I don't own the Keepers. Ridley Pearson does. Lucky.
The Kingdom Keepers, Amanda and Jess were sitting at their usual corner booth at Frozen Marble. For once, they had a chance to be normal teenagers, not that they were, and hang out together. All had been quiet in the parks after Maleficent and Chernabog had gotten away. Today the keepers wanted to push it all aside and have fun together with their friends. They had all been in awkward silence for at least for ten minutes when Finn decided that he'd had enough of this nonsense.
"So," Finn dragged out the "o" as long as possible in hopes to think of a topic to talk with the Keepers about that didn't have to do with saving the beloved parks.
Charlene could tell he was trying to break the sense of awkwardness hanging in the air. With that, she decided to pick up where he had left off. She started, "I got the gold at my gymnastics meet last week!" There were congratulatory cheers all around, but it quickly faded into a dead silence. You could've heard a pin drop as if it were a bomb. The waitress came to the booth with the ice cream and Jess' eyes lit up when her ice cream was placed in front of her. She immediately dove right in and won some giggles throughout the group. The seven sat there for another three minutes in complete silence until Amanda started, "How's school going?" There was an unpleasant groan throughout the group until Willa spoke up, "I have a project on American History due tomorrow and I am NOT excited to present it." Maybeck responded with, "I hear you." not being a public speaker type of person himself. Philby then said, "There's a stupid dance coming up at my school. I am so sick of girls at my school bugging me about it." Willa said nothing to the topic and Charlene could feel Willa's heart being stabbed by his words. She glanced over to her also knowing that they went to the same school and spoke up, "Well, are you going to go?" Philby pulled himself up from his ice cream and stated, "No, there is no reason to go to a silly dance. My computer would be a much better alternative." Charlene was not about to give up on this and Amanda and Jess soon joined in while Finn, Maybeck, and Willa sat there not saying a word.
Willa had decided she had had enough with the conversation and handed Finn ten dollars, thanking him for the ice cream. She stood up and told her friends, "I really have to get going. I have to go make dinner for my delinquent brothers. See you guys later." Amanda could tell she was bluffing, due to the fact that it was 4:30 in the afternoon. She sighed as Willa left and whispered, "Poor Willa," she turned to Finn, "Philby's too blind to see what's right in front of him."
Charlene was not going to let Willa run away from the situation. She got up also, saying she had to study for a test, a complete lie, and sped up to catch Willa.
By the time Charlene had caught up to her, Willa was on the verge of tears. She did her best to hold them back, but broke very quickly. Charlene knew her best friend was dying inside from the way Philby has ignored her lately, but this is the first time she broke down. She knew better than to toy with Willa's love life, but she couldn't stand to see her like this.
"C'mon," Charlene said gently giving her best friend's hand a reassuring squeeze, "You wanna sleep at my house tonight? Willa nodded as they headed off to Willa's house to grab a few things.
"It just hurts, you know?" Willa said holding a box of tissues in her hand. Charlene and Willa were listening to music in Charlene's bedroom. The two were sitting on her bed singing Taylor Swift when it hit her. "I guess it just wasn't meant to be." Charlene sat there staring at her in shock, "You're kidding me, right?" Willa shook her head no, and that made Charlene blow. "Are you kidding me? The first time we met, that first recording session, the first time we talked, I looked from you to Philby and back to you knowing that you two were meant to be." This made Willa blush. Charlene continued, "The first time I saw Philby look at you I saw the sparks going off as big as fireworks, and you think it's not meant to be?" Willa just stared at Charlene as if to say, "Are you okay?" and Charlene just responded with, "Sorry, I had to let that out."
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