Sorry I haven't updated in FOREVER!
A/N at End
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Chapter Two: I'm Going to Miss You
Tony Pov
When I walked out of Sophie's house, I started to slowly break down. First I was biting my lip, then my hands were shaking a little and once one tear fell, more started coming. Ugh, I'm a dude; I'm not supposed to cry! I walked into my bed-room, and sat on my bed. I looked at Sophie's window across from mine and it was closed. Then my parents knocked on my locked door. I finally let them in after shaking off what was happening. My parents came into my room and sat down on my bed. I still said nothing.
"Tony," my dad started, "we know you love her-"
"Dad, I don't like her like that, she's my best friend," I said quickly. My mom smiled.
"We know you love her like she's your little sister, but you need to let her go. We know that Monday is the first day of high school for her, and she'll be fine. She's got other friends," my mom said trying to make me feel better. But she failed.
"Mom, saying that she doesn't need me at all doesn't make me feel better, but you're right, I do love her like she's my baby sister and I need to be there for her. Oh, do you think I could live with the Goodes?" I asked. My parents shared a small smile.
"Sweetie, we can't ask them to do that. Maybe in a few years, we can move back, but not now. This is too good of an opportunity to pass up," my mom said and then she stood up. "Now, you should go to bed, we're leaving tomorrow morning. Love you," my mom said and then she left. My dad sat on my bed next to me.
"Now Tony, do you like Sophie?" He asked. I looked at him funny.
"That's a stupid question. Of course I like her, she wouldn't be my best friend if I didn't like her," I replied. My dad smiled and shook his head.
"No I mean do you really like her. Like more than a friend?" He asked with his eyebrows raised. I was about to deny it when my mom called from down stairs,
"Grant! Get down here! Tony has to get up in early tomorrow morning!" We shared a smile like we always do when Mom over reacts.
"I'm coming Bexy dear!" Dad called back. He winked at me and then stood up to leave but before he was out the door, he turned around to look at me. "Think about my question, okay son?" I nodded. "Good night," he said and closed my door. I changed into my pajamas and got into bed. Then I started to think about what Dad said.
He really thinks I like Sophie like that? It's stupid that he does. I mean, she's my best friend. Sure she's nice…and sweet… and smart… and cute—wait—did I just call Sophie cute? Well, she's my best friend, I can call her what ever I want, so yeah, she's cute, really cute. Maybe I do like her… And with that, I fell asleep.
That night's dream…
I just got back to Roseville after years away from it. We pulled into our driveway next to the house we left years ago. Zach's black truck was were it was when we left, in the driveway next to ours. I grabbed my bags and ran up to my room. I opened my dusty door, threw my bags on my dusty bed, and opened my dusty window. In short, there's a lot of dust in my room. I opened my window to see Sophie's room through hers. I could see Sophie lying on her bed, sleeping. I saw that she had just got home from school because her back-pack was by the door, and she was wearing her normal school clothes.
Then I heard a knock on her door, but she didn't wake up. The knocker opened the door and walked into her room. It was a guy. He looked like he could be in his twenties. He walked over to Sophie, and leaned down to kiss her. She woke up, smiled, and kissed him again. Then he laid down next to her, not breaking the kiss. I never thought that she would let anyone kiss her like that! I couldn't believe my eyes! I slammed my window shut, but didn't close the curtains. I watched them, being all kissy. Tears were in my eyes for some reason. Then I heard another knock on her door. When she heard it, the guy off of her, and they got some books out of their bags.
Her mom came in and smiled. I could barely hear them, but I could just make out their words.
"Oh, hi Michael, I didn't know you were here," Cammie said, forcing a smile. "Well, Sophie, guess who just moved next door to us?" She said with a real smile.
"I don't know and I don't care,"Soph said rolling her eyes. Wow, she's changed a lot… Her mom smiled.
"Oh, I think you'll like this family. The parents were my friends from high school, and they have one son who was in your class before they moved." Sophie shrugged. "The Neumans are back!" Cammie said smiling. Sophie just shrugged again.
"Mom, I don't really care that the Neumans are here, Tony left years ago and I haven't heard from him since! I don't care that he's back!" She yelled at her mom. My world started shaking, literally. Then I woke up…
"Tony! Wake up! Its 9:30 and we leave in less than an hour!" My mom yelled at me while shaking my bed.
"Alright, alright, I'm up, I'm up!" I said getting up from my bed. Mom left my room so I could get dressed. Once I was done, I walked to my door and took one last look at my room. My parents owned the house so when, if, we get back, we will live in the same house. Mom said we could leave behind blankets, furniture, pillows, pictures, curtains, and other stuff like that. So my blue curtains, my bed, nightstand, and my pictures were still in my room. I looked at my pictures on my walls. There were ones with me and my family, ones of my parents, grand-parents, and then some of me and Sophie.
