The Brightest Stars

Kristen

I can barely keep track of everything that's going on right now.

I wish I can run away from it all. Disappear like Annabelle or silently shove it away like my sister.

I do a sad sigh at a picture I found in my drawer. It's of Belle and I both doing cheeky smiles. I chuckle at the empty hole of a fallen tooth in my smile and the photo bomb AJ very sadly failed at in the back. Far off I see my little sister with my father. This photo is enough. A captured picture of a perfect moment.

Then I look at the picture on top of my drawer. It's a picture we took after our Shakespeare performance at the local UC. Resolme decided to take a trip at the Marketplace and we asked a fellow student to take picture of our group. It's funny. We all show our personality in a single pose.

Luna does a sad smile that carries the aspect of the strong girl she really is. Xander does a dumb face. That says a lot.

I do my usual playful smile and Nate does his smirk.

AJ does his small smile. His dark eyes shining as always...

Diego does his childish smile making his curls bounce and Julia sweetly smiles next to him.

Skyler and Ty do their soft smiles. They've always been so similar with each other.

Then my eyes land on Belle and Max. Sometimes I think that they both died on the same day. Her world flipped upside down when he left the world. I let a tear fall down on the picture as I observe their quiet smiles. If only I could see both of their genuine smiles again.

I still can't believe she's leaving....

She told me the news just two days ago. I insisted for her to stay, but I knew I wouldn't win. I never do.

The moment she left my house, I felt so cold. I remember wrapping my arms around me and crying quietly. I understand this happens, but I cried because I knew she will completely disappear the moment she sets foot on that plane.

My father died. Max died. My mother has moved on. And now my best friend is leaving....

My world is falling apart slowly, but on that day I knew that only one person will always be there. I called Nate and we talked for hours. I never thought a guy would stay hours on the phone with a girl. But he did.

I do a sigh as I put a perfect moment of the past with Annabelle back inside my drawer. I take one last look at the recent one and walk out of my room. As I go through the mail, I realize how lonely this house has turned out to be. AJ is always working. Sky is always with Ty doing something. My mother is always with Uncle Steve.

I remember feeling angry at the thought that they were together now. They insisted that they were just finalizing a few of my father's things before he died.

But I can't stop her from finding love. I just hope he is true to her because she only deserves the same happiness she once had with my father...

My hands stop at a letter from a medical school in Kentucky. Xander did tell me about it. He told me his plans for his future, but he also told me his love for Luna. I admire him. He lets go all of his dreams to only hang on to a single star in his dark sky. I guess we have our ways to let go and cope.

We've been getting along very often in Medical Club and he helped me realize that maybe my home would be in the hospital. I never really realized that from the start I've always been intrigued with this whole other world whenever I would accompany Belle at the hospital. Yet, this year is the endpoint to where my studies should be lead to the Emergency Room....

I read the letter and the opportunity is there. I have a year to decide. They are a special school because they start late but their students receive their credits at a quick pace. They've seen me and now they want me as their student...