Shooting Stars.

I woke up the next morning. It was just li⁸ke any other day. Rain, rain, rain.

" Your awake?.." He said with a. soft voice.

" I'm sorry I didnt want to wake you up."

His arms wrapped around my waist. He laid me back down. I turned to look at him. He closed his eyes.

" How long will you stay?.." He said. I didnt know how to reply. He was still hurting. The whole point of staying the night with him was to not feel the pain, yet he still felt it.

" Do you want me to leave?" I asked

"No!.. I d– I don't want you to leave..." He said. He sounded ashamed. He came closer to me. He laid his head on my chest. I hugged him. I didnt know what else to do.

" I want to find someone else. I cant keep loving her. She doesnt love me..." His voice sounded sad again. He was in love with Maddison.

" He doesnt love me either." I hugged him tighter.

He still sees me as a child. I get it theres a 3 year difference. I still love Cole even if he doesnt li8ve me back." He looked up at me. His eyes kept down low. He got up. We stayed in silence.

" Neither of them want us. They never will. So why are we still doing this..." He said. Tear drops fell on to the black silk sheets. Those eyes cried again. He looked back at me. He slowly started to make his way toward me. Slowly getting on top of me. I felt the tension. I wanted to break it. I still didnt know how.

" Wh– What if we try to love each other..." His tears fell on to my cheeks. I slowly started to play with his hair. He opened his eyes wide enough so that I could see them.

" I hate it when those hazel eyes cry.." I told him as I put my hand on his cheek.

" We both know that it wont work. I want to try to love you too, but I'm already in love with Cole and your in love with Maddison. We both know that I doesn't matter how long we try to fake these feelings. It wont work..." I said.He collapsed on to me. I slowly laid him down again. I hugged him...

" You know that we'll have each other, but loving each other wont be a good idea. We love different people." I repeated. He got up and wiped his tears away.

" Your right. It's not a good idea, but.. can we try?... We both know that we dont want to feel this way." He was right, but I could never admit to it.

" How do you plan we can somehow 'love' each other?" I asked. He didnt reply.

"I'm not sure" He said. I didnt want to spark hope in him. I didnt think it was a good idea we both know it isn't a good idea.

" I–I guess that with time we can learn to not fake these feelings anymore. We can truly love each other" He said. I didnt say a word just laid there with him. I wanted to believe him but there was a little part inside of me that didn't know how to believe that could happend.

After 15 mins he had fallen asleep. I slowly got up trying not to wake him up. I went into the bathroom to change back into my clothes I was wearing the night before. I was pulling up my pants when I heard a knock on the door.

" Hey umm do y- do you want to go get some breakfast at Luna Pop?" He asked. I just wanted to go home but I could never say no.

"Yeah but let me change first." I replied. It went silent.

"Yeah that's fine, there some toilet trees under the sink for you. Oh and also keep the shirt." He said. He had given me the shirt that I liked. The one shirt that ge loved. It was one of his favorites. I felt bad keeping it but I could never say no.

"Oh thank you but you really dont have too" I told him.

"No it's better if you have it. You really liked it. Now I want to give it to you" He replied. He was right I lived it, yet still felt guilty taking it. I finally got out if the bathroom with my ripped jeans, black serpent shirt on, grey long sleeve under the shirt, hair down with a brain on one side of my head, old black Convers and jean jacket on. When I came outside he was waiting for me. Flannel under his jean jacket black jeans and black Van's. While walking he pulled something out of his jacket. It was freezing outside since it was near January and winter was coming to an end.

"Here I brought this for you." He pulled out a black beanie. Which had the same serpent that the shirt had. He put it on me.

"Thanks but you dont need to give me more stuff" I told him.

"Oh is it to much I'm sor-" I stoped him before he could finish.

"No! Not at all it nothing really. It's fine. Thank you I mean it is something I-Its enough. Thank you " I said. When we finally got there we sat down at a both. Lunar Pop was that old 90s aesthetic place. It had that classic checkered floors. With the 90s nostalgia feeling to it. It had been a places that many people had come too. It was the main place for kids like me liked to come to. It was the main reason people would come to the little town of Oakriver. We talked for a while. Until breakfast came. We also liked coming to Lunar Pop it was that place were we felt like we fit in. Even if we felt like we didnt fit in anywhere. When we finally finished we had our old classic vanilla and chocolate milkshakes we loved. We were quite fir most of it. Just looking outside as the rain poured. I could help but think what my mom would think if I went back home at this time. Would she be worried. I doubt it. The woman was an alcoholic. My dad had left when I was 5 years old and I never saw him again. The old man didnt even bother to take me with him. He just left didnt even look at me or say goodbye. He just yelled at my mom to go to hell before he left that night. My poor mom had to struggle for years. She didnt have any money and had no job. Even after all that effort she threw it all away for alchohol. All she has left is a small two room crapy apartment. She didnt care much what I did or who I was with.

I got distracted in my thoughts and couldn't hear that Andrew had been trying to get my attention for a while.

"Kiara?" He said

"Are you ok. You just got stuck in your head or something. Do you feel alright?" He asked. His eyes looked worried.

"Yeah, I'm fine I just got di-distracted" I replied. He could tell I was hiding something. I didnt want him to know but it was to late he knew and now there was no way I could avoid showing it.

"I have a question" I told him.

"Depends what it is, and by the way your acting it must be serious." He replied. Dam it. He knew me to well.

"If you want to try this idea of your. How do we both need to try to fall in love with each other?" I asked. His eyes didnt break contact with mine. I opened my mouth again.

"Wh-what if we can't feel that way for each other? What do we do then?" I asked once more. He still hadn't looked away. He just stayed quiet. After a few moment he looked out the window and then looking back at me. This time he had a slight smile on his face.

" How about we do this" He said.

" School is almost over. We have one more semester starting in 3 weeks. By the end of the last semester if we cant feel those feelings for each other then we'll tell them. You can tell Cole the truth and I can tell Maddison as well. Does that sound like a deal?" He finished. I looked at him with surprise. I had no excuse to deny it. I knew it. He knew it too.

" Fine but just until school is over. If it doesnt work we'll go back to before. No one can know about us but, we're going to telk them. Deal? I replied, accepting his offer.

" Yeah. We'll I'm glad we have that all worked out. He said.

" Then I guess I'll pick you up tomorrow." He said.

" Tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yeah. Oh and bring some extra clothes to get wet in and some more warm clothes for later in on at night it can get cold unless-" I stooed him before he could finish.

"No yeah. I got it." I told him. We got out of Lunar Pop. He walked me home or to "The Box with a Fox" as we liked to call it. It was nothing special. Just reminded me of everything my mother and I had to go through and that old man pathetic excuse of a father I had. I was back to hell. Maybe it was even worse...