Well since my huge computer crash I lost all of my other stories. I waited a while to post a new one until I started one I knew would be able to stick. So here is my newest story. I hope you all enjoy it and please please comment and let me know what you think.

Chapter 1: The Meeting

"Hey Tracy said you could need some help out here"
"Yeah its pretty hectic, there are carts everywhere."
"Well where would you like me to go first?"
"Would you mind taking care of the "Pit" for me?"
"Sure."



I went down to spot on the east parking lot known as the "Pit" its the most popular place for people to park and always full of carts no matter what time of the year it is. Today being Christmas Eve it was quite full of carts waiting to be taken inside the store for the next last minute shopper to take and eventually end up right back outside again. I often wondered how many times in a 5 hour day I would come across the same shopping cart.

Generally on a typical day there would be 2 people to a lot, there are 2 lots east and west. East is a little bit bigger but any manager would tell you they are the same size. Tonight however as usual they failed to schedule enough people to help out on the lots and with closing time drawing nearer it looked like it was going to be one long night. I got my break at the 2 /12 hour mark and spent it chatting with my friend Rene the greeter.

I munched on a Pop Tart and talked to her about her son and her husband who was a night manager at the store. We talked about plans for the holiday and just about anything you could imagine. She wasn't like most adults, she was someone I could really relate to even if she is 5 years older than me.

Our chat was interrupted by that boy who I was sent out to help earlier that day pushing carts up and tapping our rear ends. We looked at him and he shot us a toothy grin from ear to ear and walked back out the door to bring in more carts. Tonight was the first time I've ever met that boy and was really surprised since I had been working there for 4 months already. I knew almost everyone.



"Rene do you know him?" I asked
"Yeah his names Jeremy, he's a good kid but a goof ball." She said
"Ive never seen him until tonight." I said watching as he brought in yet another set of carts.
Rene just watched me smiling.
"I wonder if he has a girlfriend" I said out loud not even realizing it.
Rene laughed.
"I don't think so Kim, He doesn't seem to be the type to date." She said.

We talked a little bit more until my break was over. I went back to the front desk where I was told to go back out onto east lot. Normally I would complain and remind Tracy that I had already been out there for the beginning of my shift but Jeremy was out there and any chance I had to get to know him I wanted to take.

I pushed in a few sets of carts and then Jeremy brought out the cart pusher, this was my chance to really get to talk to him without getting in trouble. The cart pushing machine was a 2 man operation, one at the front of the line of carts the other at the controls. I helped him bring in a few sets and we chatted a little bit about schools and where we lived. I learned he lived in the town of Harris where we worked while I lived out it Pull-burg a tiny little farm town about 20 minutes away. He was a senior in high school and I was a junior. We shared a few interests like movies and some music. He was more of a classic rock fan while I perfered pop and newer music.

While we were talking he pulled out a necklace on a gold chain and asked me if I liked it. I told him it was beautiful and I felt my heart sink.
"Your girlfriend is a lucky girl." I said realizing that he was only ever going to be a friend.
"I don't have a girlfriend." He said looking very timid.
"Its for my mom" He said putting it away in in pocket.
"Oh I'm sorry, Shes going to love it, I know I would." I said.

We helped each other for the majority of the night, I would round up as many carts as I could and he would put them on the cart pusher and take them inside. The store had been closed an hour and we were still working hard to bring in all the carts. During this time one of Tracy's little henchmen were spying on us and we got in trouble for talking too much and being too close together on the lot and were forced to be at least 10 feet away from each other at all times or she would bring one of us in. It sucked to have to follow her rules because we were making a lot of progress with our method.

My shift ended a half hour before his and I stuck around talking to Rene and watching him outside as he pushed in more carts. I felt so horrible that he had to be out there the whole time he was working. After he got off work I met him at the front of the store.
"Hey" I said
"Hey" He said back.
We looked at each other and laughed.
"So what are your plans tonight?" I asked him.
"Probably just going home." He said and started walking to his car.
"Well how about we go get something for dinner? My family is all away at my uncles and I really don't want to go home and be all alone just yet." I said running to catch up with him.
"Sure I guess so." He said.



We got to his car which was an old Jeep and he told me to get in. Normally I would be scared out of my mind to get into a strange boys car but something felt good about Jeremy. We drove around town for an hour before realizing that at 9 o clock on Christmas Eve everything was closed. Finally the only place we found open was a 24 hour Quality Dairy 2 towns over. We went in and ordered some ice cream and sat in his car eating it.

We had a really fun night together and got to know each other better. I felt myself falling for him and I think he was falling for me too. He had never had a girlfriend and he didn't know how to react. Usually girls found him to be too childish and dorky. I liked that about him, he wasn't like most guys and he wasn't afraid to have fun.

When we finished our ice cream he drove me back to the store so I could get in my car and go home. Before getting in my car I grabbed him and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks for the great night." I said and I got in my car.
He stood there for a minute in shock before getting in his truck and leaving.



When I got home everyone was still gone but I didn't care. I ran upstairs to my room and pulled out my blue diary I bought the day before. My first page in it was all about that night and every little detail that happened. I flung myself against my pillow on my bed when I was done writing and I stared at the ceiling and drifted off to sleep thinking about Jeremy.

