Moments after the limo door opened and Eddie stepped out, my classmates screamed, ran towards him and had their phones out and recording everything within an instant. I looked back and over to Melissa and saw that she too had her video camera out. As Eddie walked forward; he ignored all the questions for autographs, which I thought was strange because he always took time for his fans, but Eddie just kept on walking with a determined look on his face. When he got close enough to see me he smiled and looked right into my eyes until he was just a few inches away from me. It was just then that I realized that Eddie was caring a dozen fresh red roses and wearing a sleek black tux that looked like he had only worn for formal occasions. He wore a white button down shirt, however no tie. I ran the rest of the way to him and he gave me a tight huge hug. I felt the soft fabric of his jacket on my hands as Eddie's arms wrapped around my waist with the bunch of flowers still in his hands. As we broke apart I looked into Eddie's eyes and smiled but I had a hard time hiding how confused I was by the sight of him.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, still astonished by his sudden presence

"What?" Eddie asked playfully; as he started to speak everyone around us started to fall silent wanting to hear what we were saying and Mel's video camera was as close to my face as well as Eddies'. "You mean I can't come and see my girlfriend when she's at school?" Eddie asked with his hand intertwined with mine and I couldn't suppress the smile that was forming at the edges of my lips.

"No, of course you can!" I replied with a state of shock still on my face, but it was nothing compared to the people around them. "I just wasn't expecting to see you that's all."

"Well I wanted to ask you something in front of everyone." Eddie said as he let go of my hands and gestured to everyone in the courtyard. He cleared his throat before beginning to speak. "Everyone I would like to have your attention." With this the few pairs of eyes that had glanced around fell on us as well. "I have something to ask my girlfriend Loren here." What is he doing? I asked myself as I just stared at Eddie with complete and utter confusion. "And I wanted to do it the proper way." With that there was a cascade of murmurs of speculation as what Eddie was going to say next. Eddie turned to face me; he grabbed my hand once more looked straight into my eyes before speaking once again. "Loren Tate, will you do me the honor of being your date to your senior prom?" and with that blood rushed to my cheeks, as I started to blush and a smile started to appear on the corner of Eddie's lips. Somehow I managed to say 'yes!' then Eddie placed the flowers into her arms and meeting my gaze, leaned in for a kiss searching my face for any hesitation of a very public kiss.

You see, before Eddie had disappeared there was only speculation about the two of them being romantically involved. Once Eddie disappeared Loren sort of let slip that they were dating in one for her many interviews and before she could blink the world new. The fact that the beginning of their relationship was private meant that no one other the Melissa and a few other people had seen them kiss. So as they were about to officially say that they were together for all the people around them to see was a large step in their relationship and Eddie wanted to make sure that Loren was ready for that.

Eddie, finding none, kissed me and because the two of us had just recently been reconnected the both of us wanted the kiss to be filled with passion but that was kind of hard to do when you have two hundred people taking pictures of the kiss and videotaping us. Our lips had barely touched when applause and cheers had broken out around the two of us, but this didn't break us out of our kiss, we kept the kiss simple and sweet, treating each other's lips like feathers as we were holding back, trying to think about of the very large audience we had. Before we pulled back Eddie's hands found my waist and kept them there with our faces barely separated.

"I love you." Eddie whispered and I smiled and rested my forehead on his before replying.

"I love you too." We stayed like this for a while before Eddie said that he had to go because he had a meeting with Jake to discuss his new music. I set the flowers down on the table next to Melissa and walked Eddie back to his limo and got in. The inside of the sleek limo was ten times more impressive than the outside. There was a mini fridge and a small television with what looked like two black leather sofas on each side. Eddie sat down on the nearest sofa and I was just leaving as Eddie grabbed my hand and pulled me to his lap, causing me to laugh as I put my arms around his neck.

"Now where do you think you're going?" Eddie asked as he wrapped his arms around my waist, trapping her on his lap.

"Back to lunch, I need to eat and then go to the rest of my classes." Eddie moaned in disappointment. "I'm sorry, but there is only a week left and I need to take my last few tests." I explained and Eddie just pouted. Though he couldn't really complain because he was still so impressed that I had managed to stay in school and keep her grades up in the past few months.

