A fountain full of a hope
The cold autumn air walked past me as I took steps near the fountain. The fountain has memories of gold engraved for all the eyes to see. It has markings saying “If you want the Rainbow you gotta put up with it’s rain”. As a child I laughed because rainbows were never visible here in Utah, it’s always winter tears falling down and piling the streets. I had just slammed my way out of the diner as if I was four years old. If I could reverse time, if only I would have changed so many things. Dealing with a break-up and losing a best friend of 6 years on the exact same day hurts you in a way that you would never expect. I could hardly breathe when I found out that my boyfriend of 3 years admits that he doesn’t like me anymore and that he has always had a crush on my so-called best friend Laine.
As Children we always stood and played near this fountain, the town praised and worshiped this fountain. Before in the 90s mom said that its water shot gold, high and low but now all the water seems to look like dirty toilet water.
After what seemed to be about forty minutes James walked out and got down on his hands and knees and told me that he still loved me and wanted to get back together, but I could see right past his lies, he wanted to just get back together because Laine probably wasn’t good enough for him. I gave him a look and slowly changed my sitting position to face in front of him
“Do you remember when we were kids we would always hang around this fountain?” I spoke while looking down at the pebbles surrounding the fountain.
“Of course I do Yvonne, I just really wanted to tell you that I still loved you” He pleaded
“Do you have a penny?” I asked, not responding to his speech
“Did you not just hear that I still love you?” He said with a little bit of anger moving up in his voice
“Don’t you care for what I have to say?” He yelled. At that moment I suddenly realized that this man is not the right fit for me. I suddenly stayed quiet and glanced over at the running water. I just need something to take my mind off of the situation. I thought of an escape plan but at that moment the last person that I wanted to see walked out of the Rubios and towards James. She made sure to take a good look at me so that I was paying attention while kissing James on the lips. I was Done with this all. I couldn’t hold back the sobs behind my eyes. I managed to pick myself up and bolt out of there crying hysterically.
I ran over to the one place that I knew I wasn’t going to be put down, Kya’s house. I have known her a little bit longer than Laine but the best friend level was the same back. I quickly tapped my knuckles against the door, letting the people inside know that there was someone awaiting assistance outdoors in the well below 30 degree weather. Kya sprang up from her bed and rushed to the door as soon as the text message brightened her phone. She clicked the locks in a pattern so that the door would open without struggle.
“Yvonne! What’s up? How have you been? Oh wait, are you good?” She said looking at me I could tell what was going based on my facial expression. Kya got in a sitting position on the doorstep, signaling me to sit next to her. I took my wobbly self and managed to sit down into a type of position where my right leg was over the left one. “Before you spill the beans” Kya began “Do you want something to drink? Preferably Hot chocolate?” I looked up at her and gave her a soft smile as I said “yes please, the restaurant didn’t have any” “Okay! I’ll ask my mom to make us a batch!” she said as she closed the door, the warm air from the inside brushed past me one last time before it was all gone. I knew that the only person that I could trust in this world was Kya. I thought Laine was one of those people a few hours ago. Christmas wouldn’t be the same this year, Dad is gone, I lost my boyfriend and my back stabbing so called best friend. Even though I now hate her, I still am going to miss her, even if what she did was low I still will always miss her. I don’t know If I can say the exact same for James but what I do know is that I will miss him as well. Soon after I finished my thoughts Kya kicked the door open. The warm air rushed towards cooling my thoughts. As soon as I saw the warm hot chocolate, my mouth started to water. Last time I had this warm tasty drink was last year sitting by the fireplace with James. I knew that I would never love someone as much as I loved him but when he admitted that he liked Laine, that was the last straw.
“Here’s your chocolate, Extra Whip and not too many marshmallows, just the way you like it!”
“Thanks Kya. I just can’t stop thinking about what happened.”
“Well I don’t know what happened so I can’t say the same!” Kya always had something that would make me laugh. I don’t know if it is just her spirit or just something else.
“Okay let me start from the beginning” I vocalized. I explained the entire story to her and I also made sure to add my personal feedback so she knew how I felt during this experience.
“Oh my, Yvonne I am so sorry, no one should ever be treated like that, I’m so sorry.” she apologized over and over, even though it wasn’t her fault she still insisted on it. This is one of the down sides of having a best friend. Whenever something happens to you, she always constantly apologizes.
“Kya it’s not your fault, you don’t need to apologize”
“Well yes I do, Laine and James didn’t apologize and I want to make it so you feel like someone actually cares about you.”
I gave her a soft smile. I thought in my head of a good reason to escape all of this but I couldn’t think of anything.
“Getting off topic” Kya began “What do you want for christmas?”
It didn’t even take me a second to respond to the question. The pain of me knowing what I wanted hurt my brain. I thought all about this, day and night.
“Someone to love me unconditionally”
