Author's Note: Well, thank you for the reviews, the good ones at least. Supposedly our story was posted on a site that thinks Bridgette is a Mary-Sue, and we've received a few hateful comments, but me and Katie are planning to keep posting this as long as we get one or two good reviews. You have to understand, Bridgette is a 15 year old girl. Basing all of this off of my OWN life, that is exactly how I would act, so it's not very unrealistic. Also, we made a few mistakes, but hasn't everyone when writing a fan fiction of some type? So please just keep those in mind before you leave hateful reviews. But yeah, thank you so much to our supporters, you're the ones who keep us here.
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August 16th, 1992
"Honey, we're here," Tina said, gently shaking Bridgette awake. Bridgette opened her eyes, slowly taking in the back of the plane seat. When her mum woke her up this morning at 7:30, she was half asleep, so the second she sat in the plane seat, she fell fast asleep.
She stood up and wiped the sleep out of her eyes. "What time is it?" she asked, yawning.
"It's about 11 sweetie," Tina replied, getting up and taking out their carry on. Bridgette slowly stood up, frowning slightly from still being somewhat disorientated.
She yawned and stepped off the plane, squinting from the blazing sunlight. It was just a little bit warmer than it was in England and a small smile lit her face as she pulled down her gigantic Gucci sunglasses, following her mom into the airport and to the luggage area, the Diggory's following close behind.
Cedric was holding both Natalie and Lucas in his arms. They were both sleeping with their thumbs in their mouths. "M-Mornin'," Cedric yawned, giving her a sleepy smile.
Bridgette managed to return a half smile before collecting her luggage, rolling her eyes underneath her sunglasses.
It was obvious that he was at least trying to get along with her, but she really didn't want to get along with him. She might have had to break up with Anthony last night, but he didn't need to know that.
"Good morning, Bridgette!" Diane said cheerfully. "You are going to absolutely love it here! Your mum tells me you like to shop?" Bridgette nodded, inwardly groaning. She hated people who were cheerful early in the morning.
"Oh boy does she!" Tina exclaimed, laughing as they headed out the airport for the taxis, "They're so tiny! We'll have to split up, Bridgette and Cedric, you go in one with Lucas, and Diane and I will go in the other with Natalie."
"But...!" Bridgette began but her mother gave her a look which silenced her. She sighed and gave Cedric a fake smile and jumped in the car with him.
She squeezed into the backseat of the small car, buckling herself up as Cedric got into the car next, putting Lucas in between them as he told the taxi driver to follow the taxi in front of them.
They were silent until they reached their destination. Bridgette was the first out of the car, Cedric and Lucas following close behind.
They quickly checked into their hotel suites; Bridgette and her mother sharing, and Diane and her family sharing the bigger room, "So, shopping, and then the beach for the rest of the afternoon?" Diane suggested.
"Sounds good to me!" Tina said happily.
Bridgette smiled and muttered, "Fantastic." She wished she had just stayed home.
"Oh Bee cheer up," Tina said to her daughter as they started walking towards the street that contained all of the shops.
Bridgette didn't say anything but rolled her eyes, thankful that no one could see her eyes behind the sunglasses.
"Mom, is it ok if I split off for a while? You know I love to shop by myself," Bridgette said as they approached the busy street.
"Of course, honey," Tina said, smiling and handing her some money and her cell phone back. "We'll call when we want to meet up, have fun!"
"Bye!" she exclaimed, cheerful for the first time since yesterday. She hitched her purse a little higher up her shoulder, smiling at a cute French boy before walking briskly towards her favorite stores.
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"Hey, Bee! How was your shopping?" Tina asked as Bridgette walked into their suite nearly three hours later.
"Fantastic! Can we live here instead?" she asked, plopping down onto her bed.
Tina laughed and turned to her daughter, "So, what did you get?" she asked with a smirk on her face.
"A bunch of stuff! I'll model!" Bridgette said excitedly and Tina laughed. She was glad her daughter was happy.
Bridgette ended up getting two flippy skirts, a pair of tight hip hugger jeans, a few cute tops, some shoes, a Louis Vuitton purse, and a new dark green string bikini, which she had purchased after she realized she would be wearing it in front of Cedric.
"Very nice!" Tina exclaimed, smiling. "So, change out of that bathing suit and come down to the dining room for dinner. Diane has not stopped raving about you all day! She thinks you're wonderful."
"I thought we were going swimming?" Bridgette asked, walking over to the bathroom with a white baby doll dress she had brought along on her arm.
"Oh yes well bring a change of clothes then," Tina said distractedly. Bridgette slipped her feet into her sandals before following her mom out of the room.
"Hey!" Diane greeted them. Bridgette smiled and pulled her sunglasses on even though they were inside. Hitching her beach bag on her shoulder she followed everyone to the elevator, getting in, "I'm dropping the kids off at the daycare, that way we don't have to watch them at the beach."
