"LOVERS DESTINYL" from Friends and Foes
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Since the beginning, Amber Newell and Taylor Brookdale have been involved in a storybook romance, with as many ups and downs as you can imagine. In high school, their whirlwind relationship lasted four years, up to the eve of their graduation. Upon learning that she was pregnant with his baby, Class Valedictorian Amber turned to Taylor for support. In a moment of panic, Taylor abruptly ended the relationship and left Amber on her own. As if she hadn't endured enough hardship, Amber's father proceeded to kick her out of the house and refused to support his daughter. Her dreams for the future were shattered, and Amber fled her hometown of Pine Valley, Colorado, missing her own graduation. Not a minute after Amber departed, did Taylor realize he had made a mistake. He went to search for her, but alas, he had lost the one true love of his life forever...or had he?
A year passed, and Taylor went on to attend the University of Southern California with his best friend Alex Harrison. Finally getting over the most devastating loss of his life, Taylor started to date the resident advisor of his dorms, Lyndsay Schofield. Soon they became a steady item, and things were going well until Lyndsay's best friend, Josie Lische, was murdered. Emotionally destroyed, Lyndsay separated herself from her friends in order to grieve. She was haunted by visions of Josie, who warned Lyndsay about her future with Taylor, and not to act irrationally in times of crisis. Lyndsay was confused by the cryptic manner of these dreams, and eventually shrugged these warnings off once her visions of Josie had stopped.
Soon enough, Lyndsay stopped mourning and her relationship with Taylor returned to the norm. Lyndsay realized how committed Taylor was, and was ready to tell him that she loved him. Taylor felt very strongly for Lyndsay, too, but was hesistant to tell her he loved her. Something wasn't right, something was lingering in his emotions which held him back from loving Lyndsay to the fullest. He felt empty somehow.
Just as Taylor's relationship with Lyndsay was to reachest its highest momentum, who should come knocking on Taylor's door but Amber Newell herself...with a one year old son. It didn't take long for Taylor to realize that he still loved Amber, and that was why he couldn't take his relationship with Lyndsay to the next level. Surely enough, he knew he had to end his relationship with Lyndsay, and almost instantly, him and Amber had rekindled their flame and were engaged to be wed. Arrangements were made for the lovebirds to move in together once they were married, and neither Amber nor Taylor had ever been happier. Everything was going perfectly, until one final shocking twist would change everyone's lives...forever.
Lyndsay, spurned and very much upset, would not Taylor go so easily. Upon learning that she was very ill, Lyndsay decided that she would not be the helpless victim. She was tired of letting others step all over her and that it was time to take a stand. She would not rest until she had her revenge. In a fit of rage, Lyndsay hired an old friend to rig the wedding with explosives. Not thinking clearly, Lyndsay crashed the ceremonies and objected to the marriage. With a detonator in hand, Lyndsay vindicated herself, closing the third season off with a terrifying explosion.
The fourth season opened with a powerful and moving vision. Taylor was having a vision as the flames of the explosion engulfed the chapel. But rather than seeing his life flash before him, he was seeing how life could have been if he had made a different choice. What if Taylor had chosen Lyndsay instead of Amber? Taylor finds himself twenty years in the future. Lyndsay had died and he had lost Amber again. He has lived a loveless life of solitude and sadness, having the true love of his life escape him twice. He happens to stumble upon Amber in their hometown of Pine Valley. Hesitant at first, Amber and Taylor share their dark, haunting stories of life without one another. It took years of pain, lonliness, and devastation for them to realize that they still loved eachother, and that they were meant to be together.
When Taylor wakes from his vision, he is in the hospital. He realizes that his love for Amber is his destiny...fate would keep them together forever, and nothing could come between their eternal love. He was apart of a Lovers' Destiny, and whatever hardships should be thrown his way, he will never lose Amber again.