Prologue

Brian and I had been dating all through high school, we were high school sweet hearts and everyone thought we were the cutest couple. But that was about to change, one day in April of 1994. Brian was in his history class and was called down to the office…

'Oh god!! What did I do now?' Brian thought to himself as he walked out of his history class and down the hall to the office. He looked up and saw his girlfriend Alicia coming out of her class and she hadn't noticed him walking down the hall. He quietly ran down so he was behind her, he wrapped an arm around her waist and covered her mouth with his free hand and she laughed.

I turned around and Brian smiled. "You scared me half to death!!" I said and he kissed me. "Why were you called down to the office?" I asked. "I don't know, that's where I'm going now." Brian said. "Okay, well you'll have to tell me after school." I said and took a drink from the fountain. "Mrs. Tanner will suspect something if I'm gone to long." I said. "Okay, I'll see you after class." Brian said and kissed me one more time and then I ran back to class.

Brian walked in the office nervously and saw the secretary smiling. "Relax, it's just a phone call." She said and Brian laughed slightly as she handed him the phone. "Hello?" Brian said. "Hi Brian!! It's your cousin Kevin from Orlando calling." "Wow! Hi Kev!! How are you?" Brian said. "Great, and you?" "Fine, but why are you calling me in the middle of school?" Brian asked. "Well, to make a long story short, I'm in a band now and we need a fifth member and I wanted to know if you would be that fifth member?!" Kevin asked and Brian was shocked. "Oh wow!! I would love to, but I have to talk to my mom first." "I already talked to her and she said it was alright!" "Oh wow!! Umm…god!!" Brian said. "Come on!! I know you love to sing and this is a great opportunity for you!! I know they'll love you!!" Kevin said. "Sure, why not?" Brian said. "Great!! Your mom said she would help you plan a flight for Orlando to leave in a few days. She said there was someone you would need to spend a few days with before you left." Kevin said and Brian froze. He had completely forgotten about Alicia. "Yeah…I'll talk to ya later." Brian said as the bell rang. "Okay, bye." "Bye." Brian said and walked out of the office and slowly walked to his locker. He opened his locker and immediately saw the picture of him and Alicia his mother had taken at his recent 18th birthday. 'How am I gonna tell her?' Brian thought to himself when he heard someone call his name.

"Yo Brian!! You awake!!" Chris called. Chris was Brian's best friend since they were born. They had grown up together and were best friends. "Yeah, I'm awake." Brian said. "So what did you do?" Chris asked jokingly. "I just got call from Kevin." Brian said. "Really? How's he doing?" "Fine, he just asked me to come down to Orlando to join a band that he's in and is currently forming." Brian said and saw Chris' eyes widen. "Wow!! Are you going?" "Yeah, but I never thought about Alicia when I said yes." Brian said and saw her walking down the hall with her friend Melanie, who just happened to be Chris' girlfriend. "Oh shit!! How are you going to tell her?" Chris asked. "I don't know. Let's not talk about it, she's coming." Brian said and put his history books in his locker.

"Hey you!" I said as I wrapped my arms around Brian and he smiled slightly. "What did you do bad boy?" I asked and Melanie laughed, who was hugging Chris. "Nothing they just needed to talk to me about my heart condition. They wanted to know the latest details." Brian lied. "Okay, so do you want to got to the mall or something?" I asked and Brian shut his locker. "Actually, I have to go home and talk to my mom about something, how about we hang out later tonight?" Brian asked. "Okay, sure. Where do you want to go?" "How about we just take a walk along the beach?" Brian asked. "Okay, that's fine. Around 7?" "Great, I'll see you then." Brian said and kissed me and then left with Chris to go home.

"What's up with him?" Melanie asked. "He always wants to hang out with you after school." Melanie said. "I know, I don't know what's wrong. He seemed really tense when I hugged him." "Maybe he's just tired or something, I mean he's been having tests done on him all week." Melanie said. "I don't know…I have a feeling something's going on. And I have a feeling it's bad." I said and Melanie just looked at me.