Just Another Regualar Monday
Installment 5
Disclaimer: I do not own of the In a Heartbeat characters. Shame I would have fun with them.
Anyway I own nothing, but the idea for this story. I also do not own any music I might use
throughout this series. I will try to list the music and the artist at the bottom of each
installment. And I do own the characters I add Ophie, Cordie, any animals, and any other characters that might pop up. If you want to use any of my characters email me or put it in your review and I'll give you "perrmission". Thanks for reading my nonsense creations.
Summary: This is a future fic about Catie, Jamie, Val, Tyler, Brooke, Jasmine, and Hank. It starts off in 2004 and then into 2008. So
this is probably going to be a long fic. If you have any suggestions just email me or put it in
your review.
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Hank and Jasmine sat on the orange seats of a busteling airport waiting for his best friend in the world, Tyler Connel, to come pick them up. He had come on recruiting buisiness, in other words trying to recruit ,the scared of commetment, Val Linear into getting engaged to the love of her life. It shouldn't be that hard he thought to himself.
Jasmine fidgeted slightly as Hank moved to put his arm around her. She only fidgeted because of the coolness of his wedding ring. She was truly tired after 6 hours in the plane from Riley, North Carolina to Seattle, and the pains of being 8 monthes pregnant weren't that great either. It was a girl and the name had already been decided years before she had been conceived, she was Maddison Valerie.
Tyler Connel walked to the other side of the set of bright orange chairs to see his partner in crime. He waited anxiously for Hank and his wife to see him.
"Hey stranger!" Jasmine squealed.
"Hey you guys!"
"Hi Connel!"
The two young men grasped in a hug and through tearful smiles patted eachother on the back. When the hug broke off Tyler grabbed Jasmine's bags and led the couple to the car. Hank and Jasmine followed with Hank's bag and the labor bag just in case.
"How was your flight? That's great! Ohh Val will be so happy to see you guys." He was talking a mile a minute and it was painfully obvious he was worried and nervous about the night had in store.
"Hold on lover boy, think slow, us pregnant women can't keep up."
Her husband chuckled at that, but he remembered what it was like before he asked Jasmine. He had been a nervous wreck and Tyler and Val had told him to calm down and that everything would be fine. So now it was his turn to do the calming down.
"Tyler what are you worried about? You guys have been dating for years, and she loves you."
"I vaguely remember that speech Mr. I'm Married and I don't have to worry about this anymore."
"No I have to worry about making the tempermental change my attitude every ten minutes mommy happy."
"Ugh, you get pregnant and see how you act Mr. you have two legs you get your own water."
"That would be something to see. I would pay big bucks to see that fiasco," Tyler retorted.
"Fine when your wife gets pregnant I want you to go through the stages with her. I'm talking buying a belly, throwing up with her in the morning, and not driving when she gets too big to fit behind the wheel."
Hank was cracking up at the idea of seeing his best friend walking around downtown Seattle with a belly of foam and a prenatial clothing on. The idea was to humerous not to be made fun of.
"Well Tyler what are you gonna do when she goes into labor."
"Shut-up Hank," Tyler said while cocking his head. " I never said I was going to do it."
"Ohh but you will when I tell your wife about the deal."
"First off I don't have a wife, yet, secondly I wouldn't fit into those big clothes you have to wear, and thirdly are you insane."
"Don't worry Ty she's been like this ever since she started taking the prenatial vitamens."
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Val Linear walked through her bedroom door brushing her wetened blonde hair with her fingers. She was tired from a long day of classes and trying to take care of her best friend who had left a note that she had gone home with Jamie. "Those two! They just need to get it over with already. People already have pools going as to when they're gonna get together." she thought exasperatedly to herself. She turned around before her mirror, her shoulder length hair needed a trim and her sweater jeans look was boring. But that was the price of 4 years of pre-med, it was a wonder Tyler never complained about it.
Princess, the three-year old gray persian, meowed of hunger and interupted her gazing. Val bounced to the kitchen to feed the watery wet food to the cat. It was her anniversary and she was feeding a cat wet food. "What a pathetic useless day", she thought out loud.
The purple phone sang it's calling and screamed for the young woman to pick it up. She walked with her hair in a mess on top of her head and picked up the phone and tried in vain to sound like she was happy. .
"Hello?"
"Hey Val it's your sister."
"Which one", she teased. Brooke had spent countless hours talking to her about how big and unusual thier family was.
"Funny, but here's the news." Brooke took a deep breath and before she could spill the scoop Val impatiently interupted.
"Well?
"Mom and Dad are adopting!" She said with exhaustion.
There was complete and utter silence over the phone. No-one said anything and everything seemed to be going in slow motion on both sides of the phone. After a few minutes of hard breathing and screaming thinking Val spoke in her rational and calm sisterly voice she had practiced on every day for years.
