Broken Strings

"Departure to New York leaves in five minutes. Please bord the flight."

"Thats me", I say, with a nervous laugh.

I turn to my mum. She was smiling with tears running down her face. She nods and presses her lips together. Wrapping her arms around me, together we stand at the departure gate.

   "Mum, I gotta go. I love you so much.", I whisper through tears.

"Im sorry!", she says and wipes her eyes. "promise you'll call me when you get there?", she asks.

"Definitely!" I say.

"Okay. I love you so much and please be safe!", she says. Kissing my forehead one last time, I pull away and shrug my bag onto my back.

"I love you to.", I call as I give my ticket to the lady.

We both wave until I walk around the corner.  I take a deep breath. I was really gonna miss her.

But this is it!   I think to myself.  All those years of saving up and im finally going to New York.  My cousins live over there and they kindly offered me a bed in their house, until I can find a job and get a place to live.

Ever since I was small, I had wanted to go to New York. Me and my best friend, Simon had planned to go together for our gap year. We were both quite young to go to college so our parents agreed to let us take a year off and go to college the following year. Simon and I were very intelligent so it really wasnt a problem. But that all changed when Simon's house burned down. He used the money he had saved to help him and his family afterwards. Simon insisted that I still go to New York and after weeks of arguing, I agreed. My mom called our cousins and they said that they would be happy to have me.

I would absoloutely love  to have Simon by my side as I search for my seat.

I finally come to seat number 29 and I plop myself down on it. The chairs were comfortable enough so I took out my ipod  and began to scroll through my song list.

By the time everyone was seated, a sweet voice came onto the speakers.

"Hello and welcome to Grill Airways. We hope you enjoy the flight. It is now 6:45am. We hope to arrive in New York City at            . Please have a safe journey."

Five minutes later, a flight attendant finished her safety demonstrations and the plane began to lift off.

Cya, London.  I said to myself with a smile.

I got comfy in my seat and plugged in my earphones. This was gonna be a long flight.

Hello!!!

    Okay, I know it was really short, but I just really wanted to get it started!! It may be a bit boring now but I can tell you that the next chappie, you meet "the guy", and it is quite action packed! ;)  Please read on and vote! Please comment too and tell me what you think!!!

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