonight on top of
the world
And we can do anything
We can be anything
I'll
meet you tonight on top of the world
As real as it seems
You're
only in my dreams
-boys like girls.
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Jessica was in the woods, and everything seemed calm. It was perfect a perfect summer night in every way. The fabric of her white dress itched slightly, but she did not mind. She had become somewhat used to it. But other than that, she was extremely comfortable.
There was hardly any sound. There was the song of the animals. There playing for you. She didn't know where that had come from, but she liked it. The voice seemed to soothe her. There was the fire, which emitted popping sounds. But other than that, the only sound had come from the breathing of the two people.
Oh, she was not alone. She was lying next to someone, but she did not look up to see who he was. She trusted him completely, despite not knowing who he was, or anything about him. He had his arm draped around her, the white fabric of his threadbare shirt falling onto her skin.
"I wish this moment could last forever," She said, breaking the silence between the two of them. She hadn't meant to say it aloud, it was just a thought. But the person she was with did not seem to mind. In fact, he looked down at her, with a small smile. Jessica recognized him.
"You want to spend forever with me, Winnie?"
Jessica Burton woke up with a start. Looking around, she noticed that the woods were gone and were replaced by the comforts of Cristina's room. The name Winnie sounded so familiar. It was what the boy at the party had called her. She shook her head, trying to shake off all of the thoughts running through her head.
"Just a dream," She whispered to herself, before turning to go back to sleep.
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Jesse Tuck wanted nothing more to tell his parents what he saw. But he knew that they would think that he was crazy. By now, they would have gone to the spring and saw the grave marker. He reached in the pocket of his jacket, in search of his phone. He needed to tell his parents what he saw.
His phone wasn't there. Frowning, he did a double check. Nothing. He only had three numbers in the phone, but still. If anyone had found it, it would not be good. He was not supposed to draw attention to his family in any way. But if someone had their numbers, things would no go good. Even if they had no clue about the spring or his family's connection to it.
He grabbed a few quarters, and walked to the nearest payphone. Dialing Tuck's number, he called it. He would not tell his father that he lost his cell phone, but about Winnie. They all loved Winnie, and would be so happy that she was alive.
"Hello?" Tuck answered, the confusion because of a number that he did not recognize was in his voice.
"Pa!"
"Jesse, where are you?" His father asked at the sound of his voice, "Your mother is worried sick. We went to the spring and saw it. Jesse, I'm sorry."
"Don't be, pa! She's alive."
"Sorry?"
"Winnie," Jessie explained, "She's alive!"
"Jesse," Tuck sighed, "I know you want to believe that. But we saw her grave. She chose to live her life out. She chose to die."
"No! I saw her."
Jesse could hear Tuck growing impatient, "Jesse, she'd dead. We just have to accept that."
"Pa! You've got to believe me."
But he didn't. Jesse couldn't say that he blamed his father; it was an unbelievable story. But Jesse knew that it was true. Winnie was alive. Jesse say her with his own two eyes. Jesse said goodbye to his father, and hung up the phone. He was disheartened by the fact that his own father would not believe him, despite understanding why. He would just have to proof to everyone that she in fact was alive. He would have to show her to everyone.
It was just a matter of getting Winnie to go with him.
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Jessica Burton never thought much about dreams. Often enough, she could not remember them. When she did, the details seemed to disappear. As if they were just fragments of a memory, pieces just lost in time. Some were slightly normal, others were completely out there. She would have dreams of herself as a teenager in the Roaring Twenties. Or as a teen in the turn of the century. Every time, it was something different.
This dream, however, was different than anything. She recalled every detail perfectly. She could feel the white cotton on her skin. She could feel his breath on her neck. It was almost a week later, and yet everything about it was as vivid as the night she actually had the dream. It was if it was some sort of memory, forever locked into her brain. Trying to shake any thought of the dream out of her head, Jessica got up to get ready. She was going out that night, a bonfire to benefit the senior class. Jessica knew it was probably going to be lame, but she needed to get out. She needed to preoccupy her mind.
Grabbing her jacket, Jessica began walking towards Cristina's house. It wasn't as cold as she thought it would be, but something told her that she would need her jacket later on. She wasn't that far from her destination when she heard the roar of a motorcycle come of from behind her. It had come awfully close to hitting her, and Jessica started screaming at it. "Watch where you're going you fucktard!"
The motorcycle stopped short, causing Jessica to panic. She shouldn't have said anything. She felt like running when the person riding the motorcycle turned around in her direction. Not taking his helmet off, he said to her, "Where you going, miss?"
"No place you'd be interested in, Mister."
Despite not being able to see his face, Jessica could tell that he was smiling.
"Need a ride?"
Jessica, despite not remembering anything from her life before the accident, knew better than to get into a car with strange men. And she knew that warning doubled when it was a motorcycle. But Jessica ignored her better judgment – she had always wanted to ride a motorbike. She walked towards him, sitting on the back of the bike.
"Treegap High School," She told him, "I'm going to the bonfire."
He undid the buckle on his helmet, "Take this. I've only gone one helmet, and your safety is more important than mine."
He took the helmet off and Jessica could finally see his face. It was the boy from the other night. It was the one from her dream. Jessica let out a small scream, "It's you!" and fell back off the bike. Landing on the ground, she quickly got up.
"I've changed my mind!" She said, practically running to Cristina's house.
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Jesse Tuck was thankful that he had so many years to develop his wonderful skills in becoming completely invisible to the world around him. No one seemed to notice him, no matter what he did. He was able to get into the bonfire, looking like an average student at the school. He debated on trying to find Winnie, and talk to her. Deciding against it, he found his solitude on the edge of the school.
Jesse was thinking of everything that happened the past week. It seemed like a soap opera, it was completely unbelievable. He himself was beginning to have doubts. The girl might have been a grandchild of Winnies – he had no way of knowing. But that was when he heard it. "Let's spend tonight on top of the world And we can do anything. We can be anything. I'll meet you tonight on top of the world. As real as it seems you're only in my dreams."
It was his phone.
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Author's Note: Sorry that it took so long. I had this in my computer for a while, it just took a bit to finish it. I started it like two weeks ago in Writer's Lab. So I'm sorry it took me so long to finish. I'm going to write some more, and then maybe there might be another update tonight.