The chapter from Salem:

[Stevie Nicks x Tom Petty ahead as well as some Buckingham-Nicks too❤]

I haven't decided who will end up with who I'm just playin' by ear but I am proud of this chapter my first one without music playin'

This is a complete work of fiction and will have swearin'

[You have been warned 😂]

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The two blondes became fast friends. They fought like an old married couple but swore to everyone they were just friends.
Which was true sure they cared for each other dearly but that place in their hearts was taken by another.

This didn't mean the two haven't grown fondly even some say romantic towards each other, this was true though they would never act on it for the feeling they were hurting those whom loved them dearly whom they swore they'd love forever.

Days like these always brought the friends to the fields. The vast field of flowers where no one venture it reminded Tom of home, of the South, of the girl he once loved. To Stevie it was a place where she felt she could be herself and now she had someone to share it with.

She would be lying if she said that the fields reminded her of the boy she once loved and then lost. Lost? That was an understatement he had offered her something she couldn't give back then.

As she grew so did her feelings for the lost lover, she remembers the day she went back to see him but he was declared missing, they said he went away and never came back, her family moved out of that place a few days later.

She never saw him again all she had was the memory of his blue eyes filled with remorse. They haunted her daily, but she would live.

Her eyes gave her thoughts away as the boy by her side stared at her furrowing his brow wondering why his friend always looked so sad when deep in thought.

He never felt right asking her, she never pried into his past so he respect her past secrets as well, but he was curious and today curiosity got the better of him.

"Stevie?" He asked the blonde deep in thoughts.

She hummed a little answer coming out of the haze.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "I apologize if I seem a bit forward but I gotta ask why do you look so sad when your out here deep in thought?" He asked carefully not trying to overstep his boundaries.

"I reminds me of better days and also worse days I'd love to forget but they follow me through my days." Stevie replied as if she was in a daze far away from the fields of flowers.

"So who was he?" Tom mumbled.

Her eyes widened as she whipped around to look at the man, "What?" She said an octave higher than her usual soft tone.

"C'mon Honey, you look so far away when you're out here like you're with a lover." He smirked knowing he hit pay dirt. "So who is he?" He continued.

She turned back to the vast fields of flowers refusing to look at the man as she talked, "His name was Lindsey. He was my best friend, you could say we were childhood sweethearts."

She said turning to smile at the man next to her as she, then turned back to the horizon and closed her eyes as she continued, "We fought but boy did I love him and he loved me and I don't mean like the kinda love you see in this town, but the real kind like you read in those Shakespearean plays." She ended her sentence taking in a breath of fresh air.

Tom watched entranced by the blonde's tale of true love he wanted to hear more about the lovers but didn't want to push her. He thought about how he wished he had a love like theirs with the girl he had once loved.

But that's not what fate had in the cards, it never did turn out that way, at least for him, though he was thankful about his life.

After she left he was adopted by the friends of a family, Bob who took him in after he found him in a ditch bruised and beaten, but he still missed his Wildflower.

"Tom?" Stevie's voice echoed through his mind.

"Sorry." He apologized looking a bit embarrassed. "Please continue." He added

"Are you sure? It doesn't have a happy ending." She spoke lowly.

"Yes." He answered.

"He wanted to marry me once we were old enough, but I wasn't into that. I denied him, and he looked very remorseful his eyes were blue grey the color of storm clouds he looked broken beyond broken as if he was a hollow shell of a man with empty eyes, and that look haunts me." She finished her sentence then spoke the next part barely above a whisper, "I never saw him again he went missing after I left."

"I'm sorry, Stevie I hope one day you find the happiness and love you felt with Lindsey." Tom said sincerely.

"I do too, but a part of me feels he's still alive out there some where and I'll see him again but a part of me feels I'm holdin' on to something that won't happen." She replied staring back at the horizon.

Tom looked out to the horizon with her. "I once loved someone too." He spoke scaring the girl.

She looked at him with a curious expression this was the first time her friend ever spoke about his past. The man was a mystery even his parents didn't know much about him.

He was known as the outlaw with a bounty on his head that's why he's here, but he never opened about his past.

She had pieced together he came from the South and had a record but that's all she knew about her friend. She sat there waiting for him to continue, which he did.

"She was a girl I met at 14 granted it ain't as fairytale like as you and Lindsey." He said with a little chuckle then continued his story, "It was my birthday I was out by the river a place I always went to escape things I didn't wanna be near, I was enjoying the peace and quiet of the river flow, and then this girl comes stumblin' outta the over grown plants, boy was she pissed." He laughed which made Stevie smile.

"She was a firecracker she chewed my ass out for laughin' at her, but you gotta understand it was a sight to see." He continued to laugh a bit more then for more soft spoken with his next sentence, "She was beautiful though and I fell instantly, you may think I'm crazy cause I only knew her that day." He finished looking straight at the blonde woman next to him.

"Not at all love is love sometimes it takes years and sometimes it's instantly." She answered without a lace of humor in her voice.

"Yeah I hope to get her back someday." He said in a far away tone.

"I was once told when you love something sometimes you have to let it go, and if it comes back it's true." Stevie said staring back at the horizon.

"Well I wish you the best, Honey." He said grabbing Stevie's hand giving it a little squeeze.

"Same to you, Darling." She replied giving his hand a little reassuring squeeze back.

The two sat in silence watching the sunset on the horizon disappearing into the nearby hills of the next town over.

The light gave the fields a flowers a lovely purple hue making the two silhouettes seem as if they were in a sea of waves.

The weather was calming as well the kind of weather that relaxes your bones and brings peace to your mind.

The two stayed in their spots without moving just thinking about the ones that got away they hope to see again.

*He was a babe and I was just a kid when I fell in love with him
We promised each other the whole wide world on a whim
She was young and I was just a boy when I first saw her face
We both promised silently that day the feeling would never fade

"Blue-gray eyes... they change with the color...
Change with the sun... they run with the sight
They change with the wind... but they're always bright"

[*Sweethearts - Me]
[**Blue Denim - Stevie Nicks]

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