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A/N: I'm so sorry for taking so long in updating this story…I have an outline planned out and everything I was just to lazy
A/N: Thanks to Shouhei (a.ka. TorturedMind) for lending me her talent for writing!
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"Hey there preacher girl" Jeremy's cousin Mike slurred swaying side to side towards the kitchen table that Lucy was sitting at, since he had been drinking the entire time while she was there.
"Get away from me Mike" she said quietly enough so only he would hear and she wouldn't disrupt the entire family from watching their stupid television.
"I'm not going anywhere baby" he whispered into her ear sending weird shivers down her spine, as his fingers slowly traced her arm and her back.
"Please…just leave me alone" she begged him trying to get away from him and from the smell of liquor on his breath.
"I'm not leaving you alone…your all mine tonight" he told her moving his hand closer to her face…that's when she jumped out of her chair.
"I SAID GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME" she screamed as loud as she could.
"What's going on in there?" Jeremy's mom Linda replied angrily stomping through the living room into the kitchen.
"Nothing" Mike answered giving his aunt a grin.
"Then what is preacher girl screaming about it, if it's just nothing?" Linda asked looking crossly at Lucy who was still near the wall.
"I have a name and it's not preacher girl" Lucy said suddenly feeling the adrenaline rushing through her veins.
"Oohh…preacher girl has a voice" she heard someone from the living room comment while they were still watching T.V
"My name is Lucy and it's about time you start using it and stop calling me preacher girl" she declared proudly stepping away from the wall…she felt a lot better than she had in weeks.
"No, your name is preacher girl…got that?" Jimmy, Jeremy's other cousin replied stepping into the kitchen to see what was going on.
"Now Jimmy and Mike leave poor old preacher…I mean Lucy alone…she doesn't know what it's like not to be with her goody two shoes family" Linda told both of her nephews who started to break out into laughter.
"What's going on?" Jeremy asked walking into the apartment with his school books in his arm, closing the door.
"Nothing…we was just making fun of your preacher girl" Jimmy laughed lighting up a joint.
"DON'T CALL ME PREACHER GIRL" Lucy yelled at Jimmy "I HAVE A NAME"
"Luce…calm down…he's just kidding around with you" Jeremy told her setting his books on the kitchen table.
"Kidding around? What are you mental?" she shouted at him…she was pissed and now she was really going to give it to Jeremy.
"You call, calling me Mother Theresa, preacher girl, miss goody-two shoes, brat, and rotten girl kidding around? She glared at him her arms crossed over her chest.
"Their just kidding around Luce…take it as a compliment or something" he replied walking over to the kitchen sink to wash his hands.
"They're not kidding Jeremy, their serious…every time you leave your stupid cousin Mike seems to think I'm his sex slave or something" she spat out at him getting angrier by the minute.
"Oh Luce--" Jeremy started to say but couldn't finish he was to busy laughing.
"Oh Luce what?"
"He's just playing around with you…you and I both know he wouldn't do anything like that"
She stood there and closed her eyes and started to count to ten before she opened them back up and started to walk down the hallway towards the bedroom that she would be staying at during the school year.
"Luce? Where are you going?" she heard him yell from the kitchen.
"Is preacher girl going to the bedroom to cry?" she heard Jimmy holler from the family room.
Lucy who had grabbed her suitcase from the closet started to rummage around her drawers throwing her clothes and other stuff into the open suitcase when Jeremy walked in.
"What are you doing?" he asked her grabbing her wrist.
"I'm leaving…I have had enough of your family" she snapped back at him twisting her wrist back and forth trying to get out of his grip.
"What do you mean you've had enough of my family? You just met them"
"I just met them…I just met them? Jeremy are you blind? I have been living here for two months!" she exclaimed still removing her stuff from the drawers.
She was glad that she hadn't brought a lot of stuff with her to New York…just enough to last until the semester ended and then with the money her parents were going to send her…she was going to buy some winter clothes.
