Chapter 3:

Big Bad News

AN: RECAP: INTRO: Eddie, Loren, Nora, Max, Kelly, and Jake are stranded on a deserted tropical island. Eddie has amnesia and Loren is torn. In this chapter everyone discovers something new…

Setting: Tyler's Apartment

The camera shows Tyler Rorke laying on his bed under the covers with a skinny, tan skinned, red head.

He's shirtless and smoking a cigarette, while the girl is sleeping and not facing him.

Tyler has a dangerous look in his eye.

He takes his last drag and puts the cigarette out in the ash tray on his night stand while sitting up.

He gets out of bed and you can see he has nothing on but grey and black plaid boxers.

He throws on a dark grey robe on the way to the kitchen. He walks in and swings open the fridge. He ponders a moment before taking out a grape yogurt. He gets a spoon and begins to eat as he turns on the television and leans against the island. Enjoying his breakfast.

Usual cartoons are on for it being 1pm but Tyler notices a strip of moving letters bottom of the screen. He sets down his yogurt and curiously walks up to the small T.V. to see what it says. It reads:

IMPORTANT NEWS BROADCAST: Eddie Duran and Loren Tate's Private Jet Gone Missing. Never Reported at Tate's New York Show. Any Information Please Call 555-0560

A huge grin grows on Tyler's face as he backs up and heads for the kitchen grabbing his landline phone.

"I got to call Chloe!" He whispers excitedly as he begins dialing buttons.

Then his facial expression drops as he pushes END on his phone and puts it back.

He almost forgot Chloe and him weren't speaking, but he wanted to be the first to tell her about Eddie and Loren gone missing. She probably went back to bed or is driving to Fresno by now.

I cant believe I let her go.. Dumb Tyler thinks

It's for the best.. Smart Tyler advises.

Tyler shakes his head and rubs his eyes.

You got to forget about her man. She's just slowing you down. You got a meeting with Silver in a few hours. Get a grip.

Tyler turns back to his yogurt and continues eating, smiling. Eddie was gone. Chloe was gone. Nothing was in his way.

Setting: Outside of the School, End of the day.

It's the end of the school day and teenagers are pouring out of the school.

Mel and Adam are walking out of the school. Adam is holding Mel's books and Mel is going on about hurricane Sandy.

"Somebody must have said something bad about Texas, cause Sandy's pissed!" babbled Mel.

"yeah or maybe she wants to go hoOoOme!" jokes Adam.

Mel smirks as they approach her car. They get in and just as she goes to turn the ignition both of their phones beep.

Simultaneously they take out there phones and read the latest news.

Mel's jaw drops as she looks over at Adam who keeps blinking and staring at his phone.

"I don't believe it." says Adam, "probably just another scam."

Mel has a blank yet surprised expression on her face.

There phones beep several more times.

Mel looks through her phone full of broadcasts and text messages talking about Loren's plane.

Mel swallows and tries to speak choking back grief, "I think it's real Adam…" She whispers staring at her phone astonished.

Adam turns his phone off and puts it in his pocket.

He's speechless, but looks at Mel who has this terrible expression consisting of a mixture of surprise, remorse, grief and denial.

He leans in to hug her and she pushes him off.

"What are we going to do?!" She exclaimed to Adam, throwing her hands in the air.

"What do you me-" Adam tries to ask before Mel interrupts.

"How does a big old plane go missing?!" she continues blabbering on, "We have to find it! How can't they find it? Did it crash? Did it make a pit stop? Did it go to a wrong airport?!"

Mel is freaking out and Adam rubbing his eyes.

"I think they could be.." Adam ponders

Mel turns quite and looks at Adam.

"Don't say it Adam." She threatens, "Don't you dare say it!"

Mel starts tearing up but holds back the tears that just want to come pouring out.

A silent moment goes by with Adam and Mel staring at each other sincerely.

Mel shakes her head and starts the ignition.

"We'll find them.." she says under her breathe as she pulls out of the parking lot.

"We'll find them…" she reiterates.

Setting: The main doors at the high school.

Adriana and Phil are strutting out of the school holding hands.

Hundreds of kids are flooding the school grounds but Adriana and Phil seem to stick out as the senior it couple.

