Its A Crazy Thing Called Love (Azrael Annavianna)

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Kristin is 20 years old. She has baby blue eyes and gorgeous blond curly hair that goes a little bit past her shoulders. She is in love with her boyfriend. They've been dating for 2 years and 11 months. There 3 year anniversary is the following week. They've been fighting recently so she is really concerned about them at this point in time. They've haven't talked face to face or on the phone in about a week. They've been texting instead. She is currently going to school for education. School and work keep her extremely busy but she has always found time for him because she loves him and it is very important to her. She's in love after all.

She is up and ready to start her day and decides to set her away message "class 9-2 then work 4-10..i love you until my heart stops..your my other half and you have the key to my heart..TEXT if you want."

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Josh wakes up to the sunshine and a beeping of his cell phone.  Like a vampire he shuns away from the luminescence and hides under the pillow for another minute.  Wearily aware of the cell phone he manages to stick his head out from his soft kingdom and look at the flashing screen, a text message.  His dark onyx hair matted in front of him made him look cute; his sister used to tell him.  He didn't have time for that though, because the sender was his girlfriend Kristin.  This wasn't a bad thing though; despite their recent problems she was still wanting to talk with him.  He ran his hand through his short hair, almost giving himself a 'blaze' hair look, but his hair was too short for that.  The text read, "Class 9-2 then work 4-10..i love you until my heart stops..your my other half and you have the key to my heart..TEXT if you want."  She must be in a good mood, he thought.  The twenty- two year old begins to roll over rubbing his glass- like eyes.  "Got to text back," he says to himself.  His text sends back, "I'm at work till 9 tonight, have to be there at 8 this morning, love you too."  He looks at the time and realizes it is 7:30.  "Oh man...," he stammers, "I'm gonna be late!"  He rushes out of bed rubbing his eyes; even through his morning eyes they had their light blue shine.  He knew that if he was late to the site his boss was going to hit the roof, if there had been one out doors.  Problem was they hadn't built it yet.  The boss had it out for him, he knew it.  He started to get dressed and he got the strange feeling he was forgetting something important, something to do with Kristin.  What is it, he thinks.  He looks at himself in the mirror; checking out his abs.  He puts on his shirt and pants; making sure he brushed his teeth and flossed.  He was proud that he is multi-talented.  He pulled on his shoes and grabbed his gear.  He could make it in...oh man 10 minutes, he hoped.  Do it Josh and your in like Flinn.  He smiled as he drove away from his apartment.

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Kristin is brushing and straightening her hair trying to make everything look just exactly the way that she wants it. It is only class but she prides herself on looking her best. As her text goes off she smiles as she looks at the caller id as it says "my babe." As she reads the text message she sighs in annoyance thinking all he does is work. She hates that he works 13 hour days every day. She begins to text back "UGHHH..why can't you have a regular 9-5 job..i hate your job. get a new one geez..love you too" She is completely irritated with his job thinking that he works way too much. She just wishes that she could see him more. She works at the local diner in town and just cut back her hours so she only works on saturday nights from 4-10 and sundays from 11-6. This is the last week shift. It is a Wednesday night. She picks up all of her books as she puts them into her backpack and grabbed her purse and car keys. She headed out to her car and she drove away from her apartment to go to class then work. Wondering if Josh will remember there 3 year is coming up. He didn't really remember their 1 and 2 year so she really isn't expecting him to remember but she thinks it still would be nice. She gets that he just may not though.

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He tosses his cell down on the seat in his Mazda.  Get a new job, he questions.  This one pays well and he makes the money so that he can get her things.  She is always saying in the stores that she wants this and she wants that.  Without this job she hates so much there wouldn't be anything.  He picks up his cell.  He texts back, "Sorry."  He hopes that will smooth enough over tonight when he stops by the diner.  He just wants her to be happy.  He stops at a red light and sees a couple sitting next to each other in a 1995 Ford Tempo beige colored.  It didn't compare to his Mazda RX-4, but he saw that they were happy.  Man, he thought, how long have we been together?  "We were so happy," he says to himself.  The light turns green and a light bulb comes on in his head.  "Ten, eleven, and oh man!" he realized, "I almost forgot again!"  He looks around and sees his dash board.  He grabs the first writing utensil he finds and in permanent marker writes their anniversary date of 3 years.  Then he finally gets his revelation, the idea that will make her fall for him again just like when they first met.  He smiles to himself as he arrives 5 minutes late to work.  Hoping that the boss won't notice, he drove up quickly and jumped out to help with the cement mixer.  The clear day looked great and things were looking up.  He couldn't stop singing of Kristin all day long.

