For Us: American Dreamers

Chapter 18: And We're Stuck

  "Why are you avoiding me?" Julian asks and George gets back in the car, puts on his seatbelt and opens the radio, avoiding to answer to the question.

   Stone's residence.

Roy arrives and starts knocking the door non stop, hoping for Hayley to open. When the door finally opens though it's her sister who wonders why her younger sister's ex boyfriend seems so worried. "Roy, is everything okay?" she asks him.

  "No Erin, I have a major suspicion that your father has located you!" Roy says quickly and explains the change in Hayley's recent personality. Erin rubs her forehead and admits that she noticed a mood change and decides to help him find her sister before their father can catch up.

  Orleston streets.
In the meantime...

   Anastasia is walking back home when she bumps into Cameron and wonders why isn't he with Hayley since they had a lesson with Olivia together. "Oh, she wasn't feeling well and we canceled the class for today..." the young boy points out and then the cheerleader nods and keeps walking until he decides to follow her.

   "Hey, can I ask you something too?" the young boy says in a more serious tone.

  "Of course, anything..." she replies.

  "Are you back with Wayne?" he asks and she raises her eyebrow, wondering on the outside but secretly knowing on the inside why he is asking her. She bites her lower lip and walks closer to him as they both look into each other while the sun's light is touching their faces and responds to him, very honestly, "You are so pure...Don't do this to yourself!" and she almost kisses his cheek until she realizes that it won't help, so instead she steps back and walks away from him as he looks at her, hurt and slightly confused by her answer.

  On the road for Austin...

  It's been a while and the cars are still not moving, which gives Julian the perfect opportunity to hit his friend with every single thing he has been thinking lately. "At first I thought that you didn't talk to me because you and Sean had broken up and you needed time...but you slept with the mayor, after what he tried to do to you!" Julian says angrily.

  George looks at him and rolls his eyes, "I don't have to explain what I do to anyone...sleeping with Lucas was a mistake for many reasons but I don't owe you any explanation!" he hits him right back.

  "Explain to me then, why do you go to a stranger for comfort when you have me? GOD DAMMIT, I'VE BEEN THERE FOR YOU FOR YEARS...I'M SO TIRED OF LOVING YOU WHILE YOU ALWAYS PUSH ME AWAY...SO TELL ME, WHY AREN'T YOU TALKING TO ME?" Julian explodes and George follows him, just seconds later with another burst...

  "LOVING ME? YOU ARR SUPPOSED TO BE MY PERSON! MY OTHER HALF AND YOU GO AND START DATING ONE OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND YOU KEPT THAT FROM ME FOR A YEAR!"

   Both of them suddenly stop and Julian turns to his best friend, "Look George, I'm always going to have your back but you can't expect me to not fall for Olivia because you are alone for the first time in your life...I think you need a break from men really, cause there hasn't been a moment since I met you that you were alone and that's finally catching up to you!"

  The young boy looks at him and starts thinking about what his best friend said to him, quietly as both of them continue their trip.

  Bluelife.
Later that day...

   Olivia is catching up with her work while Hayley is making an order at the bar when the woman notices that her student seems a little off. "Hayley, I noticed during the tutoring that your mind is not exactly focused...is something bothering you?" Olivia says to her but before she can get an answer her phone starts ringing, so she answers it...

   "Hello, Mrs Olivia Logan?"

    "Yes?"

  "I know it's out of the blue but you sent us a copy of your work last year and we would like to offer you a job as a lecturer in Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh!"

  "What?" the young woman says, completely shocked, not knowing what to respond. Then Roy and Erin burst inside the coffee place and head to Hayley...

   "Woah you guys are scaring the customers, what's wrong?" the young girl says shocked.

   "Our father is back and you kept it from me...After what he did, you should keep these things to yourself!" Erin says loudly and everyone looks at them. Then they hear a voice in the background...

   "Hello daughters...I've missed you!" and Hayley, Roy and Erin turn to him, Jacob Stone, the girls now have to deal with their worst nightmare all over again.

  Wilson residence.
Midnight...

   George returns home, completely exhausted and finds Anastasia sitting at the living room and eating chips like a lost soul. The young girl offer him to share the chips and he joins her. "You seem like crap..." she points out and he returns the favor...

   "What's bothering you?" he asks her.

   "I think I have feeling for someone else, not Wayne and I'm scared that for the person I have feelings for, I will never be good enough...Not because that's what he believes but because I know myself extremely well...what's up with you?"

  "Sean left and I'm jumping from one man to the other to cover how vulnerable I feel...there is not a moment of my life he wasn't a part of and now I don't even know where he is..."

  Anastasia and George hold hands and comfort each other like a brother and sister. Everything is about to change in Orleston.

  To be continued...