Post by Kourtney on Feb 10, 2010 13:17:45 GMT -5
Hey All,
Ok So I started a story on the other forum and finished it. I have been asked to continue with my story, I am in the process of still writing it but to refresh your memory or for those of you who never read it Enjoy!
“Bye Mom, Bye Dad” Said Kourtney as she hugged her Mom and her Dad goodbye.
Spring Break was now over and now it was time to head back to school. You see Kourtney was an almost 19 year old freshman at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia. It was her second semester in college and she loved every minute of it! She also loved to come home and visit her family whenever she could, which brings us to her saying goodbye.
Once she was done saying goodbye to her Mom, and Dad she then said “Goodbye” to her little brother, who at times she could not stand. But over break Craig (her bro) and her didn’t fight once (which is not normal for them) but not fighting seemed to have brought them closer together. Once saying goodbye to her brother she patted her dog on the head and picked up her purse and headed out the door, and jumped into her car.
Kourtney turned on her car and turned up the music, and found her favorite radio station….Q101, and a song she didn’t know was playing so she slowly backed out of the driveway and hit the road, and this time for some reason she decided to take all the back roads, it was a beautiful day out!
After driving for about 30 minutes she saw a car parked along the side of the road up ahead, it was a red rental car, and she could only tell because the license plate said “RENTLE37” Kourtney thought about stopping and then disregarded it. There were 3 guys standing outside of the car, one holding a map, he had short brown hair and was taller then the other two, then next she saw a short kid, he was yelling at the one holding the map. As she was passing them, she saw the other guy; he was blonde and looked just like the surfers you see from California. He was the cuter one out of the three. She continued down the road. She couldn’t stop thinking about the blonde one, she kept thinking they're lost what if they are from out of state and have no idea where they are going. So in a split second she had the car turned around and found herself heading back towards them…..
…Once she was turned around and heading back towards the guys she couldn’t help but to think what she was going to say to them first. But once she had pulled up in front of them, she turned off her car. None of them realized that she was there they were all now behind the map. She then hopped out of her car and walked over to them….
“Do you guys need any help?”
The littler one looked out from behind the map first.
“I think we may be lost thanks to Paul here!” as he jabbed his finger towards the one in the middle.
“It’s not my fault; the turn should only be about a mile away, Its Keith’s fault for not finding the turn.” Accusing the Blonde One
“Hey, I am just driving, you’re the navigator Paul, but I am thinking about letting Damian here navigate he seems to know what he’s doing!”
Kourtney made a note of it. Paul was the good looking brown headed tall one! Damian was the little guy, and the blonde surfer was Keith. She also noticed that they all spoke with an Irish accent, but for now she disregarded it.
Kourtney giggling to herself asked “Where are ya’ll headed?”
“We are trying to meet up with the rest of our friends at the Drowsy Poet in Lynchburg” Paul told her.
“That’s right by my school; I am actually headed there right now. Umm… you guys can follow me if you would like!”
“That would be FANTASTIC!” Keith said. “Now I don’t have to worry about getting lost anymore we are running so far behind in the first place!”
“Sounds good to me!”
Kourtney got back into her car and Paul, Damian and Keith got back into theirs. Kourtney couldn’t believe what had just happened, she had to keep checking her rearview mirror to make sure this whole thing wasn’t a dream….were there really 3 Irish good looking males following her?
She then picked up her phone and called her friend Tara from school.
“Tara are you back at school yet?!” she asked urgently.
“Yeah, why do you ask?
“Because I have 3 very good looking guys following me back to school! And not to mention they are all Irish!”
“What are you talking about how did you manage that?!”
Kourtney then explained what had happened.
“I have to go were almost there…meet me there! We are headed to the Drowsy Poet!”
“Ok I’ll be there!”
Kourtney drove for about 15 more minutes, checking every other minute to make sure they were still behind her, sometimes her and Keith would make eye contact and he would wave at her. She would smile and then blush trying to hide her face so that he couldn’t see her.
Once they had made it to the Drowsy Poet they all got out of their cars. Kourtney headed over to their car.
“Thank you so much…uh….I’m afraid I never caught your name.” Paul said
“Kourtney, my name is Kourtney”
“Well thank you very much, Kourtney.” He shook her hand “I’m Paul, this is Damian and Keith”
“Nice to meet you and thanks Kourtney” Damian said shaking her hand.
“Yeah you really saved us back there! We would probably still be there if it wouldn’t have been for you!” Keith said smiling.
Right then 2 other guys came walking over to the group, Damian waved at them.
“Hey George, Hey Ryan!”
“What took you guys so long?” said the one who looked like the fatherly figure.
“Paul got us lost” Damian said
“No I didn’t it was Keith’s fault he was the one driving” Paul said defensively.
“I did not you were the one navigating! If it weren’t for Kourtney we would still be lost!" Keith replied
“Who?” Asked the dark haired mysterious guy.
“Oh George, Ryan this is Kourtney, she saved us!” introduced Keith
“Hi, I am George” said the fatherly fellow hugging Kourtney.
“I’m Ryan; it’s nice to meet you!” said the dark haired one.
Kourtney was in heaven she couldn’t believe that she was surrounded by 5 amazing men. They were all so nice…however did she get this lucky?
Right about then her friend Tara pulled up.
“Hey Tara!” greeted Kourtney “I want you to meet my friends. This is George, Ryan, Damian, Paul and Keith.”
“Nice to meet you all!" replied Tara
“Same to you Tara” said Paul grabbing Tara’s hand and lightly kissing the top of it.
Then a lady with blonde hair came out and told the guys that they had to go in for rehearsal now…Ryan, George and Damian followed her back inside. Paul stayed and said “Goodbye” to Tara.
Keith and Kourtney were now the only ones left standing there. Keith decided to speak first.
“Thank you so much again for 'saving' us” he laughed
“No problem at all!”
“So you should come and watch us perform on Tuesday!”
For some reason Kourtney knew she had to do something on Tuesday…..but what was it?
…As Kourtney stood there thinking about what it was that she had to do on Tuesday, Keith just stared at her, hoping that she would say yes to coming and seeing them perform. He though that she was very intriguing and there was just something different about her. Something that he just could not put his finger on just yet.
Then Kourtney asked…”What is the date of Tuesday?”
“It’s the 17th of March…why?”
Kourtney felt really stupid and didn’t want to admit to Keith that she has forgotten her own Birthday!
“Oh this is embarrassing!” she said
“What is?”
“I forgot my own birthday….my birthday is on Tuesday.” She admitted slapping her hand to her forehead
Keith couldn’t help but laugh. “Well then that gives you an even better reason to go out on your birthday especially since its St. Patrick’s Day. You need to celebrate it the right way, by coming and watching 5 Irishmen, well I mean 4 Irishmen and 1 Scot but that’s another story for later, but we will be singing Irish songs! It’s perfect! Come on please come” he begged.
Kourtney grinning from ear to ear thought about it. Ok what are the pros and cons about this?, she asked herself. Pro # 1 I'll be able to see Keith again and of course the rest of the guys. Pro # 2 maybe afterward Keith and I could hang out together. Pro #3 I love Irish music! Ok now what are the Cons? Con #1 It’s my birthday and I will have to cancel on my friends, but there is a solution, I can have them all come with me. She liked that idea Con #2 if I don’t go I may never see them again, and I definitely don’t want that!
“Ok I'll go!” She said
“SAWEET” Keith said very enthusiastically
Kourtney Smiled. “Well, I guess I will see you Tuesday then!”
“Tuesday it is!” Keith smiled back. “It starts at 6:30 and I think you know where we are performing, and if you don’t I might be a little worried!” Keith then hesitated. Kourtney could tell that he wanted to say more but she just stayed silent looking at Keith. Keith staring back into Kourtney’s sea blue eyes he finally spit it out. “You should come early!....I mean only if you want to of course!” he added.
“Ill do my best” Kourtney said “After all it is my birthday so I might be busy before hand if I don’t come early would you want to hang out afterward?” she asked and then looked at the ground.
“Of course” Keith said immediately, making Kourtney look up at him and smile.
“Well then I WILL see you on Tuesday then” Kourtney said
“Goodbye for now, Kourtney, enjoy the rest of your night! Thanks again for everything!”
“You're welcome” Kourtney said turning to head to her car.
“Kourtney” Keith said quickly
Turning around Kourtney looked at him “Yes?”
“Happy Birthday! I want to be the first to say it to you!” He said with a big grin on his face.
Blushing Kourtney replied in a simple “Thanks” and got into her car and drove off.
It took her 5 minutes to get to the school; she then grabbed her suitcase and headed into her dorm. She laid her bags in her room and ran straight to Tara’s room!
*Knocking on the door*
“TARA! YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!” she shouted “TARA, CAN I COME IN?”
Laughing Tara opened the door. “Geez Kourt you ok?”
“I think I am dreaming or something! All of this cant be happening t..t...to...to…TO ME!!” She cried out in utter disbelief. Sitting herself on Tara’s bed, she told Tara what had happened after she had left!
“Wow Kourt that’s awesome! He was very good looking…..well they all were *thinking of Paul* especially that Paul guy, he said that he wants me to come to the show too!”
“You have to come with me” Kourtney suggested
“Ok I will. Maybe Paul and I can hang out after when you and Keith hang out!” she said smiling.
Tara and Kourtney continued to talk for a while before Kourtney departed and went back to her room where she unpacked and talked to her roommates about her wonderful day and her lovely new friends, smiling the whole time!
All of this happened on Sunday, it was now Monday and classes were back in full swing. Kourtney had 2 classes on Monday. One of the classes was a 3 hour class. Right after her and Tara grabbed some lunch down at the “Rot” (The cafeteria) they headed back to their dorm and parted into their own separate rooms. Kourtney got on her laptop to check her mail, and facebook. Well this time she decided to check her myspace, which only happens once in a blue moon. She saw that she had 5 new friend requests, a message, and some comments. She first checked her comments. It was from one of her friends back home saying that she missed Kourtney deeply and couldn’t wait for her to come home for the summer. Then she looked at her friend requests, and saw that all of her friends from Sunday, the 5 guys she met asked her to be her friend. Of course she accepted them all! Then she went to check her messages. She had one message in her inbox and it was from Keith. She couldn’t believe her eyes. She hesitated to open it but then quickly clicked on it. She started reading.
“Hey Kourtney, How are you doing? Me and the lads are in town till Wednesday and I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out with us tonight! Maybe show us around campus and around Lynchburg? We would like that a lot! Well here is my cell, 3849-38273 (not his real number so don’t go calling it! ) call me and let me know if you are interested in coming! Talk to ya soon.
