Chapter 8

The girl I had been in love with for the past ten years

Courtney's P.O.V.

"You guys did brilliantly." Bridgette told her class as they walked off to the get dried off. I found myself giggling about what I had witnessed in the past hour. It had been so funny. "Quit laughing!" Bridgette scolded me, but she was laughing herself.

"Mooooooooooooooom!" I heard Bex's voice scream through the whole gym. I looked up and she was running towards me.

"Don't run!" I yelled, we were beside a swimming pool and it was a slippery surface. Too late. By the time I'd shouted to her, Bex was on the floor. I ran over to my daughter's side, almost falling myself, but as I got there, so did another person. And not just any person.

"Bex, are you okay?" Duncan asked, gently raising her head off the floor.

"I'm fine." She groaned, holding her hand to her head.

"Are you sure, that was a pretty nasty fall?" Duncan actually sounded...concerned for her. I tried my best not make eye contact with him, though. This was the moment I had been dreading all along.

Duncan stood up and held out his hand to Bex. She took it and he helped her up. I stayed on the floor, hoping he wouldn't notice me. That plan failed. Duncan held a hand out to me, the only thing I could do was accept it.

"Hey I'm..." But his voice trailed off as m face came into focus. "Courtney?"

"No, I'm Courtney. You're Duncan." I told him, trying to lighten the moment. It didn't work. However, Bex changed the subject.

"Mom, DJ's looking for a new actress for the part of my mom, I told him you'd do it. Because you will, wont you?" She was jumping around excitedly, whilst Duncan and I were just frozen to the spot.

"I don't know, you tell DJ that I'll think about it." Bex gave me an extremely tight squeeze and then ran off. "WALK!" I shouted after her.

Duncan's P.O.V.

"Duncan? Duncan, come on, talk to me." I was in a state of shock. The girl I had been waiting for my whole life was standing in front of me. My head was spinning and I felt nausea and dizziness overwhelming me. Then there was darkness.

I had had the weirdest dream. Courtney was Bex's mother, how likely was that. When I opened my eye's I found I wasn't in my bed or even in my house. I sat up, but winced in pain as I did so.

"EASY!" I heard Bridgette say, placing her arms around my torso to help me sit up. "You had a nasty fall yesterday." She then looked behind her. I couldn't see what she was looking at, at first, but then she moved. There, sitting on the chair, was Courtney. Courtney Garcia, the girl I had been in love with for the past ten years, was fast asleep on the chair beside my bed in the infirmary.

Her perfectly tanned skin was as smooth as ever. The mocha locks that used to hang by her shoulder's were now half-way down her back. When I looked closely at her baby-like face, I could still see the seven freckles, that I was so eagerly attracted to, across the bridge of her nose. The same was Bex's were. Bex. She had no idea what was going on between her mother and I, or at least what had gone on between us. Bex. She was ten-years-old. Ten years ago I had been with Courtney! I suddenly felt my blood pulsing in my ears. Was Bex my daughter?

A/N: DUN! DUN! DDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!

Will Courtney tell Duncan the truth?

Will Duncan understand? (Because, that seems to be a big question lately XD)

FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON The Runaway Returns

LOL! Dramatic or what? I'm just glad hey finally met. It took eight chapters (and a prologue), but they finally met! And then Duncan fainted. LOL!

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