As I slipped into a parking lot space I saw my mother waiting at the door for me. She smiled when she saw me get out of my car and hurried over to help me with my luggage.
"Hi sweetie!" she said cheerfully obviously trying to brighten my solemn mood. When we made it into the busy noisy airport, she said,
"There are some people here who would like to talk to you." I turned around and there were all of my friends.
"Oh guys you all came!" I exclaimed in surprise. Leaving my bags with Renee I rushed over to them. "Sarah I thought only you were coming to get my car."
"I thought it would be nice if we all came and said our last words." I rolled my eyes at her dramatic comment, but then stopped when I saw tears glistening in the corners of their eyes. That triggered a sense of dread and sadness all over again and I started to cry too. All of my friends formed around me engulfing me in a caring tight hug. We were a mess of tears and snot all of us crying our hearts out. After a moment we all composed ourselves. Tiffany was the first one to speak.
"Hey where's Will?" A dark shadow crossed my face.
"I caught him making out with another girl."
"Oh my God!! He's such a dumb ass! No offense, Ave."
Sniffling I replied, "No that's ok I know he is…you guys can tell him I'm moving now."
"Wait, you haven't told him yet?!" asked Carrie.
"No I was going to. I just couldn't tell him though."
"Oh I'm so sorry!"
"Avery come on, we need to go!" Renee called. Clearing my tears from my eyes I said my final good-byes to all of them with dread, anger, sadness, and confusion all mixed in my heart. Hugging my friends one last time, I reluctantly left them waving to them for as long as I could see them. When they finally disappeared Renee cleared her throat awkwardly and said,
"Ok, so here we are. Just drop your luggage off here and they will send us through to the plane." She smiled at me trying to make me happier, but I only managed a half smile with no heart behind it.
We boarded the plane and before I was even close to ready we left my hometown for probably the last time in my life. I pulled out my iPod and tried to block out the fat people complaining and babies crying. I felt a few tears slip but I quickly brushed them away, not wanting to upset my mother. I really couldn't blame her. She just wanted what she thought was the best for us.
What she thought, however was totally wrong.
"Hon, wake up. We need to get off now." I felt Renee shaking me awake. Rubbing my eyes I realized that I had fallen asleep.
"Are we in Colorado?" I asked. We had to get on two planes in order to just get to Washington.
"Yeah."
"Oh." I reached under my seat to get my carry-on and followed Renee out into the airport. Looking at the watch on her arm, Renee said,
"Ok we have about an hour so what do you want to do?"
"I don't care. Whatever." Renee looked confused by my dismissive behavior, but right now I had kind of just given up on hope for a stable life.
"Um…alright well how about we go get some food?" I shrugged. Then I felt my bag buzz as my cell phone vibrated. I flipped it open and found two texts, one from Sarah to say that she already missed me and one from…Will. I hesitated before opening his message. It read, Ave, love, you don't understand what happened. Please call me. I love you, Will. I sighed and looked up. I saw Renee looking at me with concern in her eyes.
"Is something wrong?" she asked as we made our way into the line for a pizza place.
"No…not really," I lied. Its not like I'm moving to another state far away from my best friends. Its not like I'll have to go to a new school and try to be accepted. Its not like I just found out my boyfriend was cheating on me and now is trying to 'explain what happened'. I wish I could have said all that, but I can't. After making my way through the buffet style pizzeria and paying for the food, Renee and I got a table and sat down. I had decided to wait to maybe call Will back. I was very quiet while eating, and I guess Renee noticed.
"Honey, you're not normally this quiet. What's the matter?" I looked up at her and gave her a look that said well isn't it obvious? She caught on and said, "Well I mean besides the uh…whole moving thing?" I glanced back up and said a bit harshly,
"You don't really want to know."
"What? Yes I do sweetie. I know this is a very hard time and I want you to trust me and tell me everything." Sighing I replied,
"Oh alright. Umm…," well this was a bit awkward. "I hadn't told Will about me moving yet…" I cringed as I heard my mother gasp but I continued not wanting to get interrupted. "So I was gonna go find him after school today to finally tell him, but I saw him kissing another girl. And that really shocked and hurt me and I'm just really pissed and well…I don't know." The last few sentences came out in a rush. I glanced up at Renee and saw a surprised and pitiful look on her normally pretty face.
"Oh," was all she could muster. Then she got up and went around to me and gave me a big hug filled with sympathy and understanding. That one hug said it all, that we were both sorry and were there for each other.
After finishing the pizza and having a chocolate bar and talking things over with Renee, I felt a lot better. Renee took a glance at her watch again and said,
"Oh, wow we need to go. An hour has already passed." We cleaned up and got to the boarding deck.
Ok, so I know its really, really boring but hang in there with me . And again its really short…I'll try to make the other chapters longer (if ya want). Please review and tell me what you think (again)!!