Chapter 7
Allie pressed her nose up against the car window. She let out a small poof of breath, sighing softly. Two small tears fell from her eyes and slid down her rosy cheeks. Allie took one more look out the car window; she was leaving Charlestown. Her parents were eager to whisk her away from anything that made her happy. She was leaving everything behind her, Noah, Charlestown, and her heart. She quickly turned away, only to meet the eyes of her mother. Who didn't look too happy.
"Are those tears I see Allie?" Her mother asked with a weeks worth of frustration behind her voice.
"Leave me alone." Allie mumbled.
Alone. That was all she wanted. She had obeyed her parent's wishes. Now she just wanted them to go away. It was her mother that suggested that the family leave early from their summerhouse in Charlestown. Allie didn't even get any time to tell anyone goodbye. Her mother had given her the option to go to Noah and tell him that she was leaving and taking their relationship with her. She thought it would be better this way. She didn't want to break up with him; she didn't even want to leave him. She didn't really have a choice though. This way she didn't have to see the look on his face when he found out.
There was something in the air that just didn't feel right, Noah thought to himself. He watched his fellow employees working at the lumberyard. They're smiling, he thought. There were hundreds of boys, that weren't yet men already doing a hard days work. It was money though, and that was something that no one could live without.
The day was almost over, and that, was something that Noah couldn't wait for. He hadn't seen Allie since the morning that she came over to eat breakfast. He wondered what her mother had said. He was eager to hold her in his arms, and kiss her. He was crazy about her, and couldn't stop thinking about the night they made love.
After work, Noah jumped in his truck and rode off into the night. He was a block away from Allie's summer, house pushing the gas pedal all the way down the dusty road. He finally reached the house, and became perplexed. There wasn't a single light on in any of the rooms. Allie's fathers' rocking chair wasn't on the porch, and the front gate was tightly bolted together. Where were they? Had they left for home? Why didn't she tell him? Noah was thinking an array of thoughts as angry tears pierced his eyes. His only love had left him. And she took his heart with her.
Noah opened the truck door and walked to the gate. He ran his hands over the shiny silver. He looked at the houses red shutters, and golden furnished porch. He became out raged. Was Allie like them all? Was she too rich for him. He couldn't think of another reason why she would just up and leave him without a good-bye. Words sprouted from his mouth, curses and screams. It was all he could do to keep control of himself. He walked back to the car and placed his head in his hands. He cried until his eyes burned.