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A/n: Hello all, so I'm super hyper at the moment so I thought I'd put my hyperness to good use so here I am typing away and rambling on and on and on, okay I'll stop no. Here's chapter eight!! Once again respect the rating for several purposes.
Why Did Destiny Choose This?
Chapter 8
I will start anew,
I was sitting in the center of a dull grey room with no windows, and no doors. There was no escape and yet I did nothing about it. The only thing that made the room light was rows of florescent lights. One specific light at the end of the room was blinking as if someone were pushing the on and off switch to that one light over and over again. It made my eyes hurt looking at it. Whenever it would switch off, my heart would be at the exact same moment. I could feel it. Watching that one stupid light made me feel something in the pit of my stomach. Like a pain. Not the kind of stomachache or anything, but a weird pain. The kind that comes from your heart and travels to the rest of your body, and makes you feel like staying in one spot for the rest of your life; not wanting to move. I felt a sudden rush of coldness and the end light switched off one last time making a small section of the room a little bit darker. The next light slowly started fading rather than flickering on and off. It faded and with one clicking sound went off. The feeling became slightly stronger and it became colder. I watched for the next light to start burning out somehow. It stayed still. Nothing happened, yet the pain nor the chills went away. I slouched down, crossed my arms and looked onto the grey tiled floor. I uncrossed my arms and put my fingers through the ridges in between the tiles. Tile after tile I ran my pointer finger along the small groove and felt as the smooth stone brushed against my finger. Suddenly I saw something in a tile not so far away. For some reason the tile was fluttering. The color changed from light to dark continuously. Then it blanked. Nothing was there but a black space. Suddenly a large group of tiled did the same. I got up to my feet and backed away from the dark ones. They looked as though the floor was disintegrating and the more it did, the more I backed away. More and more tiles flashed until there was nothing but black underneath me. I walked across the room testing to see if anything was wrong; to see if the tile was a light that simply went off. But as I slid my bare feet over the floor, it felt as though I was walking on nothing. Perhaps I was walking on nothing. I put my hand on the floor. It felt solid. No matter how hard I to push through it wouldn't budge. I started walking over it again. It felt like air, but no matter how hard I jumped on it, I didn't fall through into the nothingness that seemed to be there. As I walked over one certain area I felt that it was cold for some reason. I continued to walk back and forth over it and still it remained cold. I looked up to see that it was where the lights had been turned off. I took a step to the right which was where the lights were still on. Suddenly the set of lights that I stood under turned off. I walked around the room, and every step I took, the light I was under turned off. Eventually the whole room had nothing but walls. Four plain grey walls with nothing on them. The ceiling had appeared as the floor. There was nothing surrounding me but walls. I leaned back against the wall that was closest to me. I let out a sigh.
"Where am I any way?" I whispered to myself. A voice echoed from nowhere. I glanced around. No one was there. I returned to my former position, and saw that there was no wall anymore. It was dark just like the ceiling and the floor. Just pure darkness with perhaps a few specks of what seemed to be stars amongst a heavily darkened sky. I dared not touch any other walls for soon I might go insane from being able to stand on absolutely nothing. Sure it was a stupid thing to go insane over, but what was supporting me? What was making me able to just walk around? Why was it for everything that went blank the feeling became worse and I'm at the point where I'm freezing for some reason? Suddenly the remaining walls went dark. I was standing there, with nothing around me. I tried taking a step forward, but then lurched forwards and fell.
Thud! A shooting pain went up my right arm.
"Miley?" I heard someone ask. I opened my eyes to see that Lily was leaning over her bed. Her hair was ruffled and bunched up around various places.
"That hurt." I realized that I had rolled off the bed. It was still dark outside. A little bit of light was peering over the edge of the ocean. It was too early in the morning.
