Here's a quick little update, just for you. ;) Enjoy!

"Hey Kendall. Isn't that the girl who dropped by your house the other day?" Logan gestured, sipping his smoothie.

Kendall whirled around. There she was, sitting in an over sized white t-shirt by the pool.

"Yeah, that's her."

"That's who?" He turned to see Jo looking at him suspiciously.

"A family friend who dropped by 2J the a couple of days ago."

Logan gave him the, "nice recovery, captain smooth" gesture. Kendall smiled.

"Oh." Jo looked surprised. "Well, we should go over and say hi."

"We should." He really had wanted to go alone, but he couldn't object very strongly to this proposition. Jo dragged him over to where the red-head girl was sitting.

"Hi!" Jo said brightly. The girl jumped. She slid a book underneath her. Kendall couldn't catch the title.

"Oh hi." She smiled a little weakly at Jo, then caught Kendall's eye. Her smile was more sad towards him. There was that look again, slightly desperate, slightly questioning, really hopeless. Kendall would have hugged her for a while if Jo hadn't been there.

"Are you new?" Jo asked.

"Yes."

"What do you do? Sing, act?"

"I'm a dancer."

"Oh! That's really cool! What kind of dancing do you do?"

"I do ballet."

"That's really cool! Can you curl your feet like the ballerinas?" Jo smiled at her warmly.

The girl laughed. It was a tired laugh, but it contained a certain amount of mirth. "Yes, I can."

"Awesome. Oh and hey, we're all going to the beach for bonfire tonight. Would you want to come?"

The girl stopped. "No, I don't think so. Not tonight. I'm pretty tired. Minnesota is a long way to fly from."

Kendall perked right up. Minnesota? So his mom must have known her!

He caught her eye. Man, her eyes... they were so... gorgeous and deep and...

Kendall sighed. Jo elbowed him in the ribs. With the breath knocked out of him, he obviously missed the signal on her face. He was too busy rubbing his chest to pay attention to the hopeful looks she was darting his way.

"Well, then, maybe you can come next time," Jo said cheerily.

"Yeah." Marguerite smiled. "Thanks so much. Really."

"You're welcome! I guess I'll see ya around."

"OK, yeah. See ya around."

Jo turned and began walking away. Kendall walked away with her. But not without looking back one more time.

"Goodbye. Kendall," he heard her say quietly.

He got that uncharacteristically strong electric current running up his arms when he locked eyes with her. In fact, he was finding it extremely difficult to look away from them.

Man, her eyes were gorgeous. He didn't think he had ever seen eyes so beautiful.

Jo began talking to him about food for the bonfire, and he was called back to reality with a solid tug. He sighed. Reality had never felt so empty. The reality where those green green eyes weren't.

Like I said. Short chapters. I'm trying to venture out of my little comfort zone and write stuff that normally wouldn't pass the Starbucks perfection test. And this definitely would never have. XD

Thank you SO much for reading! It means the world to me that I still have readers who enjoy my stories after all this time. :)

xoxoxo

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