"Well here's another intresting thing to write in our scrap books."
Brooke took a second to digest the one-liner Val, her over-achieving sister from Mars, had just said. She didn't want to really think it was going to happen, but if Val was normal with it, it was downhill.
"Are you insane, I mean I know they are and Nick and Ophie are! What the heck is happening to this world?!? Am I the only sane human being?!? Life is too short and complicated and now this!"
"Brooke stop being so dramatic! It's okay, I mean we don't know whether it's a baby or a teenager."
"You mean to tell me you're okay with this?!"
"Brooke, think through this rationally. They're great parents, and kids need parents, so there ya go."
"Ugh! They're almost 55 already and by the time the kid is 17 Mom and Dad will be seniors!"
A beep chimed in before Val could give her thought through retort.
"Brooke hold on that's probably Tyler saying he can't make it tonight."
Val pushed the yellowed with age button and said her hello.
"Val?"
"Tyler. Lemme guess, you have to study tonight and you're really sorry, but somehow you'll make it up to me. Am I right?"
"You know me too well. Love you."
"Love you too."
"See ya tommorrow. And I'll call you before I go to bed."
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Brooke finally hung up the phone with her sister after argueing about the new crisis in her life. She needed to get to bed soon if she was going to wake up for Ophie and Nick's story and pictures. Her blue bedspread gave a refuge to her sore back. Coach Marshal had been especailly hard on them today since thier huge running meet was coming up fast. It was where the colleges all came and watched and offered scholarships to the best performers. Track was her sport since "Auntie" Catie had talked her out of cheerleading, besides the idea of cheering for pathetic jocks was beyond gross worthy. Her head was throbbing and it was hitting the pillow when her window opened and in came Cordelia, Ophie's twin sister.
"Hey Brooke sorry it's late, but I heard the news and thought you needed an understanding friend," she put major imphesis on the word understanding. She and her sister Ophie, though they looked alike, they often had nothing in common.
"Hey Cordie. Yeah, the idea of having another sibling and one that will be so much younger than I am is depressing and way too much drama for one weekend."
Cordie stepped into the room and sat on the window seat keeping her distance, but still being there. Her and Brooke hadn't been best friends or even friends for very long. So it was best just to act comforting and distant.
"I'm just tired and need some sleep and tomorrow I can digest this," Brooke thought oud loud.
"Okay well I just came to check on you."
"Why don't you just stay the night; we both have to wake up early any way."
"Sure."
She went to the guest bed and laid her head on the pillow and thought about Brooke and how they were almost the same. She would never tell Brooke or anyone these thoughts, but it was true. They both had too many siblings, despite the fact that Cordie's were bioligical, and they each had loved and lost.
"Cordie night and thanks for worrying."
"No problem. See ya bright and early," Cordelia replied in dismay.
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Catie tried in vain to call Tyler and tell him that Val was at home.
"Idiot, he left his cell phone off," she thought silently.
"Catie you hungery?"
"Would you stop babying me already? I'm not in a full body cast you know."
"Sorry...but I'm ordering the pizza anyways."
"Great comback Jamie."
"I knew you would think so. Now do you want pepperoni's, or anchovies, or hamburger."
"Jamie Hamlet Waitte I'm still a vegetarian."
"Ohh damn I thought maybe that would change since yesterday...I'm not ordering the pinnapple crap."
"Fine order me a salad."
"Whatever, do you want pinapple in that dearest," he said with oozing with sarcasim.
"Jamie come here and shut-up."
"Okay Mommy," he said with a mock of enthusasim.
Jamie walked over to Catie and sat down next to her feet and put them gently into his lap.
"I think I love you so what am I so afraid of, of a love I'm not so sure of," he sang pathetically.
Catie's giggle started bubbling in her throat till she could no longer contain herself.
"That is the stupidest thing you have ever sang in your life. You don't even like David Cassidy."
"It fit the moment," he replied with a breath taking grin and his brown chocholaty eyes lit with contentment.
"You are so....."
"Charming, cute, interesting, handsome, funny, lovable, warm-hearted, daring but safe."
"Not quite."
"Well I love you too," he said sarcastically and with a small grin just to let her know he really did. He got up with that and walked over to the other side of the couch and put her head in his lap and took her small hand in his.
"I'm hungry."
Jamie laughed whole-heartedly and then leaned over and kissed her with all he felt and all that he could ever feel for one person. She in return kissed as passionatly as him and enjoyed it as much as her new found , or rather old found, lover did. When the kiss naturally ended she looked up at him and smiled as brightly as Val did when she saw Tyler.