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As she receives the text message from him she gives a little grin. At least he said he was sorry. Most guys don't even know what the word sorry means. I'm pretty lucky I've got Josh in my life. He is a really good looking guy and sometimes she wonders how someone like him ended up with someone like her. When they are out to dinner or wherever she always sees girls looking at them but more so him. She is SUPER JEALOUS. She tries not to let it bother her but sometimes it does. They've been fighting here and there about the fact that she is super jealous of every girl he talks too. He is loyal and he would never do anything but she is still super scared. She gets to campus and finds a fairly close parking spot so she pulls into the spot. She texts back. "I just hate your job because I don't see you. Sole reason. Have a good day baby. I love you. PROMISE :-) " She clicks sends as she puts her phone on silent and walks to her class. All day all she thinks about is Josh. She remembers when she first brought home Josh to meet her family. He was such a gentleman. They actually met at a party and she wonders if sometimes she changed him. She didn't want to but in the back of her head she thinks maybe she did. She goes to class.

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He takes his cell phone out at lunch and checks to see if Kristin text back.  He smiles his godly smile when he sees her message.  The sweat is beating off his forehead, but in his mind he isn't beating the heat anymore.  He is cool again and back in good graces with his girl.  "I know you hate the job, but I work it for you babe," he knows how to get to her heart now.  He remembers back to the new days of being with her.  He was uncontrollable and knew he needed to change to impress this girl.  He had changed, because he got a good job and kept it.  No more drinking, no chick surfing, and honesty to a fault.  He still didn't know why Kristin was with him.  He was a bad boy gone good and no girl wants that.  Except, Kristin did and he didn't understand why.  He saw the looks the guys gave her when she walked into any room.  He knew what they were thinking.  He had thought it before, but knew that she wanted to wait till she got married.  He could respect that, after all, why would a hot woman like her do that with a 'Lost Boy' anyway?  He finishes the text with, "We'll talk about a career change later, alright?"  Now they could concentrate on more blissful things when he would surprise her tonight at her job.

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As she reads the text message she grins wide. He treats her so good just like a princess. She loves that but sometimes she feels guilty so that is kind of why she works. She wants to feel like she is doing something to help out so in a way this job is part of that. She feels like she is using him a lot of the time. She texts back "Aww babe I'm glad your all mine..I love you and I'm sorry for being such a bitch lately. Later? What do you mean later?" She asks confused. Sometimes she isn't very smart. She thinks oh yea forget to tell him something so she texts him again. "I'm sorry if I changed you and made you lose of your friends..I didn't want to do that. I don't wanna change a guy to be with him. I want you for you. The cute boy I fell in love with" She smiles as she clicks send. She has been feeling very lovely dovey romanticy recently but she loves it.

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He looks at the message.  He eyes widen, finally!  She is the first woman in history to admit any wrong doing.  This one is a keeper, he thinks.  It is only a couple of hours until he gets off of work, sweet is the one thing that hits his head.  Excited about seeing Kristin, he starts to dance.  He continues dancing, stopping only when the guys look at him.  He stops and looks away, embarrassing....  He thinks about her message.  He texts her back responding to her question.  "Later babe means tomorrow, I will be tired tonight, sorry."  He smiles at his facetiously deceiving nature.  He looks at the rest of the message; change me?  "Babe you haven't changed me, I still am me.  Just a better me, because of you."  "My friends all have their lives don't worry about them just us, alright?"  He grins as he sends the message.  He gets ready to finish his shift for the last 2 hours.  Ok, he thinks, it is 7 now.  He smiles as he heads over to the cement mixture.

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She smiles thinking he is truly MR PERFECT. The guy she has been looking for all along. "But when tomorrow? Tomorrow is my last week shift then my schedule changes. I have class from 8-10 then i'm working 10am-8pm. Don't be sorry. You need to rest babe". She smiles fulling thinking that she will see him tomorrow somehow or someway. She reads his message. "Your the best me I want to have of you. I worried about us so much maybe that is why we have been fighting so much lately. I miss you baby. I mean love of my life." She clicks the send button as she is at the dinner rush now. She is stressed out and she sighs as she goes back to her work.

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He reads her text as he gets ready to enter into his car.  Ready to plow through the traffic and see his girl.  He knows she hasn't got a clue and he loves it.  He makes sure he is decent, so he splashes some water in his hair and on his face from a nearby fountain.  He then grabs his Old Spice to smell good and drives his fingers through his hair with some gel for a quick fixer upper.  He smiles gleefully and texts back to her, "Good night."  He moves into his car and brushes his teeth again; speeding off into the night. 

