Chapter Eleven

Two Months Later

Kelsi let out a laugh as she watched Troy and Gabriella play rock, paper, scissors on her bed. They were deeply imerged in the game and it was bugging Kelsi. She sat at her keyboard, trying her hardest to write a song as the two played. It was hard to concentrate though, the laughing and constant noise coming from Troy and Gabriella.

Kelsi finally let out a sigh and stood up from her chair, next to her keyboard. "You guys are like the most noisy players of that game." Kelsi mumbled walking over to the bed and shaking her head at the two.

Gabriella let out another laugh as they finished the game and she peered up at Kelsi. "Sorry BFF, we just got into it." Gabriella mumbled and Troy laughed as he brought his hands to Kelsi's waist.

"Yeah, sorry." He told her and looked up at her.

Kelsi shook her head and shrugged her shoulders. "No big deal guys. I was just trying to write my best song ever." Kelsi told them and Gabriella let out a laugh.

"Oh yeah, what's that?" She asked standing off the bed and walking over to Kelsi's keyboard. Propped on the top of the keyboard was the sheet music for the new song.

"The Glass Slipper, is what it's called." Kelsi told Gabriella and Gabriella took tiem to look over the sheet music.

She finished looking it over and smiled up at Kelsi. "It's really good Kelsi. I mean, I can't read the music or anything, but the lyrics are awesome." She announced and she reached her arms out and hugged Kelsi.

Kelsi smiled as she hugged Gabriella back and felt happy for the first time in a while. After Kelsi called Troy that night a couple months ago they made up and Troy convinced Kelsi to called Gabriella and talk to her-really talk. Kelsi did, and they ended up making up and being able to be friends again. They talked for three hours that night, and everything was put on the table. Making it all clear air for the both of them.

Kelsi let Gabriella out of the hug and looked at her and realized she had missed Gabriella for those weeks she wasn't there. She wasn't the best of the best friends that Kelsi could've had, but she was at least someday. Those weeks she didn't have anyone-not even her family- was the worst. She had Troy, but Gabriella was too mad at Kelsi to be able to make that even nice or worthwhile.

If Kelsi knew all it would take was a quick hour long conversation with Gabriella, she would've never spent those weeks along and sad. "Let's go to lunch." Troy suggested and Gabriella nodded her head.

"Yeah, sound good Kelsi?" She asked turning back to Kelsi and Kelsi nodded her head.

"Yup, let's go." Kelsi agreed and the trio picked up all of their things and filed out of Kelsi's bedroom.

They walked through her house and Kelsi smiled at each of the pictures of her dad that Kelsi's mom had put back up, after the smoke had cleared over the divorce. Things still weren't perfect, but at least Kelsi had really found her own little glass slipper in a world of chaos.

It was a conversation and Kelsi was never going to forget that. Smiling Kelsi stepped out of her house after Troy and Gabriella and she felt a weight lifted from her shoulders. Life was really better.