Brian’s POV

I think I have never driven the distcane between Huntington Beach andSam’s or well- anywhere in a record time like this, even though I wished I took a flight and have been there without being totally stressed out and tired from the entire day.

It’s only about 30 minutes until I would arrive at Sam’s home, and I was going through the words that I wanted to tell her.
What I knew and how much I had missed her and that I couldn’t from a real thought that wasn’t with her involved and all the things I wanted to know, how she felt without me, what she had been doing in the weeks we were apart, had she missed me as bad as I had missed her?

My heart swelled at the thought that she took the heartache onto her shoulders just to save me, that she was the one taking actions when I couldn’t… when I took so long to even realize just what my heart really wanted…

This woman was mine and I would soon be with her again and if I finally knew what had been going on in her house with that asshole neighbor I would let her sell the freaking house right away, and she would move in with me.
She could find a new job there easily, and even if not, she could come on tour, I would make sure she would be safe and satisfied…

Where did all these thoughts suddenly come from when just a couple of days ago I wasn’t even sure if I was the right man for her?
And now, damn now I was sure, I had to be the only man for her, after I knew what she did for me, I knew she was the one woman I loved, the one that meant the world to me.

I turned my radio up when I listened to a song, I normally wouldn’t be listening to but the words seemed too fitting to turn it off.

And the days feel like years when I'm alone
And the bed where you lie is made up on your side

When you walk away I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through
the day and make it ok
I miss you

Damn, I hadn’t known I was really missing her so bad, before I was nearly there, nearly back home, to where I finally felt home after a lifetime of not knowing where I was meant to be.
She brought me back to my friends and she brought me back to life.

I've never felt this way before
Everything that I do reminds me of you
And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor
And they smell just like you, I love the things that you do

When you walk away I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
And when you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too

And when you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through
The day and make it ok
I miss you

We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were

Yes, finally I got that we indeed were meant to be together, she was the woman who got me out of the spell, she was the one I gave my heart, the first one… and she was the one to lie and break her own heart in the process of saving me.

She got hurt but didn’t back out, I know she must be afraid that everything would change if she went back to me and told me what happened, but that made me even prouder of her…
She tried to save me with all this, if I wanted to or not… even if I rather had her tell me what this had been about and why didn’t she just give me a hint? Or would that have been too much already?

Fuck, it didn’t matter anymore now, it was time for me to get this right and to make her believe that everything was fine now, that I was back and that nothing would change that and made me leave again.

I parked down the street seeing Selena pacing before Sam’s house, she asked me to meet with her first, so I did.
“Finally! Damn, I should have been here waiting for her to come from work about an hour ago, you ass!” Selena slapped my shoulder when she had stormed up to me.
“Well, hey… It’s good to see you too.” I said rubbing my shoulder after she hit me.

“It’s important that I am with her, she can’t be alone you dumbass, she was a victim in a crime, couldn’t you be here earlier! And why the sudden mood change that you wanted to see her?! I don’t think this is a good idea… I honestly think she is already confused enough with the whole situation, Brian… Don’t… don’t make it even worse.” Selena rambled on and I grabbed her shoulders to stop her and look at me.

“Selena, listen. I will make everything right, I know what happened and I promise I won’t upset her, okay?! Everthing will be fine!” She looked into my eyes.
“What do you know?” She whispered and my eyes widened, did she know something, too?

“I-I had a dream… I know now that Sam lied to me to save me from the book. The… woman who is responsible for all this told me… she even showed me the conversation she had with Sam. You were right, Sam would have never broken up with me like that, Selly… She did it for me.” I smiled and Selena looked confused then a smile also came to her face… “I told you so, you asshole!” She slapped me again and motioned to the door “Now go, before I run in there and tell her!” She shoved me forward and I chuckled, I would be faster, she didn’t have to ask me twice.

Sam’s POV

I chuckled at the scene frome the movie, it was the outtakes at the end, the second wine glass was still empt because Selena hadn’t shown up.
She just wrote me that she will be a little later but I shouldn’t worry and if I was afraid I should write her and she would be there in a second.

I wrote her back that I was totally fine and arrived home later anyway, so that I wouldn’t be alone long, I didn’t tell her that Ethan was still here because I indeed was afraid of being alone, but she would see that as soon as she would walk in through the door.

“Have you seen that? Oh my god!” I laughed at then looked over to Ethan, who was sound asleep next to me.
“Great, now I have a guy in my home and he is asleep.” I grinned and when I got up to bring his used glass away, he made himself more comfortable on my couch while the next movie was beginning.
I pulled the blanket over his form and smiled, while I was debating with myself if I should wake him or rather not, should I let him sleep there, but it looked damn uncomfortable for his large form?!

I would let him decide, I leaned over the couch and shook his shoulder gently, while I whispered to his ear, “Ethan.. hey.. sleepy head” He mumbled something that I didn’t understand and turned to his back.

I shook him again leaning further down “Ethan, hey… do you want to sleep here or-”
My front door opened suddenly and a grinning Selena stood in my door, when she saw me leaning over Ethan the grin fell from her face and her mouth formed a big ‘O’ and then I saw the frame behind her, the man I had missed so dearly, but didn’t dare contact because I was afraid he would either hate me or forgot about me already.

“Look who I found outside” Selena whispered and I snapped back from leaning over Ethan.
“Sam?” Brian’s soft voice wavered over to me, then his eyes went from me to Ethan and back.
“What are you doing here?” I asked and didn’t know what to do, he was really here… what does he want and why didn’t Selena warn me?

“Don’t tell me you moved on, Sam… Don’t break my heart again” I heard the words and my eyes snapped up to Brian’s, what was he talking about?
How could I move on, when he was the only man I could think about?

“Sam?” Ethan’s groggy voice sounded from the couch “Did I fall asleep? What was then end of the movie again?” He slowly sat up and then looked into the direction I was staring.
“Oh… what an infrequent visitor… the one who caused a lot of pain thinks it’s a good idea to show up now?” Ethan said and stood suddenly behind me and I was too confused to say something.

“Sam, please” Brian took a step forward and Selena stopped him with a hand to the chest.
“Sam, you should really listen to the things Brian has to say… and you… should leave. This is a thing between those two. Come on, let’s go.” Selena said and motioned Ethan to leave and I was glad my best friend took control of the situation, because I could only stare at Brian right now, still not believing that he was actual here.

“I will only leave, if Sam wants me to.” Ethan said crossing his arms before his chest and looked at me from the side.
“It’s okay, thank you Ethan. I will call you alright?” I said not meeting his eyes.
He still stood there until Selena walked over to him and nearly shoved them out of the door.

“I’m outside, just a few feet away, if you scream I hear you.. and if you scream... out of other reasons I will be gone as fast as I can” Selena winked at me and I gapped at her, did she just really say that?

Then the door closed and I was alone with Brian… here… in thehouse where we had spend so many times together and still it felt like that had been a whole lifetime ago.

Notes

A cliffhanger... a last one I promise :P

Final Chapter coming hopefully tomorrow or
at the latest on Monday, so stay tuned leave comments :)))