"Ohh gosh we're going to turn into those old lovey-dovey annoying as hell couples aren't we," she whined.
"Maybe....you gotta a problem with that?"
"But won't it ruin that whole tough boy attitude you've been working on since you could ride a....Barbie Car," she teased with a glitter in her hazel eyes.
"Mom showed you those Barbie car pictures didn't she!"
"No Ophie and Cordie did." She started to giggle as she remembered Jamie, her Jamie, in the pink and purple Barbie car sticking two thumbs up.
"Well you know me always a rebel."
"Yeah and without a cause too."
"So whatcha think about cooking me some spaggetti." She said after a moment of silence.
"Do you want pinnapples?" The story behind the pinapples had been what made him realize he was in love with one Catie Roth. She had ordered a pizza with pinapples and cheese and was nibbling on it when the pinapple juice squirted onto a bussiness man's suit. She had said oops and I hope you don't need that today. Her nose had crinkled and it was the way she had held back the laugh and had made a face of apolgy, but her eyes had hinted of inside laughter and embarrassment. That's the moment he had known, but he would her that when they were old a gray. But for now they would deal with her mom and his little annoying sisters. He also needed to call his mom and see when Ophie and Cordelia were ariving and check on the baby.
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Tyler, Hank, and Jasmine entered the couple's hotel room and started to unpack the luggage into the chest drawers and then hang the clothes. All were tired, but they had a long night ahead of them. The plan was to call Val and tell her to go to her car and dial Tyler's cell phone number and follow his directions to the Plaza hotel where she would find Jamie and Jasmine waiting for her and they would give her directions to the courtyard of thier campus. At the courtyard the flood lights would turn on and out come Tyler with a picnic basket and a bottle of wine. He would give her the necklace he had bought for her birthday and say happy anniversary. She would probably be a bit disappionted, but like Val wouldn't show it. Then he would take her to the rented theater, his step-father had bought for the night, and show her slides of thier childhood and pictures of them now. Catie and Hank would come in through the rear entrance and carry in the ring and the roses. That's when he would kneel and pop the question, and like Val she would smile through tears and then loose it when she saw the two carat diamond ring. The ring had been his grandmother's and then added on by his mother for this. Now all he had to do was call Catie and Jamie and tell them the long and thought through plan.
"Ty call Jamie and Catie already, you've gotta get Val to the hotel by ten otherwise the courtyard lights won't turn on a elevenas planned."
He picked up the phone as advised by Hank and called the dueo. Jamie picked up and seemed to be a little preoccupied.
"Hey Tyler, can you wait a sec Catie just threw some spaggetti at me?"
"Huh?"
"Ohh Catie's spending the night and we're having a food fight, because she's mad that I didn't tell her that she had to make the desert."
"But Cate hates to cook."
"That's the point. Anyway what's up? Catie stop it's Tyler." he yelled to the young woman.
"Ohh can you be at the Plaza hotel in twenty minutes?"
"Why?"
Tyler then explained the plan and then had to talk to Catie and explain it all over agian. She of course wanted to know why she hadn't been notified of this when everyone else was. Jamie answered that for her, she couldn't keep a secret from Val especially this one.
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Val was sleeping in her bed when she was awakened by her phone. The yellow room made everything seem hazy to her already tired mind. She was exhausted and the idea that the person on the other line didn't know this was revolting. All she wanted to do was sleep and then wake up when it was tomorrow.
"Val? It's Catie can you meet me at the Plaza hotel in ten minutes?"
"Catie Roth where are you?"
"At the hotel and you need to be here before it closes it's doors to the public."
"Fine I'll be there soon."
They both hung up and Catie went to see Tyler in the room and tell Jasmine and Jamie to get ready. The plan had changed when Catie pointed out that it would be stupid to tell Val to call Tyler, since Val already knew Tyler's cell phone number by heart.
Val got in her car, after changing fast into a short red dress and putting her hair into a small bun, and drove as fast as she could to the Plaza hotel, her curiosity was realing so to tune out her brain she turned on the radio and turned to music up as loud as she could stand. It was a song she had heard with Tyler at their prom. So she changed the channel to a song she had never heard before. It was an oldie that her mom used to sing to her when she was picked on by the kindergarden boy, that she had later found out, was trying to flirt with her.
