LIFE CAN CHANGE- Aaron Tveit

CHAPTER 9

"I’m sure it isn’t. I can’t wait to see it! As your running partner I expect good seats for opening night!" I said laughing but I meant it. I would be really happy if it would happen! "Of course! You'll be the second person to get tickets from me!" he said in a very serious tone "second? Who’s first?" I asked.

"My parents of course!" he said. Oh of course he'd give them tickets. How didn’t I think of that? "So what else are you working on? Any movies? What’s with Graceland?" I asked. I feel like his friend but I’m still his fan too. "I can’t tell you about Graceland. You'll have to wait for season 3 to begin! And I have a few movies that need to come out. I just got back from Florida last week from filming another movie. So I keep myself busy. And what about you? How’s the case I brought back to you going? Do you like being a lawyer?" oh great. I love how people always assume that if you’re in a law firm you’re a lawyer. But there are also other jobs there!

"Actually I’m not a lawyer. I’m a paralegal. And the case is fine.. Working hard on it." I probably sounded hurt because then Aaron asked if he said anything that bothered me. "No" I lied "I can see there’s something on your mind. What is it?" he wouldn't let it go. "It’s my dream to become a lawyer. But that'll never happen. So I’m a paralegal instead. It’s not that bad, but being close to all the lawyers all the time make me jealous" I said a little sad.

"Why can’t you become a lawyer?" he asked interested "I’m not good with tests. I’ll never pass the bar" I said a little sad "but let’s stop talking about sad stuff for now" I didn’t want to start hearing a lecture about how I could make it work. I’ve heard it enough from so many people. But they just don’t get it. So we continued running silently towards my apartment,

"So I’ll see you tomorrow morning too?" I asked Aaron as we got close to my building "no.. We said once a week we'll run alone. So since I’m seeing you tomorrow night I guess we'll run apart in the morning" oh right! Tomorrow we're going together to watch the show! I forgot about it "ok! So I’ll meet you at the theatre?" I asked. "What? Of course not! I'll pick you up. And don’t make that face. It’s not up for discussion!" he said and continued running leaving me at the entrance of my building all confused.

What just happened with him today? 2 days ago we were strangers and now we're going running together every morning? He doesn’t even know me! Why is he doing all of this? So many thoughts went through my mind and I couldn’t stop them. The weird thing is it felt like its right and nothing in that should be weird. I felt like his best friend and it didn’t make sense. I was too confused for anything.

I went up to my apartment, showered, ate and went to work. I tried focusing on the cases and doing my job but I was completely out of it. Jess figured out that something was going on but I couldn’t tell her. I didn’t even know what to say. Everything was so weird so I just tried ignoring it.

Finally the day ended and I could go back home. But it felt so empty there being alone. I worked a bit on the case, watched a movie and went to sleep. When I got up the next day I wasn’t in a mood for running which almost never happens to me.