Lost and Found

Everything changed

There was not a cloud in the sky as the stars twinkles happily on this gloomy night. A warm Texas summer breeze gently blew my dark brown, shoulder length hair out of my face as I sat silently on the roof of my now nearly empty home. Tears stung my eyes as I held my knees to my chest, staring blankly ahead. The breeze held onto my skin not wanting me to go as much as I wanted to stay.

I can't believe that my parents were packing me up and taking me with them to a completely new state with drastically different climate. I've lived here for my entire life, next to my best friend. I went to the best school, the teachers were amazing and now I'm forced to throw everything away and start over brand new. The worse thing is, leaving my best friend behind. We grew up playing together, had lots of sleepovers, had so many memories in this house...

In the corner of my eyes I saw my bedroom light switch on. I knew instantly who it was, either my mother or him. I never moved from my position to glance at the window that was slightly ajar. Now if it was my mother, she would have just sat there, waiting for me to notice her shadow to tell me to come in. The window creaked ever so slightly as it was opened. Crickets sang beautiful melody's to me, but I just ignored their sound and buried my face into my knees. My hair covered my face as salty tears rolled down my cheeks, so no one would be able to see me at my weakest moment.

"Emersyn?" A soft voice spoke, I recognized that voice anywhere, it was him.

I lifted my head slightly, seeing him through the strands of my hair. I could see the pain in his eyes, but I could also tell he was deeply worried. Just looking at him gave me a large pain in my chest.

"Go away Andy." I mumbled, breaking eye contact from his chocolate brown eyes.

The window creaked open more and I heard him crawl out on to the roof. I really did not want him to see me like this, no on the last night that I would be here. Andy was my best friend, we've known each other since we were in diapers. And maybe, just maybe he was my first crush. I felt his presence next to me, causing me to quickly wipe away my tears with the back of my hand and look over at him. My eyes were puffy and eyes slightly red, and I tried to smile at least a little at him. Andy quickly embraced me in a tight hug, I knew I couldn't fight him, so I just gave in.

"I don't want to leave you." I mumbled as tears burned in my eyes once more.

"I don't want you to go either Em. But you can always come back and visit." Andy said, his voice shaking as he tried to hold back his own tears.

Silence fell over both of us, tears started falling from my eyes. I didn't want to leave Andy like this, we've been inseparable for 13 years and now everything is being ripped apart. I sniffled as I hesitantly broke away from him, laying down to gaze up at the stars, like we would do almost every night together.

"I'm going to miss you like crazy. I don't even know how I'm going to make new friends." I said quietly, my eyes never leaving the night sky.

"You'll make plenty of friends, You're a great person with a caring personality. I don't know who wouldn't like you." Andy answered, laying down next to me.

"Yeah but no one is like my Andrew. " I smiled, looking over at him. I've always admired him, even the mole just above his lip, his messy chocolate brown eyes and matching hair. Compared to my chestnut hair and hazel green eyes.

"Hey Em? Can I ask you something?" Andy asked propping himself up slightly, looking down at me.

"Of course you can. You can ask me anything." I answered, propping myself up on my elbow.

"Will you ever replace me?" He asked quietly, as if afraid to even ask it. It seemed like he had been wanting to ask me for quite a while and finally had the nerve to ask me.