His heart beating with excitement.  He can't wait to see her face.  He plays on his stereo first it comes up "She's got Skillz" by All for One and he looks at the machine like it lost its mind.  Then he gets "When the Sun Goes Down" by Uncle Kraker and Kenny Chesney; he has to shake his head at that one.  He tries one last time and it doesn't take more than a millisecond of some boy band that he turns of the radio.  No music, he thinks.  I'll create a choir of angels when I see my own angel. 

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She gets depressed when she realizes that he won't be showing up to see her. She texts back "See you a quarter past never." She is extremely sarcastic and she is almost always using some sort of sarcasm. She goes back to taking drink orders, food orders, and whatever else needs done at the diner. The dinner rush has calmed down but there are still a lot of people in the diner. A few guys flirting with her now and then but of course she has her own man to flirt with. A small barely there grin.

The music comes on the radio. Some love songs by some of her favorite boy bands. She loves to listen to all of the sappy music. "Haven't Met You Yet" comes on and she smiles thinking this would be their theme song. It was for her before they got together. She thinks about her brother who just had a little baby girl and she smiles thinking that Josh may be called Uncle Josh. She isn't sure that is something he is comfortable with. She thinks i'll have to talk about it tomorrow.

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He smiles at her irritated sarcasm.  He knows her too well.  He pulls into the parking lot a half and hour later and pulls into a empty space.  The lot smells of cars and he realizes this place was busy up unto 15 minutes ago.  He texts a "Yeah whatever," back to her and smiles of how pissed she will be.  Until, that is, he walks in the door.  He smiles strolling into the diner and hears one of her boy toy songs by Michael Buble.

He hears the second refrain of the song and starts singing the lyrics right on pitch with Michael, knowing that it is going to be just a another ace in the hole for him.  "I know we can be so amazing and baby your love is gonna change me."  He smiles as he sings the rest of the song loudly.  He jumps onto a table with the rest of the late nighters looking on at him.  Some smiling and others not knowing what he is doing.  He looks for his girl to finish the line to.

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As he texts back she groans. She HATES when he says yeah whatever to her. It really irritates her. It is so blunt and so unloving. She continues to clean up tables as the crowd leaves. At this point there are only about 10 people in the restaurant and the traffic has suddenly died down. She sighs in exhaustion but is so happy it is almost over.

Just then she hears some guy singing to the song and she sighs thinking it is some idiot but she looks over and she sees that it is Josh. She finishes the line. "And, baby, your love is gonna change me And Now I can see every single possibility". She stops and looks at him as she shakes her head at him. As he walks closer she whispers to him. "You know your a jerk. You lied to me. I'm so mad at you right now. You better know that. SO MAD" She gives him an irritated and annoyed look.

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He looks at her with a puppy dog look.  Whispering back, "I did cause I wanted to surprise you hon."  He smiled hoping he would get through her glass shield.  "I wanted to spend some time with you and so I thought we could go for a walk; the park is nearby."  His transparent eyes tried to penetrate her exterior.  He showed her the flowers he picked up from the shop, just before it closed.  He handed twelve red roses complete with a card.  The wind could be heard outside signifying a storm was approaching.  He saw the weather and shook his head looking very serious.  "I'm sorry...," was all he could say.

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She gave him a small grin as she shook her head. "You know if I didn't love you so much and if you weren't so damn cute I would be so mad at you. But fact is that I love you." She smiles as she looks at the flowers and smiles. She loves getting flowers. She is a hopeless romantic. "Oh babe these are gorgeous. You didn't have too. I still have 15 minutes until I can go baby. Plus it is gonna rain hard." She smiles at him.

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The rain starts pouring down outside like a herd of elephants pounding through the Amazonian rain forest.  The thunder can be heard outside and the lightning flashes as bright as a star.  From the length and go between of the lightning and thunder; the storm will last all night.  He looks at her and says, "Well then you have an escort back to your place."  He grins trying to look gallant to her and stands like Superman.  His hair flushes a little in front of him as he poses covering his left eye slightly.  He looks around hoping that he is not creating to much of a scene and embarrassing her again.  "Love you...," he gave her.

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She moves from behind the counter as she gives him a hug as she buries her face into his chest. She looks up at him and smiles. "Your my Superman. Always there to save me even after I'm been Super Bitch to you. I'm actually done so did you wanna sit down and talk or something. Love you too baby" She puts her hands around him as she leans her face back into his shirt blushing a deep and very bright red blush. She is so happy that he is happy but kind of upset that he tricked her too.

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"You weren't Super Bitch," he says annoyed.  He looks at her seriously, "We are going to fight based on our feelings, ok?"  He hugs her and he smiles looking at her, "Sure we can sit down."  He leads her over to a corner booth and helps her into it.  The air filled with food scents of all kinds and permeated his nose.  This was a chemical chain reaction in his brain and when he got ready to sit down, his stomach growled.  He looked down realizing he hadn't eaten all day.  I will eat after my girl talks to me, he thought.  He sits down and looks at her staring into her eyes, penetrating them.

