Allergic to Roses

College, Though

"I can't believe you're leaving," I muttered to Jordan as we were walking her to the security check at the airport.

She grinned at me sadly. "I know."

"We're going to all be separated," Ainsley cried, throwing herself on Jordan and hugging her tightly.

I joined in, wrapping my arms around both of them. "I'm going to miss you guys so much," Jordan said emotionally, her voice breaking at the end and her eyes watering.

I sniffed, trying to hold back my own tears, trying to stay strong for Jordan. "You'll come visit us all the time, and we'll visit you and we can all go to the London Eye together," I said shakily.

A tear slipped out of Ainsley's eye and she hastily wiped it away. "You and you're buildings," she joked, trying to lighten the mood.

Jordan's smile faltered as our spot in line neared the check. I wanted to blurt out that Jordan should just stay in the US and we could all go to college's around each other and be the three musketeers, but I knew that was selfish, especially to make her choose between the people she loved.

"Did you already say goodbye to Wesley?" Ainsley asked Jordan, who was hastily wiping the tears that were flowing from the corners of her eyes.

Jordan nodded. "I-" her voice cracked, "I love you guys so much. Thanks for making high school bearable," she grinned a little. "We'll video chat every day and call each other and everything and it'll be like I never left."

I nodded my head. "And we'll face time when we're shopping so you can tell me which dresses don't match my tone or whatever." I said, remembering the time we went prom dress shopping and Jordan was basically the fashion police.

Jordan laughed, still crying, and soon Ainsley was crying as well. "We're going to miss you, girl."

Jordan and I nodded in agreement and all hugged each other one last time before Jordan disappeared through security, the last image of her her long blonde hair bouncing as she walked away.

I let out a little cry as I watched her walk through, leaving us alone. I knew this would happen eventually, we'd all go our separate ways, and I'd be left alone.

I just didn't realize it would be this hard. After everything the four of us had been through, Jordan was already gone and Wesley didn't seem to be with us any longer.

The devil himself came running through the airport, and suitcase in his hand and a plane ticket in the other. "Wesley, what the hell?" Ainsley asked, eyeing the ticket.

He didn't acknowledge her, only looked at me. "I'm sorry, Ley. I'm so sorry for ruining everything between us, and screwing over your relationship with Axel, and these past few weeks I know you've been miserable, well not this week because you guys made up, but you're still not fully happy, and I'm sorry."

"It would have happened eventually," I tried to reason with him.

He shook his head, and a little grimace appeared on his face. "I know you love him, and he loves you, and I love you too, but I've got to let you go. Even if I can't be the one to kiss you, it still makes me happy that you're smiling, and laughing." I was crying by this point, first Jordan and now Wesley was pushing me over the edge. "I'm sorry that I ruined everything, I really am, but I can't stay here anymore. I fixed things with my parents, and you guys, and now it's time for me to start my life." His brown eyes were glazed over with unshed tears as he turned towards Ainsley.

I sniffled and heard Ainsley cover her mouth with her hand in an attempt to quiet her sobs. "I love you guys," he told us before bringing us in a tight hug and whispering something in Ainsely's ear before he walked past us and through security, just like Jordan had.

"They're both gone?" I said to Ainsley, it coming out as more of a question.

She nodded, her lips pulled into her mouth as she tried to quiet herself, the onlookers giving us sympathetic stares and smiles.

I wanted to scream out that we'd be okay, that it was inevitable for friends to leave each other during the months before college, I just never thought that my friends and I would be the ones separating. I guess I prepared for everyone else's leaving but theirs.

I mean, there were only a handful of people I trusted, and now three of them had left me, and one of them was about too.

Jordan's POV

I got off the flight with puffy eyes and a box of tissues under my arm, courtesy of one of the flight attendants.

I felt so awful for leaving them, but knew that I needed too. I needed to go to college, and I wanted to be with Duncan, and it wasn't like I would forget them overnight, I just needed to figure out my life.

"Jordan!" Duncan's familiar voice called out over the airport.

I turned around, looking in circles, until my eyes fell onto his, which were hidden behind thick Ray Bans and a fedora, and for a second I almost forgot he was a celebrity.

I ran towards him, the box of tissues dropping sometime on the way there, and a smile broke out onto my face as I pulled him into a tight hug, savoring his familiar scent and snuggling into his embrace.

He broke it to lean down and kiss me, and after a while we both pulled away.

He frowned when he saw my red eyes, "you've been crying."

I nodded and looked at my feet. "I didn't realize it was that hard to say goodbye."

"That's why Harley didn't," Duncan said knowingly.

"Yeah, I still feel bad about leaving them."

"You'll feel bad for a while." Duncan told me, "but after a while it won't hurt as much, and over time it'll get better. This month will suck, though, the missing part, but it'll get easier to deal with, but the missing never goes away."

Nodding again, I brought my arms around his waist and hugged him. "I love you, Duncan. Thank you."

"I love you, Jordan. And thank you, for being with me."

THE END

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A/N: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I DIDN'T WANT TO END ON A BAD NOTE SO I ADDED A JORCAN MOMENT!!!

That was the last chapter of Allergic To Roses! But there WILL be an Epilogue(;