Love is a Verb (Riley/Before You Exit)

No Past Tense. None.

Kaitlin

I woke up with a headache. This is why I hate airplane rides and airplane dramas. Ugh, I don't want to talk about what happened at the airport. It was too much drama and a whole lot of revelations. Again. I cannot believe that he would do that.

I made my way to the airport and squished myself out into the crowd. I need sleep. I'm really feeling awful and I want to throw up. Cameras started flashing and I groaned internally. Not this now. Since when did I become line of the headlines now? Oh yeah, since some stupid paparazzi posted pictures of me with Riley in the rain and basically what happened to me three days ago. Yeah, I got to be in headlines. This is bad. I wore my sunglasses and shimmied my way even more.

"Kaitlin!" I heard a voice call me. I lift my gaze up and saw. Ah thank the heavens. I ran up to her with a single big suitcase in hand. She immediately hugged me. "Hey! You're famous."

I chuckled but hugged her. "Nice to see you too, Chandee. It's hot in here." I whined and she laughed.

"This is what I get from you? Hah, well c'mon, let's go and take you away from this wreckage." I nod willingly and together we venture off to where her car is parked. Great way to start the day. Hi Florida, what is up? "Liking it back here?" Chandee said as she buckled up and started driving.

"It's a bit new. Haven't been here for three years. Quite the new view." I said. Admiring the place and the heat. "And it's making my head dizzy because I came from London. The heat is blinding." I muttered.

"You'll get used to it. So anything bad that happened at the airport?" I nod. "What happened?" I started explaining everything to her. Her face expression changing from time to time. "So, all this time..." I nod again.

"Yeah. All this time. I don't know if I should be mad or happy. I still have mixed feelings about it but all I know is that it was messed up but I'm glad I was told. It cleared up something a bit." I leaned my head against the window.

"You're still calm at handling these things.. How?" She asks me.. Disbelief in her eyes.

"I don't know. I did explode on him though and I straight forwardly said to Percy that I don't like him." I corrected her.

"Still.. All this time you were the calm one. Maybe you have been freaking out inside but your good at keeping calm outside. I don't know how you do it."

She was right. "Well, they say bad habits are hard to break. This is my habit and it will never be broken." Our conversation for now has ended leaving me with messed up thoughts to cloud up my mind.

I settled in one of the rooms of Chandee's house. I've also come to realization that Cee's house is near the McDonough's house and I don't know if I should show up there and talk the parents of the boys. I felt like I should.

"Hey Kaitlin. Did you do what I told you?" Cee's head pops out in the door.

I nod slightly. "Yeah. I sent it out. It was hard ripping those pages. Some of them were really emotional or what I felt when I was missing him. It was hard to send it."

"How many did you send?"

"13 pages." I told her. She laughed.

"Thirteen?"

"Yeah.. It was made up of something. I scribbled something in every bottom of it. I have just realized it now though. And I read it.. The letters made up words that I absentmindedly have written without knowing." I put some of my stuff on the cabinets. I think I'm staying here for a bit. "Do you think I should go and talk to Mr. & Mrs. McDonough?" I asked Chandee.