What happens at night

Part 2: 364 days to go

-------  - - 1 HOUR LATER---

Mr.Risseys eyes bore into my forehead as I look down at my doodles that arc across my page. My eyebrows draw together and I push my lips out in a pout inspecting my centerpiece for the page. "Ms.Shadows!" I slowly look up still making my pouty face and raise my eyebrows, no doubt looking like an idiot. "Your writing very intently over there. Have the answer to the question?" He asks with a small smirk on his face. I open my mouth taking on Mariahs "Dori the fish" status and the bell rings making me pump my fist mentally. I collect my things and shuffle out the door bumping into mr.Rissey on purpose. Last time I'm going to see him anyways. I walk down the hallway and straight out the doors into the crisp heat. It's not the school I'm gonna miss anyways. I can live without it. I look down at the pavement as my feet move towards my house automatically. I can walk this road with my eyes closed I've walked it so many times. I think back to the memories I've had in this town and they almost overwhelm me. Me and Mariah walked this road since 1st grade, I look to the side and see the park benches Mariah and I sat were I cried my eyes out after I found out Brandon cheated on me. It's also where me and Mariah broke our left arms in 5th grade after falling off the jungle gym backwards. I smile at the memories and welcome them. I have to be positive here, I mean I'll be back soon. This won't be forever. I pick up my pace and jog to my front door darting in and up the stairs to my room attempting to avoid my mother. "Oh Ivy!" A cheery voice chimes in behind me and I freeze in my spot and slowly turn plastering a smile on my face. "Hiii mom!" I look down the stairs and there's my mom standing there looking beautiful as ever. She smiles and shifts uneasily "So sweety. You packed up and ready to go? Your Flight is tonight at 11" I grimace and nod now understanding why she seemed uneasy. She hates making me upset and the topic of me leaving gets me very upset. I turn on my heal and bound up the stairs into my room past the empty stands and flop onto my empty bed. I can't believe their actually sending me away. Anger burns in a deep pit just under my heart, they act sad they keep saying they are sorry. Why do they act like everything's not there choice when nobody is making them send me away. I scowl at my pillow as if it's the problem, with its bare, pillowcase-less surface. I roll off the bed and onto my feet stomping over to my dresser to pack up my last few items left in my room. I reach over and grab my tote bag throwing random items from my dresser into the pile of clothes stuffed inside. I pick up a framed picture of me and Mariah. Her platinum hair and baby blue eyes were a sharp contrast to my wavy black locks and grey eyes. Tears prick my eyes and balance on the ledge of my lower lid threatening to spill over. I'm going to miss her so much, my best friend, my confident, my sister. I move on placing the frame gently in the tote. My ringtone for Mariah sounds from my bed and I practically trip over myself to answer it in time. I pick it up and slide the answer button. "Hey" I say a bit breathless. "Hey. I'm coming over don't leave your house until I get there I will hunt you down understand me? I'll get you pop you know you love me bye!" She pushes out and then promptly  hangs up. I sigh and hang my head as a charge over to my bed and just lay there staring at the ceiling smiling the whole time. Not 10 minutes later I hear footsteps thumping  up the stairs seconds before my door busts open and a bundle of color trips in. Mariah has a thing for neons that's for sure, her clothes remind me of highlighter vomit sometimes...in a good way. I smile at the thought. She whips her purse off her shoulder and starts tossing things at me. Beef jerky, popcorn, soda, and a tub of icecream. "We are having a movie marathon before you leave. Better be ready cause this sucker starts now." She switches on my tv and takes the first of many DVDs, popping it in. "We have only till 10:30. Let's get watching." She collapses on my bed and before I start blubbering I just focus on the movie.

       ------HOURS LATER-----

My flys open and Mariah and I both shriek and fall backwards off our beanbag chairs, popcorn raining on the floor. My mom flips on the light, filling both me and Mariah with relief. "Jesus mom I thought you were Jason" She scrunched her forehead up and touches her cheek. "I don't think I look THAT bad without makeup" she says frowning and I roll my eyes. As my heartbeat slows down I look at her and then at the clock. It's almost time to leave, I had almost forgotten that I was leaving. It was almost like everything was normal and that made everything so much worse. I clear my throat and stand up as my mom leaves the room, the sadness in the room is thick and I breathe it in, weighing down not my lungs but my heart. Mariah stands up and gives me a hug mumbling into my shirt "I'm not gonna make this a snot fest and neither are you. I'll see you. Text me when you get there. I may go cry into my pillow now. Love you sis." She walks out the door without another word or a glance back, and I smile giving a captains salute. I look around grab my carry on and follow a few minutes later. "Mom I'm ready!" I yell across the house. The clicking of heels comes from the south hallway and approaches me from behind. "Well I better get you to the airport then!" She ushers me out the door. "Hey! What about dad?" She pushes me towards my door "Oh he's not gonna make it to your send off. Work stuff. Yaknow?" She slides into her seat and slams the door as I throw my stuff in the back and get in myself. "Let's get this show on the road!" She cheers as I mentally hit my head against the window. She seems waaaay to happy about this. She pulls out and speeds through the dark.

Half an hour later I'm sitting on a plane. Luckily for me I have no annoying seat mates, at least not what i can tell. I close my eyes and drift off.

Darkness, and then wisps of smoke waft by. Color bleeds in creating tendrils of rainbow as it curls and twists into forms I can't identify. A voice, calling out my name. Melodic and sweet, but a dangerous underlying meaning. Like a Venus flytrap, smells so sweet but truly dangerous. The wisps form a final figure, it laughs, high pitched like glass shattering "See you soon". I open my eyes startled. I rub my palms on my jeans to wipe the sweat off, I look around making sure that nobody's staring and that I didn't just shriek my brains out waking up. Believe me, I wanted to. "We will be descending in a short time frame of about five minutes" The flight attendant announces. I look out the window shocked that were already here, how long was I out? My eyes widen and my jaw drops at the carpet of green my eyes behold as I look out the window. So many trees, and they are all so vividly green! A little bit later we are all exiting into the terminal and I scan the room. Everybody is dressed differently, I scan for a familiar head among the crowd and I smile when I see a auburn head with a sign raised way above it "Shadows" it announced. "Aunt L!" I shout and she whips her head around. "Ivy!" I smile as I walk towards her, 364 days to go.