...Baby I must confess
We were bigger than anything
Remember us at our best
And don't forget about
Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes You still want it
So don't forget about us
I'm just speaking from experience
Nothing can compare to your first true love
So I hope this will remind you
When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us ...
...There's only one me and you
And how we used to shine
No matter what you go through
We are one, that's a fact
That you can't deny
So baby we just can't let
The fire pass us by
Forever we'd both regret
So don't forget about us...
"Stacy turned the volume up of her iPod when Mariah Carey's song came. She always remembers Randy with that song.
"Stop living in the past Stace. Move on. Let go of the past." Torrie told her every time she catches her cousin looking at Randy's picture.
"I'm not living in the past Tor. Randy's not in my past. He's… He'll come back. He promised me." Stacy would just say.
"Whatever you say cuz. Just don't get your hopes to high. I wouldn't want to see you hurt." Torrie said and hugged her cousin.
"Thanks Tor." Stacy said gratefully.
"But, still you can go and have fun with other guys. Date with them…" Torrie told her.
"No way Tor." Stacy answered simply.
Stacy was looking at Randy's picture once again. Reminiscing at their times together.
"I wonder what he looks like now?" Stacy thought to herself. Five years had gone and Randy had stopped communicating with her. But she didn't lose hope, Randy made a promise and Stacy just knows that he's going to keep it.
"… Because once they enter your life, wherever you are in the world, they become everything to you…" Stacy read a passage in the book that her mom and dad had given her. She closed it and looked at the dull sky. She laid on her back on the sofa in their patio.
"… I miss the things that he does. I miss the way he flash a smile. I miss it when he calls to apologize after a big fight. The way he comforts me when I had a bad day. Heck I miss everything about him now that he's gone!" Stacy thought with Mariah still singing on her iPod. She was staring into space once again, listening to Mariah's voice. Then suddenly out of nowhere, Torrie came. A smile was plastered on her face. Stacy could have sworn that she was insanely yapping about something. Her hands twirling in the air. Stacy raised an eyebrow.
"Stace! Great news!" Torrie exclaimed in a very excited voice. But Stacy couldn't hear her so she yanked the earphones off her.
"What? I was listening you know." She said irritably. Torrie just ignored the fact that she was irritated.
"Great news! John and his family are throwing a party for John's twenty-second birthday! And we're invited!" Torrie said happily. Stacy sat up straightly and stretched her arms and let out a huge yawn.
"So? What's in it that makes you so happy? You're always in his birthday every year. We're always there. What's new?" Stacy asked as she motioned to grab her iPod once again but Torrie beat her to it.
"Nothing! I'm just so excited!" Torrie said, she can't tell her about it! It's a surprise! "SO you're going right?" she asked excitedly. Stacy just looked at her weirdly.
"You're not gonna set me up in some blind date or something?" Stacy asked suspiciously.
"No! You're going?" Torrie asked again.
"Oh alright!" Stacy just said.
"Cool!" Torrie said and went inside the house happily. She was humming Everlasting Love for pete's sake and she's the woman who repeatedly admitted that she hates oldies!
"Weird!" Stacy just muttered as she continued to study Torrie's weird indeed attitude that day..
The big night arrived. Torrie picked out a pink spaghetti short dress. And paired it up with pink stilettos. Stacy got herself a silvery white tube dress that reached only up to her knees. She wore white stilettos.
"Wow! You look amazing!" They said simultaneously as they looked at each other.
"Thanks!" Stacy said.
"Ooh! He's going to be so happy to see you!" Torrie said in an undertone.
"What did you say Tor?" Stacy asked as she fixed her hair.
"Oh nothing!" She said quickly.
"You ready? Let's go?" Torrie asked her and the two of them went to the restobar where the party was gonna be held. They met up with old friends and started chatting. Torrie was with John most of the time and John would introduce her to his new friends. Stacy was left in the table doing nothing with some other girls.
"Excuse me, I'd just go to the lady's room." She excused herself.
Randy nodded at John and Torrie's direction as he made his way towards the table Stacy was in.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Stacy apologized when she bumped into someone in the middle of the dance floor.
"It's okay." Said a very familiar voice. Stacy just nodded and never looked up at the man and proceeded to the lady's room. The guy looked at her leaving back and smiled.
"You still look beautiful Stace." Randy whispered and shook his head.
Stacy reached the lady's room with confused thoughts in her head.
"Why did that voice sound so familiar?" she asked herself. She just shook her head and retouched her make up and return to her table.
"Anything I missed?" Stacy asked.
"Nothing." Christy Hemme, one of her acquaintances in junior high answered.
"Hey you like to dance?" Chris Masters asked Christy. Christy was so delighted that someone had finally asked her to dance, erased the irritation that it was the arrogant Chris Masters in front of her.
"Yeah." She answered excitedly and started smiling flirtatiously at Masters.
"Cool! I'll take your seat, others are full." Chris said and beamed at her.
"Argh! Get lost Masters!" Christy exclaimed and Chris Masters shot her an evil look.
"The nerve of him!" Christy muttered and Ashley and Trish giggled.
"It wasn't funny you know!" Christy snapped and Trish and Ashley stopped giggling immediately.
Stacy laughed a bit and then realized it wasn't that funny at all so she turned to staring blankly into space when suddenly two hands covered her eyes.
"Hey!" she exclaimed. Randy just laughed silently. "Let go." She said.
"Not until you guess who this is." Randy said.
"It's that voice again! And… and he sounds so much like Randy… and only Randy does this…" she thought.
"Come on! Stop this." Stacy felt like crying and she doesn't know why.
"Don't tell me you have already forgotten about me." Randy said slowly as he let go of Stacy and went around to face her.
"Randall? Randall Wimp Orton?" Stacy asked in surprise and awe. This wasn't Randall Wimp Orton anymore! This guy in front of her has got a great body. But the voice, the antics and his smile! It was indeed Randy!
"No. Randy." Randy corrected him. Stacy smiled widely and hugged him.
"Surprised to see me?" Randy asked her.
"So, so much!" Stacy replied as she pounded Randy's chest and cried.
"Stop it! Everybody might think I've done something bad to you." Randy told her and chuckled at Stacy's reaction.
"I missed you so much Stace." He just said.
"I missed you too! Why didn't you tell me that you were coming back?" Stacy asked.
"Well if I told you, you wouldn't be surprised to see me." Randy said.
"I love you!" Stacy whispered.
"I love you too. And I'm never going away ever again." Randy told her.
"Randy?"
"I'm never leaving you again. I'm staying here for good." He answered as he cupped her face with his hands.
"Really? You'll never go again?" Stacy asked again, her eyes shining in happiness.
"Not ever." Randy replied and hugged her again.
"When you look them in the eyes, travelling to the depths of their souls and you say a million things without even speaking. You know that your own life is consumed by their love. We love them for a million reasons; it is a thing, an indescribable feeling, love."
A/n: most of the italics in here are from the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III. I so love that book! ("… Because once they enter your life, wherever you are in the world, they become everything to you…") and the last part! So I don't own it! Okay! Hope you liked it! R&R! Thanks guys! and the song belongs to mariah carey! awesome!
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