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Romance › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
6
Views:
1,392
Reviews:
7
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Remembering
Thanks to everyone who read the first part of this story. I have the rights to every character in this story so don\'t steal!! I\'m new at this and i would love your feedback to let me know what i\'m doing wrong. It would help me alot. So Review!!! Thanx
~M~
Chapter 1
Alex checked his watch for the third time in a half hour. Where was she? He hated waiting for her but he knew that she was in deep cover and it could take her a while to get to him. He was waiting for Amy, an undercover police officer for whom he was her contact. She was 20 minutes late. He glaced around tyring not to look too suspicous, after all Amy could be followed. Who is that? She looks familiar. Very familiar. Her long dark hair was tousled a bit from the wind and she was tanned a golden brown from the summer sun.
\"She\'s beautiful,\" he observed just loud enough so that only the overweight, drunk man next to him could hear.
\"She\'s a beauty alright,\" the man answered, then fell off his chair.
\"Hey Jim call this guy a cab will you,\" Alex said refering to the bartender of the Malibu Club. The man nodded and headed for the phone. Alex turned back to the woman he had been admiring. She was gone. Alex got up, deciding that Amy wouldn\'t show, and went out the door.
What was she doing here? Renny thought to herself as she took a quick survey of the Malibu Club. A storm was coming and she didn\'t want to be in that big empty house alone, so she thought that she would find somewhere with people and noise so that her memories of growing up here in Norfolk, Wisconsin didn\'t drive her mad. She didn\'t want to remember any of what had happened 5 years before. She just wanted to get on with her life. She wanted to got to college and to get married and have children. She didn\'t want to spend her entire life wondering what would happen if that psyco ever found her.
She looked around once more and decided that she knew no one, except...no it couldn\'t be. Alex Devlin? The boy who saved her life? No he was probably gone by now, he had always talked about leaving. Maybe she should go talk to him? After all, that was one reason she had come back, to thank Alex for what he had done. She never did get the chance to thank him, because her grandmother had shipped her off to boarding school to keep her safe, or so she always said, though Renny belived that it was just so she didnt have to deal with her.
She decided against it, figuring that he did leave and she would never see him again. She headed for the door to the ladies room. She would have one soda and leave.
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She woke up to the sounds of the lake. Of course it was summer after all, so there would be those crazy people who would be out at the crack of dawn on their jetskis and skiboats. Renny did never understand why they had always gotten up so early. Wasn\'t there enough day for everyone? She made herself some herbal tea and went outside.
She sat on the dock watching a man on a teal jetski chase a boat\'s wake then do a donut, only to whip himself 20 feet from the watercraft. She giggled to herself, \"Some people can be so stupid.\" She watched him mount the craft and be on his way.
She thought back to last night and how she thought she had seen Alex. The man at the bar was handsome, his sunstreaked hair spike just slightly giving him the i-just-got-out-of-bed look. She remembered how he had seen her and gave her this weird look, like ... he knew her? No, that couldn\'t be it. Alex Devlin was always a charming guy even at 17 as she had known him. He always had a girlfriend. She remembered how she had had a crush on him when her family first moved in next door and when her parents decided to hier him as their gardener, she had been exstatic. He never looked twice at her though, with her having been only 14 and waiting for normal body parts to grow.
\"Hello? You on the dock!\" The voice startled her out of dreamland. It seemed to be coming from behind her. She whipped around to find an elderly woman, maybe about 60, in a soft pink night gown and carring a coffee mug.
\"Hello. Are you my neighbor?\" Renny asked holding her hand up to block the bright morning sun.
\"Yes, I\'m Maria Devlin. I live in the brown cottage next door.\" said the elderly woman. It was Alex\'s mother, Renny thought. She obviouly didn\'t recognize her, although Renny knew that Maria always made the best chocolate chip cookies. She smiled and waved. The woman strided down the dock right up to Renny.
\"Hello, Mrs. Devlin. I\'m Renny Gerda. I actually used to live here about five years ago.\"
\"Oh my Renny?! The girl whose parents were killed? My how are you dear? I haven\'t seen you in about 5 or 6 years.\" she said alittle confused.
\" Yes I just moved back here. I was living in London for a while, but i had the erge to return to Norfolk. I had a craving for a cream puff,\" Reny giggled sofly. The small woman laughed whole-heartedly at the remark, beacuse of course only Norfolk had the best cream puffs and in every flavor imaginable. Renny thought for a moment then remembered the man in the bar last night and she just had to ask,
\"So Mrs. Devlin, how is everyone? How is Alex? Does he still live in town?\"
\"Well,\" she stammered, \"My husband, Bill, god bless him, died about a year ago. A heart attack. I guess it was all the cream puffs. Anyway, as soon as it happened Alex moved back home to take care of me. He bought a small cottage on the other side of the lake. He works for the FBI now.\" She sounded so proud of him, Renny thought. So he does live here. Maybe it was him that she\'d seen at the Malibu Club?
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Alex awoke to the loud sound of his alarm. He hated when he forgot to turn it off fo rhte weekend. It was Saturday and he didn\'t want to be out of bed before 10.
