The Diary of Rome

Should I Stay? or Should I Go?

After spending about a week in the hospital, Ali was still hurting and not wanting to tell anyone what had happend. Ali had called Santa Clara to tell them that her and Chloe were not going to be there and that she didn't know wheather she was going to come back. The college held her application and cancelled Chloe's, Ali's mom wanted her to call them back and to tell them that she was coming but Ali had refused and hanged up the phone and ran back to her room. Ali didn't know what to do and she wondered why she lived and not Chloe, she felt like she was cornerd to a wall. Later that night Ali talked to her mom about what happened and she asked her why she is alive and all she has is her diary? Ali's mom sat and thought for a minuete and told her that maybe she was destined for something more than just going to college and becoming a dancer, that she is here to see the world that Chloe is never going to see.

After that conversation last night, Ali woke up the next morning with then sun apon her face and the warmth made her feel alive. She had realized that she had to full fill her best friend's dream of going to Rome. So for the next month Ali helped her mom around the house and did the paper route to get extra money for the trips that had lied ahead. In Chloe's diary she had listed several cities, which were Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cairo, and finally Rome was the place that had to be the last stop. In the weeks that had followed Ali had kept getting asked to hang out with friends but she didnt want to and the only friend that she had besides Chloe was Emma. But Ali wanted more than just support, she wants to go and marvel at something and finding more about herself.

Months and months of working overtime Ali had finally saved enough money to afford the trips. Of course her mother was against it at first but then she finally went through with it. 2 weeks later Ali was on a plane to Barcelona, she was excited and had butterflies in her stomach. Ali had also never felt so alive, she read the diary most of the way but when she woke up, she had begun her journey of the diary of Rome.