"Aw...These are so cute!" I say.
"Adorable." Amy seems to agree.
"Aw…uh…what is it about photo booths that brings out crazy face?" I ask.
"You know they're not all crazy." She replies.
"I love it when a plan comes together." Amy comments.
"What plan?" I ask incredulously.
"This!" Amy exclaims. "Us! Me and Paul and you and Alek." You and Alek huh? I like the sound of that. "Life is gonna be so much easier now that we're both a couple."
"Because yea that's what was making my life so difficult." I respond sarcastically. "And Alek and I are not a couple." Yet.
"Look me in the eyes and tell me you're not on a date." Amy states.
"Funnel cakes and Ferris wheels do not a relationship make." I reply. "Ok, yes I like him. There I said it. Out loud. In public. But I don't know where its going, I don't know what it means and I don't totally understand it so can you please just be happy with that for now?"
"Couple." Amy gloats.
"For you." Alek says as he approaches the table. He hands me a stuffed lion.
"Aww." I cry.
"Apparently I broke some sort of record or something." He says with a smirk.
"He's adorable."
"Resemble anyone you know?" He asks cheekily. I contemplate that for a moment.
"There is a certain arrogant gleam in his eyes that seems familiar." I determine with a soft smile.
Paul shyly interrupts to give his gift to Amy.
"And uh…I won this…for you." He hands her a mini frog on a key chain he won at the ring toss.
"Aww…hehe." She happily accepts the gift. She proudly presses the button, making the inside of the frog's mouth light up and a ribbit sound come out.
"Maybe if you kiss it, it will turn into a prince." Alek says.
"I already have a prince." Paul becomes smug at this. "Just one who is very bad at ring toss." Now…not so smug.
"Wait until I unleash the monster on the milk bottles." He tells us.
"Seriously?" Alek says. Paul turns to Alek.
"I'll have you know I'm a master."
"Please. You'd be lucky to knock even one off."
"Think you could do better?" He asks in his horrible attempt at mocking a British accent.
"Ooohhhh!" Amy an I say.
Paul gets up from the tables and Alek quickly follows, eager to show him just who is the master at mill bottles.
Jasmine and Zane sit at the table.
"Aww cute. Lemme see." Jasmine says. I turn to Zane.
"Oh. There's a hardcore cage match about to begin I you're interested. I believe it involves... Milk bottles?"
"No I think I'm good right where I am." He says. Then his phone rings. "And that would sound slightly more romantic If I didn't have to take this. Sorry." He kissed her cheek and walked into the corner.
"We'll done miss Jasmine."Amy said after we oooohed at her.
"Thanks. He's sweet and sorta mysterious which I kinda like." She said blushing a little. After we were done fawning over her new romance, we walked over to where Alek and Paul were.
"Don't feel too bad." I heard him say. "I'm pretty much…unbeatable."
"Ohhhh if only that were true." I gently cut in.
"Really?" Alek asked me, holding the baseball out for me to take.
"Oh I'm afraid so." I inform him, taking the ball and giving him the stuffed lion in return. Just as I prepared to toss my ball, everything changed. I was surrounded by white ad was completely alone.
"What the? Where is everyone? Hello?" I called into the white abyss. Then in the distance I could see a figure. I looked closer and saw it was Alek. He came closer and I noticed that he was crying.
"Alek?" I asked.
"How could you do this to me Chloe? How could you hurt me like this. Ou love who you love? You love him? I can't believe this. I can't believe you chose him over me. I did everything for you. I risked my life for you. How could you do this to me? Not to mention how you killed my family. It's your fault you know. You killed Valentina. You almost killed Jasmine. They're all i have. And you took them away from me. How many more ways can you rip my heart out, Chloe?" I couldn't believe he was saying this to me. We were having fun only moments ago. Then the memories came flooding back. Everything he said was true. I had done all that to him. He turned his head away.
"Alek? Alek, I'm so sorry." I told him.
"Don't you get it? It's too late for that now. Just leave me alone Chloe." Then he walked away. I watched his retreating figure as I began to cry. I fell on the floor and my tears started to flow and puddles grew around me. Soon I was being washed up by them. They turned into an ocean. I was being swallowed whole. Then, as I was being pushed around with the waves and currents, I was thrusted down. It soon became a dark abyss and I just fell deeper into it. I was lost. And alone. I had hurt everyone I cared about. People were dead because of me. People I loved. And then there was Alek. J had torn his family away from him. Everything I did seemed to hurt him. It wasn't fair to him. Why couldn't I just leave him alone. All he's ever done is try to be there for me. And I just kept getting him. I closed my eyes and let the current take control of me.
I woke up and my alarm clock said 4:26. I was afraid to go back to sleep and be faced with the truth once again. So I decided to get out of the bed for the day. I went downstairs and finished packing up anything extra that I had forgotten. I just needed to get my mind off that dream. Even if it was true.