"You're so stupid Miles, are you okay?" She reached down and helped me up. I took her hand and pulled myself up. I jumped back onto the bed, and before I knew it, Lily who was next to me was already snoring. I rolled my eyes, and closed them trying to fall asleep. Both Lily's obnoxious sounds and my pondering thoughts kept me awake. What was I pondering about you ask? That weird dream. That and Oliver. For some reason, out of nowhere that feeling I felt in the supposed dream, it felt a lot like what I felt about Oliver that very moment. A slight pain that increased over time. A coldness that rushed over me whenever he me let go. Then I realized that what was in my dream actually related a lot to Oliver. Maybe it was a sign, but then again dreams often do reflect upon what you feel. I glanced back out the towering windows. The slight sliver of shinning light was gradually turning into a slit of yellow light. It made the areas around it turn from a dark blue color to a cerulean blue, to a pale blue until it met with the edge of the fiery star. I flipped from my back onto my stomach, and put my cheek on the pillow so that I could still see out the window. The waves were crashing into the shore which was still dark due to the fact that the sun's powering light had yet to reach it. I let out a sigh. The waves would forever me missed when I was away. Maybe I would move to somewhere else that had waves. No, the sound was too much of a memoir of what I was trying to escape. I closed my eyes with the thought of moving in my mind. So many places to go, which one to choose? Maybe I shouldn't go to Europe. After all Oliver was going there. But then again it was pretty far. When he came back to Malibu I'd still be on the other side of the world. To go or not to go? That is the question…The other side of the world was good enough for me, even if we were going to be somewhat close to each other for a week. It was better than staying here forever wondering what would've happened if I didn't go. He was going to be gone for two weeks. I was leaving after one week. One hundred and sixty-eight hours near each other. We didn't have to be close together though. He was going to be in Venice, so that mean I had just around forty-seven countries to go to. With Italy crossed off, it equaled to forty-six others to choose from. Somewhere where I didn't have to learn another language. I didn't have enough time to find a house, get a job, get settled and then on top of it all, learn a new language. The only place I could think of was the United Kingdom. Why not England? So it was settled, I was going to somewhere in England. But where in England would I go? How about a major city? Maybe London? I've always wanted to go there. I remember going once for a Hannah tour, but I never officially got to see anything. It was settled, London, England. I couldn't fall asleep after that. There was too much to think about. What part of London, and how I would get all my things there and everything just came rushing to me like a wave that you didn't see. A wave that was intensifying every second behind you. Without knowing, it would just come crashing you down, and no matter how hard you would try and get back up, you'd have to wait for the entire wave to just pass by before you could go back up. I think I should get up. I can't fall asleep any way, and I'm pretty sure that if Lily snores in my ear one more time, I'll go deaf. I pushed myself off from the bed as if I was doing a push-up. My feet touched the cold hardwood floor which caused me to shiver. I tiptoed out of the room, and down the hall. The condo was still dark, but it was slowly lighting up. There was nothing to do, so I walked into the kitchen and looked around. Everything was clean and spotless. Lily had grown to be a neat freak over the years. Anything that was left untidy had to be cleaned right away. I laughed at the thought. I walked back out into the living room and from there to the living room. I sat down on the brown leather couch, and stared out the window. The couch was cold due to the fact that no one had sat on it for over three hours. I lay down, and pulled the throw over my body. I was facing the window, watching the sun rise at a gradual pace. The horizon was being lighted more and more as the minutes passed. I had my attention on a spot next to a palm tree that for some reason looked very interesting. It was just like any other space that was next to a palm tree, but it was the only thing that was interesting at the moment. I jumped as I heard the creaking of the wooden floor behind the couch. I put my hands up, and on the top of the cold leather and pushed myself up. I peered over and saw that Lily was walking towards me from her bedroom.
"You're up early." She stated while scratching her head. I nodded.
"So are you." I informed her in a tone as if she had no clue.
"I only woke up early because someone had rolled off the bed then made a huge thud on the floor. I went back to sleep and then I felt cold, so I pulled on the blankets then I noticed that you weren't on the bed again, so I assumed that you fell off. I looked over the bed and you weren't there so I thought you like escaped or something so I came out to look for you." She said with an angry tone.
