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Part 7

"Tomorrow...I leave tomorrow for good" I reply with a breakage in my voice. 

They all stare at me as if I'm a ghost and the replies I get are along the lines of "what the fuck? Are you serious? This is a joke?" 

"I'm sorry, it's been hard for me to keep this in but it's also been hard on me to tell you. Please don't be mad. You have to understand why I did it. I didn't want you guys treating me any different, I just wanted our last time that we will all be together to be as normal as possible. I'm sorry I just know that for me it was best to do it this way. I'm really sorry" I begin to breath more steadily for getting all that off my chest and then before I knew it I was being engulfed into a tight group hug with my best friends. This is the last time I will be able to do this for a long time. My flight is at 11am in the morning and it's from London straight to California. But we live 4 hours away from London so we will be leaving here at 2am to get the train to London. 

"When do you leave?" Toniie asks.

I look down at my watch and realise it's 8pm. We are all at my house so I guess I should tell them the honest truth so their parents can pick them up before we leave. "In 6 hours". I then get engulfed into another group hug but this time it was different, this time it really felt like I was leaving.

We have all been sitting here laughing and remembering all of our memories, when my mom shouts up to us. 

"The girls parents are here".

We all looked at each other and cried. I gave them an individual, tight hug and gave them the letters I had wrote for them. 

Everyone had left except my best friend, Hayley. Her mum was here but we both knew that we needed time alone to have our own leaving hug. We have been through so much together over the best 10 years and I wouldn't change anything for the world. I will miss Hayley so much. She will always be my best friend and the second sister I never had and I hope she remembers that.