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II • M i s s i n g h e r

🌼three years later. . .🌼

I smiled at the piece of art I had finished a few days ago from my art gallery studio . It looked marvellous .The fine lining of the face, beautiful texture and colours mixed to form a picture and the details made to perfection with every edge of the picture . It was a painting of my mother. It had been two years since she's passed on and I wanted to remember her in a very beautiful way , so I painted a portrait of her .

Beautiful and breath taking, like her .

I was good at drawing and painting and I had finished my years in College and I was now working on paintings and drawings for the past year and I just had enough money to start a new art gallery with Emery. Emery was obviously involved in it.  She had also her drawings up in the art gallery studio, because she said her painting skills were still a little bit on edge. But I knew the real reason why .

She was to lazy to do it .

Yeah, sure it took some time —like a few months— to paint but in the end , it was all worth it .

My phone buzzed in my back pocket as I washed and wiped my hands on the dish cloth that was on the counter. I reached for it and took the phone out and saw 'Emery' on the caller ID and answered .

"Yes?",I put the phone between my ear and shoulder while hanging the painting on the hallway of my apartment .

Perfect .

"Why , hello to you too,Miss Brooks! How are you?" , she sounded all cheery and I definitely were gloomy today .

"Ugh, the usual ,Em," I answered nonchalantly as I sat on my comfy couch and switched the tv on. "You were here three hours ago, I'm still the same."

She laughed and said,"No ,you wont be the same till I tell you this," she went silent and I thought she hung up on me .

"Tell me what?" I urged her to talk . She had this thing she did that drove me insane on how she would kill me inside with suspense,"what , Emery , what!"

"I'm just messing with you,"she giggled .

"Tell me now , Emery."

"Nah, I change my mind,"

"Tell me now, Em , or else. . ."

"Or else what?"

I thought for a second for a good ass threat but nothing came , so I sighed and I heard her snicker, " c'mon, Emery .Just tell me,"I whined .

"Fine," she paused and the next thing I heard made my mouth drop," it's your birthday soon and I'm planning a surprise for you !"

"Oh my god!" I screamed, how could I have forgotten my own birthday. 

Stupid, stupid , ugh !

"Isn't it exciting!?" She squealed," we're going to have so much fun together!"

"I had even forgot that my birthday was coming up," I laughed hysterically ,"it's this week , damn , I need to start checking my calendar more often ." Em giggled and I joined her .

"So what's this surprise you're planning for me, huh?" I sat back down on the couch .

"Um, Avalina , as far as I am concerned, it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, would it now ?"

"Okay, okay .",I snickered "so I just wait and see till something happens ?"

She thought for a second and quickly answered,"All I'm saying is pack your stuff—toothbrush , clothes, make-up, shoes etc.— and wait for me to be there on Friday , 08:15 a.m. "

My mouth dropped, " why so early ?"

"Early drive. Avoiding traffic . Trust me , it'll be so much fun !" She went on and on about our little trip to a place called ' Ravenswood Creek' which sounded super scary. Little did she know that the surprise was her taking me to a cabin in the woods for the weekend together. I wasn't going to tell her that she just exposed the secret to me but, hey, why kill the joy .

After talking to her I hung up went straight to my room to start packing .

I was kind of excited for this trip and I had a feeling we both were either going to get into trouble or just have some quality boning time together .

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A/n: short chapter , sorry .

Photo above - Avalina Brooks .

-Z💋