Thanks for the reviews! This is going to be the last chapter for season 1 so the next chapter will be season 2. I know you will all like this chapter. These Tim scenes are hard to write so tell me if I'm doing a good job portraying him.
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One Day til State
Tomorrow was State and to say that everyone in the town of Dillon, Texas was anxious was an understatement. Nobody thought that Panthers could get this far because of what happened to Jason Street but they were here and they were ready to conquer.
All the football players and cheerleaders were in the High School parking lot ready to get on the buses to Austin where the State Championships would be held. Parents were even here to so they could say goodbye and wish the Panther boys good luck. The Streets were one of the families that were there.
"I want you two to be on your best behavior." Joanne said sternly
"Mom. We're eighteen and sixteen. I think we can handle it." said Jason trying to not stifle a laugh
"Yeah Mom it's not like we're going off to college or anything and it's impossible to sneak out of the rooms there's security everywhere." Addie pointed out
Joanne nodded with satisfaction knowing her children could not cause trouble "Alright well. I love you both and good luck out there. And we'll see you after the game's over."
"And Jason I'd like to say I'm so proud of you becoming coach. Your friends are lucky to have you coaching them." said Mitchell then he shook Jason's hand
"Thanks Dad. That's mean a lot coming from you." said Jason
Both children hugged their parents as they headed to the buses. Once the two Street teenagers were alone, Jason turned to his sister. "Before you go on the bus we need to talk." he said in a serious voice
Addie gave a confused look "Talk about what?"
"You know what."
"No Jay I don't-" Addie said until she realized what he probably meant, "Tim?"
Jason nodded "I know what's going on between you two."
Addie stood their shocked "How did you-"
"You guys have spending a lot of time together and the way Tim acted at the Dinner last night pretty much gave it away. You came home crying last night because of him didn't you?" asked Jason
Addie nodded; she guessed that her plan failed of trying not cry last night if Jason knew about it "I don't want to talk about Jay. I mean it's not something a girl likes to talk about with her older brother who happens to be the guy's best friend."
"Well too bad because you are. What happened? Did he try something with you?" Jason said angrily
"No! Well not really......I stopped it before it got any further. But don't worry; nothing won't happen between us ever again." Addie said
Jason tried to hold off his anger. Of all people Addie could like, it had to be his best friend and the guy with the worst reputation in Texas. "So it's over between you two?"
Addie nodded "It was over before it even started."
Jason couldn't help but hear a little regret in Addie's voice but he didn't care. As long as Addie wasn't with Tim like that he was happy. "Good. There's plenty of fish in the sea Sis."
But there's only one fish I want "Yeah I know. I gotta go to my bus Jay. They're leaving soon." Addie said, changing the subject
Jason nodded "Yeah you're right. I'll see you after the game and stay out of trouble."
"I'll try." Addie said with a smile before Jason was out of sight Addie wished Jason good luck as she got onto the bus.
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When Tim Riggins boarded the boy's bus he looked and found his best friend sitting in a window seat in the back of the bus. "Hey 6. Mind if I sit with you?"
Jason turned to Tim and glared at him. "Yeah I do."
Tim just stood there. Why was 6 all mad at him? He thought everything was good between them, even Jason said they were friends again. Then it hit him, Jay probably knows about him and Addie since what happened to between them last night. Tim left the seat where Jason was sitting and at a seat farther back in the bus all by himself.
Matt Saracen was sitting next to Jason Street when he got on and i obvious to everyone on that bus that Matt was nervous as hell, more nervous then he normally was every day. "Calm down Saracen. You'll do fine. I taught you well. Rest on your laurels." Jason encouraged
"Y-You said I had no laurels!" Matt said nervously
Jason laughed "Two weeks ago you didn't but now you do."
"T-That didn't make me feel better." Matt said truthfully
"Listen to music or something. That use to help me." Jason suggested
Matt nodded "Yeah- Yeah I will." then he slipped his headphones on his ears and he was silent. Jason laughed; maybe they could give Matt some of those anti-anxiety pills before State. He might scare himself to death.
Before the bus took off Coach Taylor laid down the ground rules and room assignments. "Alright gentlemen the ground rules for the hotel will be no drinking, no girls, no sneaking out. You must be in your rooms by 9:00 and lights out at 10:00. If any of you breaks these rules you will be benched for the State Championships. Is that understood?"
"Yes sir." said the entire bus
Coach Taylor then began to announce room assignments. Bradley and Jared would be rooming together, Matt and Smash would be also, and finally much to Jason's liking he and Tim Riggins would be room buddies.
Coach Taylor nodded "Good. Now that you know the rules we can get this show on the road and win State!"