My favorite is the one when we went camping. Sophie and I were sitting on the ground next to the campfire, us sharing a blanket around us, and I had my arm around her shoulders. My dad was messing around with his camera and took it by accident.
I walked over to that wall and took the picture off the hook so I could take it along. That picture is on the wall next to my window and I looked at Sophie's room. I could see she had been crying and then she left the room. I walked down stairs to the kitchen where mom was making breakfast.
"Tony, do you want something to eat?" She asked. I shook my head, but I didn't say anything. "Okay, dear, you better get outside then, we're leaving in about ten minutes," she said and then I walked out the door. I sat on the lawn, staring at the picture, remembering the best summer ever.
*flashback*
One day, after we saw a movie at the Beach House, (It's the same campsite as before) we walked around the lake, just talking. Then we saw this elderly couple walking towards us. When we were a few feet away, the lady said, "Oh Oliver, don't those two love-birds look familiar?" Sophie stopped in her tracks.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but we're just friends," Sophie said. The couple smiled.
"You know son," he says to me, "Many, many years ago, Maggie here and I were best friends. It was right before our last year of high school when I realized I was in love with her." He looked down at his wife with compassion."Then, on the night of our graduation, I proposed to her and she said yes. We never went on one 'date' before that, but we knew each other our entire lives. Today is our 56th anniversary," he said smiling. "And I suspect that you two will fall in love… sometime in the next few years." Sophie and I exchanged looks.
"I'm sorry sir, but we are just really good friends," I said. It was the old couple's turn to give each other looks.
"Uh huh, we'll see. Oh I have an idea, we'll make a bet. The summer after you graduate, you two should come here, together on our 60th anniversary. If you're together, we will be right, and we'll give you some money for college. But if you're not together, you will have to help pay for our year-round time share here, deal?" Maggie said holding out her hand and Oliver did the same. Sophie looked at me and we shrugged, at the same time.
"Deal" We said together and shook their hands. After that, they continued to walk down the beach, holding hands. When they were gone from sight, I looked over to Sophie.
"Do you really think that could happen with us, falling in love?" I asked as we walked to our campsite. She shrugged.
"Maybe, it happened to my parents. Well, they liked each other but they were friends cuz they didn't think the other liked them back. But I doubt it would happen to us," she said with a straight face, but her eyes looked weird.
"Well actually-"I was cut off, by Zach calling us over to the campfire. "Never mind," I said, and then we walked over to the fire. I didn't think it was that unlikely…
Then we started to roast marshmallows. I sat next to Sophie, and I put a blanket around my shoulders. After a few S'mores, I saw that Sophie looked cold so, without asking, I wrapped my arm around her shoulders, as well as the blanket. She smiled at me and scooted closer to me. My dad was fiddling with his new camera and took a picture of me and her. After that, we slept in the same tent, we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together, and we hung out every minute… That weekend, she and I were inseparable. That weekend, I started to like her, I just didn't realize it.
"Tony? Tooonnyyy? Tony!" Someone yelled. I looked up and it was my mom. "Sophie's going to be here in about two seconds so you better stop staring off into space," she said and then walked over to the moving van. I sighed and closed my eyes.
"Why now," I said out loud to myself. I heard a faint, sad, familar laugh.
"Yeah, I've been wondering about that too," she said. Sophie. I opened my eyes and she was next to me on the step. She looked down at her hands and then to mine. She smiled. "I have that same picture," she said. Oh yeah, I was still holding it. I smiled too.
"Yeah, Mom told me to leave all my pictures here when we come back, but I wanted to take this one," I said quietly. I didn't realize how close we were until she put her head on my shoulder and I put my arm around her. After a minute of silence, I shifted my weight and she sat up straight. I looked at her and there was a tear rolling down her face.
"Shhh, don't cry," I whispered as a wiped it off her face. She sniffed a little, but no more tears came.
"I know, it's just that—I'm going to miss you…a lot," she said, looking down at the sidewalk. I lifted her chin up so she would look at me, but even then she wouldn't make eye contact.
"Soph, Sophie, Sophia, So-Jo," I said, poking her in the side. That made her smile, a little, and she looked at me. "I'll miss you too, a lot, but I know you will be fine going to school without me. You have Sammy, Nick, Rachel, and Ryan to hang out with. You'll be fine, I promise," I said, my hands on her shoulders. She smiled at me. Then my mom came over. I stood up.
"Tony, we're leaving in a minute, so you'll have to say goodbye," she said. Then she looked at Sophie. "I'm so sorry we had to do this right before school starts but Grant got a really good job-"
"Yeah, Tony told me yesterday. Goodbye Bex," Sophie said. She stood and gave her a hug.
"Tony we'll be waiting in the van," she told me and then walked back over to the van. I watched her walk and once she was in, I turned to Sophie.
