Dead Love

Wow.I actually got reviews. ^-^;;. Doing a skim do through all the posts I seem to have found many Anna haters and was totally abolished by it! When Anna first came into O.C. and took Seth as her date I knew they were meant. ^_^;;. Or, at least, I thought so. Apparently other people disagree and I apologize to you because this is a great couple and you should go into it. xD

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They came. Those dreaded plane tickets. She could lie and said she instantly had caught a horrid cold and could not leave, but it would always come back to haunt her. How is it a couple of plane tickets to and from a home she used to live at seemed like hell to her? She shook her head. No. I can do this. I will. I'm stronger now. She nodded affirmative, and brushed a few golden locks out of her head. Yeah, she was stronger. Until she saw him, and her gates broke for a flood of tears. How could she cry? Couldn't she be happy for him? She sighed as she set the tickets down on the counter she was sitting at, and again brushed some hair out of her face.

"I can, and will do this." She nodded.

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A few hours later, in a busy airport filled with loud roaring people, bustling about in a hurried motion swinging their bags to and fro. In the middle of the zoo stood a lone girl, in a long blue sweatshirt, black pants with blue chains hanging off them, her hair pulled back with clips. She pulled off her dark black sunglasses and looked around, sighing. She could do this; she was here and she drove all the way with no problem. Ok, so maybe the ticket she got for going about 1 mile per hour was a bit of a problem, but now she was fine. A couple of minutes later she was having trouble getting through the metal detector and the woman working there seemed more pissed at Anna then a mother mad at her son for stealing. Finally she got through that, got through the hassle of shoving the small bag she wanted in the over head cargo, and found a comfortable seat and sat down sighing. Ok, so she was on her way to a heart break for another 5 years. It had taken that long to get over him last time, and she could do it again with some pain. She nodded, turned her head and laid it down on the seat and closed her eyes.

She had gotten over him last time, hadn't she?

She felt a tap on her shoulder, and moved away from it. Couldn't the lady tell she was trying to sleep and that *no* she *didn't* want some peanuts. Another tap and another shrug. And again. And again. Finally Anna shot up and glared at nothing, turned around and found a guy beside her with his hand reaching to tap her on the shoulder. He wasn't there before, she noted.

"Excuse me, miss, but it seems I have forgotten my fear of heights, and I was hoping that perhaps you wouldn't mind switching seats with myself?" He had short golden hair, and the lightest blue eyes. She smiled, got up and nodded. After switching, and settling down, she went to a world far off in a daydream.

Until she felt someone tap her shoulder. Then again. And again. She sighed, put on a smile and turned to the man.

"Yes?" She asked, trying to not get angry. It gets quite annoying when someone rapidly continues to tap you on the shoulder.

"Oh, I was just going to say that I-I... Uh. forgot my magazine. If you could pass it over?" He asked, smiling politely as she reached over, grabbed a magazine and passed it back. He smiled, took it, and opened it.

"Thank..you..." He said softly as his eyes drifted through the words of the magazine. She nodded, and went back to daydreaming. She tried her hardest to ignore him, but he went off sighing, yawning, and making "ooh" "oh no, no, no, no, no!" noises. Finally, when he nearly hollered "Oh my gosh!" She whipped her cute little head (couldn't resist ^.^) around and stared at him.

"What's in the zine?" she asked, peering over her shoulder and reading inside the magazine. She couldn't find anything that would have sparked her as much as it had him.

"oh nothing. I was going over what I did, and did not do at home today." He laughed slightly, and his face seemed much more handsome then just several seconds ago when it looked dull and gloomy. She smiled back.

"Yeah, little panic attacks. I get those, too." She said, continuing her soft smile. He nodded towards her as she stuff his magazine into the small space between the seat and the arm rest.

"I'm Richard. Who are you?" He asked, his smile still bringing light to his already cheerful face.

"I'm Anna. You heading for Orange County, yes?" She asked, eyeing his outfit of a loose black shirt, and black pants. The word "homo?" raced through her mind for a second by the way he sat, and how formally dressed in casual looking clothes he was.

"Yeah. An old friend of mine got married there to, supposedly, her child hood friend and I'm heading on back to wish her luck and shit like that." He laughed slightly, then looked away and sighed, "What a beauty she was. Loved her when I used to go to school with her, but then I moved away and I guess I just got over her."

