Hey Ya'll, here I am again with a new story. I really hope you guys like it.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story!

I was running, to what seemed an unreachable goal. It was a post at the other end of the field, but as I ran, the post didn't seem to be getting closer. No matter how fast I ran, I never seem to get to the post. Wait a minute…why was I running to the post in the first place? The straight, hard looking post then began to mutate. It grew curvy and soft, with the most beautiful face I'd ever seen in my life – a face I recognized.

"David….David…"

Where the post had stood just seconds before now stood the loveliest girl on the face of the planet. As soon as I saw this, I picked up my pace, wanting to reach her sooner. Suddenly, the post seemed to blow up, and be filled with a blinding, golden light.

"David…David!"

The light expanded and grew to a round shape and became unbearable to look at. And then, everything else was gone but that blinding, golden light.

"Come on David! Get UP! Mom wants you to take out the garbage."

There I was again, lying on top of the same hill, staring up at the sky, directly into the sun. Why did I keep falling asleep when I was supposed to be doing homework? My books and binders were strewn about two meters away from me, and there was this face looking right at me, and let me tell you, it certainly wasn't the most beautiful one I'd ever seen.

"Leave me alone and go bug your little friends" I said to my sister, Leanne.

"Oh just be quiet. Quit daydreaming about Lizzie and go take out the garbage."

Lizzie… I still remember the first time I met Lizzie at Steve's party, almost a year ago now. Last summer had been a really hot one, which meant for some great times swimming at the lake with all my friends. And for the last half of the summer, even Lizzie came along – even though the whole time I wished it was only her and I. She was staying for the summer with Steve – her cousin – and would be going back home just before school went back in. But, the thing was that she had a boyfriend who was waiting back at home for her. Rumor had it that he was a big guy, so I wasn't about to make a move – even if it meant losing her to a 4-hour drive for the whole winter. So, all summer I bit my tongue, and acted like I only cared about her as a friend.

So when school let back in for the fall, Lizzie and I said goodbye and promised we'd talk throughout the winter and hang out again next summer. And talking was what we did. We spent a lot of time both on the phone and instant messaging each other all winter long. She would tell me her secrets, and I would confide in her things that I was afraid to tell everyone else. And then, before I knew it, the winter I had been dreading was melting away into a beautiful and warm spring. And with it came some of the most bittersweet news I'd gotten all year.

During the second last week of school, Lizzie called me unexpectedly. And she was crying. She proceeded to tell me in one, very long-winded and tearful sentence that she and Alex had broken up and it hadn't been amicable at all. Although it hurt me a lot to hear Lizzie cry and be so sad, a part of me couldn't help but be happy and hopeful that maybe something could happen between us. So after attempting to calm her down, we each went our ways and, coincidentally, haven't spoken since. But today, exactly one week after school finally finished, Lizzie's coming to town. I had told Steve I would be ready to go with him to pick her up at the train station around 5:00 tonight.

"Hey! Lover boy! Snap out of it, and TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!! Geez, I swear, sometimes it's like I'm not even here…" Leanne said, half to herself, as she started walking back towards the house.

"Hey Leanne!" I said. "Do you happen to know what time it is?"

"I'm only telling you because I'm your sister, not because I like you right now, but it's five to five. I'm…"

"WHAT?? Did you say five to five?"

"What are you, deaf? Yes, five to five! Bye!"

Ok, so it IS five to five, and I'm not NEAR ready to leave in five minutes! And if I don't take out the garbage, Mom WILL kill me! The next five minutes seemed so fast-paced that I don't know how I did it, but somehow I managed. I abandoned my books and binders took out the garbage and change into my cleanest clothes…and just as Steve's Dad is pulling into our driveway. Unlike the five-minute prep, the twenty-minute drive to the train station was one of the slowest twenty minutes of my life. Maybe because all I did was think about Lizzie the whole trip.

Once we got to the train station, there wasn't much of a wait until the dreams I had been harboring all winter were realized. As she came off the train, it was like one of those "slow-mo moments" that you always see in movies, as she stepped out of the train, turned slowly towards us, and flashed me that amazing smile. As she walked towards us, I thought my heart would pound right out of my chest, but somehow, maybe by magic, it didn't.

After talking almost the whole ride home, we parted ways again, with the promise of hanging out tomorrow, and every day for the rest of the summer. But what mattered to me more than any of that was what Lizzie whispered in my ear, so that nobody else heard but me:

"Let's make sure that we go to the lake this summer…just the two of us though."

Hope you guys liked this chapter. Give me some feedback and tell me what you all think. This story is going to be written by me and my friend so it's not only my story. So R&R people!!

Bisous,

Jasmine