K”
She read the message over and over again not believing that it was true, THEY wanted HER to be their tour guide!?
So she picked up her phone and dialed the number. The phone rang and rang and rang some more…then came the voicemail… “’ello this is Keith’s phone leave me a message if you are a friend or family, if you are one of my fans then please hang up now, because I WONT return your call…thanks…bye”
Kourtney left her message.
“Hey Keith, its Kourtney, I hope you consider me one of your friends!” she giggled “I’m just calling you to see if you still want me to be your tour guide! I would love to be your guide, but the only problem is, is that I don’t get out of class till 7. Let me know if you guys still want me! Ill talk to you later!”
She hung up and then climbed up into her bed and just laid there thinking about Keith and taking the guys on tour…she really didn’t know what she was going to show them. But then after about contemplating on what to do, he phone started to ring, she checked the caller id. It was Keith she quickly answered it!
“Hello?”
“Hey Kourtney, How are you doing?”
“I’m doing well thanks, how about you?”
“Doing well, but I cant talk long were on a break at rehearsal so I thought that I would call you back and let you know that we will see you at 7! Where do you want to meet?”
“Well how about the Drowsy Poet since you all know where that is! I don’t want you guys getting lost without me!” she smiled
Keith laughed “Ok well I guess we shall see you at 7 then. I have to go now but talk to you later! Bye Kourtney”
“Bye Keith” she said blushing.
She put her phone down and got down from her bed and decided to figure out what it was that she was going to wear that night. She decided to go with a nice blouse and jeans. She then realized that she needed to start heading to class. So she walked to class thinking about what an amazing night she was going to have. While sitting in class it seemed that 7 would never come, Kourtney did everything not to think about the time, but she couldn’t help it! Finally 7 came and she gathered her books and ran out of the class, to her car and she drove to their meeting spot. Once she got there she recognized Paul sitting outside on the curb, right next to a very fancy looking limo, he was on the phone but he spotted her and waved her to come to him. As Kourtney walked over she heard the end of the conversation.
“Ok Mom… Ill be safe… Yes I am having a great time, its beautiful here!...mmmhmmm…mmhmm…. Well mom now I have to go the guys are ready to go now so ill talk to you later! Love you Mom,”
“Hey Kourtney” He grabbed her and hugged her. “The others are inside getting ready to leave, I don’t know why it takes them so long, all you have to do is put product in and you’re ready to head out the door!”
Kourtney laughed “So is this your limo?” she asked
“Sure is, what do you think we are going on a tour of course we have to have a limo, actually we really don’t but Damian was begging us, so we decided to go for it.” He said smiling,
About then Ryan, George, and Damian all walked out and saw her all saying “Hellos”
“Where’s Keith?” Kourtney asked
“He’s still blow drying his hair, he said he would be out in a minute. He’s been in his bathroom for over an hour getting ready; he always takes forever when he is trying to impress someone!” said Ryan
“Hey, I heard that!!!” Keith said “Hey Kourtney!” He hugged her. “I’m glad that you decided to come with us! This should be a lot of fun guaranteed”
Then they all got into the limo and headed out into the city known as Lynchburg.
Once in the limo, Kourtney was trying to figure out what in the world they were going to do. She had no idea where to take them first. But then Keith asked if they could be shown around LU (Liberty University) so that’s what they did.
*Kourtney pointing out the window with all of the guys heads hanging out too*
“That there is Demoss, where they have a lot of classrooms, and on the 3rd floor which is new this year they have a study area, 2nd floor is a computer lab with a Coffee shop. Then on the first floor it’s mostly classrooms and such. On the back side though they have 2 buildings, one is the Science and Math section, the other is for arts, like Theatre, Music, and Musical Theatre” She said with a grin.
“Do you guys have a nice stage?” Asked Ryan
“Its ok, it’s kind of small, but I hear that they are trying to raise money to build a new one! I am so happy for that! Ill be making history on a new stage!”
“Wait, do you sing?” Paul asked
“Oh no no no, if you heard me sing you would shoot yourselves” she said laughing,“I act!”
“Cool” said Damian
“Yeah, I love it!” Kourtney replied “but now back to the tour up here is the circle and look there is my dorm now, and there is my future dorm!” She pointed them out. “But that’s Liberty for you. Now where to?” she asked hoping someone else would think of something to do. Then Damian’s stomach growled really loudly and everyone busted out laughing.
“Well, I guess we need to get this wee one something to eat before his parents claim that we never feed him!” said Paul jokingly and everyone laughed at that.
After the laughing calmed down a bit, Kourtney asked “Where would you all like to eat? We have Buffalo Wild Wings, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday’s, Olive Garden, Applebee’s and that’s all I can think of right now, what sounds good?” and all at once….
“Outback” said George and Damian
“Buffalo Wild Wings” said Paul and Ryan
“Olive Garden” said Keith
Everyone laughed at each other and then they all looked at Kourtney as if she was supposed to be the tie-ish breaker.
“OH NO YOU DON’T! I am NOT going to decide where we are eating you guys have to fight this out amongst yourselves!” she laughed
“Well how about you come with me?” Said Keith “It seems that everyone else wants to go somewhere else and well I’m all alone and you are indecisive! So come with me and keep me company.”
Kourtney melted on the spot, he said it so genuinely that she couldn’t help but think she was in a dream or think that he was just playing a joke. But then she gave her answer.
“Well, as long as you don’t mind! I don’t want to intrude on anyone”
“Oh, your not intruding I promise, besides I would love the company!” He said
“Well…..ok…if you insist.”
She was so excited and nervous that she didn’t know what to do with herself she just sat there fidgeting. First they dropped off Paul and Ryan at BWW, and then George and Damian at Outback. So now if was just her and Keith… in the Limo… alone…well besides the driver. There was not a word that was said in the limo till they got to the restaurant. Keith got out of the limo first and then put his hand out to help Kourtney out….on her way out her shoe caught on the lip of the curb and she almost fell, but since her hand was still in Keith’s he caught her and pulled her back up while saying….
“No you don’t” he said smiling
Kourtney just blushed and got herself together and whispered a quick “thanks” Keith then shut the limo door and putting his arm out for Kourtney to link arms with him and said….
“Shall we?”
Kourtney quickly put her arm thru as they walked into Olive Garden. It wasn’t crowded at all so they were seated quickly.
“So what’s good here?” Kourtney asked “I have only been here once before, and that was with my friend Tara.”
“Well I really like their Lasagna and their Five Cheese Ziti” He replied
“Hmm….well Lasagna is my favorite thing to eat…but I think I might try the Ziti”
“Well that makes two of us then!” He smiled “So you said earlier that you were an actress…have you been in any of the LU productions yet?” He asked.
“Well....not yet. I haven’t had the guts to try out, the people there are just so intimidating and I really don’t think that the head of the department likes me that much. She has her favorite which really sucks. She always puts the same person in all of her shows and as the lead too. But hopefully one day I will be up there acting away!” She smiled “But enough about me tell me about Ireland I have always wanted to go there.”
“Well….you see….” And as Keith started to talk about Ireland the food came and he just kept talking about Ireland and Kourtney didn’t interrupt once, she was so enthralled with him talking about his hometown and surfing and all of his friends back home. He talked all the way through dinner. Then his phone rang.
“Hello? Oh hey Paul… (PAUSE) yeah dinner was great. Are you guys done? (PAUSE) Ok sounds good to me we will get the check now and meet you guys there! (PAUSE) Oh no we can walk!” He said looking quickly at Kourtney who didn’t seem to notice. “Coolios we will see you soon. Bye” He shut his phone and right about then the waitress walked up and asked….
“Are the checks going to be together or separate?”
At the same time…”Together” Said Keith “Separate” said Kourtney
The waitress kind of looked at them funny and then looked at Keith.
“Please put them together”
“Ok, well here you go; ya’ll have a great night!”
“Thanks” He said
“Keith, you don’t have to do this let me at least pay for mine!”
“No, I have it! I insist. Happy Early Birthday Kourtney.”
“Thank you” She blushed and looked down but decided to say “I have tip!” She smiled at this “Great” idea of hers.
He laughed “Ok fine you can do tip”
“Thanks” she said
“You ready to get out of here the guys are over at Starbucks getting some coffee. We need to meet them over there, is it ok if we walk?”
“Oh yeah sure that’s fine.”
“Good” He stuck his arm out again and she quickly put hers in his and they walked to Starbucks. After everyone got done getting their coffees they all decided to sit down and talk for a while, but a while was only about 30 minutes before they all started to yawn. So they decided to leave, they got back into the limo and headed back to LU where they could drop Kourtney off. Once they were right outside of her dorm, she quickly hugged all of the guys except Keith who had gotten out holding the door for her, and helping her out like a true gentlemen.
“Night guys, I hope you had fun this evening and I will see you all tomorrow!”
“Night Kourtney” Came a chorus from all of the guys.
Keith once again held his hand out for Kourtney to take and she took it and climbed out of the limo.
“Thanks again Keith! Dinner was really nice” She hugged him for what seemed to have been forever, and she really didn’t want to let go either. But she did and pulled away from him and just looked at him in the eyes.
“You are quite welcome Kourtney! Thanks for coming with me. I had a lot of fun. But I guess I will see you tomorrow evening then?”
“Of course, I can’t wait!” She grinned. “Ill see you then, goodnight Keith”
“Goodnight Kourtney.”
Kourtney then turned and walked up the sidewalk leading to her dorm and when she got to the door she turned around to see Keith waiting outside the limo. She waved at him and then unlocked the door and he got back in the limo and the guys drove off. While Kourtney told her Roommates and Tara about her wonderful evening with the guys.
After talking with her roommates till 11:45 she decided to go and see Tara and tell her about her wonderful evening! So she did. Tara was really jealous that Kourtney got to hang out with the guys and didn’t bring her along! But soon forgave Kourtney because now it was 12:01 am….
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOURTNEY” Screamed Tara Luckily her roomies weren’t there at the time.
“Thanks” Said Kourtney! “Oh I need to go back to my room; my Roomies are probably going to do something! At least that’s what they told me!”
So Kourtney and Tara went back to Kourtney’s room and sure enough when she opened the door both her Roommates were there standing with Confetti poppers, the next thing Kourtney knew she was seeing colorful strands of paper flying around her. Kourtney laughed
Sarah and Nia yelled “Happy Birthday Roomie!” and they both hugged her.
“Thanks you guys! I love it!” Then Kourtney yawned “Oh man, I think I am going to head to bed, I have a long day ahead of me!” She said as she thought about the concert and getting to see Keith later that evening! She was so excited. She climbed into her bed and fell asleep right away.