"Where are you going to go?" he asked suddenly letting her wrist go nastily.
"I don't know…somewhere other than here"
"What do you think your family is going to say? You running out on me like this?"
She shook her head and ignored the statement he made and zipped the suitcase, grabbed the handle and turned to look at him.
"I'm sorry Jeremy…I think I made a mistake, I think we made a mistake…we never really loved each other, well I know I never really loved you, I thought I was in love with you but the way your family treated me, the way you never stood up for me…what kind of a life would that be for us?" she said softly twirling the diamond engagement ring on her finger.
"Luce don't--" Jeremy started to say walking closer to her when she put her hand up to stop him.
"I'm sorry…I can't live a lie…I'm not in love with you Jeremy and your not in love with me either…so here" she told him taking the ring off and placing it in the palm of his hand leaving the bedroom she had stayed in.
"Luce…don't do this…not now…please just think about it" he begged walking behind her.
"I'm sorry Jeremy…it's just not going to work" were the last things out of her mouth before she walked out the door, out of his life for good.
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She didn't know where she was going but she knew going to Buffalo was the right direction to go…especially if she wanted a shoulder to cry on.
She had tried calling Mary as soon as she left Jeremy's house to tell her she was on her way to see her but the machine picked it up…which left Lucy two choices…one was to call the Colonel and admit defeat and go home or there was someplace else she could go…Kevin Kinkirk's house.
She used one of the last quarters she had to phone home…she needed their number and didn't feel like looking for a phone book. After dialing her home phone she tried to rack her brain to figure out what she wanted to say.
After the third ring someone picked up the phone "Hello?"
"Mom? It's Lucy"
"Hi, Luce how's New York?"
"It's fine…ummm I don't have that much time since I'm on a payphone but uhh…Jeremy and I are going to Buffalo for the weekend and I was wondering if you had the Kinkirk's address or their phone number?" she lied leaning up against the phone booth
"What are you guys going to Buffalo for?"
"Something for Jeremy's classes, a play or something…look I don't really have that much time"
"Okay, hold on for a second, I've got Sam and David trying to paint t-shirts for your dad for Father's Day" Annie replied setting the phone down to stop David from smearing paint on Sam.
"Fine"
"All right…I found it" Annie replied getting back on the phone "do you want just their phone number and their address or just their phone number?"
Lucy thought for a minute "I'll take both of them...that way in case I get lost I can always call them"
Annie laughed at her daughter's statement…only Lucy would be the one to get lost in a city.
"Ok…their number is 759-454-8724 and their address is 12347 Old Stone Road" Annie said reading off the address book before another thought crossed her head.
"Wait…what do you mean you? I thought Jeremy was with you?" Annie asked suddenly realizing what Lucy said just a few moments ago.
"He is…it's just that well never mind…I don't have time to explain I gotta go" she told her quickly hanging up the phone, grabbing her suitcase and running out towards the road to hail a taxi to Grand Central Station.
That's how she got where she was…on a train to Buffalo, New York to escape the mess that she left in New York and somehow try face the one person who she never wanted to see again.
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He was tired…he had been working a 12 hour shift that day at Buffalo International Airport and he was beat…
"Hey Kinkirk" someone yelled his name.
"What?"
"Are you ready to go?" asked Damian, one of Kevin's friends he met through the police academy.
"Yeah, let me go and change and I'll met you outside" Kevin replied walking towards the locker room.
"Hurry up I don't have all day! I'm taking my girl out for a romantic dinner" Damian yelled after him.
Great…just wanted Kevin wanted to hear about on his way home…how Damian was going to as his girlfriend of 2 years to marry him…it brought back painful memories of Lucy.
15 minutes later Kevin w as in the car with Damian who was telling him how he was going to propose and what he was going to say.
"What's wrong with you?" Damian asked suddenly when he realized that Kevin had been silent the entire time.
"Nothing"
"You sure? Cuz you sure don't seem all the excited for me"
"I'm happy for you"
"Are you sure?"
