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"What the...?" Isabelle said out loud when she got a letter in the mail addressed to her by a girl named Britney.

"What`s wrong?" Brian asked, walking up behind her.

"What the hell is this?" she almost yelled, throwing the letter in his face.

"What is it?" he asked, confused.

"You tell me...or maybe Britney could tell me?" she said sarcastically, yet really mad.

"What are you talking about?" he asked, reading the letter and the color in his face went away.

"I can`t believe you, when did this happen, huh? When did you two kiss?" she asked, tears coming to her eyes.

"Isabelle, listen to me. It was over a month ago, it didn`t mean anything, I swear" he told her, hoping it would help the situation.

"How could you...I thought you loved me" she said quietly, more tears rolling down her cheeks.

"I do love you, I love you more than anything in this world, you know that" he said.

"Why didn`t you tell me then?" she asked.

"I don`t know, I didn`t want this to affect our relationship" he replied, looking down.

"Well...if you would have thought about saving our relationship, you would`ve told me right away" she retorted, "that`s why they say loyalty is one of the best quality in a relationship, it saves everything."

"I`m sorry" he said, getting tears in his eyes.
"
You know, I actually believed you when you told me you and her were just friends. Did anything else happen, are you guys going out behind my back?" she asked.

"Of course not...just let me explain, please" he begged.

"Explain what?" she asked.

"That night" he replied.

"Go ahead" she told him, crossing her arms.

"You know how I went to the bar about a month ago? Well, she was there, and I was sitting with her and talking, and we had a little to drink, actually she had a little to drink, and I had a lot. I was dancing with her at a song and we just kissed, but I swear, nothing else happened" he explained.

"How do you know? You were drunk, I`m surprised you even remember the kiss" she said.

"I hardly don`t, I do, but most of the night is a blur to me" he said, "but I swear to you, nothing else happened, maybe I was drunk, but not drunk enough to do something more, I swear."

"How am I supposed to believe you if you lied to me about the kissing?" she asked.

"I don`t know, it`s a chance I`m taking, you don`t have to believe me, but I know that I`m saying the truth" he replied.

"I gotta get out of here" she said, walking towards the door.

"No, come back, come on Isabelle, we can talk about this, please...I love you" he begged, tears rolling down his cheeks by now.

She turned around and looked at him coldly, "I love you too, but I can`t stay here knowing everything that comes out of your mouth might be a lie, I just can`t."

"Don`t go" he cried, running to her and hugging her.

"Brian, don`t make this any harder than it already is" she said.

"Please" he said, looking deep into her eyes, "don`t walk away from me."

"I have to right now" she told him, and walked out the door, "I`ll be back later to get my stuff."

‘To come and get her stuff?' he asked himself, ‘this can`t be!' He couldn`t believe that she was actually leaving him for real, this wasn`t just a one day thing when she`s come back at night, it wasn`t, she was leaving him, and for good...

She got in her car and drove off somewhere, she didn`t know where though.

‘How could he do this to me?' she asked herself, ‘I thought this was for real.' She ended up driving to the mall and she went inside to sit at a table and have a cup of coffee.

She went back to her house and when she walked in, she saw Brian laying on the couch sleeping, and looking like shit. She imagined that he had been there ever since she`d left that morning.

She went into her room and packed a bit of things, things she knew she would need for at least a week, and went back into the kitchen, not wanting to wake Brian up cuz she didn`t wanna talk to him. She grabbed a sandwich and a pop and started to walk to the door when she heard Brian waking up.

"Isabelle?" he asked.

"I`m leaving Brian, just go back to sleep" she replied, and walked closer to the door.

He jumped up from the couch and ran in front of the door, "you can`t leave, please, we gotta talk sometime."

"I don`t wanna talk right now, so I`ll save you the pain of listening to me say everything I feel right now, and I`ll leave, we`ll talk some other time, not now though" she told him, and tried pushing him out of the way.

"I wanna know everything your feeling right now so I can make things better" he said.

"No Brian, I can`t take any more pain, not today...you wanna know what I did today?" she asked.

He nodded.

