Whispered Dreams - Chapter 23 Good Side!
The outcomes of the confessions!
Zoey's pov
It had been almost a week, since my last encounter with Jake. I had no courage to face him anymore. If I thought our group had fallen apart before, this situation seemed like a world war right now. Rick picked his side with me, when he found me in the ROAD crying helplessly. I knew Mel was dead worried about me, but she couldn’t leave Jake alone with Annie anymore.
So basically my perfect high school life is now a living hell. If it weren’t for Rick picking me up every morning, I’m sure I wouldn’t have even gotten out of the bed all this week.
"Zoey, Zo…" I heard someone call me.
Suddenly I was in the middle of a crowded cafeteria, with something in my mouth. No idea what I was eating. I made a face as I realized I was eating a huge chunk of broccoli.
"Zoey?" Danny came in front of me shaking me back to reality.
"Yeah…" I said as I shoved the vegetable in my throat.
"Go with me to the spring dance?" Danny said looking a little uncomfortable.
I would’ve worried about Danny’s tone but the three passing people behind him took my attention away. It was a worried Mel, a confused Annie and an indifferent looking Jake. My heart cried for him, I should’ve never said the things that I did. I should’ve known I couldn’t have handled the outcome. I felt too guilty, I was breaking Mel away from me and Rick, Jake away from Rick and Annie away from Jake. Even though it was something that I wished for before, but now things were different.
The look in Annie’s face made me feel like I was being stabbed right in the gut. I felt like a criminal for messing with all those precious relationships.
"Zo?" Danny broke my train of thought I was busy with.
What was he talking about? Oh… yeah spring dance. Well of course I will, wasn’t that obvious? Who else would I go with?
"Sure Danny! Who else am I supposed to go with?" I tried my teasing tone.
But it didn’t convince him. Danny knew everything about what I was going through with. Well my misery brought something good with it, Danny was there with Rick to help me, result- Rick and Danny good friends now.
I guess, every bad or tragic thing really does have a good side to it doesn’t it?
I was rambling in my head trying to figure out some positive side from that confession could bring with it when Annie came to talk to me. Jake and Mel had already left the cafeteria.
"Zoey, may I have a word with you?" she said in the sweetest tone ever.
Maybe she isn’t so bad after all. I shouldn’t have judged her so fast merely on a basis of my stupid dream and her sexy white dress! Really that dress was so sexy!
"I’ll leave you guys to talk" Danny left with that.
"How are you doing?" she asked.
"Umm… what are you talking about?" I asked in confusion.
"Look, I might not know everything about this, but I’m not blind Zoey. You and Jake are in a fight, and I can see that you both are suffering right now" Annie replied as she gave me a small smile.
Wow… she’s really observant and seemed really too mature for her age. She almost sounded like my mom. I had nothing to say to that, so I just stayed quite.
"Look, I like Jake a lot, but it’s not worth ruining your friendship for. If this fight has something to do with me, then I’ll just back off. I don’t want to be the problem here." She said rubbing her face with her hands.
She’s really cool too. If she’s in my future somehow, we could actually be good friends.
And that’s when it hit me, the good side for all the drama of the last week. Yeah that has to be the good thing, I know it is! I could feel the bulb clicking on in my head. It was so obvious! That had to be it!
"No… Annie. Look I’m sorry you had to be so worried about us this week. But I will fix this, I promise you I will." I replied my voice frantic and my tone hurried but still dead serious.
I gave Annie a quick smile and rushed to throw whatever was in my plate to the garbage. After that I ran out the cafeteria to find Jake.
I will fix this! I will!
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I'm in a frantic hurry to finish my next chapter! I'll post that sooner... so you know what to do! c'mon really what do you think will happen? let me know your guesses! Comments are love! =)
It had been almost a week, since my last encounter with Jake. I had no courage to face him anymore. If I thought our group had fallen apart before, this situation seemed like a world war right now. Rick picked his side with me, when he found me in the ROAD crying helplessly. I knew Mel was dead worried about me, but she couldn’t leave Jake alone with Annie anymore.
So basically my perfect high school life is now a living hell. If it weren’t for Rick picking me up every morning, I’m sure I wouldn’t have even gotten out of the bed all this week.
"Zoey, Zo…" I heard someone call me.
Suddenly I was in the middle of a crowded cafeteria, with something in my mouth. No idea what I was eating. I made a face as I realized I was eating a huge chunk of broccoli.
"Zoey?" Danny came in front of me shaking me back to reality.
"Yeah…" I said as I shoved the vegetable in my throat.
"Go with me to the spring dance?" Danny said looking a little uncomfortable.
I would’ve worried about Danny’s tone but the three passing people behind him took my attention away. It was a worried Mel, a confused Annie and an indifferent looking Jake. My heart cried for him, I should’ve never said the things that I did. I should’ve known I couldn’t have handled the outcome. I felt too guilty, I was breaking Mel away from me and Rick, Jake away from Rick and Annie away from Jake. Even though it was something that I wished for before, but now things were different.
The look in Annie’s face made me feel like I was being stabbed right in the gut. I felt like a criminal for messing with all those precious relationships.
"Zo?" Danny broke my train of thought I was busy with.
What was he talking about? Oh… yeah spring dance. Well of course I will, wasn’t that obvious? Who else would I go with?
"Sure Danny! Who else am I supposed to go with?" I tried my teasing tone.
But it didn’t convince him. Danny knew everything about what I was going through with. Well my misery brought something good with it, Danny was there with Rick to help me, result- Rick and Danny good friends now.
I guess, every bad or tragic thing really does have a good side to it doesn’t it?
I was rambling in my head trying to figure out some positive side from that confession could bring with it when Annie came to talk to me. Jake and Mel had already left the cafeteria.
"Zoey, may I have a word with you?" she said in the sweetest tone ever.
Maybe she isn’t so bad after all. I shouldn’t have judged her so fast merely on a basis of my stupid dream and her sexy white dress! Really that dress was so sexy!
"I’ll leave you guys to talk" Danny left with that.
"How are you doing?" she asked.
"Umm… what are you talking about?" I asked in confusion.
"Look, I might not know everything about this, but I’m not blind Zoey. You and Jake are in a fight, and I can see that you both are suffering right now" Annie replied as she gave me a small smile.
Wow… she’s really observant and seemed really too mature for her age. She almost sounded like my mom. I had nothing to say to that, so I just stayed quite.
"Look, I like Jake a lot, but it’s not worth ruining your friendship for. If this fight has something to do with me, then I’ll just back off. I don’t want to be the problem here." She said rubbing her face with her hands.
She’s really cool too. If she’s in my future somehow, we could actually be good friends.
And that’s when it hit me, the good side for all the drama of the last week. Yeah that has to be the good thing, I know it is! I could feel the bulb clicking on in my head. It was so obvious! That had to be it!
"No… Annie. Look I’m sorry you had to be so worried about us this week. But I will fix this, I promise you I will." I replied my voice frantic and my tone hurried but still dead serious.
I gave Annie a quick smile and rushed to throw whatever was in my plate to the garbage. After that I ran out the cafeteria to find Jake.
I will fix this! I will!
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I'm in a frantic hurry to finish my next chapter! I'll post that sooner... so you know what to do! c'mon really what do you think will happen? let me know your guesses! Comments are love! =)
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