Just friends.

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Nothing would prepare me for what she would say next.. "I'm moving" my head raced moving somewhere else in town? I could only hope but questions crowded my mind. "Where Somewhere else in town?" I see tears fall down and out of her crystal like blue eyes. "No. Back to New York." My heart dropped, "what?" I couldn't believe I was going to lose her. I couldn't, I cant I love her. "My dad has a job offer back in New York and it pays well, there's nothing I can do kris" she looked down I reach for her hand and hold it in mine tangling them together with the same safe feeling it always gives. "When.." I try not to cry "tomorrow" I hug her not ever wanting to let her go. After about five minutes she has to go back home considering she has to pack too. "Promise me you'll text me?" "Promise" she smiles sadly "I guess this is it for us then" I say "not a goodbye just a see you later, maybe if we had one more chance" she says now crying I comfort her I give her one last kiss goodbye filled with sadness and longing. I hug her and smell her vanilla perfume oh how I will miss her. She begins walking off waving goodbye I can't hold back I run back and cry. The girl I thought I wouldn't have to lose is now leaving. I go into my room and change into a sweatshirt of hers she gave me, it's yellow with a smiley face on the corner and go to sleep.
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When Stacey left she did text me back but after a few months she stopped. Always on read, which hurt deeply but I'm guessing she didn't care anymore I eventually stopped trying I needed to take care of myself. Because the past months after she left I barely left my room and only ever cried, or slept. I missed her but it's time I moved on or tried too, she doesn't want to talk to me anymore and so that's exactly what I did. I worked on myself and hung out with the group I was happier but always still felt the void in my heart where she was supposed to be.