"Hey Adriana!" calls some of her old friends.

She ignores them.

"I can't believe they actually think I would want to talk to them." complains Adriana to Phil.

Phil smirks, "well just a month or two ago, you were all bff's" Phil teases in a valley girl accent.

Adriana gives a half smile.

"Just one stupid month? We been through about ten years worth of drama. Ulgh." She says looking at her ex friends, "Those girl's are just babies.." she gagged.

Phil and Adrianna stop walking.

Phil looks down at Adriana's stomach and caresses it with his free hand.

"Speaking of babies.." he goes on, "How's Phil Jr.?"

Adriana scoffs, "Phil Jr.? what makes you think it's a boy?" she teases.

"Eh you never know Aid, but it would be nice to have a older boy to beat up any guy who gave our baby girl a problem." Phil advises.

Adriana raises an eyebrow, "Older boy? Baby girl? How many kids do you want?"

Phil laughs and shrugs his shoulders as they continue walking.

"Let's just worry about one kid at a time.." She muttered.

"Yeah baby steps." Phil jokes laughing.

"Ha-Ha" Adriana humored getting annoyed, "enough with the baby talk. Let's get to apartment hunting talk!" she suggested smiling.

"Apartment? No Aid. 2 million dollars gets you a house." He says holding her hand tighter.

"Ooh! With designer furniture?!" She cried excitedly.

Phil nods.

They stop talking until they get to Phil's car.

He opens the door for Adriana then they both get in.

Phil starts driving home when he just remembered.

"Hey Aid, You got to be nice to Melissa when we get home, she's probably devastated." He commanded referring to Loren's plane gone missing.

Adriana wrinkles her nose, "I know babe.."

She looks out the window, "Everybody's dying all of a sudden.." she began, "Eddie, My dad, Eddie again, and now Loren and Nora."

Adriana sighs and looks at Phil sadly, "Who's next?" she says voice breaking.

Phil grabs Adriana's hand and kisses it, "Nobody Aid, Nobody."

Setting: Inside the tent on the deserted island.

Loren recoiled her hand from under Max's and used it to wipe her tears. She sniffled and looked at Eddie who was staring at them all befuddled.

Loren looked back at Max who was sitting there holding Nora's hand. Loren bit her lip to hide a sob and asked teary eyed, "What are we going to do?"

Max tilted his head and thought, pondering for an answer.

"Nothing! Can you people just leave me alone!?" Eddie butted in.

Everyone looked at him. Loren's jaw dropped, and Max and Nora shook their heads.

Loren's depression quickly turned to defensive anger. She looked at Eddie disappointed yet livid. She cocked her head and rose an eyebrow, "Fine! let's let the little princess be!" she reviled crawling out of the tent.

Max and Nora followed but couldn't keep up to Loren who was storming down the beach toward the plane.

Max goes to run after her but Nora stops him, "Let her go, she needs time to process everything." Nora advises.

Max nods and takes her inside another tent.

Kelly and Jake are nowhere to be seen.

Loren is running down the beach crying.

'Nothing? Just get out of here? Eddie's words haunted her.

Loren approached the bottom portion of the plane that was sitting in the sand.

She walked in and sat down on a torn jet seat.

She looked out at the water. Beautiful cobalt-blue waves were crashing on the glittery white beach.

The sun was about to set and the sky was pink.

Wherever she was it was beautiful. Although she wished Eddie could sit here and enjoy it with her.

Eddie..

Out of all people why Eddie? Why did Eddie have to lose his memory? Just when I get him back he leaves me again…

'Nothing! Just get out of here!" Eddies voice and rude words haunt her again.

A tear drops to Loren's lap.

How could he just forget me like that? Forget all of us.. What if he never gets his memory back? What if I lose him…. Forever?

Loren tries to clear her mind.

A sudden chill runs down her spine and she shivers. She begins to rub her palms together for warmth but stops when she remembers about Eddie's ring and there engagement.

She gazes down at her left hand and examines the ring for the first time.

It was stunning.

The band was thin and silver. With two tiny diamonds on each side of a square deep blue sapphire in the middle.

It was simple yet elegant.