The next morning Kourtney woke up bright and early. She had her two Theatre classes to sit thru today and she really wasn’t feeling it. But knew that her new Theatre friends were looking forward to it! Especially since it was St. Patrick’s Day! Everyone likes to dress up today! So as Kourtney got ready for her classes she decided to play some music (Her Roommates were both gone) She was singing along when she heard a knock on her window, and as she went to her window and pulled up the blinds she realized that no one was there. Then she looked down at the window sill and saw that there was a card and a red rose lying there. She opened her window to grab them both. She looked out her window to see if there was anyone she knew, but didn’t see a single person. So she shut her window and put the blinds down. First she smelled the rose and it smelled magnificent, (Red Roses are her favorite flower) she then started to think about who could have given her this rose and card…so she slowly opened the card….and it read….
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOURTNEY! I hope you are having a good Birthday so far. I know you have a busy day ahead of you. I can’t wait to see you tonight! *Kourtney thought to herself “Could this be from one of her friends that is going to dinner with her tonight?” she read on* I hope that you will join me after the concert…*”CONCERT!!?? She had it all figured out now! She continued* ….for a lovely evening out on the town? If so then dress to match me, Ill be wearing a light blue. I can’t wait!
Your Friend,
Keith.”
“AHHHHHHHHHH” Kourtney screamed out loud. She was so excited…but what on earth was she going to wear…That didn’t matter right now…if she didn’t leave now she was going to be late to class. On her way to class Kourtney texted her 2 roommates and asked them if they would help her get ready for the evening. They soon texted her back and told her that they would.
*Phew* Kourtney thought to herself. “That’s one thing I can take off of my mind.”
For you see Sarah her roommate was a fashion freak! She knew everything there is to know about the latest fashion. Nia well she knew how to do hair really well! Kourtney couldn’t wait to start getting ready.
Kourtney finally got to class and all her friends were there to greet her. Her first class flew by quickly, Kourtney Day dreamed about that evening all through class and didn’t remember a thing about the discussion. “Oh well” She thought “It is my birthday!” She smiled. Time for her next class and it went by slowly, no, it went by slower then slow. It was dreadful. But to Kourtney’s surprise her professor let her class out early. She was so grateful. Then she hurried back to her dorm to meet up with her roommates and get ready for the night that was ahead of her!
When Kourtney finally got back to her dorm she opened her door to see 3 people standing in her room waiting for….well…her. It was her 2 roommates, Sarah and Nia, and then Sarah’s friend who is also really good with hair and Make-up. Sarah had told her the story and she decided to come and help out.
“Ok Kourtney first things first what are you going to wear?” Sarah asked.
“Well Keith wants me to match him, and he is wearing a light blue he said.”
Immediately Sarah went to Kourtney’s closet to try and find something for her to wear. The Nia told Kourtney to take a seat so that her and Shara (Sarah’s Friend) could start working on her hair. They decided to do a nice classy hairdo, that wasn’t to extravagant but nice looking. Sarah had pulled a few blue outfits out of Kourtney’s closet, she had a black skirt and a light blue top and a white tank top. The second outfit was a sundress that was white with light blue flowers all over it. She also had a few others but they just didn’t work out. So it was down to the blouse and skirt, or the sundress…meanwhile Nia and Shara were curling Kourtney’s hair so that they could decide what they were going to do with it from there.
“Kourtney what time is the reservation at Doc’s Diner?” Asked Sarah
“They are at 4. Why?”
“Well I hate to put a damper on things but we have 30 minutes”
That’s when things got crazy. Sarah started working on Kourtney’s make-up. While Shara and Nia finished her hair.
They all finished with 15 minutes to go. Kourtney’s hair was done in an elegant side-do they had pulled all of her hair to the right side and had it pinned in the back to hold it all there, and the ends were curled. They also had her bangs pinned up on the left side with a white flower. Her make-up was simple but her eyes stood out more then anything. All the girls said that Kourtney should go with the sundress and so she did. Kourtney put it on and put on her nice dress up flip-flops (Kourtney wouldn’t dare go out for a night on the town in heels,that just had disaster written all over it! You see Kourtney is a klutz, a huge one!) Once Kourtney was ready to go she met up with Tara, who was dressed in a skirt and a green blouse to match it. Her Roommates said that they would see Kourtney at the show later that evening. Tara and Kourtney got into Tara’s car (Kourtney realized to late that her car was still parked at the Drowsy Poet from her evening before) and they headed to Doc’s to meet up with some of Kourtney’s friends. Dinner was lovely, and everyone had a fantastic time. The waiters even sang “Happy Birthday” which really embarrassed her, but she sat through it anyways. By that time it was about 6 and Kourtney decided that it was about time to go so that they all could get good seats for the performance. All of her friends that were at dinner decided that they really weren’t up for a show and decided to go their own ways so it was just Tara and Kourtney again. They hopped in her car and headed over to the Drowsy Poet. Once there Tara parked beside Kourtney’s car and they walked in, there were only 7 other people in there and so quickly they grabbed their 2nd row seats. About 15 minutes later it was packed full. But Kourtney didn’t care she was 2nd row right and center! She was getting really nervous but really excited too. She couldn’t wait to see her friends perform. Then a lady came out on stage to introduce them, this lady Kourtney recognized to be the lady that she had seen 2 days before. Her name was Sharon Browne, and she introduced a guy named Phil Coulter who was her “Right-hand-man” Once she was done with the introduction Thunder Rolled and a dark voice came billowing out through speakers. Fog came pouring out from backstage and 4 monks came walking across the stage. Kourtney thought to herself, I thought that there were 5 guys. Then she immediately thought of Keith, and anything and everything that could go wrong, “Oh no what if he got hurt! What if he got food poisoning from dinner last night?” Tara must have seen the look on her friends face because she leaned over and asked….
“What’s wrong Kourt?”
“There are only 4 guys walking across the stage, there are 5 guys in the group, What if something happened to one of them?!” She said freaking out
Tara started to laugh “Relax Kourt, those aren’t the guys those are just guys dressed in cloaks.” And right then 5 other guys walked on 2 each on the right and left and one right in the middle. Then the music started, and Kourtney’s worries left her immediately, there stood Keith in the center of the stage. Singing his heart out.
“IT CANT BE OVER” Kourtney thought! “MORE, MORE, MORE!” she demanded!
Then Sharon and Phil came back out on stage.
“Thank you all for coming out tonight! I hope that you enjoyed the show, but I have heard from a little birdie” She glanced over at Keith. “That it is someone’s birthday today.” Kourtney gasped she was definitely not expecting this. “So the guys would like to sing Happy Birthday to her. Kourtney would you please stand up?” Kourtney hesitated to stand up but then Paul jumped off the stage and pulled her up on stage. She was placed right in center and the lads plus Sharon and Phil all gathered around her. Kourtney was a scarlet red by this point. Then they started to sing that all so familiar tune.
“Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Kourtney
Happy Birthday to you!”
It was beautiful, they all blended so well together.
Then Kourtney was surrounded by all of them in a group hug. She just laughed and kept saying thank you over and over again. They broke up and Sharon took the mike.
“Thanks again everyone! If anyone wants to meet the guys you can. They will be on the stage, and the way we are going to do this is we will start from the front and go to the back. Kourtney was already up on stage so she started but Tara was soon right behind her. First they came to Damian.
“Great job Damian! You did amazing! You’re a real heartthrob you know!?” Kourtney said hugging him.
“Thanks Kourtney! Happy Birthday, hope you have a great evening!”
“Thanks, see you later”
Then she greeted George. “You did wonderful! I cried when you sang “My Boy” it was beautiful!” George then grabbed her and gave her a big bear hug.
“Thank you! Happy Birthday Kourtney”
“Thanks George”
Next was Ryan. “Amazing performance Ryan! I wish I could pull of some of those expressions you did tonight! You’ll have to tell me your secret!” She winked at him.
They hugged.
“Thanks Kourtney, yeah I’ll show you one day. Happy Birthday!”
“Thanks Ryan.”
She moved to Paul.
“I didn’t know some of the notes you hit were possible to be hit!” She smiled! “You truly have an amazing gift Paul!” She hugged him.
“Thanks Kourtney, but I feel that there is something else I was supposed to tell you, I just cant think of what it was…..Oh yeah….Happy Birthday.” He smiled “You and Keith better behave yourselves tonight, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!”
Kourtney laughed “Ok Paul” Then Tara who was anxious to talk to Paul slightly pushed her out of the way. Kourtney being Kourtney, tripped on her flip flop and almost fell, but luckily Keith was there to catch her.
“No you don’t” He said
She blushed “Thanks.”
He was smiling that smile that just made her melt. They embraced, in her ear he said “You look beautiful! Happy Birthday sweetie!”
She pulled back but not far enough to where she wasn’t still in his arms.
“Hey, I’m the one giving the compliments here!” She smiled “You did FANTASTIC! You were absolutely brilliant tonight!! Thank you too for the Birthday song it was beautiful!”
“Anything for you!” He Smiled. Sharon then coughed over at the side and Kourtney knew it was time for her to move on. “Meet me at Starbucks, and then from there we will go out! You will also want to change into something suitable for walking!” He winked at her.
“Sounds go to me see you soon!” She hugged him again and then she left and went to her car. She waited for Tara to finish. When Tara got to the car she was smiling.
“Guess what?!’ Tara said
“What?”
“Paul and I are going on our own little adventure tonight!” She was smiling from ear to ear.
“That’s so exciting Tara! Have any idea what you guys will be doing?”
“Oh you know, probably scaling Demoss (LU School building) Painting peoples cars, you know that kind of stuff!” She and Kourtney laughed at this. “But I do have something to give you though!”
Kourtney looked at her friend like she was crazy. “What?” she asked
Tara then thrusted a pair of jeans and one of Kourtney’s favorite tops, and a pair of Old Navy flip flops. “Now I know that you need to go and meet someone at Starbucks so you better hurry up!” Kourtney got really confused
She gasped “DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING TONIGHT?!?!?”
Tara just smiled and got into her car and locked the doors and slowly pulled out of the parking lot, leaving Kourtney standing there stunned, she then realized that she needed to go and get dressed. So she hopped into her car and went to Starbucks. She went into the bathroom real quick and changed. She also re-applied her make-up and fixed her hair. When she came out of the bathroom, Keith was walking in. He was looking around the place and completely didn’t realize that she was standing there, he did a double take, and then smiled at her. She calmly walked up to him, and hugged him!
“How about a Coffee?” He asked “What would you like?”
“Hmm…a Caramel Macchiato please.”
“Sure”
“If you don’t mind I am going to run my dress out to my car real quick!”