The entire bus cheered as the buses left the high school parking lot, heading for State and one of the biggest days of their lives.
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Back on the cheerleader's bus Addie was sitting next to Lyla, she was glad Beth was all the way in the back with here friends, leaving Addie alone.
"So have you guys made plans for the wedding at all? Addie asked
Lyla shook her head "No. But trust me on this, we won't be getting married til I graduate."
"That's more than 2 years away! I thought Jason wanted to get married soon?"
"Getting married in high school is too young. Most married couples in high school don't last."
"And getting married like a month after high school and right before college is?"
Lyla sighed "I love your brother more than anything but I don't know if I'm ready for marriage. I know he's your brother an all but I feel like he's only doing this to prove to my father he can take care of me instead of loving me."
"Lyla trust me on this. My brother loves you more than anything. He may be my brother but you need to talk to him about it. Don't get all his hopes up on getting married when your not a hundred percent sure." Addie said sincerely
"Where do you get advice like this? It's like you speak from experience even though you haven't gone through anything like this." Lyla asked in dismay
Addie laughed "Oprah teaches you a lot of things."
"So what does Oprah say about you and Tim Riggins?" Lyla asked with a mischievous smile on her face.
"So what do you think of that new Black Eyed Peas song? It's so annoying in my opinion."
"Addie...." Lyla trailed off "Don't change the subject. What happened between you two? And don't say there's nothing going on because I see the way you two look at each other."
"How do we look at each other?" Addie asked curiously
"Like you love each other."
Addie laughed "Tim is not in love me."
"Fine then if it isn't love then he really cares about you then." Lyla corrected
"Not anymore after what happened last night." Addie muttered
"What happened?" asked Lyla
Addie sighed "Alright so last night I went to Tim's house to confront him on how he was a jerk to Jared at the Dinner and we got into this fight how Jared wasn't good enough for me and what not and then I asked him if he liked me and if he was jealous that I went with Jared to the Dinner...and he kissed me. And we starting making out on his bed and all of the sudden I felt scared. I mean I've never kissed anyone like that before and the fact that Tim was one of my best friends like two weeks ago and now we're making out and I got scared and left."
"Did he try to stop you from leaving?"
Addie nodded "He told me what we were doing wasn't wrong. I just can't handle the fact that we can go from fighting to making out in a matter of minutes. I'm not ready for sex." Addie admitted
"Does he know how you feel about it?"
"No but I'm just saving myself from heartbreak because Tim will not give up sex for me. What teenage guy would?"
"Maybe you should hear that from him instead of just assuming he would say that. If he truly cares about you then he'll respect your decision and if he doesn't then he's a jerk who doesn't deserve you."
Addie nodded "You're right. I need to tell him how I feel. Your not so bad at the advice giving Lyla. I wish you were my sister now, your handing this better then Jason."
Lyla smiled "He's your older brother. It's in his DNA to hate the guy you like and the fact that Tim's his best friend makes it worse because he knows Tim and he's probably afraid you won't be his little sister anymore."
"Guy's are weird." Addie said. It may have sounded immature but that's the only way she could put it. Like they don't need to be all protective, we're old enough to handle it by ourselves.
"So talk to him tonight." Lyla suggested
"I can't. The guys won't be allowed to go near us at all and I'm not going to risk Tim's playing time just to solve our relationship."
Lyla nodded "You have a point. But if it helps I hope things work out between you. The best way this could end is you and Tim on a double date with me and your brother."
Addie laughed "Yeah that would be funny with Jay glaring at Tim the whole time. Sounds like a good time to me."
After a moment of silence Lyla began to laugh
"What?" Addie asked, confused
"I remember the first day of school when you were grossed out by your brother and I kissing."
Addie laughed at the thought of the memory "Yeah and I also remember you saying I'll find a guy and love him like the way you love Jason."
Lyla nodded "Who knew how right I would be."
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While the football players and cheerleaders were on the bus, Tami Taylor and Julie Taylor were in the car on the way to Austin.
"So Hun how are you and Matt doing lately."
"Mom you know I don't like to talk about it."
"I know honey but I'm your mother and you're my daughter. I just want a little more detail and how you and Matt have been."
Julie sighed "We're good. I got really lucky with him."
"You're right sweetie. If I could pick out a perfect first boyfriend for you it certainly would be Matt Saracen."
"And you once compared him to a serial killer and the Riggins boys." Julie added with a laugh
"I may have overreacted back then but haven't I gotten better?" asked Tami
"I suppose." Julie said
Tami smiled and remembered what she wanted to talk about with her daughter "Now Jules I don't want to sound like a nag but I want you to tell me the truth. Are you and Matt having sex?"
"MOM!"