I need love love
to ease my mind
I need to find find
someone to call mine
She turned into the Plaza's parking lot and walked to the ushered doors and walked through the already opened doors. She walked to the lobby and asked the secertary if Catie Roth was waiting for a Val Linear. The young brunette woman replied sweetly that Catie was not waiting, but a Jamie Waite was. He was in the smaller lobby to the back. Val walked to the lobby and found Jamie sitting on a bench with a purple flower and a note. "Hey Val, Catie couldn't make so she sent me. She said she was supposed to give you this, and directions to go to the next bench." "Jamie what the heck is going on?" "My lips are sealed." Val walked to the next bench and found Jasmine with a yellow flower and yet another note. Val squealed and hugged her best friend, other than Catie, and again asked what was happening and got the same reply.
but mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
I can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
you gotta trust good time
no matter how long it takes
Val read the note and followed the instructions by taking Jamie and Jasmine to the campus and going to the courtyard, where they stood in the dark for a few minutes with a flashlight Jamie supplied. The floodlights were suddenly on and Tyler walked from the North side of the campus towards her holding a basket and a bottle of wine. She smiled and turned to look for Jamie and Jasmine, but they had already disappeared. Tyler walked to her and kissed her on the forehead and laid down the checkered blanket.
"Tyler Connel what a surprize," she said with a mock of sarcasim and a hint of pleasure.
"Happy anniversary, he said while popping the wine corck and thrusting the jewlery box in her hand.
but how many heartaches
must I stand
before I find a love
to let me live again
right now the only thing
that keeps me hangin' on
when I feel my strength
yeah it's almost gone
Her heart skipped a beat,"this is it," she thought. This is the moment I've waited for my entire life and he isn't even down on one knee and isn't giving me the speech where he begs that I make him happy for the rest of his life and marry him. She decided to open the box since it was obvious Tyler wasn't. She sucked in a breath and let it go smally as to not show the dissappiontment in the silver and pearl necklace. It was enchanting, but not what she was expecting.
"Thank you Tyler," she said with as much enthusiasim she could muster. She leaned and gave him a small peck and took a sip of wine.
I remember mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
Tyler and Val quickly finished dinner and he took her hand and walked her to his car. She asked where they were going, but got no reply. So she got in and turned on the cd she had bought for him. He drove to the little theater and opened her passenger door, he was nervous as hell. She could tell he looked pale, but she thought nothing of it. He clasped her hand in his and walked her to the room where his life would change forever. "Ohh please let her say yes," he silently prayed.
Ohh why must I wait
how much more can I take
before love will lives
cause my heart to break
now I can't bear to live my life alone
I've grown impatient for a love to call my own
but when I feel that I can't go on
these precious words keep me hangin on
They sat down center and watched the silent film. Val teared up at the part where they were eight and he proposed and kissed her cheek. It was all so brilliant and fresh in her memory, though she never thought of it. He kissed her cheek and squeezed her hand as if to promise the best was to come. They watched the rest and when it finished Val was out of tissues. Hank and Catie as if on cue walked out of the side entrance and walked towards the couple, Catie holding a set of red, pink, purple, yellow, and white roses and Hank holding a box on a heart shaped pillow.
I remember mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
Val started to shake her head in disbelief and her tears were running all over her face and mouth that was now opened in a widened smile. Tyler was now in the row and kneeling and holding the little black box.
I can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said trust good time
no matter how long it takes
gotta wait
no love love don't come easy
but I keep on waiting anticipating
for that soft voice to talk to me at night
and some tender arms
me tight
but I keep on waiting
can't hurry love
no love don't come easy
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
"Valerie Maddison Linear, I've never met someone so enchanting and warm-hearted as you. And I don't think I ever will. So, it would be the stupidest thing I would have ever done to pass you up. Now, after years of being next to you and holding your hand, I'm asking you if I can hold your hand for the rest of our lives. Val will you marry me?"
Val couldn't see straight and it was all she could do to nod her head and kiss him lightly. She watched as the diamond slid perfectly onto her long slim fingers. Catie was crying and trying to keep herself upright, she was getting a little help from Jamie. Tyler was smiling wider than any other moment in his life, and watching as Val tried to wipe her mascra away from her face. Jasmine and Hank were nodding and holding eachother as if to say I remember this.
Catie's phone rang and interupted all the crying and laughing. It was one a.m and Catie had no idea who it could possibly be.
"Hello?"
"Catie?"
"Cordie?"
"What's wrong you sound like you're panicing?"
"Where's Jamie?"
"Right here. Hold on."
"Jamie,Cordie's on the line and she's panicing agian."
"Yeah it's probably just Cordelia telling me what time to expect Oph waking me up to take pictures of me while I look bad."
"No problem there. She can just come whenever she wants then," Catie teased. He nodded at her and then stuck the phone to his ear.
"Yeah Cordie."
"Jamie, our house caught on fire and we don't know if Mom, the baby, and Cordie are okay!"
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The songs used in this installment are in order as featured:
Coldplay-Yellow
Dido-Here With Me (roswell theme song)
Leigh Nash- Need to be Next to You
Dixie Chicks- Can't hurry Love (Runaway Bride Soundtrack)
Installment 5
Disclaimer: I do not own of the In a Heartbeat characters. Shame I would have fun with them.
