Chapter 2 : Back In The Day - 1980
My story actually starts way before I was born, well, six years before anyway. I want to take you back to the first year of the eighties, the year they made the movie Footloose, when Blondie and Olivia Newton-John still made the top ten in the pop charts, and back when it was the senior year of college for four people that are very important in this story, and in my life...
"Cheers" said the four young people, as their glasses clinked together, two couples all so happy to be at this table with their friends. Pooling together all the money they could spare as lowly students, they'd managed to afford a half decent restaurant for their celebrations, and what a celebration it was.
Rupert Giles had lived next door to Hank Summers since he was nine years old. The two had been best friends for years, and the same could be said for Joyce Potter and Jenny Calendar. The guys and girls had met in high school. The first to meet had been Joyce and Giles, his bad boy image and nickname of Ripper immediately attracting her to his appearance, his sexy British accent only added to his allure. The young blonde was smitten, but so was her brunette friend and despite his attraction to both of them, Ripper was forced to choose between Jenny and Joyce.
Knowing that Hank had a crush on Joyce from the first moment he saw her, Giles asked out Jenny and the brunette was thrilled. Her blonde friend was a little disappointed and the man she really wanted had to admit he'd have liked to have got to know both girls better and made a decision between the two but Jenny was the one he dated, knowing Joyce would be a nice girl for Hank, who despite his attempts to have a rep like Rippers, he was just too soft for the role.
The two couples started to date, the foursome became great friends, all going onto college together with a bond they knew would never break. The connection between them was so strong that purely by coincidence they had got engaged on the same weekend and they were now celebrating their happy news together in the best eating place they could afford.
"Can you believe all that's happened in the past few years?" Joyce smiled as she sipped her champagne-substitute, "I mean, when we all met in high school things were so different...now Hank and I are engaged, so are you two, and we graduate in a few months...I'm so happy we're all still friends" she ended, the alcohol she wasn't used to flying straight to her head and making her emotional.
"Oh God, she's going to start crying in a minute" Giles complained good-naturedly, "someone get that bloody glass out of her hand"
"Leave her alone Rupert" his fiancée warned, using his real first name simply to annoy him, "I think she's right" Jenny nodded, "It's great that we're still friends"
"And we always will be" Hank raised his glass again and encouraged his friends to do the same, "Not just in marriage, but as friends, we'll be together til death do us part" he laughed a little at his own words, far too sentimental for such a man, but he did mean them. The four glasses clinked together again, an agreement that would not be broken.
"Cheers"
Sound like they were all pretty happy, doesn't it? Well, they were and things could only get better, right? At first that was true...
To Be Continued...
A/N : Please let me know if this sounds like it's gonna be okay or if it sucks, I'd like to know now cos if you don't like it I'll just give up and concentrate on my other fics...