\"Well, since I\'m up, how about a swim and a quick ride on the old jetski before breakfast. What do ya say, Jake?\" he informed his best friend and lowly roommate, even though he was just a little cocker spaniel, but he was Alex\'s buddy and protector, or so he thought. That dog would bark at anything bigger than him and he had a habit of chasing every car that went past the small cottage.
The view was magnificent. Pelican Lake never did look any better than in the morning. The sunlight sparkled of the redish water. It was going to be a perfect day. Alex pulled on this swim trunks and headed out. He would swim the length of the point and back the ride on the jetski, after all there was nothing better than chasing a boat wake at 7 in the morning.
After a long, hot shower, Alex pulled on his normal dress of jeans and a white T-shirt. He was going to visit his mother today, as he did every saturday. He jumped into his Jeep and sped down the winding road. He arrived just in time to witness his mother talking to the new neighbor. She was so excited to hear the there was somone moving in next door. The little brown cottage had been empty for ages, ever since the incident.
He stalked across the bright green lawn seperating the two cottages, heading towards the long wooded dock that, he could tell, needed to be stained, sanded, and water proofed. He gaze drifted to his mother then to the woman she was talking to. Wow, he thought. She was gorgeous. Her dark brown hair flowing in the morning breeze, her small hips leaning to on side with her hand rested firmly on it. His gazed went up to her perfectly toned stomach and oh, her perfect breasts perky form the cool morning breezes. \"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! She is probably married or something, your asking for trouble,\" Alex scolded himself. He did this all the time, and most of the time it got him in a lot of trouble. Realizing that he had stopped in the middle of her yard, he continued his brisk walk toward the morning goddess.
\"Hello mother. And who is this?\" his eyes moving form the very top of her head to the tips of her barefeet.
\"Don\'t you remember her, Alex? This is Renny Gerda. You saved her life a few years ago.\" Now, he remembered. She was the woman from the club and the lanky 14 year old girl who lived next to him five years before, the girl whom he saved for the monster that had killed her parents and would have killed her if it hadn\'t been for him. Damn. She grew up nicely.
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Renny couldn\'t believe her eyes. Alex Devlin was in her yard and.... didn\'t he recognize her? Apparently not, because when his mother informed him of who she was, the expression on his face was nothing less than surpised. Of course she was surpised as well. He was still very good looking. His chisled features all the same since she had last seen him, but his body was different, not that of the teenage boy she remembered, but that of a grown man and might she say it, he was ruggedly handsome.
\"Nice to see you again, Alex,\" she finally managed to say with out gawking. \"It\'s been a really long time.\" It was nice to see him again. It really was.
~M~
Chapter 1
Alex checked his watch for the third time in a half hour. Where was she? He hated waiting for her but he knew that she was in deep cover and it could take her a while to get to him. He was waiting for Amy, an undercover police officer for whom he was her contact. She was 20 minutes late. He glaced around tyring not to look too suspicous, after all Amy could be followed. Who is that? She looks familiar. Very familiar. Her long dark hair was tousled a bit from the wind and she was tanned a golden brown from the summer sun.
\"She\'s beautiful,\" he observed just loud enough so that only the overweight, drunk man next to him could hear.
\"She\'s a beauty alright,\" the man answered, then fell off his chair.
\"Hey Jim call this guy a cab will you,\" Alex said refering to the bartender of the Malibu Club. The man nodded and headed for the phone. Alex turned back to the woman he had been admiring. She was gone. Alex got up, deciding that Amy wouldn\'t show, and went out the door.
What was she doing here? Renny thought to herself as she took a quick survey of the Malibu Club. A storm was coming and she didn\'t want to be in that big empty house alone, so she thought that she would find somewhere with people and noise so that her memories of growing up here in Norfolk, Wisconsin didn\'t drive her mad. She didn\'t want to remember any of what had happened 5 years before. She just wanted to get on with her life. She wanted to got to college and to get married and have children. She didn\'t want to spend her entire life wondering what would happen if that psyco ever found her.
She looked around once more and decided that she knew no one, except...no it couldn\'t be. Alex Devlin? The boy who saved her life? No he was probably gone by now, he had always talked about leaving. Maybe she should go talk to him? After all, that was one reason she had come back, to thank Alex for what he had done. She never did get the chance to thank him, because her grandmother had shipped her off to boarding school to keep her safe, or so she always said, though Renny belived that it was just so she didnt have to deal with her.
She decided against it, figuring that he did leave and she would never see him again. She headed for the door to the ladies room. She would have one soda and leave.
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She woke up to the sounds of the lake. Of course it was summer after all, so there would be those crazy people who would be out at the crack of dawn on their jetskis and skiboats. Renny did never understand why they had always gotten up so early. Wasn\'t there enough day for everyone? She made herself some herbal tea and went outside.
She sat on the dock watching a man on a teal jetski chase a boat\'s wake then do a donut, only to whip himself 20 feet from the watercraft. She giggled to herself, \"Some people can be so stupid.\" She watched him mount the craft and be on his way.
