Coastal Lacrosse

Chapter 1

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Things with Chaz haven't been working for a while now and they definitely won't be working when I move 900 miles away from him. Especially considering I'm moving tomorrow and haven't even spoken to him about it yet.

Georgia is so very south and not a place I will get used to quickly. New York is where I've always lived and grew up; grew up with Chaz. Chaz well, we've been together for so long, it's all we've known. I know things are supposed to be different though.

I just lie in bed wonder when I should do it, how, where? I really put this on myself.

"Madi!" Great that deep, charming far to familiar voice rings throughout my house.

Chaz

"Yeah?" My voice is still scratchy and you can hear how tired I am.

"Hey babe we need to talk." His voice is soft but echos. Talk? Does he know I'm moving? Am I overthinking?

"Alright give me two seconds." Stall Madi stall. My palms start to sweat from my nerves and my lack on control over my thoughts.

"Madi?" He says softly again while nearing my room.

"Just another second please?" I throw myself from my bed rushing towards my bathroom. I'm doing so I knock a few things off my side table. "Shit."

The sound of his feet got louder as he came up the stair case. He adds in a sigh.

"Madeline" He sighs again while turning the corner with watered eyes.

"Chaz? What's wrong?" I locked eyes with him stopping in my tracks.

He takes one big step grabbing my hips and engulfing me in his arms. His heads sits in the crook of my neck. He pecks my neck and pulls back not letting go while looking into my eyes.

"Madeline I think we should see other people." He says breaking eye contact with me and looking straight forward over my head.

What the fuck.

I'm speechless. I mean, I know I was gonna break up with him, but not like this. I was gonna sit him down and explain to him why I thought we wouldn't work so far from each other. I wanted to talk to him about how this was a new chapter in both of our lives, and how I was moving and my family was too. And I sure as hell wasn't going to tell him to go see other people. This was not the plan.

"What" I choked out looking up at me.

"FSU. They accepted me." He looked down and smiled.

"Oh. I see" I faked smiled back at him. "That's great Chaz congrats!"

"The distance will kill me. So we should move on." He looks down at his feet and him smiled faded slowly.
"Oh. okay." I continued looking at him.
Short and sweet is what we're going with huh.

That's when he tried to kiss me. I put my hands on his torso and push myself out of his grip before our lips made contact.

"Madi I'm sorry" he huffed. He reached out for me again but I pulled away softly.

"When do you leave?" I asked shyly.
"Two days. I'm really excited!" He turned his body and started walking around my room touching little things on my dressers and tables while he spoke.

"Good. I'm leaving tomorrow." I said picking a few things up off of my floor. Turning my body away from him as well.

"What? What do you mean?" He flipped his body around quickly and took a few steps towards me then grabbing my arm softly to turn me back towards him.

"I mean tomorrow I'm leaving for Georgia." I said yanking my arm away to continue to tiddy up my space. I wasn't so hurt that I wanted to yell at him. I was hurt though. I always imagined our break up to be calm, settling, and something that we would get to do in a nice place with a long conversation about how we'd still be in each others lives and that our love was happy. But now he's literally telling me to go see other people which means he wants to see other people as well. I just didn't expect this.

"Wait madi-" he said attempting to turn me around again.

"So you don't even feel like attempting a long-distance relationship? Like you're not even gonna try to sit down and have a conversation with me about it you're just gonna break up with me and leave no questions asked no conversations had? That shit kind of hurts Chaz not gonna lie. I thought maybe we'd have a conversation about me leaving." I raised my voice and threw the things in my hands down staring at him.

"Yeah Madeline ya know what? I'm glad we're done. I never really liked you that much." He yelled not breaking the staring contest we seem to be having.

"Alright chaz, out" my brother Daniel steps into the room interrupting the fit.

"Shut up Daniel please, this is our conversation" Chaz signals for Daniel to leave the room with his hands.
Daniel does not leave.

"No Chaz he's right get out please and do not come back." I spoke quiet and started pushing him towards to door.

"Not planning to" he let out a final huff as he quickly moves down the stairs followed by the front door slamming.

Daniel wrapped his arms around me.

"Hey I still love you" he says while he laughs. I punch his gut mid-hug and he giggles in pain.

"Love you too Daniel" I laugh back.
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Being in this car is really killing me.
I want out. We have been in Georgia for 2 hours and we still aren't there yet.

"How many more hours mom?" Daniel groans.

"Daniel i don't know, go back to sleep" my mom says while still focused on level 500 and something of candy crush.

"Carter and Shawn won't shut up moooom" my little sister squeals from the back seat. She is the most annoying human to walk to earth by far.

"Tia no body cares about your problems okay?" I snapped at her. I have zero sympathy for her right now.

"Mom why did you have six kids" My sister chopped in. Did Avery really just ask that question?

"Daniel knows" I whisper in her ear.

"Daniel why are there 6 of us?" I chuckled at her question.

"Well because 6 times.. mom and dad had-" My mom cut Daniel off immediately. Yeah
"Daniel Wright your joking right?" Mom turned around to give Daniel a death stare.

"She asked.." he laughed.
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"We are here"

I swear the car shook with all of us shooting out of our seats.

I open my window. I could smell the ocean. I'm gonna love living on the beach! We pull into the neighborhood and holy shit these houses are enormous wow. When we pull into the drive way I could swear we got the biggest house in the neighborhood. I jump out and stretch with my hands reaching towards the sky. The boy living next door is passing a lacrosse ball with the side of his house.

He looks over and I instantly realize I'm only wearing nike pros and a nike sports bra.

He smiles and give me a wave. I notice his t-shirt says Coastal Lacrosse.

This is gonna be a good year.