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"If She Only Knew" – 98°

Love Will Find a Way

Chapter 7

        "Europe? But why?"

        "That's where the Evanses live! Somewhere in Europe."

        "Oh. Is that where Sheridan is staying?"

        "Yes. Now come on, let's go!" Ethan left for his room, and Luis left for his house.

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(Later)

        Luis and Ethan met at the airport. "So," Luis said, "you paid for me?"

        "Yes, of course! There's no use in finding Sheridan if you're not there to greet her!" At that, Luis smiled. "You must really love your aunt."

        "I do. And apparently, so do you."

        "Yeah..." A song was playing on the radio.

[If she only knew what I knew but couldn't say
If she could just see the part of me that I hid away, oh yeah
If I could just hold her in my arms again
and just say I love you; but she's gone away,
maybe she'd stay if she only knew

If she could just feel what I feel here in my heart
She'd know it was real, pure and true, right from the start
But I'm just a man who didn't understand
What she was going through; but she's gone away,
maybe she'd stay if she only knew

And how, how did I let her get away?
'Cause love, love is so easy to feel, but the hardest thing to say...

If she could just see (see) what I see when I close my eyes
All that I dream, surely she would realize
But like a fool, I waited much too long
To let her know the truth; and she's gone away,
Maybe she'd stay if she only knew

Tell me, tell me, how, how did I let her get away?
'Cause I guess that love, love is so easy to feel, but the hardest thing to say...

If she only knew what I knew but could not say
If she could just see the part of me that I hid away
If I could just hold her in my arms again
And just say I love you (I love you)
But she's gone away, maybe she'd stay...
If she only knew...]

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(A week later)

        "Sheridan, we're moving." Victoria walked into Sheridan's room, followed by Ted, Meg, and Ben.

        "WHAT?" she asked.

        "Yes, we've got to go. We can't live here anymore... we're moving to Oslo."

        "But... why so soon?"

        "We've been planning it for months now. I'm sorry we had to spring this on you like this, but I'm sure you can get a hotel or something," Victoria justified.

        "Yeah... Oh, I'm going to miss you! Thank you so much for letting me stay in your home."

        "Oh, no problem, Sheridan. And anytime you're up in Oslo, come and visit us!" Ted exclaimed.

        "And Meg and I are going back to Sunset Beach," Ben said.

        "Oh, I'm going to miss you, too. Take care, okay? You too, Meg," she said, nodding towards her. "And Meg... Thanks."

        "You're welcome, Sheridan," Meg said, smiling warmly. "Keep in touch! And I hope everything works out. It will. You'll see."

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        Luis and Ethan were in Paris, looking for Sheridan. They tracked down the address of Ted and Victoria Evans, but the house was empty. Frustrated, they looked, and looked, until Ethan had a brainstorm of checking it on the Internet.

        "But we don't have a computer," Luis protested. He was actually getting along quite well with Ethan. [He's not as bad as the rest of his family. Just like Sheridan.] Luis saddened a little at the thought of that beautiful woman.

        "Yes we do." Ethan rummaged in his suitcase and pulled out a laptop. "Let me just plug this in, and we'll be online in no time."

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        Sheridan was in her hotel room in London, when all of a sudden she heard a knock on the door. //Can't they see the "privacy" sign on the door?// "I'm coming, I'm coming," she grumbled.

        She opened the door and two men were standing there, both masked, one pointing a gun in her face. "Sheridan, you're coming with us." They grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the room.        Sheridan was screaming for help, and struggling with the men (apparently, Frenchmen, considering the heavy French accents), but they pointed the gun to her head. She remembered when the same thing had happened to her before, on top of the Seascape. Luis had come to save her. But this time, Luis wasn't there to save her life...

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        "Got it!"

        Luis looked over Ethan's shoulder. "'Ted and Victoria Evans,'" he read, "in... London?"

        "Yes. Hopefully, they haven't moved yet."

        "Well, then, let's go and find Sheridan!" The duo started packing up their belongings and left for the airport.

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        The men dragged Sheridan down into the basement of the hotel and tied her to a chair. "Wha...what do you want with me?" Sheridan demanded.

        "We're going to reunite you with your beloved fiancé, Jean-Luc," one of the men said.

        Sheridan gasped. //Jean-Luc is... dead?// "What did I do wrong?" she said, tears forming in her eyes.

        "Nothing. You just happened to cross the wrong guy."

        "But... Jean-Luc was a good guy... Right?"

        "Hah!" one of the men laughed, in her face. "That's what he got you to believe. He owed us, big-time. And when he didn't pay up... BOOM!" he said, laughing, as he remembered how Jean-Luc and Mimi had died.

        "Please, don't kill me," Sheridan pleaded.

        "Why shouldn't we? Your life is a living hell anyway, right?"

        "How would you know?" she said, getting mad.

        "Because we've researched you, Sheridan. We know your life, forwards, backwards, and upside down. And she's going to take over for us." A beautiful young woman stepped out of the shadows of the basement.

        "Say hello to the new, improved, Sheridan Crane."

        Sheridan screamed as loud as she could.