YES, IM ALIVE! lol

1,523 words for you in one ep! I hope it's enough to make up for my HUGE absence . It was complicated to re write it… I actually deleted it and re wrote it again, despite already having delayed it for so long! I hope I can get more up for you guys… You know, like a Christmas present or something like that . I meant it when I said I wouldn't cancel this.

Dedicated to 'unperfectt', for helping me regain inspiration.

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Talking To The Moon

Ten

The next day was a Sunday. The weather was starting to get slightly cold, but everything was going normally and smoothly on the cafe that day. Just one thing seemed out of the ordinary. Zac had been seated on the same seat all morning. With his head leaned against the window, his eyes stared outside blankly. He hadn't talked much that morning, to say the truth; he had not done much at all.

Thoughtful he was indeed. Looking at him you'd know right away he was immersed in deep thought. Who knew what was traveling through his mind. What it could be that brought him so much trouble, you would wonder.

That is exactly what Vanessa wondered that morning. As she sat on the seat in front of the counter drinking some juice Lucy had offered her, she couldn't help but doubt. What could he be thinking about was unknown… and that is what bothered her. She could support him or give him advice that way. She had no idea of what to do. It was bothering her. Or maybe it had been this one idea swinging around her head that did.

Taking a deep breath, she stood up and walked towards the table in which he was sitting. She sat in front of him, and observed him a bit more. He had not noticed her sit, and it hurt her slightly. What she felt for him was love, after all, and she had hoped that for him it was the same.

It took her a while to find the voice to speak, and once she did it was small and unsure.

"Zac?"

Interrupted his thoughts, he turned and faced her.

"Yeah?"

"Are you… alright?"

"Mm-huh" he answered distantly after a few seconds.

"What are you thinking about?" Vanessa tried again.

"Nothing."

His tone as he answered made it clear to her that he was lying. And knowing that hurt her. Was she not worthy enough of his thoughts? Did he not love her?

"Zac?"

"What?" his voice was sharp and cold.

She was shocked at his reply, but he did not seem to notice. What he was though, was visibly starting to get irritated.

"It doesn't matter anymore…" she said, as she got up. Thinking it best not to bother him any longer, she found herself another table in an opposite side of the café.

…

Sometime later, Selena went up to Zac.

"What the hell did you do?" she asked.

"What?"

"What. The. Hell. Did. You. Do?" She asked slower, calming herself down.

"What do you mean?"

"Why is Vanessa about to cry over there?" she answered, pointing to the other side of the Café. There sat Vanessa, staring down at her hands, which rested in her lap.

"I don't understand…" Zac said, faintly.

"Of course you don't," she scowled. "All yesterday and today you've been completely out of it. Have you hardly paid attention to anything apart your thoughts at all?"

He was silent, realizing what she said could be true. Could he have been that much inside his own thoughts to leave in second plan the world and people who cared about him? Seeing he was silent, Selena continued.

"And Vanessa tried talking to you. She did try. But you were stupid enough to answer in a way that hurt her."

"Was I… That bad?"

"Oh I don't know. But I don't care what you said either. Whatever it was, you go fix it."

"Okay…"

"Now!" she ordered, pulling him up from the chair.

"Okay, okay, fine!" he said, making his way to Vanessa.

He sat in front of her, and waited a moment before he said anything.

"Vanessa?"

She looked up at him and gave him a sad smile, but didn't say anything.

"I want to talk…" he started.

Tears started to flood in her eyes, taking Zac by surprise.

"Do you want to break up with me?" She blurted.

"What?" he was taken aback by this. "No! Of course not!"

He moved seats, placing himself next to her.

"I wanted to apologize for the way I've been acting around you lately…" he took her hands and looked into her eyes. "I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have done that. I caused you to feel sad and cry, and I didn't even notice it. There is nothing worse than knowing I caused pain to someone who I love and cares for me. I'm so sorry, Vany, I hope you forgive me."

"That was beautiful," Vanessa wiped away some falling tears. "Of course I forgive you."

