A/N : Sorry it's taken me so long to update, but I managed to start three fics all at once and I had a tough time keeping up with them all at once. I have finished the other two now though, so this story should get a little more attention.
Thanx to my wonderful reviewers ; jaycee, satanslut, ashley, aiwa, ashley, Chibi-destiny, li$@, mithmetwen, you are all v. kind.
Please remember that this is an alternate ending to the movie and so will probably not turn out the way you expect.
Okay, now on with the story...
Disclaimer : I do not own any of the characters mentioned.
When I arrived at the game, I saw Josie talking to Aldys and what looked like our sex ed. teacher?! She must have been in on it too - one of Josie's newspaper friends, I guess.
Anyway, school had been pretty rough since Josie left. She'd meant so much to me and it was hard to let her go. Gibby, Kiersten and Kristen had been really mad after the Prom, but once they'd read Josie's article and she'd called them 'the most beautiful girls she'd ever seen close up', they forgave her instantly - shallow or what?!
We'd all gone to the game together, firstly to support Josie and secondly to support our team, the South Glen Rams. So me, Gibby, Kiersten, Kristen, Jason and Tom, all piled into a group of seats quite close to the front of the stands. I looked around the stadium at all the people. There were some people I knew, a lot of people I didn't know, rows and rows of photographers and reporters, including those from the paper Josie herself worked for, the Chicago Sun Times. There were other kids from school, including the Denominators of course, and I noticed several teachers too. Only one person was missing, the one person that would make this night perfect for Josie - Mr Sam Coulson.
The truth is that just being there was painful for me. I had to look excited and happy and I had to pretend I wanted Coulson to show, but that was not how I felt. If the truth be told, a small part of me hoped he would come, because that would make Josie happy, and her happiness is the most important thing to me, but I confess the much larger part of me hated the idea of him showing up and kissing the girl I was in love with in front of all these people - and me.
Josie walked out onto the pitcher's mound with a microphone in her hand. She looked beautiful, and that made me feel worse. If she could just try not to be so perfect, I might actually be able to hold it together!
"Can I have five minutes on the clock, please" she said, looking more than a little nervous. There was silence for a moment as five minutes appeared on the clock, as she had requested.
Those five minutes were some of the longest of my life as my heart and my brain fought it out...
"Come on Coulson, show up!"
"No don't, I want Josie to be mine!"
"But she loves Sam!"
"But I love her!"
"But Sam will make her happy!"
"I could make her happy!"
On and on it went until the clock was down to ten seconds. The entire crowd started to count down the seconds, except me. I just couldn't do anything except watch Josie's face as the time vanished along with her hope that Sam Coulson might show up. Three..., two..., one..., and it was all over. Josie dropped the microphone and it hit the ground with an echoing thud. He hadn't come and she looked very upset and very embarrassed about it. I couldn't bare to see her look like that.
Before I knew what I was doing, I was out of my seat and pushing my way to the front of the crowd. I apologised almost constantly as I trod on people's hands, bags, feet and belongings, but nothing was going to stop me now. I pushed my way along the front row, forced my way through the gate and out onto the field. I started to walk quickly, toward the pitchers mound. Josie turned when she realised the crowds attention was not on her but on someone else - me. She looked a little surprised to see me, but she smiled.
I can still remember that indescribable feeling I felt when I kissed her. I didn't say anything, I just did it and I was worried about how she might react, but I was pleasantly surprised when she kissed me back. I was hardly aware of the sound of the crowd erupting all around us, or of the dozens of flashbulbs that apparently went off. I was focused solely on me and Josie, and at that moment, nothing else mattered.
A/N : Well, what did you all think to that? Please let me know by reviewing! I will write more soon, if people are interested in reading it.
