Crippled Hearts (on hold)

Chapter 2: Dry airplane food and a hangry Alex

A/N: the above image is who I imagine to play Carter (y'all will meet him later).
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, we will be preparing for lift off. We ask that you please put on your seatbelts and switch off all devices. Lunch will be served in 2 hours and flight attendants will be coming around after take off for any requests or inquiries. This is Captain Smith speaking. We hope that you have a comfortable flight." Then the little speech over the intercom was translated into different languages for the other passengers.

I sighed as I buckled my seatbelt and tried to ignore the annoying kid behind me kicking my seat. I felt a hard jab on my seat and I turned around to glare at the seemingly 10 year old child who acted innocent when the parents looked at him. I mentally cursed oblivious parents all over the world.

Luckily I was given the window seat which eased my suffering slightly. Although, I had an elderly couple in the two seats next to me, whom dare I say were so cute but I knew that they're be snoring the socks off me in an hour.

After the plane was flying smoothly in the air, the attendants came through the isles offering drinks and snacks. I ordered a cup of tea while I turned on a movie on the tv attached to the seat in front of me to distract me from the long flight ahead.

My thoughts drifted back to this morning when I was still in my room in my family home in Southampton, England. It was a major contrast to being on an airplane, without my parents, flying to Miami. The estimated arrival was early morning tomorrow as I had a 5 hour stop at an airport between my flights and we had left early today.

I remember waking up this morning peacefully. Surprisingly I didn't have any nightmares last night, I guess it was due to the many curious thoughts and questions floating through my head at my new circumstances.

The first thing I had done when I woke up was check my phone where I saw a message from Becca that made my heart clench.

Becca: This is it! Your new adventure awaits - w/out me
:( This will be good for you but know that I am still not happy about it. Your friendship has been a burden on me. Jk of course it's been a blessing. I love you hun and I will miss you so much. Have a safe flight and keep in touch (or else) <3

After replying back with a message that's hopefully as heart warming as hers. I thought back to when she cried yesterday while hugging me goodbye after our trip to the mall. I hoped that we wouldn't lose touch.

The day was full of tears and goodbyes from my family and friend, singular. I know it's sad right. I wished I could've said goodbye to Dylan and his family who were like my other family but I guess we don't always get what we want.

My mom had made me flapjacks with strawberries and syrup as my parting gift and we all ate them together, somewhat quietly in the kitchen.

When it came time to saying goodbye, my mom was in tears and even my dads eyes were glistening. Of course this caused me to become teary-eyed. I had to ease the guilt my parents felt for moving me across the country right before my senior year because they and I knew that it would be better for me in the end. It would be a little easier to let go without constant reminders of him around me and then I would be able to focus on my studies in order to get a good scholarship to the university I wanted to attend. Me moving away also benefited my parents as they needed to go on a 3-6 month business trip to close a special business venture and they wouldn't have wanted to leave me at home alone so it was better that I would be staying in Miami with my cousins.

I had two cousins; Laura and Luke, they were twins and honestly were like siblings to me. Their dad was my mom's brother. Although we were related, we didn't look remotely alike.