Anyway I own nothing, but the idea for this story. I also do not own any music I might use
throughout this series. I will try to list the music and the artist at the bottom of each
installment. And I do own the characters I add Ophie, Cordie, any animals, and any other characters that might pop up. If you want to use any of my characters email me or put it in your review and I'll give you "perrmission". Thanks for reading my nonsense creations.
Summary: This is a future fic about Catie, Jamie, Val, Tyler, Brooke, Jasmine, and Hank. It starts off in 2004 and then into 2008. So
this is probably going to be a long fic. If you have any suggestions just email me or put it in
your review.
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Hank and Jasmine sat on the orange seats of a busteling airport waiting for his best friend in the world, Tyler Connel, to come pick them up. He had come on recruiting buisiness, in other words trying to recruit ,the scared of commetment, Val Linear into getting engaged to the love of her life. It shouldn't be that hard he thought to himself.
Jasmine fidgeted slightly as Hank moved to put his arm around her. She only fidgeted because of the coolness of his wedding ring. She was truly tired after 6 hours in the plane from Riley, North Carolina to Seattle, and the pains of being 8 monthes pregnant weren't that great either. It was a girl and the name had already been decided years before she had been conceived, she was Maddison Valerie.
Tyler Connel walked to the other side of the set of bright orange chairs to see his partner in crime. He waited anxiously for Hank and his wife to see him.
"Hey stranger!" Jasmine squealed.
"Hey you guys!"
"Hi Connel!"
The two young men grasped in a hug and through tearful smiles patted eachother on the back. When the hug broke off Tyler grabbed Jasmine's bags and led the couple to the car. Hank and Jasmine followed with Hank's bag and the labor bag just in case.
"How was your flight? That's great! Ohh Val will be so happy to see you guys." He was talking a mile a minute and it was painfully obvious he was worried and nervous about the night had in store.
"Hold on lover boy, think slow, us pregnant women can't keep up."
Her husband chuckled at that, but he remembered what it was like before he asked Jasmine. He had been a nervous wreck and Tyler and Val had told him to calm down and that everything would be fine. So now it was his turn to do the calming down.
"Tyler what are you worried about? You guys have been dating for years, and she loves you."
"I vaguely remember that speech Mr. I'm Married and I don't have to worry about this anymore."
"No I have to worry about making the tempermental change my attitude every ten minutes mommy happy."
"Ugh, you get pregnant and see how you act Mr. you have two legs you get your own water."
"That would be something to see. I would pay big bucks to see that fiasco," Tyler retorted.
"Fine when your wife gets pregnant I want you to go through the stages with her. I'm talking buying a belly, throwing up with her in the morning, and not driving when she gets too big to fit behind the wheel."
Hank was cracking up at the idea of seeing his best friend walking around downtown Seattle with a belly of foam and a prenatial clothing on. The idea was to humerous not to be made fun of.
"Well Tyler what are you gonna do when she goes into labor."
"Shut-up Hank," Tyler said while cocking his head. " I never said I was going to do it."
"Ohh but you will when I tell your wife about the deal."
"First off I don't have a wife, yet, secondly I wouldn't fit into those big clothes you have to wear, and thirdly are you insane."
"Don't worry Ty she's been like this ever since she started taking the prenatial vitamens."
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Val Linear walked through her bedroom door brushing her wetened blonde hair with her fingers. She was tired from a long day of classes and trying to take care of her best friend who had left a note that she had gone home with Jamie. "Those two! They just need to get it over with already. People already have pools going as to when they're gonna get together." she thought exasperatedly to herself. She turned around before her mirror, her shoulder length hair needed a trim and her sweater jeans look was boring. But that was the price of 4 years of pre-med, it was a wonder Tyler never complained about it.
Princess, the three-year old gray persian, meowed of hunger and interupted her gazing. Val bounced to the kitchen to feed the watery wet food to the cat. It was her anniversary and she was feeding a cat wet food. "What a pathetic useless day", she thought out loud.
The purple phone sang it's calling and screamed for the young woman to pick it up. She walked with her hair in a mess on top of her head and picked up the phone and tried in vain to sound like she was happy. .
"Hello?"
"Hey Val it's your sister."
"Which one", she teased. Brooke had spent countless hours talking to her about how big and unusual thier family was.
"Funny, but here's the news." Brooke took a deep breath and before she could spill the scoop Val impatiently interupted.
"Well?
"Mom and Dad are adopting!" She said with exhaustion.
There was complete and utter silence over the phone. No-one said anything and everything seemed to be going in slow motion on both sides of the phone. After a few minutes of hard breathing and screaming thinking Val spoke in her rational and calm sisterly voice she had practiced on every day for years.
