SUNSET CENTRAL FANFICTION

The Engagement
By Kat

Sean held the ring box tightly in his hand. He planned on proposing to Emily tonight, during a candle light dinner, just the two of them. He loved her so much, he just couldn’t understand how this was all possible. He knew though that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

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Emily sat on her bed looking though the bridal magazine. Sean would never propose. That’s why she had decided that tonight she would break it off. She closed the Magazine and looked at the dress she had picked for this evening. The evening she would end her relationship with Sean.

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Sean and Emily walked onto the terrace to a small table with dinner for to. They sat down and Emily looked at him.

Emily: Sean we need to talk.

Sean: Yeah we do.

Emily: Please let me go first.

Sean: (worried) Alright.

Emily: Sean it’s over between us. I love you with all my heart and soul but we can’t go on.

Sean sits there stunned, as Emily stands.

Emily: I’m sorry Sean.

Sean clutches the ring box in his hand.

Sean: You can’t go Emily!

Emily: I have to, I’m leaving town in the morning anywhere. I got a internship in New York.

Emily walks away, tears in her eyes.

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As Emily tried to sleep but she couldn’t. She opened the drawer next on her nightstand and took out a pad of rose colored paper and a pen.

"Dear Sean,

We’ve been through so much together, from life guard training, to that awful curse, to being in love. I love you, but I know we’d never get past the point of dating in our relationship. Remember that I will ALWAYS love you. From the moment we meet till the day I die.

Yours forever;

Emily."

Emily took the paper and folded it in half as the tears flowed freely from her eyes.

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Emily stepped onto the plane. She had left the letter for Sean at his house. She looked back and for a second she could have sworn she saw him. She couldn’t have she told herself. He didn’t want anything more then a girlfriend.

Emily: Good-bye Sunset Beach…..

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Three years later:

"And we stare each other down like victims in the grind. Probing all the weakness and hurt still left behind and we cry. The tears of pearls. We do it. Oh we do it."

Emily Davis stared out her office window to the large sky scrapers around her.

"Is love really the tragedy the way you might describe? Or would a thousand lovers still leave you cold inside? Make you cry…The tears of pearls."

Sean Richards stared out at the ocean. Stuck in a loveless marriage to Amy.

"All these mixed emotions we keep locked away like stolen pearls. Stolen pearls devotions we keep locked away from the world."

Emily: I never should have left.

"Your kisses are like pearls, so different and so rare. But anger stole the jewels away and love has left bare, Made you cry…These tears of pearls."

Sean: Why did you leave Em?

"Well I could be the tired joker, pour my heart to get you in. Sacrifice my happiness just so I could win. Maybe cry…These tears of pearls."

Amy stands on the patio watching Sean.

Amy: You promised to love me Sean. Forget about Emily.

"All these mixed emotions we keep locked away like stolen pearls. Stolen pearl of devotions we keep locked away from all the world."

Leo Deschanel stepped off the New York City Subway and made his way to the street.

Leo: Emily I have GOT to find you.

"We twist and turn where angels burn. Like fallen soldiers we learn. That once forgotten, twice removed. Love will be the death... The death of you."

There was a knock of Emily’s office door.

Emily: Come in.

The door opened and Leo walked in.

Leo: Hi Emily, long time no see.

"All these mixed emotions. We keep locked away like stolen pearls. Stolen pearl devotions we keep locked away from all the world."

Emily: Leo, what are you doing here?

Leo: Sean’s miserable without you. He married AMY for crying out loud.

Emily: Leo, I couldn’t be in a relationship that wasn’t going anywhere.

Leo: You mean he never asked you?

Emily: (confused) Ask me what?

Leo: He had the ring and everything, he was going to propose.

Emily sank down into her chair.

Emily: He was?

Leo: Yeah. Now however that bimbo Amy is wearing the ring and is Mrs. Sean Richards. That should be you Emily.

Emily: It should be. Damn, I am so stupid! I only accepted the internship because I thought we would never move forward.

Leo: The boy was planning this for months. Right down to the song he had playing when it was going to happen.

Emily: I’ve ruined everything.

Emily began crying, Leo walked over to her and hugged her. He loved her, as more then a friend. He knew though that only Sean could make her happy.

Leo: Come back to Sunset Beach with me. Win Sean back. Defeat Amy, and get what belongs to you.

Emily: Okay, I will.

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Sean walked into the Java Web. Amy was there. He wanted to avoid her but he couldn’t, she is his wife. Amy saw him.

Amy: Sean!

She ran over to him and kissed him.

Sean: Hi Honey.

Amy: I’m so glad you’re here.

Sean: Why is that?

Amy: Brad called me this morning and he’s coming back to Sunset Beach and get this…he’s married!

Sean held back his laughter.

Sean: Who’d he marry?

Amy: A nice girl by the name um, Isabelle.

Sean: Hope she likes the doughnuts.

Amy: Sean!

