It's a Love Story
Ok so with the month almost over I finally wrestled my muse into doing a one-shot for the May couple of the month at If Only In My Fantasies 'Ethina'. Lots of references to a certain non-daytime fandom in here see if you can spot them! Song used Love Story by Taylor Swift (though in some of the stanzas I use the Dave Days version)
Standing behind the stage curtain in one of the Metro Courts ballrooms Ethan Lovett was beginning to wonder just what he heck he had gotten himself into.
Sure he had performed in public before both at Spinelli and Maxie's non wedding (which was how she knew about his voice to begin with) and once more with his father at another one of Jake's Karaoke Nights. However though for a good cause this wasn't Karaoke not by a long shot.
Listening to Lulu and that Brooklyn chick sing a haunting rendition of Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' he let his mind flash back to about a month ago.
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He had been sitting at Kelly's when Kristina Davis stormed in like a bat out of hell.
Sure the two of them had a history that he'd rather forget (her accusing him of beating her…like he'd ever do something as sick and misogynistic as that) but there was something about the young seventeen year old girl that intrigued him and so when she sat across from him with a desperate look on her face he just couldn't help but let her talk.
"Ethan I need your help."
He was a weakness of his to help damsels in distress and so he let her go on.
"So Carly's decided all of a sudden to revive the annual nurses ball."
He flashed the kid a questionable look.
"It was a fundraiser the town put on long before I was born, kind of like this cabaret thing to raise money for AIDS research."
Ethan nodded.
"Anyway so Carly asked me to do a number well…"
"You want me to sing with you."
"Oh would you… thanks."
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He smiled at his sister who had just headed backstage. He didn't know Lulu had a set of pipes like that.
Dr. Steven Webber was now on stage singing some acoustic country number as she appeared by his side.
Her hair was set in a pair of braids wrapped around her head like a crown of sorts while she had on a pale pink colored sundress.
"So are you ready to face the music," she piped up sounding way too enthusiastic then again why shouldn't she… after all he was the one doing all the singing all she need do was stand there and look pretty.
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"Ok so I was thinking," she spoke as he sat on her couch at the Lake House. It had taken allot of begging but Alexis and Sam finally allowed him back in the house even if it was with constant supervision.
"Should I be afraid?" he asked as she hit him with a pillow meeting a cautious gaze from her mother.
"Sorry," she spoke to the older women before turning to Ethan, "anyway…"
She handed him her Ipod (pink of course) and flipped on a song.
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air
He took the ear buds out and winced a bit. Taylor Swift was she freaking kidding him.
"It's a story song," Kristina spoke with pride.
He just looked at her.
"It means we can act it out on stage as you sing it."
He caught her phrasing she just said 'you' sing it meaning him.
"Um love I think we have a problem, you said I was going to sing."
Kristina nodded as she began to remind him about how she heard him sing at Spinelli and Maxie's 'non' wedding.
"I know I can sing," he spoke trying not to sound to full of himself, "Its just well isn't this song from the female perspective."
Almost like she knew this would be his reaction she popped open her laptop and went to You Tube where she flipped to a channel with some guy named Dave something or other singing the song.
He had to admit that this blokes cover was rather good if not better then the original though from looking at the other videos on the channel he had to wonder about the kids borderline obsessivness with Miley Cyrus but that was neither her or there.
"Fine I'll sing it."
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Dr. Webber was now backstage and Carly was now on stage talking about silent auctions and raffles.
Ethan knew the program for the evening. They were to be next.
Sucking in a breath he listened to the blonde call their names and they headed on stage and the familiar music began to play:
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air
He began to sing as he watched Kristina enter the stage on a make shift balcony. As he continued to sing the song and they continued to act out the lyrics on stage. As the song went on he got to one particular stanza which got to him every time making him cringe thinking about how Sonny had put a hit on him when he had thought he was the one abusing his baby girl:
'Cause I was Romeo, you were a scarlet letter
And your daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and you said…
He listened to her sweetly sing the next stanza. Her voice like an angel no matter how much she self deprecated herself in the singing department.
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
His eyes locked on hers
Juliet save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes
They finished this song with such intensity that it was no surprise that they got a standing ovation. What did surprise him in a good way was the way that she ran into his arms backstage embracing him in a hug and the way that he proceeded to lift her up into a deep passionate kiss thinking that despite all the drama this was definitely the beginning of their own personal love story.
The End