"Are you sure," Chris asked eyeing us all.
"Well…the Basher Boys almost attacked us," Mel laughed, still drunk. She hiccupped, and then fell on her knees still laughing.
"Yea…too much to drink," Emma said picking her up.
"The Basher Boys….is everyone ok," Teddy asked, also helping Mel up.
'Yea we helped them out," Ace said stepping up behind us. I turned around to see Eyeball, Vince and Ace,
"What are you doing here," Vern yelled.
"Shut up punk," Vince yelled.
"Least we helped, what where you four doing," Ace asked.
"Hey I would have helped my girlfriend if I was there," Teddy yelled. I looked at Teddy then Emma.
"Stay out of this," Eyeball yelled. Then they started arguing.
"Boys…boys…" Gina said, trying to get them to be quiet but they wouldn't listen.
"All of you…shut the fuck up," I yelled walking in-between them. They all stopped and looked at me. "I am sorry you guys…you can be the hero's next time…" I yelled to Gordie, Chris, Vern and Teddy. Then I ran off, they didn't care, they just wanted to be the hero's.
"Tyler…Gina please sit down with Ali," my mother said as she walked around the room. She had called a meeting the next day.
"What is it mom," Gina said, "I have a date with Chris in like ten minutes," she said, yelling out the last to words.
'I am sure it can wait," I joked.
"Yes, I am sorry, but we will be leaving in two weeks," my mother said.
"What," Tyler yelled.
"I am sorry, but I couldn't find a house that we can afford, and I don't want to keep staying here," my mother explained.
"I am not going," Tyler said.
"You have no choice,"
"You make us leave our homes in New Hampshire; I have to start senior year in a new school." Tyler yelled. "You made us pick up our lives and move here, I am not going to move back. Not when everyone is happy. Not when Ali doesn't have to worry about what happened last year."
"I am sorry what happened last year; I wish those boys would be locked up, so we could go back and not worry. I tired, believe me, I want to stay as much as you do." My mother explained. "But we can't. Not now."
"I was so close," I said, everyone looked at me. "I was so close, I almost forgot about what happened. Gordie wouldn't do that, they boys wouldn't let it happen again," a few tears escaped my eyes.
"Ali …doesn't make me look like the bad person here," my mother said.
"I was so happy…" I cried, and then I ran upstairs to my room, Gina following me. I ran into the room and slammed the door, Gina making it in the room before the door hit her. I ran over to the wall and tore down a paper I had pined up. Gina picked it up and read it.
"You don't know what you have until you lost it," I looked at her and she looked back.
'I am not leaving," I yelled.
"I am leaving,"
"What,' Gordie and Chris yelled at the same time. I was sitting outside, below the tree house, looking at the lake.
"Mother didn't find a house," Gina explained, sitting next to Chris. Emma, Teddy, Vern and Sarah ran around, happy as can be. They could still be together, even if we did leave.
"How can she not find a house," Goride asked.
"She probably doesn't even want to stay here," Tyler said as he threw rocks into the lake.
"Well, maybe we should go back," Gina said.
"That's a bad idea,"
"We will be back here in the summer," Gina explained.
"There is no way in stopping it, mom will make us leave," Tyler said.
"Great, now you two want to go back," I yelled getting up, and walking off.
"Ali…wait up," Goride yelled walking up to me. I stopped to look at me.
"It won't be that bad," Gordie said. "Tyler will be there with you."
"He goes off to college…who will be there," I asked, I could tell Gordie could see the fear in my eyes.
"But that's not it," I added.
"Then what is,"
"I am afraid of losing….of losing…you,"
Who knows how
long this will last
Now we've come so far, so fast
But, somewhere back there in the dust
That same small town in each of us
I need to remember this
So baby give me just one kiss
And let me take a long last look
Before we say goodbye