Chapter Two
Selena's POV
November 6th
Selena burst onto the set of Wizards of Waverly Place after talking with Miley
that morning. She was no longer crying and she had washed her face and
everything so that she no longer looked like she had been bawling all morning
but obviously not good enough because David Henrie, her brother on the show and
very good friend, had stopped her before she could completely walk past all her
costars. "Hey. What's up?"
"That's what I was going to ask you."
Selena nodded understandingly. "Thanks for asking but I'm really not ready to
talk about what's going on just yet."
"I heard you were with Miley this morning."
Selena looked down. "Where'd you hear that from?"
"I called this morning but your mom told me you were gone and suddenly ENews has
a story on you and Miley having breakfast bonding over Demi."
"ENews is crap. Stop watching that show, David." She tried to walk past him but
David stopped her.
"I'm worried about you, Selena."
"I had to know, David. That's why I went to Miley. I'm worried about Demi."
"I know." He must've noticed her pained expression because he gave her one of
his winning smiles and said, "Hey. Come here." Selena smiled and went into
David's arms, hugging him tight.
"I already got one of these today, but I need as many as I can get."
"Um, Lucy's here." David said suddenly, planting his chin on top of her head.
Selena smiled brighter. "Oh, is she?" Selena pulled back from David at the
mention of Davids former girlfriend and guest star. "Is she going to guest star
again? Where is she?" She glanced around.
"Uh, no. She's not here to guest star. She's... in my dressing room. We're... sort
of dating again. She's here to see me." David started fumbling for words.
Selena gave him a secretive smile and playfully poked him on the shoulder.
"David, you didn't tell me. That's so nice."
"Selena! David! Jake! To the set! Where's Jennifer?" The director yelled.
"I'll find her."
"No need. No need." Jennifer said running from behind the connecting set walls.
"I was just on the Suite Life set talking to Debby."
Selena bought her attention back to David only to catch him looking at her
funny. "What?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. I just thought you'd be jealous."
"Of Jennifer? I go and see Debby all the time."
"No. Of me dating Lucy Hale."
Selena little laugh turned into a hysterical one. "Sorry, David, but she's not
my type." She patted him on the chest and went to join Jennifer and Jake on set.
"So it's cool? We're cool?"
Selena whirled around to David with a lifted eyebrow. "David, why did you think
I'd be jealous?"
David looked up at the eyes on them. "Nevermind. We'll talk about this later."
"Good idea." The director said. "Another good idea is to get up there and act."
He pointed to the set of their lair on Wizards of Waverly Place as David and
Selena joined the others in their positions. "And action!"
Selena At Home
"Mom?" She walked through the door of her 3 story home she shared with her mom
and step-dad and thought about the house that she used to share with Demi and
her family. Four girls and four adults all living in a three bedroom apartment.
It had been crowded but Demi and her had had the time of their lives. She could
still remember the days they used to go on auditions together. It was never
about competition back then.
"Hey, Sel." Her mother came out of the living room and hugged her as was their
daily tradition. "How was your day?"
"Weird." Selena said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, to start the day off I talked to Miley for about an hour. Then, I went to
the set and David told me he was dating Lucy again and he thought I'd be
jealous. That was really weird." Selena looked down at her phone that started to
ring in her hand. "Oh, and Nick Jonas is calling. This should be good." Selena
answered the phone lethargically. "Hello?"
"Selena. Hey. For a while there, I thought you weren't going to answer."
Selena didn't know what she was thinking when she hung up the phone but there
was only one thing running through her mind.
Her mom looked up at Selena, restlessly moving about the kitchen. "Why did he
call?"
Selena shrugged.
"Did he hang up?"
"Mom." Selena placed her phone in the middle of the kitchen table as it started
to ring again.,"Can I take some time off?"
"From what?"
"From everything."
"Hey." Her mother stopped cleaning endlessly, rounding the table and embracing
Selena. "If you ever decide that anything is too much for you, I'll be behind
you."
Selena nodded into her mother's chest. Her phone stopped ringing. "I think I'll
wait until after Wizards. The shows almost over then I can just relax for a
bit."
"Why? What happened?"
"I just realized...that Nick only calls me when Miley doesn't answer..."
"Oh, sweetie." She kissed Selena on the forehead and pulled back looking in her
eyes. "Guys can be such jerks. That's why I try to shield you from stuff like
that but you're growing up so fast I can't stop your world from spinning out of
control."
"Mom." Selena gave her mother a small smile. She also couldn't stop her mind
from floating elsewhere back to Demi and David and Nick and especially Miley.
"My life has been great and you made that possible. I'm a grown-up now. It's
time for me to start worrying about my own problems but a hug from my mother
every now and then couldn't hurt." It would be Selena's third hug today.
"Sel." Her mom advanced, embracing Selena. The phone began to ring for a third
time. "Are you going to answer that phone now?"
"I'm gonna…" Selena bobbed her head up and down while glancing at the phone
with both her eyebrows arched. "Tell him to beat it." She snagged her phone from
the table answering it once again. "Stop calling!"
"I've only called once."
"David. What's... up?" Selena said turning red. She walked toward her room with
the phone pressed to her ear.
"You ran out after work. We didn't even get a chance to talk."
"Oh. We can talk now."
"It's sort of important. I don't want to do it over the phone."
"Okay. My day is free tomorrow. What about you?"
"Yeah. How about lunch?"
