Meant to be

I miss her

One week later .....

Jen: cyn, honey you got to get up. Baby you have to go to school.

Cyn: why, she's not gonna be there.

Jen: I know baby, but you can't stop living because Erica gone.

Cyn: please mom, I don't feel like being there without her.

Jen: I sorry, but you have to go. The school keeps calling.

Cyn:*huffing* fine. *getting up from the bed and stomping to the washroom to do her morning routine.

Cyn period came the day after prom. She wanted to call erica but she remember she left. Which made her depressed. Cyn went over to Erica house, but no one was home. She sulked all the way home and cried herself to sleep.  Cyn reluctantly walked to school. She went to her locker and sighed heavily as she took her seat. It was weird looking next to her and not seeing the familiar face. Cyn never been to school without Erica.  Once she had a tummy ache when she was  8 and erica snuck out of school and spent the whole day in cyn room. She would rub cyn back and tell her stories. Erica got in troublschool. her mom arrived in school. The principal called her, saying that she did not report erica absent. Sonia started to panic, but she asked if cyn was at school. When the principal told her cyn was home sick with a bug, she knew exactly where to find her daughter.  It wasn't surprising that Erica caught cyn bug. Cyn mom,saw her lying on cyn bed cuddled up to cyn sleeping. Her mom grounded her for a week. Cyn made her mom ground her for a week as well. Since she couldn't go over to play with erica, she wanted to stay in her room. Sonia and Jen saw how sad the kids was and ungrounded them after two days.  They been attached at the hip since kindergarten. Now cyn had to go through her teenage years alone.

Stella: cyn, I thought you came down with mono or something.

Cyn: I wasn't well

Stella: where's Erica. Did she get suspended for breaking Brandon nose.

Cyn: no, she left.

Stella: left as in?

Cyn: look stella, I'm not in the mood ok. Erica left that all I know.

Stella: geez, sorry.

Teacher walks in.

Teacher: class, take out your science book to page 12. Read the chapter and answer the following questions. You can work in groups of two or you can choice to work on your own.

Brandon: hi, cyn*taking the seat, that was usually reserved for erica*

Cyn: come out in her sit. You filthy piece if shit*seething*

Brandon: what's your problem.

Cyn: *ignoring him and started to do her work* you are.

Brandon: so,you just going to diss me for your freak best friend.

Cyn: don't call her that. I'm warning you.

Brandon: you can't tell me what to say.

Cyn: listen very closely. I hate you with every fiber in my body. Don't look at me, don't speak to me, don't even think of me. You cost me everything. Now I suggest if you don't want me to reopen those stitches, get out of my face.

Brandon: what ever. You will be back.

Cyn:when pigs fly .

Meanwhile with Erica.......

??: hi, I'm albee. Your from new York right?

Erica: yes.

Albee: me too, finally someone with some sense shows up. Why you move.folks couldn't take the cold no more?

Erica: I'm afraid its a lot more complicated than that*shoving her books into her locker*

Albee: look, you've been here for a week now, you never talk to no one. Is like you want to be an outcast.

Erica: look Albee is it? I didn't come here to make friends. I came her to go to school, get an education and make money.

Albee: shit me too. But since you don't want friends, don't mean that I'm not going to be yours.

Erica: your weird.*rolling her eyes and walking away.

Erica POV....
After I left cyn infront of the school, my mom drove us home. She called cyn parents and informed them that I was leaving to go stay with my aunt. My mom made up a story about being afraid of the fight messing up my permanent record. She told cyn mom that cyn was quite upset about my leaving. I sat in my room and cried for an hour straight, before falling asleep from events of the day. We left early in the morning to prevent any running into cyn. My mom cried like she wouldn't ever see me again. Since my cousin was away at college , my aunt was lonely and eager for company.  She tried to make my as happy and comfortable as possible, but I missed cyn. I missed her, I miss her smile, I miss her face . I even miss her bossing me around, and making me dumb thing. Like the time she convince me we could make our own tree house, when we was ten. I told her the branch wasn't looking sturdy, but in her mind she was somehow a carpenter. With both of us pounding  nails into the branch, it weaken it. We ended up falling, and screaming bloody murder.  We got to ride in a ambulance. Cyn with a broken hand and me with a broken leg. We spent most of our summer, trying to itch under the cast and watching cartoons, indoors. We signed each other cast, doodling and playing card. It was still one of my best summers.
Its been weird having to adjust to life in the sun. Beach around the corner, everyone tan and fit. Everything feels different. I've been staring at cyn and I prom picture every night until I fall asleep. I think of our kiss everyday. I don't think no other kiss will ever compare to sharing my first kiss with my best friend. I miss her so much. Mom told me that she keeps calling the house, trying to get my aunt number. It breaks her heart, seeing cyn so sad.  Hopefully she will let go and forget about me. Make new friends.I'm going to study my butt of, be someone she would be proud off. Show everyone especially brandon baker, who erica jasmine mena is. He will come begging for my forgiveness that a promise. I just have to survive this hell.

Albee: dude, you should think if becoming a model. You've got the height and face.

Erica: what will it take for you to leave me alone.

Albee: I'm not leaving you to fall off the social ladder.  Junior high determines where you will stay on the social ladder in high school.

Erica: I'm not interested in being social.

Albee: ya, but that don't mean I'm going to stand back and watch you not have a kick ass year. Now friend, let's show these dweebs, how newyorkers do.*grabbing erica hand and pulling her into the cafetaria.

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