"This is stupid man. I don't see why you would go all the way to another country when you don't even know if this girl is real."
Chris looked at his friend, who was sitting on the couch. "I don't expect you to understand. You've never been in love."
The man on the couch threw his hands up in the air. "Neither have you! You just think you love this "girl." For all you know, this could be a creepy old man who is just leading you on," he said, clearly exasperated. There was just no talking to Chris when he was like this.
Chris paused in the act of packing his bags and looked at his friend. "Josh, please, can't you just support me for once?"
"I do support you Chris. When you started writing, who helped you? Me. I have always supported you, and you're my bro. I don't want to see your heart broke again."
"Just trust me. I know she's real. She even sent me a picture." Leaning over, he dug in his suitcase for a few seconds and pulled out a piece of paper. Sitting down on the couch, he showed the picture to Josh.
The woman in the picture looked to be about 5'4", give or take a few inches. Her body was slender, with curves in all the right places. She had a camera hung around her slender neck and a bag slung over one shoulder. Her long hair was the color of warm honey and her eyes were the color of a story sky. Josh had to admit, she was beautiful. But, any photograph can be faked.
"How do you know that's really her?" Josh asked.
"I just do. And I'm going to prove it to you. My flight is tomorrow and when I get there I'll call you and let you talk to her," he said standing up and resuming his packing.
"Alright man," Josh said, standing up and heading to the door. "I guess if you prove me wrong then I'll apologize. Until then, I think this is just too good to be true."
With that final statement, he left the house. When Josh left, Chris finished his packing and sat down at his computer. Logging on to MSN, he checked his friends list and saw that she wasn't online.
"Too bad," he thought to himself. "I was hoping to talk to her."
He decided to look through some of their old conversations instead. As he opened the last message, he smiled as he saw her picture pop up on his screen. He never got tired of looking at her.
Pulling up their conversation from about a week ago, he began to read.
• arawr103 says: Hey handsome. How's it going? I hope you remember what today is ;)
• chris123 says: Hey sweetie. Of course I remember. :) Today is our two year anniversary. (: We met exactly two years ago today. The best thing that ever happened to me
• arawr1says: Same here! You are the most important person in my life. I love you so much. So I know what you can get me ;)
• chris123 says: And just what would that be?
• arawr103 says: Well, I bought you something *sneaky face ;)*
• chris123 says: Oh really now? What did you buy me?
• arawr103 says:.....A plane ticket.......
• chris123 says: A plane ticket? O.o What for?
• arawr103 says: Well, if you want to...it's so you can come down here.....with me
• chris123 says: .............
• arawr103 says: I understand if you don't want to...:/
• chris123 says: Of course I want to! I was just shocked that's all. Are you serious baby?! That would be amazing! When is it for?
• arawr103 says: Really? You really want to? :)
• chris123 says: Well yeah! That would be amazing
• arawr103 says: I'm so glad you think so :) I thought you might not want to. It's a one way ticket. You can live with me if you want, then you won't waste money if you decide you don't want to stay here
• chris123 says: That's great baby <3 I can't wait. When does my flight leave?
• arawr103 says: I mailed it a few days ago so your ticket should be there soon. Your flight leaves in 3 days. I'm so happy that you're actually excited about it. I can't wait to finally see you in Australia. You're going to love the kangaroos :D
• chris123 says: I am so excited. I can't wait to see you. The first thing you're going to get is a big kiss ;)
• arawr103 says: Good. That's exactly what I want :) I have to go now babe I have a photo shoot in about 30 minutes and I need to prepare for it.
When he finished reading the conversation, he smiled real big. His flight left in 3 hours, and he couldn't wait. He was dying to see her. He knew for a fact that he loved her. Even thought he had never met her, he could just tell that she was the one.
*****
Alexa stood waiting in the airport terminal. This was it, the day. She could finally see the man of her dreams. She had been waiting for this day for two years. They had decided to wait until they were sure that they were in love. Alexa however, knew from the beginning that Chris was the man for her.
She wasn't so sure about the writer part but that was his dream and she was going to support him through all of it.
As she waited, she fidgeted with her camera bag. Photography was her passion and she took the camera everywhere with her. She hoped that he would let her take some pictures of him. She wanted to capture everything about their first meeting. Photography and pole dancing were about the only things she liked. She hoped one day to save up enough money to get a pole installed in her bedroom.
At that moment, his plane landed on the runway. She ran to the door and waited for her first glimpse.
Through the throng of people, she caught sight of a tall, athletically built man with wavy brown hair.
"Chris! Chris, over here!" She yelled to him, jumping up to be seen over the crowd. She absolutely hated her short height. She had been teased her whole life and just couldn't handle all the rude comments.
"Chris!" She yelled once more before he noticed her and headed her way, a huge smile on his face.
*****
When he got off the plane, Chris was extremely nervous about meeting Alexa. He couldn't wait to see her, but wondered how she felt about meeting him.
As he walked through the crowd, he gazed around looking for her. At first, he didn't see her. After a few seconds of looking, he heard a beautiful voice calling his name. Looking to where he thought he heard the voice, he saw a small blonde woman jumping up and down, a wide smile on her gorgeous face.
Smiling, he made his way through the crowd towards her. As he got closer, he started to see more and more of her. She looked just like her picture right down to her camera bag slung over her shoulder. Laughing, he moved faster towards her. Her hair was down and wavy today, and the blue shirt made the blue in her gray eyes stand out.
Finally, after what seemed hours of staring at her trying to get closer, he reached her and grabbed her up into his arms. Their lips met in an electric kiss. Her lips were soft pressed up against his. Their lips moved sensually against each other, the pressure was amazing. This is what they had been waiting for, for two years. When they finally came up from each other, big grins were on their faces.
"Hey," she said, smiling big.
"Hey sweetheart," he said, taking her hand. Hand in hand, they walked to where he could collect his baggage.
"How was your flight?" she asked, still smiling.
"It was long." He couldn't stop looking at her. She was just so beautiful. He thought he could look at her for hours and that's just what he planned to do. "So, what are we gonna do today?"