You would think a big rock star would give a girl a huge diamond and 24 karat golden band but no, Eddie wasn't like any rock star. He was special. His songs actually had meaning. Everything he did had meaning.

Too bad he can't remember the meanings..

Loren began crying silently.

She couldn't keep her eyes off the ring.

She began to worry, Nobody knows he proposed. Just him and I. Now Eddie doesn't even know who I am..

What do I do?

The sky grew dark, and Loren just slouched in her seat disappointed.

The fact she was on a deserted island away from civilization didn't even bother her..

Eddie was her main concern and it broke her heart that he lost his memory. He wasn't going to fall in love with her again.. She was lucky he did the first time.

She was lucky anything good happened to her, but it looks like her luck has changed.

"Honey?" Nora asked approaching the plane.

Loren jumped up startled and put her hand on her heart, "God, mom you scared the death out of me!" Loren said panting.

Nora half smiled and grabbed Loren's hand guiding her out of the plane.

"Everyone's going to sleep. Tomorrow we're going to look around the Island. Hopefully there's a hotel nearby." Nora whispered

Loren started walking down the beach towards the camp.

"Hopefully.." Loren said under her breath.

Nora put her arm around her daughter and hugged her as they walked, "Everything's going to be alright, Loren." She rest assured, "We're not going to be stranded here."

Loren looked down attempting to hide her teary eyes, "I know," she whispered, "But what about Eddie?" She asked.

Nora sighed, "I don't know Loren, he's taken a lot of blows to the head lately."

Loren sniffled, "Oh thanks, that makes me feel better.." she said sarcastically.

Nora stopped walking and looked at Loren, "No no! It'll be fine honey! When I worked at the clinic people came in with amnesia all the time! Some got there memory back the next day, or in a week, a month-"

"-Or a year or.. Never." Loren added melancholy.

Nora sighed and Her and Loren continued walking to camp.

"Think positive, Lo. Have hope. That's all you can do." Advised Nora.

Loren nodded, acknowledging what her mother said.

They got back to camp in silence.

Max was waiting for them.

Max opened his arms to hug Loren and she hugged him briefly.

"How's he doing?" asked Loren eagerly.

Max sighed, "Still nothing. He's being repellant and not cooperating soo.."

Loren sighed.

"This isn't like him, Max. Eddie is such a sweet kid. What's going on?" Nora wonders to Max.

Max wrinkles his forehead, "He's in pain, he's stranded on an island, and he can't remember anything. I wouldn't be a nice guy either.." he protested.

Loren and Nora nod.

Max rubs his arms because he's cold.

"Let's hit the hay guys. Tomorrow we'll get to the bottom of everything." Max stated.

"Goodnight." whispered Nora as she kissed Max.

"Goodnight." replied Max before going to his tent.

Nora wrapped her arm around Loren and guided her to their tent.

There tent was a bit smaller than Eddie's but still a good size. They crawled inside and Kelly was sound asleep on the far end of the tent.

Two blankets laid left and Nora and Loren sat down.

Nora patted Loren's hair and told her goodnight before laying down to rest.

Loren laid down last. And stared at the ceiling, not tired.

Loren thought of past memories with Eddie.

She thought of their first heavy make out session. Having Eddie's pastrami sandwich smelling breathe in her lungs. Eddie caressing her, touching her.

And when her mom, Max, Eddie, and her went to dinner. And Eddie called her out. Saying the way she looks at him is like she wants to kiss him.

Would that really be a surprise? she remembers saying.

And later that night, Eddie walked her to her door and kissed her on the doorstep. Their first kiss was.. Stellar. Iridescent. Loren could fly out of the atmosphere and through the fireworks.

She remembers going to Eddie's concert, back when she was just a fan. He grabbed her hand and it was the best day of her life.

And when they were on stage singing, "If there was no music" and how in sync they were.

She thought of every retweet and smile. Every laugh, every joke.

She thought of when they snook away from Jake and played foosball all day. That day they became friends and there bond started to sprout.

When they had there first conversation at the opening of MK. Loren was suppose to give him, her CD but just talking to him, getting a feel of his personality gave her a rush.

She remembers when Eddie took her to the hill between The Valley and city. And when they reunited.

