Locked in a lifelong rivalry, Lena and Theo go way back - but do they really know each other?
When Theo goes to college, leaving Elena, his best friend's annoying sister he grew up with, behind at his home town, he thinks that she will never be in...
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It's been two weeks since Elena found out about the Lakers. She's practically been living in my apartment for the past week since we've been together every single day and she's been sleeping over.
I'm going away tomorrow at the end of the day and we can't discussed anything about what is going to happen yet. I think we're both terrified to acknowledge it.
We're laying in my bed looking at each other and as if she's reading my mind, Elena opens her mouth to speak.
"We need to talk about us, let's just stop ignoring the elephant in the room."
I look at my girlfriend, fighting back the tears I feel forming around my eyes not letting her see them.
"We do."
"You're leaving, tomorrow."
"I am."
"What are we going to do?"
"I don't know."
"Doesn't this worry you? Like, at all? Because I've been freaking out all week and you just seem so...calm?!"
"Of course it worries me, Elena. It's all I've been thinking about from the moment I got that call. My only thought was you and us and everything it meant to our relationship."
I can't help it anymore and finally let the tears fall. Elena comes over and hugs me as she starts crying too.
"I'm really scared, Theo."
"I am too. There hasn't been a day where I haven't thought about you since we were kids. I don't know even know how I managed to spend all these years without you in my life when now I suffocate if I don't see you for hours." I admit. "Not being with you every day? It's torture for me."
There's a long pause. A wave of silence echoes in the room. We just lay there, looking at each other unsure of what to say.
"What if..." Elena starts. "What if we don't have to stay away from each other?"
"What do you mean?"
"What if I go with you. What if I move to LA?"
"What are you talking about, Elena?"
She can't be serious. Coming to LA? She belongs in New York.
"I've been thinking about it, Theo. I don't want to stay away from you, not went we spent this long apart. I have nothing keeping me here and I want to be with you."