Tami turned to her daughter "What! I have a right to know if my daughter is being safe even though there's no way in hell she should be having sex at 15!"
"Matt and I are not having sex. We've been dating for a month Mom!" Julie exclaimed
"I know honey but more and more girls are being pressured these days into sex and I just want you to know that you have every right to say no and don't let Matt pressure you into anything you don't want to do."
"It's too late to take back that joint I smoked last week." Julie muttered
Tami gasped "Julie Marie Taylor!"
Julie laughed "I'm kidding Mom. Chill it's just a joke."
"I don't think you should be making jokes in a serious conversation like this." Tami pointed out
"Why did you bring up the sex topic anyway? It was totally random."
Tami was silent. She might as well tell her the news. "Jules sweetie....I'm pregnant."
Julie turned to her mother slowly "Please tell me you're joking."
"I'm afraid not honey. I went to the doctors this morning and I'm a week along."
"Does Dad know?"
"Of course your father knows!" said Tami
"Couldn't you have a kid when I was little instead of having one when I'm 15."
"What's the difference?" asked Tami
"Nothing. It's just weirder since in a weird way this kid could be my kid."
"I don't even want to think about that." Tami said truthfully "But there's more news."
"What? Are you having twins?"
Tami shook her head "You're father got offered a job at TMU to be the quarterback coach and he accepted it."
"What? Please tell me we are not moving again!" Julie begged
"The jobs in Austin Jules. You'll like Austin, their ballet is amazing."
Julie now had tears in her eyes "I can't believe this! I finally start loving Dillon and having a great boyfriend and amazing friends you want to take me away from all of that. I don't care about stupid dance. I'm not leaving Dillon!" Julie cried
"You will because we are a family and we stick together and you didn't want to move to Dillon and look how that turned out."
"I don't care Mom I'm not leaving and you can't make. End of discussion."
"No not end of discussion." Tami said
"Mom please I don't want to talk. You just ruined my life in minutes."
Tami sighed "Fine. But your father and I will be talking about this tonight with you and you can't got out of it."
"Whatever." Julie muttered. All Julie wanted right now was to be in Matt's arms and just cry the ache of already missing him away.
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That night Addie lied awake in her bed. Much to her luck she all a room all by herself since her last name was the last name on the roster. Normally she would have loved the alone time but right now she could use the entertainment of someone instead of thinking about Tim. A knock on the door broke Addie out of her thoughts. She figured it was one the cheer girls asking to borrow something but when she opened the door she got the biggest surprise of her life.
"What the hell are you doing here? Do you not realize if you get caught you won't play tomorrow?" Addie whispered harshly as she let Tim in quickly
"I know but I need to talk to you." Tim said
"And it couldn't have waited til after the game tomorrow?"
"Not when things with you aren't good." Tim said then he took a deep breath "I'm sorry if I rushed things last night with you I really like you Addie and I've never felt like this with anyone before and I should've thought about how you were feeling."
"And I shouldn't have freaked out like that and just left without an explanation." Addie added
"It's fine. I just want to let you know I'm sorry and if I ruined things between us." Tim said then heading for the door. Before he left Addie called his name softly
"You didn't." said Addie
Tim nodded and gave a little smile "I'll see you after the game."
"Good luck." Addie wished
"Thank you." Tim drawled and then he was gone.
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"Where the hell were you Riggins? Do you realize I should tell Coach that you were out of the room past hours probably getting drunk." Jason said angrily
"So I guess I'm talking to Coach Street now then friend Street because I don't want to get confused. I'm a hundred percent sober 6. You can breath test me." Tim offered
"No thank you." Jason muttered "So where they hell were you then? Some rally girl wanted to give her best wishes."
"I wasn't with a rally girl." Tim said
Jason didn't want to ask the question he was about to ask but he had to. "Were you with my sister Riggins?"
"Yeah I was." Tim said without a pause
"Stay away from her. She's 16 and too young to get into that stuff with you of all people." Jason pointed out
"Yeah she's 16 and she's not a little kid anymore Jay, she can make her own decisions." Tim defended
"Girls forget what's right and wrong when it comes to you and I don't want my little sister to stuffer the consequences." Jason said
"I would never hurt Addie and in anyway 6. I've never said that about anyone before because I've never felt like this with any of the other girl." Tim said truthfully
"You're my best friend Timmy! Why here of all people?" asked Jason
"I don't know. I can't explain it but I'm a better person around her, she doesn't make me feel stupid."
Even though Jason was fuming mad he always knew when Tim was lying and right now Jason knew he was telling the truth.
"She's not having sex with you."
