Followed

Chapter 10

A/N: This chapter is called, "It's Not The End". YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT FOR THE CHAPTER BELOW!

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"Drifting apart..." said the figures inside her head. "After all these years, do you really think you can still have him? He's surely found someone else by now..." They were now dragging her into a corner with the dominence in their voices.
"What do you mean, after all these years?!" Dana managed to whimper. "I'm dead. Ofcourse he's found someone else." The figures laughed but heartfully.

"You're not dead." said one of the male figures. Dana shook her head, not understanding why she was here and what the voices were. "You're still alive, Dana." Dana gasped. She was shot with a gun. Ofcourse she'd be dead, it was impossible for her to be alive, and if she was alive... then why was she here?

"We are willing to explain..." the female voice said. "If you listen." Dana nodded slowly and sheepily.

"We're not going to haunt you because we're not ghosts. We are angels, Dana." she softly explained with enthusiasm in her voice to see Dana's reaction. Dana gasped, not believing this, but this wouldn't make sense if they were not... "Please believe me... I have faith in you that you will..."

"Dana. You have to wake up." the male suddenly said. What did he mean by that?! "You've been in a coma from the reaction to the bullet from the gun years ago." Dana gasped as her eyes widened. This had to be true. Otherwise how were the figures now floating?

"Logan is waiting for you, Dana. It's been 8 years since the accident. Someone's been hoping you'll get through." said another female. Dana began crying and looked up to the glowing figures which now had wings.

"I'm-I'm... I'm scared he's found s-someone else..." her voice trembled with fear and excitment at the same time. The first female flew down gently beside Dana, and dryed her eyes with her velvet silk which was soft and unbelievably comftorble.

"Have faith." said another female figure. The first female agreed with a soft nod and Dana closed her eyes.

"Thank you." Dana softly whispered before opening her eyes. The figures were now fading a bit.

"You-you're going?!" Dana cried once again. The female nodded sadly not with a happy smile on her face. "I wish you didn't have to go..."

"You have to wake up." the other female said. The males nodded and waved with a smile on their face.

"It's been the end for 8 years if what you're talking about is true." Dana cried bitterly. "It's the end." The soft angelic characters smiled in a friendly way and sighed.

"It's not the end, Dana. There's more to your story than you think." said a male with a sigh-smile. "Believe it or not." Dana looked up at this heavenly figure. There was more light than before and now she could see their faces. The angel beside her was beautiful! The other angels, too!

"Before you go... I would like to ask you. I still want you to always be there with me. For me. Will our paths ever cross again?" Dana asked hopefully. They laughed again, but playfully and not in a teasing way.

"Yes. Infact, you'll see us more often everyday. Because we'll cherish our time with you." said the other female. Dana smiled, hopefully.

"Remember you have to wake up, Dana. That's really important." the other male figure reminded her. Dana nodded and closed her eyes, trying to wake herself up.

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"It's been 8 years and it's going to be 9 in a couple of months. I don't think she's going to wake up." said the nurse without hope in Dana. The doctor shook his head, in disbelief in the nurse's words.

"She has to. Mr. Reese confirmed this job has to be done." the doctor said, sighing and taking a seat beside Dana. "Let's go over some things. How old was she when the accident happened and how old is she now?" The nurse sighed angrily but stayed cool.

"She was 14 years old attending Pacific Coast Acadamy along with Mr. Reese, and after the accident, it's been 8 damn years, Dr. Goddamn Matthews. Now she's freaking 22 years old. Are you happy?" the nurse asked. The doctor shushed her and pointed at Dana who was slowly opening her eyes.

"DANA!" The doctor and nurse yelled in shock and excitment. Dana looked around the room in confusion and blinked the first time in 8 years.

"Brenda, go call Mr. Reese!" The doctor yelled as she ran outside. "DANA! You're awake! It's been 8 long years!" Dana gasped. So the angels were right...

"I'm sorry, I don't recall who you are." Dana sadly said, hanging her head. The doctor sighed.

"I've changed, that's why." The doctor said, pulling Dana's head back up. She looked deeply into his eyes, and she screamed outloud.

"CH-CHASE!?" Dana panicked. "OH. MY. GOD. SO YOU'VE BEEN KEEPING ME ALIVE THESE 8 YEARS?!" Chase smiled with a sigh again.

"Not me Dana. But that person who has been is going to be extremely happy when they hear the news." Chase said. Dana looked around.

"Where's the gang?" Dana asked with hope and happiness in her voice. Chase looked down.

