Anneliese let her phone ring again before she picked it up.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Anneliese! Thank god you answered!" Craig yelled into the phone.

Anneliese held her cell phone away from her ear for a second and then said.

"Yea well I can't talk long it's practice time."

"Well I just really need to tell you something." Craig said.

"I already know Craig, I talked to Ashley. I know...."

"That I love you."

Anneliese sat straight up her eyes wide.

"Wait did I hear you right?"

"Yes I said I loved you. I know you already talked to Drew. But I was hoping I wasn't too late." Craig replied.

"You are, and what about Manny?" Anneliese asked setteling onto her pillow.

"What about Manny? We broke up. But you and Drew are back together?"

"No were not."

"So I'm not to late?" Craig asked hope in his voice.

"Yes you are Craig. I mean you got Manny pregnant!"

"So we still broke up."

"And I'm seeing Leo." Anneliese lied.

"Leo? Your ex Leo?" Craig asked.

"Yes now I have to go." Anneliese said hitting the off button on her phone.

Anneliese needed to get out of her house. She slipped out the back door while a tape played in her room. Leo Pagborn's car sat in the drive way. Anneliese looked closer to see him sitting in it, leaned back in the drivers seat. His eyes were closed but her wasn't a sleep. He couldn't be it was negative 4 degress out and his car wasn't running. Anneliese went and tapped on the window starteling him from her dreams.

Leo rolled down the window and Anneliese was quick to ask, "What are you doing out here?"

"I couldn't leave." Leo replied.

"Then why didn't you stay inside?"

"Something about that song you sang. It just hit home, and I panicked and left. I thought if I stayed I would want to get close to you again and I just know that your leaving soon. I don't want to like the new you I want to miss the old you. But I can't help it. Then I think of all the guys back in Toronto that are into you. And yes I know who they are cause I've been hanging out with Arie cause it's the closest I can get to you." Leo replied.

"Leo I know that song hits home for you, cause it does the same for me and that's why we get along so well. I want to get close to you but then again I know I'm leaving and that's what happened the first time. I would love to go and tell my mom that I don't want to go back to Toronto but that would be a lie. Because as much as I love Aspen and it will always be my home, I miss Toronto and it's people. Here it's like reality isn't really reality. I mean now that I'm back I realized that what Drew said to me was true. When we broke up I made fun of him for where he came from but what he said back to me I wasn't ready to realize. He made a mimicking comment, 'Hey I am goanna head down to Prada and Gucci want to join me?'."

"But that's how it is here Anneliese. That's what we do, we shop, go to fancy restaurants, and for half of the year we ski. Why do you think so many people go to boarding school for high school? Channel and Cher, they will never leave, they just won't and they will do the same thing. They will shop, eat, and ski. Unless they get cut off by there father, then they will work a low end job at a resturante or a retail shop. I mean to live here you have to have two jobs, even our weather girl has a day job."

"So your saying it's good that I left, because now I won't be stuck in the rut?" Anneliese asked.

"In a way. Think about it every one here has been somewhere else but they haven't lived some where else. So this is the only life style they know. Think if they went and stuck Channel in another place like Toronto and she had to go to a huge public school and work at a diner."

"Are you making fun of my diner?" Anneliese asked jokingly.

"Maybe." Leo replied.

"I guess your right, but I think we've gotten a little off base here."

"Well if were going to talk some more I think you should get in the car before you freeze."

Anneliese got in the passenger side of the car, "Obviously you haven't been to Toronto during the winter."

"Obviously not. But now your going to tell me why your escaping through the back door of your house late at night."

"Needed to get out."

"Your mom?" Leo asked.

"No, Toronto Trouble." Anneliese replied.

"What's going on?"

"Well first before we left I got a call from my ex boy friend Drew. He told me he missed me but then Arie called that you and Sam (Arie's boyfriend. I know it didn't mention that he was there but he was) were there, and her freaked on me. Then after you left which you really didn't but whatever. I got a call from my best friend Ashley. She was kind of mad cause I forgot to call her and tell her I left. But then she told me she talked to Craig, at first I thought hell had frozen over because ever since Craig cheated on her they don't communicate. Well she told me Craig got his girlfriend he just broke up with like two days ago pregnant. Well we talked about it for a while and I was pretty shocked. Then he called me. At first I was expecting and explination from him or for him to at least tell me. But instead he told me he loved me. I asked him 'what about Manny.' And he said, 'what about her we broke up.' Then I kind of lied and said I was seeing you to get him off my case." Anneliese explained.

"That's a lot to take in. And you sure do talk more than I remember."

