Wishin' On A Comet

Chapter Ten

~ A few days later~

Ross's P.O.V

Lena hasn't talked to me for a while now, well not directly to me at least. I can sense just in her tone, the way her breathing is more shallow, that's she's down. i guess I am, too, but I wouldn't really know, its the way my family looks at me that I could tell. I still haven't told them anything, I don't know how, all I hear in their whispers was how serious this relationship must have been, for me to be so depressed. Lena sometimes goes to bed crying, I think she thinks i'm sleeping, but i'm not, it's hard for me to sleep these days. I want to comfort her, tell her I really did like her, I was jealous and stupid, and I still like her now, she was right, I overreacted, she was happy with her first kiss, her first boyfriend and I ruined it because I love her, because the hurt was so much I never wanted to hear her quite breath and perky voice again.

Lena's P.O.V

I'm so stupid. How could I say such mean things to him and not have the guts to say sorry back? I overreacted, thinking it was just jealousy, that...that he liked me. How stupid is that!? Of course he doesn't like me, i'm so mean to him. I can't go to anyone for comfort, no one would understand, not even Bryce, who is... more or less to intent on studying then taking out his girlfriend. I starred at the poster tacked onto a wooden pull outside a little ice cream parlor in the streets of San Diego, it was for a huge meteor shower that was going to pass by soon, it comes once a year, you can see it when you go out to this huge meadow, theirs good food, and music, but the best part is to see the white lights rain down from the sky. I eyed the set list of music that they're going to have play at the festival, and my eyes fell on two simple words, R5. I tried not to let the sting in my heart bug me so much, it was my fault anyway. I'm so stupid. Bryce came up behind me holding two separate cones and handed me the one I order, I told him thank you as we stood their licking the soft dairy product before it melted in the sun. Bryce peered at me from behind his glasses. "We need to talk." he said, "Alright..." Is what I managed to mutter. "I'm concerned for you Lena, you've been rather distracted lately, I'm not sure if that's going to pass over well for the mid terms coming up." I cleared my throat. "What?" "in fact, having a girl friend does eat up my time as well, I do need to study after all...." I couldn't help but get the feeling this was leading some where. "Bryce, you're so smart, why do you need to study all the time?" He pushed his glasses up to the bridge of his nose, and snickered, "Although i'm flattered by the complement that's a pretty incompetent question, don't you see, you only get smarter by studying." "That's not true, you get smart in a lot of ways, like making mistakes and learning form them. like... like owning up and taking responsibility for something you did." he peered at me with golden eyes, "Though I see your point you may be to young to understand, why make mistakes when you can learn from other people's whom write it down in literature, allowing you to study it." I teetered on the heels of my feet, "because what if they don't write it down!" I found myself yelling, "what if their lesson was to be learned through another person they had a telepathic connection with after wishing upon a comet, and they don't write it down, so nobody would ever know how important it is to own up to your mistakes and admit how stupid you were for something you said!" I yelped, biting my tongue after, I heard Ross snicker though, and it was enough to bring a water line of tears of joy to my eyes. Bryce stared at me like I went crazy, (which I possibly did) but not talking to the greatest friend I ever had for days can make me lose myself. "Ross!' I called in the middle of the side walk, "I'm so stupid, And I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that, you're the greatest friends I've ever had and, I...I know you probably think I'm annoying but no matter how annoying or blunt I think you are, you makes me happy and make me laugh and I love to tease you, and I want to hear everything you say, and I love the way I fall asleep to your snoring and I love how much of a flirt you are but you're actually terrified of being really intimate and I love how much you care for me, and would ask whats wrong if I start breathing weird or would be there to talk to me when I'm feeling alone, and I'm stupid because I messed that up!" It was quite for a while, but people still walked by us, werider things have happened on the streets of Diego. Bryce looked horrifeid, and I felt bad that the poor boy had to witness my mental break down. But he pushed his glasses backed up and tried to gain a more proffesional look before saying, "I don't think it's healthy for me to date a mentally unstable person..." Before turning around a speed walking as far away from me as he could get. I just stood their waiting for Ross to answer, nibbling on my lip as my ice cream dripped down my hands, then a playful voice came through the other line. "Are you talking to yourself? You know Lena people are going to think you're crazy." All I could do was stand there laughing as tears of joy streamed down my face. "I've missed you, Ross." "I've missed you, too."