A little while later, the band had to leave so they signed autographs and took pictures with everyone that wanted them then left the party, heading to their next destination.
As a slow song came on, Shane looked at Stella, hesitating on whether to ask her to dance or not. He decided to go with his heart and ask her to dance. She hesitated at first then agreed to dance with him.
"I don't want to lose you again Stella." He said to her once they started dancing.
"What are you talking about?"
"You are the girl of my dreams. I realized that in school and that's why I asked you out. You are the only girl I truly want to be with. Your mother took the love of my life away 8 years ago and now almost 9 years later you're back in my life. Although we're not together like I hoped we would be but at least we can talk to each other. And now you're leaving again, I don't want you out of my life again because I will go crazy again." His voice cracked as he frowned.
"I...I..don't know what to say."
"Please say you'll stay here and not go back to New York to live."
"I don't know, I mean there's a lot more job opportunities in New York than there are here in Waldorf." She sighed softly.
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Mackenzie and Lucas were dancing together while glancing towards Lucas and Stella ever few minutes.
"Look at them, they belong together. I mean they are so cute as a couple."
"Yeah I know. You can see it in their eyes that they love each other. I know for sure Shane has never stopped loving Stella."
"Awe, I'm not sure about Stella because she really hadn't talked about him until we were on our way to Maryland. But she has this picture of them together, well I've caught her looking at that picture many times since we've been friends." She told him.
"I remember Shane had a picture of him and Stella but Kelly found it and tore it up. She then burned the pieces."
"That's awful! You can never forget your first true love no matter how much you try. It's really hard, although I've never had a true love, only little relationships that I thought I was in love but I really wasn't." She smiled.
"Yeah, Shane has tried to forget her thinking he'd probably never get to see her again but he never could. He even told me that he got with Kelly figuring that it might help forget about Stella but it didn't."
"Why did he want to forget about her?"
"Everytime he thought about her, his heart ached. He knew he'd never forget about her fully but he wanted to just enough that he wouldn't be hurting on the inside." Lucas explained as the song ended.
"Awe, well I have this feeling that Stella gets down also when she thinks of him too. And when she's nervous, just thinking and daydreaming she plays with the necklace that he gave her. She hardly takes it off and there are a couple of times that she did take it off, well she couldn't find it, man did she practically freak out." Mackenzie giggled.
"Oh wow." He chuckled.
"Yeah, so nothing comes between her and that necklace. She won't let it because she says its a very special necklace."
"That's cool."
"What's cool?" Stella walked up to them.
"Oh, Mackenzie told me how your necklace is really special to you and how you wont let anything come between the necklace and you."
"Well she is correct." Stella grabbed her necklace and looked down at it.
"So, where's Shane?" Mackenzie asked.
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Gone Without Goodbye
Mystery / Thriller⚠️ I own All rights to story ⚠️ ⚠️ Contains Smut ⚠️ Stella Grace was born into a rich family and fell in love with a middle class boy. Not long after she turned 16, they sent her away to a school for girls because she became pregnant. She didn't g...
