The film

[MrDillinger]

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[Sweetandsexy3]

"Let's hurry up and get inside." Anna said quickly speaking up "it's freezing out here." She pulled her leather jacket, that she wore covering a plain white tee shirt, tighter around her. The rest of her outfit consisted of a pair of dark jeans and black flats. At 5'9'' the 21 year old really didn't care much for wearing heels. Her green eyes watched Phil as she walked past him and headed inside, giving a polite smile. Anna was slender but she wasn't flat chested by most guys standards. Her long dark brown hair flowed behind her as she walked.

 

[MrDillinger]

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[Sweetandsexy3]

"I didn't really have much of a summer vacation." Anna said as she turned to face him "I took a couple of classes, I'm hoping to finish college at least a year early. It's so much work and I guess I'm just anxious to hurry up and move on with my life. What about you? Where have you been all summer?" She asked "I haven't seen you much." She said a bit of disappointment in her voice.

 

[MrDillinger]

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[Sweetandsexy3]

"Yeah sure. Why don't I come with you." She said getting up and following him out and back into the long of the theater. "Do you really think it's going to be awful when you graduate and have to be an adult?" She asked as they stood in line.

 

[MrDillinger]

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[Sweetandsexy3]

"That's true... I never really thought much about that." Anna said watching him "It will be weird not having you around." Taking a deep breath she thought about what he would be like without Phil around. He was always there, that's just how things had been and she had figured that it would stay that way. She never had thought that he might move away for a job or anything. "I'll miss you... You've always been my favorite out of all of Will's friends."

 

[MrDillinger]

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[Sweetandsexy3]

Anna sat quietly next to him as the movie started, her thoughts more on what he had said than the movie. Was he really going to leave? Would she ever see him again after this summer ended? She wasn't sure how to feel about it. Was she just going to miss him as friend or was she more worried about missing a chance at something.

 

[Gr8chtr]

Phil was so consumed with thinking about how to approach Anna that he barely knew the story line of the movie. What was he to do? Slide his arm around Anna's shoulders in the darkened theater? No, that was definitely "high school". Take her hand? God, that was even worse - there was no hint of romance in this encounter. Put his hand firmly on her leg in those tight, dark jeans? Well...that would be unambiguous, but it could easily backfire, losing Anna forever and likely Will's friendship to boot. He had to cut her from the pack, but with no wingman for support.

As the house lights came up at the end of the movie, and the group headed for the exit, Phil gently placed his hand on the small of Anna's back guiding her out of the theater with the rest of the group. Once outside, Phil turned to Will and said, "I don't think your baby sister should be walking back to her place alone this time of night. Why don't the rest of you go on, I'll walk Anna home, and maybe I'll see you guys later at Freddie's Grill." Turning to Anna, Phil pressed just a little harder on the back of her leather jacket and simply said, "OK?"

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"Sure. I'll just see you guys some other time." She said as she started to walk away from the group "what was that?" Anna asked when they where far enough away that no one would hear them "you where just talking about how we aren't going to be seeing each other much after this summer. Shouldn't we all hangout together as much as possible while we can then?" She asked.

 

[Gr8chtr]

Shit, caught in an obvious inconsistency. Phil hadn't thought about that. But...wait...did she really mean to question his logic, or was she trying to out his real motive. And...if so...how would she react to that?

Oh, well, one of his Dad's favorite old-time expressions was "In for a dime, in for a dollar". Trying to hide his nervousness, Phil gently stopped Anna and said, "Yes, we should maximize our remaining time as friends, but that includes my seeing as much of you as I can."

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"Well I was going to go with them, you would have seen me either way. I'm not a little kid you know. I'm 21, if I want to hangout all night I can. I don't need to be chauffeured home so I can go to bed by a reasonable time." Anna said annoyed "so why don't you want me hanging out? I'm not cool enough because I'm just Wills little sister?"

 

[Gr8chtr]

Phil felt his face getting redder. Partly out of embarrassment, partly out of anger at Anna's annoyance. "You are not JUST Will's little sister to me, you are a young woman that..." Here, Phil hesitated. That what? How far should he go? Oh well, just jump. As Butch Cassidy famously said,'Hell, the fall will kill ya.' "...a young woman that...uh...I have always found very attractive, and who I would like to spend time with, just the two of us."

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

Anna had no idea what to say, she just continued to walk towards her house. What was he expecting from her... Did he think she would just jump at him as soon as he said that he found her attractive. What was that even supposed to mean? Did he like her or did he just think she has a nice body.

 

[Gr8chtr]

Anna had no idea what to say, she just continued to walk towards her house.

What did she think he meant? Why was she acting as though she was almost ignoring him. Maybe he needed to be more clear. Phil took Anna gently by her arm, and turned her so that they were face-to-face. "What I mean, Anna, is that I find you to be very attractive, both as a person who I think of as a friend, and as a woman who I often can't take my eyes off of.

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"I don't know what to say. You're my brothers best friend and now your pulling me away from everyone so that you can what? Hit on me?" She asked "I don't get it. Why are you telling me this now?"

 

[Gr8chtr]

"I'm telling you this now because I have been wanting to tell you for so long. As we sat in the movies, I just felt like my head was going to pop. I couldn't tell you this in front of the rest of the gang. I...I should have told you this long ago. If I had waited tonight, and we'd gone off with the whole group, I'm afraid I would have never voiced my feelings for you before we all split up and go our separate ways."

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"Nothing can happen between us though. Especially since we are all going to go our own ways. I don't wan to get hurt and I'm sure you don't want that either." Anna quickly started walking again "I'm not looking for some silly summer fling."

 

[Gr8chtr]

He could see that he had pushed too hard, maybe blown his whole chance with Anna. So...perhaps it was time to back off...give her some room...after all, he really DID care for her; that was not just bullshit.

"Anna, of course I don't want to hurt you. I see that where I meant to express genuine feelings for you, I have either scared or offended you. So...we're here right in front of your house already. I'm just going to go back to my own place for some shut eye. Please think about what I said. If you want to talk more, give me a ring. You have my number."

With that, Phil gently pulled Anna to his side, gave her a tender kiss on her cheek, and said "Goodnight".

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"You don't get it." Anna said as he pulled away from her "the only thing I'm scared of is losing you." She said crossing her arms as she looked down at her feet, unable to look at him, afraid of his reaction "I've been in love with you for a while now and I can't imagine you just being gone one day."

 

[Gr8chtr]

Her words spun him around in his tracks. He had misinterpreted Anna's reactions entirely. Seeing her staring at her own feet, arms crossed, Phil could see both her vulnerability and her beauty. Phil realized, too, that when he had told Anna (and himself) that he had "genuine feelings" for her, that what he really meant was what she had said. He was in love with her and had been for a long time.

Slowly, he walked back to her and encircled her with his arms - her arms still folded across her chest. He brushed his left cheek against hers, an unmanly, small tear running from his eye. He gently pushed aside Anna's long, dark brown hair, and whispered in her ear, "Anna, I love you too."

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"Your still going to leave." Anna said "In a couple of months everything will change and I'll never see you again. There's nothing we can do, it all just ends in us getting hurt."

 

[Gr8chtr]

"Anna, you know I have just the Fall semester to go, then I'm finished with college. You have one more full year. Our schools are only about 3 hours apart. We could visit each other on the weekends as much as possible. After Christmas and I'm done, I can come and live near you. Or with you, if we're ready to take that step then. I love you, and I'm not going to let a couple of hundred miles and a few months determine the rest of our lives."