When you wish upon a star

Chapter 12

Aden's POV~

My phone vibrated in my pocket. "finally!" I muttered, then silently cursed myself for getting impatient with the poor girl. "Yeah, i think you would. and no, i don't plan on going back except for when the festival is being broken down and we need to pick up contest entries." Kelly had finally replied. i was tempted to throw my phone across the room. in frustration with myself, with my parents for making me do this goddamn star crap, with everything. I took a deep breath trying to work things out, 'how am i going to find a lover for this girl? the festival ends in three days! And who knows if i'll be able to meet her and properly explain what the hell is going on.' I thought. "Why am i doing any of this?" i sighed and ran my fingers through my hair. "Cool." I started typing. too soon to ask her to meet up, right? "So i feel kind of awkward asking to be friends all of a sudden... should i be trying to get to know you? my people skills are rusty." i finished and finally replied to Kelly. i really needed to get a hold of myself. if someone read our conversation they would probably think i was flirting with her. which, i wasn't trying to do. While waiting for a response from my newfound friend and wish client, my watch beeped on the hour. it was somehow one in the afternoon, should i eat? I had skipped dinner and breakfast. Food was probably a good idea. Just as my phone vibrated i slipped it into my pocket and got up slowly from my desk chair and went down to the kitchen, forgetting to shut the secret room door behind me. My phone vibrated again as i popped a frozen personal pizza in the toaster oven. "shit!" i muttered. one of the best things about being alone was i could swear freely and not get yelled at by my parents. The first message from Kelly was this; "i don't have any people skills at all so you're probably doing better than i am. And yeah, maybe we should work on getting to know each other..." And the second. "but my home life is a monotone of blah so i have absolutely no conversation topic ideas." I gritted my teeth and stood staring at the ceiling for a long time. trying to figure out some way to figure out how to get closer to hooking her up with someone. Now that i look back on it i realize that i didn't have to rush to grant her wish, agents were allowed to take their time. "I've got it!" i suddenly shouted and practically fell over when i jumped up from where i had slumped against the counter. "Ok i've got two ideas on how we can get to know each other better. they might seem weird but i'm weird so i'm not losing anything by being myself. First, if you could wish for one thing... what would it be? and second, i need some advice. you seem like a smart, trustworthy person who would give good advice, one of my friends is feeling very alone lately and asked me to help hook them up with a potential lover, except i have no ideas on who to hook them up with and its like i barely know them anymore since we haven't talked in forever." I typed as fast as i could then slipped my phone in my pocket. trying not to be nervous about the risky text i'd just sent. I felt my phone vibrate again a few minutes later as i got my pizza out of the toaster oven. I wanted to read it and answer it as fast as i could but the thing with risky texts is once you send one you are equally as terrified of all the possible bad outcomes as you are excited for the possible good ones. I set my pizza down on the coffee table by the couch then grabbed my phone from my pocket as i plopped onto the cushions. "Cheesy warning, i'm a very deep (also weird as fuck) person so brace yourself. If i could have one wish (and know it would come true) i would wish to be loved. I know it sounds stupid but its a different love that i wish for. i want the kind where i'm one person's favorite person. Romance i guess. (sorry that was weird :/ ) as for your advice, try getting together face to face with your friend. catching up on the parts of each other's lives you may have missed. find out what type of person they are interested in and figure out what the best way or place for them to meet someone would be." Was Kelly's equally as long and risky response. My plan had worked. now, if we met. i would have an excuse to know her wish, and i had a slight idea of how to help her meet someone. I ate a little bit of my pizza then picked my phone up again and started trying to think of what to say next. "Sorry i keep asking weird random questions but, if given the power to make that one wish of yours come true how would you want it to play out?" i sent yet another risky message. "jesus fucking christ Aden! stop with the risky messages!" i muttered to myself and took a few more bites of my pizza, waiting for my phone to buzz again with a reply from Kelly.