Fate and Friendship

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Lilly's P.O.V: Two months later

   It's now October and the past 2 months have been some of the most boring and terrible days of my life. Except for the fact that my mother got married and I was the flower girl, everything else was bad. The start of Junior year was rough. I opened my locker to find sunblock all over my new books. Katrina had it out for me every day. Every second she was there spreading rumours about me or playing jokes on me. Plus Dalton never once contacted me. I sent him texts, tweets, emails and even letters. None of them receiving replies. Just when I thought things couldn't get worse...

   "Lilliana, please come here." My mother calmly ordered. Whenever she called me Lilliana, I knew something was up. I slowly made my way to the family room. "Yes, mom?" I replied timidly. "I have some news." I nervously waited. I saw my Uncle Kai's sad expression and Dave (my step dad) grinned. I was very confused. "Dave why don't you tell her?" I glanced at him. "Ok, Lilly, I have been offered a job working on a big new movie. We move this Sunday!" I suddenly felt dizzy. Today was Thursday, only 3 days and I would be forced out of the only house I knew and loved. "I can't believe this!" I stormed off to my room. I knew I overreacted, but you can't blame me for not wanting to move. I opened up my lime green Mac and called Cole on ooVoo. We had been talking a lot lately considering Dalton was too busy for me or whatever his excuse was.

   "What's up Lilly?" He sounded happy like everything in his life was perfect, lucky him. "I hate my life right now." He looked concerned. "Why? What's wrong?" I could never stay angry when talking to him. "I was just informed that I'm moving." I put on a fake smile. "Where?" I hadn't thought to ask that. "I'm not sure I kind of ran away before they told me." He laughed at me. "Well go ask! Maybe it won't be so bad." I considered the thought that he might be right, he normally was. "Alright, I'll let you know once I ask." He said bye and logged off.

   My mom was in the entertainment room starting to pack things in boxes. "Mom, I'm sorry for being angry. It's just hard for me to picture living anywhere else." She hugged me. "Honey, I completely understand. It took some time for me to think it over, but I think it's what's best for us. So would you like to know where are moving?" I nodded. "We are moving to Los Angeles!" I screamed in excitement. "Yay!! I'm gonna go tell Cole!" I raced to my room and video called him again. "Guess what!" I shouted before he had time to say hello. "What?" He chuckled at my excitement. "I'm moving to L.A." His smile widened. "Awesome! When?" I suddenly wished we were leaving sooner than Sunday. "This Sunday!" His hapiness showed. "That is so cool, we have to hang out when you get settled in." We planned to meet up with the other guys some afternoon the next week. "So how's Dalton?" I asked. Cole hesitated for a second. "He's doing good." I gave him a questioning glance. "Why the pause?" He suddenly turned defensive. "Look, Dalton has a lot going on right now. I'm sorry if it seams like he's avoiding you but he isn't. It's complicated." I hadn't seen this side of him before and I didn't like it. "Fine, you don't want to tell me what's really going on. I'll see you soon enough and you can tell me then." I turned off my computer. I was so upset that I wasn't being told the complete truth. I just had a feeling there was something going on.

   I was lost in thought when my mom knocked on the door. "Come in." I said. She found me lying on the floor with red cheeks. That was always a sign that something was wrong. "Lilly are you alright?" I shook my head. "I'm gonna be ok. It's just that Dalton hasn't talked to me at all since he left. And I thought we were friends, but I guess not. Cole said that Dalton's life is complicated right now. I'm not sure what that means." She patted my back. "Sweety, men are confusing sometimes. They don't even understand themselves sometimes. Just like we don't. Why don't you talk to him once we get to L.A. and find out what's wrong." She didn't know that I had already planned to do that. "Ok, Cole and I decided that we are going to meet up with the whole gang sometime." She said that it sounded like a good idea and left me to pack. ----------------------------------------------------------------

    Sunday was a crazy and stressful day. We had a 7 o'clock flight, so we had to get up at 4. We drove the hour trip to the airport and got stuck in traffic. It was surprising that there were so many people awake before the sun was up. The line for security took half an hour to get through. We almost missed our flight but got there the second the gates were closing. I'm sure we looked like freaks running to the gate. But it probably happens all the time. At least the ride was smooth and short. LAX was not a fun experience. There were so many rude and dirty people. After fighting over a Taxi with a homeless person, we hopped in a cab and drove to our new home.

  I found out that our house was really in Manhattan Beach, about an hour from the city but still part of L.A. I was glad to be close to the beach still. The house was a beautiful white two story with siding and black shutters. There was a huge infinity pool in the back. My room was 3 times the size of my old room. The walls were sky blue and it had a balcony with an  ocean view. It was definitely my dream house. 'We must be rich.' I thought. The furniture was dark blue and the dining table was very long. I had been sad that we had to leave most of our stuff behind but I no longer cared.

    "How are you liking things?" Dave asked. "This place is amazing!" He looked happy also. "Well I'm glad you like it. Now your mother has some more news. She's downstairs in the kitchen." I found her cooking spaghetti and meatballs. My favorite meal. "Hey Lilly. Ok I have something to tell you and please don't freak out." I let her continue. "There were a few options for your school. But I decided to go ahead and sign you up for The Angels School for Performing Arts." I was stunned and speechless. I was torn between happy and sad. "Now you have to audition if you would like to go there, or you can go to the public school. It's your choice." It only took a few seconds to make up my mind. "I'm going to audition. I think it's time that I have faith in myself. Thanks mommy." I leaned over and hugged her. "Anything for you. The audition is tomorrow. Will that be ok?" I nodded and went to go pick a song. There were so many good songs out and I couldn't decide.