(While we wait for In Teen to be updated for Bon Voyage I'm going to start my next story. I hope you all like and and PLEASE give me some feedback )

Chapter 1

Kelly sat down the last box in the kitchen and looked around, she couldn't believe that they were finally moving out of that dump of an apartment into their first home. She heard a giggling noise from across the room and watched as their son Andrew played with his toys in the playpen she had set up in the living room.


 She walked over and stroked his dark hair. He looked up and smiled before saying "mama". Kelly smiled and thought back to the day she found out she was pregnant with him. She was so happy and so was Mason, despite they were 18 at the time and still in high school. They got the apartment together and got married a month before he was born and life was so perfect for them. Kelly couldn't believe how things had turned out and how happy her life really was.


Kelly's trip down memory lane was interrupted by arms wrapping around her waist. She didn't even have to open her eyes to know it was Mason's sweet embrace. She turned around to face him and gave him a kiss.
"I cant believe this is our house." She said.
"Well babe believe it because its all ours." Mason said dipping his head down for another kiss.


They spent the rest of the day unpacking boxes and discussing where things should go and how they should decorate. Before they knew it, it was dark outside and past Andrews bedtime. While Kelly got him all set in his pj's and put him in the playpen to sleep for the night Mason ordered a pizza for dinner. After they ate Kelly decided she would call it quits for the night and head to bed.
"I'm going to stay up a little later, I'll get some of the bigger things put together and stuff like that." Mason said.
With a quick kiss Kelly was gone up the stairs to their bedroom.

A half hour later Mason crept up the stairs and into Andrews room first. He was sound asleep. He stood there for a moment looking down at his son and noticing how much he looked like Kelly. Then he went into their bedroom and watched as Kelly breathed in and out in a perfect pattern. He grazed his lips over hers lightly enough so it wouldn't wake her. "I love you" his whispered. He walked back down the stairs and out of the house. He walked a block before getting out his cell phone and dialing.
"Hey I'm here where are you?" He asked and then paused.
"Well hurry up I have to get home." He said again before hanging up.
He waited nervously until a black pick up truck pulled up and a man greeted him.

Cassidy ran as fast as her pregnant legs could carry her. She never realized how out of shape she was since she became pregnant. Finally Cassidy found herself outside Kevin’s apartment door. She stood there for a moment catching her breath before knocking on the door. When no one answered she turned the door knob and when the door opened without force she walked inside. She figured that there was probably no key to the apartment so Kevin had to leave the door unlocked. When she walked inside the apartment felt stuffy to her and she could see that he had left no windows open. Cassidy walked from room to room but Kevin couldn’t be found anywhere. She went into his bedroom and sat down on the bed, the very bed that the baby inside of her was created that oh so wonderful night. Cassidy noticed how tired she was and decided to take a short nap while she waited for Kevin to come home. She wanted to change out of her clothes so she opened up the dresser to find one of Kevin’s T shirts that she could put on instead. When she opened the top drawer she found it to be empty. Cassidy panicked and frantically opened every drawer but there were no clothes at all.


Cassidy ran from the bedroom to the kitchen and swung open the door on the refrigerator. There wasn’t a single thing in it to eat or drink. Cassidy hit the ground hard as she plopped down right there on the kitchen floor. It wasn’t until she took a few seconds to look around that she noticed all the posters on the walls were gone too. Cassidy pounded her fists against the floor as she cried.
“I was too late…..too late.” She cried.


Kevin stared at his feet as he walked down the sidewalk, all he had with him was the few pairs of clothing he owned, some bread and peanut butter, and the 15 bucks he had to his name. He knew Cassidy was never going to see things the way he did so he decided that it was best to leave. He knew if he stayed in that town he would have to watch as his child was given to someone else to raise or worse watch Cassidy’s father beat up his child like he does to Cassidy. Kevin decided that, that life was just too much for him and he had to leave.


Cassidy pulled herself together after a half hour of crying on the kitchen floor. She wanted to find Kevin she had to find him. She didn’t want to raise this baby alone and she wasn’t about to give it up for adoption. Not now, not knowing the way she cared about him and the baby. Cassidy ran out of the apartment as fast as she could. She knew she had to at least get out of town before her father came looking for her. The apartment would be the first place he would go so it wasn’t safe there anymore.

Cassidy walked for what felt like years and she finally stopped to take a rest under a huge willow tree. She didn’t know where Kevin was or even how much of a head start he had gotten on her but Cassidy was determined to find him. After her rest she decided to get moving again. She had to get as far away as she could just in case her father was out looking for her.


She knew staying in one place for a long time would only make it easier to find her. After another hour of walking Cassidy’s body was beginning to weaken from lack of food and water, she knew she had to find a way to eat fast but how, she had no money and she didn’t want to steal. Finally her body got the best of her and she was forced to find a store to at least get a candy bar from. Cassidy walked into a 24 hour gas station and walked around for a few minutes to make sure no one was looking before she grabbed 3 candy bars and stuffed them in her pocket. Cassidy began to walk out of the store when pain through her whole body came over her. First she saw red then everything went black. The last thing she remembered were loud voices screaming and someone’s hands touching her.