"Hes still asleep." Said Cory to Angela who had come to visit Shawn early the next morning.
Everyone except Shawn was awake. But who could honestly sleep? Ecspecially Eric who seemed unsually depressed. Neither him, nor Jack had wondered as to where Dana went, for both their minds were cluttered with so many other issues. Angela bit her lip, "I won't wake him." She said, and slowly she opened the door. And of course, there lay Shawn, in his boxers, and sound asleep. And right next to him was Dana, one arm upon Shawn's chest. Angela gazed unblinkingly at them for one moment, then she walked out of the room, speeding past Cory. Too fast, at least, for him to stop her from leaving the apartment without so much as a goodbye. A confused Cory looked into the room, saw Dana, and sighed.
"More drama. Great."
Shawn awoke several hours later. He still felt sick. Too sick to even notice Dana next to him. That is, until he accidently rolled on top of her.
"Dana!" Shawn rasped with a sore voice. He shook her by the shoulder.
"Mmmm?" She yawned tiredly.
"What did you do? What did I do? What did we do? What happened last night?"
Dana opened her eyes into small slits and fought hard to keep the eyelids up. Shawn looked frantic, and slightly sweaty.
"Depends, what happened last night?"
Dana giggled. "Nothing happened."
The door opened. Jack stood before them, looking as though he hadn't slept for ages. Yet weary as he looked and felt, he was still smiling.
"Hey Shawnie, I thought I hea---woah!" Jack had only now noticed the blonde beauty at his brothers bedside.
"Its not what it looks like Jack." Shawn groaned.
"Well I see that your busy, so I just came over here to tell you I uh, made you breakfast. Its uh, waitin for ya." And with that Jack walked back slowly and closed the door behind him.
Shawn looked at Dana, who had already gotten up and put on her jacket.
"Where are you going?" He muttered. She looked at him coldly.
"Somewhere where I'm more welcome." She said. "But here..." Dana got a paper and pen from Shawn's dresser and wrote down a phone number. "Its my cell. Call me." She placed it on the pillow beside him. For a moment, she stopped and stared at her ex-lover was expressionless at the moment. Her first love. She smiled slightly. He had grown to be a man, as she a woman. They had beautiful childhood memories together, and Dana knew very well that he could never be replaced. She had a special place for him in her heart, and she believed that he felt the same way on the inside. Although this cloud of thoughts maybe rushing through her head, she still walked out of the room silently. Shawn said nothing either and just stared at the ceiling. Sighing 20 minutes later, he got dressed and went down.
"So yep." Jack chewed at his bacon akwardly. Shawn had eaten nothing, not even a crumb of the food upon his plate. Jack had told him of the scene that occured earlier with Angela.
"I need to get out..." Shawn said, jumping off his stool.
"Oh no," Jack tuttered, "You're not going anywhere without supervision."
"Jack, you know I promised I wouldn't pull anything like that again."
"I know," said Jack, "But I still wanna talk to you."
"Fine."
So they both got on jackets, and together they both left the complex. Snow was already falling. Everything in the outdoors seemed a blur or gray pavement and buildings, white snow, and black trenchcoat jackets.
"So what are you going to do about Angela?" Jack asked.
"What am I gonna do about Angela? What am I gonna do about Dana? I can't believe shes back..."
"Yeah, Cory told me you were really in love with her."
"I was. I really was."
They had walked into a nearby park, Shawn sat down on a bench and Jack sat next to him.
"Shes a beautiful girl.." Shawn continued on, "A beautiful girl who loved and cared for me, and I could always see it in her eyes. And thats how I knew. Thats where my comfort came from. And possibly the greatest tragedies of tragedies happens, and she leaves without so much of a goodbye, or a notice, nothing."
Jack put his arm around Shawn in comforting intention. He looked at Shawn. "Do you love her now?" Shawn said nothing. "You know, the past is funny thing. People might do some bad crud to you as a kid, and you think your scarred for life. And then, years later, you see them again as full grown adults, and instead of attacking or yelling at them like you would have years ago, you instead say hello and laugh about it. And then the grudge you held on to is just pointless. Makes you wonder what the point of anger even is."
"Yea," said Shawn, "Its called forgiveness. But some people are just---"
"Unforgivable. Yea, I know where your coming from. You know it took me forever to forgive our father for when he used to hit my mom." Jack wanted to see if Shawn would explode on him yet again, but he didn't so Jack continued on. "But as far as unforgivable people go, you can't always forgive --- but you can still let go. Let go Shawn, don't forget your past and learn from it, but please, for the family and for the life that you can have now, here in the present, walk away from it."
Angela and Rachel walked down the dorm hallways. Rachel was worried about Angela, who hadn't said much for the entire day. They unlocked the door to their dorm and Angela's eyes went wide. Little hershey's kisses were spread all over the floor, so that any bit of floor could hardly be seen. On Angela's bed was a note that read:
There, I've kissed the floor you walk on. Now will you come back and talk?
Love, Shawn.
Shawn sat in his room, head bowed, still feeling ill, this time perhaps for different reasons. There was knock on the door. Angela let herself in and looked down at her troubled lover.
"Wheres your lady friend? She spoke. "Nothing happened." Shawn said quietly. "She got into bed with me while I was still asleep, I swear."
"You love me?" Angela asked.
Shawn stood up and walked up to Angela, and he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her towards him and kissed her hard and held her tight, which she returned with equilvelant passion. After what seemed like a beautiful eternity they broke apart.
"I love you too." She smiled. And from behind them, Shawn could see Jack giving him the thumbs up. He knew everything would be okay now.
And here we reach the end of our tale. Christmas came around, and it was a grand old time. Shawn even called Dana for a peace offering, which she gladly accepted. Not to soon after she found a new boyfriend named Ricky, who was absolutely crazy about her, and she moved in with him. Everyone got the gifts they wanted. Dana got her wish of love, Shawn got his Angela and a full dvd box set of his favorite show, Kid Gets Aquianted With Universe. Jack got a new car from his oh so wealthy parents, Cory and Topanaga got matching feety pajamas, and Eric, he got his very own pet duck. And by the end of Christmas night, when the flames in the fireplace we're shallow and low, the bits and specks of a video tape could be seen, being burned away by the christmas flames.
Eric never mentioned anything about April, and no one asked. So certainly the police did not have a clue themselves that murder had been commited. They raided the rust house to search for any more illegal possessions Eddie may have kept. They remained clueless to any murder commited, for when they busted inside the old house, a corpse that should have been there, was not.
So where is she?
Oh, what does it matter?
Unless theres a sequel.
END (?)