This is 'Years later' something different, hope you like it! Maybe another chap later today but the second is definitely coming on tomorrow!
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Struggling to not drop any of the books she was carrying, Tilly tried to open up the door of her dorm. In a few days it was her birthday and she would turn 22 then. Last week when she had spoken on skype with Esther and George she had told them they should come over at the weekend to celebrate. Both of them had said 'no' in union, which Tilly didn't really understood. It had been since the summer that she had seen her friends and now she finally had a quiet weekend and it was her birthday, they didn't want to come over!? As Esther and George saw Tilly's face drop they both started laughing and then informed her to check her mail. The redhead did as told and when she had seen that one special message, she had screamed of happiness. She couldn't believe what she saw, it was a conformation of a booking for a train ticket to London. George and Esther had bought it for their friend as they thought it would be a good idea for the birthday girl to get away from her local place for a bit cause they knew she hadn't left Cambridge in the last 4 months. The ticket was for the train at 5 p.m. on Friday so she would be in London with her friend just in time to grab some dinner.
As it was Friday afternoon already Tilly decided it was about time to start packing. Dropping her books at her desk, for once not caring about studying in the weekend she grabbed a bag and started packing. It was her birthday after all and she wanted to make the best of it. No matter how much she liked studying in order to fulfill her dream, it was getting a bit harder the last couple of weeks. The last years she hadn't done anything but to concentrate on her studies and now after the last summer Tilly had felt like she was like missing something.
Thinking of it now a smile appeared on the redhead's face. That summer had been one of the best summer's in her life. She had had so much fun, traveling with friends to Paris, going to the beach, little day trips around the country, … . Even though she had broken up with her ex, Sophie just before summer, it had been a good summer. Her relationship with Sophie hadn't been really, … there wasn't that real connection between them. Tilly had loved Sophie but after a huge augment and thinking about what they had the redhead came to realize she wasn't really in love with her. She did like her a lot but … it wasn't like … . It had been more like her relation with her first Cambridge girl Kate, even though that only went on for a month. After Kate there had been Becky who was in her final year already, she was a girl who Tilly could see her living together with but Becky had cheated on her after they were almost a year together. The redhead had been heartbroken by it, the way it ended was really awful. When Tilly found out about it, she had given Becky another chance after she had sworn it was just a drunken move and promising it would never happen again. About a week later Tilly saw her with another girl in town, being all over each other like a young couple. Witnessing that had caused the redhead's heart to break once again. The pain she had felt then had reminded her of the break ups with Jen, but even though those had felt even worse, it still did hurt a lot now. That night Becky was supposes to come over for a romantic night. As soon as she had entered Tilly's dorm she had known Tilly knew. Lot's of yelling, screaming and tears but that last thing only on tilly, happened. Until the redhead literally threw Becky out with all her stuff that Tilly had of her in her room. It had been the redhead's friend Sophie who had been there to cheer her up. Sophie really cared about Tilly and they became close. Then one day when she knew her friend was really over all the things that happened between her and Becky, which was a long time, Sophie couldn't hide her feelings no longer and she had kissed Tilly while walking her home from the movies. The redhead had been taken by surprise and at first didn't know how to react. They always had a good time together so why not. Tilly had thought it had been the way things had ended with Becky that was making her kind of afraid to let love back in again. So she thought those feelings of angst would go away when she actually was in a relationship with Sophie cause she did liked her, she was like her best friend. Well now how things turned out, Tilly wished she never had chosen to date Sophie cause due to their break op she had lost their friendship too. Sophie moved away to the other side of the country, not because of Tilly but because of the work she did or that's what she told. Now a days it's was possible to keep contact but Sophie just disappeared as she moved. It had made Tilly feel bad, she knew Sophie loved her but she just didn't love her back like that. The redhead just stood up for herself for once as she realized things weren't working for her. Telling Sophie that had been a hard thing to do cause she didn't wanted to lose the friend she was for her. She knew it would hurt Sophie and that thought alone already made Tilly feel bad because she knew how it felt like to be hurt and it had been Sophie helping her to ease the pain and yet she was going to be the one now causing pain to her. Sophie had cried so much when Tilly had told her it would be better if they ended it. She had tried to fight for Tilly to convince her, to try again but Tilly already had made up her mind. Tilly explained and Sophie had said she understood. The first week they saw each other a few times and went for coffee but a week later Sophie texted Tilly she was moving to York because of work and with that text she never heard or saw Sophie again. Luckily it was summer break and Tilly's 'old friends' were there for her. The beginning of the summer holidays weren't that cheerful due to the break up and disappearing of Sophie but her friend never left her side and they really gave her the best holiday! It was a summer to never forget about and Tilly was sure this weekend would just be as entertaining and fun as summer had been like.