Anna, also, sighed. She wished she could get over Seth. Though she had sighed, she kept a cool and collective out-front going, her smile still shining.

"Oh? That's funny! I'm going back because one of my friends got married." She laughed, then leaned in, "To be truthful, I don't want to go. I'm scared, you know? Of what he'll say, it's been a few years. I used." She paused. Used? "to, um, like him. So yeah, it's hard to go back, you know?"

He laughed, and nodded.

"We seem to have a lot in common, Miss Anna. I hope somewhere in O.C we meet up together and get a bit of a chat. I would like that." He winked at her, and for the first time in a long time she had a small crush going on for someone. Not one of those "I would die for you loves", but more of a "you're cute!" Kind of thing.

"OH! I have, um, a number or something?" She started blushing, and pushed her short blonde hair (she kept it the way she did in the show. Hehe..HAHHA..HOHO.-.-) "If you, you know, want it-"

"I would love to have it!" Surprisingly, he had out a pen and paper and was prepared to write anything and everything she spoke down. She slowly fed him the 7 numbers of her phone number, and he copied them down with ease. Then, after a few minutes of talking, the two fell asleep and didn't wake up until they had arrived at Destination Hell.

--O.C Airport-

Anna waved off Richard as he head towards a pre-paid rented car, and looked around for her father, who had promised to come. She sighed, sat down, and began to lazily kick her legs back and forth. After several minutes of "scuff the foot on the ground", her father appeared, a grin broadening his face. He raced over, wrapped his arms around and hugged her tighter then she thought was physically possible. She, though, was over joyous and returned the hug as best as she could.

"Oh Anna!" Her father said, backing up and smoothing her blonde hair, "Life has been so, lonely with out you! All your friends had wondered about now and then, but soon left. Life has been kind of tough, but now that you're back I'm sure things will turn out better, now-"

"That I'm back. Come on, Dad, let's just go home, ok?" She nudged him in the shoulder, and they headed off towards her fathers blue car. (I don't know what color it is, but I wanted an adjective so you weren't *totally* clueless. Ok? ^.^) She got in the front seat, and looked out the window the whole time. Thoughts were entering and escaping her mind faster then they were driving, and not one question that she thought about could she find the exact answer to. As they neared her luxurious house, she sighed. She hoped that Seth and Summer had moved away, or gone far enough away that they wouldn't have known about her return and come to visit.

She opened the door, as her father had offered to grab her bags and said she could run ahead, and was greeted by her mother, who embraced Anna in a tight hug just as her father had done.

"Oh, Anna! I'm so pleased that you have returned!" Her mother spoke softly, smoothing Anna's hair so she could kiss her forehead. Anna laughed at her mothers antics, and playfully said "mom" pushing her away.

"Come on, Mom!" She shook her head, still smiling. "So, where am I staying?"

"OH! We have a room picked out already, your father and I have chosen that upstairs spare bedroom, the pretty white one? Anyhow, go and find your friends, get back with them! Go and catch up, five years dos things to people." Her mom playfully laughed, and patted Anna on her arm. Anna smiled, grabbed the keys to their spare car (that her mom had been holding out to her) and hopped into the car and sped away. She wasn't sure if she wanted to go visit her friends, or see what had happened to the city more. All she knew was right now, she was really not in the mood to see Seth and his lovely wife with probably two or so kids. She scrounged up her nose at the thought of Seth and Summer walking their little five year old to kindergarten, all holding hands in a happy manner. It wasn't FAIR!

She's happy, content, and perfect. And he's the same, so why am I not? Why has my life gone into a horrible spiral of HELL!? It's. not... fair. She shook her head snickering at the old saying, "life's not fair". She stopped paying attention to the road, but quickly looked up to notice a red light and nearly stopped in less then a millisecond. She sighed, *this* wasn't fair. This light was going to take five years, and she was so close to just barely making it.

But she hadn't, so five more years alone wouldn't have that much affect on a person.

-Woa. Sorry for the long ass update. I still have to update my Inu Yasha Rin x Sesshoumaru story because, well quite frankly, I haven't updated that in a *long* time. I like writing in this story more though, because with these two couples I just flow. Words and expressions just, flow. xD-