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Chapter 3

(Elizabeth is at Audrey's house getting settled. Audrey told her to go ahead and pick a room and she'd be home as soon as she got home from work. Elizabeth picks her old room that she had when she lived there years ago where she grew up. Her parents were great and everything, but they lived a state away from Port Charles and for some reason, she found Port Charles fascinating. When she and her parents visited Audrey years ago when Elizabeth was a teenager, she fell in love with the town. Her parents had reservations about letting her stay, but Audrey told them she was welcome at her house if she wanted to stay. After a long discussion, her parents agreed to let her live in Port Charles, with the exception of staying in contact and updates often on her stay there. Audrey and Elizabeth agreed. Elizabeth happily hugged her parents and after staying a few days, her parents left for home. They said they would help bring her things to Port Charles, which took a few weeks, but then everything got settled)

(Elizabeth notices the room that she chose as hers hasn't changed a bit, which she loved. It feels good to know that the room was never touched, never used after she moved out. She starts unpacking her things. She noticed when she first went in her new bedroom that Audrey left plenty of hangers in the closet for her clothes, which she appreciated. She notices her bed, which is a queen size, with a warm heavy dark blue comforter on it with matching pillow cases covering 3 pillows)

(By the bed is a desk where she did her homework when she was younger for school. The desk has plenty of drawers for storing her school supplies or whatever she wanted to put in there. There's a little black lamp on the desk so she can see what she was writing when the room got dark at night and she didn't want to use the light from the ceiling in her room. Also on the desk is a picture of her and Jason. She picks up the picture and looks at it tenderly. It shows her in Jason's arms, their heads turned sideways but touching and her having her arms around his neck and Jason having his arms around her back. They're both smiling. He has a black t-shirt on, which of course is what he always wears and blue jeans. Her hair is wavy and lies perfectly against her shoulders and the side of her face. She's wearing a dark blue blouse with tan pants and she has pink eye shadow along with pink makeup on her cheeks. She has sparkly invisible lip gloss on and wearing a heart-shaped necklace with a gold chain connected to it around her neck that Jason bought her for her birthday about a year or so ago before she left for Chicago. She absolutely loved that necklace when he bought it for her. It looked expensive, but he told her he thought of her when he saw it. She knew he didn't go jewelry shopping very often, so she knew it was special when he got it for her. She told him she'd wear it all the time, which she did. He always said it made her look even more beautiful wearing it)

Liz: (sighs sadly) "Oh, Jason. I wish…so badly we were together. I was always the happiest when I was with you. You never told me how you felt about me, but it's like I could feel how you felt about me. We never kissed, although I wanted to so bad when we were on the pier by the docks before I left. When you kissed me on the cheek, I could feel the warmth of your soft lips."

(She holds the picture against her chest and looks up in the air, frustrated)

Liz: "I should've told you how I felt, even though you never told me how you felt. Maybe then…we'd be together."

(She looks back at the picture and sighs)

Liz: "I can't tell you how I feel now because you're with Sam. But if I had just one more…one more chance…I would tell you…that…that…I loved you. I-I still do."

(All of a sudden, she hears the front door open and close from downstairs. She hears a voice speak to her, revealing Audrey)

Audrey: "Elizabeth, dear? Are you here?"

(Elizabeth puts the picture back down on the desk and speaks aloud)

Liz: "Yes, gram! I'm upstairs! I picked out a room!"

(Audrey goes up the stairs and finds Elizabeth in her new room)

Audrey: "I see you picked your old room."

Liz: "Yeah. I hope that's okay?"

Audrey: (smiles) "That's perfectly fine. I'm actually glad you chose it. I've missed you staying in here so much."

Liz: (chuckles softly and grins) "I've missed this room as well. Thanks again for letting me stay here."

(Audrey gently touches Elizabeth's hair, caressing it, before putting her hand back down)

Audrey: "Oh, you're always welcome here, my dear. You know that. At least I hope you do."

Liz: (slowly nods and smiles) "Yes, I know. I know I could probably find an apartment here in Port Charles somewhere, but…"

Audrey: (interrupts) "Oh, no! You're just fine. I have plenty of space and it'll be so nice to have someone else live here besides me now. The house has been so lonely without anyone else living here."

Liz: (smiles) "Well, now you won't have to worry."

Audrey: "And before you say anything, you don't have to worry about letting me know where you're going or if you have company. You are more than welcome to have company."

Liz: (nods appreciatively) "I know."

Audrey: "Now, I'm assuming Emily will be visiting you here often?"

Liz: (laughs) "You know her too well, gram."

Audrey: "She always loved coming here as well. It was so nice having her visit. She and you are great friends."

Liz: "Yes, that we are."

Audrey: "Now, will Jason Morgan be visiting here as well?"

Liz: (surprised) "What?"

