"Ugh, why must we do this at 5:00 in the morning? And when I say 'we' I mean YOU!" Demi wasn't too happy about being dragged into The Home Depot to find glow in the dark paint. I mean I didn't even know that a hardware store was open this early. We walked in till we found the isle marked 'painting supplies and paint' right as we turned the corner I saw him. The guy from the carnival…I jumped back and hid behind the refrigerator in the next isle. Demi looked at me confused and walked into the next isle looked around and then came back to me seeing nothing out of the ordinary. "What is wrong with you?" I just peeked my head over at him. Demi followed my eyes and finally understood. "Ohh, so it's a boy?" she laughed. "And he's kinda cute, how do you know him?" My smile faded when I realized I actually didn't know him at all that he was practically a stranger except for the time he awkwardly waved at me.

"I don't know him" I said pushing the ice button on the refrigerator. "He's the guy I told you about earlier from the carnival." She laughed

"He's the one you were starring at?" and then she took another glance at him. "Well, I can see why…"

"Well what if he remembers me, I can't go over there." She gave me a 'you're acting stupid look' then took my hand and dragged me into the paint section and over to the counter where NoName was standing.

"Hi we're looking for…" then she looked at me, "What are we looking for again, Miley?" Demi tends to like to play match maker every once and a while and I got the feeling that today was one of those days. I gave her a mean glare before turning back to him; I looked at his apron and saw that his name was David.

"Umm, glow in the dark paint." He gave us a weird look but didn't ask questions. He walked out from behind the counter and over to the small variety of Glow paint they had. "We have original, neon pink, green, and blue." He walked back to his counter while we stayed behind and looked at the colors.

"Do you think he notices me?" I whispered. Demi looked back at him.

"It's hard to say." She whispered back "considering he's said only two sentences…both having nothing to do about you or the carnival…" I gave her a mean glare.

"Demi, I don't really like it when your sarcastic." She gave me a big smile then looked back at David.

"He's cute you should go for him." She smiled then went back to looking at the paint. I already knew what color I was going to pick I just wanted to stay and look at him a little longer. But I thought he was going to catch on sooner or later since there were only four colors to choose from so I went with original and went to the counter to pay. David rang up my paint.

"Total is $14.60." I reached into my wallet and pulled out a 20 dollar bill handing it to him. "So you go to Live Oak High School?" he nodded to my soccer sweats from last year as he bagged my paint.

"Yea, I'm a junior." He handed me my change and I stuffed it back in my wallet. "Are you in College? Or…" I furrowed my eyebrows. He laughed.

"Nah, I'm in high school, I just moved here my first day was Monday. I actually go to Live Oak as well."

Wow-

He would attend the same school as me and I would not even notice. "Oh really? Why haven't I seen you around?" I regretted asking that question as soon as it left my lips. It was obvious that he wouldn't know the answer. He chuckled.

"Well, it's kinda a big school and me being new and all…"

"Right, well I hope we run into each other sometime." I smiled and grabbed my bag off the counter.

"Yea, hopefully." And he smiled as well as me and Demi walked out of the store and into my car driving home.

"Well that went well." Demi signed.

"Are you being sarcastic?" I accused her

"No really! That went waaayyyyy better than I thought it was going to go." I pulled onto my street.

"Aww thanks Dem that's so nice of you to say, really. I'm glad you have so little confidence in me." I pulled into my driveway and pulled the keys out of the ignition.

"Okay now you're being sarcastic…" I gave her a big smile and jumped out of my car excited to start my project. "What's the paint for anyway?"

"I want to paint my ceiling with it…" she gave me a weird look like I had no idea what I was getting us both into. "…stars everywhere. So when I'm lying in bed at night I can look up and see the whole galaxy I created. I'm gonna paint a star for Trace, just something about having a star for him on my ceiling makes him feel that much closer, you know?" she just nodded her head in agreement. But I knew she was thinking of him, and missing him just like I do. Because trace was more than just a brother and a boyfriend he was the problem solver and the listener and the person we always went to looking for a goodtime, he was our whole world. And I don't think anyone can ever understand completely what he meant to us and how much we loved him, and I never want this love to die, I want it to forever live on because I was never ready to let him go.

"Are you ready?" she smiled and wiped the tear before it was able to escape her eye.

"Ready" we grabbed our paint brushed and started to fill my ceiling with stars, everywhere. There was no section left behind. I placed Trace's star right above my bed he was a bit bigger than the rest and I coated it with extra paint so it would shine brighter than the rest. I guess I feel closer to him knowing I did this for him as a constant reminder of his presence.

"So, this David guy, huh?" I just smiled. I had a good feeling about him because he was different.

"I don't know Dems" she just laughed giving me a little nudge. "Do you think he's nice?" she put her paint brush down and faced me.

"He seems nice." I bit my lip; I think I've just developed a crush…