"Your not mad I lied?"

"No at all, I wish your lie was true" Leo said then he looked out the car window.

"Leo?" Anneliese asked, Leo looked back at her, "Do you like the new me, or do you just like that the new me used to be the old me?"

"What are you talking about of course I love the new you."

"But would you be embarrassed to say the new me was the one you love. Because I know that your the popular guy at school who is supposed to date girls like Channel or Cher, or the old me."

"Just because people think that because of my image that is who I am supposed to date. Doesn't mean that's who I want to date."

"But it's not like were dating anyway." Anneliese replied.

"Yea, right it's not like were dating." Leo said turning back to the window.

"Well I should probably get back inside."

"Yea that tape only last so long."

"Bye." Anneliese said getting out of the car.

"Bye." Leo replied after she shut the door.

As Anneliese walked back to her house it started to snow. Leo watched her for a minute before he got out of the car and started running towards her.

"Anneliese!" Leo yelled.

Anneliese turned around, "What are you doing? And quiet before my mom hears you."

"I love the new you! And I don't want to say good bye to the new you!"

"I'm not leaving yet, I'm goanna see you tommarrow."

"Yea but one day your going to leave and I am going to have to say good bye all over again. And I don't want to do that, because I love you."

"Then we won't say good bye."

"But what's going to happen because every minute I spend with you I fall more in love with you than I had been ten minutes before. SO what's going to happen when you leave and I think about all the people there who could love you just as much as I do."

"We'll see each other on holidays, and I'll come visit you, and you can come visit me, we'll spend the summer together..." Leo cut her off.

"I don't want to just see you on holidays and during the summer. I want to see you every day, every week, almost every minute."

"Leo what do you want me to do? Are you asking me to move back for you? Because I had some one move for me and he just blamed me for it. And I don't want to blame you for me moving."

"Then why don't I move?"

"You don't want to move. I can see it, you love it here Leo, this is your home. Aspen is where your meant to be, but it's not for me."

"Aspen isn't where I'm meant to be, I'm meant to be with you."

"No your not Leo. It's all this that's going on that's making you feel that way. But it's not. If you moved you would regret it. And you would miss your family, and your friends. And what if it didn't work out you would have to move back or you would be stuck there."

"I would miss you more than any one I have ever known. I know I'm meant to be with you, and it's not just what's going on. And there is no way this couldn't work, it's meant to work. Why do you think we got this second chance?" Leo asked.

"This isn't a second chance. It's just something that happened. It isn't a sign or anything."

"What happen to your beliefe in fate."

"Leo I stopped believing in fate a long time ago. Because if it was true a lot more would of happened." Anneliese replied turning and started to walk away.

"If fate isn't real than why did you walk in on Craig and Manny?"

"What?" Anneliese asked turning around.

"You and Craig weren't supposed to be together. You met Drew because of it and just admit it you are really happy you met Drew."

"So?"

"If fate hadn't made it so you walked in on Craig and Manny you wouldn't of broken it off with Craig, and then you wouldn't of met Drew."

"That's not fate, that's just the way it happened, if Ashley hadn't walked in Craig wouldn't of left. If I hadn't left the cabin I wouldn't of found out. If Paige hadn't thought some thing was going on with me and Spinner, and Craig hadn't met me on that street corner. I wouldn't of walked into town, Drew wouldn't of fallen into me. But that's not fate, that's just the way life happened."

"And how did this happen?"

"This is years of life catching up to us. Leo I've known you since I was little, and now life's bring us together. But that doesn't mean it's a sign or fate. The reason my dad is an abuser and an alchohalic, the reason he got reassigned and my mom refused wasn't so we could meet back up again and fall in love. That's just how it happened. Life isn't planned out on paper, it changes as you go. I mean if I hadn't come back for this visit, or my dad wasn't moving out would you love me. Or do you really love me or do you love the idea of me? When you saw me earlier did you know you loved me then, or are you just realizing it now?"

"It's not supposed to happen this way. I tell you I love you, your supposed to be happy and jump in my arms and say I love you too."

"Let's just say I've heard those three little words too many times to get that excited about it." Anneliese stated before turning around and starting to walk inside.

"But not from me!" Leo yelled.

Anneliese ignored him and walked to her house. Leo slowly backed away and walked to his car. But he still couldn't leave the drive way.

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Tell me what you think. In the next chapter Anneliese goes back to Degrassi. Since this is a Degrassi fan fic I guess I can't leave her in Aspen for too long. But check in and see what happens with her and Leo. It could surprise you. Read and Review!