When Stars Align

Chapter 24

Authors note: this is the second last chapter before a little epilogue! I'm really excited to finish up this story and possibly write another one?

-Mar <3

I feel like I'm running on autopilot, I don't even remember packing most of my things.

The past two days have been nothing but getting ready for my move tomorrow, and I truly have not stopped. Which is a blessing in disguise, really. If I spent those days thinking about my move, I would have nothing done.

I'm scared.

I'm scared to not know anyone, scared that the people at work will not like me, that I won't be able to find anything, that I won't have my people, that I'll be alone.

I don't want to be lonely. I know people will visit and I can visit here when I have time and that it's only a short period of time, but this is a big milestone for me. So, knowing that I have to go through this huge chapter alone? Yeah, that's very scary.

I stand in my living room, with my hands in my hips, looking at the stacks of boxes around the room. I did accomplish a lot in these few days. Everything I need is packed. Luckily, the apartment I'm renting is fully furnished, so I only had to pack up personal items and other things I'd want to have for this while, so it really didn't take me too long to get it all together.

"Is this everything?" Emily says, approaching from the kitchen.

She's been such a huge help these last few days. While I packed, she was running last minute errands for me and picking up things that I needed. Emily helped me each time I started spiraling about the move and held my hand every time I cried. I couldn't have done this without my sister by my side like this.

"Yup." I say with a long sigh.

Emily walks over to sit next to me on the couch, still looking around at all of the boxes.

"I'm going to miss you so much" she says, looking nothing but sad.

"Oh Em," i say, my voice already cracking from tears "I'm going to miss you too"

I see her eyes filling, just like mine. I wrap her in a hug as we sob into each other. Yes this is only a short period of time, yes we will visit each other, but, this is the first time we will ever live apart. This is the longest we will have ever spent away from each other. This is a huge change for us, and considering how close we are, this is unbelievably hard.

We sit on a hug for many moments, before we pull away. We look at each other as we wipe our eyes and chuckle at each other.

"We look insane" I say , shaking my head.

Emily laughs a bit more now, then lets out a long sigh.

"Are we loading these into the truck in the morning?" Emily asks.

"Yeah, that's the plan" I answer.

"What are you doing for your last day here?" She asks with a smile.

It's only 8:30am, I have the entire day and night to enjoy here, and I know exactly what I'm doing with it.

Before spending these last few days packing, I spent my days with my friends. One morning, I went to Leah's cottage where we had breakfast together before we went for a walk and enjoyed nature together, she painted while I took some pictures, it was perfect. That evening, I went to the saloon to play pool with Sam, Sebastian and Abigail. We drank, played games and talked for hours and hours, it was an absolute blast. The next day was for Alex. We watched reality tv shows, caught up on everything in each others lives, he showed me highlight videos of any recent sport matches he's played and just enjoyed out time together. Of course, I also spent so much time with Emily, not only was she with me the days I was packing, we also had one of our typical movie nights where we got in comfy clothing, ate crappy food and talked more than actually watched the movie.