As the Wind Changes (Camren)

Chapter 4

"I don't want you to forget. I think you can never forget. But remembering the bad doesn't mean you can't move on or that you're not moving on."

It was close to 6 pm on a Friday night and Lauren had ended holing up in the land of magic. She had been pacing the floor just minutes ago but then she decided that moving around aimlessly couldn't help with the tension brewing inside her. She felt like changing her mind but she didn't even know why she got that urge.

She didn't understand many things lately. And this confusion had started ever since Lucy came strolling into her life so unexpectedly and she wasn't sure whether not she was really prepared. She had asked the universe to bring light onto the path she was walking on and now she got conflicted between staying in the shadow or come out to face blinding unpredictability.

Suddenly she felt like a coward. She took out her phone from her back pocket, unlocked it and she was ready to type a message but then she grunted in exasperation, flailing her arm. She perched down in front of her easel with a heavy huff, rattled by the uncertainty that precipitously surfaced out of nowhere.

Okay, to be fair, it wasn't out of nowhere. It was for the fact that Lucy had asked her out and god knows the last time she went out on a date, it had been disastrous and her past failures never failed to weaken her resolves. And if she remembered the last relationship she had been in, the word catastrophic wasn't even enough to describe it right.

Here she was, being given an opportunity she had asked for yet the voices inside her head hindered her from taking a step forward. Why did things have to be so complicated? Why did she have to make things complicated? Why couldn't she be like her sister? And as if on cue Mikaela strode inside the room, seemingly surprised to see her there.

"Oh hey Laur, what are you doing here?" She asked as she sauntered over her side of the room. She looked around the space, not giving Lauren her full attention. "Damn, where is it?"

"What are you looking for, Kae?"

"My darn phone..." Mikaela said, shuffling through the music sheets on the desk.

Lauren snorted. "I'm surprised it's not permanently stuck to your hand by now."

"That is actually a good idea." Mikaela rebutted. "Can you call it for me?" The blue eyed girl asked, finally turning her gaze towards her sister.

"Yeah, sure..." Lauren pulled out her phone once again, dialed her sister's number and then together with Mikaela strained her ears to catch a ringing sound somewhere.

Mikaela frenziedly looked around her space again after she heard some muffled ringing, it sounded distant but she knew it wasn't. Mikaela went through the pile of music sheets again and continued to crouch down to reach something behind the keyboard stand.

"Got it!"

Lauren smiled, ending the call. She shoved the phone into her pocket, resisting the pull to send out the message that had emerged in her mind a while ago. "How did it even end up there?" She asked, searching for anything to distract her mind.

Mikaela had sat down on the bench by the keyboard, checking her phone in case some new messages had come in. "Camila and I were hanging out here after school and we...you know..." Mikaela smirked, mischief in her eyes. "I guess it got knocked down when I was trying to..."

"Okay, okay, nah uh..." Lauren waved her sister off, hands pressed against her ears. "I don't need the detail, sis, please don't taint me." And she ignored this tug she had felt in her heart. She had no right to feel that way. She had no business of being jealous.

Mikaela chuckled, shrugging. "Fine, I won't." The younger of the two finally realized something she had unnoticed. "Hey, you look nice. Going somewhere?"