I'm positive…can we just drop the subject?" Kevin replied flipping the radio on and started to change the stations.
First he got to 99.5 a country music station that usually played happy, upbeat, country sounding music but this time he heard was LeAnn Rimes "Please Remember"
Getting frustrated he angrily flipped the radio off and glared out of the window.
"Are you sure nothing is bugging you man?" Damian asked again peering at Kevin
"I'm fine" he replied again in a flat tone.
"Sure" Damian muttered under his breath before turning down Old Stone Road where Kevin lived with his mother currently.
"I thought Patty-Mary was in San Francisco?" Damian said suddenly spotting a girl sitting on the Kinkirk's front porch.
"I thought so to" Kevin replied, craning his neck trying to see who it was.
"Maybe she decided to surprise you or something" Damian replied turning into his driveway.
"May— Lucy!" he started to say when he realized who was sitting on the front porch.
"Who's Lucy?" Damian asked looking confused
He swung the car door opened, grabbed his stuff and flew out of the passenger seat kicking the door closed with his foot and rushed up to the porch….Lucy was here…waiting for him…but where was her fiancé?
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Lucy had arrived in Buffalo almost two hours later after leaving New York City from Grand Central Station.
She was extremely tired because all she could think about during her two hour train ride was seeing Kevin again and how she would react.
Grabbing her suitcase and her duffel bag she slowly stepped down onto the platform and onto the cement of the Buffalo Train Station and headed towards the Exit sign to hail a cab that would take her to Kevin's house.
Walking out of the train station and into the bright sunlight, Lucy had to shield her eyes and started to signal for a taxi…before she went to Kevin's house she needed to get a hotel room for a few nights before she went back home.
Taking a few steps back to let the yellow taxi cab pull up to the side of the sidewalk, she opened the door throwing her suitcase and duffel bag into the cab before she jumped in herself.
"Where to miss?" the cab driver asked her.
Lucy sat for a moment trying to think of where her parents stayed the last time that they were in Buffalo…which would have been this past summer for Patty-Mary's open house.
Realizing that she was taking to long she quickly blurted out "Hampton in on Perry Street"
The cab driver smiled and turned on the occupied light and slowly started to drive away towards the hotel.
25 minutes later Lucy was standing in front of the entrance to the Hampton Inn dreading to go in and spend some of the money that her parents sent her for school clothes.
Walking up to the front desk she set her stuff down next to her and smiled at the clerk behind the counter.
"May I help you?"
"Would you by chance happen to have any rooms available for the next couple of days?" Lucy asked taking her wallet out of her purse.
"Sure, let me check…did you need one room or two?"
"Just one"
"One bed or two?"
Lucy thought for a second and quickly shook her head before she replied "just one"
"How many nights?"
"Three nights"
"Ok, give me one second and I'll see what we have" the lady replied, who name was Shannon started to type on her computer.
"It does look like we have a few rooms available so if you can give me your driver's license I'll take all your information down and you will be all set" Shannon told Lucy.
Lucy pulled her driver's license out of her wallet and placed it in the outstretched hand of the hotel clerk.
A bellboy took her bag up to her room and she sat down on her bed and started to think about Jeremy and the two months she spent at his house.
Shaking those thoughts out of her head, she tried to concentrate on not breaking into tears. She finally ran out of her room and into the street to hail a cab. There was only one place she wanted to go and that was Kevin Kinkirk's house.
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"Luce? What are you doing here? I thought you were in New York City?" he questioned trying to calm his racing heart.
Lucy gave him a half smile before answering "what can't a girl come out and visit one of her best friends?"
"Well no…I mean well yeah but Patty-Mary is in San Francisco, not Buffalo"
"I didn't mean Patty-Mary" she said softly looking into his brown eyes.
That's when it hit him…she was there for him and not for Patty-Mary but why?
"Lucy what's going on? Where's your fiancé?" he asked her suddenly.