There is that moment in any human life where time seems to stand still, or maybe it's moving too fast it looks like it's not moving at all. One of the unexplainable things in the world. Wait, if this is not accurate, and maybe in your time scientists have actually been able to figure this out, you should interrupt me and tell me. After all, this happened at my time. A long time ago. No? Nothing? Well then, I guess things haven't changed that much.

What I was trying to tell you is, at that moment, when the four of us stood there, things started happening in a swoosh of time, so fast I barely got the chance to process what in the crazy of the moment was happening, but my body, in fact, I should say my legs, started moving before my mind caught up to what I was doing.

In a matter of a few seconds, maybe about six. Tops. A number of different things erupted in a turmoil of crazy activities.

After throwing one, brief-teary look at Luke, Suzy took off running in the direction of the school entrance. For some reason I didn't care to stop and think about, I pushed Leo on his chest hard enough to cause him to stumble backward before I took off running after my best friend while yelling her name at the top of my lungs.

Leo managed to right himself just in time and took off running after us.

Luke... well, I don't know what Luke was doing. I didn't care. I didn't think to look back. My goal was to reach my best friend who was sprinting like her life depended on it. I don't think she even knew why she was running in the first place. I guess it was that moment when you just run to try and stay ahead of your problems and at that moment, me, Luke, Leo, everyone was her problem. I wanted to take that weight off of her. I didn't want her to continue thinking ill of me.

So, I ran faster.

And yes, I didn't stop shouting her name like a maniac.

What happened next came as a complete surprise to me. It felt like amidst my running, I blinked and missed when or where he had come from.

I wasn't even that far away from reaching her, but just when I thought I was, I came to a screeching halt when out of nowhere, Logan showed up and collided with Suzy. When I say collided, I don't mean something like, 'he was walking while looking somewhere else and as a result, didn't see her, resulting in bumping into her head first' No. I mean, somewhere between Suzy taking off, effectively causing the rest of us to run like crazy, Logan most probably had seen everything and decided to put an end to the crazy.

He collided with her, yanked her up, off her feet, and held her there.

Suzy, fought him tooth and nails trying to jerk her way out of his vice grip. I knew better. She wasn't going nowhere if he didn't want her to. His hands were like an inescapable cage, solely made for pinning me down. I mean... 'Ahem' holding tightly, without letting go. Shit.

Pardon me. I'm gonna get it together now.

"Hey!" Logan shouted in hopes of getting her to listen. She didn't. She kept on trying to crawl her way out of his hands. "Suzy, what the hell. Calm the fuck down."

"Let go of me, Logan."

"I said calm down."

I stood there, eyes wide, heart pounding like someone was beating it like a drum, and due to my lack, and hate of anything sports, breathing heavily like I couldn't get enough air in the world.

Logan looked at me, then at the person behind me, which not surprisingly was still Leo, and then looked further behind him. Without having to turn around, I knew Luke was there as well.

Finally, seemed after a long time, the five of us stood together at the same place.

Problem was, nobody was happy.

"Okay, enough of this, " Logan growled and put Suzy down before he turned her around to face all of us. "Calm the fuck down, or I swear to God you gonna be in so much trouble."

Gradually, Suzy stopped fighting but what I saw on her face shattered my heart in pieces. Pools of tears wettened both her cheeks, smearing patches of her dark mascara around her red face. Eyes wild. Angry veins had popped out of the sides of her temples and neck, I'm guessing from how much she was straining herself.

Suzy looked wild. If I close my eyes and think back to that day, I can almost see her. The way she was sucking in deep breathes in an attempt to stop her tears and any crying sounds.

Suzy never cried before.

Suzy was a strong girl.

Whatever she thought was happening was weighing hard on her shoulders and I wanted to take that load off of her. I was lost. She was lost, and I didn't know what to do to find her or find us.

If only she could listen to me. If only she could have looked at me and see me. Me as her best friend. Not whatever it was she thought about me.

"Suzy." Surprisingly, both Luke and I called her name at the same time.

"That's it." Logan raised his right hand and motioned his fingers to all of us. "The five of us need to have a chat. Now."

"I agree." Leo shot both his arms up in annoyance. "That is a very good idea. We need to put this craziness to rest. Pronto."

I couldn't agree more. That whole mess was getting out of hand for no good reason and I wanted an end to it.

I wanted things to go back to when we would all just sit around the school's cafeteria table and eat while we talk about silly stuff and making jokes. As friends again.

"Amelia, Luke, in my car. Leo, take Suzy. We are meeting at the ice cream booth, " he said or I should say, gave the orders to all of us. No room for protest. Nobody actually said no.

Leo walked past me to Logan who handed Suzy to him before he walked towards me once Suzy was safely in Leo's arms, and took my hand on his, and turned me around towards the parking lot. "Let's go, " he said as we brushed past Luke who without any words, turned and quietly followed behind us.

*****

I'll tell you this, the moment I sat down inside Logan's car with the two boys I wished I had gone with Leo instead. Maybe then, the awkwardness wouldn't have been pouring out of our pores.

It wasn't because there was any hostility between us. No, not at all. But rather the lack of speech between us was so loud it was killing me.

Those two were best friends, he was my boyfriend, but none of us could scrape up any words even if it was just for the sake of killing the silence.

The worst thing that was itching through my insides was the fact that I didn't even know if the two boys had a chance to speak. Did they talk about what happened? Yell at each other maybe? Hell, at that moment I wouldn't have minded even if fist flew around a little bit. At least then, my itching guts would have calmed down from the lack of information.

Logan and I were involved in some pretty serious Amorous Congress just yesterday and I could have given anything to know what was going on in his head.

If only I could read minds...

For a moment I let my mind wander to the possibilities of crazy movie theories by being some kind of a Super-girl. Seriously, I'm not even joking.

Thankful enough, before I could conjure something even crazier than a Super-girl, we arrived at the ice cream booth. You know what else I was also thankful for? The fact that Logan didn't let me wander to the direction of the shop's entrance by myself.

I'd already taken a few steps towards the entrance when I felt him beside me before he slid his warm, soft hand against my palm and turned his head to watch me through the corner of his eye.

I let out a small smile on my lips as I looked at him, who in turn, smirked at me and winked. Warmth spread across my chest and at that moment, I knew everything was going to be okay.

I knew whatever lay ahead on that day, whatever we were going to face on that unorganized meeting of friends, the outcome was going to be better than where we were standing.

I just hoped it was going to go smoothly.

*****

Another talk at the ice cream shop.

That ice cream shop had seen it all. He he.

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