Part 8

Anya spent the next week visiting Eli while she wasn't in school. She hoped he'd remember her, but no luck. The closet he came was remembering they were suppose to go to the movies soon. She slowly felt her faith fading.

"Anya what's wrong?" Eli asked Anya calmly, noticing her eyes filling with tears.

"Nothing, I'm…I just need to.."Anya left the room in a hurry and slid to the floor crying. She'd given up, her heart was broken.

"Anya sweetie" Her mother ran up to her and hugged her while her daughter cried. "You can't give up yet"

"Mom it's been 2 weeks, we've lost him, I've lost him forever" She sobbed.

"Aw Sweetie" Her mother rubbed her back.

"I need to be alone" She got up and ran. She ran away from all her problems, she needed to get away.

She ran not knowing where she was going, but she stopped when she noticed she was at the tree with their names carved in it. She started at it for a minute. "This is where I first told you I loved you, and this is where it will be the last" She pulled out a bottle of pills and took one, then another, until she finished the bottle. She waited for the pills to kick in. It was 3 hours later when she started to feel dizzy and fell. She felt someone grab her and run away with her, but she was to knocked out to notice.

She woke up in her bed at home scared and confused.

"Mom?" She yelled out. She got even more scared when she didn't get an answer. Her door slowly opened to a tall, black shadow. She curled her knee's into a ball.

"Honey"

"Dad?" She busted into tears at his very sight. She hadn't seen him in years. He hugged her as she cried. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard your going through some stuff, and I thought you'd need your dad"

She nodded. "I missed you so much, and I need you more then ever" She hugged him again.

"I know I know, I'm sorry for not being around. Can you forgive me?"

"Of course, you're my dad"

Anya and her dad spent the whole night talking about school, life, Eli and Owen even came up.

"So you really like this boy huh?" He asked.

"More then like, Dad I love him"

"Well if you love him, don't let him go. If he doesn't remember you, make him, or make him love you again"

"But what if he doesn't love me still? Or again?"

He sighed. "Sometimes you just have to take that risk"

"But he has a girlfriend"

He sighed. "Well baby girl….you'll have to wait for them to break up"

"Or I can break them up…." Anya said as she thought of an idea.

"Anya, that's not fair"

She pouted. "I know, but I need to make him love me. I just don't know how"

"Well he loved you for you once, maybe he'll love you for you again"

"You really think so?" She flashed a bright grin.

"OF course, and if he doesn't, his loss"

"Thanks dad" She hugged her dad tight again.

"No problem sweetie" He smiled.

The next day at school Anya was surprised to see Eli walking down the hall.

"Eli?" She said to herself and walked over to him. "Hey Eli what are you doing back at school so soon?"

"Well the doctors said I could come back, but I need an assistant"

"Oh well I'm here" She smiled.

"Thanks Anya, but I already have someone"

A girl with brown pig tales came up to me behind me.

"Imogen Moreno pleased to meet you" She smiled sticking her hand out for a handshake.