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Iggy.

I woke up to not even a quick moment of happiness, my body was too depressed to even think for a moment I was back in Texas, with Sydney.

I wondered if she had gotten he letter.

I bit my lip until I tasted blood.

This whole saving the world thing better end soon.

I felt someone fling a pillow at me and Fang's voice sadly say.

"'Mon Iggy. Get up. Our flights in about an hour and a half."

My eyes slowly sauntered closed.

Please take me back to Texas, take me back.

Sydney.

Minutes turned to hours.

Hours turned to days.

Days turned to weeks.

It had been at least two weeks since he'd left me.

I cracked my dying eyes open from another sleepless night.

Ever since I had returned back home from the painful discovery at his place, I had been a hopeless wreck.

Flashback:

I clumsily-almost drunkenly- ran through my house door, the note shoved in the back pocket of my jeans.

Duncan was having his guy best friends over again, and I didn't care who saw. I just bloody cry.

Anyway, I burst through the door, tripped my way up the stairs and slammed the door shut so hard the whole house shook.

"SYDNEY!" My brother and his friends called out.

"SYDNEY! WHAT HAPPENED?! WHAT'S WRONG! ANSWER!" Duncan shouted banging on my door and pulling at my locked door knob.

Though I wasn't in the mood to talk, I mumbled out a lie.

"Hormones…"

"DO NOT LIE TO ME SYDNEY RYAN!"

"Not…now…" I managed to gasp out between sobs.

I didn't hear anything after that. And I didn't care.

Sobs heaved from my heavy chest as I fell onto my knees.

When I had stopped crying for a bit. I opened my door.

Duncan sat there on the hall floor. He stared up at me with cautiously curious eyes.

I went back into hysterics and collapsed into his lap.

And came up with garbage about his family having to immediately transfer to South Carolina.

"Things aren't always what they seem."

"Things are exactly the way they seem."

End flashback.

I snuggled deeper in what I had left to remember him by.

The clothes.

The ones I never got the chance to return.

The same too big jeans and black button up.

And a blue tank top of my own.

In a way I understand why he left. I just loved him so much, I couldn't bear to be apart from him so much. Not to mention having to start each new day wondering if he's dead, alive or hurt.

I had refused to see anyone for fear I'd break down again, I never left the house I was still humiliated to face Dunk. him on a rare occasion. And when he brought up food that I only took three bites of.

Duncan told me about how all of my friends had come to see me. Especially my group of best friends. Maya, Jude, Tarea, Ally, Travis, and Chandler.

Duncan faintly knocked on the door and walked in.

"Hey, your best friends dropped this off."

He laid a large 2 liter bottle of Pepsi and a super large box of chocolate on my bed turned and left.

I heard him say something to them outside my room and clicked on the TV.

I watched The Mask and five episodes of Friends and some old black and white movie.

"I will never leave you Laura."

"LIAR!" I shouted throwing the box full of half eaten chocolates at the TV while the two main movie characters made out.

I took another swig of the soda and closed my eyes. I didn't drift off into a peaceful sleep or any sleep at all. I just lay there motionless.

After a few minutes, I reopened my eyes and I turned on my radio, hoping to catch the only thing that made me happy all day while I was alone in my room, the "Hollywood Dirt".

But when I turned the radio on,

"I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my home is."

Nelly Furtado's voice came a softly singing from my radio speakers.

I let out a low growl and changed the channel.

"One day I'll fly away, leave your love to yesterday."

New channel.

"Like a bird without wings."

New channel.

"Just like a white winged dove, sings a song. Sounds like she's singing."

"Fine." I started glowering at the radio.

"I'll just listen to AM."

"Saint Jimmy's coming down the alley…"

"NO!"

I shrieked, ripping the radio of my bedside night stand and tossing it into the corner of my room.

I pulled the covers over my head and grumbled in the dark.

A while later I drained the rest of my soda and got up.

I came downstairs and didn't even bother with putting on shoes or even changing.

"Hey." Duncan said soothingly.

I winced and shook myself a bit.

"I'm pulling myself back together." I declared.

"Good. Gain back your strength. By the way I understand how you feel. It hurts." He smiled.

" I- I think I'm going to go down to get some coffee."

"That's where your friends are."

"Good." I said, before waving goodbye and grabbing some money off the counter and leaving.

Barefoot, I walked to Break Room which over my depression period had gotten back in business and was still doing well.

Everyone was sitting at the usual spots at the coffee house. I walked in and got myself a drink.

I sat down in between Travis and Chandler.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey. Feeling better?" Travis said.

"Yeah." I smiled, and meant it.

"I just… lost myself for a bit. The chocolate helped by the way." They all laughed and a conversation sparked and suddenly, life seemed like it didn't totally take a plunge down the crapper.

This is good. I thought.

All I need are my friends.

"So Syd…" Maya said, trying to hide a bubbly look.

"What?" I asked.

"Well my uncle had some sort of work thing in New York and he is going to take all of us. And we are going to be spending your birthday in the city that never sleeps!" She cried out, smiling unceasingly.

A large grin slapped itself on my face.

"Are you SERIOUS!?" I tried not to yell.

She bobbed her head up and down crazily.

"Surprise!" Everyone called out.

"Okay wow, you guys are late." I said.

"Oh well, this is so great. I've never been outta state!" Tarea smiled widely.

And Maya babbled on about all that was going to happen and I smiled and leaned back.