𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒 (𝐖𝐋𝐖)

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐 - 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐘𝐂

<8 Months Earlier>

{Nova's POV} {Saturday}

I sat on my suitcase, forcing the clothes to fit while I took one last glance around my apartment with a bittersweet feeling bubbling in my chest. I've lived in New York with my mom and dad since I was born however, they got a divorce not long after my 10th birthday and dad hasn't been present since the day they split up. I've been living in this apartment with my roommate, Roxy, for the past 5ish years. Saying goodbye to her may be the hardest part of saying goodbye to this city. Roxy was working her shift by the time I was ready to leave so I had no other choice than to write a heartfelt note which felt like such a half-assed goodbye considering how much we've been through. Saying goodbye like this not knowing how long it would be till the next time I saw her, made my heart ache with too many feelings. One last look around this place and a tear seeped through, I couldn't help but feel the overpowering emotions with the realization, it was time to leave.

I stopped by moms' house for one last goodbye before heading to the airport. I called a cab and roughly twenty minutes later, I arrived. I always get a nerve wrecking unsettling feeling in my stomach when I come over here, it's indescribable. We never got along much when I lived with her yet she's still my mother, she deserves a goodbye. I knocked on the door three times, waited patiently for thirty seconds and hesitated before knocking again. I lift my wrist up to knock again but paused when the door swung open. A man stood in front of me, not my mother. I realized after roughly fifteen seconds who it was, it was my father.

"Dad...? No offense but.. I thought I was supposed to meet you THERE, not you meet me HERE," I say whilst giggling and pulling him in for a long and overdue hug. I was moving to Tokyo to live with my father to study fashion and follow in his footsteps.

"I know, I know, I had to see you sooner though, it's been a while since I've seen you Nova, you look beautiful. You took after your mother." I laughed and rolled my eyes knowing how madly in love he is with my mother, even after all these years they've been split up, he never lost that love for her. We let go from our long hug and I step by him and let myself into the house in search of my mother. It didn't take long to find her. She sits in the kitchen with a hefty glass of... what appears to be whisky. Typical of her to not be sober when I come by.

"OH HONEYYYY. How are you my lo-" Her words were slurred yet abruptly cut off and she hurls on the floor. Its amazing to see you too mom. In an attempt to clean her up and sober her up, many curse words were thrown at me and my father. She never liked us three in the same room. Me and him tried our absolute hardest to spend this time with her before leaving her alone for years to come. Of course, my mom made it her mission to make it me and my dads living hell.

<Roughly 2 Hours Later>

We finish up our conversation with her as she reaches for another bottle of a mysterious alcohol, she never could stay sober for very long in my presence. I gave her one last kiss on the cheek and said my goodbyes before me and my father were out the door and on our way to catch our flight.

"You don't understand how much I missed you dad.." I rest my head on his shoulder as we walked down the sidewalk to his car which appeared to be a rental.

"I missed you more sweetheart."