Hey everyone! Thanks for all the positive reviews on the first chapter, I'm glad you all enjoyed it so much!

So Ally is now trying to get over Dallas, and she's about to travel to Palm Bay for Christmas… hmm, I wonder who she'll meet…

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Chapter Two

Ally's POV

"Hey Dez. It's Ally. I'm coming to visit you."

"Really? Are you serious?" Came the excited voice of my redhead friend through my phone.

I giggle slightly before answering. "Yeah, Trish told me one of your friends owns a lodge or something?"

"Yeah, his parents do, it's right on the coast and like five minutes from where I live!" He sounded even more excited than he already did, if that's even possible.

"Yes that's great, text me the address yeah? And I'll drive up tomorrow, should be there mid-afternoon ish?" I reply with a smile, looking at Trish who is also grinning.

"Yes Ally oh my God I can't believe you're actually coming to visit me!" Dez continued, starting to ramble. He then suddenly gasped before saying "I can show you my new pet rock!" I burst out laughing at this, trust Dez to keep a rock as a pet.

"Okay Dez, well I'll see you tomorrow. Oh and Trish says hi!" I say, spotting Trish waving indicating to me that she wanted me to pass on her greeting.

"I say hi back! See you tomorrow Ally." And with that he hangs up, and a huge smile spreads on my face as my plan to just get away all starts to come together.

"So that's it, then, you're all booked in." Trish says with a smile, walking up to me.

"Yeah, I guess I am." I reply happily with a nod.

"That's great! You wanna stay the night? Girl time and movies?" Trish offered.

"Trish I would love to but I should probably go home and pack, then I can get away first thing in the morning." I explain and she nods in understanding. I hug her and turn to leave, but stop when she calls out.

"Oh, one thing though… are you gonna tell your Dad?" She asks.

Ah. I hadn't thought about that. I mean, I probably should tell him, otherwise he'll be worried if I suddenly don't turn up at work or his house, but at the same time I know that if I do tell him then he'll just try and stop me from going and I really don't want to argue with him.

"I'll tell him when I'm there." I say as I come to my decision. "That way he'll know where I am but it'll be too late to stop me from going."

Trish nods in agreement. "Sounds good." She gives me one last hug. "Well Merry Christmas, have a good time up there and let me know what's happening, yeah?" She says as we pull apart.

"You know it!" I say before turning to walk out. "See ya Trish!"

I wake up the next morning to the sunlight streaming through my partially open curtains and delicately lighting up my room. I lay there in peace for a few minutes, remembering everything from last night.

I feel sudden heartbreak and sadness at the memory of Dallas dumping me, but that's swiftly replaced by overwhelming joy and excitement at the prospect of going to Palm Bay, being on my own for a while and seeing Dez again.

I get up and go through my morning routine of breakfast, shower etc. I dress into white skinny jeans, with a red off-the-shoulder top and a brown waist belt, matched with red flats. I straighten my hair and put on natural make up before spraying some perfume and throwing all my bathroom stuff into my suitcase, which I packed with clothes last night.

I check my phone and see it's just gone 9am, so hopefully I should be there around lunch time as long as there's no horrendous traffic.

I drag my suitcase out the door of my apartment and lock it, then put my keys in my purse and walk down the corridor. Typically, today the elevator has decided it doesn't want to work, forcing me to lug my huge suitcase down the ten flights of stairs, cursing myself for having to live so high up with every step.

I make it to my car and lift my suitcase into the back seat before getting into the driver's seat and driving out of Miami.

It's a beautiful day, the sun shining bright and the temperature around 82°, not bad for December. I wind my windows down and play my music, gleefully singing along to the radio as I drive. It's an amazing route, mostly along the coast, the ocean looks so gorgeous today. I wonder to myself why I've never really left Miami before, I've missed so much by being essentially trapped there – don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Miami, but this is definitely a welcome change.

At 12:30 exactly I drive past a sign saying "Welcome to Palm Bay" and squeal with excitement at having arrived. The town is small, quaint and drop dead gorgeous, exactly what I was hoping it would be like. Dez gave me specific instructions for how to get to the lodge from the highway, and I followed them carefully, my excitement and anticipation growing by the second.

I find myself on a small road right on the edge of the ocean, the town on my left and the beach on my right. I thought the Miami beaches were nice, but this is in a whole other league! The sand a beautiful golden almost white colour, with the most stunning colour of blue making up the ocean. The beach isn't crowded either, unlike Miami, with just a few families scattered. It's perfect.

I follow this coastal road which leads just outside of the town itself, only about a minute's drive. On my left, the place I'll be staying comes into view.

I pull into a car park with the sign "Welcome to Moon Beach Lodge".

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That's it for this chapter! I know it's a little shorter than the first one was, but this just felt like a natural point to stop for now.

Yes I know the name of the lodge is really uncreative but deal with it :D

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