Taking My Shot- Adopted by Hamilton

28-Best Friends

"Alright good job today everyone, I'll see those of you called tomorrow have a good night," Mrs Glimpse said as we all put our scripts into our bags and started to head out to the front of the school.

"Hey good job today," Isaac said coming up and giving me a hug, we just had our first read through of Heights and it went really well.

"You too I'm so excited for the show," I said feeling the anticipation of wanting to already be at next rehearsal fill me.

"Same alright I gotta go but I'll see ya later Vanessa," Isaac said winking at me and then laughing.

"Bye Usnavi," I laughed back watching him run to his car. I saw Lin's car pull up and I walked over getting inside and being immediately bombarded with questions.

"How was it? Is the Usnavi good? Can the Benny sing like Chris? Do they have a good dancer playing Graffiti Pete?" Lin asked.

"Woah slow down there, it was only the first rehearsal," I laughed as Lin pulled out of the school parking lot, "But it was good, really good."

"Yay! I'm so excited to see the show mija, February can't get here fast enough," Lin said smiling.

"I know I'm so excited!" I said feeling Lin's excitement rubbing off on me making me even more excited. Soon enough we got home and I headed up to my room to go do homework, as soon as I opened my bedroom door I fell on my bed. It felt empty and cold, as it had been since Alex and I had our fight the other night. I was too scared to call him these last few days but he was leaving today so there was really nothing I could do now except try and move on, which would probably never happen. I sighed and took out my phone checking social media, I was scrolling through Twitter when I saw a tweet from Alex:

@AlexFitz:
A three hour delayed flight, just perfect.

I frowned at the tweet I already knew it was hard enough for him to leave so now this just gave him more time to think about leaving. I stared at the tweet for a few minutes and thought of Alex sitting in the airport next to his sister both of them with their headphones in, in two separate worlds. I thought of how alone he must feel and how no one was there to say goodbye to him. I realized I was never going to get to say goodbye and the fact that I would probably never see him again hit me. I loved him, scratch that I still love him and I needed to say goodbye. I sprang out of bed going into the living room where Lin was sitting on the couch on his phone scrolling through Twitter.

"Dad," I said coming over to him.

"What's up mija?" He asked looking up at me.

"I need you to drive me to the airport."

*****

"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" Lin asked for the thousandth time.

"Yes dad I'll be fine," I said looking out the window toward the airport, "I need to do this alone." Lin nodded and kissed me on the top of my head, I smiled at him and got out of the car heading to the entrance of the airport. Once I got inside I checked the flight schedules and found what gate Alex should be in. As I was walking I felt the urgency to start running, as if some magnetic force was pulling me to him. So I began sprinting down the airport terminal running as fast as I could feeling the adrenaline pumping through my body and having the need of getting to Alex push me to keep going. I finally reached the gate to find it almost empty except for a few people that were in line to board the plane, the flight must've gotten back on schedule and was no longer delayed. I ran closer to the line seeing Alex and his sister near the end of it.