New Beginnings
Chapter 15
Music by The All-American Rejects, Kelly Clarkson and Fall Out Boy
Emma and Shawn were on their flight to New York. They had gotten a hotel right near the tree, and it was Christmas Eve so they would get to see the tree lit. All of Emma's friends were meeting them at the hotel at 6:30, and Emma's mom was flying first class, because that's the way that she was. Emma and Shawn would have flown first class too, but they didn't want to be near Rachel. Even though they had decided to tell her about them, so she knew, they didn't want her to bother them.
Emma awoke with her head on Shawn's shoulder, right when the pilot was telling everyone that they should stay in their seats with their seatbelts on.
"Hey Sleeping Beauty," Shawn said to her.
"Hey. How long was I asleep?"
"About an hour and half. We're about to land, so get ready. Then we can go to the hotel, unpack and well, let's just say that the lights will probably be ready by then."
Emma walked into the hotel room after they landed and heard music coming from her bedroom. She walked in.
I'll keep you my dirty little secret (dirty little secret)
Don't tell anyone
Or you'll be just another regret (just another regret)
Hope that you can keep it
My dirty little secret
Who has to know?
When we live such fragile lives
It's the best way we survive
I go around a time or two
Just to waste my time with you
Tell me all that you've thrown away
Find out games you don't wanna play
You are the only one that needs to know
Emma turned to Shawn.
"How...what...why?" she managed to stammer out.
"Well, I figured that they kind of applies to us, so I had room service set it up before we got here."
"Ya know, I was thinking, and we're kind of like Monica and Chandler. We don't really tell anyone about us."
"Yeah, but in our case, we kind of can't," Shawn replied.
"True, very true. Any way, let's unpack before my friends get here." They started unpacking, and when that song finished they put on Z100.
I will not make the same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way you did
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way, to never let it get that far
Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
"Oh, Shawn, just telling you, me and all of my friends LOVE "The O.C." so tomorrow we're going to watch it when they come over. If you want to watch it, you can too, but I don't think that you would really want to.
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance
This is the way
They'd love if they knew how misery loved me
"Yeah, sure I'll watch it. I don't see why you guys are so obsessed with it though. I mean. What could be so great about a couple of hot guys, kissing some hot girls?"
"Shawn," Emma said laughingly. "You have a lot to learn about girls when it comes to TV."
Emma's friends rang up so they turned off the radio and went downstairs.
"My mom has a different room," Emma told her friends, "So she won't bother us." When they got upstairs Emma started to hug all to her friends, and then introduced them to Shawn (as a friend only). "We should go to the big window so that we can all see. It'll probably start soon."
They were all waiting at the window, when suddenly the lights on the tree went on, and the lights in the room went off. Nobody really noticed the lights in the room though, until the lights on the tree went off. It was pitch black. Suddenly, Emma felt someone kissing her and she kissed them back. When the lights turned back on after about five minutes, Emma saw that she was kissing the boy that her friend Jennifer had brought with her, not Shawn. She broke away and saw Shawn disappearing out the door. She ran after him.
"Shawn wait!" she called.
"Why," he snapped back. "What's the point?"
"It's not what it looked like. I thought--"
"Yeah, it's not what it looked like, I've heard that one before. And you thought what, that I was in the bathroom?"
"I thought it was you!" Emma screamed at him, tears streaming down her face.
"Sure you did. You know Emma, out of all my girlfriends, I thought that you seemed like the least likely to do this to me. The moment I saw you with those girls, I knew that you were different from them. But I guess I was wrong." Then he started walking away towards the stairs. Emma watched him go, and them slowly walked over to the wall, and sunk down into the corner, crying.
Just so all u ppl kno, I did write this on christmas eve.