Thank you so much to all the people who have recently been favoriting and following my stories, or even favoriting or following me as an author. I want to get his story finished up before I write anything else, but once I do, I might delve into other fandoms to write about. Possible fandoms would be Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Sherlock, or possibly Merlin. Would anyone be interested in reading any of those other fandom fics if I wrote them? Nothing before the end of this story, though! Just a few ideas swirling around in my head. Anyways, here's chapter 10!

"Well I don't feel like talking to you." I said, trying to close my door. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough and Cooper managed to get his foot in the door, preventing it from closing.

"Good, then don't talk, just listen. Yes, I was wrong not to tell you that Rosalina was Rosalina Tai, the girl you were one in love with. I did it for you, though, Nat. I wanted you to give her a chance. If you knew who she was, you'd never have given her the time of day when I know you two can get along. She always supported you when she could have ignored you."

"Cut the crap, Cooper. She abandoned me just like everyone else did."

"No, Nat, she didn't, at least not because she wanted to. She wanted to come be there for you. She was scared. At that age, she was dealing with the pressure from her friends. Her real friends, not people like Patrice. They never openly said anything against her being friends with you, but she could tell they disapproved. It was a choice she had to make Nat."

"Then why care now? Why try and be nice to me now?"

"I can't tell you what she's thinking, Nat. I can only tell you what I know from talking to her in high school; from what she told me when we worked on the newspaper together. If you want answers, you're going to have to go talk to her." I scoffed. Like I was going to go anywhere near her.

"I can't, Cooper. Not now. Not now that I know who she is."

"Why not, Nat? You need the closure. And who knows, maybe you two can work things out." He said. I knew he wouldn't let it go until I tried, so I let out a long sigh, signaling my defeat.

"Alright, Coop, I'll go talk to her. Only because I want this to end; I have no intentions of rekindling the old friendship."

"That's all I ask, Nat." Coop said as I pulled on a light jacket, opting to leave the leather jacket here in the room. It just didn't feel right for this situation. I opened the door to leave the room, but hesitated before turning and looking at Coop.

"Coop…thanks. I shouldn't have acted the way I did last night. I'm…" I couldn't finish the sentence. I never apologized, at least not sincerely, unless I made a huge mistake. I often said 'sorry' to teachers, but that was just to appease them. They never asked too many questions. This was big, but not big enough for me to qualify it for an apology.

"I understand, Nat. Now go find her." He said, pointing me out the door. I let the door close behind me. I wasn't entirely sure that this was the right thing to do, but I couldn't turn back now. I left the building I was living in after knocking on Rosalina's door with no response. I had no idea where I might find Rosalina. I began to wander the campus aimlessly, hoping that I would bump into her. I know it was a crazy thought, but I had nothing better to go on.

As I walked, I bumped into someone.

"Hey, watch where you're going." They said. I looked at them to see none other than Thomas Batuello.

"Why don't you watch where you're going, Thomas?"

"You don't talk to me like that. I'm a rockstar, and you…well, you're just a wanna-be. How's it feel, Nat? Seeing the Gold Boulders a huge success after the collapse of the Silver Boulders?"

"I still wonder how you even made. Your songs sucked. They still suck, but everyone thinks they're great because you guys wrote them, if you even write your own music."

"You think we don't write our own music, Nat? We write every note of it, and with more skill than you ever had." I couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Skill? I had more skill in my right pinky than all of you had in your bodies combined." I said. He shoved me, hard. I tumbled back, fall flat on my rear.

"You watch what you say to who, Nat Wolff. That attitude of yours will get you in trouble one day." He said before turning and walking away from me. I stood up and started to walk after him, intending to beat the living daylight out of him, when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"He isn't worth it, Nat. Just let him go." I turned to see the person associated with the voice I recognized. Rosalina.

"Rosalina. I've been looking for you." I said, trying not to give away that I was doing this because I had to.

"Oh really? I thought I'd be the last person you would want to see right now."

"Well, you kind of are, but I also don't want to just end this without giving you a chance to explain yourself. I may be many things, but unfair isn't one of them." I walked over to a nearby bench and took a seat. She sat down next to me.

"Thank you so much, Nat. I promise you won't regret this."

"I better not. Now, I talked to Cooper, and he said that you made a choice all those years ago. Back when the Silver Boulders disbanded. Back when my name was made mud."

"I did. It was the wrong choice. My friends back then…well, they didn't understand why I wanted to be friends with you. At least not after the Silver Boulders ended and the Gold Boulders began to attempt to rise to fame. I was going into your apartment to see you, to make sure you were alright, when my friends saw me and asked me what I was doing. When I explained to them, they laughed. They told me that I shouldn't waste my time on a child like you. They understood when you were famous; or at least they deemed it more acceptable. Once you were a nobody, they pressured me to ditch you. I didn't want to, Nat, but think of the position I was in at the time. My friends meant so much to me. I thought they were giving me good advice. I figured I could make things up to you one day.

"I never imagined the downward spiral you would take. I watched you walk the halls of Amigos High every day you were in there. Every day I told myself today would be the day I made things right; thawed the frozen heart, or ended the Medusa curse that had turned your heart to stone. Every day, though, was just another day I let slip by, saying that it wasn't the right time; that you wouldn't be receptive to what I had to say. I made a lot of mistakes, Nat, and I can never make up for them. But I can try. I want to start making the right choice this time, Nat. I want us to be friends. The friends we should have been."

I don't know what scared me more, the fact that she was saying all of this or the fact that she sincerely meant it. I didn't know how to react. How differently could things have gone if she hadn't listened to her friends? What kind of life could I have had if she had just come up and checked on me like she had wanted to?

"Nat, I know what I did was unforgivable, but can you at least try?"

"Rosalina, you're wrong. We all make choices, and nobody makes the right choice every time. What you did isn't unforgivable. It's tough for me to trust you, both because of what happened back then and what's happened recently, but…maybe I can try." She let out a squeal and hugged me, almost tackling me off the bench. I grabbed the back of the bench to regain my balance when I had a slight moment where the hairs on the back of my neck began to prickle, as if I were being watched. I looked around the courtyard I was in, but saw nobody whose attention seemed focused on Rosalina and me. When she let go of me, she had a big smile on her face.

"Thank you Nat! You won't regret this, I promise. I have to go study now, I promise some friends we'd study together. But I promise you I'll stop by your room later tonight and we can hang out." She stood up, moving in the general direction of the library. "Bye Nat!"

I waved bye to her and she left. I took another look around the courtyard, but saw nothing. Yet I couldn't shake the feeling that something was about to begin.

Well this story is actually taking turns I never expected it to when I first came up with the idea, but that's what happens when you lose the outline you develop after you start writing the story and have to fly by the seat of your pants. Hope you guys like this! I wanted to get it up sooner, but life happened. I'll try and get another chapter up a lot quicker!