“Go right ahead, you know where I will be”
Kourtney was so excited she couldn’t believe that she was actually hanging out with him. She ran out to her car and threw her dress in and ran back in. Keith was still in line, so Kourtney decided to grab a table over in the corner. Once Keith was done getting the drinks he came and sat with her.
“Thank you…..so…what are we doing tonight?!” she asked
“Well that’s for me to know and you to slowly find out!” He smiled and winked at her.
They started to talk for a little while, then Keith looked at his watch and said
“We need to get out of here or we are going to miss it!”
“Miss what?” Kourtney asked
“You’ll see.” He helped Kourtney up and they walked outside. Keith ran and opened the passenger side door of her car (since his was back at home) She got in and put her seat belt on. Keith got in and turned the car on and pulled out of the parking lot. They started to drive towards the mountains and started to take some of the back roads up to Liberty Mountain where the Monogram (a big “LU” on the side of the mountain! Not kidding we really do have one! Haha)
“Are we going to the monogram?” Kourtney asked
Keith just smiled and nodded! “Were going to watch the sun set”
He then pulled the car into a small parking lot and got out, he opened Kourtney’s door and then grabbed a backpack and picnic basket from the trunk.
“And how might this have gotten into my trunk?” Kourtney asked
“With a little help from my friends! Well and yours too!”
“I knew Tara didn’t need my keys to get back into the dorm later!” she commented and then laughed. Keith then laughed with her.
He shut the trunk and put his arm out for Kourtney to take.
“Shall we?” He asked
“We shall” she said as she took his arm and they started to walk.
The walk was only about 5 minutes and most of it was spent in silence. Kourtney was nervous and Keith well he was enjoying the scenery. Once they got to the top of the mountain Keith grabbed a blanket out of the back pack. They sat down and started to talk.
“So did you enjoy the show?” He asked
“Oh yes! How could you not?! It was fantastic!”
“Good, I’m glad. What was your favorite part?!”
“Oh man, I honestly couldn’t answer that question it was all amazing!”
He laughed “Well what was your favorite song that George sang?”
“I’m going to go with “My Boy” I cried he just does an amazing job with putting emotion behind it!”
“Yeah, he’s always been good with that! What about Damian?”
“Hands down, “Young Love” I loved how you guys picked on him. I was laughing so hard.”
“Yeah that song is a lot of fun to do. I wish I could do the whole song with the guys but I have to go and change into my next costume.”
“Yeah I feel ya! I hate costume changes.”
“Oh I bet you know all about them too!” He chuckled “So what about Ryan?”
““Heartbreaker” I love all the faces that he makes! He just does such a good job at it! He said that he would tell me all of his secrets!” She laughed
“That will be interesting! Can I come?”
“Sure why not?!” She smiled
“What about Paul?”
“Hmm….I would have to say “She” but I really liked when him and Ryan did “That’s a Woman” It was so well done.”
“Yeah, I think that’s almost everyone’s favorite. Well what about me?”
Sarcastically “Oh, I didn’t like any of yours!” She laughed. “Oh, I don’t know all of yours were really great. But I think “I Want To Know What Love Is” was my favorite but it just barely beat “The Island” Which I also cried in as well!” She blushed.
“Yeah, that one is an emotional one. I find hard to sing sometimes but I love the song so much!” He smiled. “Come on”
He quickly got up and helped Kourtney up to.
“Where are we going?” she asked
“No where, I just wanted to dance.”
“But we don’t have any music”
He just smiled and started to hum. He grabbed Kourtney’s waist and pulled her in. She wrapped her arms around his neck. They started to sway to a familiar tune. Then he started to sing. Slowing down the song so it made it more romantic.
“So see the leaves fall to the ground
And see them lying all around
'cause still I can't see you
And there's a wind that plays in the air
Flying around how it does not care
Still I can't see you”
Kourtney remembered this song from the show….she remembered he was singing about some girl named Lauren. She was jealous of this Lauren girl and didn’t know why he would be singing this song to her. But she laid her head on his shoulder and just listened.
”And the seasons pass away
And I still sit here lonely
Each and every day
Wondering what's gone wrong
'cause I don't remember
Seasons lasting oh so long
Oh so long
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
Kourtney and I, Kourtney and I ……”
Kourtney thought to herself “WHAT DID HE JUST SING!? WAS THAT MY NAME?” She kept her head on his chest so that she could continue listening to the rest of the song. Then it came to the end…
”But still I can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I!”
“HE CHANGED THE LYRICS!!! AHHHHH” Kourtney was screaming in her head. She then looked up at him, and he looked at her.
“That was beautiful!” Kourtney said.
“So are you!” He said with a smile
Kourtney felt like she could pass out! She blushed and looked down. “Why was it so different when he said it?! Many of my guy friends tell me that I am beautiful, what makes him different?”
Then Keith interrupted her thoughts and started to sing another song. Kourtney grinned he was singing her favorite song. She laid her head back on his chest as the swayed back and forth.
“Gonna take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when Im older
Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder”
Kourtney then looked at him while he was singing the rest of the song. She couldn’t believe how lucky she was!
”In my life theres been heartache and pain
I dont know if I can face it again
Cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Im gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
Ive got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life theres been heartache and pain
I dont know if I can face it again
I cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Wanna feel what love is…”
Once he was done singing she hugged him! “Thank you so much Keith this is a fantastic night!”
“Im glad! Have any requests?”
“Umm..actually I do….could you please sing “The Island” for me? You don’t have to if you don’t want to.” She added quickly.
He just smiled at her and started to sing. As he pulled her closer to him. She laid her head on his chest and just listened.
“They say the skies of Lebanon are burning
Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat
They're showing pictures on the television
Women and children dying in the street
And we're still at it in our own place
Still trying to reach the future through the past
Still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone
But hey, don’t listen to me
This wasn’t meant to be no sad song
We’ve heard too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
Till the mornin' dew comes fallin'
I want to take you to the island
Trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when the sun goes down
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean
They're raisin' banners over by the markets
White washing slogans on our ship yard walls
Witch doctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory”
Kourtney started to cry around this point. Not to where he could notice just a tear here and there.
”But hey, don’t listen to me.
‘Cus this wasn’t meant to be no sad song
I’ve sung too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
Till the mornin' dew comes fallin'
I want to take you to the island
Trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when there’s no one around
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean
Now I know us plain folks don’t see all the story
And I know this peace and love's just copping out
And I guess these young boys dyin' in the ditches
Is just what being free is all about
And how this twisted wreckage down main street
Will bring us all together in the end
And we’ll go marching down the road to freedom
Freedom
Freedom”
Once the song was done Kourtney looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
Concerned “Kourtney whats wrong?” He asked
“It’s…r..r..really…n..nothing.” She said
He didn’t believe her. “Kourtney, whats wrong? You can tell me!”
Then they walked over to the blanket and sat down. It took everything in Kourtney to say….
“I am truly lucky to have met you! You are a fantastic friend. I just can’t believe that you have to leave tomorrow.” She sobbed. He put his hand on hers. “You may think I am crazy, since I have only known you for almost a full 3 days, but I…I…I..think I may be getting….feelings for you, as in…..as in….” She looked down. She couldn’t say it.
“More than friends?” He finished. She just looked at him. To see his reaction, he was smiling.
“Why are you smiling?” She asked.
He wiped a tear that was falling down Kourtney’s cheek. “Because I really like you too!”
Kourtney couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “HE DOESN’T THINK IM CRAZY, AND HE LIKES ME BACK!” She thought. Then she smiled
By this time the sun had set and the stars were coming out. Keith laid down on his back, and pulled Kourtney back to lay he head on his chest. They just laid there looking at the stars in silence, hand in hand.
The next thing Kourtney knew she was being woken up by Keith. “Kourtney we need to go. Its late and we need to get you back before curfew!”
“OH NO! CURFEW!!” I forgot about that! What time is it?”
“11:45”
“I have 15 minutes. I wonder if Tara is back yet. Can I borrow your phone real quickly?”
“Sure” he handed her his phone.
She dialed Tara’s number. “Hello, Tara? It’s Kourtney. Where are you right now?”
“I am still out with Paul…why?”
“Curfew is in 15 minutes!”
“Calm down Kourt, I signed you out for the night!”
“What?! Where to?”
“George’s House here in town.”
“George has a place here in town?”
“Yeah, it’s a temporary home for when he wants to go on vacation. You and I are both signed out to his house for the night. So just enjoy the rest of your night and you can get there whenever! (Inaudible Paul in the background is saying something to Tara) Hey Kourt I have to go, see ya soon!” and she was gone.
“What was that all about?” Keith asked
“Well Tara signed me and her out to George’s house so I don’t have a curfew anymore” she smiled
“Coolios! So that means we can go and do something else right?!”
“Sure does! But what else are we going to do at midnight here in Lynchburg everything closes at 9!”
“Well why don’t we just go to George’s and we can maybe watch a movie or something” He suggested
“Ok sounds good to me!”
They then gathered up everything and walked hand in hand back to the car. Once in the car Keith turned on the radio, not paying attention to what was playing, then all of a sudden they heard the announcer say.
“This goes out to Kourtney and Keith, who have the best friends in the world for playing them this song. So Kourtney and Keith if you are listening, this song is dedicated to you from your friends Tara and Paul” Then “Love song” by Sara Bareilles came on.
Kourtney and Keith just kind of sat there, they looked at the radio and then at each other. Not knowing if they should laugh or just sit in silence….then Keith busted out laughing, and Kourtney joined in! It was just like them to play a song like that one for them.
“Paul is always telling me that he is never going to write me a long song when I finally fall in love. This song is just perfect!” Keith laughed
“I do have to admit though Paul and Tara really hit it off! I hope they turn out well!” Kourtney added
“If I know Paul, like you know Tara, I think I am safe to say that things are already going well for the two of them!” He smiled and Kourtney nodded.
The rest of the song played on and Kourtney and Keith sang along to it.
“Kourtney I thought you said you couldn’t sing?” Keith asked
“I can’t” She added
“Well that’s a lie; you have a very pretty voice.”
“Well thanks.” She said blushing. See Kourtney was told many a time that she had a “pretty voice” as everyone told her. It’s just that singing wasn’t her thing at all. She like to sing for fun whenever she hung out with her friends or a song on the radio came on that she liked she would belt it out. She just never believed that she really had a good voice at all.
They finally arrived to George’s house. Keith made Kourtney stay in the car while he walked around to open the car door for her.
“M’ lady” he said holding out his hand.
“Why thank you kind sir” she giggled, and put her hand in his. They walked into George’s house expecting everything to be quiet. When they walked in there were all the lads except Paul. Everyone stopped talking and turned to look at Keith and Kourtney. Kourtney stood there frozen she didn’t know what to do.
