AN: Hey! So, here's the new chapter. I love this story! AH! So as for the song for this chapter, here it is. This chapter is sponsored by "Saying Goodbye" by Every Avenue. I love them, favorite band of all time, so check them out! Kay, byes! ~Rinny
~Chapter 3~
My stomach growls as I enter the cafeteria. A sigh escapes my lips as I see the menu. Lunch looked gross today, which had been something Tawni told me. I had just met her and I'm still star struck. She's so different while not in front of a camera, I think grabbing a tray. We just finished a sketch before I came down to the cafeteria, so I just had time to get changed before coming here. I slide the tray down and earn a glop of mysterious mountain of an unknown substance. I bite my lip angrily and give the lunch lady a fake smile in substitute for a spoken thank you.
"The usual lobster?" she asked, not looking to me. I turn my head to see a blonde, smiling actor, receiving a bright red lobster. I grimaced.
"Why does he get a lobster and I get this crap?" I asked, scowling at the lunch lady, getting an "excuse me" look, the actor snickering behind me.
"You're the new girl, aren't you? From that comedy show?" the actor asked with a devilish smirk, pronouncing comedy as if it were the worst thing in the world. I take a quick intake of air and lift my chin while responding.
"Yeah, I'm Sonny. From So Random," I told him, placing my tray down and putting out a hand, offering for him to shake it. He looks at it for a moment, then back at me like I'm insane.
"Yup, new girl," he mumbled, as if I was missing something completely. "I get a lobster because us at Mackenzie Falls, act," he told me, taking his plate and going back to his table of snobby companions. Annoyed, I roll my eyes and decide to forget about whomever he is and eat my lunch in peace. I see my cast mates at a long table and smile, placing my tray onto the table and sitting down with them. Not being able to forget the handsome, but extremely irritating actor, I open my mouth.
"Hey guys. Who are they?" I ask, not wanting to sound interested in the stuck up blonde. They peer over to his table and roll their eyes in harmony, obviously aware of the actor's presence.
"Their from Mack Falls, the number one show unfortunately. They're the enemy, Sonny. You are not to talk to them," Tawni warns me. I nod with a smile.
"Not a problem. That blonde one is so annoying," I hinted, wanting to know his name for no reason.
"Oh, Chad? We know," she said with agreement, not paying attention to my reaction and just facing to her food. My eyes go to the floor as she says the name. Just a coincidence, Sonny, I tell myself with sorrow.
"Chad?" I hint even more suspiciously. No one paid attention to my interest.
"Yeah, Chad Dylan Cooper. What a jerk," Nico tells me. I nod in union with the other members of my show. I knew it couldn't be, I think. He promised. I feel the cold metal around my neck suddenly seem to press hard and I shiver at the icy touch. I decide to be smart and throw out my dangerous, strange food. I grab my purse from the table and say goodbye as I leave the cafeteria.
April 1st, 2005
We were standing next to the sign that told us where to say goodbye. The place we couldn't continue without a ticket. What I would give to go with him. The air around us was tense and awkward. After all these years, after all our fights that ended the same way, we both wanted to say things. Things that were better left to the silence. By now I knew it was time to say goodbye. It wouldn't have been easier if the sign were moved. It wouldn't have been easier months later. The words that were meant to be spoken then and we knew we just had to get it over with.
"Ally?" he spoke with question hidden in his voice. I looked up from the ground and into his sapphire eyes that could only sparkle at certain moments, this being one of them.
"Yeah?" He sighed, as if revising what he would have said.
"I- I- I'm going to miss you, Allison." His arms wrapped around mine and I threw mine around his neck, pulling him close. I knew what to say, just saying it was difficult. I let go to look into his eyes once again.
"Promise me something," I told him simply. He smiled at the mystery in my tone.
"Anything," he said simply, not thinking too much. I let out a sigh, wondering what he would think of my demand.
"Promise me you won't change. After you're famous, after everyone knows your name, after everyone wants our autograph, promise me. You'll stay the same Chad from Appleton. One who climbs trees just to talk, one who will give anything for wings and garlic bread from Uncle Joe's. Promise me, Goldfarb," I ended with a tiny, timid smile. Chad brought me back into a quick embrace.
"I swear, Ally. I'll miss you," he spoke softly, letting me go with a warm smile. I smiled back; just to speak the straightforward reply.
"I'll miss you too." We wondered silently about phone calls and emails. We wondered if we would ever see each other again. We wondered if this were the last time we'd see each other's smile. We wondered.
"Bye," Chad said with the look of sadness on your face that only I would know.
I sighed. This simple word hurt more than I would have thought. For the reason that I had never heard him use this word in his lifetime. I worried it had escaped his vocabulary. He would say "later" or just "call me." We always thought that those days would last. We felt so high then. But goodbye was never used, as he had taught me not to say it either.
Why you ask? Because he hated saying it, facing the fact he wouldn't see me for a while. I remember saying goodbye right at that moment like it was the last time. But, as I said goodbye, it then made me realize the truth as he did. As he walked away, it would not be the last of heard of Chad Goldfarb.
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