Audrey: "Well, I remember when you lived here last time he came over to visit you, as well. Of course, I'm sure you asked him to many times, though. But it was always nice to see him as well. I could always tell how much he cared about you by the way he looked at you."

Liz: (chuckles softly) "Well, unfortunately, if he did care about me, he never said it."

Audrey: "Sometimes you don't need to tell the person how you feel. Actions speak louder than words."

Liz: (nods) "True."

Audrey: "And I saw proof of that…many times, in fact."

Liz: (tilts her head a little, surprised) "Really?"

Audrey: (nods) "Yes. "

(Audrey then looks around the room)

Audrey: "Well, I see you started unpacking. That's good."

(Elizabeth looks around the room, as well)

Liz: (nodding) "Yeah, but of course, I still have a long way to go."

Audrey: "Well, you have all the time in the world."

Liz: "Well, I don't know about that."

Audrey: "How long did you say you were staying here in Port Charles?"

Liz: "Well, I don't know yet. I'm sure the school won't want me gone too long. But then again, Chicago is the only place right now where the scholarship is at, where the class I'm taking is at."

Audrey: "Well, if by some chance the class was available here, would you consider taking it here?"

Liz: "Well, yeah, I would. But it's not, gram. At least, I haven't heard anything on it. Port Charles is a small town, after all."

Audrey: "Well, I have seen it happen, sweetie. Some classes that were at first available out of state have become available here. And Port Charles has gotten a little bigger since you last left. Some buildings have been built. "

Liz: (confused) "Where? I don't remember Port Charles having a university here when I left for Chicago a few years ago."

Audrey: "Oh, you didn't know? Sonny Corinthos arranged to have a school built about a year and a half ago."

Liz: (confused) "I didn't see any school when I was driving in to Port Charles."

Audrey: "That's because it's on the other side of the town and I'm guessing you came from the side that has the 'Welcome to Port Charles' sign?"

(Elizabeth nods)

Audrey: (laughs) "That explains it."

Liz: "Huh. How big is this school? What classes does it offer? And why does Sonny Corinthos own it?"

Audrey: (laughs) "It's bigger than the high school where Emily goes to. The school offers a variety of classes for students. And Sonny Corinthos offered to donate the money so a school could be built because there were many people here who expressed an interest in wanting to stay close to home instead of traveling far away from home. So he thought he could help out with the financing on it."

Liz: (surprised) "Huh. That was nice of Sonny. Does the school have a specific title or…"

Audrey: (shakes her head) "Just 'Port Charles University'. Something simple."

Liz: (nods) "Interesting."

Audrey: "Who knows? Maybe the school offers the class you took in Chicago."

Liz: (scoffs a little) "I doubt it."

Audrey: (shrugs her shoulders) "You never know. It doesn't hurt to check."

Liz: (nods a little) "Okay, maybe I will."

(Elizabeth looks around her room to see how much she's unpacked)

Liz: "If it's okay with you, gram…" (looks at Audrey) "…I think I'm gonna take a break and go for a walk."

Audrey: (nodding) "No problem, honey. Get some fresh air and clear your head."

(Elizabeth gets her coat from on top of the bed where she put it and puts it on. She gives Audrey a little hug before leaving the house. She walks on the bike path that's near the house that's about a mile long or so. After a little while, she finds herself on pier by the docks where she and Jason shared their goodbyes before she left for Chicago)

Liz: (sighs deeply) "I wonder… I mean…Is it possible that this new school that's here in Port Charles has the program that I'm in right now in Chicago?"

(She crosses her arms and shivers a little, from the coldness. She hears someone coming toward her. She looks in the direction from the noise as the person gets closer. The person all of a sudden comes around the corner behind a wall, revealing Jason. He is almost at the top of the steps a little away from the wall when he sees her. She sees him as well and wonders what he's doing around here being he said he was working for Sonny today. He slowly walks to the bottom of the stairs and walks toward her)

Jason: (smiles a little) "Hi."

Liz: (smiles) "Hi." (confused) "What are you doing down here at the pier?"

Jason: (confused) "What do you mean?"

Liz: "Well, didn't you say you had to work for Sonny today?"

Jason: "Oh, uh, yeah. I was. I finished for the day. Sonny's busy at the moment anyway, so he told me to take the rest of the day off, so I decided to take the opportunity and go for a walk."

Liz: (chuckles softly) "Great minds think alike. I was unpacking at grams a little bit ago and decided to take a break, as well."

Jason: "Oh, you're staying at Audrey's?"

Liz: (nods) "Yeah. She wanted me to stay with her being she's the only one living at her house." (chuckles softly) "She misses the company."

Jason: (chuckles) "I can understand that. No one really likes to live alone."

Liz: (confused) "Oh, you and Sam aren't…"

(Jason gets what she's trying to ask and answers her by shaking his head)

Jason: "Oh, no. No. We're-We're not living together."

