Laura - Hey! Blame my music for this chapter, I was trying to think of something to do

and I happened to be listening to Green Day at the time.

L.I.D - The song in this chapter is what she was listeing to. Don't expect an update 'til

about late Saturday/Sunday, unless we post one up tomorrow (It's twenty-to-eleven on Wednesday

night right now) because Laura's mate's Nicola and Louise are coming to make a website with

Laura on Friday and sleeping over.

Laura - Talking of Louise she helps Johnny begin to understand Laura in this chapter. Maybe

she can help him get to be as close to her as they were before she left? I'll leave that up

to you.

L.I.D - Are you gonna make them yanno?

Laura - I'll just have to see where my writing mind takes me. But I kinda have the story planned

out ^-^ but you'll have to wait and see! Thanks to Louise (The girl

we based our prefect on), Bread'n'Butter(sp?), and Shinigami29 for reviewing!

Disclaimer - Same as Chapter one.

Songs disclaimer - Good Riddance(Time of your life) Belongs to the very talented Green Day and/or

Billie Joe Armstrong who (most probably) wrote it.

Chapter 2: Good Riddance(Time Of Your Life)

After school Johnny was sat on the swings thinking over his brief encounter with Laura and how

she had changed. Suddenly he heard footsteps and looked up to see his fellow prefect Louise coming

towards him with a small package and letter in her hands.

"Hey Johnny. Erm...Laura's brother Enrique..." Losuise began stumbling a little over her words.

Johnny looked up and she was shocked to see the tear trails running down his normally not very

expressionable face.

"He's her half brother, and what did he want?" Louise handed him the package and the letter. She

nodded at him and went to join her friends who were going to sit under the shelter which stood in

the overhang of conker trees from the graveyard, that seemed to tower above them. (A/N: Laura- This

is based on my local park, the graveyard can be reached from the two gates street, or through a

passageway leading through the mens toilets. The conker trees really seem to over hang the stange shelter

there *shurgs* just thought you'd like to know.)

Johnny opened the letter which, he soon discovered, was from Enrique.

It read;

Hey Johnny! It's Enrique! That package you have in your hands is a cd, there's a few tracks on there that

really relate to your current predicament. I burned them from Laura's online downloader, if you ever patch

things up please don't tell her that! Anyways....TTYL

Ciao!

Enrique.

P.S: Max, Kai, Rei, Tyson, Mariah, Lauren, Tala and the rest say hello!



Johnny folded up the letter placed the cd in his portable cd player and began to listen. The first few songs

he skipped as they were about Laura's life with the blond's until he reached the fith or sixth song, here he

paused and listened wondering if this song had a message to him in.He recognised the voice as Billie Joe

Armstrong, the lead singer of Green Day one of Laura's favourite bands.Decinding this was message enough he let

the lyrics show their message.

//Another turning point

A fork stuck in the road

Time grabs you by the wrist

Directs you where to go

So make the best of this test

And don't ask why

It's not a question

But a lesson learned in time//

Johnny paused the cd here and reflected on the verse. The turning point and the fork stuck in the road seemed

to be about the desicions that were made when he moved to Scotland. The part about time grabbing him by the

wrist made him remember a conversation with his parents of wich the meaning was, time won't chage things,

you have to make them yourself. He couldn't decifer the rest until the last two lines. What wasn't a question

but was a lesson he learned over time? The answer came swiftly to him. The fact that Laura has suddenly changed,

he had noticed it more than anyone else as Laura was not who she used to be, he dicided to listen on and see what

else the song held in the means of subliminal messages.

//It's something unpredictable

But in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

So take the photographs

And still frames in your mind

Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time

Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial

For what it's worth

It was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable

But in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life//

The photographs, he realised were the photos and memories of all the good times he and Laura had been through

together, and the shelves seemed to be talking about the memories being stashed away in the back of his concious

mind. The bit about it being unpredictable seemed to be about Laura herself...how she could change but always be

right about something she was talking about even if was the smallest most unsignificant part.

//It's something unpredictable

But in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable

But in the end it's right

I hope you had the time of your life//

He let the song finish before turning off the CD player and walking back to the hotel where his school was

staying. He needed time to think over the message the song held, before he did anything drastic.

Laura - Finished!Chapter 3 will be up later (link in 30 mins!) When I've written it (it's now 4:20 pm on

Thursday).

L.I.D - See you then!