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hiiii; i just decided to stop with my calum fic again for awhile until i can rewrite it. :) i deleted the other michael fic and am now working on this one. i hope you like it. aw. soooo, here you go. ( ew im awkward af bye )
the picture above is caroline. 😁🍃
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My name is Caroline Elizabeth Rivera, I am 17 years old and I currently live in Scottsdale, Arizona with my dad. My aunt had recently come to see me and she found out about my dad's addiction; now I've got to move with my mom. You see my dad had an addiction to drugs and alcohol a while ago, but he gave all that up and he's 6 months clean now. And I know for sure that my aunt physically hates my dad and she wants me to have nothing to do with my dad. Anyways, my mom lives in Sydney, Australia. So, this means that I'm going to be moving all the way to the other side of the world. I'm going to be leaving everything behind, like my friends and my boyfriend Tyler, but most importantly I will be leaving my dad behind. I can't leave my dad behind; I'm all he has left. I can't just leave him like that. He will have nobody left.

"Honey, it's what's best for you." my aunt said over the phone.

"No this is what's best for you. You don't like my father and you don't want me to have anything to do with him." I yell into the phone, "This isn't even fair. My dad has nobody left, but obviously you don't even care. You only care about yourself."

"That's not true, Caroline." she said.

"Yes it is... I just have one last question; why did you wait until I was seventeen to do anything about it?" I asked.

"Let's not get into that right now, Caroline. Just pack your stuff, I will be there in a few days." she said and hung up.

I rolled my eyes and slammed my phone onto my bed. I sat on the floor and began folding up my clothes and putting them into the bag. I heard the door open and I looked up to see my best friend Shailee, standing there.

"Hey Caroline." she said sitting down beside me.

I sighed looking at her, "How can I just leave, Shailee?" I asked, "I have a life here, I can't up and leave just like that."

"Caroline, calm down; you'll be fine." she said, "Look at it this way, it's Australia; and who knows, maybe you'll find a hot Australian guy."

"I have Tyler, I don't need another guy." I said looking over at her.

"Like Tyler would actually stay loyal to you while you're thousands of miles away from him." she said.

"Why do you hate Tyler so much, Shai?" I asked.

"I-I don't know, he's just n-not who you think he is." she said looking away.

"What do you mean by that, Shai?" I asked.

"He's just not who you think he is. That's all." she said.

"Shai, you're supposed to be my friend; what do you know about Tyler that I don't fucking know?" I asked.

She looked back at me and sighed, "He's going behind your back with someone else."

"How do you know?" I asked, "You're lying."

"You think I'd lie to you?" she asked disbelief in her voice.

"You've lied to me before Shailee... how can I fully trust you again?" I asked looking away.

"Can we just not talk about this, please?" she asked.

"Whatever Shailee." I said rolling my eyes.

"Car, I only lied to you to help you." she said, "Caroline, you're my best friend; and I don't want anyone to hurt you. I'm protecting you."

"That's what I'm talking about Shai, everyone feels like they have to protect me from every damn thing and fuck, that's why I'm in the situation I'm in right now." I yelled getting frustrated, "I can handle myself just fine. I don't need nobody to fucking protect me. How the fuck am I supposed to learn from my mistakes when everyone is protecting me from making them?"