"I know that. I would never pressure her." Tim said
Jason sighed "You're lucky I don't tell Coach about you sneaking off after curfew but the guys on the team should not have to pay for your mistakes. Get to bed or I'm telling Coach." Jason said sternly as he got into bed.
Tim smirked "Yes Coach Street." Tim knew that Jason didn't hate him anymore. Now that everything between him and Addie and Jason was all good now all he needed to focus on was winning State."
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Today
Today was the State Championships. Today would be celebrated as if Christmas, your birthday, and the 4th of July were rolled up into one. Most people set out early to get amazing seats for the game. The cheerleaders woke up early so do their makeup and hair to help support the team. The football players woke up anxiously forgetting all their problems in life and just focusing on winning.
The game was about to begin. Both teams were out on the field ready to play their hearts. Too be honest most people in the crowd couldn't tell you who they think would win. The panthers were great but they were up against Ray "Voo Doo" Tatum one of the best quarterbacks in the nation. Before kick off started the Panthers were in a huddle
"Clear Eyes. Full Hearts." Matt began to chant
"CAN'T LOSE!" the rest of the team chanted back louder then ever so the whole stadium could hear them. And now the game has begun.
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The first half was over and to say things were bad was an understatement. The Panthers were getting killed with the score 26-0. Just as the boy's were walking back into the locker room during half time a bunch of reports ran up to Coach Taylor.
"Coach Taylor is it true? That you're leaving Dillon to coach at TMU? How has your team reacted?" asked one reporter
All the players stood their in shock, waiting for their Coach to deny the allegations.
"All I can say is that the future is changing." said Coach then he left into the locker room with the rest of the football players who were in definite shock over the news. Inside the locker room no one was making a sound. Morale was lower then it ever was before.
"I know that me leaving after the season is over is a big shock to you but I do not want it to affect your game today. You all have come so far these past few months after everything that has happened since that first game of the season. Right now I want you forget everything, the problems in your life, the news of my leaving Dillon and everything else that is bothering you. I want you to think of the people out there supporting you and I want to play and win this for them. Alright bring it in. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts-."
"CAN'T LOSE!" screamed the Panthers.
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It was now 4th quarter with one play left. The score was now 33-29 and the Panthers we're losing. They had to score this touchdown to win State.
As Matt was on the sidelines listening to Coach Taylor's play he interrupted him. "Coach I want to use the play Jason came up with. It will work trust me." Matt said more sure then he was in his entire life.
Coach Taylor turned to Jason "Do you think it will work?"
Jason nodded "Without a doubt."
Coach Taylor turned to Matt "Alright let's do it."
As the play began Matt passed the ball to Tim Riggins who made it through many blocks by the opponent team and finally Tim passed it to Smash Williams who was on the other side of the field. It was a long shot but Smash caught it without a problem and he ran faster then he ever ran. The whole stadium was cheering so loudly Smash ran faster...until he got to the end zone.
Immediately streamers and balloons began to fall as all the announcers screamed "Panther's have won State!" over and over again. The Panthers finally did it. After five months of hard work and set backs. The Panthers made one of the biggest comebacks of all time. Anyone who was able to rush to the field did. Tami and Julie rushed to Coach Taylor while parents ran to their sons and girlfriends ran to their boyfriends. Addie ran to her brother and hugged him tightly. But as soon as she left him she immediately found the person she wanted to see more then anything.
"Congratulations. I'm so proud of you!" Addie cheered as she hugged Tim. After they broke away from the hug all Tim could do was smile. Not the smile he used on everyone but the smile only seen was he was truly happy. Without thinking he leaned into Addie and pressed his lips against her soft beautiful lips. That's all he wanted to do right now was kiss her and never let her go.
After they broke away, Tim held his breath and his muscles tense, hoping Addie's reaction of him kissing her would be good. He finally breathed when he saw her smile.
"I want to be with you Addie."
"I'm not ready for sex." was all she could say
Tim nodded "I know that and I respect that and I'll wait til your ready but will you please be my girl?"
Addie laid her hand on his chest and looked up at him with a twinkle in her eye. "I'd like that." Addie said then she kissed him once again. She knew that she could never let him go. He was that spark in her life that would never go out. Tim was that spark she had been looking for and she knew that being with him is all she ever wanted.
Tim looked over to where Jason was. When he looked at Jason straight into the eye, Jason nodded, an approval without words. Once he kissed her again he realized his life was perfect right now. He got the girl that believed in him when no one else did. He also knew in his heart he would never let a girl like her go.
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Season 1 is done! I never thought I would have made it this far! I'd like to thank everyone who was supported me through this whole thing. I hope you loved the ending because it has been in my mind since chapter 1. Please review this chapter, it would mean so much to me. The next chapter will come soon. READ AND REVIEW!