Chapter 2 – Tickets
I awoke to my front door being slammed open, and in walked my little sister Caitlin. Apparently, I had fallen asleep with my face pressed against the window, and let me tell you, that was not comfortable. I'm guessing I looked like crap. I'm mean, I sure felt like it.
I guess for this to make sense, I need to be a little more descriptive.
My name is Kristin, but if you really know me then you call me Kristy. I don't fit in with my family when it comes to looks. I somehow managed to get bright red hair, or an auburn color, while the rest of my family has brown hair with brown eyes. But to go with my red hair, I have piercing green eyes with a hint of blue to match. I am about 5'8, and slender. I was always the smartest one in my class, and I am about to get my masters in speech therapy in my senior year at college. I had dated the same guy since I was a sophomore in high school, which when you do the math, is a long time. But as you saw earlier, he is… well… not around anymore.
I just have my one sibling, which is Caitlin. We are extremely close even though there is about a five year age difference between us. Caitlin is 16, while I, on the other hand, am 21. You would never even think that we are related. She is darker and can actually tan while I am extremely pale but with out any freckles. She has dark shoulder length brown hair while my red hair goes three fourths the way down my back. She has warm brown eyes while I have green-blue. We are about the same height though. Even though we look completely different, we still have many of the same interests and get along great.
Caitlin marched right up to me and said that we have to go shopping. Caitlin has been the most worried about me but her way of handling things isn't always the best. She has a big heart but sometimes she can just be too forceful and she tries to get me out all the time and distract me so I don't think about him as much. But to be honest, I'm not quite ready to stop thinking about him all the time. Maybe soon it won't hurt as much, but just not now.
"You know Caitlin, I just don't feel like going shopping."
She looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Well you don't have a choice now do you. I am going to grab your purse and grab your stuff while you change. Okay?"
All she got was a grunt in response as I made my way to my bedroom to change. I finally found something decent to wear that was not dirty when I heard Caitlin screaming, "Oh My Jonas! Oh My Jonas!" Without any warning she barged into my room waving the tickets in my face yelling at me and saying how she couldn't believe that I didn't tell her that I had front row seats to the Jonas Brothers' concert.
I sank down onto my bed…there was no way I was ready to face this. I started mumbling an incoherent response.
"What did you say?" asked Caitlin.
"I said… Tyler knew how much I loved the Jonas Brothers and how I always had wanted to go to a concert, so he pulled a few strings and got me two front row tickets and two meet and greet passes. He knew how I had always had a thing for Kevin, and I always had thought he was cute, and Tyler just wanted to come with me to see them because he just wanted to make me happy. I told Tyler that he had nothing to worry about, that he was the only guy for me……. Caitlin…he gave me this the night before he died…" After my confession, I looked up at Caitlin with tears in my eyes only to see her already crying. She just sat down next to me and held me as I cried.
After I finally started to calm down, she wiped away the tears on my face and said that she was sorry.
I knew how much Caitlin loved the Jonas brother, and how she always had had a crush on Nick, so I sucked it up and turned to her and said, "You know what? I think that the concert is tonight, so why don't you come with me instead, and this way we can have a girls night out and we will still need to go shopping for a new outfits."
Caitlin just looked at me in shock, then it finally sank in and she started shrieking saying that she was going to meet Nick Jonas. She grabbed my arm and started to drag me up saying that we must get started at once because she wants to look perfect.
I watched her as she ran outside my room and started scrambling to get ready. I slowly got up and followed her out. As I was shutting the door to my apartment, I looked back and saw a picture of me and Tyler holding each other in a picture frame that said "Together Forever". Well… so much for that. And with that, a single tear dropped, and I turned and locked the door, and starting walking with my sister, to what may be my future.
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