Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story, except for the ones I make-up. They all belong to Disney, and any other company that owns 'In a Heartbeat.' "Crazy for this Girl" is by Evan & Jaron. This is the continuation to "Look at her - Jamie and Caitie" or chapter 6 of the series.
Initial Attraction
Face to face - Jamie and Caitie - Chapter 6
Caitie was on her way home from the store. She turned off the radio, which was playing another slow song.
"Who listens to these things?"
Caitie entered her house and saw her brothers and sisters watching TV. Caitie left the medicine her mom told her to get at the counter. After that, she went upstairs. As she got to her room, she couldn't help but notice how disorganized and messy it was. She shared it with her two sisters.
"It didn't bother me before, why now?" she said as to convince herself to leave it as it is.
Caitie sat on her bed, but her mind kept turning her attention to the fact that her room needs cleaning.
"Why now?" she said before getting up and starting to clean the room.
After an hour of cleaning, Caitie looked around and felt like she was in Val's room.
"How can she live like this?"
Caitie began to pick bits and pieces of things from the floor. She put the things she thought were useless in a box and headed for the attic. When she set the box down and started to leave, a small pink box caught her attention. It was labeled 'MY STUFF' in Caitie's child handwriting. With curiosity, she took the box out of the pile and opened it. When she saw what was inside, a smile crept on her lips. Inside was a box covered with a lot of tape. Caitie remembered exactly what the box contained. She shook the box, and was satisfied with the fact that there was no noise that occurred. Caitie brought the box back in her room.
"Now where's that exacto knife…" she said as she searched in the dressers. "Here it is."
Caitie brought the knife back to her bed and began cutting the tape of the box. After ten minutes, she successfully got the tape off of it.
"How long has it been? 8 years?" she said to the box as though it was living.
Caitie carefully lifted the box open and saw a neatly folded blue piece of paper. For some strange reason, she had an odd feeling about reading it.
"Well, there was no rule saying I couldn't open it now, or without Val. It's been 8 years after all."
With that, Caitie unfolded the paper and began to read the list of her supposedly "prince charming" as Val put had called him…
Caitie
- nice, but not a goody-goody
- taller than me
- dark hair like me and brown eyes
- like motorsycols and cars like my dad
- J. T. Waite
"Nice pick, Caitie," she whispered to herself.
"Of course!"
"The perfect choice."
"Motorcycles, silly," she laughed at herself.
For once, Caitie couldn't comment on one thing. The last item on her list just made her froze.
"J. T. Waite?" she trailed off as the paper hovered to the newly cleaned carpet.
Caitie looked on as the paper settled to the floor.
"It couldn't be him," Caitie told herself. "It's just a coincidence. Besides, his middle name does not start with T…"
A worried look came to Caitie's face.
"Timothy…oh my God, it is him! No! He's my best friend…I…no. Jamie? It can't be him. After all these years, this is what I get? I had a bad feeling about this. I need to get away from here. This is too much."
Caitie took the note, crumpled it, and stuck it in her pocket to throw it away later. She grabbed her coat, took the car keys, and stormed out of the house before her mom could say something to her.
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After an hour of driving, Caitie found herself at Kingsport High School.
"Of all the places to take me, this is what you came up with?" Caitie said to no one in particular.
Now that she was there, she decided to go to her retreat --- the only place where she can truly calm down and let her mind go loose. Caitie cut across the field and headed straight for the bleachers. As she went under the bleachers, she saw a profile of a man lurking in the shadows. The figure was heading towards her. Caitie began to back away when the figure called her name.
"Caitie, it's just me. Jamie."
'Great! Of all the people to run into…well, at least he's not a serial killer.'
"Jamie! What are you doing here?"
"The same reason why you came here. You did come here for a reason, didn't you?"
"Well, yea, but I just wanted to be alone for a while."
"What does that give you? I mean, I can leave if you want."
"No, don't bother. I'll go."
