Rejecting Hope (Old Copy)

Chapter Twenty One - "I'll Be Your Friend... I Promise."

    A/N - GUESS WHAT GUY'S!! It's my one year anniversary! And as a present to all of you, this is dedicated to all of my fans thank you guys so much and I hope you enjoy the upload! I stayed up till 12:49 tonight on a school night just for you guys XD. I wasn't planning to write this chapter as the way it is right now, it was actually going to be all Aria and her PoV but that's next chapter since I wanted you guys to see a bit more about whats going on in her friends brains first lol. Enjoy! :)

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           (Lacey)

                "You know I've been reading lots," In response Hope shakes with laughter, but instead of smacking him or making a big fuss about it, I continue.

                "Shocker, I know right?" Suddenly he's quiet, surprised by my act of non-violence.

          "Non-fiction mostly," I shrug refusing to look at him as I continue, even though I can feel him shift uncomfortably beside me. Looking to the skies I close my eyes.

       "Have you ever heard of the theory of the Multi-verse? It says that there's an infinite amount of hypothetical universes parallel to ours that contains every possible set of circumstances."

                I open my eyes as I gaze upon the clouds tilting my head to the side a little. My bright red hair radiating in the sun as I stare up in wonder. "It kind of... got me thinking a little, it means that somewhere there might be a world in which I hadn't chased her away. A world in which I hadn't shown my weaknesses and cried in front of her. A world where she would've never ran out like that... and have us worried to death when she is no where to be found again for it turns out that her absence would last longer than anybody would've expected..." My words fall to silence, out of no where Hope's voice surprises me.

        "Maybe we would've never had that argument and I didn't say all of those things that I didn't mean to say, and she didn't walk away without another word. Or maybe there's another world in which I chased after her and we'd still be together even if we weren't really together... "

                      Shaking his head he laughs. "Ha, sometimes on my way home, when I walk by her house everyday... I get this weird urge to knock upon the door, which is stupid because I know that she won't answer it. Even if she were there, I wonder if she would."

            Suddenly he smiles, looking up to the skies too he says. "Hm, imagine an alternate universe in which she had never been hurt, abused, or scared. A universe in which... we could've been together."

         I turn to look at him and somehow our eyes exchange some sort of secret communication. A communication in which we both shared for the first time in years. Our eyes were screaming the same thing...

                                                'I know exactly how you feel.''

              Now you see, Aria's been missing... she's been gone for an entire week now, her and Jansen both. We've tried knocking on her door, finding her in every place possible that we could think of and even calling the cops to report a missing person contract. But all together, we ended up with nothing. Absolutley nothing... and so here we are, waking up two whole hours before school even starts just to go and sit at the only place Hope can think of that Aria might be... underneath some Sycamore tree.

              At first I thought it was quite ridiculous, but once he started to explain I realized that it was in no way even near ridiculous at all. I just didn't know how much she had kept from me, it's like all of this pain and anguish has been built up inside of her for so long and I never even knew it? It's almost as if I never even knew her at all and to be quite frank it pisses me off.