"Sounds good...where's Cedric?" Tina asked, pressing the button for the ground floor.
"Making reservations for the restaurant downstairs, you don't mind if we wait till after the beach to eat, do you?" Diane asked as the elevator reached ground floor and opened, to reveal Cedric leaning against a wall and waiting for them.
"Of course not," Bridgette said politely, staring at Cedric. She thought that he knew how good looking he was, leaning against a wall, looking all intense. He probably did it on purpose.
But yet again, she knew how good she looked, though she hated admitting it. She did, most of the time try to accentuate her better features, though never dressing really slutty at all.
"Thanks for waiting, Cedric," Diane said, running over to him.
"No problem, mum," he said, staring at Bridgette. She blushed and looked away, regretting wearing just her bikini.
She hated being a red head so much sometimes, especially times like these when she blushed, because when she blushed...boy did she blush.
They all waited while Diane checked in the kids and then they went out for the beach, Bridgette pulling her hair up in a messy bun on their way there.
As soon as they got there, Bridgette headed straight for the water. She loved to swim, though she didn't get too much, living in the middle of New York City.
"Bee! You'll burn to a crisp! Put on your suntan lotion!" Tina called from a beach chair where she sat. Bridgette rolled her eyes, slumping over to a spot on the sand and laying out her blanket, taking off her sunglasses and taking out her lotion.
She squirted some onto her arms, subbing it in and gazing over at Cedric, who was rubbing the lotion all over his muscular chest.
She looked away before he could catch her looking at him and think she liked him or something. She rubbed some of the lotion onto her chest and then onto her face before attempting to do her back.
"Hey, you need help?" Cedric asked, walking over and kneeling down beside her blanket. "No, I'm fine," she said, struggling to reach behind her back.
"Don't be silly, here, give me the lotion," he said, holding out his hand for the bottle.
She sighed and gave it to him, moving her bun out of the way and wrapping her arms around her knees so that he could get her whole back.
He squirted some on his hands before placing them on her back, gently rubbing the lotion in. She shivered slightly, but relaxed as his hands traveled her back.
It almost felt nice having his large hands smoothing the lotion over her back…almost. "Hmm, large hands, does that mean…?" she thought, her dirty mind activating, "No, stop thinking like that!"
"There, all done," he said a moment later, smiling and sitting back.
She smiled at him a little and stood up. "Thanks," she mumbled.
"Bee darling, don't go out to far!" her mom called as she started to walk out to the water. She rolled her eyes and walked in, planning on swimming out as far as she had to go until she found a nice, secluded sandbar to rest on.
"Bridgette!" Cedric called after her. "Do you mind if I join you?" he asked when he caught up.
She rolled her eyes but answered, "Fine."
"You'll have to keep up with me though, I might be swimming far," Bridgette told him, diving forward and beginning to swim out and away from the beach. She didn't know why she was so resistant towards him. He seemed pretty genuine, maybe it was because it scared her to think that someone could like her for who she really was, knowing she was a witch and everything.
Within a few minutes, he was ahead of her. "I think it's you that's gonna have to keep up with me," he said, grinning.
She glared at him before continuing her path, swimming out until she could barely see the beach, Cedric still in front of her, "Where are you heading anyways? Italy?" he asked, laughing a bit.
"Maybe I can swim back to New York," she replied.
"Good luck with that!" he exclaimed before slowing his pace and floating on his back.
"Getting tired?" she asked, him swimming past him as she spotted a sand bar about 300 feet away.
"I had to watch Lucas and Natalie all day, I have a right to be tired," he replied, following her to the sand bar.
"Whatever," she said, sitting down in the now only 2 foot deep water, instead of the too deep to imagine water that she was swimming through back there.
They were silent for a few moments until Cedric spoke, "Look, I'm trying here, ok? We're going to be seeing a lot more of each other, let's try to make it bearable."
"What if I don't feel like it? I didn't want to move back here in the first place," Bridgette replied, turning away from him.
"I understand," he began but she cut him off.
"No, no you don't understand! You grew up here, I grew up there and that's where I belong!" she exclaimed.
She let out a huff before setting her chin on her knees and looking out at the blue horizon stretched out in front of her eyes. She wanted to come here to relax but she couldn't even do that now.
"Look, I'm sorry I blew up, I just really, really, really don't want to be here," she sighed, turning around. He looked hesitant for a second before he leaned forward, his lips meeting with hers.
Her eyes opened wide as he did this, opening wider than she thought possible as he started to deepen the kiss. "What the fuck?" she exclaimed a second later, pushing him off of her and smacking him right across the face.
Before he could say anything, she jumped off the sand bar and swam all the way back to the shore. "I'm going back to the hotel," she mumbled to her mother's inquiring look.
