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Chapter 2: Meaning

Lily
I always enjoyed the walk home from school, but today was special.
  "Hey, Lil! Do you think you have time to come over today?" She sounded awfully cheery today considering the heat, not that it was a bad thing. The weather had been scorching out lately. Even the school was burning people to a crisp, which meant this coming summer was going to be a particularly hot.
"Probably. But knowing my family, it's pretty uncertain." Vanessa just rolled her eyes.
"I just thought you might want to go to the movies or something, like one of outside ones. The first one of the summer is going to be next week, so I figured we might go," she paused and looked away for a moment. "I don't know, what do you think?"
She sounded petrified of what I might say, I couldn't turn her down. Her eyes were fixed to the cement as she waited for my response.
"The bugs are going to be out, and that's like, the one thing I hate most about outside things" I chuckled in between words.
"I've got mosquito repellent." She joked. Her voice was still slightly nervous, but she hid it quiet well. Vanessa knocked me in the side with her elbow, but I had moved a bit closer when she did so it was much harder than she had originally planned, so hard I fell to the grass.
She seemed to leap to my rescue.
"Are you okay? Does your side still hurt? I-I'm sorry, I'll make up for it. I'll pay for you at the movies next week, okay?" Vanessa stuttered so much, I could barely make out the rest.
I didn't know how to react, so I just laid there in the wet grass staring up into her oh-too-familiar baby blue eyes. I loved to look into them.
I looked straight into those two tired oceans floating above me and mumbled, "I'm fine"
She must have just blown off the whole incident, because she sighed and pulled me up, making little effort in hiding her radiant smile.
We continued walking, but this time there were a few moments of silence between the two of us, but at the time it seemed like hours. Finally, she looked back up at me and said, "So are we going next Friday or..."
"Yeah," I may have sounded a bit to happy, hell, I sounded ecstatic, because she shifted her attention back to me and gave a weird look, but I was relieved when she laughed at herself. I started laughing too until the both of us had collapsed, out of breath from laughing so hard.
I levitated back to my feet, and we walked the rest of the way back to our homes playfully sticking out our tongue at each other.
Once inside my air-conditioned home, I sprinted to my bedroom just as an olympic runner might do. I jumped onto my bed and stared up at the ceiling.
"A date?"
No. It couldn't be, it was that simple, she didn't feel the same way and I just couldn't hold myself up to that. It was the heat getting to her.
Yup, that was it.

1 week later...

Vanessa
4 days. 3 days. 2 days. 1 day. Hours.
The school day seemed to last forever. English was the last class of the day and most boring class, since I had tested out of my own grade including honors, so they subjected me to a senior class. It was a year above my actually grade, but I didn't mind.
I was still sympathetic for Lily. She had to put up with all the jocks and gossipers in her normal English class, she simply hated it.
I knew I was way to exited for something as ordinary as a movie, but even so, I thought I just might be able to pull out of it like it was a date.
I was still nervous, I didn't know how she felt.
But I knew how I did, and that was enough to push myself to get through that class. Every day she seemed to be the only thing pushing me forward. She gave me a reason to keep going and move forward. Lily gave me meaning.
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//so I'm going to be uploading as much as I can, but can I get 30 reads for another chapter?\\