Chapter 1: Split roads.
It was a normal day in Pure Horace Mantis High. The gang sat around the lunch table exchanging stories to one and another. Stella and Joe gushed over how happy they were with each other and how they got together. Looking all happy and lovey dovey in their own little bright world. Kevin teases Joe for being 'whipped' and Nick sits their rolling his eyes. He could've cared less for the obvious. However when he turned to his side he sees Macy smiling a sad smile. She laughs and teases the couple but was it really only him who saw pass that? Pass the whole façade she displays for everyone. Was it only him that could see the raw exposed hurt feeling she is trying so hard to cover. He ponders upon the thought and leaves it for another day.
After school he goes to the gym and sees Macy there stood in the middle of a sea of blue mats. Gymnastic equipments were spread all around her. She stood there nodding her head in the count.
"Here we go…
Come with me….
There's a world out there that we should see, take my hand close your eyes.
With you right here I'm a rockeeter.
Let's…Fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go".
He watches as she gracefully dances around the place. He was amazed at her elegant gymnastic skills as she displays her twirls, spins and flips. The music stops and the coach stares at her with a plain stone face.
"Very expressive Maciana." She says in a strong Russian accent. Macy stood there back straight at her coach and nodding.
"Thank you." She says mono-toned
"This is new. You usually express happiness. Why so hurt? Is your family? School? Oh is it a boy Maciana?" She circles her like a vulture and Macy tenses up. "You're so readable Maciana." She states.
Nick heard her words and suddenly everything started clicking in his head. Macy was wearing a sad smile on her face as she watched Joe and Stella because she was in love with Joe.
"You'll do fine in the audition." She claps her hands and Macy walks away. She walked out of the gym and Nick uses his arms as a barricade to wall her.
"You love him." He states. "Don't you?"
"What are you talking about?" She asks.
"Joe, you love him don't you?" There was nothing. She stood there in silent and looks aside. Her grip on her bag strap tightens.
"Don't you." He says lower. He looks down at her and she looks straight into his eyes, glaring back.
"You do, don't you? You love Joe. But you're sad because he loves Stella not you. Right? You love—"
"Yes!" She shouts cutting him off. "Would you shut up about it? I don't want the whole world to know Nick." She goes under his arms and walks away. He chuckles a little at her.
"What do you find so funny?" She asks him a little irritated. He turns around and leans against the wall.
"You." She looks at him quizzically. "How you think you are in love with him." He crosses his arms.
"What? Of course I am."
"How would you know what love is? You're only 15. You're too young to understand love. You don't love him. You just have an infatuation for him." He states smugly.
"And how would you know love?" He looks at her confused. "You think you understand love? You're the guy who falls too deep too fast. Burns rubber and goes 120 mph remember? You think you understand the whole concept of love when in reality I know more about it then you do." He raises an eyebrow at her. Is she serious?
"How?" He challenges her.
"At least I love the same person for more than 3 weeks." She says bitterly.
"You're just mad and taking it out on me. Because you love him but he loves her and you want him to love you. To notice you. To look at you the way he looks at her." He tells her.
"Stop thinking that you know me!" She shouts at him and he was a little taken back. "You don't know me at all! All you know is that I'm that crazy super fan that is a sports buff. What more do you know about me? So stop lecturing me on how I don't love him or how I am mad at you because you have no rights to. You're not my best friend…or a friend for that matter." She says viciously. "You don't think I feel mad. Mad at how foolish I was to fall for him. Mad at her for stealing him when in reality she wasn't and I'm back to square one and mad at myself. Hurt to watch them constantly in love. You don't think I know these things? But I do know I love him." She stares at him with water filled scared vulnerable eyes boring into him. She makes her exit and leaves him there flabbergasted and speechless. "That's love. It hurts." She says.
The next few days she was missing. At first he thought that she was so mad at him and couldn't handle seeing Joe and Stella that she resolved to avoid them like a plague. But apparently no one has seen her for the past few days. At assembly it was announced;
"I am disheartened to say that our sports prodigy and all-star Macy Misa has been transferred to Venus North Academy."
After his little speech on her everyone looked shocked but the jocks were the most shocked. They were distraught with her not there.
"Venus High Academy is an elite school for prestigious gifted students. It's dead hard to get into it. And for Macy to get into it I guess all we have to do is be happy for her." Stella stated and the brothers nodded at her.
It's been months since Macy's disappearance act and no one has heard of her. Not one word, even a letter. Stella has fell into a depression for a while then quickly recovered when she realized her best friend was gone for good.
"Did you hear? Venus North is playing here for a soccer game and Macy Misa is there captain." Someone whispered.
"No way! I haven't heard about her in ages. She's like a myth now. Wow, I have got to see the game. It's going to be epic." The other person said.
Stella and the brothers over heard the girls' conversation and gave each other the exact same look of anticipation of seeing an old friend who has became a ghost in their lives.
That night they watched the game from the bleachers with shock and fear. Macy's playing was completely different to her playing before. She was aggressive, competitive, head on and didn't even hold back one bit. Horace Mantis Academy was annihilated. She used to be so graceful and kind on the field. The group went to say their greetings to her but when they saw her they saw something that has changed in her and it was her light. They saw it all but none understood. The faltered bright smile, the bold, fierce, quiet exterior and the shine of pride in her eyes as her teammates worshipped her and her coach congratulate her. They were all too scared to walk up to her. In Nick's eyes it was like watching a dream filled, fairytale believing, rainbow shine colored girl growing up into a reality wake up calling, white & black façade of a woman in a mere moment. And for some reason he was just plain downright disappointed.
After that silent encounter years have passed and so has graduation. Neither of them has heard of or spoken to Macy Misa. She was just another loss they had to go through over the years and now she is just the ghost of the past.
AN: Heres the first chapter. Hope you liked it. Please do review that would just be the cherry on top :). Thank you for reading. x
