True Love or Unrequited Love

Ice Cream shop

Have you ever been in such a serenity that it was as if you were unstoppable? That’s what it feels like in this very moment. Rebecca and Sofi seem like the best of friends and they chose to sit at a two seat table making Camilla and I sit by ourselves in another.

Camilla was telling me different stories about times at home and others during concerts. She told me of the times she went to target one day with her friends in a onesie and got into one of the refrigerators. She told me of the time that she was on a hammock and it swung violently till it flipped over and she landed on her face.

It seemed like we were old friends catching up on the lives of what we had missed since we had last seen each other.

“I couldn’t believe it though, I pretty much face planted on the stage, all because I had decided to not listen to my mom when she told me that the heels were too high. I just wanted to prove to her that I could walk in whatever I wanted but nope. I walked on stage and straight on my face I went, not even a minute into the show.” She said finishing her story. If it weren’t for her stories about being on stage I would probably forget that I she was a pop star and I was a person she barely met the other day.

“Well, I’m probably boring you with all these stories. Why don’t you tell me about yourself?”

“First of all, I think most of these stories aren’t boring but some of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. Secondly theres not much to really tell about me.”

“Well the first time I met you would tell me differently.”

“That’s just a really long story.”

“Well at least it seems interesting from what I saw.” She said to referring to the slap on the face that I had received when we first met.

“What you saw was her part of the plan succeed, while what I hoped for failed.” I tried to explain.

“What do you mean?:

“Well to make a long story short, I pretended to date one of my best friends who I actually had a crush on, so she could actually see her boyfriend behind her parents back.”

“What were you hoping would happen?” She asked.

“I was sort hoping that she’d start liking me too.”

“I’m sorry.”

“You have nothing to be sorry for. It was my fault. I was hoping for something that was impossible in the first place, I mean after so long why would she suddenly start to like me? We’ve known each other for six years and nothing happened but I couldn’t help but hope you know?”

“Have you talked to her since then?”

“Nope, she left to attend a school in Texas. The thing that sucks though is she hasn’t even texted me. We pretty much started texting everyday and since then she hasn’t even tried to talk to me once.”

“It hurts doesn’t it?”

“Yeah. I think unrequited loves the worse because you’re giving so much love but you don’t get any back which just leaves you empty. It’s like theres a hole, because you gave part of yourself that you won’t get back.” Camila hands me a napkin and I realize that I’m crying.

“Lauren, you seem like someone who loves a lot and I’m sure that you’ll find someone one day that can fill that hole that she’s left you. You’ll find someone who is better, someone who you truly deserve and they deserve to have your love. She didn’t deserve to break your heart.” I felt the tears keep coming but I kept wiping them off. She then got up and sat on my lap as she gave me a hug.

“Thanks.” I reply into her neck.

“Lauren! Are you alright?” Rebecca asked concerned as she and Sofi walked towards us. Camila and I broke away from the hug and she went back to where she was originally seated. I couldn’t help but feel my face get red.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” I say with the best smile I could come up with.

“Then can Sofi come over to play?” She asked nervously.

“I wish she could but you know your mom’s rules, no guest over while they’re not home.”

“Oh right.” Rebecca said disappointed.

“It’s okay, you can come over to our house right kaks?” Sofi asked Camila.

“I’d need to text mom but I’m sure it’ll be alright.” Camila replied. She grabbed her phone and quickly typed out a message. “Oh wait, Lauren can Rebecca come over?” I couldn’t help but laugh since even I forgot that they were making plans without my permission. I also realized that I had to go to work. Which usually meant that Harry would be with Rebecca behind the counter. Rebecca would usually draw and Harry made sure everyone paid for their orders.

“Normally, I’d say yes but I have to work in an hour and I’m not allowed to leave Rebecca by herself.”

“What about tomorrow? I have to catch my plane since I’m leaving for the next stop on the tour at around 9 at night so anytime before than could work.

“Yeah, that could work. Rebecca’s parents don’t come home till 8 tomorrow so we wouldn’t be able to stay that long anyways.”

“What about around 10 tomorrow?”

“Yeah, that way they have nearly the whole day to play.

“Yay!” Sofi said. “We can play with the barbie car kaks got me for Christmas. Its big so we can ride in it.”

“I have one of those but it’s not a barbie.”

“You should bring it with you. Then we can drive around in the backyard.”

“Lauren can I?” Rebecca asked me.

“Yeah, that’s fine but little monkey we have to go now.” I tell Rebecca.

“Okay, bye Sofi. Bye Camila.”

“It was nice seeing you again.” I tell Camila.

“Yeah, you too.”

“I’ll text you later, alright?”

“Yeah, I look forward to it.” She replied with a smile. We waved goodbye till we got in the car and they got into theirs. It was in the moment when I thought that maybe Sofi hadn’t been joking when she said Camila liked me. That maybe I had a chance. Not only a chance with her but also a chance to finally be able to forget about Ally. It changed though, the bliss that I had that whole day was broken when we got back to the house and I looked at my phone after not looking at it all day.

Ally: Hey, sorry I haven’t texted you but I’ve been busy since I got to Texas. How are you doing? :)

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I was finally able to update after not doing so for three months and I'm sorry for that. I hope you like this chapter. I'll try to make the next one longer and update on Sundays again.