Notes: This is in response to the current fan fic challenge at Q aka
Lauren's site (Unofficial tribute...)

The year is 1965. The place is the university's radio station
broadcasting room. Three people, Morgan, Fred, and Abbey are all in
there sitting down.

"Hello all you students here at ole' Notre Dame" Morgan began to
announce.

"I'm Fred."

"And I'm Morgan."

"And this is 93.5 WKRF. Today, we were supposed to have two guests
for you, but only one has shown up."

"The guest with us, is Abbey. She is a senior, majoring in premed.
Afternoon."

"Good afternoon." Abbey said.

"Our other guest was supposed to be another senior, majoring in
economics…" Fred began, but was interrupted as Jed entered the
room."

"Sorry I'm late, I had a hard time finding a parking sp…" finally
seeing Abbey in the room, he shouted "YOU! What did you think you
were doing? I'd been waiting for that spot for the longest time, and
at the last minute, you just snuck on in there. Who taught you how
to drive?"

"And I think this would be a good time to take a music break. Here
is Stop! in the Name of Love, by The Supremes " Morgan said as she
pressed a few buttons.

"Excuse me. I assure you, I have no clue what you are talking about."

"Don't give me that. You know exactly what it is I'm talking about.
Outside, parking lot. Bring back any memories?

***********************************************

The rest of the program, both Jed and Abbey managed to somewhat act
civil towards each other, but they still had their moments.

"In your dreams. Look, I don't know where you get off saying
something like that, but it's simply not true."

"So you deny it?"

"Of course I do. Because it's a ridiculous claim. So ridiculous
that there is no proof to support it, because it is not true, and
what's more is you know it."

"Okay, once more we are going to take another music break. This is
'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin,' by The Righteous Brothers " Fred
said as he pushed the same buttons that Morgan had earlier.

"What the hell is your problem?" asked Abbey.

"Are you that stupid that you can't figure that out on your own?"

"Excuse me!"

"You heard me, and my problem is you. Want me to spell that out for
you? Y-O-U."

***********************************************

Two days later, Jed enters an apartment building, and searches for an
elevator. As soon as he finally finds it, he pushes the up button
and patiently waits for its arrival. Once it gets there, and Jed gets
in, a voice shouts out just as the doors begin to close.

"Hold the elevator!" Abbey screams.

Being the gentleman that he is, Jed pressed the open door button, and
held it until a familiar female walks into the elevator carrying two
grocery bags. Jed recognized Abbey right off the bat, but Abbey was
a little preoccupied keeping the bags in her arms from falling down.

"Fancy meeting you here." Jed said.

With that comment, Abbey looked up as her face expression was changed
to that of annoyance. Just as the elevator doors shut and it began
its upward climb.

"You again! Look mister, I don't know what your problem is, but…"

Just as Abbey began, the elevator came to a screeching halt, at which
point she lost balance of the bags, and they fell down. Luckily
enough for her, nothing spilt out or broke.

"What the?"

"No, this isn't happening to me," Abbey said under her breath.

After a few seconds, Jed finally came to a full understanding of what
was going on. The first thing he did was go to the emergency
telephone and try to contact maintenance, really anyone. Just as
fast as he picked the phone up to his ear, he slammed it back down
again.

"Damn!" he exclaimed.

"What? Don't tell me the phone is dead. "

"Fine, I won't tell you, but it is."

"You're lying." Abbey accused Jed as she walked over, picked the
phone up to find out that he had been telling the truth. "You know,
this is all your fault."

"My fault? How the hell is this my fault?"

"I don't know, but it seems like something you would do."

"You don't even know me."

"Unfortunately I do. You probably had a friend of yours set this all
up."

"Why would I do something like that?"

"Payback for when I stole your parking spot."

"First, why would I trap myself in here with you? I mean if I really
had something to do with this, wouldn't I have made sure I wasn't on
the elevator at the time that this happened? If you haven't noticed,
we don't exactly get along. Second, how was I to know you'd even be
here? Third, I'm glad you are finally admitting to stealing my spot."

"What? I did not!"

"You just said you did."

"Did not."

"You just said you thought this was somehow payback on my part, for
you stealing my spot. So you admitted it."

"I did not."

"You did to."

"Don't tell me what I said and didn't say. I think I know what comes
out of my mouth better than you do."

"Just like I said, the other day, that's probably always been your
problem, you don't really think. Your light's on, but nobody is
home."

"Listen mister…"

As Abbey began to defend herself, Jed grabbed her and pulled her into
a passionate kiss.

"You were saying?"

"I don't remember."

With that, the two kissed yet again, for what seemed like forever.
As soon as they finally were able to tear themselves off of each
other, Jed got an idea.

"Listen, we could be stuck in here for a while, maybe we should sit
down."

"Don't tell me what to do," Abbey said as she sat down next to her
two grocery bags.

"I wouldn't dream of it" Jed said as he also sat down, as close to
Abbey as he could without sitting on her lap.

"So what are you doing here?" she asked, trying to make small talk.

"My friend, Leo, he just moved in on the fourth floor. I came to
help him unpack his stuff. You?"

"I live here."

"Whatchya got in the bags?" he said motioning towards the two bags
sitting to the left of Abbey.

Before she could answer, the elevator started back up and opened its
doors on the third floor.

"Well, what do you know. This is my stop. Later." Abbey said as
she stood up, grabbed her bags, and headed out of the elevator. Hot
on her heels was Jed. Fully aware of her shadow, she waited till she
was halfway down the long corridor before she spoke up. "What's the
big idea following me like this?"