"We're... not the gang anymore. We've all lost each other's contact since your... since what happened." Chase muttered slowly. Dana jumped up and ran to the door.

"We have to find each other!!!" Dana yelled trying the door but it was locked. "Chase, help me!"

"Things have changed Dana. People change, and they will slowly drift away." Chase whispered, opening the door with a sigh. Dana began crying.

"No! None of us have changed! You're still the Chase Matthews who loves Zoey Brooks, right?! I'm still Dana Cruz!" Dana cried. Chase sadly shook his head.

"Zoey and I have decided it's best not to see each other anymore. I'm dating Brenda, the nurse you saw earlier." Chase explained motionlessly. Dana gasped and shook her head in disbelief in all of this. How could this be true?! The old Chase would've never given up on Zoey, ever!

"NO!" Dana screamed in endless pain to all this recent news. "Let's look up Nicole, Quinn, Michael, Logan and Zoey in... th-the phone book!" Dana hopefully smiled.

"We can't. I'm afraid we'll have to take a walk outside." Chase sighed and pulled her outside the building. Dana screamed as she looked around.

"YES! THE SCENERY HASN'T CHANGED!" Dana yelled, bouncing up and down. Chase took her to a fountain within the park they drove to past PCA.

"Dana. We can't make everything go back." Chase whispered. "Because... well, I don't know if I should tell you or let you find out yourself." There was a thin sidewalk that led outside of the park. They walked to outside and Chase stopped infront of a building that was grey and dull looking. The streets and roads were now insane! There were cars racing around everywhere.

"Michael became a professional bussiness man. This is where he works." he said showing her the building. Then he dragged her over to a pink and purple mall.

"This is where Nicole works. She owns alot of stores because she became a fashion designer." Chase explained with a weak smile. Dana gasped at all of this. Chase was dragging Dana to a white building with reflection mirrors on the side.

"Quinn, like predicted, became a scientist." Chase said and pulled her to another building quickly. Dana struggled to be free but she gave up. They were now in a movie theater. Dana gasped as she looked up at the big words. "It's The End" and lots of other movies were beside the name of "Logan Reese".

"So Logan's a big shot movie producer?" Dana curiously asked. Chase shook his head.

"And uh, the director and star." Chase said in a fake cough. Dana smiled sadly. "Dana, do you know what his ideas are based on? The truth. Remember the last words you said to him 8 years ago?" Dana gasped as she remembered.

"We were all upset what happened. You see," Chase began explaining. "After you were hospitalized, they needed alot of money to keep you alive. None of us had enough, except Logan. He has been paying her fees and the checks you had to pay for the last 8 years. Then one day there was a new girl at PCA, her name was Lola. She wanted to become an actress, and since Logan had been making movies, well... we were all friends so she expected Logan to let her in his films. And he did, so since they were together in movies and such, Logan's dad demanded that Lola and Logan "get together" to end the rumors. Logan refused because he still loved you, but Lola demanded too that they should be together. Logan still refused and just walked away, but the next day on the newspapers and on television was the new rumor about Lola Martinez and Logan Reese becoming a couple. He told us never to tell anyone that they weren't a couple because his dad would do something even worse. So now Lola and Logan live together, and Lola loves Logan, but he hates her. Me and Logan still IM or e-mail each other every couple days, but Zoey? I don't know where in the world she is. She could be in Canada for all I know. And the the rest of the gang don't talk to each other anymore. We could if we really tried, but Michael, Quinn and Nicole travel the world constantly because of their jobs." Dana sadly cried on his shoulder, hearing the news about her friends.

"What about Dustin?" Dana asked, curiously. "Is he famous?" Chase nodded with a bit of laughtor.

"Even though that little guy is still little, he can eat fast. He's a pro at eating in contests." Chase laughed. Dana giggled at the fact. "And Nicole is dating some hockey player, Quinn is married to Mark, Michael is dating some singer, and you already know about me and you also know about Logan." Dana sighed sadly. Just as Dana was about to say something, Chase's cellphone rung.

"Hello? Logan?" Chase asked. Dana's head shot up in excitment and tried to take the phone but Chase was taller than she was so she couldn't.
"LET ME TALK TO LOGAN!" Dana yelled over and over but it was no use. Chase kept talking privately to Logan over his phone. Finally he hung up.

"We're going to see Logan right now. He's booking us a flight to where ever he is." Chase sighed as he began walking.

