Wow... it has been a long time hasn't it? Okay, please don't kill me! I feel bad enough as it is. School is really demanding and for a second I seemed to have lost control over everything! But I'm back, I'm alive, and I updated! Yayness! And thanks for all the reviews guys, your the best, being so patient and all. I'll try to update more. Hehe.
Dear Diary,
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! I did it! It happened! I snapped on Paulina! Her face was PRICELESS! Oh man, it was the absolute best. I'm glad I took Valerie's advice and didn't put up with her. After all, she made me meet her at the Nasty Burger at seven in the morning. THAT was annoying. I had to get up early over SUMMER BREAK! She definitely had it coming to her…
"Star? What are you doing here? We don't open until 8." I picked my heavy head up off the table and looked at my best friend. Valerie was in her Nasty Burger uniform, a broom in one hand, her hat in the other. It was pretty apparent that she wanted to be somewhere else.
"Paulina wanted me to tell her about what I saw at the carnival yesterday." I answered, trying to keep my eyes open and set my vision into focus.
"Well? What'd you see?" Valerie asked as she set the broom against the table.
"Not much." I mumbled. "Just Phantom flying away with a little girl in his hands, but I made the mistake in telling Paulina that I saw Phantom period, so… here I am."
"How'd you even get in here? The door's locked." Valerie looked at the doors uneasily. She had lockup last.
Lazily, I lifted my arm up and tossed the key I had used to Val. Instead of calming her down like I had hoped, she seemed to have been more anxious.
"Relax, spare key." I explained, interrupting her before she could rant about how much trouble she was in for leaving a key lying around. "I saw you use it once when you were late. You had to get in here before your boss realized that you left early for… something."
"Oh… yeah, I remember that." She relaxed slightly. "That was that one time when you covered for me."
I smirked and shrugged my shoulders. "Hey, that's what friends are for."
"So what are you going to tell Paulina when she gets here?" What? I jerked up.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you know when she gets here she's going to bombard you with questions, and you only know a little bit, right?" Oh shoot! I hadn't thought about that! She's never going to leave me alone!
"Ah well, I guess I'm just going to have to take it..."
"WHAT?!" Her sudden outburst startled me. I almost jumped out of my seat. "What did I tell you, Star? Just a few days ago? Did you honestly forget?!"
"You, Star, you are your own person! You are not Paulina, and I know that because you are nice, you are sweet, you are pretty, and YOU had the guts and heart to still be friends with me after I got kicked off the A-list…"
No, I didn't forget. I knew what she said. It had been bugging me since she had said it.
"No! I haven't! But Paulina's my friend, Val! I'm not going to betray her like—"
"Like me?!"
…
"What?"
"Face it Star, you're Paulina's little slave girl! Always have been, always will be! There's nothing that you can do that will make her happy, and in my opinion… you betrayed me. Friends are the people who like you, Star! Not the one's that walk all over you just because you let them!" I got mad at that.
"Oh yeah? Well—"
"Well nothing!" She snapped, shooting up out of her seat and snatching the broom in the process. Storming over to the other side of the room, she began sweeping under the tables. A quick glance out the window was all it took to make her anger grow. "Oh look! Here comes your little master now!"
I looked up just as the Nasty Burger door opened, and saw an overexcited girl standing in the frame.
"Star! Star! Oh my gosh! You will never guess what happened to me on the way here!" Paulina's annoying voice rang throughout the empty Nasty Burger. All my anger fell on her.
"You're late." I stated blankly. She didn't catch my tone, but Valerie did look over curiously.
"Yeah, so." Paulina didn't seem to notice that Val was in the room with us. Either that or she didn't care. "I ran into the GHOST BOY!"
Snap!
The noise startled both of us, but I didn't bother turning around to see what Valerie did. My guess was she broke the broom. I giggled to myself at the thought. I knew Valerie didn't like Phantom, but I didn't think that hearing 'ghost boy' would get her worked up over it.
"Yeah, he was with this little girl, and guess what! It was his cousin! I got to meet the ghost boy's familia! It was soo amazing."
I smiled. "Yeah, that's what I was going to—"
"—It was just him and me and his little cousin." Fine, cut me off why don't you?
"That's the girl I was telling you about. When you asked me bef—"
"—She's so cute! And she's even, like, willing to let me get to know the ghost boy better! Oh, I can't—"No, no, please Paulina, go on! You're the best here. No one can surpass you!
"PAULINA!" I shouted, trying to get my friend out of her dreamy (and oddly freaky) state. "That's what I was trying to say. At the carnival, Phantom was flying around with a little girl—"
"—Star, it's not polite to, like, interrupt people like that."
What? I couldn't control the sarcastic thoughts that danced around in my mind. I don't know why though, I was used to Paulina cutting me off. I was used to her getting me up at an insane hour just to tell her something that she didn't want to here anyway. But lately, Paulina just seems to be getting on my nerves.
I guess I never realized how annoying she was. I saw Valerie out of the corner of my eye. I also saw that she had broken her broom, abandoned it, and gotten a new one. She wasn't sweeping though. She was paying attention to our conversation, and rolling her eyes ever time Paulina mentioned Phantom.
"Star?" Paulina asked, forcing me to pay attention to her again. "Are you listening to me?"
"No." I stated bluntly. Whoa, where'd that come from?
Paulina's eyes grew. "Star…" She gritted her teeth. "I'm going to ask you again. And this time, I want you to be super duper honest with me okay?" Super duper? Did she just say that?
"Okay."
"Were you paying attention when I was telling my story?" Super duper honest, Star, super duper!
"No. No, I wasn't. It's a stupid story Paulina, coming from a stupid girl. No one really cares about you and Phantom's stories. He's made it pretty clear that he's not interested in you. Not to mention he's a ghost, you're a human… I think… anyway, this conversation's over and I'm still bored out of my mind. Bye Paulina." I think I hear Valerie laughing.
"What?"
"What? What do you mean what? I think I was pretty clear with what I just said. Bye Paulina."
I walked around the awestricken girl and headed for the Nasty Burger doors.
"Well, you're… you're just a loser, Star!" Can't she think of anything better than loser? She calls everyone that.
"Yes I am Paulina. A super duper loser!" I opened the doors and walked outside. A smile was imprinted on my face for the first time in what seemed like forever…
I'm probably going to regret what just happened today, but for the time being, I really don't care. It's not like I won't be able to repair this, I can always makeup with Paulina later. But I'm still keeping Valerie's advice. I am definitely not going to forget today, and I don't think Paulina will either…
Star
Again, sorry for being like, dead. I'll try to update my other stories ASAP. Promise, promise, promise!
