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A Match Made In Heaven

...It's another lonely valentine's day for Mette that seems as if it's going to be made perfect when Shane shows up on her doorstep out of the blue. But as she befriends Shane her dreams start to slip away as she becomes caught between him and his girlfriend, Brittany...

"Oh no, Valentine’s Day again" I said when I looked at my calendar.
"Why can they just have those every sixth year?" Today it was four months since I’d broke up with my boyfriend, Michael. We had been engaged for over two years, and then, he broke up with me, because he had fallen in love with someone else. Valentine’s Day is the worst day for people with heartaches. Then the phone rang. It was my best mate Tina. "How are you doing?" she asked. "How do you think I’m doing?" I was grumpy.
"Do you wanna do something today?" Tina asked. "No thanks" I said. "I think I’m gonna stay home and burn my pictures with Michael." "You just call me, if you wanna talk" Tina said.
A bit later, when I was sitting and watching an old movie from the 50’s, someone knocked at my door. "I told Tina that I wanted to be alone today" I thought, and walked out to the door.
When I opened, I was surprised and exited in the same time.
Out on my doorstep, stood Shane, the most gorgeous man alive.
"I’m sorry to disturb you," he said. "But my car engine is broke, and I wondered if I could use your phone?" "Aha" I said. I didn’t know what else to say. When he got in, he said: "By the way, my name is Shane, what’s yours?" "Ohm...Mette" I said. When he dialled the phone, I just stood and looked at him. He was so handsome. When he put the phone down, he said: "It will take them an hour to get here. I can wait outside."
"No, you don’t have to do that" I said. "You can wait in here. It’s cold outside at this time of year." "Yeah, I know" he laughed and sat down on the sofa. "What are you watching?" "Singing in the Rain" I said and sat down too. "That movie is great!" Shane said and smiled. "I love old movies." "Me too" I said. "Do you wanna see it?" "Yeah, that’ll be grand!" he said. So we watched the film and talked and laughed. Shane was a really nice person. I forgot all about Michael.
An hour went, and another and another. Three hours went and the repairman still wasn’t here. "I’d better call again," he said. "I promised my girlfriend that I’d be home three hours ago." I stopped smiling. A girlfriend?!! Shane laughed. "Yeah it’s stupid. We can’t tell the magazines that we have a girlfriend, it’s in our contract, but I do have a girlfriend, her name is Brittany and she’s great." While he told me all about this Brittany, I kept getting sadder and sadder.
It was actually pretty stupid, I’ve only known him for a few hours, and of course he could have a girlfriend, but still. He called and I walked out in the kitchen to make some tea. There was a picture of Michael left. In the living room I could hear Shane’s beautiful voice. He didn’t sound too happy. "Yeah, I don’t know what’s keeping the car repairman. I’m gonna stay here until he comes. I’m sorry baby." I took the picture of Michael down and threw it out. He was an idiot! I could see in the window reflection that Shane was looking at me. I didn’t know what to do. I was so confused.
Shane came out in the kitchen and asked: "What was that picture you threw out?"
"It was a picture of my ex-boyfriend. I’d forgotten to threw it out," I said.
"Oh I see," he said, and I couldn’t interpret his facial expression.
"Well, I have to go now" he said. "But if I could get your number, I would like to stay in touch?" Inside I was like a little child, who had just seen all the gifts under the Christmas tree but outside I was clam and relaxed. "Yeah, I’d like that" I said and wrote my number down on a piece of paper and handed it to him. "Thanks" he said.
It didn’t seem as if he wanted to leave. "Well, I’ll just show myself out" he said and walked out the door. "Goodbye" he said and left. I just stood there, didn’t move an inch.
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The rest of the day I couldn’t think of anything else but Shane.
His eyes, his voice, his girlfriend. "I wonder, what they are doing right now?" I kept saying to myself. Probably sitting at a candlelight dinner in one of the finest restaurants, laughing about that stupid girl he had met today. He must have thought that I was out of my mind, the way I kept looking at him. I had to call Tina now, otherwise she’d call me. I called her and told her the whole story.
She said something like this: "OH...MY...GOD! Shane!!! You’ve met Shane and you didn’t call me over? What kind of friend are you?" "I didn’t think about it at the time" I said. "But he asked for my phone number and he said that he’ll call me." "If he do, you just call me over, you hear, otherwise I’ll never speak to you again" she said. "Okay" I laughed. "I will."
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A week passed by, and there wasn’t a day that I didn’t think of Shane.
"He probably doesn’t remember me," I said to Tina.
