86 Baby This Is Our Year

Chapter 6 - Video Therapy

Eddie's song for this chapter Evan and Jason - Crazy For This Girl and Arctic Monkeys - I Want To Be Yours

Chrissy's song One Republic - Feel Again

Now that the sun had risen properly across the horizon it was looking like it was going to be a stunning March day.

Since they had left the supermarket Chrissy had fallen asleep again and every so often Eddie would glance over to make sure was ok.

On the tape player the Bon Jovi album was playing out in the van and Eddie prayed that was enough to keep the monster coming for Chrissy in her dreams.

Seeing the familiar scenery around Eddie knew it wouldn't be much longer until they reached Reefer Ricks and now the coffee was draining from his system he really could do with sleep.

Off the top of his head he had been awake for well over 24 hours now.

Even if his aching body felt ready for sleep Eddie's amped up brain kept replying his kiss with Chrissy over and over again on a loop!

As he had confessed to Chrissy in the van earlier he had imagined his first kiss with her in hundreds of ways.

However all those fantasies of his hadn't even come close to what it actually felt like to kiss Chrissy Cunningham, but now he had experienced the real thing Eddie only craved more!

The sensation of Chrissy's lips brushing against his, or the way she gasped in surprised when he finally kissed her back was something Eddie felt like he would never forget for as long as he lived.

When they arrived at his friends Eddie could delve deeper into learning why Chrissy had felt compelled to kiss him.

Was it all part of her ruse to sell the fact they were a couple in case anyone saw them together on camera?

Or had she done it just to tease him a bit in the moment because she had playfully hurt his feelings?

Finally and this was the one he was hoping might be the case Chrissy wasn't actually happy with Jason and for whatever reason she felt like their could be something with Eddie!

They were about ten minutes out from their destination when Chrissy woke up with a startled whimper.

Once Chrissy had taken in the sight of Eddie beside her and the familiar sight of his van her heart rate instantly began to settle.

Even though she had slept safely her mind was still traumatised from last night events and just for a second she had felt the indescribable fear of not knowing where she was for a moment.

"It's ok Chrissy...we are almost there... you are safe, its fine."
Eddie said softly reassuring her while he leant over to give her hand a reassuring squeeze.

Chrissy just threw a small thankful smile his way before she laid her head back on the head rest and began to take a few deep breaths in and out.

Most mornings Chrissy was greeted with the normal view of her lilac picture perfect bedroom as she awoke but this was certainly a different environment to wake up in.

Just like all areas of her life her mother carefully controlled her room environment and had to ok everything that Chrissy had in her room.

Even though Chrissy was very proud of all her cheerleading trophies Laura Cunningham had insisted they always needed to be on display like some shrine.

Her mother cleaned her room religiously everyday and would often shriek at Chrissy if she would leave anything in a mess or things a little out of place.