"Bláey! Come on elskan, it's almost time to go!"
I heard my mom call from upstairs as I hurriedly grabbed my phone and Bose headphones. Omg, this is it, I'm finally going to New York city! As I looked around my empty bedroom, my heart ached for a few seconds as I recalled all the memories that occurred in this medium sized space. I looked at my closet where I used to stash booze for my best friend, Kristín, when we were 17. She was to nervous hide it at her place because of her strict mother. I remember when I used to drive her to her "dates",when in reality they were just guy's she found on tinder to mess around with for one night, if you catch my drift. I smiled sadly as I remember all the laughs that we had and how we stuck together through thick and thin.
"Koma svo sveppur, your plane leaves in a few hours, we have to get going"
I jump as I hear my dad say as he knocks on the slightly opened door to my room, well it's not really my room anymore. I turn to my dad, I put a hand on my chest to show that he startled me greatly, I laugh and point at him.
"Pabbi, you know that you shouldn't sneak up on me like that. I get easily startled" I say as I put my headphones in my handcarrier bag and my phone in the back pocket of my blue jeans. I straighten my posture and fix my white button up shirt that had beautiful red, orange and pink flowers that lay elegantly on my shoulders and flow down my arms and to my sleeves.
"I'm allowed to do so, my little girl is possibly leaving forever to a bigger and a more dangerous city" my dad says sadly but smiles stiffly.
I look at my dad with pain in my eyes, I walk up to him, wrap my arms around his torso and give him a tight hug. I feel him hug me tightly back and kisses the top of my head. I close my eyes as I breath in his scent. Money, leather, cologne, our garage, these are the things that remind me of my dad. I like it, it soothes me.
"Pabbi, we talked about this, if I want to be happy with what I'm doing in life, I have to pursue my dreams." I say as I step back and look him in the eyes, I note that they are slightly glossy. I place my palm against his newly shaved cheek and place my forehead against his.
"Besides, I took selfdefense classes for two months just so you would feel better about me going to the US. And of course so no one can mess with your stubborn, tough daughter" I say as I laugh, he soon joins me and kisses my forehead. "How could I forget? You did nearly break your instructors arm." He recalled and smirked as he took my suitcase and walked towards the stairs.
"Hey! It was an accident!" I declare as I follow him upstairs. "Not my fault that he told me to be more aggressive" I scoff as I remember him screaming at me for embarrassing him in front of his other students and that I should know my place.
"Are you two done chattering? We have to go!" My mom says as she fixes her blonde bangs.
My mom is blonde but my dad has dark colored hair. Me and my two older brother's have brown hair that is slightly curly and frizzy. While on the other hand, my older sister has crazy, blonde, curly hair, she's sometimes called the "black sheep" of us siblings but not in a negative way. Even if were still a tad different, were still all goofy and weird and care about each other very much.
Calm down mamma, were coming" I laugh as I put on my pink shoes and blue colored jacket. "We still have 3 1/2 hours to get to Keflavík Airport." I put my backpack on my shoulders and smile at my mother as I sign her to follow me outside. "You're just like me when I was you're age" she chuckles "always so calm" and tells my father to take my suitcase to the car. She closes the door to our house and we start walking to the car that my dad had already started. As mom and myself got ourselves in the car I looked back at our house, I'll probably miss the garden the most. It's big enough to put a pool in but we had a trampoline instead, the green grass stood out the most from everything, from the fence to the small stone and pebble pit that we could possibly fit a hot tub, maybe mom and dad will install it while I'm away, I thought sadly as we drove away.
Mom and dad dropped me at the airport and guð minn góður (oh my god) those certain goodbyes were the hardest that I had ever done, very tearful and depressing yet, comforting. I hugged them both tightly as a few, okay actually a lot tears streamed down my face. I silently thanked myself for not putting any makeup on today, I looked at them and saw their tear stained faces "Ég elska ykkur svo heitt, I will miss you guys so much you don't even know" I said half sobbing. Mom put her soft, warm hands on my cheeks and wiped my tears away as I leaned into the inviting touch of the woman who gave birth to me and showed me motherly love.
"You know I love you so much my little mouse, you never forget that. We're so proud of you!" My mother sobbed as she kissed my cheeks. I turned to my dad and pounced on him, hugging him tightly as I whispered into his ear. "I'll miss you pabbi, I promise to take care of myself and eat healthy, for you" silently implying to the incident when my older sister got anorexic at 16 years old, it was a difficult time for my parents. They were trying so hard not to loose their first child while taking care of their youngest two as well. Ever since my dad has always kept a close eye on me and my brother since that happend.
"I know you will sveppur, you eat what you want and exercise regularly. " he said and looked into my eyes lovingly, he reached to touch my cheek and kissed my face and whispered "I love you so much, you know that right?" His voice broke slightly, I swallowed my sobs as I answered and looked into his eyes. "Of course pabbi, I love you too, both of you" I claimed as I looked at them with a smile and a few tears streaming down my face.
I took a hold of my suitcase and turned to the short line that had already formed at check in while I was saying my good byes to my parents, as I started to walk towards the que I heard my mom exclaim "Don't fall to hard for those "dangerous" young American men elskan! You might get bit!" I could detect the sarcasm in that sentence, I laughed as I hollered back at her "Hættu mamma, you're embarrassing me!" I waved to them final good byes as I went to the check in.
Oh if she only knew
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