"I know." replied Eddie and then a grin started to form at the corners of his lips.

"What?" I asked confused in his sudden mood change.

"Oh, I don't know, I just thought that I could take you out to lunch, and then bring you back to school." He suggested as he was twirling my hair around his finger.

"Eddie, you know that I would love too, but there isn't enough time before class starts."

"Well then, that settles it, I'm going to eat lunch with you." Eddie said with a full smile on his face and looked up at me with a mischievous look in his eyes. He leaned over and picked up a bag that was on the opposite sofa and grabbed it. "Extra pair of clothes, because I really don't want to eat in this tux." He explained.

"Oh really, I thought that you had a meeting with Jake this afternoon."

"I made it up, so I could do this." And with that Eddie turned towards me once again and leaned in for another kiss.

This kiss was different from the one in the courtyard. We had to be reserved and careful of what we were doing because they were on camera, but now because it was just the two of us in a dark limo, we could completely let ourselves go. One of Eddie's hands that were on my waist moved up to my face and he stroked it gently and moved my hair out-of-the-way as his lips started to cascade down my neck. No matter how many times Eddie had done this the tingling sensation I felt all over my body never vanished.

Eddie found my lips once more and moved his hand to the back of my head to keep me there as he slowly started to slip his tongue slowly passed my lips. I leaned back and eventually was on my back and I felt the cold leather with Eddie hovering on top of me. His strong body pressed against mine, his warm hands grasping my own. He let go of one of my hands and slid his slowly down her my and I put one of my hands against Eddie's chest. Meanwhile our kiss had intensified so drastically that we both had completely forgotten about where we were. Our lips pressed together and it seemed like nothing would break them apart. I had only felt this sensation once before and that was at the bungalow with him the only difference was that this time I didn't want him to stop. I didn't protest when his hand kept me from being able to pull away, and we probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for Melissa.

Mel was calling out for me and knocking on the limo's window trying to see if I was in there. "Hey Rock star, think you can give me my best friend back?" Eddie moaned and I giggled. Eddie dropped his hand from the back of my head and sat up. I followed and saw the outline of a very irritated Mel tapping the window waiting for us. I slid over Eddie's lap and leaned over to open the door. Once Melissa saw the look on our faces she realized that she must have interrupted something intense.

"I'm so sorry!" Melissa said as she started to close the door.

"No Mel, it's okay. I was just about to come back out." While I was speaking I stepped out of the limo, and closed the door.

"What did you do that for?"

"Eddie needs to change his clothes." I stated simply. Mel turned around and gave me one of her looks with her left eyebrow raised asking silently what happened in there. "Oh my god Mel, not like that! He wants to get out his tux so he can eat lunch with us."

"Yeah, I totally believe you."

At that moment Eddie opened the limo door and got out now wearing jeans and a tight black t-shirt that showed off his chiseled muscles. Melissa was eyeing the two of us carefully as Eddie walked past her and took my hand. "I think I deserve a little time alone with my girlfriend." And he gave me a kiss on my cheek. "Why don't you find your boyfriend Mel?" Eddie added and earned an over dramatic eye roll.

All of us headed back to our table we now insight once again the craziness started all over again. Eddie signed a few autographs then sat right next to me as he tried to sneak bites of my food. Shortly after they had all sat down Adam joined them.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late, I got held up last hour talking to a teacher about switching colleges." He said then looked around the table. There was no hiding the shock that was on his face when he saw Eddie there, but he quickly composed himself before he spoke once again. "Hey Eddie, what are you doing here?"

"He's alive!" Mel proclaimed very loudly.

"I just wanted to see my girl and ask her to prom." Replied Eddie as he looked over to Melissa and gave her a wink and she just laughed.

"You knew about this didn't you?" I asked as I started to understand what just happened and turned to face Melissa.

"Maybe…." Melissa stated and I just glared at her for a while but then smiled.

I looked over to see Eddie looking at me with concern. He reached for my hand before saying how sorry he was for not telling me and how he hoped that I wasn't mad.

"Mad?" I asked shocked that he ever thought that this would make me mad. "I'm really happy! And I love that you did all of this for me, I just wasn't expecting it at all."

"Well, that was the point." Eddie winked and kissed my cheek once more.

Authors Note:

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