Breakaway

Chapter 6

15 more months have passed since I’ve seen Baylor. I am now 18 and he is now 19. The stress the distance has put between us was insane. We fight all the time. I honestly just want to go back in time when everything was perfect and we were both happy. Other than that nothing else really changed.

I was sitting in the dining room alone waiting for Kelli to pick me up so we could go shopping. My parents were at work as usual. They actually loved their job. I got a call from Baylor. It was unexpected because he is usually busy this time of day.

“Hey Bay!” I said cheerfully happy to know he was thinking about me.

“Hey.” He sounded drained and shattered as if he had been crying.

“Something wrong?” I could feel my insides start to turn getting nervous. It was unusual. I hardly saw him cry.

“Well I got a call from my manager. The Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t draft me.”

“That’s okay! You are young and you will make it one day.”

“But Brooke-“ he paused and didn’t say anything for a few seconds “I’ve been drafted for a different team.” My heart sank as he spoke. I already had applied and got excepted to Duquesne University. My parents had already paid and I knew that there was no going back on it now. They kept telling him that’s where he would be going.

“So who drafted you?” I was holding back the tears and tried to sound happy. This would mean I couldn’t finally start living my life with him.

“The Vancouver Canucks.” There was a huge moment of silence. We both didn’t know what to say. The time difference was 3 hours. I couldn’t even speak “Hello?” Baylor asked. I was so choked up to say anything so I just hung up crying.

I slammed my phone down on the table. I fell to my knees. I didn’t know how much longer I could take this. “So Brooke, where exactly are we going?” Kelli walked into the room and found me crying my eyes out. “What happened?”

I sat there explaining everything. I was losing hope but I didn’t want to let him go. He was everything I ever wanted, needed, or dreamed of. She kept telling me it was going to be okay. “Of course it’s okay because it’s not you.” She didn’t take the comment to offence because she knew how upset I was. Kelli knew I didn’t mean it.

“Brooke! Look at me right now. YOU are the one that once told me if HE moved one million miles away you would still love him. Don’t give up now. Things will get better Brookie. I promise. One year of college and you can switch and it’s not like he won’t come here for games. He is a 5 million dollar goalie on a NHL team. You have a great life ahead of you! Baylor loves you.”

“But how much longer can I hold on?”

“That I don’t know but you know where to find me when you need a shoulder to lean on.” Kelli said helping me with.

We decided to go shopping at Forever 21. The store was literally two floors big. It took us around a hour to finish there. Kelli was begging me to go to Wet Seal so I finally gave in. She knew I hated that store. I took my phone out to check the time while Kelli was trying on more clothes. I had around 17 text messages and 12 missed phone calls. They were all from Baylor.

I decided to listen to a voicemail. Baylor was crying. It was making me choke up all over again. “Babe, please pick up the phone. I’ll call it off right now. Please just don’t do this right now. I’m sorry.”

I clicked redial and only heard one ring before Baylor answered “Hello?”

“Bay, I don’t want you to worry about it. I will still be here for you. This isn’t the end and you know we need this to live together.” I had to hurry and get him off the phone because Kelli was coming over. I drove Kelli back to my place. That’s where we spent the rest of the night.

I just laid in bed all night long staring at my blue walls. Kelli was sleeping on the couch on the other side of my room. I couldn’t stop thinking about Baylor and I actually getting to be together forever. Nobody considered us a “real” couple. I never could see why because he was always here for me. Maybe not physically but he was still here. He was worth waiting for.

A few more months past. Kelli got excepted to Duquensne University at the last second. It took a while because she sent her application in late since she couldn’t choose where to go. She was going to be my roommate. I was lucky. Somebody I know I can live with in a tiny area and will still understand me.

Baylor had already moved into his condo in Vancouver. He had been practicing for a while now. We hardly got anytime together anymore. After practice he would just go home and go to bed. He would call me for ten minutes everyday after but it wasn’t anything to get excited about.

College starts in a few weeks. Summer went by so fast. Me, my mom, and Kelli decided to take a drive over to Pittsburgh and start moving things in to our dorm a few days early. Once everything was organized and put into its spot my mom left. Me and Kelli would now have to share my Mustang until her mother would bring hers in to town in a month.

“Well we could sit in here like a bunch of lazy bums or we could go explore the city.” Kelli hinted at me. How could I say no? I was finally completely free. We drove around for 3 hours trying not to get lost. Stadiums and big building stood everywhere. The yellow bridge reflected off the Ohio River’s brown water. This was the start to my new life. Now if only Baylor was here.

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This may be the shortest chapter every but I really need to move things along.. It's a filler.. Sorry for the disappointment! Love you all!

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