"Well here's another intresting thing to write in our scrap books."
Brooke took a second to digest the one-liner Val, her over-achieving sister from Mars, had just said. She didn't want to really think it was going to happen, but if Val was normal with it, it was downhill.
"Are you insane, I mean I know they are and Nick and Ophie are! What the heck is happening to this world?!? Am I the only sane human being?!? Life is too short and complicated and now this!"
"Brooke stop being so dramatic! It's okay, I mean we don't know whether it's a baby or a teenager."
"You mean to tell me you're okay with this?!"
"Brooke, think through this rationally. They're great parents, and kids need parents, so there ya go."
"Ugh! They're almost 55 already and by the time the kid is 17 Mom and Dad will be seniors!"
A beep chimed in before Val could give her thought through retort.
"Brooke hold on that's probably Tyler saying he can't make it tonight."
Val pushed the yellowed with age button and said her hello.
"Val?"
"Tyler. Lemme guess, you have to study tonight and you're really sorry, but somehow you'll make it up to me. Am I right?"
"You know me too well. Love you."
"Love you too."
"See ya tommorrow. And I'll call you before I go to bed."
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Brooke finally hung up the phone with her sister after argueing about the new crisis in her life. She needed to get to bed soon if she was going to wake up for Ophie and Nick's story and pictures. Her blue bedspread gave a refuge to her sore back. Coach Marshal had been especailly hard on them today since thier huge running meet was coming up fast. It was where the colleges all came and watched and offered scholarships to the best performers. Track was her sport since "Auntie" Catie had talked her out of cheerleading, besides the idea of cheering for pathetic jocks was beyond gross worthy. Her head was throbbing and it was hitting the pillow when her window opened and in came Cordelia, Ophie's twin sister.
"Hey Brooke sorry it's late, but I heard the news and thought you needed an understanding friend," she put major imphesis on the word understanding. She and her sister Ophie, though they looked alike, they often had nothing in common.
"Hey Cordie. Yeah, the idea of having another sibling and one that will be so much younger than I am is depressing and way too much drama for one weekend."
Cordie stepped into the room and sat on the window seat keeping her distance, but still being there. Her and Brooke hadn't been best friends or even friends for very long. So it was best just to act comforting and distant.
"I'm just tired and need some sleep and tomorrow I can digest this," Brooke thought oud loud.
"Okay well I just came to check on you."
"Why don't you just stay the night; we both have to wake up early any way."
"Sure."
She went to the guest bed and laid her head on the pillow and thought about Brooke and how they were almost the same. She would never tell Brooke or anyone these thoughts, but it was true. They both had too many siblings, despite the fact that Cordie's were bioligical, and they each had loved and lost.
"Cordie night and thanks for worrying."
"No problem. See ya bright and early," Cordelia replied in dismay.
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Catie tried in vain to call Tyler and tell him that Val was at home.
"Idiot, he left his cell phone off," she thought silently.
"Catie you hungery?"
"Would you stop babying me already? I'm not in a full body cast you know."
"Sorry...but I'm ordering the pizza anyways."
"Great comback Jamie."
"I knew you would think so. Now do you want pepperoni's, or anchovies, or hamburger."
"Jamie Hamlet Waitte I'm still a vegetarian."
"Ohh damn I thought maybe that would change since yesterday...I'm not ordering the pinnapple crap."
"Fine order me a salad."
"Whatever, do you want pinapple in that dearest," he said with oozing with sarcasim.
"Jamie come here and shut-up."
"Okay Mommy," he said with a mock of enthusasim.
Jamie walked over to Catie and sat down next to her feet and put them gently into his lap.
"I think I love you so what am I so afraid of, of a love I'm not so sure of," he sang pathetically.
Catie's giggle started bubbling in her throat till she could no longer contain herself.
"That is the stupidest thing you have ever sang in your life. You don't even like David Cassidy."
"It fit the moment," he replied with a breath taking grin and his brown chocholaty eyes lit with contentment.
"You are so....."
"Charming, cute, interesting, handsome, funny, lovable, warm-hearted, daring but safe."
"Not quite."
"Well I love you too," he said sarcastically and with a small grin just to let her know he really did. He got up with that and walked over to the other side of the couch and put her head in his lap and took her small hand in his.
"I'm hungry."
Jamie laughed whole-heartedly and then leaned over and kissed her with all he felt and all that he could ever feel for one person. She in return kissed as passionatly as him and enjoyed it as much as her new found , or rather old found, lover did. When the kiss naturally ended she looked up at him and smiled as brightly as Val did when she saw Tyler.
"Ohh gosh we're going to turn into those old lovey-dovey annoying as hell couples aren't we," she whined.
