You might think
I don't look
But deep inside in the corner of my mind
I'm attached to you
I'm weak
It's true

Cause I'm afraid to know the answer
Do you want me too?
Cause my heart keeps falling faster
I've waited all my life to cross this line
To the only thing that's true

So I will not hide
It's time to try anything to be with you
All my life I've waited
This is true

Ryan punched the power button on the radio in frustration. That damn, Cabrera guy. He knew too much. He sped as he drove into the massive parking lot. Slamming the doors he thrust himself through the airport turnstile doors as he frantically tried to decide which direction to go in.

"Flight 35 to Pittsburgh is now boarding at gate 25B." The flight attendant assisted his search. He was almost out of time. He hoped he wouldn't be too late.

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Anna sighed as she loaded her bags onto the carousel and headed toward her gate. She was really going back to Pittsburgh. Newport sure had been a ride, but it didn't work.

"Anna! Anna! Wait!" She turned around at the sound of Ryan's voice.

"Ryan, what are you doing here?" She was perplexed. If anything, she would have thought Seth would have followed her and tried to get her to stay asking her to forgive him for making her leave.

"Anna, I've never been good at expressing my emotions but I couldn't let you leave without asking you this. Have you ever felt something between us? A pull, a tug and emotional spark that intrigued you? Like when we were are the carnival and you were giving me advice about Marissa, I felt something there. Like you wanted to help me with her, but --- and whenever you'd talk about just helping Seth with getting Summer like you didn't care, I knew you did. I knew it was eating you up inside and it was the only way you could stay close to him."

"Ryan---I--" She began.

"There's no need Anna. I'm used to rejection and being wrong. It's okay. I just couldn't let you go without seeing if just maybe you felt it too. That maybe somewhere deep down inside you actually liked the town Orange County's newest juvenile delinquent. Have a great time in Pittsburgh. Good luck." He turned and walked a few steps away.

"Wait! Ryan!" She shouted. He turned around again, his face sullen. "Ryan, I admit that I did feel those things. I've always felt like we understood each other. Like we were two people separated by time and circumstances. I just never knew you did." She smiled and the world seemed brighter to both of them.

"You're sure?" He asked.

"Yes, I never thought you'd reciprocate those feelings though."

"This is the last call for the non-stop flight to Pittsburgh boarding at gate 25 B." The same flight attendant as before called out.

"Where do we go from here?" He asked. He knew she wouldn't want to stay here because of things with Seth.

"I'm gonna go back to Pittsburgh and figure that out. I don't know if I could stay here---"

"Because of Seth, I know." She nodded. He really did understand her.

"I'm coming!" She yelled to the flight attendant, who nodded and smiled at their interaction. "I wish you'd told me this before, before it got complicated." She moved closer to him, looking into his eyes.

"I never thought I'd say this to you Anna. You were supposed to just be that cool girl that Seth kept holding on a string, while Summer decided whether she liked him or not. But you aren't just that to me Anna." He ran his hand down the side of her face as her solemn expression blossomed into a smile again. "And all I want right now is to kiss you goodbye." He leaned in ever so slightly and she did too. Their lips met in the softest exchange imaginable, but it felt --for both of them-- like being struck by lightning, but a good kind of lightning. "That was the cheesiest thing I've ever said to anyone." He chuckled as they parted.

"It was also the sweetest, most honest thing." She replied. She picked up her bags, blew him a kiss and boarded her plane.

He didn't have anything to do and he didn't really want to do anything else, so he just stood there watching the plane take off. He didn't know if he'd ever see her again. As Ryan drove home through the dark suburbs he heard another song, one that he also connected with, one that in an odd way, gave him hope for the future.

She's not an ordinary girl,
I can see it in her eyes
I'm just an ordinary boy
God must have heard my prayers last night

She's got every little thing I wanted
And it still feels just like the day it started
I said good bye to the broken hearted
And I could never express the way
I felt before tonight
Tonight

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Songs are Ryan Cabrera - True and Hawk Nelson - Every Little Thing