She Watched The Moon Fall

Chapter •1•

Song is silence by Marshmello ft Khalid
Imigen's POV

"I said NO Imigen I'm not giving you my shift"
Blake yells at me for the 5th time this shift, "but Blake please I need to save up as much as I can in the next three months for my trip and I only have just over half of what I need" I contour back this time sounding more desperate then ever " I'd like to go on a trip as well someday but if I keep giving you all my shifts that won't happen till I'm thirty" she spat back me with a cheeky grin on her face "but...but please Blake, it'll be one of the last times I swear"
I'm begging her now.

this has been my dream since I was 11 and now it's only four months away I won't let anything or anyone stop me "fine fine if I say yes will you stop giving me a headache?" she said while groaning and rubbing the side of her head "yes oh my god Blake thank you, I owe you one" I shout as I do a little jig on the spot, "that you do Imigen that you do".

Two hours go bye so quickly, hardly anyone comes into the shop so all I had to do is wipe down the table tops and clean the floors,
when i'm finished that I just sat in the middle of the store and admired the familiarity of this little coffee shop to Central Perk from Friends but I'm guessing that's what the owners were going for.

All finished at work and I'm already halfway to the dorms and the only thing on my mind is whether my roommate has company because if she does I'll have to wait slumped on the floor for what will see like an eternity, I park my baby in the nearest available spot to the entrance of the building,

I grab my books and laptop from the car and make sure she's locked up tightly even a steering wheel brace, I'm overprotective of my baby my parents gave her to me for my high school graduation it's pretty cliché that my favourite car has forever been a Kombi Van because my parents are full on flower child hippies, my baby is mint green with a hint of baby blue and all white finishes my parents went all out and even got me a retractable roof and white wall tiers, She's what I've always wanted and she's a major part of my trip state to state on the open road.

I walk up stairs and head towards my dorm when I get to the door there's no sock on the doorknob so I brace myself and open the door slowly, thankfully she's not even in the room, she's probably out partying trying to lure some company home luckily for me they'll have to go elsewhere because I made it home first.

I've been home for about three hours now and I've finished all my assignments then had a shower and Zuri still hasn't stumbled in with another random boy toy on her arm as she has done so many times the past two and a half years,

3 quarters of an hour later I hear rusting at the door it continues for about a minute before I hear a thud on the other side of the door, I open the door and Zuri falls backwards right into the middle of the door way, she lays there looking up at me trying not to laugh "sorry Imi my key wasn't working and the door kept spinning" I could only just understand what she was saying,
I picked her up and walked her over to her bed and she wriggled out of my hands and fell straight on top of bed "night night Imi" she slurs on last thing before she starts snoring like a forty year old man.

Even though me and Zuri have lived with each other for over two years we aren't exactly what you call "friends" I mean I help her out when she can't see straight and if I get sick she'll go find out if I've missed any important assignments or lectures but other than that the only thing we do together is sleep in the same room,

Zuri and I are completely different people she goes out partying every chance she gets brings home any hot guy that will follow her but as for me I just prefer to stay home and finish any work I have to do or just sit back read a book or binge watch TV series,

I dream of a life full of adventure but her type of adventure isn't at all what I what I want mine to be, I want to travel America see all the amazing forests and lakes in the mountains and just camp in the mountains for how knows who long, I want to be free on the open road and I only want to fall in love once I don't want to sleep with heaps of different people I hope one day I'll find someone that I will actually spend the rest of my life with I can only hope,

I think that's why I've waited so long to let anyone kiss me I'm saving myself for that dream, it may sound silly but that's how my parents met, my dad hit the road for his own little surf adventure with his mates in about 1977 they were only about 17 but he left school to do this and he says it made him the man he is today, along the way they came across a peace parade, he says this parade changed his life because if he didn't join in he would have never been near my mum when she got up on one of the floats to sing "white rabbit by Jefferson Aeroplane" in that moment he fell in love with her and when she finished he politely went up to her and asked if he could compliment her mum says she started blushing as soon as he came up to her and wasn't going to say no to talking to him,
she always winks at my dad when they tell me that part of the story they talked to each other for the rest of the parade experiencing it together that night changed their whole world and mum joined dad on the open road over the next year dad had become a complete flower child so did his mates yep my mum converted all five of these teenage rebellious surfer boys in to flower child tree hugging hippies, dad and mum got there on ride and started traveling just the two of them, mum ran away when she was 14 and lived with a group of people that introduced her to the way she is now and she says she's lucky because if she didn't meet those people she may have gone down a darker road being that young with no home,

she met my dad when she just turned 16 still young but she says she let herself fall in love with my dad because the moon told her she could and because of that decision she met her on and only love, I've always felt a pull to the moon just waiting for her to say I've met the right person that's what I want to do I want to find that one person who will show me how to live as freely and in love as my parents are, they have something amazing I just hope that's what awaits me down the road.

I dream of a life full of adventure but I've never been able to do anything even remotely adventurous I mean it's not like I haven't tired it's just every time I've pushed myself to do something adventurous I completely chicken out,

It's that bad that I'm nearly 18 and I still haven't been kissed I just get so scared I'm terrified about making mistakes so I haven't taken any chances but I hope that's going to change, that's what my road trip means to me, I'm going to try and find myself, experience new things and I think if I get the chance I might just let myself fall for someone although I don't know if I'll be in the same town long enough for something like that to happen, I guess I can only hope that something unbelievable will happen.