𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐞 | 𝘋. 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰

Chapter 8 - Part 1

She looked at me with a look of feeling sorry. "Do you need help packing ?" She offered. "Packing ? No, but I could use your company" I pouted as I walked towards my room with her following behind me.

I laid my suitcase out on my bed and went straight into my walk in closet to start grabbing clothes to pack. "So are you going to tell me what happened ?" She raised a brow as she laid back against my headboard. "Where do I even begin ?" I rolled my eyes. "Well let's start with Hero" she said. "So it was all going quite good. He bought pizza and made the vibe romantic by driving to the beach to have a picnic. I hate to admit it was cute but ugh it was that darn beautiful sunset" I groaned as she started to grin.

"Everything went downhill when he had asked me to tell him about my trip to Bahrain which of course he asked about for nothing..just so he could tell me to not go" I said in frustration. "Did you tell him that even if you said no, we all practically forced you to go" she giggled. "I did mention that it wasn't my idea initially but he doesn't care about that. It's the fact that he doesn't stand a chance to be with me again and more especially because I'm pushing him further away" I said. "Well as you should. He's not right for you hun. The only boys I approve of is-" I cut her off. "Yeah I know, Daniel or Michael" I shook my head as I started to blush.

"I'm sure you already knew that" she teased. "Don't get your hopes up. I haven't seen them in so long, anything could've possibly happened since we came back from Oz. They could both have girlfriends and I wouldn't know" I shrugged. She looked at me as if I'm stupid. "You're mad" she shook her head. "What drama did you have to deal with the boys ?" She added. "Well I think that they believe I was the one who's trying to make things right with Hero which is of course not the case. You were the one who suggested for us to go out and they don't know that. They probably think I'm a fool because this whole time they were pretending - actually Dan was pretending to be my overprotective boyfriend and here I am, giving Hero false hope" I huffed.

"Hey now.. it's not your fault. I know you all too well that you can't say no to someone. I'm sure you also wanted to end things on a good note with Hero even if you didn't like him because you don't like bad blood" she said as she pulled me towards her side and rubbed my arm. "Exactly ! Anyway, thanks for listening mum. It's getting late and I don't want to keep you up, besides that I'm almost done packing" I smiled at her. "Tomorrow's a new day, take it as a fresh start. Hero is gone and out of the picture. Just focus on having fun this weekend and making the most of it, okay ?" She said as she placed her hands on my shoulders. I nodded before answering, "I'll do exactly that." She smiled proudly at me, "That's my girl. Don't stay up too late. I'll see you in the morning."

I sighed as I watched her leave my room. I didn't even realise in that moment of built up frustration, that none of my outfit sets made sense. It was a whole mess and I practically had to start over. After the drama of my pyjamas from the last time, I remembered to pack appropriate pyjamas for if I happen to share a room with the boys again. Once I was finally done packing the main things for now, I zipped my bag and left it aside to finish the rest of packing my toiletries in the morning.

Next Morning

I woke up at 5am since my flight is at 9am, I have a long day ahead but luckily majority of my time would be spent on a plane. After having a shower, I packed the remainder of my things before zipping my bag and pulling it along to the main door. It was already 6:05am and its a half an hour drive to the airport.

Luckily theirs no need for them to drive me to the airport since a driver has been arranged to pick me up. I made my way to their room and they were sound asleep, I knocked on their door before walking over to mum's side of the bed. I shook her lightly which she stirred in her sleep, "Mum" I whispered a little loudly. "Hmm" she hummed in her sleep. "I'm leaving" I said softly. Her eyes fluttered open instantaneously, "Oh my word, why didn't you wake me up ? I could've prepared breakfast for you ! Do you want me to make you something ?" She offered. "Mum calm down. I'm fine, okay ? I'll buy something at the airport" I said which then dad had woken up.