Ok So I started a story on the other forum and finished it. I have been asked to continue with my story, I am in the process of still writing it but to refresh your memory or for those of you who never read it Enjoy!
“Bye Mom, Bye Dad” Said Kourtney as she hugged her Mom and her Dad goodbye.
Spring Break was now over and now it was time to head back to school. You see Kourtney was an almost 19 year old freshman at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia. It was her second semester in college and she loved every minute of it! She also loved to come home and visit her family whenever she could, which brings us to her saying goodbye.
Once she was done saying goodbye to her Mom, and Dad she then said “Goodbye” to her little brother, who at times she could not stand. But over break Craig (her bro) and her didn’t fight once (which is not normal for them) but not fighting seemed to have brought them closer together. Once saying goodbye to her brother she patted her dog on the head and picked up her purse and headed out the door, and jumped into her car.
Kourtney turned on her car and turned up the music, and found her favorite radio station….Q101, and a song she didn’t know was playing so she slowly backed out of the driveway and hit the road, and this time for some reason she decided to take all the back roads, it was a beautiful day out!
After driving for about 30 minutes she saw a car parked along the side of the road up ahead, it was a red rental car, and she could only tell because the license plate said “RENTLE37” Kourtney thought about stopping and then disregarded it. There were 3 guys standing outside of the car, one holding a map, he had short brown hair and was taller then the other two, then next she saw a short kid, he was yelling at the one holding the map. As she was passing them, she saw the other guy; he was blonde and looked just like the surfers you see from California. He was the cuter one out of the three. She continued down the road. She couldn’t stop thinking about the blonde one, she kept thinking they're lost what if they are from out of state and have no idea where they are going. So in a split second she had the car turned around and found herself heading back towards them…..
…Once she was turned around and heading back towards the guys she couldn’t help but to think what she was going to say to them first. But once she had pulled up in front of them, she turned off her car. None of them realized that she was there they were all now behind the map. She then hopped out of her car and walked over to them….
“Do you guys need any help?”
The littler one looked out from behind the map first.
“I think we may be lost thanks to Paul here!” as he jabbed his finger towards the one in the middle.
“It’s not my fault; the turn should only be about a mile away, Its Keith’s fault for not finding the turn.” Accusing the Blonde One
“Hey, I am just driving, you’re the navigator Paul, but I am thinking about letting Damian here navigate he seems to know what he’s doing!”
Kourtney made a note of it. Paul was the good looking brown headed tall one! Damian was the little guy, and the blonde surfer was Keith. She also noticed that they all spoke with an Irish accent, but for now she disregarded it.
Kourtney giggling to herself asked “Where are ya’ll headed?”
“We are trying to meet up with the rest of our friends at the Drowsy Poet in Lynchburg” Paul told her.
“That’s right by my school; I am actually headed there right now. Umm… you guys can follow me if you would like!”
“That would be FANTASTIC!” Keith said. “Now I don’t have to worry about getting lost anymore we are running so far behind in the first place!”
“Sounds good to me!”
Kourtney got back into her car and Paul, Damian and Keith got back into theirs. Kourtney couldn’t believe what had just happened, she had to keep checking her rearview mirror to make sure this whole thing wasn’t a dream….were there really 3 Irish good looking males following her?
She then picked up her phone and called her friend Tara from school.
“Tara are you back at school yet?!” she asked urgently.
“Yeah, why do you ask?
“Because I have 3 very good looking guys following me back to school! And not to mention they are all Irish!”
“What are you talking about how did you manage that?!”
Kourtney then explained what had happened.
“I have to go were almost there…meet me there! We are headed to the Drowsy Poet!”
“Ok I’ll be there!”
Kourtney drove for about 15 more minutes, checking every other minute to make sure they were still behind her, sometimes her and Keith would make eye contact and he would wave at her. She would smile and then blush trying to hide her face so that he couldn’t see her.
Once they had made it to the Drowsy Poet they all got out of their cars. Kourtney headed over to their car.
“Thank you so much…uh….I’m afraid I never caught your name.” Paul said
“Kourtney, my name is Kourtney”
“Well thank you very much, Kourtney.” He shook her hand “I’m Paul, this is Damian and Keith”
“Nice to meet you and thanks Kourtney” Damian said shaking her hand.
“Yeah you really saved us back there! We would probably still be there if it wouldn’t have been for you!” Keith said smiling.
Right then 2 other guys came walking over to the group, Damian waved at them.
“Hey George, Hey Ryan!”
“What took you guys so long?” said the one who looked like the fatherly figure.
“Paul got us lost” Damian said
“No I didn’t it was Keith’s fault he was the one driving” Paul said defensively.
“I did not you were the one navigating! If it weren’t for Kourtney we would still be lost!" Keith replied
“Who?” Asked the dark haired mysterious guy.
“Oh George, Ryan this is Kourtney, she saved us!” introduced Keith
“Hi, I am George” said the fatherly fellow hugging Kourtney.
“I’m Ryan; it’s nice to meet you!” said the dark haired one.
Kourtney was in heaven she couldn’t believe that she was surrounded by 5 amazing men. They were all so nice…however did she get this lucky?
Right about then her friend Tara pulled up.
“Hey Tara!” greeted Kourtney “I want you to meet my friends. This is George, Ryan, Damian, Paul and Keith.”
“Nice to meet you all!" replied Tara
“Same to you Tara” said Paul grabbing Tara’s hand and lightly kissing the top of it.
Then a lady with blonde hair came out and told the guys that they had to go in for rehearsal now…Ryan, George and Damian followed her back inside. Paul stayed and said “Goodbye” to Tara.
Keith and Kourtney were now the only ones left standing there. Keith decided to speak first.
“Thank you so much again for 'saving' us” he laughed
“No problem at all!”
“So you should come and watch us perform on Tuesday!”
For some reason Kourtney knew she had to do something on Tuesday…..but what was it?
…As Kourtney stood there thinking about what it was that she had to do on Tuesday, Keith just stared at her, hoping that she would say yes to coming and seeing them perform. He though that she was very intriguing and there was just something different about her. Something that he just could not put his finger on just yet.
Then Kourtney asked…”What is the date of Tuesday?”
“It’s the 17th of March…why?”
Kourtney felt really stupid and didn’t want to admit to Keith that she has forgotten her own Birthday!
“Oh this is embarrassing!” she said
“What is?”
“I forgot my own birthday….my birthday is on Tuesday.” She admitted slapping her hand to her forehead
Keith couldn’t help but laugh. “Well then that gives you an even better reason to go out on your birthday especially since its St. Patrick’s Day. You need to celebrate it the right way, by coming and watching 5 Irishmen, well I mean 4 Irishmen and 1 Scot but that’s another story for later, but we will be singing Irish songs! It’s perfect! Come on please come” he begged.
Kourtney grinning from ear to ear thought about it. Ok what are the pros and cons about this?, she asked herself. Pro # 1 I'll be able to see Keith again and of course the rest of the guys. Pro # 2 maybe afterward Keith and I could hang out together. Pro #3 I love Irish music! Ok now what are the Cons? Con #1 It’s my birthday and I will have to cancel on my friends, but there is a solution, I can have them all come with me. She liked that idea Con #2 if I don’t go I may never see them again, and I definitely don’t want that!
“Ok I'll go!” She said
“SAWEET” Keith said very enthusiastically
Kourtney Smiled. “Well, I guess I will see you Tuesday then!”
“Tuesday it is!” Keith smiled back. “It starts at 6:30 and I think you know where we are performing, and if you don’t I might be a little worried!” Keith then hesitated. Kourtney could tell that he wanted to say more but she just stayed silent looking at Keith. Keith staring back into Kourtney’s sea blue eyes he finally spit it out. “You should come early!....I mean only if you want to of course!” he added.
“Ill do my best” Kourtney said “After all it is my birthday so I might be busy before hand if I don’t come early would you want to hang out afterward?” she asked and then looked at the ground.
“Of course” Keith said immediately, making Kourtney look up at him and smile.
“Well then I WILL see you on Tuesday then” Kourtney said
“Goodbye for now, Kourtney, enjoy the rest of your night! Thanks again for everything!”
“You're welcome” Kourtney said turning to head to her car.
“Kourtney” Keith said quickly
Turning around Kourtney looked at him “Yes?”
“Happy Birthday! I want to be the first to say it to you!” He said with a big grin on his face.
Blushing Kourtney replied in a simple “Thanks” and got into her car and drove off.
It took her 5 minutes to get to the school; she then grabbed her suitcase and headed into her dorm. She laid her bags in her room and ran straight to Tara’s room!
*Knocking on the door*
“TARA! YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!” she shouted “TARA, CAN I COME IN?”
Laughing Tara opened the door. “Geez Kourt you ok?”
“I think I am dreaming or something! All of this cant be happening t..t...to...to…TO ME!!” She cried out in utter disbelief. Sitting herself on Tara’s bed, she told Tara what had happened after she had left!
“Wow Kourt that’s awesome! He was very good looking…..well they all were *thinking of Paul* especially that Paul guy, he said that he wants me to come to the show too!”
“You have to come with me” Kourtney suggested
“Ok I will. Maybe Paul and I can hang out after when you and Keith hang out!” she said smiling.
Tara and Kourtney continued to talk for a while before Kourtney departed and went back to her room where she unpacked and talked to her roommates about her wonderful day and her lovely new friends, smiling the whole time!
All of this happened on Sunday, it was now Monday and classes were back in full swing. Kourtney had 2 classes on Monday. One of the classes was a 3 hour class. Right after her and Tara grabbed some lunch down at the “Rot” (The cafeteria) they headed back to their dorm and parted into their own separate rooms. Kourtney got on her laptop to check her mail, and facebook. Well this time she decided to check her myspace, which only happens once in a blue moon. She saw that she had 5 new friend requests, a message, and some comments. She first checked her comments. It was from one of her friends back home saying that she missed Kourtney deeply and couldn’t wait for her to come home for the summer. Then she looked at her friend requests, and saw that all of her friends from Sunday, the 5 guys she met asked her to be her friend. Of course she accepted them all! Then she went to check her messages. She had one message in her inbox and it was from Keith. She couldn’t believe her eyes. She hesitated to open it but then quickly clicked on it. She started reading.
“Hey Kourtney, How are you doing? Me and the lads are in town till Wednesday and I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out with us tonight! Maybe show us around campus and around Lynchburg? We would like that a lot! Well here is my cell, 3849-38273 (not his real number so don’t go calling it! ) call me and let me know if you are interested in coming! Talk to ya soon.
K”
She read the message over and over again not believing that it was true, THEY wanted HER to be their tour guide!?