"Maybe....you gotta a problem with that?"
"But won't it ruin that whole tough boy attitude you've been working on since you could ride a....Barbie Car," she teased with a glitter in her hazel eyes.
"Mom showed you those Barbie car pictures didn't she!"
"No Ophie and Cordie did." She started to giggle as she remembered Jamie, her Jamie, in the pink and purple Barbie car sticking two thumbs up.
"Well you know me always a rebel."
"Yeah and without a cause too."
"So whatcha think about cooking me some spaggetti." She said after a moment of silence.
"Do you want pinnapples?" The story behind the pinapples had been what made him realize he was in love with one Catie Roth. She had ordered a pizza with pinapples and cheese and was nibbling on it when the pinapple juice squirted onto a bussiness man's suit. She had said oops and I hope you don't need that today. Her nose had crinkled and it was the way she had held back the laugh and had made a face of apolgy, but her eyes had hinted of inside laughter and embarrassment. That's the moment he had known, but he would her that when they were old a gray. But for now they would deal with her mom and his little annoying sisters. He also needed to call his mom and see when Ophie and Cordelia were ariving and check on the baby.
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Tyler, Hank, and Jasmine entered the couple's hotel room and started to unpack the luggage into the chest drawers and then hang the clothes. All were tired, but they had a long night ahead of them. The plan was to call Val and tell her to go to her car and dial Tyler's cell phone number and follow his directions to the Plaza hotel where she would find Jamie and Jasmine waiting for her and they would give her directions to the courtyard of thier campus. At the courtyard the flood lights would turn on and out come Tyler with a picnic basket and a bottle of wine. He would give her the necklace he had bought for her birthday and say happy anniversary. She would probably be a bit disappionted, but like Val wouldn't show it. Then he would take her to the rented theater, his step-father had bought for the night, and show her slides of thier childhood and pictures of them now. Catie and Hank would come in through the rear entrance and carry in the ring and the roses. That's when he would kneel and pop the question, and like Val she would smile through tears and then loose it when she saw the two carat diamond ring. The ring had been his grandmother's and then added on by his mother for this. Now all he had to do was call Catie and Jamie and tell them the long and thought through plan.
"Ty call Jamie and Catie already, you've gotta get Val to the hotel by ten otherwise the courtyard lights won't turn on a elevenas planned."
He picked up the phone as advised by Hank and called the dueo. Jamie picked up and seemed to be a little preoccupied.
"Hey Tyler, can you wait a sec Catie just threw some spaggetti at me?"
"Huh?"
"Ohh Catie's spending the night and we're having a food fight, because she's mad that I didn't tell her that she had to make the desert."
"But Cate hates to cook."
"That's the point. Anyway what's up? Catie stop it's Tyler." he yelled to the young woman.
"Ohh can you be at the Plaza hotel in twenty minutes?"
"Why?"
Tyler then explained the plan and then had to talk to Catie and explain it all over agian. She of course wanted to know why she hadn't been notified of this when everyone else was. Jamie answered that for her, she couldn't keep a secret from Val especially this one.
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Val was sleeping in her bed when she was awakened by her phone. The yellow room made everything seem hazy to her already tired mind. She was exhausted and the idea that the person on the other line didn't know this was revolting. All she wanted to do was sleep and then wake up when it was tomorrow.
"Val? It's Catie can you meet me at the Plaza hotel in ten minutes?"
"Catie Roth where are you?"
"At the hotel and you need to be here before it closes it's doors to the public."
"Fine I'll be there soon."
They both hung up and Catie went to see Tyler in the room and tell Jasmine and Jamie to get ready. The plan had changed when Catie pointed out that it would be stupid to tell Val to call Tyler, since Val already knew Tyler's cell phone number by heart.
Val got in her car, after changing fast into a short red dress and putting her hair into a small bun, and drove as fast as she could to the Plaza hotel, her curiosity was realing so to tune out her brain she turned on the radio and turned to music up as loud as she could stand. It was a song she had heard with Tyler at their prom. So she changed the channel to a song she had never heard before. It was an oldie that her mom used to sing to her when she was picked on by the kindergarden boy, that she had later found out, was trying to flirt with her.