Then, at Saturday afternoon, the phone rang. I thought it was Tina, so I took the phone and said "Hi Tina" "I’m not Tina, although I always liked that name" a voice laughed. I recognised that beautiful voice right away. It was Shane. So he did remember me. "Hi Shane" I said. "How are you doing?" "Oh I’m fine. And you?" "I’m fine," I said and it felt like ages until Shane spoke again. "Listen" he said. "Me and the lads are staying at the Hilton Hotel and we was wondering, if you’d like to join me, the others and Brittany?" "Do you mind if I take a friend with me?" I asked. I couldn’t bear to see Shane with his girlfriend. At least, not alone.
"Yeah of course" he said. "Okay. We’ll be there in a half hour," I said. "Okay, see ya" he said. "See ya" I said and put the phone down.
I called Tina and she was thrilled as usual.
A half hour later, Tina and me was standing in the lobby of the Hotel Hilton.
It was incredibly big. My apartment could fit in there about ten times.
Then Shane came, and Tina ran over to him and gave him a hug. "Hi Shane. How are you? I’m your biggest fan!" "Ohm...thanks" Shane said. He looked a bit nervous. "The others are in the bar. You can go over there, while I talk to Mette." "Okay" Tina said and walked slowly away, and when Shane couldn’t see her, she turned around and blinked at me. She was nuts!
"Can we sit over there" Shane asked and we sat over at the window. It was raining outside as usual, but I liked the rain. It always cleared your mind. "So, you haven’t heard from Michael?" he asked.
Michael? Why was he asking about Michael? To be honest, I hadn’t thought about him since I saw Shane for the first time. "No I haven’t heard from Michael" I said. "Oh" he said and was quiet. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked. "Well, I actually wanted to ask you something" he said. "On Friday, there’s a concert we all have to go to, and Brittany is doing something else, so I wondered if you wanted to come with me, you know, as a friend thing? Tina can come with one of the others if she want to." "Of course I’d like to go with you" I said.
I’d have to watch not to sound so eager. "Great" he said and stood up. "Let’s go in and introduce you." We walked into the bar, and there were the others. There was Bryan, who was busy, talking to Tina, then there was Kian, who came up and said hi right away, there was Nicky, who actually came over and hugged me and Mark, who seemed in a world of his own. Then there was Brittany. It was irritating, but she actually looked really nice. She came over and said: "How do you do?" "Ohm...fine thanks" I said. "Brittany is from England" Shane said and found a seat for me. He pulled the chair out for me. He was so gallant.
We sat there for about an hour or so, and I have to admit, that Brittany was really nice, and we talked much, and became very good friends.
All of the guys were very nice. Bryan and Tina really hit it of. Something could happen there. Sometimes I looked at Shane and saw that he’d been looking at me too, but when I saw him, he looked away.
When we were about to go home, Brittany pulled me away and said: "You know, I think, that you and I could be really good friends." "Me too" I said. "So can you I meet at your place, without any others?" "Sure" I said. "Shane has the address." "Great. I’ll see you tomorrow then" she said and smiled.
I walked home with Tina. She couldn’t stop talking, but I really didn’t listen. I kept thinking about Shane’s looks. What did they mean? He was probably just looking at me, nothing else. As we walked home that rainy day, I finally realised something that had been clear for some time.
I loved Shane! I loved so much that it hurt, and he couldn’t be mine.
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For the next year, we all met almost every week. We would talk and laugh, and I would always get sad when Shane and Brittany kissed or smiled at each other, but I couldn’t hate her. It was impossible to hate Brittany. She was so nice. We became best friends.
Bryan and Tina started dating, and they’d been going out for six months at the time.
I didn’t stop loving Shane. For every day that went by, I loved him more and more, and it was really hard!
It was two weeks before Valentine’s Day.
I’ve heard that Michael’s girlfriend had dumped him and he had moved to France.
I really didn’t care about him anymore. It was only Shane now.
It was Saturday and Brittany came over with chocolates and action films.
Unlike Shane, and me, she hated old movies. She liked action.
When she got here we talked and laughed like we always did, when she suddenly asked: "Why don’t you have a boyfriend, Metsi?" "Well, there is someone" I said.
"But I can’t have him." "Who is he?" Brittany asked. "I’d rather not say" I said.
"Aha, so it’s someone I know!" she said. She had no idea!
"Alright no names" she said. "Do you love him?" "Yes very much" I said. "Then why don’t you tell him?" she asked. "Well, he kinda has a girlfriend." "Auch" she said. "That’s tuff, ha?" "You have no idea" I said and took some more chocolate.
"But, does he love his girlfriend?"
"I can’t tell. Sometimes they seem so happy, but other times he looks at me in a way, that makes me tremble." "Hmm" she said. That always meant that she was thinking. "I can’t give you any other advice but to tell him, but I guess you don’t want to do that?"
