Why did she say that?
"That movie was great!" Zoey exclaimed as she linked arms with James on the way back to the dorm. Suddenly Zoey heard her name and banging and looked in the direction in which it came from only to see Lola and Quinn hanging out the window telling her to get there as soon as she could. She looked at James and grinned leaning in to give him a quick kiss and taking off.
"See you later Zo" James said as she disappeared through the door of the dorm.
She came through the door not seeing who was on her bed and proceeded to ask "Why did you have to interrupt me while on a date with the best guy in the world?" That was all Chase needed to hear as he slipped out the still open door. He proceeded to walk out the front of the girls dorm and straight to the beach he had to be alone with his thoughts and what he had just heard. Even when he walked past a stunned Michael and Logan he acted as if he didn't even notice them, well he really hadn't.
Well we just wanted to let you know that there is a surprise on your bed. They looked up and realized that Chase wasn't there anymore. Lola and Quinn shot each other puzzled looks. They hadn't seen or heard him leave. In the place that Chase once occupied was a stack of letters from England that he had brought to surprise her with. She took the stack and started reading the first one dated the day after their date over the web cam. He hadn't sent them to her because he didn't want to scare her about how he felt.
He knew the path from the campus to the beach like the back of his hand he had made it so many times that he didn't even notice that he had passed the best friends he had left at PCA. He finally made it to the beach and lay down on the rocks. Why did he have to let it be a surprise that he was coming back? Maybe he wouldn't have just had his heart crushed. He could have sworn he heard it break when she said those words. How could she say that after all that they had been through, all that he had done for her could she really forget about him after just a few months. He fell asleep on the rocks with Zoey's scent still on his clothes. He didn't even know if he wanted to wake up ever again.
While Zoey read the first letter Lola and Quinn decided not to tell her that they hadn't come in the mail but that Chase had brought them with him when he came back to surprise her. When she was finished the letter she fell asleep with a big smile on her face smelling his scent on the letters not realizing that just 30 minutes before he had been lying where she now slept.