Chapter 2

Tuesday morning Kaleigh was on her way to the newspaper office to develop the pictures from the shoot she had done the day before. She was singing along with the radio.

Waiting For A Star To Fall --- Boy Meets Girl

I hear your name whispered on the wind

It's a sound that makes me cry

I hear a song blow again and again

Through my mind and I don't know why

I wish I didn't feel so strong about you

Like happiness and love revolve around you

Trying to catch your heart

Is like trying to catch a star

So many people love you baby

That must be what you are

Waiting for a star to fall

And carry your heart into my arms

That's where you belong

In my arms baby, yeah

I've learned to feel what I cannot see

But with you I lose that vision

I don't know how to dream your dream

So I'm all caught up in superstition

I want to reach out and pull you to me

Who says I should let a wild one go free

Trying to catch your heart

Is like trying to catch a star

But I can't love you this much baby

And love you from this far

Waiting for a star to fall

And carry your heart into my arms

That's where you belong

In my arms baby, yeah

Waiting (however long...)

I don't like waiting (I'll wait for you...)

It's so hard waiting (don't be too long...)

Seems like waiting (makes me love you even more...)

Waiting for a star to fall

And carry your heart into my arms

That's where you belong

In my arms baby, yeah

As the song ended her car sputtered and died. Damn! She thought to herself seeing steam coming from under the hood. She got out and yanked it open swearing loudly. She was too busy to notice the silver car that had pulled to the side of the road in front of her.

Andrew looked in his rearview mirror at the back of the woman. All he could see was a very sexy body in blue jeans that looked spray painted on and a white tank top, and tons of curly red hair cascading down her back. He got out of the car. He was tired from his flight but he couldn't pass up a damsel in distress. Especially one with an ass like that!

Kaleigh was fanning the engine to clear some of the steam or smoke or whatever the hell it was when she heard a voice behind her

"Need some help Miss?" She turned around to face him. Her mouth dropped open but he showed no sign of recognition when he looked at her. She decided to see how long it would take him to figure out who she was.

"Uh, yeah I suppose I do, this car is a piece of crap!"

"Let me take a look at it for you." She stood back as he leaned over her car, admiring his ass in the faded blue jeans he was wearing.

"Looks like a broken radiator hose. I can fix it for you if you have any tools, mine's a rental."

"Sure in the trunk." He watched her as she leaned in the window to retrieve the keys. She was hot!

"Thanks a lot for your help." She said as she handed him the toolbox. She knew how to fix it herself, after all she'd learned it from him, but she couldn't resist watching him lean over her car.

"My name is Andrew Martin, what's yours?"

"Kaleigh. And I know who you are, everyone in this town does."

"I suppose they do." He smiled at her.

"It's not very big. How long have you lived here?" He didn't figure it was long he would have remembered a girl like her. He leaned over to fix the hose.

"Almost 10 years. He was confused. He didn't remember her.

"Kaleigh, hmmm I don't remember you, how old are you?"

"I'll be 20 in a few weeks."

"Guess we wouldn't have went to school together then, I'm 26."

"I know, You'll be 27 on March 17th." She smiled, she was enjoying torturing him. She could tell he was searching his memory.

"Maybe this will help," she said. Then as she leaned over next to him and in a plaintive little girl voice she said "Mikey, pleeeaaassseee let me come" in his ear

He hit his head on the hood of the car. He whirled around to look at her

"Little Bit!" He grabbed her in a big bear hug and whirled her around.

"AJ, put me down! People are staring!" She laughed.

"My God! Look at you! You sure have grown up!" He started to feel guilty about the way he had been thinking about her a few minutes earlier. She was his best friends little sister for goodness sake! Just like his own little sister. He remembered her tagging along with him and Mike when they were kids.

"I can't get over how grown up you are!" He said

"You haven't changed much, except the eyebrow ring, that's new." She didn't mention all the muscles he had acquired as well.

"Well, I got a wild hair one night..."

She laughed "I guess! Your mom will freak when she sees that!"

"No more so that when I pierced my ears or got the tattoo."

"I got one of those too." She said

"Cool, let me see it!"

No way in hell was she going to let him see the heart with the rose entwined in it by her navel that said AJ in it.

"Uhhh... Well it's not in a place where you show it off in the middle of the street."

"Oh ok." He said his mind working over the places it could be that she would be reluctant to show him. He blushed. He shouldn't be thinking about those places on a girl he had known since she was 10.

They chatted about old times while he fixed her car. When he was done he turned to look at her. She was twirling her hair around her finger and in the process of licking her lips. He could feel the heat rising in his cheeks. Damn! Was she doing that on purpose?

"Thanks AJ! I have to get to work." She smiled at him. He didn't remember her smile looking like that before. She hugged him and he could feel her breasts pressing against his chest. He stepped back abruptly before she felt the hardness growing in his jeans.

"Will you be at the party my parents are throwing Saturday?" He asked

"Sure AJ, I'll be there!"

"By Little Bit" he felt funny calling her by the nickname they had used for her as long as he had known her.

They both got in their cars thinking about the other. He couldn't believe he was reacting this way to her. She'd been a part of his life since he was 15 and her family moved in next door to them. There weren't any other kids her age on their street and the boys hadn't minded her tagging along with them. She was a tomboy and as good at sports as they were. People used to call them the three musketeers, they were always together. As he drove to his parent's house he thought about the little girl who had become a woman, and a damn fine one at that!