The Summer of '08

"Far Away Is Close Enough" ch.22

"I will see you tomorrow?" He asked.

"You mean Monday, not Sunday?" I asked thinking he got his days mixed up.

"No, I mean tomorrow, and the next day and the next day and-"

"Yeah, I got it.... Haha, yes. If you can crawl through this window every night, then you're more than welcome to.Just don't let my mom see you." I said cutting him off.

He kissed me one more time before leaving and jumped out the window crawling down from my balcony and onto the ground.

I stepped out on the balcony and watched the shadow of his body disappear into the darkness.

I couldn't stop smiling. I felt wanted,needed,and loved.Somebody cares about me.

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I unpacked my loaded suitcase and stashed it on the top shelf of my closet back to it's original place.

I smiled as I fell backwards onto my bed making a big 'thump' noise that echoed through the springs of the mattress.

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I picked up my phone as I heard my beeper go off that alerts me that I either have a notification,text or a call.

Speak-of-the-devil... It's Abbi.

I tapped the red 'ignore' button and turned over on my side.

My body could use a good nights sleep.

Within minutes I finally dozed off and into the same dream.

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10 year old me, waddling down the steps to the kitchen and asking my mom the same question I do every night in my dream.

"Mommy,what's wrong?"

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I always hated that question and I've never asked her that question ever again.I pretty much knew what was wrong when she was upset. It was kind of obvious.

I woke up with another gasp as the dream concluded to it's final phrase.

"It's your father...there's been an accident."

Ugh... Those words haunt me every night.

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"Oh my gosh!" My upper body flew up into a seated position underneath my wrinkled sheets.

'I don't remember getting under the sheets..' I thought confused.

Dakota made me forget all about what had happened with the stranger who was trying to kill me. I need to say something to Dakota, but what do I say? It would sound weird I just asked him right-out-of-the-blue.

I just need to get it over with.

And dude ,seriously! What is up with this stupid clock? Every time I set it to wake me up at 6:00 in the morning it chooses a different time to start beeping. At the worst times. And the unneeded times.

It was set for 8:34 PM.

Yeah... Like I need to be woken up at 8:34 at night.

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My phone was on my bed stand and the battery had died.

I plugged it in and it took 5 minutes for it to turn on.

I played with my hair and decided it was 'second day' hair and it needed to be washed.

I hopped in the shower and kept forgetting that I had no more conditioner, so I used Remy's 2-n-1 shampoo and conditioner. It wasn't great, but it smelled like green apples. Not too bad.