"But I’m also very good friends with his girlfriend." "You can’t be serious?" she laughed. I didn’t laugh.
"Sorry" she said. "But you’ve got to admit that it’s kinda funny?" "Well, I guess so" I said. "But I don’t wanna hurt his girlfriend and what if I told him and he just laughed at me. I don’t think I could bear that." "If you don’t take the chance, you can’t risk sitting here in 40 years with 10 cats around, wondering what it could have been."
"Do you have to be so graphic?" I said and threw a pillow after her. She did the same and it turned into a pillow fight.
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Valentine’s Day went with watching Westlife videos, and freeze the screen, when Shane appeared. The day after, Brittany called and asked if she could come over. She sounded happy. When she got over the first thing she said was: "Shane proposed to me last night!" It was like getting punched in the stomach. She’d might as well put a knife through my heart. "How wonderful" I said and tried to smile.
"It was so romantic" she said and fell down on the sofa. "With candlelight and a gorgeous ring, although he didn’t seem as happy as he should have been, I know I seem stupid, but there was something missing." She talked all day, and I tried to be happy for her, but it was so hard. When she went home, I went straight to bed and cried. I cried all night. How could he do it?
The day after. It knocked at the door. I opened and there was Shane. He looked great. He hair was swaying in the wind, but he didn’t smile and his eyes looked sad. "Can I come in" he asked. I nodded and opened the door. I had to control myself, otherwise I would start crying again.
"I suppose you’ve heard about me and Brittany?" he asked. He was looking out the window. "Ya, Brittany came by yesterday" I said and walked over to him and hugged him. "Congratulations" I said. "Thanks" he sad and hugged back. "By the way, I have something for you!" he said, and went out to get his bag. "Here you go" he said. It was a little gift, nicely wrapped in. I opened it and was stunned.
Inside there was a beautiful silver necklace with tiny diamonds in different colours. "Oh Shane" I said. "It’s beautiful, but shouldn’t you give this to Brittany?"
"No, this is for you" he said. "It is an inheritance from my family."
He walked towards me. "You are my best friend Mette, and I feel that you should have something for always being there for me. " "Thank you" I said.
"Well, I just wanted to give you this" he said. "You don’t have to go" I said. "Yes I do" he said. "I have to go home to Brittany. Goodbye Mette." he said.
"Goodbye Shane" I whispered.
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A few days went by. I wouldn’t do anything. I just stayed in my bed and cried.
I had lost him. I didn’t answer the phone.
Then one day, there was a knock at the door. "I guess I have to go and open it" I thought. With my eyes all swollen, I went out and opened and there was Brittany.
"Oh my goodness, what’s the matter?" she said and walked in. "Nothing" I said and sat down on the sofa. "Yes there is. It’s that guy" Brittany said and sat down too.
"What happened?" "Well, he just proposed to his girlfriend, so now I know that I’ve lost the battle." "Oh I’m sorry" she said.
"But I have some news that can cheer you up." "What is it?" I asked.
"That guy you’re talking about, his girlfriend just broke of the engagement." I looked at her. She smiled. "Oh come on, you think I couldn’t figure that out. I’ve seen the way, you two look a each other, and I’m not joking when I say that you two are a match made in heaven."
"But I don’t understand" I said. "Why did he propose to you then?" "I don’t know" she said. "I can’t do anything else for you two. You’ve got to work this our for yourselves." Then Brittany gave me a hug, and left.
"She is the best friend I could ever have" I thought to myself.
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The rest of the day, I didn’t know what to do, and I couldn’t sleep that night either.
The next day I thought to myself: "I have to get out for a while. What’ll clear my head. I went for a long walk, and thought about Shane, but nothing became clearer."
When I got home, and walked into the corridor, there was a line of red rose petals. The line leaded into the living room, and when I got in there, I almost couldn’t breathe.
The living room was full of red roses. Nothing but red roses.
Then Shane walked out from the kitchen with a white rose in his hands.
He walked over to me and I walked over to him, and we embraced each other.
"Mette" he said. "Can you forgive me? I’ve been such an idiot. I only proposed to Brittany, because I thought that you didn’t love me, and Brittany is a nice girl, but you’re the one I love." I started crying. "Really?" I asked. "Yes" he said. "I love you, Mette. I’ve loved you since the first time I saw you. We have so much in common, and I thought you just wanted to be friends." he said and started crying too.
"Shane, I love you too" I said and we kissed for the first time. He was so gentle and nice and he loved me!
"You know, it’s true what Brittany said" he smiled. "We are a match made in heaven."