SO GUESS WHO’S SEEING EMBLEM3 LIVE AT IRVING PLAZA? THIS GIRL OVER HEREEE! YOU GUYS DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND THEY SOLD OUT IN LESS THAN A MINUTE, I DIDN’T GET VIP BUT OH WELL AT LEAST I’M GOING! LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF YOU ARE GOING TOO BECAUSE I WANNA MEET YOU ALL OK WITH THAT BEING SAID IM IN A HAPPY MOOD TODAY SO HOPEFULLY YOU LIKE THIS CHAPTER! I LOVE YOU ALL KBYE.
BTW THIS IS A VERY EMOTIONAL CHAPTER.
BTW IM STALKING THE GUYS AFTER THE CONCERT, ANYONE CARE TO JOIN?
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Claudia’s P.O.V
I hadn’t seen or heard form Keaton since the Starbucks encounter. I heard he’d gotten sick or something. Acacia on the other side had managed to make sure I saw every bit of her possible. From leaving notes in my locker, to bumping into me in the hallways. The letters were left anonymous, but there was no doubt slutty plant girl was the one who was sending them. She had left so many pointless papers I could fill a whole trashcan up. Tyler stuck by me through everything; from every name Acacia called me, to every note being opened. I was so grateful for him, and I couldn’t picture going through this with anyone but him.
It was a Wednesday afternoon, around 6 o’clock. I was in the school’s dance studio just letting out some steam from the Acacia stress. I’d opened my locker today to one more note.
“I know your secret, back of bitch”
Seriously, what the hell Acacia. Is she trying to turn my life into some cheap version of Pretty Little Liars? When I finished going through a part of the combination, someone flew through the door. A loud BAM thundered through the studio and the door had been heavily thrown on the wall. That person was none other than Keaton.
“Keaton, what the-” I was interrupted by an angry guy.
“HOW COULD YOU?” he was screaming
“What?” I was so lost.
“YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE” I didn’t respond, so he just continued. “I THOUGHT YOU WERE DIFFERENT, BUT NO. YOU’RE A COMPLETE LIAR; I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU. BUT NOW I KNOW I CLEARLY CAN’T.” Oh shit. He didn’t know, or did he? That’s when it all hit me, the note, Starbucks, Acacia, everything tied together now.
“What are you talking about?” I swallowed hard.
“YOU’VE BEEN LYING TO ME THIS WHOLE TIME. YOU SAID YOU WERE FROM LONDON”
“Which I am…” I responded timidly
“THEN WHAT ABOUT SEQUIM HUH? WHAT WAS IT WHEN YOU SAID “I’M ORIGINALLY FROM LONDON” YOU NEVER TOLD ME WHO YOU ACTUALLY ARE. I REALLY THOUGHT YOU WERE DIFFERENT”
I was done, he deserved it, but so did I.
“YOU KNOW WHAT? MAYBE I LIED, BUT AT LEAST, I SHOWED UP THAT DAY AT THE BEACH, UNLIKE YOU DID. YOU KNOW HOW YOU MADE ME FEEL? STUPID AND FORGOTTEN. JUST LIKE I’VE FELT EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE. EVERY SINGLE DAY, UNTIL I MET YOU. BECAUSE WHEN I MET YOU I THOUGHT I FINALLY BELONGED SOMEWHERE. YES I DID LIVE IN SEQUIM, BUT WHY DIDN’T I MENTION IN? BECAUSE MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I DIND’T FEEL LIKE I EVER BELONGED THERE. OH NEWSFLASH, I NEVER DID. BECAUSE I WAS CLAUDIA LITTLE MISS NERD, AND NOAH’S SISTER. BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS. BECAUSE NO ONE ACTUALLY LIKED ME, AND I NEVER BELONGED THERE. AND THEN WHEN I FINALLY HAD A CHANCE TO START OVER, TO PUT MY UNHAPPY PAST BEHIND. BECAUSE I WAS DONE BEING THE PERSON EVERYONE SCREWED OVER, AND I WANTED TO BE SEEN. I WAS DONE WITH BEING INVISBLE. I DON’T KEATON MAYBE THAT’S WHY I LIED”
“YOU’RE IMPOSSIBLE, GET OUT OF MY LIFE, I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN.” Those words coming out of his mouth were like getting stabbed right in the heart. It was like getting all the air punched out of me. One of the most important people ever had just walked out of my life. And there was a slight chance I could ever get him back.
Keaton stormed out of the room before another word could come out of his mouth. He slammed the door shut and the rivers just floated from my eyes. Drop by drop falling on the dance floor; I didn’t even bother wiping my eyes. I just gathered all my stuff and got out of the studio locking it as fast as I could. I had to walk around the building to get to the parking lot, and I didn’t want anyone to see me like this, so I sprinted. Sprinting with a blurry vision is never the best idea. I was so close to the parking lot when I saw the most dreaded thing. My biggest nightmare. One of the things that scared me the most, unfolding right in front of my eyes. Keaton. Not only Keaton, but Keaton and Acacia. Some people would call what I saw kissing, but they were eating each other’s faces. I let out a scream, but it wasn’t because of them. I was sprinting and I hadn’t seen the staircase in front of me. So I fell, and hit my side against the rail. I wasn’t sure if the pain came from the image in front of me or from the fall. But surely, those two were affecting me badly right now. When they noticed I’d fallen, they separated from each other and turned to stare at my vulnerable self. Keaton gave me the most disgusted stare in the whole entire universe, and I will never forget the emotions flashing across his face. Disgust, shame, hate, pity.
I finally reached my car despite the aching pain in my side. As I sat in what felt like safety, I pulled my phone out and between tears I managed to call the only person I could think of.
“Hello” the voice answered
“He-he-hey” I sobbed into the phone.
“Claudia? What’s going on are you ok?”
“Drew. I need you right now”
“Where are you?”
“The school parking lot. Can you come get me?”
“Yeah I’m downtown I’ll be there in 5 mins”
“Thank you”
“And Claudia?”
“Please stay calm”
“No promises”
“Hang on I’ll be there”
He hung up the phone and I anxiously waited for Drew’s arrival. Drew has been super supportive of me, like the big brother that Noah wasn’t. Okay that was mean, but Drew had such a great mindset I couldn’t picture a single 20 year old having. He was a role model to me and I knew I could count on him for anything.
I was so relieved when I saw Drew tapping on my window. I instantly got out of the car and wrapped my arms around his neck, crying my eyes out into his shirt. When I finished letting everything out, he wiped my tears away with his thumbs. He took me to the car and without any words, we drove to the beach. It wasn’t the pier though; it was a place Drew had told me about a while back. A place that he discovered a few years ago while exploring HB, and he came here to think. We got out of the car and sat under the shade of a palm tree. The air was running and the sun was setting high above the sky.
“Do you want to talk?”
And so I told him everything. Starting from Sequim, to the events of the previous hour. He just sat there nodding and listening until every little detail has spilled out. I’d needed to vent to someone, and I was glad it was Drew. I knew he’d have some good advice for me, he always did. But for now, I just needed to figure out what to do with my life.
EMOTIONAL CHAPTER LET’S ALL CRY. BUT ALL JOKES ASIDE I DID CRY WRITING THIS. DON’T HATE ME FOR IT OK. I LOVE YOU ALL AND I DON’T WANT YOU TO SUFFER.
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