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The room had fallen completely silent. Ms. Algoquin was gazing at Miley with admiration and a goofy smile on her face. I was amazed that everyone hadn't turned to look at me yet, because my heart was beating so loudly. I tried to breathe to slow it down, but it seemed like I had forgotten how. Everything in the whole room seemed to have disappeared except for Miley, and when she finally looked up, my eyes were locked onto hers. And the whole room just sat in silence, as her eyes held my gaze.
I felt like time had frozen right then and there, and I was perfectly content with that. All that convinced me that time was still ticking away was the erratic beating of my heart. The silence dragged on, and I was completely unaware of whatever else was going on in the room, but I heard someone stumble into one of the desks, and then the bell rang announcing the end of lunch.
I finally ripped my gaze away from Miley to see the door to the classroom swing shut, and then Joe quickly left too. Selena must have been in a hurry to get to class.
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Selena's POV
I smiled as my new friend finished her song. She was good, really good. Sure, I was a little jealous. After all, she had gotten my lead roll, but I could deal. I knew talent when I heard it, and Miley was talented. As she finished, I noticed that Ms. Algoquin was smiling like a little school girl. Obviously, she knew talent too. I felt my smile growing.
Sure, I might not have always liked Miley. In fact, when I first met her thanks to my parents, I hated her. After that first day though, we just sort of clicked. She seemed to make everyone happy when she was around, including me. It felt good to finally have a friend besides Nick, Kevin, and Joe that I could actually trust. I mean, I had plenty of friends, but they were all gossipers and popularity seekers. The kind that would stab you in the back in a heartbeat. I knew that, and I accepted that.
The room remained silent, and I my eyes wandered away from Miley and landed on my boyfriend, searching to see if he accepted my newest friend, because that was the most important thing in the world to me.
His eyes were locked on the girl in front of him. Moments passed, and their eyes were still just staring straight back at the others. What was going on here? I looked to Joe questioningly, only to find that he was glaring at the way his brother seemed dumbfounded by Miley. After a moment, Joe's eyes met mine, in an apologetic kind of way, like he was sorry for something… sorry for me.
Ms. Algoquin quickly jumped up and clapped her hands together, sensing the awkwardness that had fallen over the moment. "Well Miley, that was wonderful, you are going to be perfect in the play," she said in a happy tone and then walked through the back door of the room that led straight into the backstage of the auditorium.
Neither Nick, nor Miley moved. They both just continued gazing into each others' eyes as if nothing had happened, nothing had been said. I really can't say that either of them heard anything at all. My eyes remained on my boyfriend, who was giving Miley a look that he had never once given me, a look that I had always yearned for.
I felt the tears begin to well up in my eyes, and I stumbled backwards, hitting a desk on my way. I nearly fell over, but Joe was right there to catch me. He pulled me right up into his arms and whispered, "Selly? Are you okay?" I couldn't look up and meet his eyes, not while I was about to cry. I bit down on my lip and just shook my head vigorously. The tears began to fall and I quickly twisted from his arms and began to run for the door, the bell rang just as I ripped it open, and I ran out and around the corner.
I heard Joe's voice from behind me, "Selena! Wait." I just kept running. I didn't want him to see me cry, especially not over his brother. I made it out past the last building and after a moment in time I found myself deep in the woods that bordered our school, and this whole town for that matter.
I stumbled over some fallen branch and fell to the ground. The tears were coming so fast now, and I was shaking from the sobs. I pulled myself along the ground, unable to bring myself to stand again and then when I reached the trunk of a large tree, I grabbed my knees with my arms, and curled myself into the smallest ball I could manage.
And there I rocked, sobbing. Every breath I took seemed more painful and ragged than the last, while the tears stained my cheeks. I couldn't see, I couldn't think, there was nothing. No life. No point. No love. No meaning. I wrapped my arms tighter around my knees, wishing sincerely that I would just disappear inside myself. Just cease to exist. This couldn't be happening.
I don't know how long that I sat there, with no awareness except the deep pain of a heart breaking, when I heard a soft voice, a deep voice. I didn't know who it was. I didn't know what they were saying. Then, I found myself wrapped in the warm arms of someone else. It didn't matter who was there, I fell willingly into the arms, ripping my own free from their grasp around my legs to throw them around whoever was here. I needed them.
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a/n: So I know, I don't do it the way most people do. Selena isn't some slut. She isn't self centered. She isn't the bad girl out to get everybody. When I first started writing, she was. But then I realized something. In the real world, good girls get their hearts broken too. We give our entire hearts and lives to boys that we love with every ounce of our being, only to never be loved in return. It's the way life works. It's the way love works. Selena is in this story for every girl who is like me, who loved someone with all their heart, but when they saw that person fall in love with a close friend of theirs, they had to accept that they were happy. It hurts, heartbreak does, but Shane loves her in this story because I would like to think that the reason we lose the guys who never loved us enough, is because real love is waiting out there for us. So that's just so you guys realize where my train of thought was on this one. Sorry this one is short too, I just wanted to get another one up tonight.