A/N I wrote a first drafts of a few chapters for both of my stories this morning when I was sleep deprived. I like the direction they are both going in. The thing about coming home being my favorite of the two. So here's chapter two, please tell me what you think of it.
Three days later Reagan was finally finished unpacking her and Madison's rooms to there entirety. Her mother however was still working on unpacking the rest of the house, she says she's a perfectionist Reagan thinks she has OCD. If a picture is crooked, if a candle isn't in the right place she freaks out. Defiantly obsessive compulsive. Rea convinced her mother to let her take the car to the mall to pick up a few CDs. Her mothers only condition was that she had to take Madison with her. The only reason Reagan agreed was because she knew Derek would never be caught dead at the mall and if she ran into anyone else she knew she could say she was her sister. She also knew how awful this sounded but she didn't need word getting around that she got knocked up.
Being at the mall after three years was weird; new stores, new food court, more people. After CDs were bought, Reagan knew she couldn't leave the mall without getting a cookie from the food court, she had a sickness for mall cookies. She wasn't the only one with a weakness for the cookies. Headed toward the food court was a girl about Reagan's age. She was pulling her boyfriend along who obviously didn't care for the mall. I know what your thinking, Derek right? Wrong Derek doesn't enter the story yet, this was a different boy. Reagan had to run into someone from her past at the mall of course or what kind of story would this be. When this boy from her past and his girlfriend finally made it to the food court and the girl got her cookie they began to make their way to the tables. The boy stopped dead in his tracks. His girlfriend noticed he wasn't by her side and turned around to see him staring at a girl.
"Uh hello, can you not check out other girls when you're with me, your girlfriend!" The brown haired beauty said to him a bit aggravated. You see, she didn't know this other girl, didn't know the story of it all.
"I wasn't checking her out Case I think I know her. But I don't get it."
"Don't get what?" She asked obviously out of the loop.
"Hold on, I'm gonna go see if that's who I think it is." the boy walked across the food court and got a closer look. It was her.
"Reagan!" He shouted confused and excited at the same time not sure which emotion was taking the floor front.
Reagan closed her eyes tight and held her breath. She recognized the voice at once. She was bound to run into him sooner or later but I guess sooner it was.
"Sammy." she said putting on the best smile she could as he walked towards her, she stood up from where she had been sitting with Madison's stroller in front of her.
"It's Sam now. What are you . . . why are you . . . where did you . . . " Sam had so many questions to ask but didn't know what to start with. "It's good to see you Rea" he opted for.
"Yeah, you too. It's been awhile." She said as the boy pulled her into the biggest hug of her life.
Casey who was watching all of this from farther away walked up to the two and introduced herself.
"I'm Casey. Sam's girlfriend. And you are?" Casey still didn't understand why Sam ran over to this girl than started hugging her and felt the need to be a bit possessive over him. She looped her arm with his for good measure.
"Reagan," the redhead said extending her hand for Casey to shake ignoring the tone in the girls voice.
"Rea and I go way back. She used to live here. Me, her and Derek used to get in all kinds of trouble when we were younger," Casey nodded at this, as long as she wasn't some ex girlfriend she was fine. A bit jealous, of course but Sam was quite the looker and now that she finally got him she didn't want some hussy taking him away.
"Yeah. How is Derek?" Reagan had to ask, she missed Derek even though she was scared to face him.
"Good. He changed a lot after you left. You should go see him." It was the simplest thing in the world to Sam. Just go see him.
"I'm sure I'll see him around. I moved back a few days ago, still trying to adjust to everything, you know."
"Yeah. Who's the kid?" Sam asked pointing to the stroller.
"Madison. Madie."
"Your parents had another kid," he said it more as a statement than a question. You see Sam never knew about Derek and Reagan. They never "dated" but they were a lot closer than Sam knew. Derek thought that Sam would be jealous or mad or it would some how affect the three's friendship in some way. Thankfully she didn't have to correct him because Casey took interest in Madie.
