Sk8ter Girl

Chapter 6: Truth

I met up with all of my support team downstairs for my final meeting. It was to determine whether or not I'm ready to leave but if I'm not I'll have to stay and go through even more intense therapy than what I was having before. I held Marco's hand through the long walk down the hallway. I begin to think about what will happen to me if I don't make it.

"Marco?" He turns to me. "Yes Star?" "What will happen if I don't make it? Will I have to do more therapy? It's so frustrating to do this and it makes me feel like I'm weak. What if I'll never be able to go places with you guys or even worse, what if I'll never get to go places to be with you?"

Marco smiles caressing my blonde hair. "Star, just because you can't walk on your own doesn't mean that you and I can still go places together. Even if you couldn't walk I'd still take you every where with me. Nothing can stand in the way of you and I. Together we will get through this and I know you can do it. I believe in you." He leaned over me and planted a small kiss on my cheek. I blushed and kissed him back.

Janna walks up from behind Marco and slaps his back. "Soooo Marc, what y'all talkin bout?" He rolls his eyes. "Can you stop calling me Marc? It's Marco. Can I call you Jann?" "Actually no you can't cuz if you do I'll punch you. Besides you know what'll really happen when you call me that." She playfully twirls Marco's hair and kicks his knee causing him to fall. "OWW DANG IT JANNA!" He shrieks grabbing his knee. "And this is an example of what will happen when you call me that." She smirks and walks towards Jackie. I'm surprised I didn't fall even though I was holding his hand. I knelt down and patted his hair. "You okay?" "Ehm, y-yeah I'm fine, she'll get payback." We both laughed as I helped him up and continued walking.

Janna's P.O.V

"Hey Jackie did you see Marco? I totally payed him back. Once again." "You and him are always at it with each other. What ever happened between you guys?" "Ugh, I'm not explaining that story again. I promised myself to never talk about it." "Ok then, but at least tell me why?" I sigh and rub my temples. "Basically I had a umm..." I pause and then remember why I really tease Marco. "You had what?" I start to blush. If I tell her she'll tell Marco. Will she? "Umm...it was a..." I start to stutter. I look down at my feet not facing Jackie. I finally get the courage to face her and look into her sea green eyes. "I've always had a crush on Marco. I never told anyone because I thought I would get made fun of for liking a "nerd." I wanted him to like me so I tried teasing him so he'd think I was cool." I felt my face growing hot as I continued on. "But the more I teased him, the less he liked me and now he hated me. It's obvious he does that's why he never takes me anywhere with him and Star. Now that they're a thing, it's like I'm not even thanked for the things I did for him and Star." Jackie stopped and put her hand on my cheek. She slowly wiped a tear away and sat us down on a bench. Marco and Star were walking to the entrance where Star's meeting was to be held. They both stopped. "Aren't you guys coming?" Jackie spoke. "No Janna isn't feeling well, you guys go on ahead. Good luck Star." She winks at Star and smiles. "Thanks, see y'all!" Jackie looks back at me. I couldn't take it anymore. I felt tears stinging my eyes. I fought them back but only one year escaped from my eye. Jackie slowly wipes it away. "Janna, I know how you feel and I've been in your position. It wasn't easy for me and Marco either. After I broke up with him, things have been different. He's so stick up with me now that I have to be the one to talk in a conversation. I knew he wasn't happy with me so I had to do it to save his relationship with his real love. Star." "Y-yeah."

"It's like after four years, I finally realized that Marco is happy now with Star. He loves me, but not in that way anymore. It's more of like a brother and sister love ya know?" I nod. "Yeah."

Silence grew between us. I couldn't really think of anything else to say.

"Janna?" I look at Jackie. "Yeah?"
"Do you want kids?" I suddenly blushed and palm myself. "Hehe umm, y-yes I do want kids but I find it really hard to find a date. Every guy Hope hooks me up with is either creeped out by me or they can't handle my jokes." "Oh really? What did you pull off this time?" "You see, they guy, his name is John by the way, wanted to come to my house. So we drove in my car and I took him to my house. My parents were gonna for the week so I had it all to ourselves. I forgot to tell him about the string I attached before walking to the door. It was meant for Marco but he never came to my house. I tried to tell John but the idiot tripped over the string and landed face first on the ground. I'm guessing his nose broke because it bled like crazy and his face was swollen. So he yelled at me and called his friend to pick him up. What a jerk, didn't even say bye to me."