So she picked up her phone and dialed the number. The phone rang and rang and rang some more…then came the voicemail… “’ello this is Keith’s phone leave me a message if you are a friend or family, if you are one of my fans then please hang up now, because I WONT return your call…thanks…bye”
Kourtney left her message.
“Hey Keith, its Kourtney, I hope you consider me one of your friends!” she giggled “I’m just calling you to see if you still want me to be your tour guide! I would love to be your guide, but the only problem is, is that I don’t get out of class till 7. Let me know if you guys still want me! Ill talk to you later!”
She hung up and then climbed up into her bed and just laid there thinking about Keith and taking the guys on tour…she really didn’t know what she was going to show them. But then after about contemplating on what to do, he phone started to ring, she checked the caller id. It was Keith she quickly answered it!
“Hello?”
“Hey Kourtney, How are you doing?”
“I’m doing well thanks, how about you?”
“Doing well, but I cant talk long were on a break at rehearsal so I thought that I would call you back and let you know that we will see you at 7! Where do you want to meet?”
“Well how about the Drowsy Poet since you all know where that is! I don’t want you guys getting lost without me!” she smiled
Keith laughed “Ok well I guess we shall see you at 7 then. I have to go now but talk to you later! Bye Kourtney”
“Bye Keith” she said blushing.
She put her phone down and got down from her bed and decided to figure out what it was that she was going to wear that night. She decided to go with a nice blouse and jeans. She then realized that she needed to start heading to class. So she walked to class thinking about what an amazing night she was going to have. While sitting in class it seemed that 7 would never come, Kourtney did everything not to think about the time, but she couldn’t help it! Finally 7 came and she gathered her books and ran out of the class, to her car and she drove to their meeting spot. Once she got there she recognized Paul sitting outside on the curb, right next to a very fancy looking limo, he was on the phone but he spotted her and waved her to come to him. As Kourtney walked over she heard the end of the conversation.
“Ok Mom… Ill be safe… Yes I am having a great time, its beautiful here!...mmmhmmm…mmhmm…. Well mom now I have to go the guys are ready to go now so ill talk to you later! Love you Mom,”
“Hey Kourtney” He grabbed her and hugged her. “The others are inside getting ready to leave, I don’t know why it takes them so long, all you have to do is put product in and you’re ready to head out the door!”
Kourtney laughed “So is this your limo?” she asked
“Sure is, what do you think we are going on a tour of course we have to have a limo, actually we really don’t but Damian was begging us, so we decided to go for it.” He said smiling,
About then Ryan, George, and Damian all walked out and saw her all saying “Hellos”
“Where’s Keith?” Kourtney asked
“He’s still blow drying his hair, he said he would be out in a minute. He’s been in his bathroom for over an hour getting ready; he always takes forever when he is trying to impress someone!” said Ryan
“Hey, I heard that!!!” Keith said “Hey Kourtney!” He hugged her. “I’m glad that you decided to come with us! This should be a lot of fun guaranteed”
Then they all got into the limo and headed out into the city known as Lynchburg.
Once in the limo, Kourtney was trying to figure out what in the world they were going to do. She had no idea where to take them first. But then Keith asked if they could be shown around LU (Liberty University) so that’s what they did.
*Kourtney pointing out the window with all of the guys heads hanging out too*
“That there is Demoss, where they have a lot of classrooms, and on the 3rd floor which is new this year they have a study area, 2nd floor is a computer lab with a Coffee shop. Then on the first floor it’s mostly classrooms and such. On the back side though they have 2 buildings, one is the Science and Math section, the other is for arts, like Theatre, Music, and Musical Theatre” She said with a grin.
“Do you guys have a nice stage?” Asked Ryan
“Its ok, it’s kind of small, but I hear that they are trying to raise money to build a new one! I am so happy for that! Ill be making history on a new stage!”
“Wait, do you sing?” Paul asked
“Oh no no no, if you heard me sing you would shoot yourselves” she said laughing,“I act!”
“Cool” said Damian
“Yeah, I love it!” Kourtney replied “but now back to the tour up here is the circle and look there is my dorm now, and there is my future dorm!” She pointed them out. “But that’s Liberty for you. Now where to?” she asked hoping someone else would think of something to do. Then Damian’s stomach growled really loudly and everyone busted out laughing.
“Well, I guess we need to get this wee one something to eat before his parents claim that we never feed him!” said Paul jokingly and everyone laughed at that.
After the laughing calmed down a bit, Kourtney asked “Where would you all like to eat? We have Buffalo Wild Wings, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday’s, Olive Garden, Applebee’s and that’s all I can think of right now, what sounds good?” and all at once….
“Outback” said George and Damian
“Buffalo Wild Wings” said Paul and Ryan
“Olive Garden” said Keith
Everyone laughed at each other and then they all looked at Kourtney as if she was supposed to be the tie-ish breaker.
“OH NO YOU DON’T! I am NOT going to decide where we are eating you guys have to fight this out amongst yourselves!” she laughed
“Well how about you come with me?” Said Keith “It seems that everyone else wants to go somewhere else and well I’m all alone and you are indecisive! So come with me and keep me company.”
Kourtney melted on the spot, he said it so genuinely that she couldn’t help but think she was in a dream or think that he was just playing a joke. But then she gave her answer.
“Well, as long as you don’t mind! I don’t want to intrude on anyone”
“Oh, your not intruding I promise, besides I would love the company!” He said
“Well…..ok…if you insist.”
She was so excited and nervous that she didn’t know what to do with herself she just sat there fidgeting. First they dropped off Paul and Ryan at BWW, and then George and Damian at Outback. So now if was just her and Keith… in the Limo… alone…well besides the driver. There was not a word that was said in the limo till they got to the restaurant. Keith got out of the limo first and then put his hand out to help Kourtney out….on her way out her shoe caught on the lip of the curb and she almost fell, but since her hand was still in Keith’s he caught her and pulled her back up while saying….
“No you don’t” he said smiling
Kourtney just blushed and got herself together and whispered a quick “thanks” Keith then shut the limo door and putting his arm out for Kourtney to link arms with him and said….
“Shall we?”
Kourtney quickly put her arm thru as they walked into Olive Garden. It wasn’t crowded at all so they were seated quickly.
“So what’s good here?” Kourtney asked “I have only been here once before, and that was with my friend Tara.”
“Well I really like their Lasagna and their Five Cheese Ziti” He replied
“Hmm….well Lasagna is my favorite thing to eat…but I think I might try the Ziti”
“Well that makes two of us then!” He smiled “So you said earlier that you were an actress…have you been in any of the LU productions yet?” He asked.
“Well....not yet. I haven’t had the guts to try out, the people there are just so intimidating and I really don’t think that the head of the department likes me that much. She has her favorite which really sucks. She always puts the same person in all of her shows and as the lead too. But hopefully one day I will be up there acting away!” She smiled “But enough about me tell me about Ireland I have always wanted to go there.”
“Well….you see….” And as Keith started to talk about Ireland the food came and he just kept talking about Ireland and Kourtney didn’t interrupt once, she was so enthralled with him talking about his hometown and surfing and all of his friends back home. He talked all the way through dinner. Then his phone rang.
“Hello? Oh hey Paul… (PAUSE) yeah dinner was great. Are you guys done? (PAUSE) Ok sounds good to me we will get the check now and meet you guys there! (PAUSE) Oh no we can walk!” He said looking quickly at Kourtney who didn’t seem to notice. “Coolios we will see you soon. Bye” He shut his phone and right about then the waitress walked up and asked….
“Are the checks going to be together or separate?”
At the same time…”Together” Said Keith “Separate” said Kourtney
The waitress kind of looked at them funny and then looked at Keith.
“Please put them together”
“Ok, well here you go; ya’ll have a great night!”
“Thanks” He said
“Keith, you don’t have to do this let me at least pay for mine!”
“No, I have it! I insist. Happy Early Birthday Kourtney.”
“Thank you” She blushed and looked down but decided to say “I have tip!” She smiled at this “Great” idea of hers.
He laughed “Ok fine you can do tip”
“Thanks” she said
“You ready to get out of here the guys are over at Starbucks getting some coffee. We need to meet them over there, is it ok if we walk?”
“Oh yeah sure that’s fine.”
“Good” He stuck his arm out again and she quickly put hers in his and they walked to Starbucks. After everyone got done getting their coffees they all decided to sit down and talk for a while, but a while was only about 30 minutes before they all started to yawn. So they decided to leave, they got back into the limo and headed back to LU where they could drop Kourtney off. Once they were right outside of her dorm, she quickly hugged all of the guys except Keith who had gotten out holding the door for her, and helping her out like a true gentlemen.
“Night guys, I hope you had fun this evening and I will see you all tomorrow!”
“Night Kourtney” Came a chorus from all of the guys.
Keith once again held his hand out for Kourtney to take and she took it and climbed out of the limo.
“Thanks again Keith! Dinner was really nice” She hugged him for what seemed to have been forever, and she really didn’t want to let go either. But she did and pulled away from him and just looked at him in the eyes.
“You are quite welcome Kourtney! Thanks for coming with me. I had a lot of fun. But I guess I will see you tomorrow evening then?”
“Of course, I can’t wait!” She grinned. “Ill see you then, goodnight Keith”
“Goodnight Kourtney.”
Kourtney then turned and walked up the sidewalk leading to her dorm and when she got to the door she turned around to see Keith waiting outside the limo. She waved at him and then unlocked the door and he got back in the limo and the guys drove off. While Kourtney told her Roommates and Tara about her wonderful evening with the guys.
After talking with her roommates till 11:45 she decided to go and see Tara and tell her about her wonderful evening! So she did. Tara was really jealous that Kourtney got to hang out with the guys and didn’t bring her along! But soon forgave Kourtney because now it was 12:01 am….
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOURTNEY” Screamed Tara Luckily her roomies weren’t there at the time.
“Thanks” Said Kourtney! “Oh I need to go back to my room; my Roomies are probably going to do something! At least that’s what they told me!”
So Kourtney and Tara went back to Kourtney’s room and sure enough when she opened the door both her Roommates were there standing with Confetti poppers, the next thing Kourtney knew she was seeing colorful strands of paper flying around her. Kourtney laughed
Sarah and Nia yelled “Happy Birthday Roomie!” and they both hugged her.
“Thanks you guys! I love it!” Then Kourtney yawned “Oh man, I think I am going to head to bed, I have a long day ahead of me!” She said as she thought about the concert and getting to see Keith later that evening! She was so excited. She climbed into her bed and fell asleep right away.