"I drove around for hours, thinking about you, me...us. And I`d get in more pain every second, I kept thinking that it was all my fault, you kissed Britney cuz I didn`t give you what you needed from a girl, although I gave you everything. And after I did give you everything I had inside of me, this is how you repay me?" she said.

"I had no idea you were thinking that way" he said quietly.

"Well now you know...I cried rivers of tears today, thinking about you and how much I love you and hate you at the same time, but I realize that I can`t even bring myself to hating you...in my eyes, you`re perfect. I love you to death, I can`t live without you, but now I have to do it, because of what you did" she told him, and walked out the door, "see you around."

He just stared at her, shocked. He hadn`t known that she had been thinking about that all day. How could he screw things up this way, god, he was such an idiot. He had just lost the thing that mattered the most to him, the thing that made his life complete when she walked into it. How was he going to win her love back now?

*3 days later*

Brian woke up that morning feeling sick, the way he felt ever since Isabelle left him. His wasn`t himself anymore, he`d slop around the house all day long, wishing she could be there to tell him she loved him. He decided that today he would at least try and get her back, somehow, but he didn`t know how.

He jumped in the shower, determined that he was gonna get her back, today, no turning back. And of course, he had to smell good!

"I got it!" he exclaimed, and got out of the shower.

He went to his room and looked through his collection of CDs. That`s it, he was gonna sing to her, sing a song he knew she loved, and knew would be perfect to win her back, but which song? He kept looking through his CDs, really wanting to find the perfect song that he could sing, and play on the guitar for her.

"Jon Secada, Mariah Carey, Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, Savage Garden..." she said, naming some of the CDs he had, "oh wait, Savage Garden have one..."

He took the CD and flipped it open, reading the lyrics to ‘I Knew I Loved You'.

"Oh this is perfect" he called out to no one.

Now he wanted to learn the song by heart and learn it on his guitar, he put the song on and memorized it by heart, wanting it to be to perfection. He took his guitar and tried to find the right cords, and after about an hour of trying, he decided to go look on the Internet to see if the cords to that song on the guitar would be there, somewhere.

He looked for about 2 hours before he found them, he printed them out and studied them.

It was now 4 o'clock in the afternoon and he was still practicing on the guitar, he had it by heart, he just wanted it to be perfect, he wanted to be able to just let his fingers play and they wouldn`t fail him. After an hour of still practicing, he decided it was good enough, he knew she`d love it, and if she didn`t, he didn`t know what would make her come back to him.

*The next day*

Isabelle was laying down on her bed, listening to music, when she heard a car pull up into the drive way. Thinking it was most likely her best friend`s boyfriend, she didn`t bother getting up.

After about 2 minutes, she heard a guitar starting to play a familiar song. She got up and looked outside the front window, and there he was, standing with his guitar wrapped around his neck. He started singing.

'Maybe it`s intuition
But some things you just don`t question
Like in your eyes
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes
I think I`ve found my best friend
I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

There`s just no rhyme or reason
Only this sense of completion
And in your eyes
I see the missing pieces
I`m searching for
I think I`ve found my best friend
I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

A thousand angels dance around you
I am complete now that I`ve found you

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life'

Isabelle stood there, she had walked outside throughout the song and she had tears coming down her eyes.

"I love you" Brian said, walking towards her, "please come back to me... I`m a mess without you."

"Do you mean that?" she asked.

"Of course, I can`t live without you. I realized how much you mean to me the second you walked away. Give me another chance, I know I can make things right. I`ll do anything to show you how much I love you, and I will never kiss anyone but you, that`s a promise" he told her.

"Are you gonna keep that promise? Cuz you know how strict I am with promises" she laughed.

He started laughing a little, "I promise, and I`m keeping that promise, for the rest of my life."

She ran to him after he settled his guitar on the ground, and hugged him tighter than ever before, "I love you too."

"Good" he smiled.

"Did you mean that song?" she asked curiously.

"Of course I meant it, with all my heart. I did know that I loved you before I met you, I was just waiting until faith would do its job, bringing you to me" he said softly.

Fresh tears rolled down her cheeks, "I love you so much."

"I love you too" he said, and kissed her.

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