Sean: Well he was always eating them!

Amy: I guess…

Amy’s sentence trails off as she looks at the door and sees Leo and Emily.

Amy: What is she doing back?

Sean: Who?

Amy: Emily, she’s with Leo.

Sean: What?

Amy: Look.

Sean looked over to the door and saw Emily with Leo. His heart began to pound. He wanted to push Amy away and run to Emily and scoop her in his arms, hold her, kiss her, and never let go of her. He surpressed those feelings though, and held on to Amy tightly.

Emily looked over and saw Sean and Amy together. Sean’s arms were holding her tightly. Emily wanted that to be her, it should be. She never should have been so stupid. Emily and Leo slowly walked over to Sean and Amy.

Leo: Hi guys. Look who I found in the big apple.

Amy: (false joy) Emily it’s so good to see you again,

Emily: Amy, it’s good to see you as well. Sean how are you?

Amy: He’s fine. Well we have to get going. Were having dinner with Brad and his wife tonight.

Amy grabbed Sean’s arm and dragged him out of the Java Web. Once they were on the street Sean glared and Amy.

Sean: What the hell was that for?!

Amy: We have to get home and get ready for dinner.

Sean: Are you afraid I’ll leave you for Emily?

Amy: Should I be?

Sean: No, I promised to love, honor and cherish YOU. Those vows are sacred to me.

Amy: Well good.

Amy wraps her arms around Sean and kisses him deeply on the lips.

Amy: Let’s go home and get ready.

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Emily looked at Leo and shook her head.

Emily: I was so stupid, to think I could get him back.

Leo: You haven’t even tried!

Emily: Leo, what’s the point?

Leo: He loves you, I saw the way he looked in your eyes.

Emily: I’ve lost him, I hurt him too much.

Leo: He didn’t even say anything. I could tell that he wanted to hold you.

Emily: Leo, let’s just forget about it okay.

Leo: I won’t let you!

Emily: Why?

Leo: Because, you and Sean are my two best friends in this world and I want you to be happy.

Emily: It’s too late.

Emily runs out of the Java Web.

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The weeks went by and Emily and Sean never saw each other. Then one stormy night, Emily was out walking along the beach. The cold ocean water felt wonderful against her tired, tan legs. She got closer to the lifeguard station she heard someone calling her name. She turned around to see Sean running after her.

Emily: Sean?

Sean: Emily, it’s really you.

Emily: Who else would it be?

Sean: An angel from heaven.

Emily: Sean, I should go.

Sean: Don’t go.

Emily: Why?

Sean: I want to talk to you.

Emily: I thought Amy did all of the talking now.

Sean: She only did that because she knew that if I opened my mouth I would tell you how I feel.

Emily: You mean how much you HATE me, how much I hurt you?

Sean: No, how much I love you, how much I want you, how much I am dying to kiss you right now.

Emily: (stunned) You are?

Sean: Yes, I love you Emily. I can’t live with out you. Look at what I’ve done with my life.

Emily’s eyes were filling with tears.

Emily: Sean, I love you. When Leo came to my office in New York and told me you and Amy had gotten married. I hated myself for breaking up with you.

Sean: I was going to propose that night.

Emily: Leo told me.

Sean: I bet he didn’t tell you I still have the ring I bought for you.

Emily: You didn’t give it to Amy?

Sean: I could never do that. I keep it here.

Sean takes out his wallet and removes a diamond ring.

Emily: It’s lovely.

Sean: Just like you.

"Love, I see forever in your eyes. I can see heaven in your smile. And When I hold you close. I don’t want to let go. Because deep in my soul I know girl. You are the only light I see. Your love means everything to me. I promise that we’ll never part. ’Cause You’ll always be in my heart."

Sean: Emily, I love you with all my heart.

"If the sun should refuse to rise, and the moon doesn’t hang in the night. The tides won’t change, seasons rearrange. When the world is through I will still love you."

Emily: (crying) Yes! I love you too much to say no.

"Girl, you’re like an angel from above. Sent here to shower me with your love. Hold me beneath your wings. Tell me all of the things. All the hopes and the dreams we can share. ‘Cause I’ll be your shelter from the storm. I’ll be the fire that keeps you warm. I’ll be your light in the dark. Cause you’ll always be in my heart."

Sean places the ring on Emily’s finger.

"If the sun should refuse to rise, and the moon doesn’t hang in the night. The tides won’t change, seasons rearrange. When the world is through I will still love you."

Emily’s eyes are over flowing with tears, as Sean takes her face in his hands and kisses her deeply on the lips.

"If anything could last forever. It’s what I feel for you. (That’s what I feel for you) Oh Baby, you touch my heart in ways. That words could never say. That’s why I’ll always love you."

Emily holds on to Sean never wanting to let go.

"If the sun should refuse to rise, and the moon doesn’t hang in the night. The tides won’t change, seasons rearrange. When the world is through I will still love you."

THE END

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