Chapter Six: Forever Isn't Long Enough


Tia sat on the plane quietly and stared at her magazine. She wasn’t really reading it, she was watching Brian out of the corner of her eye. They’d been quiet most of the morning, the other guys smiling at them stupidly if they even talked. She knew they all knew, but oh well, what did she care? They were on their way back to Orlando or Los Angeles and she’d have no smiles in Kentucky.

The captain announced their descent into the airport. Tia knew what she’d have to face when she got home, but she tried not to show her fear in front of Brian.

~ONE HOUR LATER~
Brian pulled up in front of her house. She took off her seatbelt and looked at him lovingly.
“I’ll call you tonight, thank you for a wonderful weekend,” she bashfully looked away.
“I had an amazing time, I’ll talk to you tonight,” he kissed her gently.
She grabbed her bag and went into the house.
Her father’s voice echoed off the walls.
“TIA MARIE, WHERE IN THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!” He screamed.
“Daddy, don’t start on me,” she muttered as she headed up the stairs.
“Don’t start with you?” He mocked. “You were suppose to be with Donny’s family all weekend and we wake up and you’re gone, not here for Donny to pick you up, and your cell phone is off! What the hell kind of stunt was that, where were you??”
She sighed annoyingly as she marched up the stairs.
“Tia your father is talking to you,” her mother called behind her.
She stood at the top of the stairs and looked down at them.
“I was with Brian, in New York,” was all she said as she went into her room and slammed the door behind her.

~TWO HOURS LATER~
Tia had fallen asleep for a while and when she woke up it was nearly dark out. The phone rang beside her bringing her from her dreams of Brian.
Hoping it was him she reached over and answered it.
“Where have you been T?” Donny asked down the line.
“Ugh,” she rolled her eyes and plopped her head against the pillow.
“I don’t answer to you,” she said harshly.
“Hell you don’t,” he retorted.
“Ugh,” she replied again and then hung up the phone.
So he wouldn’t call back she quickly dialed Brian’s number and waited for him to answer.
“Hello?” His voice answered. Relieved to hear someone that wasn’t yelling she smiled brightly.
“Hey it’s me,” she answered back.
“I miss you,” was his reply.
“I miss you too, I’m getting yelled at from every end and I don’t want to be here.”
“Where do you want to be?” He asked with a little seduction.
“With you.”
”With me how?” he raised one eyebrow.
She giggled shyly like she was sixteen.
“Uhhhh, just in your arms.”
“That’s it,” he pouted.
“Well there’s always more,” she said sweetly.
Suddenly there was a click on the line.
“Was that your call waiting?” She asked.
“No, but it must be my cell phone, it’s running low, it’s okay, keep going,” he purred.
“Well, I want to take another shower with you and relive last night all over again.”
“How about you come over here and we can relive it in many ways,” he almost whispered.
“Be there in ten,” she hung up the phone and quickly fixed her hair.

~AT THE SAME TIME~
Tia’s father silently hung up the phone, his face steaming with anger, she was sleeping with that rock star boy from her past.

~FIVE MINUTES LATER~
Tia walked down the stairs quietly, hoping her parents had fallen asleep in front of the television. She tip-toed across the hard wood floor and slowly turned the knob.
“Going somewhere,” her father replied behind her.
“Out,” she answered.
“You’re not going anywhere,” her father said sternly.
“Damn straight I am,” she reached for the knob to turn it and pull the door open. He quickly retracted her hand and slammed the door in her face.
“You can’t stop me from going,” she yelled.
“What you couldn’t wait to have sex with Donny so you went straight for anything you could?” He yelled back.
“Fuck you!” She yelled, tears welling up in her eyes.
This time she was successful at opening the door. She ran down the driveway and out to her car.
Her father watched her speed down the street and just shook his head in disappointment.

~AT BRIAN’S~
She cried as she rang his doorbell. She didn’t want to tell him what was going on, but she needed desperately someone to talk to.
He opened the door to see her pale white face in the street light.
“Oh my gosh, Tia, what’s wrong?” He asked as she fell into his arms and cried.
He slowly led her inside and sat her down on the couch.
“Okay, I was suppose to go to a thing with Donny’s family this weekend, but I went to New York with you instead and my parents are so pissed off, my dad and I had a fight before I came over here, he didn’t want me to go and…”
“Hey, calm down, okay?” He reassured her as she wiped the tears off her face.
“Okay,” she muttered.
“I’m sure that this is all a misunderstanding with your parents and…”
“No Brian, you don’t understand, they want me to marry him, no one else but him, don’t they see I’m going to die anyways!” She cried even harder now.
He was at a loss for words because he’d felt like that once in his life too. He knew that no words could ever console her, that only love and caring was the only thing she needed right now.
“Come here,” he said quietly as he pulled her into his arms and cradled her.
“I mean shouldn’t I be doing whatever I want since I’m not gonna live forever? Shouldn’t I be able to see who I want, do what I want? But no, they want me to ‘have what’s best while I can have that.’ It’s my choice and they don’t understand,” she sniffed.
“Tia you also have to understand that you’re all they have and they’re having a had time coping with the fact that that might not be forever. They want you to be happy their way until eternity because then they know that you’ll always be happy. They’re securing it for you just as they’ve done your whole life. They see it only as the best thing for you, I know you don’t understand that, but you have to try, for them.”
She looked up at his crystal eyes and saw how much he cared and how much he really did want this to be better.
“So what do I do?” She asked.
“What does your heart tell you to do?”
She thought for a minute, she was choosing between Brian and her parents. Her parents gave her life and took care of her through so many difficult years, but Brian was the one reason she wanted to keep living.
She thought for a little while longer and then sat up.
“Can I stay here tonight with you?”
Shocked he glided his lips across hers and laid her down on the couch.
“If I could stay with you forever, I would.”
But Brian knew that forever wouldn’t be long enough.



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