Movement (M.E)

Chapter 16

Today I was leaving. I didn't want too but I didn't really have a choice. My aunt wants me to live with her so I would be safer, and I believe I will be. Nothing will make me more happy then being safe.

The worst part is that she lives all the way in England. That's like 1,385,530 miles from here. Okay its really 3,763 miles. I mapped it out. But that's still far.

"I don't want you to rush honey but we need to be leaving now for the airport." My aunt tells me with a sudden urgency in her voice. I know she wants to get back home, and I want to be too. That is with my mom. Sure she did some bad things, but I love her, she did what she had to in order to keep us alive.

"I'm ready." I say and grab my bags and taking them out to the truck. My Uncle Nick was back in England with my three cousins in their flat with five bedrooms. The three always have been at the house alone together and they seemed somewhat excited for me to move in with them. Two of them were twins and they were 11 years old. The oldest was 18, just a year older than me. Poppy and Percy were the twins. Both of them shared a room which is why it was the biggest, besides the master. Leo was the oldest. He has the smallest room because he has the least stuff. I apparently have a bedroom with its own bathroom because it was the guest room.

We arrive at the airport and check in our bags. I check my phone and see my lockscreen of me and Matthew. We were sitting in front of my mirror. I was sitting between his legs and he had is arms around me. He was kissing my cheek and I was smiling. It was really cute.

That was a few weeks ago when him and I started hanging out everyday. Neither of us wanted to do anything else but hang out with each other. It was comforting being around him.

That night we kissed Matthew said it was in the moment and that it meant nothing. What he said hurt me more than anything ever. I really like Matthew. He was one person I could go to for anything. He liked me for me and didn't know my past or anything. It made me feel good.

Then just to have him say that amazing kiss meant nothing to him killed me. I wanted him to do that for so long. Even though I could have kissed him first that would have been weird. I just can't grab his face and kiss him.

"What are you thinking about?" My Aunt asks me. I didn't feel like telling her. I just needed to come up with something quick.

"Dance. I want to continue it, but I don't know what to do with my back." I tell her as I put my bag on the conveyor-belt for security. There was a school down here with an amazing dance program. My Aunt was able to get an audition for me to enroll in the school. Yes the school has auditions. That's how serious the school was about this dance program. They wanted the best of the best, and I don't have what it takes. All the people at that school have been dancing all their lives. I've only done gymnastics. Dance and gymnastics were two different things.

"We just need to watch how it feel and continue with your pills and stretches." Ah yes my stretches. I was given certain stretches to do to help repair my back and stay in the same flexible shape I was in.

After she tells me that I grab my bags and we walk to our gate. I've never been on an airplane before. I've always driven everywhere. I was pretty scared, but it was going to be a long flight so I know I will sleep for the most of it. "Do you want to get any food before the ride?" My Aunt asks me. I nod and we walk to a subway.

This was my favorite place ever. I could eat subway for the rest of my life. This and Chipotle. Matthew and I always went to those two places. Always. We never really went anywhere else. He knew those were my two favorite places and wanted to make me happy. It was sweet of him.

I order my sandwich and get a drink. I grab a water and put it on the counter for the woman who was ringing up our order. My phone dings and vibrates telling me that someone texted me. I pick it up and see the name on my phone. It was the very person who I wanted to see today yet I couldn't. He had football. I can't make him leave that for my selfish reasons. I really want to see him, but I want to see him succeed with football. I want him to succeed with everything. He was my everything after all.

We get to our gate and they were boarding. I was hoping that Matthew would come in running like something out of a movie, but I know that wouldn't happen. My boarding pass was in the woman's hand when my name gets called. I turn around and see someone very familiar running towards me.

Carter.

He runs up to me and looks at me. "I couldn't let you leave without seeing you once more. I know I've been such a douche to you lately, and there is no good reason for it. The girl I liked started talking to me and we started hanging out. Then I found out about this app, and it has changed my whole life. I can't explain it but it's getting me somewhere." He says and looks down at his hands. "I know you probably hate me but you're still my best friend, and you have been since we were eight. And I want to give you this." He grabs a necklace out of his pocket and hold it up for me to look at it. The piece of jewelry he was holding up was beautiful. I've never seen anything this nice before.

The necklace was gold and had a little gold plate on it. On the plate it said 'eight' on it with little pink jems around it. The necklace it's self was a masterpiece. On the back of the plate it said 'Carter'. This was truly beautiful.

"I-I love it." I say and stare at it. He smiles and unclips it just to clip it again behind my neck. It was beautiful. "Why did you get me this?" I ask him.

"I was going to give it to you for your birthday, but you won't be here for that, and I wanted to see my best friend before she leaves for god knows how long." He says. I smile and hug him. When I said I wanted to see Matthew earlier, I was saying that because of the feelings I have for him. I didn't realize how much I would hate myself if I didn't get to see Carter before I felt.

"I promise you I will do all I can to come back. And you will be the first person to know when I come back." I tell him. He smiles.

"I better be." He says and pulls me in for another hug. "I'll see you soon alright?" He asks me. I nod and look up at him.

"Thank you for being there for me." I say to him.

"Same goes for you girl." He says and smiles.

"I love you Carter remember that." I tell him as I pick up my bags to head back onto the plane.

"I love you too Rylyn." He says and waves at me while I walk onto the plane where it takes me far, far away from the people who I love.