It's you

Chapter 22

December

After months being in Australia, she finally going home! She can't wait to see her family, friends and home! She's now waiting for the plane to depart and can't wait to meet her family who are waiting for her at the airport in Dublin.

The 23 hours flight is so tiring. It's already 8 in the morning when the plane reached Ireland. Oh my gosh! This is not a dream right? Is she really in Dublin right now? She is in Ireland! OMG! She missed this snowy day!

As soon as she gets in the airport, she looks for her family.

"Stacey!", all of them calls her, except her dad. He just gives her a warm smile as he waves at her. Stacey stops for a while to make sure that they're real and not just her hallucination. Knowing that they're really real, she excitedly gets them as she shrieks and hugs any one of them.

"Oh, I really missed all of you.", she says as she wipes her tears while Colton is still hugging her as he doesn't want to let go.

"We too.", mom replies.

"So, how's life?", dad asks when they're already in car.

"Hard.", she answers shortly as she making sad face but funny to see making her siblings laugh at it.

"How hard was it?", this time it's mom.

"Too hard.", she replies jokingly.

"I'm just kidding, mom. It was fine but a bit sad because I always missing all of you here.", she continues as she chuckles after seeing her mom's worried expression on the reflection of the front car mirror.

"That's why I told you to reconsider about it but you won't listen.", mom says in sad tones.

"Honey, she's grown up and know what is right for herself.", dad interrupts. Stacey keeps her mouth shut. What mom said was all true.

"Mom, where's Ashton? I told him to join you to pick me at the airport but he didn't even shows up.", she says after being silence for a while.

"He didn't tell you?", mom says in frown.

"What?"

"He's already in London. I thought he had sent you emails because he told me that he already informed it to you through emails.", tells mom.

What? He's already left?! Oh great, she hasn't checked her emails.

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"How are Kylie and Christian?", mom asks. Yeah, she knows them because her daughter always told her about them. About all their kindness, their parents death and how they treated her. Stacey told her everything. Thanks to them that they took care of her daughter as their own sister. She really wants to meet them and she will someday because they are also a family as what she thinks they are. She had met them before but only through video calls. As what her daughter said, they are really kind people.

"They're fine. Kylie is getting beautiful-er and Christian is getting uglier.", she replies jokingly. She and Christian are now closer than ever. He's like a brother to her. She knew everything about him and he also knew everything about her. After knowing him for a while, she found out that he is really irritating because he always make fun of her, teasing her and she hates that! And he got so many admirers back at his college, as what he said. Ugh, he is so full of himself! He is a player too! He randomly went out with all the girls who admire him. He said that was a 'fan-service'. What the heck? His 'fans'? Don't make her laugh, he's not even a celebrity.

"Christian is handsome, okay.", mom says, defending Christian.

"Eww, mom! He's not, okay.", she says in irritated tone.

"Yes! He is.", mom still defends him. She chuckles at her daughter. She can see that her daughter is close with Christian.

"Ugh! Whatever!", Stacey rolls her eyes.

#Before we're strangers, now we're friends
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Listen to; Lovin' so hard by Becky G! I love dat song. I keep playing it :))