we are young

Sunny was doing his best to stay in touch with Rosie, but he was always having to do research with the classes he was taking, about what it took to make a building stable. It was a lot more than lectures these days.

He missed her. She didn't seem like the same person he knew and had grown to know every aspect of. Sure, he always thought she was a bit complicated yet she was much stronger than she would ever know. She'd asked him to see to her would-be sibling Jai.

Finally, he went out to eat with this so-called brother. But Sunny felt he was broken too. Naturally, he had plans about his future, yet as Sunny listened to him he did wonder if it would come true. Normally, he didn't have thoughts about other people's dreams.

He wanted to tell Rosie that Jai was faking it, but he couldn't. He needed to sound hopeful since Rosie was so sad these days, alone at school.

"There is always Valentina," Sunny smiled. Wasn't she friends with her.

"But, she has a boyfriend," Rosie acted as if he took up all of Valentina's time. So, he'd ask about her part-time job at the diner. She only worked there about one night a week which was Saturday.

She shrugged as if it wasn't much of nothing. But she put in a good eight-hour shift there.

"Maybe you need a break from that." He didn't know what to tell her. All he could do was tell her he missed her and loved her and he wanted her to have a great Senior year, but homecoming was on its way and she said she wasn't going.

He hated to see her this way. Sunny knew he'd let her down because it wasn't supposed to be this way. He was supposed to be there with her making lots of high school memories. Yet, he had to think of his future. He wanted to be able to have a good job to be able to give her a family she always wanted.