When Eddie showed up at his door ready to go on a plane.

When Eddie proposed on the plane and made her hold him tight so they couldn't separate.

It was hard to believe that it was just this morning. So much had happen today.

Through time, Eddie and Loren's bond sprouted and grew to a gigantic beautiful flower. But today the foot of fate just stepped on it and killed it.

Loren just closed her eyes and tried to rest.

Setting: Inside of Chloe's House in Fresno

Chloe walks into her mother's house and shuts the door.

She looks pretty but not well. Something's wrong. Her hands are shaking and she has problem locking the door. She takes a deep breath and throws her purse on the sofa,

"Mom! I'm home!" She calls out before sitting down at the kitchen table.

She slouches down and folds her hands together, smacking her thumbs together.

Her mom walks in with a big smile on her face, "Did you do it honey?" she asks sitting down next to Chloe.

Chloe sighs painfully, "Yeah, Eddie's free."

Jackie claps her hands and gets up to kiss Chloe's cheek.

Chloe recoils, "God, mom! I'm not five!"

Jackie laughs as she walks to the stove and grabs the tea kettle, "But your still my little girl."

Chloe rolls her eyes and crosses her arms.

"You want some tea?" Jackie offers.

Chloe pushes her hair behind her ear, "Yeah, that'd be great."

Jackie pours herself and Chloe some tea and distributes it,

"Thanks.." groans Chloe taking a sip.

"So what happened with Loren?" curiously inquired Jackie.

Chloe almost chokes on her tea before setting it down, "Can we NOT talk about her!" Chloe stammers.

Jackie giggles and takes a sip, "It's just like your little pageant rivals, you disliked them too."

Chloe bangs the table, "NO, it is not like my pageants! Those girl's didn't steal my fiancé! Those girl's weren't annoying little Taylor Swift wannabe's who destroyed my life! I took them down and I-"

Chloe stopped talking abruptly and got up.

She rubbed her temples and stormed into the living room and plopped on the couch.

She fixed and patted her hair before turning on the T.V.

"I'm sorry!" yells out her mom from the other room.

"Whatever!" Chloe replies annoyed and folding her arms.

All of a sudden an important news cast hit the television.

You hear a male newscaster speaking on the television.

"Important News Statement: Singer-Songwriter Loren Tate's private jet has been reported missing noon today." The male says.

Chloe's eyes pop open and she leans in closer to the T.V.

Jackie stops what she's doing and walks into the living room and stands by the couch staring at the T.V. with her teacup in mid air.

The broadcast goes on, "The jet was suppose to arrive in New York 11 o'clock this morning. Though never arrived. Passenger's included, pilots, Michael Clark, and Louis Pantelone. Artist Loren Tate, Nora Tate, Max Duran, and Eddie Duran.-"

Chloe jumps up infuriated and shuts off the TV., "Eddie?!" she shouts, "She lied to me! The little hick lied to me!"

A tear runs down Chloe's cheek. She sits back down and rests her head in her hands.

Jackie looks at Chloe and drops her teacup astonished.

"Who-who lied to you. Honey?" Asks Jackie nervously sitting down next to Chloe.

Chloe ignores her mom and starts sobbing vigorously.

Hesitantly Jackie rubs Chloe's back, "It's alright sweetie… Eddie's in a better place.."

Chloe stops crying and glares at her mom with smeared black makeup running down her face.

"YOU DON'T UNDER STAND! EDDIE WASN'T SUPPOSE TO BE THERE!" Chloe screams walking into the kitchen.

She rests against the fridge and wipes her eyes.

Jackie follows her in pure fear, "Honey, please don't tell me you had anything to do with this.."

Chloe says nothing.

Jackie begins getting angry, "Cynthia! Do you know anything about this?" She yells making Chloe face her.

Jackie grabs Chloe by her shoulders and stares at her. Her voice starts to break, "Cynthia?"

Chloe looks up at her mom, blue eyes leaking with tears.

"Cynthia?"

AN: SOOOO here it is. Chapter 4 will be out soon! Find out if Chloe has anything to do with the crash. If Eddie will wakeup with his memory back, If Mel can find them, and what the latest Adrianna, Phil, and Tyler buzz is! Ight bye!