"She's so cute. How old is she?" Casey was now leaning down to meet Madie's eye cooing and trying to get the little girl to laugh.
"A little over two years old." Madison was quite the cute child. Her hair was a little darker than Reagan's and her eyes were green, so there was no trace of her father in any obvious physical traits.
"Hey, so we need to get going but we need to catch up. Seriously, I've missed having you around." Sam said pulling RSea in for another hug which was tighter than the last.
"Of course as long as I can keep calling you Sammy. I don't think I can get used to calling you Sam. So weird." She said this time more at ease with hugging him than the first time.
Sam rolled his eyes at her, he hadn't been called Sammy since she left.
'It's was nice meeting you Casey." Reagan wasn't sure if she liked her or not but she was being civil.
"Yeah, you too. Im sure I'll see you around." Casey and Sam walked off at this and Reagan almost felt relieved. Relieved that one half of her best friends wasn't upset at her and relieved that Derek wasn't with Sam. That meant she had more time.
Sam drove Casey home but instead of going home like he had planned earlier, he turned off his car with every intention of going inside.
"I thought you had to go home Sammy." Casey said in a teasing way.
"I do but I must tell Derek about Rea."
When the two walked inside they found Derek sitting in his chair watching tv. He looked up from the program he was viewing when he saw his best friend walk in the door.
"Hey man"
"Hey Derek. So guess who we ran into at the mall."
"Uhhhhhhh, who?" Derek had no idea whatsoever and wasn't prepared for what Sam was about to tell him.
"Reagan." Sam said expecting Derek to be as excited as he was when he first saw her.
"Reagan who?" Derek tried to block her out to the best of his ability after she left. He was sad, confused, and pissed off when it came to thinking about her.
"How many Reagan's do you know dude? Reagan Reagan. Our Reagan."
"Price?" Sam nodded at his. "Reagan Price was at the mall?" Derek asked again making sure he understood fully.
"Yeah man."
"Reagan who left and never said goodbye. Reagan who broke my heart into a million pieces. That Reagan?" He didn't expect Derek to get upset. And was confused by it.
"Broke your heart?" Sam questioned.
"Uh yeah. We were kinda I don't know what we kinda were. I loved her that's what I know. And she left without saying goodbye." that took a lot for Derek to make such a big confession.
"How come you never told me?" he wasn't pissed like Derek had thought he'd be after all these years just curious.
"We didn't want to fuck up the whole three best friends thing. Didn't want it to get weird." Derek said giving Sam an apologetic look.
"So you guys were like making out or something whenever I wasn't around or what?"
"We were kinda sleeping together or something whenever you weren't around." If he was gonna tell the truth might as well tell the whole truth.
"You slept with Reagan! And didn't tell me? What the fuck man?" Derek took this as anger, Sam took it more as betrayal. They were best friends and he didn't tell him.
"It wasn't even like that. I cared about her. And that's so not the point. Dude she left me without saying goodbye. She left us. No note, no nothing."
"You have to understand though, her brother did die. She probably had no choice. You know her parents. Her mom was crazy and her dad was a drunk." Sam tried to be sympathetic because he seen that Derek was very upset by this ghost from their past coming back.
"She could've called! Or wrote or anything! God man." Derek who didn't want to talk any more got up and walked up to his room and slammed the door. He layed on his bed because he didn't know what else to do. He was pissed. And he was gonna find her and confront her when he calmed down.
Casey who had left to her room to give the boys privacy now walked downstairs after hearing the door slam. Sam tried to explain to Casey what had happened. With Reas brother and with Derek's confession. He told her how a drunk driver slammed into her brother's bike one night when he was riding home from hockey practice. He told her stories of what the three of them used to do. Everything that was Rea came flooding back. He still couldn't believe that Derek and her were together but I guess it made sense to why he was the way he was after she left. After she left, Derek became more of a playboy. Before he'd flirt with girls but now he was always making out with a different girl every week sometimes more often than that. He concentrated more on hockey and less on academics. He kept more to himself. After Derek's revelation about how he loved Reagan it all came together for Sam.