The next morning Kourtney woke up bright and early. She had her two Theatre classes to sit thru today and she really wasn’t feeling it. But knew that her new Theatre friends were looking forward to it! Especially since it was St. Patrick’s Day! Everyone likes to dress up today! So as Kourtney got ready for her classes she decided to play some music (Her Roommates were both gone) She was singing along when she heard a knock on her window, and as she went to her window and pulled up the blinds she realized that no one was there. Then she looked down at the window sill and saw that there was a card and a red rose lying there. She opened her window to grab them both. She looked out her window to see if there was anyone she knew, but didn’t see a single person. So she shut her window and put the blinds down. First she smelled the rose and it smelled magnificent, (Red Roses are her favorite flower) she then started to think about who could have given her this rose and card…so she slowly opened the card….and it read….
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOURTNEY! I hope you are having a good Birthday so far. I know you have a busy day ahead of you. I can’t wait to see you tonight! *Kourtney thought to herself “Could this be from one of her friends that is going to dinner with her tonight?” she read on* I hope that you will join me after the concert…*”CONCERT!!?? She had it all figured out now! She continued* ….for a lovely evening out on the town? If so then dress to match me, Ill be wearing a light blue. I can’t wait!
Your Friend,
Keith.”
“AHHHHHHHHHH” Kourtney screamed out loud. She was so excited…but what on earth was she going to wear…That didn’t matter right now…if she didn’t leave now she was going to be late to class. On her way to class Kourtney texted her 2 roommates and asked them if they would help her get ready for the evening. They soon texted her back and told her that they would.
*Phew* Kourtney thought to herself. “That’s one thing I can take off of my mind.”
For you see Sarah her roommate was a fashion freak! She knew everything there is to know about the latest fashion. Nia well she knew how to do hair really well! Kourtney couldn’t wait to start getting ready.
Kourtney finally got to class and all her friends were there to greet her. Her first class flew by quickly, Kourtney Day dreamed about that evening all through class and didn’t remember a thing about the discussion. “Oh well” She thought “It is my birthday!” She smiled. Time for her next class and it went by slowly, no, it went by slower then slow. It was dreadful. But to Kourtney’s surprise her professor let her class out early. She was so grateful. Then she hurried back to her dorm to meet up with her roommates and get ready for the night that was ahead of her!
When Kourtney finally got back to her dorm she opened her door to see 3 people standing in her room waiting for….well…her. It was her 2 roommates, Sarah and Nia, and then Sarah’s friend who is also really good with hair and Make-up. Sarah had told her the story and she decided to come and help out.
“Ok Kourtney first things first what are you going to wear?” Sarah asked.
“Well Keith wants me to match him, and he is wearing a light blue he said.”
Immediately Sarah went to Kourtney’s closet to try and find something for her to wear. The Nia told Kourtney to take a seat so that her and Shara (Sarah’s Friend) could start working on her hair. They decided to do a nice classy hairdo, that wasn’t to extravagant but nice looking. Sarah had pulled a few blue outfits out of Kourtney’s closet, she had a black skirt and a light blue top and a white tank top. The second outfit was a sundress that was white with light blue flowers all over it. She also had a few others but they just didn’t work out. So it was down to the blouse and skirt, or the sundress…meanwhile Nia and Shara were curling Kourtney’s hair so that they could decide what they were going to do with it from there.
“Kourtney what time is the reservation at Doc’s Diner?” Asked Sarah
“They are at 4. Why?”
“Well I hate to put a damper on things but we have 30 minutes”
That’s when things got crazy. Sarah started working on Kourtney’s make-up. While Shara and Nia finished her hair.
They all finished with 15 minutes to go. Kourtney’s hair was done in an elegant side-do they had pulled all of her hair to the right side and had it pinned in the back to hold it all there, and the ends were curled. They also had her bangs pinned up on the left side with a white flower. Her make-up was simple but her eyes stood out more then anything. All the girls said that Kourtney should go with the sundress and so she did. Kourtney put it on and put on her nice dress up flip-flops (Kourtney wouldn’t dare go out for a night on the town in heels,that just had disaster written all over it! You see Kourtney is a klutz, a huge one!) Once Kourtney was ready to go she met up with Tara, who was dressed in a skirt and a green blouse to match it. Her Roommates said that they would see Kourtney at the show later that evening. Tara and Kourtney got into Tara’s car (Kourtney realized to late that her car was still parked at the Drowsy Poet from her evening before) and they headed to Doc’s to meet up with some of Kourtney’s friends. Dinner was lovely, and everyone had a fantastic time. The waiters even sang “Happy Birthday” which really embarrassed her, but she sat through it anyways. By that time it was about 6 and Kourtney decided that it was about time to go so that they all could get good seats for the performance. All of her friends that were at dinner decided that they really weren’t up for a show and decided to go their own ways so it was just Tara and Kourtney again. They hopped in her car and headed over to the Drowsy Poet. Once there Tara parked beside Kourtney’s car and they walked in, there were only 7 other people in there and so quickly they grabbed their 2nd row seats. About 15 minutes later it was packed full. But Kourtney didn’t care she was 2nd row right and center! She was getting really nervous but really excited too. She couldn’t wait to see her friends perform. Then a lady came out on stage to introduce them, this lady Kourtney recognized to be the lady that she had seen 2 days before. Her name was Sharon Browne, and she introduced a guy named Phil Coulter who was her “Right-hand-man” Once she was done with the introduction Thunder Rolled and a dark voice came billowing out through speakers. Fog came pouring out from backstage and 4 monks came walking across the stage. Kourtney thought to herself, I thought that there were 5 guys. Then she immediately thought of Keith, and anything and everything that could go wrong, “Oh no what if he got hurt! What if he got food poisoning from dinner last night?” Tara must have seen the look on her friends face because she leaned over and asked….
“What’s wrong Kourt?”
“There are only 4 guys walking across the stage, there are 5 guys in the group, What if something happened to one of them?!” She said freaking out
Tara started to laugh “Relax Kourt, those aren’t the guys those are just guys dressed in cloaks.” And right then 5 other guys walked on 2 each on the right and left and one right in the middle. Then the music started, and Kourtney’s worries left her immediately, there stood Keith in the center of the stage. Singing his heart out.
“IT CANT BE OVER” Kourtney thought! “MORE, MORE, MORE!” she demanded!
Then Sharon and Phil came back out on stage.
“Thank you all for coming out tonight! I hope that you enjoyed the show, but I have heard from a little birdie” She glanced over at Keith. “That it is someone’s birthday today.” Kourtney gasped she was definitely not expecting this. “So the guys would like to sing Happy Birthday to her. Kourtney would you please stand up?” Kourtney hesitated to stand up but then Paul jumped off the stage and pulled her up on stage. She was placed right in center and the lads plus Sharon and Phil all gathered around her. Kourtney was a scarlet red by this point. Then they started to sing that all so familiar tune.
“Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Kourtney
Happy Birthday to you!”
It was beautiful, they all blended so well together.
Then Kourtney was surrounded by all of them in a group hug. She just laughed and kept saying thank you over and over again. They broke up and Sharon took the mike.
“Thanks again everyone! If anyone wants to meet the guys you can. They will be on the stage, and the way we are going to do this is we will start from the front and go to the back. Kourtney was already up on stage so she started but Tara was soon right behind her. First they came to Damian.
“Great job Damian! You did amazing! You’re a real heartthrob you know!?” Kourtney said hugging him.
“Thanks Kourtney! Happy Birthday, hope you have a great evening!”
“Thanks, see you later”
Then she greeted George. “You did wonderful! I cried when you sang “My Boy” it was beautiful!” George then grabbed her and gave her a big bear hug.
“Thank you! Happy Birthday Kourtney”
“Thanks George”
Next was Ryan. “Amazing performance Ryan! I wish I could pull of some of those expressions you did tonight! You’ll have to tell me your secret!” She winked at him.
They hugged.
“Thanks Kourtney, yeah I’ll show you one day. Happy Birthday!”
“Thanks Ryan.”
She moved to Paul.
“I didn’t know some of the notes you hit were possible to be hit!” She smiled! “You truly have an amazing gift Paul!” She hugged him.
“Thanks Kourtney, but I feel that there is something else I was supposed to tell you, I just cant think of what it was…..Oh yeah….Happy Birthday.” He smiled “You and Keith better behave yourselves tonight, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!”
Kourtney laughed “Ok Paul” Then Tara who was anxious to talk to Paul slightly pushed her out of the way. Kourtney being Kourtney, tripped on her flip flop and almost fell, but luckily Keith was there to catch her.
“No you don’t” He said
She blushed “Thanks.”
He was smiling that smile that just made her melt. They embraced, in her ear he said “You look beautiful! Happy Birthday sweetie!”
She pulled back but not far enough to where she wasn’t still in his arms.
“Hey, I’m the one giving the compliments here!” She smiled “You did FANTASTIC! You were absolutely brilliant tonight!! Thank you too for the Birthday song it was beautiful!”
“Anything for you!” He Smiled. Sharon then coughed over at the side and Kourtney knew it was time for her to move on. “Meet me at Starbucks, and then from there we will go out! You will also want to change into something suitable for walking!” He winked at her.
“Sounds go to me see you soon!” She hugged him again and then she left and went to her car. She waited for Tara to finish. When Tara got to the car she was smiling.
“Guess what?!’ Tara said
“What?”
“Paul and I are going on our own little adventure tonight!” She was smiling from ear to ear.
“That’s so exciting Tara! Have any idea what you guys will be doing?”
“Oh you know, probably scaling Demoss (LU School building) Painting peoples cars, you know that kind of stuff!” She and Kourtney laughed at this. “But I do have something to give you though!”
Kourtney looked at her friend like she was crazy. “What?” she asked
Tara then thrusted a pair of jeans and one of Kourtney’s favorite tops, and a pair of Old Navy flip flops. “Now I know that you need to go and meet someone at Starbucks so you better hurry up!” Kourtney got really confused
She gasped “DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING TONIGHT?!?!?”
Tara just smiled and got into her car and locked the doors and slowly pulled out of the parking lot, leaving Kourtney standing there stunned, she then realized that she needed to go and get dressed. So she hopped into her car and went to Starbucks. She went into the bathroom real quick and changed. She also re-applied her make-up and fixed her hair. When she came out of the bathroom, Keith was walking in. He was looking around the place and completely didn’t realize that she was standing there, he did a double take, and then smiled at her. She calmly walked up to him, and hugged him!
“How about a Coffee?” He asked “What would you like?”
“Hmm…a Caramel Macchiato please.”
“Sure”
“If you don’t mind I am going to run my dress out to my car real quick!”
“Go right ahead, you know where I will be”
Kourtney was so excited she couldn’t believe that she was actually hanging out with him. She ran out to her car and threw her dress in and ran back in. Keith was still in line, so Kourtney decided to grab a table over in the corner. Once Keith was done getting the drinks he came and sat with her.
