Emma packed up all of her stuff into boxes, and stood by her stripped bed. She was moving today, and she played with her old pink Teddy Bear from grade school before she sighed and looked around her room. There were too many memories here. Too many good memories, that just felt horrible now since he was gone.
Emma was moving to the city, which worried her mother but Snake, her Step father, was happy for her. Emma was never one to be tied down, well except to one guy, but I meant she was adventurous! She had pictures on her wall from visiting Africa, New York, Ireland and other places in the world. Emma's passion was photography. Who knew right? It was mostly for landscapes, for she loved nature and the wild. But sometimes it was portraits too. She had tons of friends' pictures pinned on her wall, and a lot of him. Sean. Her ex boyfriend...
Sean and Emma met in highschool and fell quick for another, but it was complicated as soon as it began because Sean wasn't only in a different grade than Emma but also in a whole different crowd. He was known to be like a 'bad boy', always skipping school or getting into fights. Sean was always known to be crazy about Emma though. Everyone knew it. Everyone stayed away from her freshmen year because the intimidating Sean Cameron put a 'claim' on her. When Emma found out why boys were so afraid to talk to her, she was livid at the guy who thought it was ok to 'claim' a girl. She had marched right up to Sean Cameron, much to her friends' horror, and when she went to give him an ear full, the guy shut her up with a kiss. She was smitten ever since. Sean didn't know he had been her first kiss til a year of dating. He was a junior, she then just a freshmen. When she was a sophomore, he became her first everything as she gave him her specail 'v' card. And when she was a junior, he decided college wasn't for him and the army was. So come Emma's senior year, she was all alone. Sean had left. Things had went down that led to a nasty break up, words were said that Emma wish she could take back, but it was too late.
He'd been gone almost two years now. Emma had tried dating other guys but it wasn't the same and so she decided she just had to get away. She was graduated now from highschool AND college but it seemed photography got you nowhere really.. So in the mean time she decided to move to the City and be on her own and hopefully find a good job or something else she was good at.
It was going to be very interesting.
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Boxes piled into a trunk and Spike whimpered, hugging Emma tight and pulled away. "Please call when you get there. You can call me any time, I don't care how late it is."
Emma laughed softly and rolled her eyes, "Yes mom." she leaned in to hug her Dad as well.
Snake sucked in a breath, sad to see her go, but also happy. She needed this. She'd been suffering in silence since the guy who shall not be named had left. Snake loved Sean like a son, but even he felt like the two were really over now. Sean hadn't even come home once from the army. He was just..gone. He had sent Snake several emails last year but nothing this year. Maybe it was really over.
"Good luck. We'll come see you next weekend." Snake said. Emma nodded, backing up, and going towards her car and she noticed tears down her cheeks. She laughed a little sadly and glanced over her shoulder at her parents waving goodbye, and then she got in.
She felt like she had to do this, to find herself again. The other guys she had dated never made her feel the way Sean did. Without Sean, I guess she felt the need to find herself again. This had to be the answer.. She felt so...incomplete. Emma started up the car, and drove off to the city with a small smile as she wondered what would come of this.