Emma boarded the practically empty bus to Toronto clutching her purse to her side. She headed towards the back and found an empty seat. She flopped herself down and scooted over to the window so she could rest her head against it.

She opened her purse searching for her I-pod. She just wanted to listen to some music and close her eyes. She found her cell phone in her purse forgetting that she had brought it. She turned it to vibrate as so she could relax and not be interrupted. She put her I-Pod headphones in her ears and closed her eyes letting the music relax her.

Sean approached the ticket counter and was greeted by a friendly woman. "When does the next bus for leave for Toronto?" he asked hoping he had caught Emma in time.

"I'm sorry sir but the last bus left 5 minutes ago. The next bus won't be leaving until tomorrow morning." the lady at the ticket counter informed him.

Sean sighed hoping Emma hadn't gotten on that bus. He hoped that she was at home waiting for him. He pulled out a school picture of Emma that he had hidden in his wallet from a couple of years earlier. "You didn't happen to sell the girl in this picture a bus ticket to Toronto within the last few minutes have you?"

The lady at the ticket counter studied in the photo and immediately recognized the girl in the photo as the girl who had been wearing the red dress. She passed it back to Sean and gave him the bad news. "Yes, this girl did purchase a ticket and got on the bus that just left."

The lady at the ticket counter noticed that her statement made the boy visibly upset. She could tell that the two must've been in love and felt for their messed up timing. "Did you want to buy a ticket for the first bus in the morning?" she offered.

Sean shook his head no and thanked her for everything before turning around and leaving the bus station. He had no clue how he was going to fix what had happened between them. He just wished everything wasn't so complicated.

A couple of hours later Emma awoke as the bus turned into the Toronto bus station. She yawned and stretched as she looked at her surroundings. She saw the other passengers exiting the bus so she grabbed her things and started making her way to the front of the bus. She felt her cell phone vibrate and decided against answering it. She didn't need to look at the caller ID to see who was calling. She already knew.

Sean shut Jamie's cell phone and took another swig of rum directly out of the bottle. He had tried calling Emma three times in the past two hours but she hadn't answered. He sat on the beach staring at the starry sky. He had definitely not planned to be sitting alone on the beach with a bottle of rum in his hand but he had learned life didn't always turn out as you had planned. He thought it would be easier to forget about her if he drank but it seemed the more he drank the more he remembered.

He leaned against a tree watching the wedding reception in progress. He saw her standing alone looking around as the music played. Everyone seemed to be finding a dance partner but she stood alone.

He watched her looking around and then she spotted him. He watched her as she walked over to him looking as beautiful as ever.

"It's a slow song and you're not dancing." he said nodding towards everyone else on the dance floor.

"No one caught my interest." she said.

"Oh…uhh.." he looked nervously down at his feet. "How about now?"

"I'd love to." She put her arms around him and started to sway to the music.

Then something magical happened. They stared in each others eyes for a split second and anything negative that had happened in the past had been erased and only their love for each other shone through. She leaned in and his lips met her. Under that tree they shared that their first kiss together.

"I love her." he said aloud for the first time as he sat on the beach by himself. He always knew in his heart that he did but for the first time he admitted it out loud. He looked down at his bottle of rum that was now half gone. He poured it out and threw the empty bottle in a near by trash can. If he was going to be the man that she deserved he needed to start healing himself first and that was just what he was going to do.

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