Talking To The Moon

Twelve


ANNNND IT'S BACKKKK!

(And oooohhh, is that drama I smell?)

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Zac and Vanessa hurried into the shop, and called Liam, as he was the first one they saw.

"Liam!" Vanessa called, "Do you know where we can find a phone book?"

"A what?"

"A Phone book. I'm not sure if that's how you call it." Zac explained. "The very thick book with everyone in the town's number on it."

"Oh, yes," Liam the blond chuckled. "It's amazing those still exist…"

They had to ask Miley, who said she had coincidentally received one some weeks earlier, and surprisingly hadn't thrown it away. She and Liam had thrown it in the back of the storage room, which was in the back of the store. They went to search for it, telling the couple they would explain once they found it.


"Hey guys!" Lucy greeted as Joe, Demi, and Nick sat down. The sky outside the cafe' was getting darker. They were probably going to be the last costumers of the day: closing hour was nearing, and it wasn't likely that anyone else was going to come in anytime soon.

"Lucy!" Demi said, "What are you doing here?"

The girl laughed. "I work here, remember?"

"Oh, yes, now I do!"

"So," Lucy smiled, "your orders?"

"BROWNIES!" Joe cried, and Demi slapped her forehead.

"Relax, man," Nick said, after uncovering his ears. "You don't even know if she still has them."

"Aww…" Joe pouted as Demi sighed.

"How about I just get you guys a good ol' portion of brownies while you guys take a look at the menu and decide on whatever else?" Lucy suggested, and they agreed.

She quickly went grab a few menus in the kitchen, and told Selena they'd need a few brownies.

"It seems as if it's your lucky day," Lucy said as she came back with the Menus. "We were just making some, and they will be ready in five minutes."

Joe looked as if he could burst from happiness any second, but no one commented. Just as Lucy handed them the Menus, Logan walked in.

"Hey Lu," He said. "How's it going?"

"Logan, come here a second."

"Sure," he shrugged.

"Remember the couple I mentioned some days ago? Kevin and Danielle?"

"Yeah, why?"

"These are Nick and Joe, Kevin's brothers, and this is Demi."

"Hey," he said. "I'm Logan."

They all introduced themselves.

"Logan was at the park the other day with us-" Lucy explained.

"Wait a second, so you're the guys who went to school with Zac?"

"That's us," Nick replied, friendly.

"Cool."

"Hey," Lucy slapped the back of Logan's head. "Don't just interrupt me like that!"

Logan apologized with a cheeky grin. "Sorry."

"Anyways," she continued, "He wasn't there with us the other day because he was with Lena."

"Ohhh, girlfriend?" Joe teased.

"He wished!" Lucy laughed as Logan's face reddened.

"Hey, she's my friend!" he argued. "And just for the record, we were only grabbing a few drinks!"

"Whatever you say," she giggled. "But I say you should ask her out."

"Shush!" he whispered, "She's inside, remember?'

Demi, Nick, Joe, and Lucy had to laugh, but the argument was dropped

"Speaking of her," Lucy remembered, "Logan, can you go check if the brownies are ready?"

Logan went into the kitchen, leaving them to chat and laugh to whatever it is they were talking about. He came back a few moments later with a portion of brownies, but was soon in the kitchen again. Once he was there, he found Selena with her head in her hands. Alarmed, he went to her.

"Lena, are you alright?"

She looked up. "Yeah, just tired."

"Oh, that's good then. Why don't you come outside with us?"

He explained of Kevin and Danielle's brothers and their friend.

"They're quite nice, you should meet them."

"No!" She responded almost too quickly.

Logan frowned, already sensing something was wrong. "You know, I could do this the long way and pretend I think everything's alright, but that would just waste too much time. So why don't you hurry up things up and tell me what's the matter?"

"Logan…"

"Come on, Lena, I know something's not right." He argued. "I'm your best friend, after all. Surely that must count for something."

"Alright," she sighed, giving up. "The girl outside talking to Lucy. She's the one who slapped me the other day."

"What?" Logan had already heard this story. But Demi seemed nice. Why would she have done that? "Are you sure?"

"Almost completely."

He thought for a moment, then gently lifted her chin up so that their eyes met.

"Lena," he said softly. "You're the nicest person I have ever met. She probably mistook you for someone else."

"Hmm…"

"Maybe you should go out there and talk to her just to clarify things up."

Selena shook her head. "No, I really don't want to. Please don't make me go there?"

Her eyes were so pleading he had to agree. He helped her clean up a bit, but in minutes they had managed to get in a water fight. Selena tried to get away, and they were soon running out of the kitchen. Not paying attention to where she was going, she slammed straight into someone else, and their cup fell to the floor with a loud crash. The room fell suddenly silent.

"Oh no," she said, as she crouched. "I'll pick these up."

The cup had snapped into four pieces, so the task wasn't hard. She placed them on a table, but when she turned, her eyes widened.

Nick's eyes widened, and Demi and Joe's jaws dropped.

"Hey, you alright?" Lucy said, trying to relieve the tension that seemed to have suddenly filled the air. "You guys look that you just saw a ghost."

Logan had helped scoop up the last, smaller pieces of glass from the floor, and now held a reassuring hand over Selena's shoulders.

"This is Selena," Lucy introduced.

By now, the trio was all standing up, and Logan could feel Selena shaking.

"We know who she is…" Demi mumbled, glaring.

"What?" asked Lucy.

"We know who she is." Demi raised her voice.

"What are you doing here?" Joe asked, his tone not so friendly anymore.

"I… uh…" Selena stumbled on her words, "I work here."

"In this town?"

"Excuse me?"

"You heard him." Demi sounded angry. "Why didn't you come back?"

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea of what you're talking about."

"Don't give me that." Demi snapped. "You know too damn well what I'm talking about."

"Bu-"

"Why don't you just answer the question?" Nick asked, and his voice sounded low and dangerous.

The room was silent.

"How could you?" He whispered.

At that very moment, they heard the doors open. It was Zac, and he had a thick book in his hands.

"Hey we found the-" he stopped in his tracks as he saw the scene before him. Vanessa, who came next to him, simply gasped.

"You knew this all along, didn't you?" Nick accused, angrily.

"Yes, but-"

"What the hell, Zac?" He spat, anger boiling inside of me. "And you couldn't even tell me?"

"Nick, stop, listen, I know you're angry but-"

"Angry!?" He snapped. "Angry doesn't even cover half of it, Zac. Have you got any idea of how I felt?"

"Look, I'm sorry, bu-"

"Sorry?!" he cried. "You're sorry? How does that change anything?"

Everyone seemed to be frozen, not only in confusion, but terror. Nick looked like a bomb who could explode at any second, and right now, he looked as if he were about to give Zac a strong punch in the face.

His hand was already in the air when Selena's voice was heard.

"Stop!" she cried, on the verge of tears. "Please don't do this!"

Nick's arms dropped and just stared at her, emotionless.

"Let's go." Joe said, his hand on Nick's shoulder. "This is too much information all at once, Nick. Let's go before you do something you might regret."

He walked to the door and waited for his brother to follow. Nick glanced to Zac and Selena. "I thought you were better than this." He walked out the door with Joe. Demi neared and raised her arm, as if to slap her. Selena flinched and turned her head, but was surprised when no blow came.

"You don't deserve this." Demi shook her head as she walked through the door. "Bitch."

If anyone looked at Selena right now, they'd see she had her hand over her mouth, her eyes wide, and tears rolling down her cheeks.

And in the silence that remained, no one could believe what had just happened.