"I hate you."
"We were never meant to be together."
But... Missing you comes in waves, and tonight I was drowning."
Maddie Mcallister, who lives in Ilinois alone, struggles to live without her parents or even a best friend. But that's until she m...
It was the bank saying that... the house was soon going to be theirs because I didn't pay rent. I didn't have enough money, and I was wrecked. I didn't have the money to pay, and the house that my family once lived in was going to go all down the drain. I wasn't going to tell Alec because he would pay it and I really didn't want him to do something like that. I take the letter and shove it in my shirt to make sure that Alec doesn't see it. I open the door and find alec still sleeping on the couch. I was tip toeing when Alec said, "Maddie?" With his husky voice. "Good morning Alec, how did you sleep?"
We carried on with our conversations and made breakfast. He told me that he had work, so he ordered a cab and went downtown. After he left, I cried. I don't know what to do. I am not going to tell him because I didn't want to bring him with me in this terrible mess I am in. I started thinking about how much money I have left in my bank account. It's probably not much to last me long, but soon I was going to college, and my college was in NYC and it was an Ivy League. I know I have scholarships so I won't have to worry about money for college but still living downtown in New York is going to be a lot harder than I thought and a lot more expensive. I graduated high school as being #1 in my senior class and the valedictorian and I wanted to keep my dream going because that's what me and my parents wanted or at least dreamed of. I had to start packing up all of my stuff and looking for apartments near my college. I walked upstairs to my room looking at every corner of it, every corner I grew up with. I looked at the side of the door to see my height, when I was little I used to mark my height on the side of the door and watch had my parents see how much I grew. It was cute. My eyes were getting blurry because of the ears building up in the corner of my eyes. I started packing up because the letter gave me a 1 month period to pack up all my bags and get out of the house. Sometimes it's hard to let go and now the hardest part is to get over the house that I grew up in. It was heartbreaking seeing it go away without being able to do anything with it. In that moment, I wished I was rich, I wished I was everything every other girl was.
Alec's perspective>>> I felt that something was wrong from the moment Maddie came back from her morning run. She looked sad and I could see it in her eyes. But I really didn't want to put too much on her and ask her more than I was supposed to so I just let it go. It was really hard seeing all of this, soon I had to go and leave to Switzerland because my work period here in Chicago is almost over. I don't know about leaving Maddie here alone, a part of me wanted to stay with her and comfort her and tell her that everything is going to be okay and the other was telling me go back to work you don't want to risk the chances of losing your job. But I didn't want to selfish, it was really bothering me. I knew that if I left Maddie would have nobody to live with u, to talk to, to just be with her all the time. She struggled all her life to find a best friend, a shoulder she knew she had if she wants to cry on. It was a mess. All of this, none of this should have happened to us. My mind slowly drifted away and I remembered that this whole month I had to work because it was my last month and I forgot to tell Maddie this morning today that I won't come as often because I had to work on the project with my other friends. But it's fine I will make sure to come visit as much as I can during this month.
Maddie perspective>>>> 1 month later~~~~~~~~~~ It's been a month since alec visited. I was destroyed, I packed everything I needed and I booked my flight to New York. I left all of the other things I couldn't take with me in the house. It's no longer my house, it's the bank's. I was still wondering why Alec didn't visit, I kept thinking if he really went back to Switzerland without telling me. I mean who am to him to tell me everything he does. I packed everything I had and looked one last time at my bedroom and closed the door. Closed the door that once had all the possibilities and the world at her hand, closed the door that I may never return to again. I opened my mom and dads' bedroom, it was... empty, like not of people but it's like hallow it had a feeling. That feeling was once joy or a happy presence but now it's just emptiness. I threw myself on their bed on last time tears rolling down my eyes as fast as a roller coaster. "I... miss... you..... soo.... much..." I say in between crying. I regain strength to get up and just looked one last time at everything and took a picture of my parent's room and my bedroom. Because I knew that I was going to miss this so I just had to keep reminding myself to finish my parents dream. And I promised too, I promised to graduate from aircraft engineering and become an engineer knowing my parents are going to be proud. I miss them.
I close my house's door and hold my luggages and I order an Uber. 5 minutes later, the Uber came and soon I was at the airport. I kept thinking about texting Alec and telling him that I was leaving, but what if he doesn't care? I mean... I don't know.. 20 minutes later I get on the flight and look out my window seat. I see a life that's waiting for me, but I am too scared to face it. What will be waiting for me at New York? Will I even find an apartment? If not I would have to stay at a motel to see my situation. The flight wasn't long and I couldn't sleep I kept thinking about my life. I am not used to change lives just in a blink of an eye. In just one blink I lost everything, my parents, my house, my life and everything. Nothing has any meaning anymore. I remember when I was little I was just sooo excited to go to college. I had this dream built up in my head, just like any other teenage girl. But the dream never came true.
As the flight was landing, the feelings of being a lone and scared cane stronger. Moments later I was at the luggage arrival waiting for my luggage. I was finally at the gate and just landing my first foot on the fresh asphalt of New York. I don't what to feel anymore, I wanted to live here all my life but not under these conditions.
Just as I got out of the airport, I see a little girl running towards me. I am so confused. "Lia, come back that's not your aunt, Lia!!" I heard a girls voice that looked beautiful she had straight blonde hair unlike my curly brown one. She had brown eyes while I had blue, and she was tall and skinny, I was kinda her size maybe a bit more but we were like sisters but not really. "I am so sorry, it's my little sister thinking you are her aunt, it's my bad." "Oh, no no don't worry it's no problem at all." "Selena she is soo pwettyyyyy!! Can I play with her!!!" The girl's little sister pulls on my ripped jeans. Awww I wish I had a little sister. She is soo cute. I hold her and pull her up towards me and hug her. She is just like a little angel. "Hiiii, how are you?" I say touching her tiny nose, she is so cute.
Her sister smiles and says, "you look like you are a big sister" I smile and I say "actually I am a lonely child." "Oh I am sorry my name is Selena. Sorry for the hassle, you just landed and I am sorry for my little sister. "No it's totally fine, my name is Maddie." She started walking away with her sister and running towards a woman maybe mid 30's. This was her aunt, what a beautiful family, that's so cute. I started walking away when the little girl ran up to me once again and hugged me and told me to give her my phone number because she wanted to play with me. That's so cute but I started wondering if Selena did that or is it just really the little girl, she seemed really smart maybe 8 years old. I gave her my phone number and started walking towards my Uber. Loaded my stuff and then the Uber took off. And I realized that got lost in city that doesn't sleep.
Who was Selena and Lia? What will alec do when he knows that Maddie left? Even worse her house??!! More awaits in chapter 9. Hope u enjoyed! Comment and vote! Until then lovely people❤️❤️
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
