That's right. I'm updating this one again, too!!! This is another one of my projects that I want to get finished by the end of 2009. Depending on how many stories I decide to write there will be anywhere from 10 to 17 more of these love songs.

Being the Chaylor lover that I am, when I heard this song the first time I was like 'yup, has to be a chaylor story' so here it is :-D Hopefully I'll have another one of these for you guys soon.

Be sure to check out my new story He Could Be the One when I launch it this Saturday, October 24th. I'm excited for you guys to read it!

P.s. Thanks to digigirl02, ..Seraphina.x., look at the stars for reviewing the last story.

Song: Whatever It Takes
Characters: Chad, Taylor
Relationship: Romantic
Rating: K

Whatever It Takes

He was taken by her beauty the second he laid eyes on her. To some, she looked uptight, but to him, she was a girl who knew what she wanted and wouldn’t let anything stop her from getting it.

And that’s how he felt about her. He was going to do whatever it took to be her man.

Uh, oh, whatever it takes

Uh, oh, whatever it takes

He thought that with their best friends dating he would have an advantage with her, but she made it quite clear to him that that wasn’t the case. On more than one occasion, she had psychoanalyzed him and claimed that he only wanted to date her because Troy was dating Gabriella and he felt left out.

He knew better, though, and he had returned her psychoanalysis with one of his own; declaring that the fact that he was interested in her made her nervous. It had rustled her feathers and left her sputtering on about how it was not true, but he could tell it was.

He instructed Troy to do some snooping and probing to get information out of Gabriella about Taylor. She proved to be a steady source of information and seemed very helpful to help Chad win over her best friend’s heart.

For months he courted Taylor at school, but he knew he had to kick it up a notch and prove to her that it wasn’t just about having a girlfriend because he felt lonely, but about wanting her to be his girlfriend because he liked her.

Stand outside your place down on my knees
In the pouring rain if that’s what you need
To see that I ain’t, ain’t trying to be
Here for a day but for eternity
Not playing no games I wish you would see
Just trying to get you on the same page

“Stop stalking me, Chad!” was the first thing that came out of her mouth when she saw him standing outside her house.

She had let him stay out there even after it started pouring, but he refused to leave until she spoke to him. Even as the rain soaked him to the bone, he pictured her sitting in front of a fire place, reading a dictionary like it was a juicy romance novel and it kept him warm.

He had been out there an hour when her mom got home. She had given him a curious look before disappearing into the house, but returned a few minutes later with an invitation to come inside. She had thrust dry clothes into his hands and instructed him to change in the bathroom.

When he had come out of the bathroom, Taylor was in the kitchen with her mom, helping get dinner ready. She shot him an annoyed look that mad him smile, his insistence was affecting her.

Dinner was ready when her dad got home and after his initial surprise seeing Chad there, her father had taken to him quickly. By the end of the meal, he and her dad were talking like they were old friends even though there was a good thirty years between their ages.

If you feel half of what I feel
Then you know it’s kind of scary to need somebody else
But this love is necessary
It’s keeping me alive
It’s why my heart is beating
It’s why I got to try
To get you with me

In the weeks following that dinner, he caught her watching him several times, but he knew better than to point it out to her. Having dinner with her parents had been the first step in proving to her that he really liked her and wanted to spend more time with her.

His next step had been studying his ass off and recruiting Gabriella to tutor him in chemistry so he could impress Taylor. He knew that changing himself wasn’t the way to make her like him, but he knew he had to show her that he did give a damn about school and that he wasn’t a dumb jock.

To the amusement of his parents, he even started reading the newspaper and watching the news while he ate his Wheaties in the morning. He wanted to be prepared if she talked to him, wanted to be prepared if she tried to challenge him with worldly events.

Even Troy jokingly declared that wanting Taylor was making Chad a better person.

So baby
Oh I’ll do whatever it takes
And I ain’t going to quit it until you’re here with me
Oh I’ll do whatever it takes
If anybody out there’s feeling the same let me hear you say
Uh, oh, whatever it takes

Uh, oh, whatever it takes

His big chance had come at the winter formal and not even the sharp pain in his side could keep him from going to the dance in their group of four, though he was fourth wheel to her third wheel.

They had been sitting at an overly decorated table when the pain in his side had gotten worse. He remembered asking Taylor if she wanted anything to drink, but didn’t remember much after that because somewhere between their table and the refreshment area, he passed out.

At one point, he dreamed that he saw her standing by his side as the EMTs loaded him into the back of an ambulance and it comforted him.

It hadn’t been until after he’d gone through an appendectomy that he learned from Troy that it had been Taylor who had gotten to him first at the dance. It had been Taylor who’d yelled for somebody to call 9-1-1. It had been Taylor who had stayed by his side until he’d been wheeled away. And that it had been Taylor that had called Troy every hour for an update on Chad.

After learning that his courting had worked, he had waited for Taylor to come and visit him, but she never showed up, even after Gabriella invited her. If it hadn’t been for the hospital staff and then his mom keeping an eye on him, he would have gone to her, but he had been forced it wait.

I’d spend it all buy diamonds and pearls
It’d be worth the fall if you were my girl
Just say you’ll play along and I’ll give you the world
I just need you near me don’t care how much it hurts
I’m so determined I swear I’ll make it work
It’ll be all about you I’ll put you first

Even with the news that he couldn’t play basketball for three or four weeks, he couldn’t wait to get back to school after a week of being gone. His mom had wanted him to stay home for a couple more days, but even though he was in slight pain, not seeing Taylor was worse.

He wouldn’t admit it out loud, but he was a little afraid that she had changed her mind about him in his absence. But distance was supposed to make the heart grow fonder, right? He hoped that age old proverb was right, because if it wasn’t he had a lot of work ahead of him.

To his surprise, she was waiting for him by his locker when he got to school. She looked tired, but her face had lit up when their eyes met, which he took as a good sign.

As he got closer to her, his mind whorled with how he was going to greet her. He finally settled on a normal hello, but that flew out the window when she stood up on her tip toes and kissed his lips.

She pulled away just as quickly as she had come upon him and with the finger pointed into his chest said, “Don’t you ever do that to me again. Do you know how worried I was about you! You could have -”

He silenced her with a kiss, feeling his body go to cloud nine as her body melted into his.