The act of saying good bye turned to be even harder than the one when we headed off to Japan. Her words that were trying to cheer me up ring in my ears even as we already sit in the plane setting off already.
I got the hummingbird heartbeat being all excited to meet the family and being back home on the other hand I can't wait to get back to LA just yet.
My heart drops as I get out of the plane, into the airport building and spot Mali-Koa, mom and my dad standing there in the distance. I can't be bothered and run towards them. I'll never forget how my mom's eyes light up when she spotted me running towards them.
Questions marks are written all over her face as I hug her.
"Where's Denise?" She asks with worry in her voice.
"She couldn't come with us." I mutter into her shoulder struggling to keep it all inside.
"Aw no. I was so excited to see her again." She goes wrinkling her forehead in through mixed emotions.
Mali's smile is indescribable. Her whole face has brighten up.
"That's saddening. But we can skype with her sometime." She talks leaning into hug me while her gaze wanders to my mom.
"I've missed you so much, Cal." She adds quite relieved.
"I've been missing you, too. Honestly I couldn't wait to get to see you guys again," I admit wiping off the few tears that ran down my cheeks.
After having ahuge dinner with the whole family Mali and me sit on the sofa in the living room. As the commercials on TV start she turns volume to mute and takes an audible breathe while turning to me.
"You never told me how it all came about, like how did you guys meet n everything?" She asks curiously.
"Huh," I go displaced. "Oh, yeah right. We met at a meet n greet after one of our shows." I giggle cheekily.
"Are you telling me that she was a fan of you and the guys?" She goes puzzled with a giggle at the end of her sentence.
"You got it, sister!" I babble pointing at her as a the corners of my mouth raise upon my cheeks.
"Wow," She gasps "You have to tell me everything!" She insists uppering her voice for the 'have'.
"Uh, okidoki. So, uhm. Like I said she was at the meet n greet and we hugged and talked for a little while. Like everyone else she handed me a piece of paper with her twitter name on it. She caught my attention I was that interested in her. I don't know, she wasn't like one of these crazy girls that start screaming when they meet you, she was really happy to meet me, of course she was but she wasn't like, uh obsessed with me. Maybe she was kinda obsessed with me but she didn't expressed it like others do. Not that she was uninterested, but, you know what I mean."
"Yep, I do," She goes nodding at every word that comes out of my mouth. "Keep going."
"Chill, Mali. Uh ok. So I couldn't stop thinking about her all night. I've been laying in my bunk bed and kept thinking about her whilst trying to fall asleep, which didn't work at all. Anyways than I remembered the little piece of paper she gave me with her twitter name on it. I climbed off my bunk and searched through my stuff, until I finally found it. Damn, I was so happy finding it."
"Oh my god did you message her over twitter?" Mali goes excitedly.
"Yeah, I did."
