My uncle, Paul Higgins *CANCELLED*

Chapter 2. Reasons

"No," My dad shakes his head. "no way."

"What?"

"I said no." My father seems as though this doesn't affect him at all.

"We'll leave you two to talk, we're going to look, um, outside." My mother rushes, taking uncle Paul's hand. The bell rings behind them.

"Dad, how come I can't go?"

"Because, I'd rather not have you traveling around the world with a bunch of men."

"Yeah, and my super-tough uncle, and myself who can take down a grown man!"

He laughs a little bit which is good.

"Dad, I can take care of myself, I'm 18 almost 19 now!" He shudders and suddenly it all makes sense!

"That's the problem isn't it? You don't want me to grow up!"

"It's just that you're my little girl, I don't want you to be heartbroken, or exposed to all that hate from their fans, that's just something I don't want you to go through." Tears rims his eyes.

"Dad," I take his hand.

"I will always be your little girl in your eyes, but, it's time for me to grow, and learn new things, and experience the chance of a lifetime!" I say raising my hands for affect.

He sadly smiles. "I'm so proud I you Alexa."

I get out of my seat and hug him. "Dad I'll be fine."

He sighs, speaking in defeat, "I guess you can go."

I smile widely, "Omigosh dad thank you! I promise I'll call every night and take care of myself."

He raises his eyebrows.

"Okay maybe not every night."

He smiles, "Even once a week is fine."

"Never dad." He hugs me tighter, and I walked back over to my seat.

"But that doesn't mean I won't miss you."

"I'll miss you too dad."

My mom makes her way over to us, "I'm glad you guys talked." She sits back down. "So, what's the plan?"

I pretend to look disappointed and play with my hands, adding a sniffle for affect.

"Only the fact that I'm going to travel around the world with my favorite uncle ever!" I yell bringing attention to our table.

"That's awesome!" She yells back.

"Hey, where's uncle Paul?"

"Oh he had to step out for a moment due to an important phone call."

"Oh," I hope it's not something bad.

Just then he comes back and sat down in his seat. "Well, what's the answer?"

I smile. "He said yes!"

"Great!"

"So, when are we leaving?"

"Um well we were going to leave tonight,"

My mouth drops open.

"But I just got a call saying that the plans changed and we'll be leaving on Friday."

Okay, so today's Wednesday, so I have one full day before we leave. "Well, I better get packing!"

"I agree, should we get going?" My mother and father both nod their head in response and we pay and leave.

"So sweetie, are you super excited?" My mom asked as we got into the car. My dad and uncle Paul both rode in his car so my mom and I could talk and stuff.

"Yeah, but I'm super nervous, I mean what of they're a bunch of spoiled jerks?"

"Who? Oh yeah that's right that boy band um what was it?"

"One direction."

"Right, right."

"Well honey I'll guess you'll just have to wait and find out."

I sigh. "I guess you're right."

We sat in silence for the rest of the car ride and I just watched as the houses and buildings passed by. New York is so beautiful at night. The car comes to a stop and I grab my purse and headphones and walk towards the door.

I sigh, I hate packing.

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I'm not even very proud of this chapter. well I hope you guys liked it, I mean whoever "you guys" are. so yeah, bye!