Behind The Screen

Don't Say Goodbye

“Lola?” I can hear that Evan has a panic in his voice. “I’m just running somewhere quick.” I turn down the street to the police station and pull into the parking lot. “Why didn’t you wake me up? I could have came with.” I can tell that he is worried and I turn off the car. “I’m sorry. I will call you back ok?” I open up the car door and lock the doors. I start to walk towards the entrance and hear Evan say “Ok fine.” he hangs up on me and I stuff my phone in my back pocket. I walk into the police station and go up to the front desk. The front desk lady was old with glasses that were on the bridge of her nose. She was typing furiously at the keyboard, “Hello?” I look over the tall desk and raise my eyebrows. “Yes?” she looks up at me with a mean look. I mentally rolled my eyes and smiled at her. “I’m here to pick up my friend” “Alright. What’s their name?” I tried to remember who Casey said was here. “Casey Beckingham.” She started to type away on her computer and picked up her phone. “Is there a Casey Beckingham being held?” she spoke into her fun with a mono tone. “Mmmhmm” She hung up and started to write something down on a small piece of paper, she handed it to me and pointed her long bony fingers in the direction behind her. “Go back there and your friends will be waiting for you.” she went back to typing and didn’t look back up. Friends? I thought just Casey was here. I walked past the front desk and down a long hall with small box offices on either side of me Farther down the hall I saw Casey sitting on the ground messing with her heels. “Casey?” I start to jog towards her and she looks up but is squinting. I get to her and help her up to her feet. “What happened?” I look her up and down and help her brush off her dress. “We have to go down that hall to get the guys and Jc.” she starts to walk down the hall on our left. “I thought it was just you here?” I ask her, jogging a little to catch up to her. “No we are all here.” She says slowing down a bit and looking at me. We kept walking and as we walked I looked in all the cells where they are holding all the other teenagers and people here. I see a cop sitting at a desk, filling out paper work. I walk up to his desk and clear my throat. “Hello. What do you need help with?” He asks looking between Casey and I. “Janice Haven, Noah Braxton, and Bailey Cooper.” Casey says crossing her arms across her chest still holding her heels. Why wouldn’t she put them back on? This floor is disgusting. I zone back into reality to see Jc and the boys coming around the corner and walking over to us. I walk over to Jc and hug her. “What happened?” I ask her while hugging her. She sobs into my shoulder, “Justin and Zac.” My head shoots up and I let go of her. She has make-up running down her face, her dress is all messed up, and she’s carrying her heels just like Casey was. I walk over to the cop at the desk to pay for bail. “How much to bail all 4 of them out?” I ask grabbing my wallet from my purse. “$150, for each person. So $600 total please.” I look at him in disbelief. I don’t say anything, I just grab my credit card and hand it to him. He takes it and does whatever you do to complete the transaction. He hands it back to me, and says thank you. I grab it and put it away, I turn around and leave with the four convicts behind me. Once we get to the car I demand to be told what happened. Jc tells me everything and I speed back to the hotel. We got to the hotel and I stormed in, so I could find my address book my parents gave me. I looked through everything, and finally found it in my backpack. I pulled it out and sat on the bed. Evan was talking to the boys in the hall and the girls were in the bathroom cleaning up. I found the number I needed and dialed. “Hello?” A voice came through. “Mom?” “Lola?” “Yeah it’s me.” “Oh my goodness! Honey how’s your trip?” “Good. But’s that’s not why I called.” I can hear rustling in the background and talking. “Mom?” “Yes sweetie I’m here.” Casey walks out of the bathroom and sits next to me on the bed. She words ‘who are you talking too?’ I ignore her and get up to leave when the boys walk in. “Uhm.. hold on a sec. I have to get somewhere more private.” I say while everyone looks at me funny. I walk past them all and walk down the halls talking to my mom about everything. “Thank you so much. I love you.” “I love you too sweetie. Bye now.” I hang up and put my phone in my back pocket. I rub my hands down my face and think about everything for a few minutes when I’m brought out of my thoughts. “So who was that?” I turn around and see Evan standing there looking a bit sad and confused. “No one.” I say in a dull tone. “Obviously it was someone if you said you love them.” I look at him again and stare. “Were you listening to my conversation?” I ask him getting a bit mad. “No. I was looking for you when I heard you say bye and that you loved that person.” He stares at me for the longest time with doubt in his eyes. He crosses his arms in front of him and leans against the railing to go downstairs. “Was it your boyfriend? Zach, was his name?” I’m shocked. How in the hell does he know about Zach and why does he think that he is my boyfriend? “No, Evan. Zach is not my boyfriend and never will be.” I walk towards him and grab his hands, he pulls away from me and starts to walk back towards the hotel room. “Wait! Evan!” I jog after him and grab his shoulder to face me. He had this lack of sparkle in his eyes that I missed. “Do you love him?” Evan grabs my hands and squeezes tightly. Did I still love Zach? Hell no!! I would rather sleep in a bed of centipedes than have to see him again. “No. I only love you. And thats the truth.” I bring my hands up to his neck and inch my way closer to his face. He smiles and gains that happiness in eyes back. He leans down and our lips touch, its warm and smooth, it was perfect. He breaks the kiss that I so wanted to last longer. He grabs my hand and pulls me down the hallway to our room. When we get to the room I realize that today is our last day here and we have to keep heading to Texas. Where did the time go? It only felt like yesterday that I was hugging Evan for the first time. I notice that Jc and Casey are packing their things into the suitcases. Evan goes and sits next to Bailey and Noah. I let out a sigh and start to go pack my things. “You guys are leaving?” I hear Noah speaking with a hint of disappointment in his voice. Casey finishes putting away her hair products and goes to sit on Noah’s lap. I hurry up and shove my stuff into my bag, zip it up and put it by the front door. I go over to sit next to Evan and plop right at the end of his feet. “Are you almost done?” Bailey whines towards Jc. I knew that he was jealous because Jc was with him. “She has this organization problem, that everything has to be in a perfect order.” Casey says sorta muffled because her head was deep into Noah’s chest. “It’s called OCD and I’m already done so ha.” Jc walks over to the rest of us and sits on his lap facing him. I smile at how happy we all are, when an idea comes to me. I stand up and walk over to both girls, grab their hands, and drag them in the bathroom. “What was that for?” Casey asks and gives me a cold glare. “I have an amazing idea!!” I squeal and jump up and down. “What is this oh so amazing lola idea?” Jc asks crossing her arms. “Well. What if the guys came with? Ya know?! Instead of leaving them and such?!” I said while grinning like an idiot. “But how would they come with?” Casey asks looking super confused. I look over at Jc and I see shes smiling like she just saw a fairy. “They would ride with us. And on our way home, we drop them off here.” I saw in a duh tone. “I like it.” Jc finally says and looks at Casey smiling. “Oh c’mon Cas, it would be fun.” Jc says trying to convince her. “It does sound awesome. But we simply don’t have room.” “What are you talking about?! Of course we have room. Me and Evan in front. Jc and Bailey in middle row. Then you and Noah in the far back.” I said with my smile bigger than before. “I love the idea. We just gotta convince them it’s a good idea.” Casey says pointing to the door. We walk out of the bathroom and into the room where the boys are all sitting. We stand in a line in front of the three boys and smile. “Why are you girls smiling like you just had sex?” Noah asked with a look of fear on his face. We all started to laugh and shook our heads. “No, one out of three of us are still virgins. BUT WE AREN’T SAYING WHICH ONE!! But no, thats not the point. We have an amazing idea.” I said looking at the three excited but confused boys. “Then what’s your idea?” Evan says getting up, but I push him down so hes laying on the bed again. “Stay there. You idiots have to listen then you can talk.” I say pointing at Evan. “Well