Summary: Muhaha, I'm evil. After watching "The Miracle of Everwood" on 4/21 I got pissed off at Amy for not waking up and smelling the coffee that there's something seriously wrong with Colin, who I think should get into another accident and just finally die, and since I'm not a writer for Everwood [although I wish I was] and cannot write the script, I'm writing this. I'm throwing someone else into this mess to take Ephram away from Amy to show what she really has. This takes place in the future, everyone's a junior, and it's the beginning of the year. Colin and Amy are still together [gag me] and somehow Ephram has remained friends with them and Bright.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except my characters and my ideas ;] I'll be making a lot of references to the "So Long, Astoria" CD from The Ataris, which was the inspiration for the title of this fic. It's a good CD, but this isn't a music review website.
Prologue - Torn from Forever
"I want to stay in this moment forever."
Held close to the man that she loved, Ryan whispered those eight words to really just herself. After years of ups and downs, she was finally content with the fact that, yes, she was stuck in this town, but now she had no intentions of going anywhere anytime soon. As long as she was held here in Adam's arms, she'd never want to go anywhere.
"You can. I love you, Ryan, and I'm never going to let anything come between us." He leaned down and kissed her lips gently. Every time he kissed her it was like the first time every time. The feeling and fireworks never got old. Adam was the world to her, and she truly believed he was her soulmate.
She smiled as she snuggled even closer to him. She closed her eyes and took a deep breathe, and she gently fell asleep to the rhythmic beating of his heart and the smell of his cologne. She was the happiest girl in the world. She never wanted it to change.
--4 Months Later—
"…Sometimes this all feels like a dream, I'm waiting for someone to wake me up from this life…"
Ryan rested her head against the window of the car, with her The Ataris CD blasting in her ear. Resting on her lap was the most recent photograph of her and Adam, taken just a week before. She couldn't look at it anymore without tears forming in her eyes. The scenery outside the window was so unfamiliar, so foreign, and so far from home, from everything and everyone she loved.
"Ryan, honey, are you awake?"
She could barely hear her mother's voice over her music. She pressed pause and removed one of side of her headphones away from her ear. She raised an eyebrow at her mother's reflection in the mirror.
"We're here."
And just at that moment Ryan looked out the window and read the sign, "Welcome to Everwood."