"Sorry that you just happen to care about me." I said jokingly.
"Har, har. You're hilarious." I smiled.
"I know, thank you." I remarked and slid back down onto the couch. The sun was half way up, and the ocean's waves glimmered as the sun hit the water making a pretty gem-like appearance show.
"So what do you want to do today?" Lily asked as she plopped down onto the sofa where my legs were.
"Don't you have work?" I asked.
"Nope. I saved this day open for hangover purposes. Just in case. But that didn't happen so here I am sitting in my living room with you." I smirked.
"You're so nice." I commented. She smiled.
"I know." She gestured her arms dramatically as if she was pretending to have just won the Best Friend of the Year award. If there were one any way. I lightly hit her on her arm, and she pushed me back.
"So, beach, movies, mall, or something else?" She asked. I shrugged.
"No, don't shrug. I hate it when people do that, choose something!" She yelled.
"I don't know; whatever you want to do." She pouted.
"Choose something already!" She shouted.
"Fine, mall." I decided while covering my ears. She smiled and got up.
"Then to the mall we go, but first your breath smells really bad, so it might be a good idea for you to brush your teeth."
"I wouldn't be taking if I were you." I covered my nose and swatted at the air in front of me face. She pulled my hand down and breathed in my face.
"Ewww, get away!" I screamed. She laughed, and walked me down into the bathroom.
"Now go before I call a swat team on you to keep you from contaminating the rest of the world with your rancid mouth." Lily said as she pointed towards the bathroom. I rolled my eyes and walked in. I opened the medicine cabinet to get my toothbrush. Yes I had a toothbrush in Lily's house. I stayed there often, so I got tired of bringing my things back and forth. Of course clothes were another thing. I deliberately didn't bring them so I could wear Lily's. It was funny if I pretended to ruin something of hers. She'd freak out and go ballistic. When I finished brushing my teeth, I stepped out of the bathroom. Lily was sitting on here bed looking out her windows. I jumped in front of her view.
"Better?" I asked while breathing in her face.
"Oh my gosh, yes!" She said and rolled her eyes. She pushed me aside and walked into the bathroom. I plopped down onto her bed and looked around. Her gigantic closet was on my right, and there was a large TV set to the left. Beyond the furniture there was nothing that littered the room. Everything was spotless. Not a single shirt was left on the floor or the bed, and no dust contaminated the floor. The night stand was the same light, tan wood that the bed frame was made out of. On each of the two nightstands were single lamps, and on the right night stand, were a clock and a phone.
"Okay, so you need to borrow my clothes right?" Lily asked as she stepped into the room. I nodded with a small smile on my face. She smirked and went through her partial walk-in closet throwing out a pair of jeans and white shirt with white polka dots. The jeans were a plain pair of light jeans with a slight frayed edge at the bottom. The polka dotted shirt was plain white and stretchy with black dots on it and a small black ribbon that made the shirt look like an empire dress until it ended just above my thighs. There was a slight v-neck where a black tank top was to be seen.
"It's pretty…" I said hugging the shirt in admiration. Lily rolled her eyes with a small smirk on her face.
"I see that it's good enough for you." I nodded and rushed off into the bathroom where I got changed. I quickly changed and threw Lily's pj's into the hamper that was in the bathroom, and walked out after quickly brushing my fingers through my hair to get all the tangles and knots out. After I walked back out into the hall Lily was already done and sitting on the couch watching TV.
"So, what time does the mall open again?" I asked Lily as I sat down next to her on the couch.
"You forgot what time the mall opens?" Lily asked as she raised her eyebrow. I shrugged.
"Yea?" I replied. She dropped her jaw.
"Since when has that ever happened?" She implored.
"When I got busy into thinking things." I murmured. It was the truth. Once I started crying and obsessing over Oliver it was the only thing I could do. It was like something that just took up most of my time. It was like something that was time consuming and took over my life all at once.