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"I know I know I just get annoyed easily I guess." She sat down in the booth next to him and she grabbed his hand and interlocked her fingers with his fingers. As they held hands she heard his stomach growl and she laughed. "Babe you need to eat. What would you like?" She smiles at him. She had always taken care of him when it came to food. She always made sure that he got something that he liked and she almost always cooked for him. As he looks at her she smiles. "So what do you wanna talk about baby?"

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He looks at her and grins; another moment of Superman.  "Hon, first you then food," he said with a serious tone.  "I wanted to ask you how your day has been," he says with a smile.  He frowns a little, however, "I haven't had a lot of time with you lately because of the fighting and working."  "I know your peeved about my job and I am sorry," he continued, though, pausing slightly to allow his words to set in.  "I work for you though and I want you to see that."  "I know that we have been together for a long time, but I still don't know everything about you.  Everyday is just another day of learning for me."  He grinned quoting the movie "Forest Gump."  "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."  "I want you to know that I am going to start looking for a new job, so we can spend more time together, ok?"  He moves over and kisses her softly on the lips, tenderly, like their first kiss.  An eternal moment set aside, just for them.

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She looks at him as she grins. Thinking how he is sounding like the man of her dreams. He is the man of her dreams but not he is displaying and showing it so much. "My day has been good I guess. Had classes which were boring and what not but work is work i guess. Stupid and creepy guy trying to flirt with me all day. There so lame. How was your day baby?" She looks at him. "I know that you work for me and sometimes I wish you didn't just because if you didn't do that I'd see you more. I want you to enjoy what makes you happy. " "Your a very smart man. Very smart. Don't ever say your not please. We have love I know that." She smiles as he kisses her. "Babe do you have plans for next friday thru  tuesday?" She smiles as she looks up at him.

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He looks concerned for her over the creepy flirt and looks around the diner for the man.  Unable to identify him he looks back at her.  "My day was ok, I just dumped the concrete all day."  He tried to keep a smile, but the creepy guy worried him more and more.  She didn't say a guy had been flirting; she said a creepy guy had been flirting with her.  He tried to concentrate, though.  "And like I said, tomorrow I will start job hunting, ok?"  Then he looks her dead in her eyes and says, "I want you to realize that you are what makes me happy."  He kisses her tenderly and add, "You make me crazy too, but that is beside the point 'cause I love ya!"  He smiles warmly and lovingly.  "As for those days, it depends on the times, you know late night and stuff is ok."  He paused then added the good part, "But I am off Saturday and Sunday."  He can't stop smiling after handing her that news.  He thinks about the food though and wonders what she is in the mood to make...Hmmmm...

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She looks at him as she looks concerned knowing she shouldn't have said creepy but the guy was creepy. "Babe he is sitting over there in that corner booth but himself but let it go. I know your my hero and your my protector but it is part of the job. "She leans her head on his shoulder.  "You don't have to do that if you like your job. Jobwise do what makes you happy baby." I'm not here to change you." She kisses him back deeply. "That's because we are so crazy in love. I know I'm crazy about you. " She looks at him lovingly. "I was just asking because Stacy's having her baby shower this weekend and Mike invited you up so the two of you can bond or hang out or whatever it is that you boys do while I'm at the baby shower. They want us to like spend a few days with them." Mike is Kristin's older brother (24) and Stacy is his wife. Mike and Kristin are still super close to this day. He is her very protective older brother. Their having a little girl that they are gonna name Riley Josie Marchant. He doesn't know that they are naming the babys middle name after him in a way.

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"That works out ok," he tells her, "I can leave work early 'sick' on Friday, have the weekend off anyway, and call off on Monday.  We can come back on Tuesday."  He smiles at her, "What do you think?"  He looks around and looks back at her, "About the job; I can find another one and until then, we have the construction job and the diner job."  He looks at the guy in the corner and sees the man look away.  He starts to feel uncomfortable and shifts uneasily.  "Yeah we can go to see them, I have been wondering off and on how they were," he says it meaningfully, but is obviously distracted by the creep in the corner.  He finally can't stand it and stands up to walk over to him and he isn't smiling.

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"Sounds perfect to me. I of course would love to see my brother since you know how close we are. I would love to go see Stace and talk about the baby stuff. You know me babe. I'm glad you can come and have some bonding time too" She smiles up at him. Family is important to her and he knows that. As Josh stands up and heads over to the table with the creep she sighs in frustration. She knows that she shouldn't have said anything but she did and now she has no idea what is going to happen. She walks up to Josh and holds his hand as she whispers into his ear "Stop babe it's not worth it."