"I thought I could use your phone to call my friend."

"He lives in the same building, go see him. That is why you came
here in the first place."

"Yes, well, plans change."

***********************************************

The next day, Abbey went up to the fourth floor of her apartment
building to visit with one of her girlfriends. Upon stepping out of
the stairwell, which she took to avoid a repeat episode of the
previous day, she literally ran into someone.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you." Abbey apologized.

"No it's my fault. I'm the one that should be sorry," Leo returned.

That evening, Jed showed up to Leo's apartment with some flowers.
When Leo opened the door and saw the flowers, he couldn't help but
say "Oh Jed, you shouldn't have."

"Good, cause I didn't. No, these are for this lady I met the other
day when I went on the radio show."

"You're not talking about that one you called a 'conceded pompous
jerk that needs to learn how to drive' are you?"

"That's the one."

"What changed?"

"We sort of got trapped in an elevator yesterday, and talked. It
turns out she's not as big a jerk as I thought. So long story short,
in about an hour, I have a date with her."

"So why are you here with me?"

"Well it turns out that she lives here on the third floor. So I
thought I'd come a little early and spend some time with my best bud.
So what's new in your world?"

"Other than the apartment, not much. Wait, I met this girl earlier
today. You should have seen her Jed. She was gorgeous. If I
weren't already going out with Jenny, I'd have to ask her out myself.
Hey, maybe you could."

***********************************************

A little more than an hour later, Jed and Abbey arrived at a
restaurant. Jed parked the car and ran out of his door to the other
side, to open Abbey's door for her.

"I still don't see why I couldn't drive," Abbey said stepping out of
the vehicle.

"Yeah, well with my luck you'd steal some guy's spot who could bench
ten of me. And since I'd actually like to live, I thought it'd be a
good thing for me to drive."

"And we're back to that again!" Abbey said a little annoyed.

"No. And I'm sorry I brought it up. This is supposed to be a date,
no fighting is allowed."

The date went rather well. Both seemed to enjoy themselves. The two
had had a pleasant conversation, one with no shouting or fighting.
Abbey discovered that Jed wanted to become an economics teacher, and
claimed he would become the President one day. When she heard this,
she couldn't help but laugh. Jed also found some interesting
information concerning Abbey's future. He liked the idea that Abbey
would be Dr. Abbey. He liked it so much, he admitted that the idea
turned him on. Once she finally regained her composure, she felt it
necessary to confess that Jed was nothing like what she thought he'd
be like.

"How's that?" Jed asked.

"I just assumed that you'd be a jerk, but instead you are very funny.
And sometimes you are even sweet, when you want to be."

"Well thank you. You know, my first impression of you was sooo off
too."

"Oh! And what was your first impression?"

Sliding his chair closer to hers, he gazed into Abbey's eyes, as he
said, "None of that matters now. The only thing that does matter, is
what I think of you now."

"And what do you think of me now?" Abbey asked smiling.

Her question prompted Jed to slowly lean closer to Abbey, place his
hand under her chin, and passionately kiss her. With his hand still
under her chin, he slightly tilted her head up, so that from his new
position, he could once again look into her eyes.

"Does that answer your question?"

"Yeah, I think that will do it." She replied as their lips once again
found themselves interlocked.

***********************************************

As the elevator doors opened up on the third floor of Abbey's
apartment building, the two began to get out as Leo walked right into
Abbey, yet again. Looking up and seeing only her, he said "Oh I'm so
sorry. This is already the second time, in just one day. Can you
ever forgive me?"

"It's okay."

"Hey Leo! Abbey, this is the friend of mine I wanted you to meet.
Leo, Abbey. Abbey, Leo."

"We've already met." Abbey said.

"Really? Where? When?"

"Earlier today, by the stairwell."

"Yeah. Hey, I'm really sorry for bumping into you earlier, and now
too." Leo said, not sure if Jed realized yet this was the person he
had run into earlier.

It took a minute for Jed to realize what Leo was hinting at, but he
finally got the clue. "You mean this was the person you were telling
me about?"

"Yeah."

"What are you two talking about?" a very confused Abbey asked.

"Nothing. We're not talking about anything. So what are you doing
down here Leo?"

"Huh? Oh, um, I found out this guy in one of my classes lives here,
on this floor. Anyway, I've gotta go. It was nice seeing you again,
Abbey. Maybe next time we won't actually bump into each other. Bye
Jed."

"Goodbye." Jed said as Leo disappeared. He then turned to his
beautiful date and said, "May I escort you home?"

"Sure, just don't get any ideas." Abbey said smiling.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Jed said as the couple turned around the last
corner.

Approaching her door, Abbey said, "I had fun tonight."

"I did too. So do you mind if I call you tomorrow?"

"If you don't, you can consider yourself in a lot of trouble." Abbey
said smiling once again. "It's getting late. I should probably go
in, and you should probably go home." She said, all the while Jed was
inching closer and closer to her.

"Yeah, probably." He acknowledged.

"Okay." Abbey said as she began leaning closer towards him.

"Okay." Jed said as he gave Abbey a very passionate kiss goodbye.

Once the kiss ended, Abbey opened her door, entered, and shut the
door behind her. Once the door was shut, she leaned up against the
wall, which was the only thing keeping her standing. As she did
this, a huge daydream-smile overtook her face as she touched her lips where
she had just been kissed.

When Abbey disappeared behind the closed door, Jed also felt the need
for support, so he leaned up against the same part of the wall that
Abbey had. With the same daydream-smile on his face, he took a deep
breath and began walking down the abandoned hallway, towards the
elevator.


The End