I need love love
to ease my mind
I need to find find
someone to call mine
She turned into the Plaza's parking lot and walked to the ushered doors and walked through the already opened doors. She walked to the lobby and asked the secertary if Catie Roth was waiting for a Val Linear. The young brunette woman replied sweetly that Catie was not waiting, but a Jamie Waite was. He was in the smaller lobby to the back. Val walked to the lobby and found Jamie sitting on a bench with a purple flower and a note. "Hey Val, Catie couldn't make so she sent me. She said she was supposed to give you this, and directions to go to the next bench." "Jamie what the heck is going on?" "My lips are sealed." Val walked to the next bench and found Jasmine with a yellow flower and yet another note. Val squealed and hugged her best friend, other than Catie, and again asked what was happening and got the same reply.
but mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
I can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
you gotta trust good time
no matter how long it takes
Val read the note and followed the instructions by taking Jamie and Jasmine to the campus and going to the courtyard, where they stood in the dark for a few minutes with a flashlight Jamie supplied. The floodlights were suddenly on and Tyler walked from the North side of the campus towards her holding a basket and a bottle of wine. She smiled and turned to look for Jamie and Jasmine, but they had already disappeared. Tyler walked to her and kissed her on the forehead and laid down the checkered blanket.
"Tyler Connel what a surprize," she said with a mock of sarcasim and a hint of pleasure.
"Happy anniversary, he said while popping the wine corck and thrusting the jewlery box in her hand.
but how many heartaches
must I stand
before I find a love
to let me live again
right now the only thing
that keeps me hangin' on
when I feel my strength
yeah it's almost gone
Her heart skipped a beat,"this is it," she thought. This is the moment I've waited for my entire life and he isn't even down on one knee and isn't giving me the speech where he begs that I make him happy for the rest of his life and marry him. She decided to open the box since it was obvious Tyler wasn't. She sucked in a breath and let it go smally as to not show the dissappiontment in the silver and pearl necklace. It was enchanting, but not what she was expecting.
"Thank you Tyler," she said with as much enthusiasim she could muster. She leaned and gave him a small peck and took a sip of wine.
I remember mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
Tyler and Val quickly finished dinner and he took her hand and walked her to his car. She asked where they were going, but got no reply. So she got in and turned on the cd she had bought for him. He drove to the little theater and opened her passenger door, he was nervous as hell. She could tell he looked pale, but she thought nothing of it. He clasped her hand in his and walked her to the room where his life would change forever. "Ohh please let her say yes," he silently prayed.
Ohh why must I wait
how much more can I take
before love will lives
cause my heart to break
now I can't bear to live my life alone
I've grown impatient for a love to call my own
but when I feel that I can't go on
these precious words keep me hangin on
They sat down center and watched the silent film. Val teared up at the part where they were eight and he proposed and kissed her cheek. It was all so brilliant and fresh in her memory, though she never thought of it. He kissed her cheek and squeezed her hand as if to promise the best was to come. They watched the rest and when it finished Val was out of tissues. Hank and Catie as if on cue walked out of the side entrance and walked towards the couple, Catie holding a set of red, pink, purple, yellow, and white roses and Hank holding a box on a heart shaped pillow.
I remember mamma said
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
Val started to shake her head in disbelief and her tears were running all over her face and mouth that was now opened in a widened smile. Tyler was now in the row and kneeling and holding the little black box.
I can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said trust good time
no matter how long it takes
gotta wait
no love love don't come easy
but I keep on waiting anticipating
for that soft voice to talk to me at night
and some tender arms
me tight
but I keep on waiting
can't hurry love
no love don't come easy
can't hurry love
no ya'll just have to wait
she said love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take
"Valerie Maddison Linear, I've never met someone so enchanting and warm-hearted as you. And I don't think I ever will. So, it would be the stupidest thing I would have ever done to pass you up. Now, after years of being next to you and holding your hand, I'm asking you if I can hold your hand for the rest of our lives. Val will you marry me?"
Val couldn't see straight and it was all she could do to nod her head and kiss him lightly. She watched as the diamond slid perfectly onto her long slim fingers. Catie was crying and trying to keep herself upright, she was getting a little help from Jamie. Tyler was smiling wider than any other moment in his life, and watching as Val tried to wipe her mascra away from her face. Jasmine and Hank were nodding and holding eachother as if to say I remember this.
Catie's phone rang and interupted all the crying and laughing. It was one a.m and Catie had no idea who it could possibly be.
"Hello?"
"Catie?"
"Cordie?"
"What's wrong you sound like you're panicing?"
"Where's Jamie?"
"Right here. Hold on."
"Jamie,Cordie's on the line and she's panicing agian."
"Yeah it's probably just Cordelia telling me what time to expect Oph waking me up to take pictures of me while I look bad."
"No problem there. She can just come whenever she wants then," Catie teased. He nodded at her and then stuck the phone to his ear.
"Yeah Cordie."
"Jamie, our house caught on fire and we don't know if Mom, the baby, and Cordie are okay!"
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The songs used in this installment are in order as featured:
Coldplay-Yellow
Dido-Here With Me (roswell theme song)
Leigh Nash- Need to be Next to You
Dixie Chicks- Can't hurry Love (Runaway Bride Soundtrack)