Trip Down Memory Lane
Radio Free Roscoe
Chapter 3
"Open mine next!" a young 12 year old Ray spoke.
"NOO Mine!" a 12 year old Robbie spoke.
"I choose Robbie's" Lily said, and stuck her tongue out at Ray. It was her 12th birthday party, on September 23rd, Ray had called her lucky because her birthday was when school was in session and you always got a day without homework when it was your birthday. Ray's was in July, so he envied her since he hated homework. Lily opened a small box and inside was a lock, she looked at it weirdly, and then smiled to Robbie.
"Thanks... I'll use this in so many places..." Lily lied, and Robbie could tell she hated it.
"That's not all though!" he said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her into the backyard, and showed her a shiny new blue bike with 18 gears, she immediately fell in love with the bike. "You can use the lock to make sure no one takes it." Robbie finished.
"THANK YOU ROBBIE" and overjoyed Lily exclaimed and nearly trampled Robbie with a hug. Ray just hoped his gift would win her over more, not because he had feelings for her, but because he felt he needed to prove that he was Lily's lifetime best friend.
"No problem Lily." Robbie said as they went back to her carport where the party was still going on.
"Now... it's time for my gift." Ray spoke as he went over and grabbed a huge box, and set it on the table.
"OHHH big boxes, that can never mean anything bad." Lily said as she ripped the wrapping off and open the box up. "OH MY GOD!" she shrieked.
"Is that a good oh my god?" Ray asked her, as she slid the guitar strap over her shoulder.
"NO! It's the BEST oh my god I've ever said, and I mean it!" she said as she went over to hug Ray, pushing the guitar behind her so she wouldn't kill him with it when they hugged.
"I remember you telling me earlier this month how much you wanted to play since I showed you that new band's song "Shady Lane", and immediately I knew what to get you, I'm really glad you like it." Ray spoke as they broke away from the hug. Lily grabbed a white pick Ray had also provided for her, and played her first note on her brand new guitar.
"Am I good?" Lily asked Ray.
"You need alot of lessons..." Ray said, as he receieved the infamous punch to the right shoulder.
"That was beyond the best day of my life." Lily sighed as she remembered.
"You liked my present that much?" Ray questioned.
"Ray, everything that happened, happened because of you." she began, "You giving my the Pavement CD and begging my to listen to 'Shady Lane', and I became addicted, and then you getting me the guitar, and then your non-stop support through the years from there, I just want to thank you."
"You are very welcome, anything to show you that you really are my best friend." Ray said, still looking at the picture of he and Lily hugging with her guitar behind her and goofy smiles on both their faces.
"What was something big that happened the year after?" she asked Ray.
"You don't remember?" Ray spoke.
"Well I know the clambake happened, but I'd rather not reminisce about that." Lily said.
"Not that, the camping trip to Ottawa, when it was just our dad's and us in seperate tents?"
"Oh, that was do fun! I have to show you my favourite picture." she said as she went almost to the end of the photo album and pointed to a picture of them arms around each other, but with the unused arm they were holding a fish, Lily's was at least 5 times bigger than Ray's and they both chuckled at that.
"Ray do we have to go fishing? You know I suck at fishing." a 13 year old Lily spoke to a 13 year old Ray with braces.
"Yes, because I want to, and so do our dads." he spoke in his defense.
"Fine, but only if you help me out." Lily said.
"Deal, you are definetely asking the right person, since I am way better in fishing than you are..." Ray joked and received a nice bruise on his other shoulder. He rubbed it prfusely to dim the pain, like he did whenever Lily socked him.
"Let's just get this over with..." Lily sighed as she picked up some of the fishing gear, and along with Ray, his dad and her dad, she headed over to Wellax Lake, which was about a 10 minute walk from where they were camping at.
"Okay, let me get your worm hooked." Ray said as he bent down and shoved a worm onto Lily's line.
"Poor worm, why do people use worms as bait anyway... they have fake worms at the fishing stores you can buy for the same price." Lily said.
"Lily... fake worms don't work... the real deal all the way does, plus he's in a better place now." he reassured Lily.
"Fine..." she reluctantly agreed with Ray, and threw her line out into the water of Wellax Lake. After about 5 minutes of repeating the process, she felt something pulling on her line. "RAY!!!" she yelped, as she tryed reeling it in herself, but it hadn't worked out. Ray rushed over and assisted her and soon they were getting the fish off the line and putting him in a large basin of water.
"I thought you sucked at fishing..." Ray said while staring into the basin at the biggest bass he had ever seen in his 13 years of life.
"I thought I did too." Lily said, still in shock that she had caught that fish. Suddenly, Ray felt his line jerk back.
"HA! Now I'm going to beat your fish in size!" he exclaimed, as he fought and fought with his line, and when he pulled the fish out of the water, Lily doubled over laughing, Ray's fish was not even 1/3 the size of hers, an embarrassed Ray just threw the fish into the basin like nothing happened.
"Now when you said beat my fish in size, were we going for who could catch the fish the size of a toothpick?" Lily asked, still laughing from Ray's embarassing letdown.
"Funny... and it was a fluke..." he said as Lily's dad then made them get the fishes and smile for a picture.
Ray looked over to a silently laughing Lily.
"You are enjoying this aren't you?" Ray said as he closed the photo album.
"Yes, very VERY much so." Lily said as she tried to stop herself from laughing. Soon they were laid back on Lily's bed.
"Ray, what happened?" Lly said, starring at the ceiling.
"What happened where?" he questioned, glancing towards her.
"To us... everything got weird after the whole Travis and Me kissing thing, I miss hanging out with you. Now, I found a girl version of you in Parker, but I miss having you too..." she said as she sighed.
"You still have me Lily, it's just things are different now I guess." Ray said, as he joined Lily in looking to the ceiling.
"Very different, don't take this the wrong way but... why did you even stop by?"
"I had that feeling of a friend in need." Ray joked, but realized Lily wasn't laughing... she really did miss the old Ray.
"Ray, really why did you stop by."
"In all honestly, I had a bit of a confrontation with Travis before I came." he spoke as Lily sprang up.
"You what?" she said with a bit of shock in her voice.
"Yea, we had some different views on some things..." he said.
"Like what?"
"Well it all started when..." Ray started.
End Of Chapter 3
A/N: Hope you all are still liking it! I'll be ending it soon, so please continue being wonderful people and review like crazy.Sorry I haven't updated in forever, the winners for round two at the underground awards either just came in today, or i have completely looked over them... lol, so guess what that means??? LIS IS FINISHED! chapter 27 is posted! so after you review here, go over tehre and review!
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Amanda