Crushed

Chapter 1

"I'm really gonna miss you Kylee." Calum mumbles into my shoulder. I pull out of the hug to look at him again. How did we become so close after only a few days? I feel like I can't go back to my life without him. How cliche is that?

"I'll miss you too Cal." I whisper hugging him again. An hour later I'm boarding my plane, heading away from California and back to reality.

---------------2 months later--------------

"I'm really gonna miss you Kylee." Logan says giving me a quick hug.

"You too." I say into his shoulder, "Have fun in Chemistry without me." I tease him before I'm yanked away.

"You can't leave me babe!" Jen squeals in my ear. We've been best friends for years, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to deal without her.

"Hey you're coming out to visit soon right?" I practically beg her.

"I wouldn't miss it! You promised to find me a nice Cali boy right? These New Hampshire kids are getting old." she jokes but I know deep down she's serious. She's always boy hunting.

"Of course I will!" I laugh with a few tears in my eyes.

"And you're gonna talk to you-know-who about you-know-what right?" She says quieter. I nod unable to respond to that one. Without her help I'm not sure I'd have survived the past month. Now I just have to convince myself that everything is going to be fine.

When I leave the party, I'm grinning from ear to ear. I still can't believe my friends threw me a surprise going away party. I still can't believe I'm moving out to California! I've been dreaming about this day since I was little. While vacationing there this summer I talked to my parents about letting me move out to finish school in San Francisco. My cousins live there and they agreed to let me stay with them. I was beyond shocked that my parents agreed, but they saw when we were vacationing this summer that I just fell in love.

'Not just with the state.' I think and shake the thought from my head. Calum. Its hard to not think about him all the time. Will I even see him? I already know the answer to that. He's my cousin's best friend, I'm bound to run into him. Just the thought makes my stomach flutter.

----------------the next day--------------

I'm on my way. It was hard saying good bye to my family, but I can't help feel like I'm going home. The atmosphere and the people in California are just better then back east. The plane ride feels so short and I'm finally here. San Francisco! I exit the plane and locate my luggage. The rest of it will arrive tomorrow so today all I have is a small suitcase. I walk into the lobby pick up area and fiddle with the suitcase straps. My long brown hair falls in front of my face, and I brush it away quickly.

"Over here, Kylee!" I hear Ashton's voice from across the airport lobby.

"Ash!" I cry and run over to him. Ashton has always been my favorite cousin. Even though he's a year older than me we were always very close growing up until he moved out here. His curly dirty blonde hair is still messy, and his brown eyes are still bright. Grinning his goofy grin, he wraps me up in a hug.

"How ya been Kylee?" he says wrapping an arm around my shoulders and taking my suitcase in his other hand.

"Not bad. Been real busy getting ready to move but other than that I've been good." I grin.

"I can expect! My parents said I should take you around and sight see some, but since you just got here I figured you would want to just chill." he says leading me out to his car.

"Yeah that sounds good right now." I sigh suddenly realizing how exhausted I am. Its only like 9 pm here but back home on the East Coast its midnight. The drive from the airport to Ashton's house is not very long, but I almost fall asleep.