"What happened?" Diane asked as Cedric walked out of the water a moment later. He couldn't chase after her immediately because parts of his body were...otherwise occupied, and if he had followed her he would have been very much so embarrassed.
"She just misses New York, that's all," Tina said quickly as Cedric fell down onto the blanket and sighed.
"What's the matter darling?" Diane asked her son as he lay down looking up at the sky. He didn't know what the matter with him was.
"Nothing, mum," he said flatly. What was he thinking? She obviously hated him, for reasons he didn't know. So what she didn't remember him? That didn't mean they could at least try to be friends.
He sighed and got up, dusting san off of his back and walking towards the hotel, deciding that he needed a nap. "It's a shame those two are so resistant to each other," Tina said, sighing as the women watched Cedric walk away.
"I know! I really thought they would remember each other," Diane said, turning away from Cedric's retreating form. "They would be such a cute couple...better than the other girls Cedric has brought home in the past."
"Yeah, and he would definitely be better for her than that...Anthony she is supposedly in love with. They've been dating for about a year, though I made her break it off with him last night, but anyways she hasn't even told him about what she really is or anything!" Tina exclaimed.
Diane shook her head and sighed, "I say we watch some of the home videos from when they were kids tonight," she suggested.
"Oh, that's a great idea! Maybe it'll jog their memories," Tina said excitedly.
"Good, I brought them along, they're in the suitcase. We should probably be heading back for the reservations now anyways," Diane said, getting up and collecting her stuff.
"Bee, come on, we have reservations!" Tina called when she walked into her and Bridgette's suite.
"I'm not coming!" Bridgette exclaimed, not moving from her bed.
"Yes you are! You are not going to mope the rest of the day Bridgette!" Tina exclaimed. Bridgette groaned before getting off the bed and walking into the bathroom, coming out a moment later with the white baby doll dress on.
The whole time she wouldn't look at Cedric. She couldn't believe he kissed her...didn't she make it clear that she hated him?
"When we get back from picking the kids up, Diane brought along some videos for all of us to watch, doesn't that sound like fun?" Tina exclaimed as they walked towards the daycare.
"Whatever," Bridgette mumbled, staring at the floor.
She caught one of her mother's warning glances and simply slipped her sunglasses down over her eyes before walking off to the elevator.
"What movies?" she asked as they stepped into the elevator.
Tina shrugged. "A little of this, a little of that...you'll like it, trust me," she said, smiling.
"Fine," Bridgette replied, waiting for Diane to unlock their suite before walking in and taking a seat on a couch in front of the TV
Cedric was sitting on the floor in front of her, his eyes focused on the blank TV screen. She took her sunglasses off and set them on a table, getting comfortable for what looked like a long night.
"Found them!" Diane called from her room, coming out with four video tapes. She smiled over at the two of them for some reason before popping the first in.
"Wave to the camera, Bee!" said Diane's voice on the TV and Bridgette paled. They were home videos of her and Cedric.
She immediately grabbed the pillow next to her and stuffed her face into it as she heard herself giggling on the TV.
"Hi, camera," she heard herself say and groaned. "Oh for goodness sake, Bee, just watch it!" Tina exclaimed, taking the pillow away from her daughter. She gazed at her 3 year old self rolling around in the mud, with a 3 year old Cedric and cringed.
Cedric threw some mud at her and she tackled him, making him even dirtier. But what came next made her want to die: there she was, stark naked and covered in mud.
"Mom!" she shrieked, grabbing a blanket from behind her and throwing it over herself, not caring how retarded she looked right then.
"Oh, gosh, you two were just so adorable," Diane sighed, her eyes welling with tears.
Bridgette peeked over the blanket a second later and saw herself being ushered into the house a second later, Cedric laughing on the ground.
The scene changed. It was Christmas and she and Cedric were opening presents. "Happy Christmas, Bee Bee," three-year-old Cedric said, handing three-year-old Bridgette a poorly wrapped present.
She giggled and tore it open, a bright grin breaking out on her face as she hugged the new Winnie the Pooh bear she got. "Can I play with it?" he asked.
"No! It's mine!" Bridgette said, holding it tighter. She grinned and reached behind her for his present. "Happy Christmas, Ceddie," she said, handing him a present. He smiled and threw his arms around her, hugging her tightly.
Bridgette grimaced as she watched her younger self do this, and then she watched Cedric opening the batman figurine, nearly dying when his 3 year old self practically tackled her and kissed her.
Diane and Tina were practically in tears. Cedric glanced back at her and smiled a little, as if he were remembering her. She groaned and pulled the blanket back over her head, not able to watch anymore.
"Ugh I can't take this anymore!" she exclaimed, jumping off the couch and running out of the suite.
"Bridgette, how dare you!" Tina exclaimed, bursting into her and Bridgette's suite. "Go back and apologize to Diane right now!"
"No! LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!" Bridgette practically screamed before locking herself in the bathroom.