Selena smiled. "Sounds great."
November 7th
"Hey." Selena greeted David with a hug the next afternoon at lunch.
"Let's get a table." David led Selena to the back where there was absolutely no
windows for the paparazzi to put their cameras up to. "So how are you?"
"Well, I guess I've been fine considering. I'm glad that Demi's doing well.
Miley and I have been talking a lot lately. I think I might have made a new
friend."
"That's great." David smiled.
"So you did have something to talk to me about?"
"I broke up with Lucy."
"Um, David. Shortest relationship ever." Selena joked.
David reached over and laid his hand on top of hers caressing the spot between
her index finger and her thumb. "I think it was necessary."
Damn. She could say that in her mind. Couldn't she? She wanted to bring her hand
back onto her lap and pretend she had felt nothing but he just held it, making
it slightly impossible.
"Are you cold?" He asked when she shivered.
Selena shook her head and fanned her other free hand towards her face. "Actually
the opposite."
"Want to head out for a walk? Fresh air should help."
"Yeah. I think you're right."
David paid the bill and grasped Selena's hand in his as they exited the
restaurant.
Selena then bumped into a girl going the opposite way down the street with a guy
making her disconnect with David's hand. "Oh no. I'm so sorry." Selena reached
for the girl's hand who had fell to the ground. The hand she grabbed led to a
partly blonde bombshell with dark sunglasses which Selena would bet were brand
name. "Oh no. Ashley Greene." Joe's girlfriend. Shit. She could already see the paparazzi spreading the rumor that she pushed her down because of Demi. She looked guiltily over at the guy with Ashley. Taylor Lautner. It was kind of annoying
sometimes how many of her and Demi's friends were friends with the other camp.
The enemy camp as you could call them.
"It's fine," Ashley said as Selena pulled her up. "I'm not hurt." Ashley held
out a hand. "Ashley Greene." She laughed. "But apparently you already know that.
You're Selena. I guess famous people don't have to worry about introductions.
People just know them and...I'm rambling. Sorry."
"It's...okay." Selena pointed to David with one hand while shook Ashley's hand
with the other. "That's David. Henrie. It's nice to actually meet you, I think."
David nodded at Taylor. "Hey man." He shook his hand.
"Hey." Taylor grimaced. "Are we interrupting a date?"
"What? No. No. No. We were just talking." Selena made eye contact with David for a moment too long then turned to Taylor, hugging him. "It's really nice to see
you again."
"You, too."
"We have to go, Sel." David slightly tugged on her hand.
"Yeah." She pulled back. "I really have to meet someone later, anyway. See ya."
She waved at them as she walked after David. "Can I ask you something?"
He nodded silently.
"That was you flirting with me back in the restaurant?"
David was stunned that she asked at first. Not because he didn't flirt well but
because he thought she wouldn't acknowledge anything happened. "Yeah."
"You're not still in love with any of your ex-girlfriends are you?"
"No. Why?"
"It's just... you know how Nick never got over Miley? I don't want to have to go
through that again." Selena frowned.
"Who are you meeting later?"
"Hopefully Miley. Wherever she is."
November 8th
Selena sighed at her life. She knew there were people in third world countries doing much worse than her any day. But was she just supposed to ignore her
problems because other people had bigger ones? No. The only things going good in her life was Wizards and David. Miley had asked her about the Ashley thing while they were talking yesterday. Let's just say it was more or less, awkward. She was sure that Miley had been a little miffed to see her talking to Joe Jonas's
girlfriend and seeing as the paparazzi had captured her smiling politely at the girl, it looked like she was happy where she was. A knock rapped at her door making Selena sit up in bed. "I'm up." She slid her feet to the floor slipping them into her pink bunny house-shoes. Brushing her hand through her slept in hair, Selena stood making her way to the kitchen. She found her mom setting hot bacon on the table along with eggs and sausage.
"Here you go, sweetie," Her mom popped a piece of bacon into her own mouth. "Eat up."
"Mom, I have something to tell you." Selena announced while chewing on a sausage.
Her mom continued to move around the kitchen wiping off counters and the sink. "Go ahead."
"David and I are sort of dating now."
She made a sudden swipe on the counter sending the rag into a corner as she twirled, surprised. "What?"
"I'm just saying because from now on when people ask we can't say 'definitely not, he's like my big brother,' anymore." Her phone rang. "I have to take this. It's Miley. She never calls me. I'm usually the only calling, which makes me feel like nuisance." Selena put the phone up to her ear, answering it. "Hey."
"Hey. I... got a call from Demi."
"What'd she say?" Selena asked excitedly. "How is she?"
"She's doing well. She won't be able to make calls for a few weeks because of her treatment but I think it's a good idea. She wants me to go tell the Jonases how she's doing."
"Do you need me to go with you?"
"Nah. I'm going to do this one alone. Just... if I turn up missing... tell the cops where I was headed last."
Selena laughed. "Miley. You're the last person that's ever going to go missing. The paparazzi would just get it all on tape."
"You're right. Dang it." Miley snapped her fingers together. "I was trying to talk myself out if it."
"It's going to be fine." Selena said comfortingly. "Plus, if you need me at the last minute, just call. I'll rush right over there."
"Thank you, Selena. I know I've been less than nice the last week but you've been a really good support system."
"Miley, you're the nicest person I know besides my mom."
"Well, I don't know about that."
The next chapter is pretty short. Just be warned.
