(cole) Alex's P.O.V.
I live in a small city called Louisville. It's not big but it's a good neighborhood and area so there's not much school in my town. When I was in elementary, I go to one of the popular school there. Again, I am in one school in the same class with Alex which is my neighbor. It's quite awkward to meet her at school because I have been peeking on her these few days before. The most awkward thing is that we have the same name.
But we do really get along together easily by time. We started to hang out together because of school projects and stuffs. She always told me about her dream being a model, specifically a runway model. Yeah, I do mock her sometimes that she will not reach her dream. I also argue with her that my dream is much better than her. I always have a dream to become a successful businessman or maybe a doctor. Then I realize I do have phobia with dead bodies so I decided not to become a doctor.
One day my mom got these amazing idea about going on a holiday with Alex's family. I literally feel so happy about it and told Alex about my mom's idea. She's really happy about that idea too and told her mom.
Both of our family agree to have a holiday together. We start to plan and discuss it together. Even Alex and I discussed it at school because we're really excited. At the end, we decided to go to London because Alex has a family there. So they can take us out sightseeing if they are not busy.
Alex's family live in the countryside in a huge typical country house. Like in most movies, they also have so many horses as a pet. Most of the time Alex's family take us somewhere with their car. But sometimes we take public transportation when they don't have time to take us. We went there for like two weeks in the summer break. Although it's summer in London, but the weather is mostly still gloomy. The weather is really unpredictable. I don't really mind about the weather because I love the scenery there. Skyscrapers, parks, shops, people all over the town, all of them are just different from my hometown.
After since we had our holiday together, our family relationships are closer. Sometimes we had dinner together on Friday or Saturday. Alex and I also get closer each day and everyone thinks we are dating. But we're not, we're just friends. We try to convince all of our classmates that we're not dating but they don't want to listen. That phase of elementary is really sucks. Without listening to what they said, we still become friends and hangout in one of our rooms.
Sometimes when our parents work until late at night, both of us will sneak out and went to the candy store. We bought so many candies and ate it until we're really full. Until one day my mom caught us that we're sneaking out. So both of us are punished and unable to hang together for 1 week. Creatively, we had this idea about writing our messages in a big drawing book with a marker so each of us could still communicate. There's nothing can stop us to be such a good friends.
Until one day there's no sign that Alex is in her room. Neither her mom and dad there's no sign of them. I'm really curious about them so I try to knock their door. Still there's no sign of them so I try to open their door and it's unlock. Their house is all empty. There's nothing here anymore.
I'm totally panicked and came back to my home. I told my parents about it and they're also shocked. They didn't told us about moving out from here. Yesterday we still talk and met them. Alex move out without telling me about it even though we're friends. Their family just moved here about 2 years ago. Now I'm 10 and they move here when I was 8.
For months, I was really mad because Alex moved out without telling me anything. I literally don't want to go to school sometimes because I can't meet her too at school. She already moved to somewhere further. After a few months later I start to recover and now I'm not mad anymore. I try to face it maybe they don't want us to know that they are moving out because they don't want us to feel worried and hard to let go.
I start to make new friends with the others. But now all of my friends are boys. None of them are girls. I don't know maybe I'm a little traumatic about my friendship with Alex. Because all of my friends are boys, I start to play lacrosse in the sixth grade. I choose to play lacrosse because basketball, football, and soccer are too common. Playing lacrosse help me to forget about Alex. I start to love all parts of my life in a sudden. My friends, lacrosse, my family, and my school life make me feel happy about my sixth grade year.
One day, my mom receive a letter about the death of the Collins. At first my mom didn't want me to know. But she thinks that it's better for me to know it too. My parents both are shocked and so do I. Literally the three of us feel so sad for them. So all this time they don't move out of this town but they died because of the car crash. So their relatives took their belongings out of their house in a sudden. But I try to calm myself and keep going on my life.
