"Hmm, maybe something by Emily Dickenson?" Lydia mutters to herself as she looks at the blank page of her Dead Poet's Society journal, wondering what poem she should read to everyone at the meeting tomorrow night, Saturday.

She lies on her bed, listening to her broadway cd. Then, another song begins to play, and Lydia decides to sing along too. Oh, how she loves to sing. It is one of her secret passions.

Just then, her telephone rang. Clueless to who could be calling her, she answers the phone, "Hello?"

"Hi. Is the most gorgeous girl that I've ever laid eyes on at home?"

Lydia smiles, thinks a minute, and then replies, "I'm sorry, I don't know anyone that beautiful."

"Then you must never look in the mirror do you?" Joshua laughs on the other end of the phone.

"Hey baby, what's up?"

"What's up? Did you forget about our date tonight?"

"No. You said you were going to come and pick me up. Didn't you?"

Joshua sighs and says, "I only pick you up if it's raining outside. Go look outside your window and tell me who's supposed to pick who up?"

Lydia takes his playful teasing as she slowly lifts herself from her bed all the way over to her window. She pulls back her blue curtains. She looks out over her front lawn to find that it isn't raining, and that Joshua is looking up at her holding his cell phone to his ear and a red rose in the other hand.

Smiling, she looks at him silently. Then, Joshua says, "So do ya wanna go out or what?"

Haven Hideaway, the only actual restaurant in the town of Beaufort that's cheap enough for the local kids. It serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. There's also a small bakery and coffee stand, which gets a lot of business. One thing that Beaufort is known for is there very own fresh baked funnel cakes. Now, only fast food places near Beaufort are at least fifteen miles away; sometimes kids drive out just to get some McDonalds once in a while, but the majority of the time, they come here.

Tonight, the place is full of people just as Joshua and Lydia come in. They seat themselves, as always, and look over the menu together in the booth.

Adrienne, their waitress, comes up and smiles at the two, "Hello you crazy couple! What can I get ya?"

"Well darling Adrienne I believe we will have our usual; I'll have the steak burger with cheese fries and a vanilla coke. And this stunning young lady will have the chili cheese dog with cole slaw and a Dr. Pepper!"

Just as he says this, Lydia looks at him, "Jay, don't you ever want to try anything new?"

"Well, I know that you are always craving chili cheese dogs, and I want that burger. Besides, we can try something differenttomorrow night. Can't we?"

Lydia smiles at him, he knows her better than anyone has ever in her life. But wait, tomorrow night? Saturday! Lydia remembers tomorrow is the Dead Poet's Society Meeting; she can't miss it. More importantly, she can't tell anyone, especially Joshua, or Jay as she calls him.

Still standing there, Adrienne gives Lydia a secret eyebrow lift and says to Jay, "I'll put in your orders."

Uninterested, Jay is still looking at Lydia, who never answered her, "Don't we have tomorrow night baby?"

Lydia doesn't know what to say, but takes a deep gulp and shouts the first thing that comes to mind, "I'm babysitting!"

Jay jumps back a little from the outburst. A few people in the restaurant turn and look at her curiously. Lydia hides her face from them, completely embarrassed. Suddenly, she feels a soft hand upon hers. She looks up into Jay's faithful brown eyes. He stares at her with concern and says, "Is everything alright? You're acting a little weird."

"Weird? Hey, I've always been this weird, you know that. I just remembered that I have to baby-sit, that's all."

Still worried, Jay asks, "Well, can I help? We can sit the kids together; it'd be fun."

Lydia squeezes his hand and let's go of it, "Thanks for the help, but the kid's parents have trust issues; they know me and my family well, so they're just letting me do it. I'm probably gonna be sitting for them every Saturday night."

Jay wonders, "Every Saturday night?"

"Just about." She finishes as Adrienne gives them their drinks.

"Man, every Saturday…" Jay mutters aloud in thought.

Lydia takes her Dr. Pepper and begins sipping it down. She looks up at Adrienne, who winks at her. She winks back, and Adrienne leaves.

"Okay." Jay says finally after a few minutes of awkward silence.

