Stardust in her veins

You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.

“We hung out once. I don’t think that classifies us as friends but she is nice and while I think that is weird and borderline ghastly. I don’t know she seems cool too?” Cara was an enigma and something told him there was more there but he chalked it up to it being Seth. “She hangs out with Seth because he makes her laugh, that makes no sense, right?” It was starting to get under his skin, how that made no sense. “Oh my god what if she is an angel.” Sounding like he had an epiphany. “If that’s the case I gotta get my life together. She’s here for a reason.” He laughed, only he would know how he was being a little bit serious. Those kinds of things always intrigued him, it was Jamie’s fault for putting those ideas in his head as children. – “My mother doesn’t have the capability to hate someone.” Although now he wasn’t so sure about that, but he was saying what was necessary to make Emily feel better. “So–this is your way of making me feel better about your father not like me….You say he prefers others. I hear he does not like me. Nice try. Emily, you’re an amazing genius but the one thing you are terrible at is distracting me from the truth.”

Men could be so clueless sometimes. “She hangs out with Seth because she likes him, Jack. Sure he makes her laugh, but precisely that means she likes him. Besides, the two of us know the best that is impossible to be and stay just friends.” It was funny how now they could joke so easily about something that gave them so much headaches and worries, even pain. Maybe the pain was the biggest part out of everything else. “Yeah, she’s really an angel and she came here straight out of Dickens’s novel to show you how pointless our lives would have been without you.” She stopped joking when she realized where she would have been if Jackson had not been born. “I would have been dead without you. Remember.” Thinking of that horrible night that was completely blank to her due to the almost deadly cocktail of drugs and alcohol, she realized they were really stuck with each other for the rest of their lives. - “I hope so, I really do because I would hate to see my relationship with your mom being destroyed. She’s like a 2nd mother to me, has been a much better one than my own ever since we moved here.” Would their love mean destroying every other relationship in their lives? “It’s not that he doesn’t like you, but he associates you with a bad period of my life. I think we can change that, especially with time. We’re different now, both of us and I doubt I’ll ever go back to that period of my life.”