Yes, I know I'm late and I know this sucks but I don't care because I like writing and I have this thing called school so deal with it. Also if you don't like don't read, if anyone is even reading this. If your reading this type in your band director's  name into the comments and if you don't have one, lie and make one up.
Important announcements at the bottom of this chapter so read them please!

It was in Elsyum, no one was out but me and the stars above. I had questions about how the sky was there if this was the underworld, questions that I wouldn't get an answer to. Looking  up at a sky full of stars while sitting on the sandy lake shore, waiting like I always am. Waiting for her, the love of my life, Selena Beauregard. I don't know how much time has passed in the living world so I don't know how long I have been waiting, only that I would wait till I could hold her in my arms again and tell her how much I love her.  My thoughts drifted to the last time I saw her, it was before I was about to leave on a mission, my last one. I had told  her not to worry, promising  I would come back safe. I shouldn't have made a promise I couldn't keep.

I woke in my cold bed the next day alone. I didn't know what today would bring, just that I would wait and find something to pass the time with. That "something"  was going to the library and helping out in anyway I could. Re-shelving books and helping  the librarian clean shelves she couldn't reach. It help with the pain a bit, but not enough to ease it completely. I was still alone, looking at couples who had finally been united, feeling bad that I didn't have that and worse, how bad I wanted that. How bad I wanted Selena to join me here, even though they only way would be for her to die, something I didn't want to happen ever. It made me feel like I didn't deserve her for thinking such a thing.

After a few more sunrises of waking to a cold bed. I decided that  I would go and sit by the lake again, soaking up the sunlight and reading as many books as I could until dusk. Then I would look at the stars again while thinking of her.

I was sitting on my picnic blanket and a pile of the four books I had finished lay next to me. I was going to get out the food and I had made and start to eat when something caught my eye. It was someone I had met before, someone I had been waiting for, for how long I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember because standing in front of me was the girl I had been waiting on for a while. Standing there in an orange camp t-shirt,  jeans and hair that was never messy no matter what, was Selena Beauregard. 

I didn't know what to do. I thought about crying tears of happiness and sadness. Of running up to her and giving her the biggest hugs I could. Thousands more thoughts went through my head but before I could even choose what to do, she looked at me and smiled.
She ran towards me and then rapped her arms around by torso and began to cry.

"Hi Charlie." Was all she said.

It wasn't poetic or even clever at all but, it still sounded perfect to me because, it was her. She was here in my arms and she was real. I didn't have to wait anymore. We stood there for forever, just holding each other and crying until we were out of tears. 

The rest of the day was filled with laughter and smiles. We walked the cobblestone streets together, holding hands and exploring the town together, traveling through wrong allies and getting lost together in a city that I had never enjoyed until then.

That night I looked at the stars with someone who knew every constellation and would reply to my questions about the stars and what would happen tomorrow. I ate dinner with someone else for the first time in a long time and went to bed happy with what I had.

And then I woke up to warm bed, and the smell of coffee.

Wow over 700 words! Anyway time for announcements,  first off Birthday is this Saturday and I have projects and homework and test to study for so no update the first week or so off October unless I get lucky and have time to write. However, there is a 4 day weekend coming up so I may update some time during that period and the next chapter, well technically it will be the chapter before this one but it will be written after this, will be a special one. I asked one of my favorite Wattpad author  for permission to write a crossover one shot using the characters from their universe and they said yes! I'm really excited for this and I can wait to get started on it! Also I don't know why but I have three drafts set up for Christmas stories that I wrote during July and have been waiting months to write, so be prepared for a spam of updates during December.  That's all and I hope you have an awesome homecoming!