Here I am! I am super sorry about not updating, days and weeks pass by fast. Anyways, I now am so excited that finally this is the chapter you have been waiting for! This is the big, HUGE one... anyways, just a few more and then we're done, with an epilogue, as well...
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It had been 2 weeks...
It had been 2 weeks. 2 weeks since their breakup and everyone's futures were suddenly written up on paper when acceptance letters were mailed. Their lives were drastically changing right before the orbs of his eyes.
How could anything define the broken heart? He was trying to understand this as he sat down at night, in front of the full moon, looking out at the fountain and its pouring water. The rain had always seemed to calm him down, he prayed for rain, on this dreary night, to wash away his mistakes, his past life, he couldn't wait for the reinvention of college, he could finally escape from the drama of senior year, his past relationship with the girl that he wasn't sure he wanted to let go of just yet.
Was he in love with Lana? For the past 7 months, he wondered that, or was he just in love with the idea of Lana? The perfect, beautiful girlfriend that embodied what every guy would want…. He was in love with the fact that he thought she would always stay near his side and never betray him like Zoey had once did for him, but just because someone broke your heart doesn't mean it is truly the end of something, he could never call it off with Zoey, how could he? He had fallen harder for her more than he ever did with anyone else, no matter how perfect Lana may be…
He knew he could find many other girls than Zoey. There was a whole world out there filled with new options, but the one that would not change would be Zoey….
He wished he never yelled at her, he wished he ended things with Lana earlier, so he wouldn't have to transfer out of the University of Rhode Island and have to convince his father to switch back to UCLA, because Lana truly was one of the only reasons why he would go there, she was wrong about that…
But she didn't deserve the fact that he would never love her as much as she deserves…so now he was stuck in the middle, his original position where he had started…
Zoey had given up on him after a brief "infatuation" with him, and he was scared that timing truly would never be accurate with them, he liked her when she didn't, she liked him when he had a girlfriend, when they had finally considered dating, they were in two separate places, and waiting for the other seemed like an impossible task while for other lovers, it seemed like the easiest compared to other obstacles…it seemed like waiting for another individual would be too long, too unbearable for their already-fragile age…
But Chase knew that somewhere deep in his heart, despite how much they had gone through in their PCA careers, he would always wait for the other side for her to come around, because he loved her, and he knew she loved him… She just needed to see that…
With that, he raced off to her dorm room to finally tell what was fate in the making ever since their first meeting
He raced through wandering stares, averted eyes, Michael's glare, Logan and Quinn's hand-holding; he raced through it all to reach the home where he belonged, the home he found in the girl that had accepted him…
He ran so fast, so hard, he was puffy and sweating by the time he reached where he was supposed to be. He knocked on the door, and there, Zoey stood, with regular jeans and a T-shirt, and her hair in a messy bun. "Chase, hey. What are you doing here?"
He ignored everything else she had to say, and kissed her hard on the lips, making her almost tumble backwards. She maintained balance and put a hand through his hair, breathing a sigh of relief and let go.
Silence followed. "Wow," she finally breathed out.
"Zoey, I love you. Not in a cheesy friendship way and not in that weird state we say it in. I love you, I have since the moment I laid my eyes on you, and in honesty, I know the timing has never been right for us, and I know that we've never been at the right place, but I can't change the way I feel, because there's this deep feeling inside of me that tells me that we're meant to be, and Lana and I broke up and.."
"Wait, you and Lana broke up?"
"She knew, she knew me inside and out, knew that she could never replace the place that I hold for you. I promised I'd wait for you, and I did, and I want us now…I don't care how much longer I would have had to wait for you, but I still do, I still need you in order for me to carry on. I don't want to go to Rhode Island, I'm not going to Rhode Island, I'll transfer or something to New York, I'll manage a long-distance relationship with you, I'll do whatever…"
Zoey put a hand over his mouth, laughed, and kissed him softly back. "Chase, stop it. Stop rambling for once. I love you too, and not in that cheesy romantic way, but in a way that I will always love you. And despite our timing, we'll fix it, just as sure as I am that I promise that I will now wait for you, for forever."
And finally, for the first time in that whole year, it seemed as if the pieces of the puzzle, the mess that was scattered now found its way back to each other, through two teenage soul mates…
Finally! I know, this is what you have been waiting for...
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