I Love You, Mr. Goldsworthy.
Prologue.
Clare Edwards sat outside her house for the last time. Growing up here, experiencing all the things she'd experienced, good or bad. She was finding it hard to say good bye but it was what was needed. She was having memories engorge her mind all at once of her childhood, her adolescent life, and her short amount of time as a young adult. So many things have happened and she couldn't even believe it. So many years have gone by in this house.
When she was younger she always thought time passed by slowly and that she'd never become an adult but here she was, almost nineteen years old, and headed off to college. Who would of thunk it?
Clare turned to see her friend of four and a half years, Alli Bahndari.
"Clare, I'm going to miss you so much!" She exclaimed, grabbing Clare in a suspected hug, squealing the whole time.
"Alli, I'm going to miss you so much more, I can't believe this is actually happening!" Alli nodded in agreement and they shared a silent moment to think about all the things that have changed.
The best friends had planned on attending the same college together but they both got into different colleges that appealed to their future. They knew, no matter how much they wanted to be together, college wasn't about being with friends, it was about planning your future. You can't do that if you're going to a college that doesn't offer your career choice. Clare wanted to become a writer and Alli wanted to major with a Science degree.
"Promise me you'll call me as soon as you get to this hell hole." Alli pleaded with her best friend. Alli was stunned that this day came. Ever since graduation they had known of their plans but the dates were coming up faster and faster and she didn't know if she could take it.
"I promise, now I have to go if I want to catch my flight. I promise that I'll call as soon as I land." Alli felt her eyes swell up at the final moments with the one and only Clare Edwards.
"Clare Edwards if I don't get a call by three in the morning I'm going to use that as my excuse to go and drag you back here do you hear me?"
"I hear you, but just remember, next week when you leave to go to Lexington U, you'll only be 133 miles away from me instead of 304." She tried to reason with the weeping girl in her arms.
"Yea, Clare I know I did the research. I will visit you as much as I can I promise, now get out of here so I can have a chance to miss you." Clare nodded and smiled before getting into her car and giving her house one last glance.
She had already told her parents good bye yesterday because they couldn't even sit in the same room with each other without blowing up for more than a few hours. It was like all the things they hated about each other boiled to the top as soon as their eyes landed on each others.
Clare shook the negative thoughts from her head and put her car into drive and waved at the tan girl bawling in her driveway before she was off to the airport.
Clare arrived at the airport in record time. She should've calculated her time better, the traffic was horrible. She quickly checked in and ran to Gate 3 and put her luggage through the security and went through the metal detector.
After she had the OK to go, she was flying towards the flight attendant taking tickets. She forced a smile to the perfect looking woman and gave her the ticket that she paid for working all summer at the Dot, and extra hours Above the Dot.
The woman gave her a nod and handed her the remaining tickets in her little ticket folder. She went through the small tunnel that connected to the door of the plane. It was freezing cold in the tunnel reminding her that the sun was going down. She looked at her ticket before finding her seat and was thankful that no one was sitting next to her.
Clare put her carry on bag on the seat next to her and out of paranoia, buckled up her bag as if it were a person. Clare pulled out her iPod and set it in her pocket; ready to be used when the pilot gave the okay. She instantly buckled up and prepared for take off. She wasn't good with planes but she got by.
The flight attendant went through the usual safety precautions and even though Clare had been on a plane she was always careful and paid extra attention to the perfect woman standing in the front silently following along to the video playing on the big screen behind her.
After the woman explained about the air masks and everything else the seatbelt sign came on but Clare was already buckled. The plane jerked to life and they were rolling at a speed that Clare didn't even want to think about along the runway.
Soon enough they were lifting off into the air evening the plane out. Five minutes later the seat belt sign came off, but Clare remained buckled. She knew that the amount of accidents you could get into on a plane were miniscule to the amount in a car but she was still afraid no matter what. Facts can't always ease the fear of things in life.
Clare took out her iPod and put in one headphone, turning the volume down to a reasonable volume incase something happened so she could hear it. Quicker than she'd like to believe she had fallen asleep.
The short flight seemed shorter when she was awoken by the perfect looking flight attendant. The flight was little less than an hour, but if she were to drive it would've been five hours.
"Excuse me Miss, the plane is about to land I just wanted to make sure you were aware." She smiled a fake beautiful smile at Clare and Clare gave her a slight nod.
"Thanks."
"Anytime," She strutted away towards the front to buckle up for the landing.
Clare sighed as the plane rumbled as it came in contact with the runway and all the roughness of the ground was coming in contact with wheels of the plane.
Finally, the plane stopped moving and the sound of wind wiping the windows and every surface of the plane died down. She sat there; eyes out the window and sighed.
This was it.
