How to draw 2 seperate lines w/Pen tool?

Hello: Level: New Newbie OS: Windows 7 64bit
It's me again w/the same tut at: http://designinstruct.com/drawing-illustration/how-to-make-a-golden-compass-in-illustrator /
Thank you everyone for all your help thus far!!
Please refer to step #8 and the picture below
Where I am confused is that once the line is drawn from top to bottom and I go to draw the line across the upper area the anchors stay connected.
I tried the Alt key + click to cut the path but (as you advanced folk probably already know) it didn't work.
So, I searched the manual, forums and other places for a way to make the bottom Anchor an end Anchor ... ?? Does that even exist?
I don't know if I am explaining this correctly or well enough but I sure would appreciate your guidence
Honestly I am not even sure what I ought to be looking for in the manual etc.
I tried just drawing the shape for the Glossy effect and then filling it with the required gradient but frankly it just looks odd ... it looks flat and basically UGLY
Below is a picture of what I need help accomplishing. The blue line that goes across is the problem for me.
I should also mention, if you go to the tutorial ... it says that I am suppose to Duplicate the Inner Circle but I made too many goofs and somehow all my layers ended up on one layer so rather than doing what the tut instructs I just made a New Layer and then drew a new circle with the Ellipse tool.
Even so, I actually couldn't grasp why or how I was suppose to go about intergrating the new circle with using the Pen Tool to draw the Glossy effect object. So, I skipped that part and just used the Pen tool to draw the needed shape as shown above in pink.
Thank you again!!
wow ...

Kara,
Or just press the P key.
This will reselect the Pen Tool, implying a deselection.
Edit: And now I realized: In the other thread I never looked at anything but the actual question, so I was unaware that it was all about a compass.
There are a few things in the tutorial that could create inaccuracies, and some might be done in easier ways, but differeent users prefer different ways. That is one of the reasons for the pleasant great variation in suggestions here.

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