"Soph, I'll see you soon," I said. She nodded and started walking away. Not on my watch. "What, no hug for me?" I asked smirking. She turned around, smiling. I walked over to her and wrapped her in my arms. Time seemed to slow. I gave her a lot of hugs, but this one was different, it was like... I didn't want it to end.
"It's not going to be the same without you," she mumbled into my shirt.
"I know, Sophie, I know," I whispered. We let go when the van's horn honked at us. I looked at her face. I was sad.
"Now Sophia," she laughs whenever I call her by her real name, this time was like any other. "We need to make a promise. When I get back, whether it being next month or next year, we will still bee best friends," I said, acting all powerful. She laughed.
"I promise," she said holding out her hand. I took it and we did our really fast, super secret hand shake. When we were done, instead of leaving right away, she kissed me on the cheek. She kissed me!
"Bye Tony," she whispered in my ear.
"Bye," I whispered back, and we walked away in different directions. When I got into the van, I looked behind me and saw Sophie half in her house staring back at me. I waved and she waved back.
And that was the last time I would see her for a long, long time. (A/N: And no, I'm not ending it there, I'm making this a long chapter:)
We drove to the airport and dropped off the van at the baggage claim and got on the plane to Italy. Oh shoot, I forgot to give Sophie my new address. Well, she'll get it once I mail her a letter. I looked out the window and saw Roseville passing by and eventually, it was out of sight. During the flight, I was so bored, I was look at pictures on my dad's camera for most of the flight. There were some pictures of my family, some of me and him, me and my mom, and some of me and Sophie. I as looked through them, I realized that I never saw him there for most of them. Like when we were hugging good-bye today, and when she kissed me on the cheek.
"Dad," I nugded him, waking him up, "Why were you spying on Sophie and me?" I asked with my eyebrows raised. He looked confused.
"Son, I never spied on you," he said convincingly. I just nodded.
"Uh huh, uh huh, sure..." I said and looked back to the camera. I was staring at the picture where she was kissing my cheek. My dad snickered. "What?" I asked.
"Oh nothing, I was just wondering how you got that on my camera, because I never took that picture," He said, still snickering. I nugded him again. Then my mom gasped. I looked at her.
"What?" I asked. She blushed.
"I um, was looking at the camera, and I um, accidentally took a picture and I couldn't figure out how to look at it so I just put it on the dash bored," She said as if she was making it up on the spot. I glared at her.
"So you just happen to take a picture, from inside the van, of Soph kissing me on the cheek? Nice mom, real nice," I said sarcasticly. Mom squrmeduncomfortably in her seat next to me. After a while, I asked her, "Hey mom, can you switch seats with me? I want to look out the window." She said sure and we moved. I looked out the window and watched as we flew through the clouds. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
I woke up and we were on the ground. My parents were looking at me.
"What?" I asked. They smiled.
"You talk in your sleep," my mom said bluntly. I blushed, yes blushed. I got up without another word. We grabbed our bags and got into our rental car. When we got off the interstate and into a small neighbor hood, looked out the window and saw this huge group of girls. My dad parked and they were coming my way. I grabbed my bags and walked towards my house. The girls walked up to me and one of them said, (A/N: I used Google translate so it might not be correct)
"Ciao, sei nuovo qui?" She said. I gave her a look. Okay, what did I learn in school?
"Um no abla Espanola?" I said kind of unsure. The girls looked at each other and giggled. I looked around. "What?" I asked. The girls giggled again and then one of them spoke.
"Oh you're American. I said, are you new here. I'll take that as a yes," she said, giggling a bit. I nodded, surprized that she knew such good English.
"Yeah, I just moved here from Roseville, Virgina. I'm Tony," I said, holding my hand out to shake. She looked at it and then at me.
"Tony, as in Antonio?" She asked.
"No, as in Anthony, but Antonio's cool," I said then realized that my hand was still out. "So, are you going to shake my hand or what?" I asked. She simply smiled.
"Here, in our town, we kiss the cheek of new comers," she said then stepped up to me and kissed me on the cheek, the oppisite side that Sophia had kissed only hours ago. She stepped back and I asked,
"So what's your name?" She smiled.
"I'm Sonia Marino, I live right next door," she said. I felt sad. Sophia, Sonia, that's a little too close for comfort. Then my mom came out and looked at the croud of girls.
"Tony, you need to finish unpacking and once you're done with that, you should call Sophie, I know she would want that," he said. I nodded.
"Kay mom," I said and then I turned to Sonia. "Sorry, like I said, we just moved here so we need to unpack, but I'll talk to you later?" I said, walking backwards to the car.
"Sure, and I bet we'll be great friends too, and I hope you and girlfriend can handle a long-distance relationship," she said, smirking and walked over to her house. Girlfriend? Oh yeah, Mom told me to call Sophie and Sonia thought she was my girlfriend. Wow... I wish.
When I was done unpacking my things, I placed the most improtant thing next to my bed, the picture of me and Soph.
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