“Thank you…..so…what are we doing tonight?!” she asked
“Well that’s for me to know and you to slowly find out!” He smiled and winked at her.
They started to talk for a little while, then Keith looked at his watch and said
“We need to get out of here or we are going to miss it!”
“Miss what?” Kourtney asked
“You’ll see.” He helped Kourtney up and they walked outside. Keith ran and opened the passenger side door of her car (since his was back at home) She got in and put her seat belt on. Keith got in and turned the car on and pulled out of the parking lot. They started to drive towards the mountains and started to take some of the back roads up to Liberty Mountain where the Monogram (a big “LU” on the side of the mountain! Not kidding we really do have one! Haha)
“Are we going to the monogram?” Kourtney asked
Keith just smiled and nodded! “Were going to watch the sun set”
He then pulled the car into a small parking lot and got out, he opened Kourtney’s door and then grabbed a backpack and picnic basket from the trunk.
“And how might this have gotten into my trunk?” Kourtney asked
“With a little help from my friends! Well and yours too!”
“I knew Tara didn’t need my keys to get back into the dorm later!” she commented and then laughed. Keith then laughed with her.
He shut the trunk and put his arm out for Kourtney to take.
“Shall we?” He asked
“We shall” she said as she took his arm and they started to walk.
The walk was only about 5 minutes and most of it was spent in silence. Kourtney was nervous and Keith well he was enjoying the scenery. Once they got to the top of the mountain Keith grabbed a blanket out of the back pack. They sat down and started to talk.
“So did you enjoy the show?” He asked
“Oh yes! How could you not?! It was fantastic!”
“Good, I’m glad. What was your favorite part?!”
“Oh man, I honestly couldn’t answer that question it was all amazing!”
He laughed “Well what was your favorite song that George sang?”
“I’m going to go with “My Boy” I cried he just does an amazing job with putting emotion behind it!”
“Yeah, he’s always been good with that! What about Damian?”
“Hands down, “Young Love” I loved how you guys picked on him. I was laughing so hard.”
“Yeah that song is a lot of fun to do. I wish I could do the whole song with the guys but I have to go and change into my next costume.”
“Yeah I feel ya! I hate costume changes.”
“Oh I bet you know all about them too!” He chuckled “So what about Ryan?”
““Heartbreaker” I love all the faces that he makes! He just does such a good job at it! He said that he would tell me all of his secrets!” She laughed
“That will be interesting! Can I come?”
“Sure why not?!” She smiled
“What about Paul?”
“Hmm….I would have to say “She” but I really liked when him and Ryan did “That’s a Woman” It was so well done.”
“Yeah, I think that’s almost everyone’s favorite. Well what about me?”
Sarcastically “Oh, I didn’t like any of yours!” She laughed. “Oh, I don’t know all of yours were really great. But I think “I Want To Know What Love Is” was my favorite but it just barely beat “The Island” Which I also cried in as well!” She blushed.
“Yeah, that one is an emotional one. I find hard to sing sometimes but I love the song so much!” He smiled. “Come on”
He quickly got up and helped Kourtney up to.
“Where are we going?” she asked
“No where, I just wanted to dance.”
“But we don’t have any music”
He just smiled and started to hum. He grabbed Kourtney’s waist and pulled her in. She wrapped her arms around his neck. They started to sway to a familiar tune. Then he started to sing. Slowing down the song so it made it more romantic.
“So see the leaves fall to the ground
And see them lying all around
'cause still I can't see you
And there's a wind that plays in the air
Flying around how it does not care
Still I can't see you”
Kourtney remembered this song from the show….she remembered he was singing about some girl named Lauren. She was jealous of this Lauren girl and didn’t know why he would be singing this song to her. But she laid her head on his shoulder and just listened.
”And the seasons pass away
And I still sit here lonely
Each and every day
Wondering what's gone wrong
'cause I don't remember
Seasons lasting oh so long
Oh so long
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
Kourtney and I, Kourtney and I ……”
Kourtney thought to herself “WHAT DID HE JUST SING!? WAS THAT MY NAME?” She kept her head on his chest so that she could continue listening to the rest of the song. Then it came to the end…
”But still I can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
And I still can't see you
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I
Kourtney and I!”
“HE CHANGED THE LYRICS!!! AHHHHH” Kourtney was screaming in her head. She then looked up at him, and he looked at her.
“That was beautiful!” Kourtney said.
“So are you!” He said with a smile
Kourtney felt like she could pass out! She blushed and looked down. “Why was it so different when he said it?! Many of my guy friends tell me that I am beautiful, what makes him different?”
Then Keith interrupted her thoughts and started to sing another song. Kourtney grinned he was singing her favorite song. She laid her head back on his chest as the swayed back and forth.
“Gonna take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when Im older
Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder”
Kourtney then looked at him while he was singing the rest of the song. She couldn’t believe how lucky she was!
”In my life theres been heartache and pain
I dont know if I can face it again
Cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Im gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
Ive got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life theres been heartache and pain
I dont know if I can face it again
I cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Wanna feel what love is…”
Once he was done singing she hugged him! “Thank you so much Keith this is a fantastic night!”
“Im glad! Have any requests?”
“Umm..actually I do….could you please sing “The Island” for me? You don’t have to if you don’t want to.” She added quickly.
He just smiled at her and started to sing. As he pulled her closer to him. She laid her head on his chest and just listened.
“They say the skies of Lebanon are burning
Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat
They're showing pictures on the television
Women and children dying in the street
And we're still at it in our own place
Still trying to reach the future through the past
Still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone
But hey, don’t listen to me
This wasn’t meant to be no sad song
We’ve heard too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
Till the mornin' dew comes fallin'
I want to take you to the island
Trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when the sun goes down
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean
They're raisin' banners over by the markets
White washing slogans on our ship yard walls
Witch doctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory”
Kourtney started to cry around this point. Not to where he could notice just a tear here and there.
”But hey, don’t listen to me.
‘Cus this wasn’t meant to be no sad song
I’ve sung too much of that before
Right now I only want to be here with you
Till the mornin' dew comes fallin'
I want to take you to the island
Trace your footprints in the sand
And in the evening when there’s no one around
We’ll make love to the sound of the ocean
Now I know us plain folks don’t see all the story
And I know this peace and love's just copping out
And I guess these young boys dyin' in the ditches
Is just what being free is all about
And how this twisted wreckage down main street
Will bring us all together in the end
And we’ll go marching down the road to freedom
Freedom
Freedom”
Once the song was done Kourtney looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
Concerned “Kourtney whats wrong?” He asked
“It’s…r..r..really…n..nothing.” She said
He didn’t believe her. “Kourtney, whats wrong? You can tell me!”
Then they walked over to the blanket and sat down. It took everything in Kourtney to say….
“I am truly lucky to have met you! You are a fantastic friend. I just can’t believe that you have to leave tomorrow.” She sobbed. He put his hand on hers. “You may think I am crazy, since I have only known you for almost a full 3 days, but I…I…I..think I may be getting….feelings for you, as in…..as in….” She looked down. She couldn’t say it.
“More than friends?” He finished. She just looked at him. To see his reaction, he was smiling.
“Why are you smiling?” She asked.
He wiped a tear that was falling down Kourtney’s cheek. “Because I really like you too!”
Kourtney couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “HE DOESN’T THINK IM CRAZY, AND HE LIKES ME BACK!” She thought. Then she smiled
By this time the sun had set and the stars were coming out. Keith laid down on his back, and pulled Kourtney back to lay he head on his chest. They just laid there looking at the stars in silence, hand in hand.
The next thing Kourtney knew she was being woken up by Keith. “Kourtney we need to go. Its late and we need to get you back before curfew!”
“OH NO! CURFEW!!” I forgot about that! What time is it?”
“11:45”
“I have 15 minutes. I wonder if Tara is back yet. Can I borrow your phone real quickly?”
“Sure” he handed her his phone.
She dialed Tara’s number. “Hello, Tara? It’s Kourtney. Where are you right now?”
“I am still out with Paul…why?”
“Curfew is in 15 minutes!”
“Calm down Kourt, I signed you out for the night!”
“What?! Where to?”
“George’s House here in town.”
“George has a place here in town?”
“Yeah, it’s a temporary home for when he wants to go on vacation. You and I are both signed out to his house for the night. So just enjoy the rest of your night and you can get there whenever! (Inaudible Paul in the background is saying something to Tara) Hey Kourt I have to go, see ya soon!” and she was gone.
“What was that all about?” Keith asked
“Well Tara signed me and her out to George’s house so I don’t have a curfew anymore” she smiled
“Coolios! So that means we can go and do something else right?!”
“Sure does! But what else are we going to do at midnight here in Lynchburg everything closes at 9!”
“Well why don’t we just go to George’s and we can maybe watch a movie or something” He suggested
“Ok sounds good to me!”
They then gathered up everything and walked hand in hand back to the car. Once in the car Keith turned on the radio, not paying attention to what was playing, then all of a sudden they heard the announcer say.
“This goes out to Kourtney and Keith, who have the best friends in the world for playing them this song. So Kourtney and Keith if you are listening, this song is dedicated to you from your friends Tara and Paul” Then “Love song” by Sara Bareilles came on.
Kourtney and Keith just kind of sat there, they looked at the radio and then at each other. Not knowing if they should laugh or just sit in silence….then Keith busted out laughing, and Kourtney joined in! It was just like them to play a song like that one for them.
“Paul is always telling me that he is never going to write me a long song when I finally fall in love. This song is just perfect!” Keith laughed
“I do have to admit though Paul and Tara really hit it off! I hope they turn out well!” Kourtney added
“If I know Paul, like you know Tara, I think I am safe to say that things are already going well for the two of them!” He smiled and Kourtney nodded.
The rest of the song played on and Kourtney and Keith sang along to it.
“Kourtney I thought you said you couldn’t sing?” Keith asked
“I can’t” She added
“Well that’s a lie; you have a very pretty voice.”
“Well thanks.” She said blushing. See Kourtney was told many a time that she had a “pretty voice” as everyone told her. It’s just that singing wasn’t her thing at all. She like to sing for fun whenever she hung out with her friends or a song on the radio came on that she liked she would belt it out. She just never believed that she really had a good voice at all.
They finally arrived to George’s house. Keith made Kourtney stay in the car while he walked around to open the car door for her.
“M’ lady” he said holding out his hand.
“Why thank you kind sir” she giggled, and put her hand in his. They walked into George’s house expecting everything to be quiet. When they walked in there were all the lads except Paul. Everyone stopped talking and turned to look at Keith and Kourtney. Kourtney stood there frozen she didn’t know what to do.