Exhale { ON HOLD }

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"EVANGELINE LEANNA KING!" I hear my mother scream. Shit, she said my whole name what'd she find.
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"Yes!" I scream hesitantly.
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"Are you packing?" she yelled, phew I thought I was in real trouble.
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"Yes mother," I say rolling my eyes.
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I was really packing, but not really trying to rush. My family and I were moving all the way to Sydney, Australia. That was exactly 8,128 miles away from my school, best friends, and best boyfriend in the world. I lived in Palmdale, California and went to school at Highland high school.
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Bzzt
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I looked at my phone and saw a text from my best friend since 1st grade when I first went to public school from homeschool, Tamara Jenna Piper. She was practically my twin sister, my other half, the wind beneath my wings, and etc. I have absolutely no idea what I was gonna do without her.
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Look out your window(;
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I immediately dropped my phone and looked out my window. As expected she was there. Also with my other best friend Tanner Ronald Donaven, he was gay. He came out freshman year, but Tamara and I knew in like the 6th grade. My boyfriend was there too, Cameron Leslie Brooks, we've been together for a year and 3/4.
They held up a banner, Tamara probably painted, saying "We'll Miss You Eva!" My eyes were tearing before I even knew it.
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"You guys!" I said crying.
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"Come on down!" Tanner yelled. I ran down stairs telling my parents along the way that they were here. When I got outside I hugged all three of them at the same time, then individually.
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"T. I love you so much," I said first hugging Tamara, "I'm gonna miss you so much what am I gonna do without you?" I said crying into her shoulder. She started tearing up too. We eventually let go and stopped crying.
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"Tanner," I said opening my arms for a hug, "Try not stealing my boyfriend while I'm gone," saying sarcastically.
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"Oh honey," he said letting go he looked over at Cameron who was looking down and had his hands in his pockets, "he's not my type," said making me laugh. I walked over to Cameron and gave him the biggest hug, and started crying again.
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"Ssh, babe stop crying," he said holding me.
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"I'll miss you like crazy," I said wiping the tears, "Geez it's hard to stop crying," I stutter.
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"Just breathe," he says still holding me.
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"Breathing is the easy part, breathing out is what's hard," I say into his chest.
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"Damn that's deep," he say trying to make me laugh. I give him a peck on the lips before my mother comes out with the camera.
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"Ok, Ok, Tamara lift the banner a little higher, uh Cameron a little to the left," she says hold the camera to her eye.
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"Mom!" I yell for her to take the picture. Tamara, Tanner, and Cameron come in and help me pack, well mostly just help me not procrastinate. We watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which is one of my favorite movies. They left afterwards because it was getting late and I had to wake up in a few hours.
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"Bye Eva," Tamara said being the last to leave, "FaceTime me as soon as possible." We started tearing up again, but I had to bite my lip so I wouldn't completely break down.
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Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep
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I groan at the sound of my alarm clock.
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"Four am!?" I moan. For a second, and only a second, I forget it was moving day. I got out an old pair of black shorts, and a sweater with an aztec designed little pocket. I washed my hair, brushed my teeth, and put mascara and eyeliner on the top of my eye lid. I put my toiletry bag in my vans backpack and went downstairs.
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"Morning Ava," my mom said as she heard me walk down our wooden stairs. I don't know why she calls me that, because my name is EVangelin and not AVangeline, and most people just call me Eva, but I didn't mind.
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"Morning mother," I say and open the fridge. It was practically empty other than the leftover pizza from yesterday. I took the box and put the 3 pieces on a plate to warm.
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"That's not very healthy," my mom say noticing me grab the slices. I pretend I don't here her hinting that I should eat something else, even though there was nothing else. I put it on a plate and put it in the microwave for 1 minute and 15 seconds.
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"Morning kiddo," my dad says, "Mmm breakfast for champs," he adds noticing my pizza in the microwave.
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"You know it," I say hoping my mom heard him. I get a glass of water with ice to wake me up.
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BEEEPP
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I get my pizza and put it on the table to cool.
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"We're leaving in 10 will you be able to finish your champions breakfast," she noticed, I smirked and said yes.
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After finishing my pizza I walked out the door of my house for the last time, put the empty pizza box in the recycling bin and went to the car. I put in headphones to try and distract me from crying again. We lived an hour away from the airport without traffic so we had to leave the house 2 hours early. Time for sleep...
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"Ava, Ava!" I heard my mother yell, "we're here." Great 16 hour flight with no stops, crying babies, snoring drooling people, and horrid food, fun.
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"What time is it?" I say yawning and getting out of the car and grabbing my carry on.
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"6:30 our flights in half an hour let's go," I roll my eyes without her seeing. She is always such a control freak, but I know it's just cause she doesn't want us to miss this flight.
Thirty minute later, I'm boarding my 16 hour flight.
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"WHAT WE'RE SEPERATED?!" my mother practically screams boarding the plane. My seat wasn't right next to her, but turns out she and my dad were in the middle row of seats, and I was near the window.
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"Mom calm down, I'm 16 going on 17 it's fine I can sit by myself," I say trying to convince her to not go all psychotic.
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"She'll be fine," my dad says, he nods his head like saying I got this you can go sit. I put my bag in the compartment, and take out pencil, my sketchbook, headphones, and my phone. We start taking off and the flight attendees do their routine about seat belts and stuff, 15 hour and 58minutes to go.