The Absolute Blue Moon

today is the day

Finally, the day is coming. Yeah, today is the day where I have to say goodbye to everything in Detroit. A quiet tough day for me.

I haven't heard anything about Ryan after we broke up. I know it feels wrong for my heart to miss him, but I can't deny it, I do miss him. Yesterday I tried to call him, but just in second I hit the hang up button right away before the dial tone was beeping. That was then that I feel conscious had to take care of my heart. I won't let it be taken by any deeper wounds. After all, there is no call even a message which flashes his name on my phone. Well, looks like he clearly avoiding me either. Maybe we just weren't meant for each other. And I have to acquiesce this.

I sigh, "What a calf-love."

"What are you mumbling about?" Davis showed up from nowhere, makes me jump in surprise.

"Ah, nothing." I lied. I make my blonde wavy long hair into a ponytail then hung the maroon backpack on my shoulders. Hands on hips, "Are we going right now?"

A small smile plays on his lips before saying, "Is everything okay, D?"

"Never been better." super lied.

"So, you're going to leave this Detroit in less an hour, and ... " he walks toward me in a slow motion, like what the heck is he doing. "...your boyfriend never shown up since days ago. Is that called, okay?" then stopped his steps right in front of me. I guessed he already knew what's going on. And he just wants to make sure or hear the whole story from me.

I shrug, "Well, yeah. He's a ... Um, we're ..." actually I don't need to tell him about my personal life especially my love life, it's totally not necessary, but why on earth he's always like intimidating me. He raises his eyebrows, and those brown eyes were like 'come on Delilah, just spill the bean'. I take a deep inhaled, give up, "Okay. We're broke up." As I exhale, I feel like tons of sack were taken away of my shoulder.

"Oh, I'm sorry baby, come here, I know you need a hug." Okay now my big brother is giving me a big hug. And slowly tapping on my small back. He's right anyway, I need this. "Why don't you just tell me. You know you can tell me anything. I'm your brother. Don't think of me like a stranger."

"Okay dude, thank you for the hug. But it feels weird. Like since when have we never shared this Teletubbies hug? Wait, have we ever?" I said, tilting my head because of our height differences which could make my face sink into his chest. "Dave, I can't breathe by the way."

"Oh, sorry spud. Sometimes I forget that you're so small." Finally, he pulled away and I rolled my eyes. I'm not that 'so small' anyway. "So, what happened, care to share?"

"Um, we broke up. That's it. I just don't want to talk about it. Besides, I'm totally fine right now." It's true. I just want to get out of here as quickly as possible.

He shrugs, "Okay then. But you know you have me all the time, unless I'm working, don't you?"

"Yeah. That's sounds nice of you." I smiled and nodded in agreement. "Shall we go now?"

"Well, are you ready for the nine hours of nonstop flight?" His muscular arm embraces me.

"It's nine?? You said it's six yesterday!" Really, now I'm surprised. I remember Davis said that our flight to Alaska would take six hours long. But now nine?? He must be kidding me.

"Sorry, that was a wrong information. But you can just rotate the six, so it turns into nine." He twisted his finger as he said that, as if he were actually rotating the number six to nine. Davis then adds, "Actually it would be eight hours and forty-three minutes. So, it's just close to nine hours, not the real nine."

For serious?? I rolled my eyes, hands in the air dramatically and heading to the front door. I heard him chuckle on my back. It's not funny at all. I'll be stuck on the plane, in the nine hours long from Detroit to Anchorage. This is the longest flight ever in my life! What a flip! But hell yeah, however I can't do anything to safe me, so just let's do this!!

On the plane, I sat by the window while Davis is next to me. I feel so comfortable by wearing this white sweater, black skinny jeans, and my white sneakers. It's a perfect outfit to have a long flight with the extremely breezing place as the destination. I just need to add the beanie and mittens later.

Truthfully, I have no idea what to do in Alaska. I haven't anybody that I know around but the one and only Davis. I couldn't even imagine how the place would look like. Also, I have never asked to Davis where we are going to live exactly in Alaska, like in which town, how the house looks like. Is it near the harbor? The forest? The bear? The halibut? What else, since that's all I know about Alaska. I don't really care. I could live anywhere. But instead of to have an annoying neighbor like I had before, if I could, I would choose to live in the woods. That's just much better, isn't it?

Hour after hour, the plane is on the sky still. I'm starting to feel sore on my back. So, I stretched. I looked around, and it seemed that everybody is sleeping. When I turned to Davis, he must have been drowning on his dream, with the mouth slightly opened. I'm sure for people who doesn't know that he's a doctor, they will never figure it out. Because it's very unlikely that the doctor looks this weird. I chuckle. Hopefully no saliva comes out of his mouth.

I shook my head.

Maybe it would be better for me to joining him to close my eyes. In a couple few hours later, I'm going to touchdown the new stage of my life. With a new place, new people, new circumstances, and new hope. Talking about hope, I suddenly remember about my shooting star's wish. Although it sounds incredibly weird, but I still hope that it could be come true that I could meet my fantasy. You know, having a little fantasy is good for your mental health. Well, that's my own quote though. I just made it to my own happiness. It's okay if people disagree. Who cares?

Anyway, I'll see you soon, my dear vampire... Am I still crazy? Maybe a little ...