Liz: "I guess I thought since you and she have been together for so long that maybe…"

Jason: (confused) "Who told you I was dating Sam?"

Liz: (tilts her head and laughs) "Who else do you think told me?"

(Jason gets the picture and laughs)

Jason: "Emily."

Liz: (nods and chuckles) "Yep."

Jason: (nodding) "Of course. I should have known."

(They both laugh before looking at each other. They stare at each other for a minute or so before Jason finally speaks)

Jason: "Why-Why didn't you tell me you were coming back to Port Charles?"

(Elizabeth tries to think of how to answer the question)

Liz: (shakes her head) "I don't know. I guess…I mean, would it have mattered?"

Jason: (confused) "What do you mean 'would it have mattered'?"

Liz: "I mean, when I left, we were trying to figure out our relationship."

Jason: (frustrated) "Well, yeah, but, I admit, it would've been nice to know you were coming back."

Liz: (scoffs) "Jason, what different would it make? You've obviously moved on…with Sam."

Jason: (sighs softly) "Elizabeth, I…"

(Jason looks down briefly before looking back at her. She looks away from him briefly before looking back at him)

Jason: "Don't you get it, Elizabeth?"

Liz: (frustrated) "Get what, Jason?"

Jason: "I've always cared about you."

Liz: (sighs deeply in frustration) "How could I have known, Jason? You've never said how you feel!"

(Jason lowers his head, and then raises it again, trying to figure out how to respond what she just said. He knows she's right because he's never told her how he felt. He then looks back at Elizabeth and speaks)

Jason: "I…"

(He's interrupted when they hear footsteps coming down the steps, revealing Sam)

Sam: "Jason! There you are!" (laughing) "I've been looking all over for you!"

(Jason and Elizabeth look at each other trying to figure out what to do next. He finally looks away from Elizabeth and looks at Sam, who's walks to Jason)

Jason: (chuckles softly) "I'm right here."

Sam: "Yeah, I can see that." (chuckles) "I was just wondering if you wanted to grab something to eat being its suppertime?"

(Jason looks at Elizabeth for a second before looking back at Sam)

Jason: "Uh, yeah. Sure, we can."

Sam: (happily) "Great!"

(Sam then notices Elizabeth)

Sam: "Oh, I'm sorry, Elizabeth! Bad manners not saying hi to you right away! I'm sorry!"

Liz: (chuckles) "It's okay, Sam. Hi. It's been awhile since we last saw each other."

Sam: (smiles) "Yeah. Yeah, it has. What are you up to now?"

(Jason and Elizabeth look at each other uncomfortably as she and Sam talk. Sam doesn't pick up on the tension between them)

Liz: "Uh…Well, I was in school in Chicago. I had a scholarship at 'The John Carter Painting School of Arts', but I decided to take a little break and come back to Port Charles for a little while."

Sam: (smiles) "Well, I'm happy for you, Elizabeth."

Liz: (nods and smiles briefly) "Thank you, Sam."

(Sam then looks at Jason)

Sam: "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm hungry. Are you ready to eat?"

(Jason looks at Elizabeth before looking back at Sam and nods)

Jason: "Yeah. Yeah. Let's eat."

Sam: "Okay! Sounds good!" (looking at Liz) "Well, it was nice seeing you again, Elizabeth!"

Liz: (nods) "You as well."

(Jason looks at Elizabeth like he doesn't really want to leave, but does anyway. Before he walks away, he speak to Elizabeth)

Jason: "Goodbye, Elizabeth. I'll, uh, see you around."

Liz: (nods) "I'll be here."

(Jason and Sam walk away, with Sam holding onto Jason's arm and leans her head against his shoulders. Elizabeth sighs before she walks away)

TO BE CONTINUED

I apologize if I wrote too much at the beginning when I described Elizabeth's room or her feelings about the past, but I wanted to describe a little bit of what the room looks like and what she thought of the past. I described the picture of her and Jason as best as I could so you could picture it. As you can tell from the way the picture was described and Elizabeth's thoughts afterwards, she still cares deeply for Jason. I know I added a lot of Audrey, but I had a lot of things to add between the two of them…Audrey's feelings about Elizabeth back in town, a possibility that the school in Port Charles may have Elizabeth's class, Audrey discussing Jason's feelings for Elizabeth, etc. I detail the scenes and much as I can in my stories so you can get an idea of what the characters are talking about and their facial expressions. If I don't add enough details, I'm sorry. I admit it can be a little hard to describe things sometimes. If I write too much, please let me know, and I'll try not writing so much. It's mostly for your benefit so you can try picture the scene. Anyways, thanks for reading! Feel free to leave feedback so I know what you thought of the chapter! I hope you liked the scenes between Jason and Elizabeth in this chapter. Until next time!