"Oh…" Lily said. Her voice drifted off in realization of what or whom I was talking about. I nodded and it the bottom of my lip but stopped once I realized that it still hurt from the previous night. Apparently it hurts a lot when you bite down on your lip for a long while.
"It opens at ten. So, we have about three hours until then. Do you want to go down to the café down the street until then?" Lily asked as she looked at me. She scratched her arm while waiting for my answer. I pursed my lips. I really wasn't in the mood to eat or anything but the café had other things. I didn't really have to eat anything if I went. I nodded.
"Sure, why not?" I said. She nodded and got up.
"Do you want to go now?" She asked while looking down at me.
"Okay." I said and got up. She turned off her TV, and walked down the hall and into her room. She came back out a few minutes later with two pairs of flip flops in each hand.
"Which ones do you want to wear?" She asked holding them up. One was a grey colored ribbon with a straw bottom and the other pair were just black with rhinestones on the straps. I pointed to the grey ones.
"That one." I answered. She nodded and handed them over. She slipped on the other shoes before I did. After, I grabbed my clutch from her dining room table which was glass with an iron frame. It was pretty much like the coffee table but it was larger in size. Lily was already holding her door open and tapping her foot while waiting for me to walk there. I rolled my eyes and ran out the door. The deck under my feet made a thumping sound as I walked over it. Lily shut the door behind her and fit her keys into the locks to lock the door completely. Once she was finished she started walking down the steps and waved at me top follow her. I rushed don the three wooden steps and onto the cement floor before running over to Lily who was already half way out the gates to the front entrance of the condos.
"You walk too slowly." She announced. I pouted.
"Maybe you just walk to fast." I snapped while crossing my arms over my chest. I looked at the clutch I held in my hand which was a light gold color to match the shoes that I was wearing during the reception. It was a kind of faded leather that was at the same time shiny. On the top was a little magnet bar that I'd gotten my bracelets and long necklaces stuck in so many times. Lily pulled me to the side before I hit into a phone pole.
"Something tells me that you're side tracked again." She murmured.
"No, not really. Thanks by the way." I said. She smiled and laughed. Anytime. Before I knew it we were in front of a small brown building with large glass windows in the front. Once I got passed the glass doors and into the main room, everything was dark. The glass was covered by maroon curtains. The fabric looked somewhat like velvet and the walks were painted a bold red color. All the wood in the café was dark wood that was most likely heavily stained. The air swarmed with the sounds of cappuccino foaming in its cup and the clinking of cups and mugs as they hit the table. The smells that flowed through the room were of coffee, tea, and some pastries or breakfast foods. As Lily walked up to the small counter in the front of the room, she turned to me.
"What do you want?" She asked. I shrugged.
"Chai tea latte?" I suggested. She nodded and turned to the counter while tapping her fingers on the wooden surface. The girl behind the counter turned and looked at her with a half smile on her face.
"Hi, what would you like?" She asked while twirling her fingers in and out of her dirty blonde pony tail.
"One Chai Tea Latte and a double shot espresso with no sugar." She said in a quick pace. The girl behind the counter looked at Lily with a confused expression. Lily rolled her eyed.
"Can I get one Chai Tea Latte?" She paused for a second as the girl pressed the little buttons on the register. "Then one double shot espresso, with no sugar." She said slowly. The girl gave Lily a dirty look as if saying 'I'm not stupid.' I laughed. Lily rolled her eyes and leaned her weight on her hand which sat on the counter.
"Hire some decent people!" She half yelled. I smiled and turned to the window. Just then someone passed by the small slit through the curtains. That person looked exactly like Oliver. I got that feeling in the pit on my stomach. No Miley, don't let this get to you. Not again. I sighed and shut my eyes tightly. Why do dreams explain so much about what I'm feeling?
A/n: okay, so once again I'm really sorry for not updating sooner, but I had a lot of tests and work and everything. So here's two chapters in a row to make up for it! Please read and review!