Crashing Into You

Chapter 9

Elijah's leaving today.

The thought of him leaving just was made my stomach churn. I only have known him for a short amount of time, but in the end I felt like I've known him a lot longer than just a week. Sure, we only hung out a few times together, but those times, meant everything to me. I spent most of my time moping around the house about this. My mom had noticed that I was in some mood. This morning she kept asking what was bothering me, except I didn't want to tell her and so I didn't. I kept my mouth shut about Elijah leaving. Not wanting her to find out that we've been hanging out when I was supposed to be at school.

Considering that today was a weekend, I didn't have to worry about going to school. This was a good thing. Elijah and I were meeting up later to say our goodbye's. Though, I'm not at all ready to even think about saying that word to him. I feel as if we didn't have much time together. Sighing, I slipped on my shoes and left a note for my parents to let them know I was going out. It's not like I'd be out that long any. This day was sure not going to be an easy one. I walked out of the door and opened the door to my car. I shut it after getting in and buckled my seatbelt. As I turned my key into the ignition and placed my hands on the steering wheel, I began to hear Elijah's voice. I almost forgot that I had his CD placed into my CD player. I always liked to have the volume turned up on loud. The people across the road could probably hear it, but I didn't care.

I just belted out the words as I backed out of my drive way. I definitely didn't have a care in the world today. We had decided on meeting at the Wake up Café. It was where we first met up. So, when I finally arrived I pulled into a parking spot and noticed that Elijah already beat me there. I gave a small smile as I saw him. As I stepped out of the vehicle I ran up to him and instantly wrapped my arms around him for a hug. His arms wrapped around my waist and he hugged me back.

"Do you really have to go?" I asked him without pulling away. I just wanted to hold onto him a bit longer and maybe if I did he wouldn't have to go anywhere.

"I do. I kind of want too and I also kind of don't want to go." Elijah explained.

"What do you mean you kind of want to leave?" I asked while pulling back and letting my bottom lip drop into a pout.

"I want to sing more places. I have a lot more fans that want to see me in concert. You didn't exactly hear the part where I kind of wanted to stay. That's because of you."

Elijah's finger pressed up to my lip and gently poked it so that I would put it back in and not be pouting at him. I just couldn't help, but smile at him as he did this. It was really nice to know that he also enjoyed my company. Though right after I smiled he frowned as a big bus pulled up and stopped on the side of the road.

"Elijah let's go!" a voice called from drivers side of the bus.

My eyes sent the driver a glare and he glared at me right back. Okay, so the guy driving his tour bus wasn't exactly the nicest person in the world. Or maybe he was just super impatient. I pulled my eyes back to Elijah. I still wanted to refuse to let him go, but I knew that he had too. He had tons of other shows to do and he has to be able to continue do the shows and not stop because of me.

"Looks like I have to get going." Elijah said with a small sigh.

"I'm really going to miss you."

"I'm going to miss you as well."

He started to lean into me. For a quick second I thought that maybe he was going to do the unthinkable. It was something that I had never done with any other guy in this world. Just as our faces were inching closer, a loud noise made our heads clash against each other. The driver honked at us. He ruined the moment. Elijah was going to kiss me and he honked his stupid horn! I rubbed my head with my hand and frowned before glaring at the driver.

"I'm sorry. I really have to go." Elijah said before taking off and not even giving me one last hug.

I watched Elijah get onto the bus and as he sat down against the window, he was looking back at me. He gave me a small smile before waving. I waved back until I could no longer see him looking out of the window. That was that. Elijah was gone and I didn't even get the kiss that I thought I was going to receive. If only his driver wasn't so impatient. I guess he kind of had to move us along. Otherwise, we would have stood there a lot longer together. Neither of us had to say a word, enjoying each other's presence was just enough. I just wished that it didn't have to end so soon.