To Love Again -  Chapter Three (Evian + Whitney/Theresa)
by evian_always
 
 

Chapter 3

Eve knew it wasn’t the hospital beeping her, because she took the day off, but she left the house anyways. TC was driving her crazy! Grabbing her purse and house keys, she left in a hurry… wanting to get away from TC’s crazy accusations about Julian “ruining his career”, and wanting to rid of herself of the image of Julian… her Julian… marrying that gold-digging wh*re… their smiling faces shining brightly on TV…

She shook her head.

She then looked down at her beeper, and rolled her eyes. It was Julian!

”Great!” she muttered. She wanted to just ignore his call… not wanting anything to do with him anymore…

But her curiosity got the better of her. She then picked up her cell and speed dialed his number.

“Julian Crane speaking.”

Eve sighed.

“Julian? This is Eve. What do you want?”

“Eve… we need to talk.”

“No, we don’t “need to” talk, Julian.”

“Eve… wait!”

Eve hung up, and ran her fingers through her hair. She wanted to talk to him. She yearned to hear his more of his voice… she wanted his comfort… his shoulder to cry on, and to hear him say that “everything will be alright.” But how could it be, when tomorrow, he will be marrying another woman?

Suddenly, her cell phone rang. Thinking it was Julian, she angrily picked up the phone and yelled, “I SAID THAT I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!”

“…Mom?”

Eve gasped.

“Whitney!”

“Mom… did I call you in a bad time? Because if I did, then I can call you back at a later time if you want me to…”

“Ummm… Whitney… I’m sorry about last time when… well, you know…”

“I know, mom.”

“Well… I just want you to know that I love you, and that I didn’t mean to ignore you the first time, it was just that I was so shocked…”

“It’s ok mom! I forgive you.”

“Ok well Whitney, could you call me back later? There are some things I need to do first.”

“Sure mom, love you.”

Eve smiled.

“I love you too sweetie.”

Once she heard Whitney hung up, Eve sighed. She really wanted to talk to Whitney… but right now she just needed some time alone… to think to herself and process everything’s that’s been happening to her life so far…

“Oh why does everything in my life have to go so wrong?” she thought.

Walking down along the park, she found a perfect place to sit down. It was pretty dark now, and nobody passes through this way so she could just sit down… and allowed her the peace and quiet she needed...

She shivered slightly. It was kinda cold today!

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Whitney sighed. So now it wasn’t a good time to talk to her mother… she wondered who was on the phone with her earlier to get her so worked up like that.

Theresa came in and nearly shocked her to death!

“BOO!”

Startled, Whitney lashed out at her for scaring her like that.

“Theresa!”

Theresa smiled.

“Hey… sorry… you just looked so tired today… where’s Fox?”

“I don’t know… he’s supposed to be doing something important…”

Theresa looked at her strangely.

“What?”

Theresa shrugged.

“Nothing, you just looked bored I guess. Hey, come with me to the pool! I want to go for a swim and I could do with you being with me…”

“Yea, let’s go.”

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Julian chucked his phone down in frustration. What on earth was wrong with Eve?! She’s been distancing herself away from Julian… though he had a nagging suspicion why. The fact that his marrying Rebecca on such short notice… without telling her first… or the reason why… and his not letting Eve in on what’s been bothering him lately… has been taking a toll on her. He just wanted to talk to her today… before the wedding… even though he wouldn’t know what to say to Eve anyways…

He was too much of a coward to face Eve and tell her that he was about to get married soon… so he let the media do that for him…

Oh how Eve must have hated him… he realized that she must of felt he was doing almost exactly the same thing, twenty-five years ago…

“But why would she care this time?” he thought bitterly. “She loves TC now… her husband, not me…”

Or does she?

He remembered when he was flying TC, Eve, and Liz along with him to go see Whitney in LA. TC blew off when he thought that the singer was Whitney… and attacked him, causing the door to open… and leaving his poor Eve to get sucked out of the jet!

He then smiled in a dreamy state. After he had risked his life to save her… with only a bundle of seatbelts to support him… Eve’s confession…

“There’s no need to thank me. I would have gone to hell itself to save you. I meant what I said… I couldn’t live without you in my life.”

”Nor I you!”

She couldn’t live without him! That was the first sign that showed him that Eve cares for him than just as a friend… and when he had told her that he loved her… she also told him that she WISHED she could return the affection… but she can’t… because she’s married… and she loves her husband…

It suddenly dawned to him that perhaps Eve was scared of losing him.

He continued to mindlessly walk through everywhere his heart takes him to, and frowned when he reached the park.

“Our special place…”

He was about to leave when he saw a woman on the bench… rubbing her arms which appeared to have been an attempt to warm herself up… and wait… was she crying?! He took a closer look… good lord that was Eve!

Julian took out his jacket… walking silently up to Eve… and slowly placed it around her body and crawled up next to her.

Eve looked up, shocked.

“JULIAN!”
 
 
 

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