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Chapter 24: My Star's Light is Overrated

It's funny how we all look at the same stars, yet we see such different things.

~Starlight24

If anyone said that silence wasn't deafening, they were dead wrong. I could hear my heart thumping in my chest angrily, screaming at me for just telling everyone.

The four of them just had their mouths agape, and I was looking at the ceiling. The floor. The fan.

Wow, there were a lot of interesting things in my house like that little detail on the rug that I'd never noticed, or that little uneven chip on the bottom of the armchair.

Time was like a little snail that was sluggishly moving by, and the clock was ticking loudly punctuating our breathing. It was like one of those dramatic moments when you realize the evil guy you've been fighting turns out to have loved your mom (Harry Potter *cough* what?) or the guy you've trusted turns out to be evil.

I was tapping my chair slowly, waiting for someone to say something.

I coughed loudly, but no one responded.

"Guys... hi," I said awkwardly.

Hmm... what would get their attention?

"Um..." I began, trying to think of something that they'd respond to. "I'm pregnant."

Deeds' head whipped up. "WHAT!?"

I laughed. "Nah, just kidding. I just wanted to grab your attention."

"That's... that's not possible. How- when- what?" Marie looked lost.

"Wow, I'm so touched that you guys find this so hard to believe," I said, feigning hurt. It was weird that I was all lax while everyone else was stuttering like fish.

"Okay, please explain everything. No secrets, please," Hailey begged, her eyes wide.

"Alright," I sighed. "So basically, I'm Starlight24. I was a bored girl, alright? I had no life but my disease always threatening to kill me. I was never able to find out how everyone else was. I never actually led a life like a normal girl, and I really wanted to."

I looked back at them, and for once Deeds didn't look like she was going to interrupt me.

If Deeds wasn't going to interrupt me, then that was probably because this was something huge.

Eh, wasn't that big a deal...

"So I made Starlight just to use my time better. Writing was always something I enjoyed, anyway. So when she actually turned into a hit, I was really surprised. I'd expected it to just be a hit or miss, and it became a hit, I guess. So that's about it. When you all started talking about Starlight, I said I knew her because I wanted to move in to this new life with people liking me for my personality and not just because I was an online superstar, I guess."

Yep, I should've just said that a while ago.

"What?" spluttered Marie. "So you're an attention seeker that's NOT an attention seeker?"

"Um... if you put it that way, I guess?" I asked, unsure.

"Oh good god," Hailey said, resting her head in her hands. "This is so much to take in."

They were silent again.

"Guys, it's not such a big deal," I said, rolling my eyes. "I didn't tell you that I was secretly Kim Kardashian or something, just that I was Starlight24, a famous blogger. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, but I'm a little weird when it comes to my sense of dignity, alright?"