then talk.” He says pointing back. “OK, well Lola originally came up with the idea but we helped her with it. She came up with the idea that you guys could come with to Texas and when we go back home we can bring you guys back then just head to Baltimore after that.” Casey says super excitedly. All three guys looked at us like we were nuts, and looked at each other. “I don’t know” Bailey says. “It’s fine if you guys don’t want to. We just figured that since it was a possibility we would ask.” Jc says looking at Bailey with sad eyes. We all sat there in silence till my phone started to ring. I pulled it out and saw that my little sister Ariel was trying to facetime me. I grab my ear buds and walk into the hall. “HEYY!!!” She screams as soon as I answer. “How are things at home little sis?” I ask her while looking at her long, curly, red hair. Her hair is naturally red, gorgeous green eyes, and a lot of freckles. “Fine, mom and dad haven’t really been home. But when they were, they didn’t leave their office.” “I’m sorry red, I’ll be home soon.” When I said that I heard a door open and saw Evan sitting down next to me. “OMG ARE YOU WITH BOYS!?!” She screams. “Yes Ariel. I hang out with boys all the time.” Thats a lie. No I don’t. I introduce the two and we all talk for a little. Then Ariel asks the thing I knew she would ask. “Hey LaLa, can I borrow a dress? Our snow dance is in 2 days and I cannot find the right dress. Plus I really liked the short white one you wore 2 years ago. And I’ve already tried it on so I know it fits.” she says giving me her best smile. “So you were in my room?” “Do I bother trying to cover myself up?” “No. Go get it. And let me see it on you. Then maybe you can use it.” She gets up and switches the camera so you can see the whole house. I smile slightly at it. Yeah I miss home, but I like it here. “Woah, your house is huge.” Evan says in amazement. Ariel giggles and opens the door to my room. She sits in my spinny chair and spins. “Get off my chair and go in my closet.” She keeps spinning and I look sadly at my room. I miss home. “You have a huge room.” Evan says looking over my shoulder. I laugh at him. “I guess so.” Ariel goes in my walk in closet and goes through all clothes. “It’s in the cabinet with zumiez stickers on the doors.” She goes over to it and opens it revealing all my prom, homecoming, and whatever I’d need a dress like that for. She digs through them a little and finds the right one. Once she had it on and I’ve seen it on her I knew she had to wear it. “Ok, fine. I guess you can wear it. But I swear if you do anything to it…..” She shrieks and drops her phone and we are left with a black screen. I hung up and stuff my phone in my backpack, knowing that Ariel will not even notice that I hung up. “So…...what do you think about coming with us?” I turn my body so I’m facing Evan and I hope that he says yes so we can just go to Texas already. “What if I said no?” he gives a playful smile and grabs ahold of my hand. “I guess we would just have to find other guys to hang out with.” I give him a small smile and stand to walk to the door. I know he is thinking about it and will be by my side in 3…..2….. “Wait!! I wanna spend time with you, not the others.” he turns me around right before I reach the door. “So..you will go?” I give him my most saddest puppy dog eyes ever and even stick out my lower lip. “Yes.” he brings me closer to him and we are so close I could feel his breath hitting my nose. I leaned forward for a kiss and as soon as our lips were about to touch I pulled away and walked into the hotel room. I heard Evan groan and I just smiled to myself. Casey was sitting on Noahs lap and Jc was sitting on Baileys. They all looked so happy and like they just won the lottery. But I guess in a way they did. “Alright so are you guys coming with?” Casey asks looking at Noah with a big grin on her face. Noah and Bailey looked at Evan and then back at us. “Yeah. I mean why not?” Bailey gets off the bed and picks up Jc things and starts to head out the door. “We really are doing this aren’t we?” Evan says walking over to my pile of bags. “I guess so.” Noah chuckles and grabs Casey’s things and walks out the door. Evan holds my stuff in his hands and walks towards the door. “You ready?” Evan turns around halfway out the door and gives me a small smile. I walk towards him and give him a kiss. “Always.” and we walk out the door.