Title of Story: Second Chances in Disguise-Chapter 3

Author's Penname: Alyssa Smith

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Summary: It's in the first chapter

Disclaimer: Don't own A Walk to Remember and never will

Author's Note: Don't forget to give me a review! I want to know how to improve.

              Landon reached for the door of the Café but someone else's hands got there first. He looked up. "Oh, hey Selena," Landon said.

             "Landon! Hey, what's up?" Selena said happily. She was so giddy when she went to sleep last night she could barely fall asleep. 'It may not be a date, but hey, it's a beginning. We can treat it like a date, he just doesn't have to know that.'

            "Not much," Landon said normally. He wasn't giddy and he had slept like a log. He had cried himself to sleep. 'I sure hope she doesn't think this is a date. But, I need to talk about Jamie, and I can't do therapy.'

             "Ok, so tell me, what happened after you asked Jamie for help," Selena asked after they ordered the food.

             "Well this is how it went," Landon began

"What'd ya want, Carter? I've known you for years and you've never been the first to say hello."

 "I need help with my lines."

"Landon Carter is asking me for help?"

 "Yeah."

"Okay…I'll pray for you."

"Jamie…no…look…I really need help…"

"You've obviously never asked anybody for help before, right? A request like yours requires…flattery and groveling. It has to be for the common good of everybody."

"It IS for the common good, okay. Eddie Zimmerhoff deserves the best. Please"

"Okay."

"One condition though Carter."

"What's that?"

"You have to promise you won't fall in love with me."

          "Really? She said that you shouldn't fall in love with her? Why?" Selena asked. 'Hmm, maybe this Jamie was playing the hard to get approach…Maybe I should try that'

          "Because she knew she was going to die. When she told me she had leukemia she had said "I don't need a reason to be angry with god." She didn't want love to be the reason," Landon replied.

          "Oh, continue," Selena said.

           "Well, time went by and I guess you could say we bonded. She told me about this list she made of things she wanted to do in her life. One time I saw her at the cemetery and I went to see what she was doing. She was looking at the stars through a telescope she built when she was 12. Anyways, during the play, she was so beautiful as she sang. I knew I had fallen in love with her right there and then," Landon said. He knew he was leaving out the part where he had been a jerk to Jamie, but he didn't feel like discussing it.

              "When she sat down and finished singing, I leaned over and kissed her. It wasn't in the script but no one knew that except the people in the play. Well, my ex-girlfriend and my so-called friends decided to play a prank on Jamie. They printed out and pasted out flyers of her head on some other women's scantily clad body. Well, I told them off and then Jamie and I spent all our time together"

              "One day she told me. She told me she had leukemia. I got so mad and angry. Angry with her for not telling me and angry at so many other things. I asked my dad to help but he couldn't and I got mad at him. I just got mad at the world. I calmed down and decided to spend our time together. I built her a big telescope in her front yard so that she could see the comet coming by. I proposed to her and we got married and spent the summer together. At the end of it, she passed away," Landon finished. Tears were flowing down Landon's face but he didn't care. He had gotten it out. He felt relieved. "Maybe we should go now," Landon said. Selena paid the bill and the two walked back to the dormitories.   

              "Thank you for letting me talk about her," Landon said.

              "Oh, it was nothing. That was a very sad story," Selena said.

              "Well, it really means a lot to me. It feels good to finally get it off my chest," Landon said.

              "Do you know what else might make you feel better?" Selena asked.

              "No, what?" Landon said.

              "This," Selena said and she leaned in to kiss him. But, Landon quickly pushed her away.

              "Selena have you listened to anything I've said. I thought you said you understood?" Landon said.

              "Look, I listened. I didn't see anything about the story besides infatuation. I don't get what made her so special and why you won't let go!" Selena said but then suddenly stopped. She paused for a moment and continued, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. I just got caught up in the moment. I really didn't mean it. Landon, please forgive me."

               "Jamie was everything to me. She made me better. She inspired me. She made me want to be more. Did you know that it's because of her I'm in medical school? I came to study so that some that I might cure cancer. If I hadn't met her, I'd be on the same wrong road I was on. I'd probably be asking if you wanted fries with that at the local McDonalds. She was more than my girlfriend or my wife. She was my muse, my angel," Landon said.

               "Oh. You didn't tell me that. Now, I understand. I'm sorry," Selena said.

               "Are you really? Or is this part of some other plan of yours to make me forget her?" Landon said angrily.

               "I'm really sorry. She must've been special in order to change you so much. You're a wonderful guy Landon. She is so lucky to have you. You never did anything wrong to her," Selena said softly.

               "No, I did," Landon said as he remembered how he had treated her.

               "What do you mean?" Selena asked.

               "I didn't tell you one part of the story. That day after I met her at the cemetery, she came up to me in school. She said hi and confirmed our meeting after school. I was in front of my so-called friends and I didn't want them to think she and I were friends so I said 'In your dreams'. I had to work really hard to make it up to her. I'm lucky she took me back," Landon said so softly it was almost a whisper.

               "If you could go back, would you change that?" Selena asked.

               "Yes, I'd change a lot of things. There are so many things I should've done. So many things I should've noticed. I was too blind and stupid then to recognize how special she was and I realized it all too late. She left me so quickly. Why did she have to go? Why did she have to die? I loved her," Landon said and sobbed.

               "Then, change them," Selena whispered. Landon was too busy crying otherwise he would've seen the sudden change of Selena. She no longer was the college girl with golden blonde hair that had a crush on him. She was the figure who had taken a grandfather from his grandchild. She was a worker of the monarch. She was unearthly.

               "How? What do you mea.." Landon began and trailed off as he looked up at the sight before him. "Who, who are you?" he managed to spit out.

               "Me? I am Selena. I am part of the people who serve the Queen of Death," Selena's unearthly voice spoke. "It is we who decide who lives and who dies." The monarch had a name. Apparently, she was queen.

               "You decide who lives and who dies? Then you took Jamie from me. Why? Why did you do that to us?" Landon said angrily.

               "It was her time to go. Do not defy me, Landon. You are talking with a much greater force than you," Selena said with a rise in volume. She waved her hand and a portal appeared. "Step into the portal. You said you wanted to change the mistakes you made. Then go, here's your opportunity. Here's your second chance. I was to give you your second chance," Selena said, paused for a moment, and added on "in disguise."

Author's Note: Ok, that's all for today. I'll write more tomorrow. And don't forget, R&R. Also, I'd like to thank Jamie Sommers for helping with the movie dialogue. Read her stories folks, they're really good. ~Alyssa