"Huh?" Lydia comes out from her Dead Poet's world.

"I said okay. You have a job; you can use the money, that's great! But, I still pay on our dates! I wouldn't be a gentleman if I let my lady pay!"

Lydia sighs lightheartedly, "Fine!" and takes his hand again.

"So, what movie do you wanna rent tonight?" he asks just as the jingle of the bell over the front door is being opened.

"Hmm…I don't know. What do you want to watch?"

But Jay isn't paying attention. He watches as Jamie and Kirsten walk past their table over to the front counter.

Lydia is about to speak, but then stops herself. She wonders what he could be thinking. Now, everyone in town knew that Joshua Hoffman isn't the type of boy to check out the towns girls; he is loyal to both his friends and his girlfriend Lydia. Plus, Joshua knew Jamie since they were in diapers; they're just like family. It's obvious since they usually fight with each other all of the time.

But now, Lydia sits and watches as Jay looks at Jamie and Kirsten. They order something, pay, and wait.

Just at that moment, Lydia could have sworn she heard Jay mutter, "Not the vanilla malt and funnel cake!"

Finally, Kirsten turns around holding a "to go" box in one hand, and a vanilla malt in the other.

"Ah!" Jay sighs reluctantly. He turns back around in the booth and meets eye to eye with a concerned and curious Lydia.

"What was that all about?"

Jay, not knowing what to say, just tells her honestly, "Its Kirsten, I'm worried about her health. She won't stop eating junk food!"

Lydia narrows her eyes at him; if there's one thing she knows about Jay, it's that he's a lot like her in some ways. Especially when it comes to lying. They didn't lie to each other a lot, bit she knew he had to because she just did a few minutes ago.

But, before she could say anything, Jamie and Kirsten walk up to them. Kirsten smiles and goes over to Lydia for a hug, "Hi Lydia! How are you?"

Kirsten is so nice; Lydia really thought its wonderful that she's beginning to make some solid friends in the town as a result of the Society. However, as Lydia hugs Kirsten, she sees Jamie whispering something into Jay's ear.

Not aware of Lydia watching him, Jay gives Jamie a mean look and whispers something back. When this happens, Jamie goes from a serious face to a very pissed off one. Then, she takes Kirsten by the arm and says, "Come on Kirst, we need to leave."

Sensing the awful tension, Kirsten tries to wave to Lydia still holding the food, "Bye Lydia, we'll see you later!"

Lydia smiles, and then turns back to Jay. He doesn't have the same face he did when he looked at Jamie, but he did look distraught.

Concerned, she takes his hand in hers again and asks, "Is everything alright? Honestly?"

"Edward Scissorhands! I want to watch Edward Scissorhands!"

Not expecting that answer, Lydia decides its best that she dismisses her question for now, and just makes her boy happy, "A Tim Burton flick it is then!"

Adrienne at that moment comes up with their food. She doesn't even look at Lydia or Jay this time.

A few hours later, Jay and Lydia are cuddling on the couch in his basement just finishing up the end of the movie. They are happy together; everything that night has been truly magical. The few minutes at the restaurant have evaporated completely out of their minds.

"Aww, I hate this part!" Jay says as he covers his eyes.

Lydia takes his hands away from his face, "Why? I think it's sweet when she tells him she loves him."

"No, it is sweet; it's just, she's never going to see him again. He'll be alone up there in that mansion forever! I could never be alone like that!"

Jay looks up as he lays his head comfortably in her lap. Twirling his soft hair, Lydia gives him her words of wisdom, "It's true, he does lose his one and only love. But, that moment, right there, when she tells him she loves him, he'll remember that forever. The memories that he shared with her will be treasured always. And that's the real lesson in love: it doesn't matter how long the love lasts, just that it was there, it happened, and it was beautiful in its bloom. That's all we can hope for."

Peacefully, Jay looks up at her and whispers, "I love you."

Smiling, she leans down close to him and replies, "I love you too."

Delicately, she kisses him. From her point of view, this was true; she didn't know how long they would last, only that it is wonderful.