Meant To Soar

Chapter Seven

  For a moment I stood still, breathing in ragged gasps. All of a sudden, the small space under the weeping willow tree felt confined and I felt claustrophobic. Sweat ran down the side of my face and dripped down onto the ground below. I had just been asked to choose between my two best friends and a boy who appeared to be the prince of my world.

  You'd say the answer was pretty obvious. I should obviously choose Nathan. However, choices come with consequences. I would be picked on for the rest of my life at Kansas State. I would lose all my friends and my confidence, thus producing average grades. Grades and social life matter. But Darogars and its prince mattered too. The question is, which mattered more? What was I ready to sacrifice? 

  Tears sprang to my eyes unguarded. I forced them back. "No," I told myself firmly. "Don't cry."

  I never cried. Never. I stomped back to my house. "Hey, what's going on?" Asked Nathan, springing up from his seat.

  I ignored him.

  "Cindy ? Dee, answer me. You all right?"

  I continued walking up the stairs to my room.

  "Dee! Please!"

  I stopped climbing up the stairs and glared at Nathan. He looked at me, confused. Just because he didn't have a place to stay, just because he had nowhere to go, he had to come here. Of all places, here. Why ? 

  Anger surged through me and blinded me. I didn't care that Nathan was so nice to me, the current situation blotted out all that. 

  "Stop it ! Why do you even care ?" I shouted, my voice breaking. Tears rolled down my cheeks in endless streams. The tears showed no sign of stopping any moment soon. I ran down the stairs past Nathan. As I passed him, I took a glance at his face. Worry clouded his blue-green eyes. He reached out to pull me back. 

  "Dee, wait !"

  I shook him off me and ran down the porch steps, across my garden and into the forest. I ran and ran, oblivious to the direction I'm heading in. I sobbed as I ran. My head says Jay and Danielle but my heart says Nathan. How do I choose between my head and heart? 

  I look at my surroundings. I had come to a clearing. Not just any clearing, but the one claimed to be teeming with wild animals. This was the clearing that separated the forests where kids usually play in, the harmless side, from the side of the forest which was more wild, where dangerous beasts prowled, untamed and ravenous for prey. 

  HEYY !!! well so yeah here's my Chap Seven. hope you like it :) Will update soon , no worries ! Peace, love and sour cream, Aretha xx