"Why didn't you let me talk to him?" Dana asked, sadly. Chase pulled her along as he groaned.

"He doesn't wanna talk to you over the phone for the first time in 8 years, Dana. He wants to talk to you in person. Let's go." Chase muttered, pulling her to his car.

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"Well, here we are." Chase said, as they approached the huge mansion. Dana gasped in excitment, but shyly. Suddenly, someone walked out of the huge doors. He raced over to Dana, picking her up and giving her a tight hug. He faced her and kissed her on the cheek.

"L-Logan?" Chase asked, never seeing this reaction to Dana Cruz before in the entire time that he's known Logan. Logan finally put her down on solid floor.

"Logan!" Chase yelled as he realized it was him, then he was shaking his hand, and having the first physical contact with his old friend in 4 years.

"Chase, you haven't changed! It's nice to know that." Logan whispered, smiling. Dana looked closely at Logan. He was the same guy she'd known 8 years ago.

"Dana, you haven't said anything yet." Chase hinted, breaking the silence between the three of them.

"Hi Logan." Dana mumbled through her dry lips. Logan saw that look in Dana's eyes. It was the same look just before she got shot 8 years ago. She is scared. But scared of what? There's nothing I will allow to harm her anymore.

"So...?" Chase asked, annoyed by the two zoning out on him. Logan broke out of his daydream and cleared his throat.

"Come in. There's something or some people waiting for you." Logan smiled, pulling on Dana's wrists Dana struggled in her mind but gave up after a second.

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"OH MY GOD!" Dana screamed, jumping up and down. Nicole and Quinn raced over to hug their long, gone best friend.

"DANA, OH MY GOD ARE YOU OKAY?! I HOPE YOU ARE OKAY BECAUSE IT'S BEEN 8 YEARS SINCE I SAW YOU IN THE HOSPITAL AND-" Nicole screamed in Quinn's ear.

"OW, NICOLE! Stop yelling!" Quinn said, and groaned before sitting back down on Logan's couch. Dana frowned, seeing their behaviour.

"Please don't fight." Dana cried in a whisper. Nicole gasped, seeing her tough friend crying and gave her a hug. Chase and Logan were talking in the corner of the room quietly. Dana gave Nicole back a hug and cried even more.

"I don't want us to have ever changed. Please tell me I'm still asleep." Dana whisered. Nicole screamed and covered her ears.

"DON'T EVER SAY THAT, DANA! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN HAPPY IN 8 YEARS! PLEASE DON'T SAY THAT!" Nicole cried back, suddenly in tears. Quinn sighed peacefully and came over and sweetly hugged Nicole.

"I'm sorry I yelled at you, Nicole. I didn't know... but you should know, I've been on the same boat as you." Quinn apologized. Dana smiled and sniffed in happiness that her friends were back to being friends. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Logan smiled, and opened the door. They all saw Michael in a suit, smilng like there was no tomorrow.

"So, it's true! Dana, I can't even imagine you to be awake! It's been 8 miserable years, you know guys?" Michael said, hugging Dana. Suddely, Chase was silent but everyone knew that he was in pain from the inside.

"Chase..." Dana whispered and her happiness suddenly went down alot. Suddenly the doorbell rang again. Logan smiled, and pulled Chase over to the door.

"What?" Chase snapped. "It's your door, man. You can open it yourself." Logan rolled his eyes, and continued to edge him to the door. In frustration, Chase whipped the door open and shouted in shock. It was Zoey standing right infront of his eyes. She looked like Nicole, just another girly fashionista. Like before.

"Chase, are you okay?" she asked, caring for her friend. "You look like Dana just-" she screamed and jumped up in circles.

"Dana just woke up?" Dana asked, frowning, but then broke into smiles. They screamed around the house and hugged each other.

"Ugh, Logan baby? Could you keep it down?" said a voice from upstairs and suddenly a young woman came down with a robe on. She looked around and gasped.

"Is this a reuinion? You didn't invite me!" the girl kept screaming. The walked up to Dana and growled at her.

"So, it's you. Get out of here! This is partly my home too! I'm throwing you out!" Lola yelled at her. Dana had no idea who this woman was, but she was scared again.

"Go away, Lola. You've always been a hot head." Zoey yelled, trying to stand up for Dana. Logan groaned and walked up to Lola, and pushed Dana behind him.

"Shut the fuck up Lola. You only live here because of my dad. Otherwise, you'll be the one who is thrown out of here." Logan argued. Dana trembled at the fierce look in Lola's face. Zoey smiled weakly and patted Dana on her shoulder, assuring her this wasn't about her.

