Love Around The Corner I +18

C H A P T E R 1 - E V E L Y N

"AND that's the last one" I whisper to myself while taping up the last box of my belongings, which somehow feels like closing a chapter in my life. Everything I own is now in all those boxes around me. 

It's funny how you build your life somewhere, and then you are either forced or make the decision of your own to move it all elsewhere, realizing how quick things can change throughout your life. One day you have everything under control, and the next day everything goes to shit. I'm glad it's not the case with me. 

I am currently sat on my knees on the floor in my room, holding the most important thing for me in my hand - a necklace of my late grandmother. She passed away when I was six...it sort of was the beggining of everything going downhill in my life. I wish it didn't, but there was not chance for me to stop it. It just had to be the way it was...Everything happens for a reason I guess.

"Ev? Have you finished yet?!" I got startled by the voice of my best friend Marlene calling for me from the other side of the apartment, bringing me back from my thoughts. "I need some help!". I didn't have much choice since I was pretty much done with packing all of my things already, so I just looked at the boxes and suitcases one last time and got up, before going to the woman who apparently needed me right now.

"What's up Mar?" I asked entering her room, and her sitting on the floor surrounded by, God knows, how many overpacked boxes came to the view. Woah. 

"I don't know what to do" she was almost at the verge of crying, holding few pieces of clothing that she hasn't packed yet on her lap, as she spoke. "I'm lost, it won't fucking fit and I sure as hell am not leaving them here". She seemed genuinly lost and stressed about it all, not that I blame her - I would be the exact same if something like this was happening to me.

"Mar....you know that you can freely take up the space I was supposed to take, right?" she looked at me hopeful. "Really? You sure you won't need it?" I just nodded and shrugged my shoulders.

"Yeah, I'm sure. I mean... I already have all my belongings and clothes packed, and the last and the most important thing is right here." I waved the precious necklace gently before putting it on. "And besides, the moving company definitely won't care if we split the space in the half or if one of us takes up majority of the space anyways, so go ahead." seeing her face lightening up as she almost jumps up and down in happiness makes me laugh. It seemed like I was a true savior, who saved her clothes from getting all squished and wrinkly in overpacked boxes. 

"See? That's what buying all the unnecessary clothes leads you to" but my teasing only made her throw a pillow at me.  "SHUT UP EV!". I raise my hands up in surrender deciding to let her be, so she can peacefully pack everything. When I walk out of her room I take a look at our empty apartment realizing how pretty much the last 5 years of my life are suddenly gone - I mean sort of, because we are just moving somewhere else....but still. 

I always have been a sentimental person, and the smallest things matter a lot to me. All the memories made here are stuck in my mind, unfortunately ,and to my dislike, the ones from my past as well. But I believe that without all of the experiences I had in my life I wouldn't be where I am now, being the person I am. 

Everything that I somehow had to go through, made me the person I am today - and as much as some of them wasn't as pleasant as I wish they were, I still wouldn't change it.

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ME and Marlene know one another pretty much our whole lives - we always lived right next door, went to the same school, studied at the same university, even worked at the same cafe, but we both decided to move in together around 5 years ago. It turned out to be the best decision we could have ever made.