Before Caitie could leave, Jamie grabbed her arm.
"Would you stay for a while? Please? For me? I want to tell you something."
Caitie made the mistake of looking into Jamie's eyes. 'Brown eyes,' she thought.
"OK, I'll stay."
Jamie took her hand and let her sit down across him. As he settled to the ground, the song that played on the radio a while ago returned to his head…
Right now
Face to face
All my fears
Pushed aside
And right now
I'm ready to spend the rest of my life
With you
Jamie looked around him as if he was expecting the some sort of radio around him.
"Jamie, are you feeling all right?"
"Yea," he said as he returned his attention to her.
"So, what did you want to tell me?"
"Well, there isn't an easy way to tell you this, but…"
"Jamie, sometimes the right things to say are not the easiest to do."
"Right… Caitie, you're my best friend and I don't want to lose you."
"OK…"
"But until today, I didn't realize how crazy I am for you."
Caitie looked at Jamie's eyes, searching for the truth. As of the moment, she found no reason whatsoever to doubt him. His eyes revealed just how sincere he was.
"Jamie, I…"
"Hear me out for a sec. You don't know what I went through this past few hours. You don't know what those two guys made me realize…"
"What two guys?"
"No one…don't interrupt me."
"Sorry."
"They made me realize that I liked you a lot more than what friendship has to offer. And even my mom added to all of this. Even though I didn't know it at the time, I dreamed of you. I already pledged my love for you…"
"You mean the c-a-r stuff?"
"If you want to call it that, but I did say it before. And don't tell me that it's just a big coincidence. It's beyond that. I remember the first time that we met. Something happened that day that I will never forget. I don't even know where to begin…"
"Time froze."
"Yea…time fr…how did you guess what I was thinking?"
"Because I felt it, too, Jamie. I never told a single soul about it, especially you, but it did happen. Now I know I wasn't alone."
"What does this all mean? These kind of things only happen in fantasy novels. It's not real."
"You want to know something?"
"What?"
"I dreamed of you, too."
"Come on, Caitie. This is no laughing matter."
"Am I laughing?"
"I guess not, but how can you say that you dreamed of me?"
Caitie reached for a piece of paper in her pocket. She smoothened the paper and handed it to Jamie. Jamie had a confused look on his face as he reached for the flashlight that he brought along with him.
"Val and I made this curse when we were eight. She got the idea about this prince charming thing or whatever, but somehow she coerced me to do it. We wrote on a piece of paper the qualities that we liked our prince to have. And after all these years, I found out that it was you."
Jamie read the note, and looked skeptically at the piece of paper.
"J. T. Waite? How did you come up with that?"
"We had to come up with something at the end. It wasn't even supposed to be spelled like your last name, but somehow I spelled it that way. Anyway, it came from the line that I spoke often back then, which is 'just wait.'"
Jamie remained speechless as he looked at Caitie once again.
"I guess it's…" Caitie began.
"Fate," Jamie finished.
After a brief moment of silence, Caitie stood up.
"Do you want a ride home?"
"Sure," he replied as he gladly took her hand.
When they arrived at Jamie's house, they stayed in the car for a while.
"What do you think this all means, Jamie?"
"I don't know."
"It's weird, isn't it?"
"The weirdest thing that has happened in my life."
"I'll see you around, J. T. Waite."
Jamie cautiously leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on Caitie's lips before pulling apart from her.
"I'll see you, CAR," he remarked as he got out of the car.
Jamie watched as Caitie drove off. Before he came in, he saw two birds on top of the tree and smiled. He went up to his room as soon as he came into the house. He noticed that his radio was not turned off. As he took the time to turn it off, he can't help but smile.
"I have to thank those Evan and Jaron guys."
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I hope you guys liked it! I know that I'm not an expert at Bleacher Junkies stuff, but I hope that was enough. The next chapter will be out as soon as I finish writing it. Don't forget to review and thanks for reading
