Getting Chances (Chandler Riggs Fanfic)

Chapter 26

Paysons POV
I don't know where I am but I've just been walking. Walking anywhere but that damn movie theatre. How could she?! How could HE?! I mean here I thought our relationship was great and amazing and fun and spontaneous and just... Different.
I guess I expected too much for chandler but I never ever expected to like him this much, or to ever be hurt this badly. I feel like there's a hole burning in my chest, not willing to let me breathe or to even think about what I'm doing and where I'm going. All I can think about is that it's much colder at night here in Georgia than it is in the day time. Maybe shorts weren't the best idea. I know there are un-welcomed tears running down my face, but I've almost got them controlled. My phone is buzzing off the hook but I don't want to deal with it right now. The cold spring air is numbing my senses and drowning me in my thoughts. Before I know it, I'm walking across a bridge, cars whizzing past me, and I can feel the breeze of that too. I look out at the sight in front of me. The movie theatre to my right, the city in the distance to my left. It's beautiful, the city lights that is. The beauty of the city where everything is moving constantly.

For a moment, I get my mind to stop, and slow down. Thinking about all my memories of my mom, dad, and me back when things were good.
Then I think to now, when I feel like my heart has been ripped to shreds. The image of Rachel and Chandler kissing is etched in my mind and I can't get it out. This is torture. I still feel my phone buzzing and I pull it out.

14 missed calls from Sammm, 25 missed calls from Casssieeee, 45 missed texts, 22 missed voicemails.

None of course, are from Chandler as I go through them. I'm half tempted to throw my phone into the dark pit of whatever is underneath me and this bridge. I pick up a rock from the side of the road hand drop it over the edge. I hear the rock fall into what sounds like water, so I decide not to throw my phone in, since it has all my pictures of me and Chandler an Cassie and Sam and Danny and Maya and Jake and... And even Brett.

Chandlers POV
"What the hell are you doing here?" I spit at Rachel.
"I'm watching divergent what does it look like." She slyly remarks.
"I mean, what are you doin here tonight, at this time, at this exact theatre?" Now I'm getting pissed.
"Coincidence. I swear Chandler I didn't know, Michael wanted to watch it, so did my mom." She turns to where her little brother and mother are sitting, but paying no attention to us, only to their own conversation.
Maybe it is really just a coincidence?
Even though I don't have feelings for Rachel anymore, doesn't mean that I never did. She was never a bad person, never manipulative or rude or cruel, she didn't do this on purpose. I know her well enough-
What is she doing?

I look up and see her glance towards the door, and then she's kissing me. It takes me by surprise, but I push her away in time to see a flash of Payson running out.
"What the hell!" I shove her out of the way and make my way to Cassie and Sam.
"Please it wasn't- it's not-" I shake my head as I talk to Cassie and Sam, but then decide to cut to the chase.
"Where did Payson go?!" I ask.
Cassie is still in shock I guess, because she just states at me, eyes wide, mouth slightly open, almost like she's seen a ghost.
"I don't know, she went that way." Sam answers quietly and I take off.

As I'm running through the streets, I don't see her. I have no clue where I am going. I'll call her.
I stop running and reach for my phone, only it's not there.
Dammit! I must've dropped it in the movie theatre. I shake my head and keep running, when I see her. Or at least when I think I see her. I catch up to where this girl is and then all of a sudden, she disappears into thin air. Am I hallucinating now? What the hell. All of a sudden, I see Payson, up on the bridge, her face pale with puffy eyes. The only way I'm able to see her face is because of the one streetlight on the bridge, lighting her face.

Paysons POV
"Payson." I hear from behind me. I turn around to see Chandler, with his hands on his knees and looks like he's fighting for breath. Even though I feel bad, I don't say anything to him. I shouldn't have to say anything to him.
"Payson.. Please, say something. Anything." He pleads with me.

"Anything? Anything. How about the fact that I feel like jumping off this bridge into that water and just float there thinking about what I'm doing here because really the only reason I decided on Georgia is because of you but it seems like you're too busy with Rachel." I speak fast, maybe too fast. I don't know if he understood some of it because he looks confused.

"I'm not- I don't even-" he shakes his head and looks down at his feet frustrated.
"I don't like Rachel. SHE kissed me! I swear i didn't even-"
"Save it." I cut him off.
"I love you!" He yells.
What?
"Payson Grace Wheeler, I love you with everything in me." He moves closer and I feel the tears coming from my eyes for the second time tonight.
"I've loved you since the first kiss, whether I knew it or not then, I know now that I did. I love the way you flick your hair off your shoulders, the way your eyes crinkle when you laugh, they way you push me away when we are around our parents, I love how you are with with Grayson, I love your smile, your laugh, your playfulness, when you get upset, you hug me, how you-" he stops, not because he's choked up on his words, and tears in his eyes though. He stopped because I kissed him.
As he was talking I walked up to him and kissed him right then and there.
"I love you Chandler."

((Okay guys, reminder, this is just a fanfic, Rachel is NOT this mean or manipulative. She's actually really sweet XD. ALSO, 9 chapters left 😁))