She thought back to last night and how she thought she had seen Alex. The man at the bar was handsome, his sunstreaked hair spike just slightly giving him the i-just-got-out-of-bed look. She remembered how he had seen her and gave her this weird look, like ... he knew her? No, that couldn\'t be it. Alex Devlin was always a charming guy even at 17 as she had known him. He always had a girlfriend. She remembered how she had had a crush on him when her family first moved in next door and when her parents decided to hier him as their gardener, she had been exstatic. He never looked twice at her though, with her having been only 14 and waiting for normal body parts to grow.
\"Hello? You on the dock!\" The voice startled her out of dreamland. It seemed to be coming from behind her. She whipped around to find an elderly woman, maybe about 60, in a soft pink night gown and carring a coffee mug.
\"Hello. Are you my neighbor?\" Renny asked holding her hand up to block the bright morning sun.
\"Yes, I\'m Maria Devlin. I live in the brown cottage next door.\" said the elderly woman. It was Alex\'s mother, Renny thought. She obviouly didn\'t recognize her, although Renny knew that Maria always made the best chocolate chip cookies. She smiled and waved. The woman strided down the dock right up to Renny.
\"Hello, Mrs. Devlin. I\'m Renny Gerda. I actually used to live here about five years ago.\"
\"Oh my Renny?! The girl whose parents were killed? My how are you dear? I haven\'t seen you in about 5 or 6 years.\" she said alittle confused.
\" Yes I just moved back here. I was living in London for a while, but i had the erge to return to Norfolk. I had a craving for a cream puff,\" Reny giggled sofly. The small woman laughed whole-heartedly at the remark, beacuse of course only Norfolk had the best cream puffs and in every flavor imaginable. Renny thought for a moment then remembered the man in the bar last night and she just had to ask,
\"So Mrs. Devlin, how is everyone? How is Alex? Does he still live in town?\"
\"Well,\" she stammered, \"My husband, Bill, god bless him, died about a year ago. A heart attack. I guess it was all the cream puffs. Anyway, as soon as it happened Alex moved back home to take care of me. He bought a small cottage on the other side of the lake. He works for the FBI now.\" She sounded so proud of him, Renny thought. So he does live here. Maybe it was him that she\'d seen at the Malibu Club?
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Alex awoke to the loud sound of his alarm. He hated when he forgot to turn it off fo rhte weekend. It was Saturday and he didn\'t want to be out of bed before 10.
\"Well, since I\'m up, how about a swim and a quick ride on the old jetski before breakfast. What do ya say, Jake?\" he informed his best friend and lowly roommate, even though he was just a little cocker spaniel, but he was Alex\'s buddy and protector, or so he thought. That dog would bark at anything bigger than him and he had a habit of chasing every car that went past the small cottage.
The view was magnificent. Pelican Lake never did look any better than in the morning. The sunlight sparkled of the redish water. It was going to be a perfect day. Alex pulled on this swim trunks and headed out. He would swim the length of the point and back the ride on the jetski, after all there was nothing better than chasing a boat wake at 7 in the morning.
After a long, hot shower, Alex pulled on his normal dress of jeans and a white T-shirt. He was going to visit his mother today, as he did every saturday. He jumped into his Jeep and sped down the winding road. He arrived just in time to witness his mother talking to the new neighbor. She was so excited to hear the there was somone moving in next door. The little brown cottage had been empty for ages, ever since the incident.
He stalked across the bright green lawn seperating the two cottages, heading towards the long wooded dock that, he could tell, needed to be stained, sanded, and water proofed. He gaze drifted to his mother then to the woman she was talking to. Wow, he thought. She was gorgeous. Her dark brown hair flowing in the morning breeze, her small hips leaning to on side with her hand rested firmly on it. His gazed went up to her perfectly toned stomach and oh, her perfect breasts perky form the cool morning breezes. \"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! She is probably married or something, your asking for trouble,\" Alex scolded himself. He did this all the time, and most of the time it got him in a lot of trouble. Realizing that he had stopped in the middle of her yard, he continued his brisk walk toward the morning goddess.
\"Hello mother. And who is this?\" his eyes moving form the very top of her head to the tips of her barefeet.
\"Don\'t you remember her, Alex? This is Renny Gerda. You saved her life a few years ago.\" Now, he remembered. She was the woman from the club and the lanky 14 year old girl who lived next to him five years before, the girl whom he saved for the monster that had killed her parents and would have killed her if it hadn\'t been for him. Damn. She grew up nicely.
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Renny couldn\'t believe her eyes. Alex Devlin was in her yard and.... didn\'t he recognize her? Apparently not, because when his mother informed him of who she was, the expression on his face was nothing less than surpised. Of course she was surpised as well. He was still very good looking. His chisled features all the same since she had last seen him, but his body was different, not that of the teenage boy she remembered, but that of a grown man and might she say it, he was ruggedly handsome.
\"Nice to see you again, Alex,\" she finally managed to say with out gawking. \"It\'s been a really long time.\" It was nice to see him again. It really was.