So Much For Love :p

Ch6- 3rd november- date to remember

2nd November 7:45 p.m

Dear diary,

Sorry for not writing in a while. There's too much going on. Today I got the shock of my life.....perhaps a bigger one than losing Samantha.

Stark has cancer.

Can't write more. Not really in a position to.

Diary, I cant afford to lose another friend. Not him. I cant afford to lose him.

-Zoe.

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It was 11:47 p.m and he hadn't called since the afternoon. No news. I didn't have much for dinner; didn't bother with the latest Vampire Diaries episode. I had decided that ii was going to patiently wait for Stark's call, else tonight, I wasn't getting any sleep.

But patience, was now getting the better of me.

I started doing my geography homework to kill time. It was due the next day. Ms. Hook, the most dreaded teacher in the school taught me geography. She despised me and I returned her feelings with loath of my own.

I was part of the junior student council, the members of which were elected by the senior teachers of the block. Ms Hook was one of the teachers who took my interview. Although she never asked even one question, she glared at me the whole time, piercing those icy eyes into my soul which kinda used to make chills run up my spine.

For me, the day I forgot her homework would have meant the last mistake of my life. So here I was... trying to concentrate on the deciduous forests of the world while my mind obviously kept drifting towards him...

An hour had past and then suddenly, just when I couldn't take it any longer and was about to ring him up, Stark called himself.

"Hey" he whispered

"thank god you called! Have you any idea how worried I've been? Whats the latest news?

Didn't you get those new tests done? What did the doc say??"

"shit Zoe, breathe! Yes I went for the tests. But the results....well," his voice trailed off.

"well, what? For the love of god, will you say something?!"

"Zoey, its not incurable, but... umm....but there is no 100% guarantee of it being cured. Even if the medication works, it will take some while for it to get completely cured.'

I didn't know what to say. I didn't know whether to take this as a good news or a bad one. I was silent, so was he.

Then finally, after what seemed like ages, he took a deep breath and spoke those few words that got etched on my heart permanently from then on.

He spoke in the most serious tone ever, lips quivering, sound wavering....it gave me goosebumbs.

"i want you to remember me. Remember me as the fun-loving, bad-ass jovial guy. Not as this; not like this. But hey, remember me."

In that moment, a jolt of realisation surged through me and a new, alien feeling seemed to pound through my veins.

All of a sudden i was consumed by this unfamiliar heartiness, a cheer, rippling through my body. It was different, it was divine.

"Stark?"

"yeah..."

"did i tell you that i dont really like Vic anymore...?"

"you dont? But...how...wait... Umm? Do you....errr....like somebody else?"

My smile grew wider. I didnt know what i was doing, didnt know why i was doing this. I hadnt even analysed the meaning of these new kind of emotions yet but something was telling me that i was on the right track.

"yeah. I like somebody else."

"wow zoe....i dont know what to say..... Who is this guy, then?"

He seemed confused. His tone was a mix of hopeful and perplexed. That seemed to give me a further boost.

"his name starts with an S."

He was silent. I knew that he had begun to realise the meaning of my words. But he didnt dissapoint. He played along too...

"s....wow, thats hard. Our school? What are his initials?"

"SK"

"hmmm...... I think i know this SK. But theres one problem."

"what?!" i asked, getting nervous now.

"he's unavailable. He's fallen for some chick with the initials ZS"

My cheeks flushed red and instantly adrenaline seemed to rush through my veins. Was this really happening? Then suddenly, a memory crossed my mind...

"stark...umm....didnt you once say that if i tell Vic that i used to like him, you'll ask your crush out?"

"yeahhhh....." he sounded as if he was smiling through his teeth.

"well then i cant wait to tell him that in school tomorrow!"

*silence*

After a minute of staying quite, he sighed.

"Zoe, im sorry.

Icant wait until tomorrow. So here goes..

Zoey Sanders....will you go out with me?"

And then the bells began to ring and the trumpets boomed in my heart. I pictured a moonlit night, a guy, a girl and a rose.

And then i said...

"Yes Stark...... I thought you'd never ask."

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