"I'm sorry." He whispered as he hugged her. "I love you."

"I love you too." She said, feeling a smile make its way up her face.

"Do you mind a question?" she asked, once she calmed herself down.

"Sure."

"What were you thinking about? I know it wasn't 'nothing'."

Zac sights and scratched the back of his neck.

"You don't need to tell me if you don't want to…"

"No, no, no" he said, "I don't want to hide anything from you."

Zac looked around uneasily for a moment, and then hesitantly got up.

"Come on," he called.

"To where?"

"Outside."

She followed him outside. They walked for a few meters and sat on the sidewalk near the cafe'.

"So…?"

"Eh, it's complicated to explain… I'm not sure on where to start."

"Try starting from yesterday, when we all went out together." Vanessa suggested, "You seemed pretty shocked when you saw those kids… Jonas, if I remember well. And it's about there you started being weird."

"Oh, yeah…" he frowned, still seeming unsure on how to start.

"Okay let's try something else…" she tried, "Why did you lie to them? You told them Frozen Delice wouldn't stay open for long, but it would close in hours… you started acting weird and kept… looking… in the direction Selena and Logan left from… This has to do with her, doesn't it?"

"I would answer if you let me talk," Zac chuckled.

Vanessa glared at him. "Anyways, on with explaining…"

"Okay… The reason that I lied to them is because I wanted them to leave."

She waited for him to continue.

"I didn't want them and Selena to… meet..."

Vanessa raised an eyebrow.

"…again."

"Oh my… so all of this has to do with Selena and her story…" She was starting to understand… "But she met Kevin and Danielle at the cafe', knew their last names… doesn't she know they're here?"

"Fortunately," Zac confessed, "She never met them before, nor cared enough about other people and their families back then to know who they were."

"How come you never told us you knew who she was before?"

"You see, I find it better for her situation and everything that she might want to start over again…" he tried explaining. "It would be too much drama for her to face if she went back… people wouldn't exactly sympathize with her…"

"Explain from the beginning."

"Selena was, in few words, a bitch. Back in Junior year, is when this whole mess started. Queen bitch, get the picture? There were some awful rumors about how she used to sneak out every night to… meet up with guys."

"Were they true?" Vanessa couldn't imagine the Selena she knew doing… those things.

"I'm not sure." He confessed. "Anyways, her and the curly head Jonas started getting… involved. He obviously liked her, and somehow actually managed to get a real date with her. To me it seemed that someone was finally getting her to change. Imagine my surprise when she actually started being friends with Joe, and Demi!"

Zac smiled at the memory.

"But let's just say things weren't as simple as they seem. But something happened. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I could see something changed. For a few days no one knows nothing about her, no one sees her. The others just let it pass through, but I went looking for her. And it just turned out she had somehow gotten into a car accident."

"I don't understand… why is that so important?" Vanessa wondered, "We know that she got into a car accident, doesn't change much for us."

"Well yes, but imagine this. You had been dating someone for some time, you liked them, and you believe you are finally getting them to change for good. You think. But suddenly you find out that person you liked so much, that you had put so much faith into had cheated on you, gone off somewhere with someone else. And in doing so, that person also got into a car accident."

"Oh my gosh…"

"Yes. He felt terrible. Angry, yes, but still, loosing someone you love is never easy, no matter the bad things they might've done. Say that you only find that weeks after it happened, and the other person turned out alive… and the one you liked turned out to be… dead."

"But she isn't dead."

"But they didn't know. And now I'm scared of what will happen when they find out. I can't hide her forever."

"Say, Zac…" Vanessa said, "Who were you in this story?"

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I don't particularly like 'rushed' stories, but I hope you don't think this is going too slow. It might seem like that because of the number of parts I've written and they haven't actually met yet, but I think that just happened because the parts/eps/chapters weren't that long, especially in the beginning… now they're getting longer… this is (maybe) one of my longest eps by far and I hope to make them longer. If not I'll make a bunch of short ones.

Short but more often, or do I take time but make them longer?