Reviving Talise

Chapter 7

"And the 3 finalists to compete in the Regionals in Hawaii are", The announcer starts. "Christine Taylor, Kim Adams and Talise Johnson!"

The beach roared with aplause but I didn't care wether I made it or not. I was only looking for Matt, even my parents couldn't find him.

Christine hopped over to me and jumped and screamed. Mr. Kernshaw followed behind her.

"Congratulations" he said.

"Why did I make it?" I ask. "I had the lowest score out of everyone?"

"Because I saw you the other day, and I heard the new about your brother, and I knew how frustrated you were even though you did flawless the other day so I made sure your name was in there"

"Gee, thanks! Im flattered!" I gush.

"No problem!" he smiled and walked away. Christine started squealing again. Then paparazzi swarmed her so I ran off to find Joel. He was only a year younger than Matt but older than Seth. So he had to know where Matt was.

"Joel!" I run into his arms and he lifts me up and spins me around.

"Good job making it into Regionals"He kisses my head.

I start crying in his shoulder.

"Babe, what's wrong?" He says still hugging me.

"Its Matt, I can't find him. He stormed off and no one knows where he is!" I sob.

Joel drags me to his car and opens the door to the passenger seat so I slip in. He runs around the car and hops in the drivers seat.

"What are we doing?" I ask, and wipe away tears.

"Looking for him" he drives past the beach and onto the main road.

"He wouldn't leave town." I tell him

"He can drive, right?" he asks raising his eyebrow.

I shake my head "Not for another 2 weeks, doctors orders"

We drive until it gets dark. I would cry and he would confort me. I kept calling mom and Seth to see if he arrived home but he didn't. Seth called all of Matt's friends but they didn't have a clue where Matt was. If he didn't come home tomorrow morning, we would file a case with the cops.

"Joel? What if he hurt himself?" I start crying again.

"He wouldn't do that, trust me" Joel replies quickly.

"I don't know, he seemed really mad"

"He'll come home, kay?"

I nod and kiss him on the cheek. Joel drops me off at home at around midnight.

I talked to my parents once again and they still haven't contacted him. Deciding I was tired, I fell asleep on the recliner near the front door, so if he woke up, I would be the first one to see him, and tell him how much I love him and missed him and how it hurts to loose him.

I woke up that morning to see Christine knocking at my door.

I walk outside and sit on the front steps to talk to her.

"So how was the night with your boyfriend" she yells.

"What? He helped me find my brother!" I snap back. What crawled up her pants and died this morning?

"I could've helped you!?" she yells back at me.

"Uh, you were too busy celebrating for you. You didn't even tell me I did good when I told you a million times after your turn. Besides, Joel offered" I roll my eyes.

"So your boyfriend is more important that me?"

"I never said that!" I shout

"You just love starting drama. The least you could've done is stayed for my speech?" Christine yells.

"I'm the drama starter? You came to me, remember?" I start. "My brother is seriously ill and now we can't find him anywhere! My parents and Seth are upset and worried and all you can think about is how I left to find Matt and missed your speech?"

She rolls her eyes. "Maybe Matt wouldn't have left if you hadn't snapped at him. And he was right, you ARE a jerk!"

Her words stuck with me. I didn't need anymore crap from anyone else.

"Get off of my yard. NOW!" I yell and point in the direction of her house.

"Have fun looking for your sick brother!" she snaps.

Christine dashes away to her house. And I immediatly dial Joel's number.

"Hello?" he picks up.

"Joel, I need you now" I whimper to the phone.

"Be there in five" he says and hangs up.

As he promised, he was here in his Mercedes. I hopped in, still in my tanktop and shorts.

"How you doing?" he asks.

"We still haven't found him, and worse, Christines giving me crap about it" I groan.

"Everything will get better, I promise" he said.

"You said that before things got worse" I smirk.

"Well perfection takes a while" he replies.

"But I'm not perfect"

"Maybe being imperfect, is just perfect" Joel says.

I lean over and kiss him on the cheek.

"Your a sweetheart." I say.

Once we get to his house, we go up to his enormous room and watch movies. I crawl into his lap and wrap a blanket around us.

We watch movies all day, and talk.

I start staring at him without even noticing. He was gorgeous.

He catches me staring at him and leans and plants a kiss on my lips. He pulls back and says "I love you"

My cheeks turn bright red. "I Love you too" I choke out.

He leans down and kisses me again until my knees get weak.

We watch movies for a little more.

I turn over to face him. "I'm so glad I have you when everything else fails."

He smiles that million-dollar smile of his. I bury my face in his chest and fall asleep. It was probably the best sleep I had in a while.

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Awww! LOOK AT TALISE AND JOEL!!<33333 what about that little fight there? Jealous much, Christine? and yay for Talise for making it into Regionals.!(:

TEASER: Missing Matt?(;

Update: Tonight!

Later Tater Haters<3