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Lost In You
Chapter 11: Now and Then
Rory was on her way driving over to Tristan's place when she spotted a nearby coffee shop, she smiled and pulled over. She would need a pep-me-up to get through talking to Tristan after their disastrous fight the other day.
Rory walked into the coffee shop and sat down. She stared out the window next to her and reminisced back to when she had made Tristan his present.
Rory was sitting on her bedroom floor when she looked over at the picture of herself and Tristan at a school dance in their first year of high school. Then it hit her; she knew what she was going to give Tristan this year for Christmas.
She pulled out the photo album from underneath her bed and began pulling out pictures and smiling as she flipped through the pages remembering all their great times together. Rory got up from her place on the floor and began rummaging through her desk draws for a stick of glue.
Upon finding the glue, Rory then searched through her closet for an empty book, once she had found one, Rory resumed her seat back on the floor next to the photo album. Rory opened the empty book and wrote on the first page: Now and Then
It was then that Rory flipped the page and wrote the words: Then, at the top she then stuck a picture of herself in pre-school. Underneath she added the word: Little Mary.
Rory had overtime gathered photos of Tristan as a young boy simply for her photo album, but now they would serve a better purpose. A few hours later, Rory closed the book and smiled. The process had taken so long as she had added borders and memorable sayings to almost every page. One the very last page of the scrapbook Rory had written out the lyrics to the Vitamin C song Graduation (Friends Forever).
"I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same"
Rory knew deep down that Tristan will appreciate the song because it was the truth, but on the outside he'll act as if it's another stupid girly song. Rory then placed the book inside a box and slid it underneath her bed.
Rory looked into her coffee and smiled slightly. They'd been such good friends for so many years and they had let sex come between them, how could they have let that happen?
Tristan looked down at the pen in his hand and began to write out the note carefully, making sure he added in all the things he could never say to her face.
Rory left the coffee shop, determined to make things right again. She had run out of the shop in a daze and was now in her car heading towards Tristan's place. He had to know how she felt, they couldn't be like this. She wanted to bring in the New Year being Tristan's best friend again.
Rory pulled up outside the DuGrey and got out of the car with the box under her arm. She made her way to the front door and knocked loudly. After waiting only few moments, she was becoming impatient so she jingled the door knob. Sure enough, it was open, so Rory walked into the DuGrey mansion.
"Tristan, where are you?"
When she received no answer she made her way up the staircase and towards his room. When she heard no sound coming from inside, she entered suspiciously, what could he be doing?
"Tristan?" She asked aloud, anxious to find out where he was.
Rory walked over to his balcony and looked out to see if he was in the pool below. As she walked back in she looked on his desk to see an envelope with her name scrawled on the front. Rory picked up the envelope frowning.
Rory took a few steps back and leant up against the wall whilst looking down at the envelope and the box containing the scrapbook on the floor. She was in shock. She then leant back on the wall, and slid down. Rory looked around his room, slowly as a tear fell down her cheek.
He'd left.
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed the last ever chapter of Lost In You. I've had a lot of fun writing it and I've enjoyed all of your lovely reviews. I really want to do a sequel, I have a lot of ideas if I do go ahead and write one. But that all depends on how this story ends, if it ends with a bang (eg. lots and lots of reviews) you'll be seeing the sequel to Lost In You very soon, otherwise it could take just a little bit longer. You know what to do! Thanks for reading.