Side by Side, Eye to Eye
  • Dear Journal,
  • Yesterday was amazing! It all started when I was talking to Kaylie.
  • “Hey, girl!”
  • “Yep?”
  • “So…I’ve got very crazy good news!”
  • “Well, what is it? Something Good?”
  • “Yup! I just want to say…Ronan invited me…to come over and visit him!”
  • “What!? Really!?”
  • “Yes, I am 100% telling the truth!”
  • And then, we squealed like CRAZY!
  • “That is so flipping cool!”
  • “Flipping ‘Awesome’ you mean!”
  • “Touché!”
  • My day just couldn’t get any better.
  • It was a half day during filming; I was still excited to visit Ronan.
  • After some filming about a fight with Marcellus's army, and seeing Ronan getting punched by Odette, at 12:30pm…the ULTIMATE…GREAT DAY…WAS…ON!
  • To save him some time to get things ready, I waited for an hour for…until 1:35pm. It wasn’t far…it was across from my house!
  • Just kidding, it’s the same way to Pinewood Studios, actually. I skipped throughout the way.
  • “I’m going to have so much fun!” I told myself.
  • I heard piano music coming from a house I walked by. And from the window; a young boy was playing…that beautiful piano!
  • Too beautiful if you ask me!
  • The boy turned around…it was Ronan! I was so in awe. I was greeted by his mother I’m guessing…yup!
  • “Welcome…Sabrina, right?”
  • “Yes!”
  • She looked at me the same way Ronan did when apologized to me: like she knew me before.
  • “I’m Cara.”
  • “His mother?”
  • “Yes!”
  • “Nice to meet you!”
  • I replied while still entranced to the music.
  • “My son is really good at the piano!”
  • “Cool!”
  • “Well, come on in! He’ll be down momentarily”
  • “Okay!”
  • Cara escorted me inside; the music got louder.
  • “His room is on the right, next to the bathroom.”
  • “Thank you!”
  • I walked upstairs, and my heart was swaying like a palm tree in July. I took a peak at the door.
  • His eyes were SO beautiful, shining in the sunlight!
  • “He’s SO graceful! And SO cute! And he sounds incredible too.” I said to myself, “He is just so cute!”
  • “Isn’t he just?” Whispered a woman.
  • She also looked at me funny too!
  • What is up with his family!? Why do they all look at me like they know me, whenever I visit someone!?
  • Anyways, the woman said, “You’re Sabrina, right?”
  • “Yup!”
  • “I’m Phoebe, his sister!”
  • “Nice to meet you! Tell me Phoebe, what piece is Ronan practicing?”
  • “I don't know, he likes to make up different kinds of songs, you know freestyle. He did that last year at the winter concert at the school where he has piano lessons in Galway!”
  • “Like at a cafeteria?”
  • “Yup!”
  • “My best friend plays the piano too! But I don’t see him anymore.”
  • “Wow,” Phoebe said, “That’s very…sad!”
  • “I know…but…I guess it might’ve been fate! You know, I was only allowed to see him…for a certain amount of time.”
  • “I see. How old are you?”
  • “12, you?”
  • “I’m 18.”
  • “So is my cousin!”
  • “Awesome!” said Phoebe, a bit confused.
  • The music stopped.
  • “Come!” Phoebe said, “Ronan’s coming out now!”
  • We dashed downstairs as Ronan made his way down stairs. He was pretty happy to see me (because I gave him a hug!).
  • We mainly had a chat in his room. We talked a bunch! We told jokes, our crazy and embarrassing moments, how we sometimes blushed…in front of people that we liked.
  • We both died laughing. Did I laugh too hard? No! Not one bit!
  • And then I found myself kissing him. Until, 20 minutes later, Phoebe caught us.
  • We ran out of the room, screaming. Just in time for Mom to pick me up!
  • But just when I opened the door, Phoebe shouted out “Admit it that you kissed!”
  • Mom just stood there for a moment.
  • Please, please, please don’t say that I’m grounded, that would be great, thank you! I thought.
  • But…she wasn’t mad…she was overjoyed!
  • And then Cara came down, and she and Mom started screaming their heads off! I completely did NOT understand what was going on. Did NOT!
  • I had a lingering feeling that my mom and Cara knew each other before I was born; I was right; I didn’t believe it. This visit was very extraordinary.
  • Me and Ronan went out to the backyard.
  • We sat down and Ronan said, “I’m sorry. I should’ve warned you about Phoebe. She can be a pain in the bum sometimes. So can my brother Finnegan as well.”
  • “That’s how siblings are,” I said, “I have to hand it to you, Ashley can be a pretty handful too!”
  • We then kissed again, but quickly broke free! Then I thought of something. The love spell breaks when in an awkward time or place.
  • And that was in an awkward time and place. I’ll write to you soon!
  • All the best, Sabrina.
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May 4, 2008