"You always do this when you're talking about her! It's always about her! It's not fair, we've been over this a million times! I'm the one you love!" Lola cried. She pushed Logan away and stood infront of Dana. Even though Dana was older than her, Dana hadn't grown much. She probably had only grown a foot or two in the past 8 years.

"You! I wanna-" Lola stopped herself and groaned before her actions finished her. She slapped Dana hard on her face, and hit her on her face. Dana fell over and trembled at her. Lola snapped her fingers and a bunch of security came, holding back everyone but herself and Dana.

"LOLA! GET AWAY FROM HER!" Logan yelled, kicking at fussing, trying to get away from the security, but there were more of them than there were of, well... him.

"Lola, you bully! You do anything to her and you will die, I swear it!" Nicole yelled, crying. Dana backed up from Lola but Lola only came closer.

"LOLA!" Zoey yelled angrily. Chase sighed, annoyed by these newbies.

"You idiots. Lola's not going to stop. You need Dana to start." Chase stated, smiling. Zoey smiled in response, and Logan laughed. "Dana! Where's that tough girl now?! Come on, the old Dana Cruz would never back out from a fight. Especially never to admit defeat a girly girl. Remember how badly you wanted to kick Nicole's ass?! Come on, Nicole's nothing compared to Lola!" Nicole scoffed in offence but took it as nothing. Quinn watched, amused. Dana took in Chase's words as if it were oxygen.

"She's back, that's what, you idiots." Dana smiled, getting up from the floor. She snarled at Lola and breathed deeply.

"I won't let you go for hitting me because, ahem NO ONE does." Dana hissed, and punched Lola right on the stomach. Lola fell over, and winced in pain.

"GO DANA!" Nicole yelled, giggling. Lola got up and and hit Dana on her nose, as Logan's dad came down. Logan's dad gasped at his mistake, letting her in his house. Dana dramatically fell to the floor, giggling silently.

"Ow, why did you hit me for no reason?!" Dana cried, playing the innocent act. Lola gasped, and cried too, but fake since she was an actress. Logan's dad went right up to Lola, and yelled, cussing. Lola cried even more, but still pretending.

"Told you." Logan muttered, pleased with his last statement. Dana secretly smiled behind everyone's back, trying to hold in her laughtor.

"Out! I'm telling you to get out!" he yelled. Lola stormed outside, and the maids locked the door. Lola just realized she was still wearing her robe outside. She shouted to let her back in but the maids just ignored her. Dana stood up from the floor, and frowned.

"Shouldn't you tell them to let them go?" Dana asked, still playing innocent. He groaned and just went upstairs. Dana sighed, and stuck out her tounge.

"I hate being nice." she complained, and dropped into the couch. Zoey broke free of the security's grip and gave Dana a hug.

"Chase, you just ruined the nice Dana." Nicole groaned, taking a seat beside Dana. Quinn agreed and crossed her arms.

"Would you rather her being bullied?" Chase asked, slumping on the wall. Logan rolled his eyes, and took a seat inbetween Dana and Nicole.

"I don't like Lola." Dana suddenly said, out of the blue. Zoey groaned in agreement.

"No one does." Zoey laughed, sitting on the floor. "Except her so called, "fans". Ugh, she makes me barf." Zoey gagged, playfully. Quinn sighed.

"Oh, grow up Zoey. We're all 22 year olds, we shouldn't be behaving like this... anyone else agree?" Quinn asked, maturely. It was silent for minutes. "Oh, I hate you all!". Dana and Nicole burst out laughing. Logan's cellphoen rung and he picked it up.

"What?! Come on, it's been like 22 seconds!" Logan yelled, and turned on his huge television. He flipped to the news channel and watched.

"This just in, Lola Martinez, star of many Reese films, has broken up with Logan Reese. Annonymus caller had reported seeing her leave his house in anger"

"She probably told the media." Dana said, looking out his window. There were crowds of reporters and they came running up to his window. Zoey closed the huge curtains, and groaned. She looked at the clocks and sat back down on the couch, turning the TV off.

"I have to get home. It's getting late." Nicole said, walking around in circles. Chase nodded, annoyed.

"You can't, one word to the media and they can change it around... A LOT." Logan complained, looking around for an idea.

"You guys can stay here tonight." Logan suggested, hopefully. Chase raised his hand, meaning "count me in". Zoey shrugged and sighed.

