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Shadee lay on her bed, sighing deeply and intently staring at the ceiling. Two days had passed since the incident and her grandmother was still giving her the silent treatment. Still, she was allowed to do all the thing she had done before, like dating Dirk or going out with Sebastien and Holly. But she would have preferred to be locked inside the house and beaten up to the horrible silence Gypsy was treating her to.

The girl just couldn’t grasp why her grandmother was behaving that way. Was her grandfather really that sick? A cold shudder went down her spine. What if he died and it would be only her fault!

There was a soft knock on the door that woke Shadee up from her thoughts. It was Caleb.



‘Dinner’s ready.’ He peeked inside ‘Grandma told me to call you down.’

He walked inside the room and sat next to Shadee on the bed, throwing off his sneakers.



The girl looked at him and couldn’t help but smile. He was such a beautiful little boy. She was very happy to have him in her family. He had been told that he was adopted at the age of five, but grandfather Menas had explained to him several times through the years that his parents had loved him very much. Caleb had begun to call Menas and Gypsy “grandpa” and “grandma”, even though they were his parents on the papers. He was somewhat Shadee’s little brother.

‘Why is grandma upset, Shadee?’ Caleb asked with all his innocence ‘Did I do something wrong? Did you? Why doesn’t she talk to you?’



‘It’s nothing.’ Shadee smiled back and stroke his red hair ‘Now go down to dinner, it’s gonna get cold! And don’t worry, I’m coming too, I have to wash my hands first.’

After a very silent dinner, Shadee returned to her dimly lit bedroom. She really felt miserable and down. Just as she wanted to get under the warm covers of her bed a familiar buzz started her. Her cell phone was ringing.



‘Hi, Shadee, it’s Holly! Sorry to bother you.’

‘Hi, Holly! You aren’t bothering me at all.’ Shadee furrowed her brow slightly. Holly seemed sad ‘Is something wrong, are you okay?’

‘It’s nothing wrong, just…’

‘Just what? Let me call Seb and we can all meet at the-’

‘NO! Don’t call him! It’s you I want to talk to. See…I have a problem, something that has never happened to me before.’

‘Holly, you’re worrying me! What sort of problem?’

‘I…I think I’m in love…with Sebastien!’

This unexpected answer hit Shadee straight through the heart like a cold icicle. She had never, in her whole life, thought of this. And, without actually knowing why, it irked painfully at the inside of her stomach.

‘Shadee? Are you still there?’

She tried to regain composure and breathed deep before answering.

‘Umm…wow! I am dumbstruck! I don’t even know what to say! In love with Seb?’

‘Please don’t make fun of me, Shadee!’ Holy pleaded at the other end of the line, sounding close to tears ‘I think I really, like really, love him!’

‘I won’t make fun of you hun! But when did this happen? How did you realise? And do you think he likes you in that way too?’



‘Well…I’ve had a crush on him ever since the end of Junior year. I don’t know…it’s just the way he acts, he talks…and his smile…that’s just something to die for!

‘I don’t think it’s gonna work out, Holly!’ Shadee blurted out quickly, afterwards realising how harsh she had sounded, crushing the poor girl’s dream ‘I mean, you two are friends, best friends and nothing more, right?’



‘You’re wrong here, Shadee! I think he loves me too! Remember yesterday when we were at the café? And I was all sad that no one invited me to the Ball? He put his hand over mine! I was like all butterflies inside and could barely say something!

It feels so good to finally admit all this to someone! Keeping this all bottled up was so hard! You can’t even imagine how I just shuddered every time he touched me, even if it was by mistake! And –’

‘Ooops! I gotta go, Holly!’ Shadee heard her own high pitched voice say ‘Dinner’s ready! But we’ll talk tomorrow about this, okay?’



She shut the phone without waiting for Holly to reply and put it on the end table. Why had she done that? Why had she just shut the phone in Holly’s face when the girl had opened up to her? She was behaving like a selfish child, exactly how her grandmother had said. But this time she really had no reason. Her two best friends were going to get together and be happy with each other. Why did this bother her? In the end, she had always wanted the best for both of them.



‘They’re best friends! Why ruin their friendship over a little crush?’ she asked herself aloud.

And, after all, could she be sure Sebastien felt the same way? He could have just done that out of friendship, Holly had always been unfortunate in love. But what if he really did love her? They would get together…continue to be together through college…and eventually get married, have kids, kiss, be all intimate with each other.

That night, Shadee couldn’t find her rest. She just tossed from one side to the other, unable to find a solution to her dilemma.