"I guess I could... and Dana has to." Zoey finally said. Dana rolled her eyes.

"What do you mean, HAS TO? I have more free will than ever, now that I'm awake." Dana snapped. Chase backed away from her, playfully.

"Not right now, you don't. We all used to live at PCA, and now all of us have our own homes... except for you." Zoey snapped back. Dana scoffed, but knew it was true.

"I guess I'm bunking in this house too." Michael sighed, finally making up his mind. Quinn nodded, but still wanting to leave.

"Nicole?" Logan asked, waiting for a response. Nicole shrugged, unsure herself.

"I don't know, my dog will be hungry." Nicole warned, jokingly. "Okay, I'll stay." Zoey smiled and sighed.

"So, what have you guys been up to these past years?" Nicole asked, trying to make conversation from the dead silence.

"Oh I'm a business kind of guy." Michael stated, sighing. Nicole and Zoey 'oohed'.

"I'm a scientist. I find out stuff." Quinn said, sighing. Nicole and Zoey 'oohed'.

"I'm a doctor. I... 'help' people." Chase shrugged, sighing. Nicole and Zoey 'oohed'.

"I'm a fashion designer. I design fashion." Nicole explained, giggling from excitment. Zoey gasped and squealed.

"ME TOO! OH MY GOD! COOL!" Zoey screamed. Nicole jumped up and down repeatedly.

"OH MY GOD! THAT'S LIKE SOOOO COOL." Nicole squeaked. Dana groaned, annoyed to death.

"You said that already... I think." Michael added in, not really knowing. Dana nodded.

"I'm a famous actor, movie producer and director." Logan said as if it were nothing. Michael and Chase 'hmphed' in jealousy but just sighed afterwards.

"I'm nothing." Dana sadly whispered. Nicole smiled, cheerfully.

"Yet." Nicole added, trying to make Dana smile again. Dana sighed and wondered if it was possible to chew on your own teeth. Zoey wondered if she could make an entire summer collection by the end of this week. Nicole wondered how she could steal Zoey's designs one day and claim it was her's. Michael wondered when the media would leave and then they could go home. Chase wondered if Zoey had lied about her feelings for him about 8 years ago. Quinn wondered when she could find another dimension full of aliens and llamas. Logan wondered if anyone was wondering about him.

"Zoey, I have to ask you some things. In private." Chase finally said. Dana already knew what he was going to do.

"Hmm? Why can't you tell her here?" Michael asked. Dana smirked.

"Because he's gonna ask her if she still likes-" Dana cussed at the end of her reply because Chase elbowed her in the stomach. "CHASE!"

"Stop fighting like sissies and just tell me Chase." Zoey commanded like a mother.

"Yeah, CHASE." Dana hinted. "Just go tell her you still love her." Chase groaned in embarrassment and stared at the floor.

"Dude." Logan said, showing Zoey and Chase to the kitchen.

"Zoey, I just want to ask you something." Chase told her as they walked in. Zoey nodded.

"I'm listening." Zoey assured him. Oh, please don't ask me the same thing 8 years ago...

"Zoey, I- I wanna know if you lied 8 years ago. When I told you I liked you." Chase asked, quietly.

"Chase, I don't know." Zoey lied, looking at the sink. "I really don't know. You're my friend. Please don't talk to me about this because I don't wanna ruin our friendship."

"Me either, but I want an answer, Zoey. I really want it. It's been 8 years. Your opinion might have changed." Chase said, blocking her exit. Zoey paused, but and sighed.

"No. I didn't lie. And my opinion hasn't really changed much, Chase." Zoey lied. "Ya' happy?" She pushed him out of the way before storming back into the living room.

"So...?" Dana asked, tempted to shake it out of Chase or Zoey. Zoey sighed, but ignored Dana's comment.

"Dana, stop being stupid. It's what they said in PRIVATE that they won't tell you." Quinn said.

"Shut up." Dana snapped, and turned her head the other way. "You spazz."

"Make me, Dana." Quinn bravely said, glaring at Dana. "Because I don't think you can."

"UH." Dana scoffed, glaring back at Quinn. "Would you like to testify?" Nicole cleared her throat to everyone, meaning someone stop them before they kill each other.

"Can you just drop the tough girl act? Becasue everyone here already knows you're just another Zoey." Quinn sneered. Zoey scoffed, offended very much my what Quinn had just said. Dana muttered something inaudible to everyone's ears, but she was secretly speaking the devil's tounge and cursing Quinn.

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A/N: This is the first part.