Exchange.

The letter

I furiously shove my high wasted shorts into my suitcase. Today was the day I leave my hometown, Austin, Texas, and leave for London. I didn't want to be an exchange student, but my mom thought it would be good for me. I would do anything to make her happy, so I went almond with it. I wouldn't be that bad would it?

"Erin, get your ass down here!" My mom yells from the bottom of the stairs.

I roll my eyes, and stop what I'm packing to go see what my mom wants. I skip each step as I go down the staircase, and when I reach the bottom, my eyes light up.

"Haylee!! Your here!"

"Of course I'm here, I'm your Bestfriend! I'm not gonna let you move all the way across the world and not be here to watch you leave."

"Well trust me, I don't want to leave. At all. It's going to be a pain to not be able to see you everyday. But don't worry, I'm coming home every holiday, and with how the world is now, we can FaceTime everyday, I promise."

Haylee is my Bestfriend. We have known each other since 6th grade. Now I'm going to be leaving her, and my family, and all my other friends. I don't know how I'm going to make it. So many things could happen and it's so foreign, that I might loose my head. Haylee and I walk up the stairs so she can help me finish packing my gigantic closet full of clothes, which most of them I never really wear. I wear mainly the same thing everyday, crop top and high waisted shorts. My mom thinks I'm crazy, but I love it.

"What am I going to do while your in London," Haylee asks as she folds one of my 5SOS shirts and tosses it into my suitcase.

"I don't really know. It's going to be a pain living in London without you."

"I'm scared." Haylee says.

"Why would you be scared?" I ask Haylee nervously.

"What if something happens to you and I'm not there?"

Haylee is like my guardian angle. She is always looking after me, even though she's the one that gets drunk at party's and I have to drive her home. But other than that, she always has her eyes on me and is always giving me advice, and helping me with my problems. Obviously I watch over her, but for her it's like a hobby. It's not in a bad way, she just cares for me, and that's everything I want in a Bestfriend and that's exactly what she is.

"I'm sure I will be fine Haylee."

"Your going to a place you have never been and you think nothing bad is going to happen?"

"I know it's a place I have never been too, but your over reacting."

"I am not over reacting Erin, you never know what could be out there, and I'm just worried."

"I will be fine, I will text you as much as I can, don't worry. Everything will be ok." I assure her, but mostly assuring myself. I admit, I am VERY scared to be leaving the U.S.A. But I guess it's for the best.

Haylee and I jam out to pandora while we finish packing. I'm really going to miss this.

**earlier in the year**

"Erin, there is a note in the mail from London university." My mom said as I got home from school. Tomorrow was the last day of senior year and boy was I ready to get the hell away from this school.

"Why would the university of London send me, out of all people, a letter?" I ask my mom.

"Why don't you just read it honey," my mom says while shoving a letter in my hand.

I slowly open the already opened envelope, telling me my mom had already read the important letter. I reach inside and flip open the note. It reads,

"Dear Miss Erin Dayes,

We would like to inform you, that we would like you to be an exchange student at the university of London, we will pay full scholarship and much more."

It goes on and on and on about a bunch of stuff I don't really understand. My mom stares at me, trying to see my emotion. I am shocked. Why would London university want me to be an exchange student at their university. I wasn't special. I didn't have amazing grades, I had all A's, but they were low, and so many other people had better grades thank me. So why me?

"So, do you want to go?" Asked my mom.

"I don't really know, it doesn't really seen like my kind of thing." I tell my mom.

"I think it would be good for you, this opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, and so many other people would want to take it, but they asked you."

I did not want to leave. I was perfectly fine with going to University Of Texas. But my mom said it would be good for me. But I'm still not fond of the idea.

"Great, I will send a letter back to the University Of London saying you would be happy to go. You leave in 4 months."

"But mom, I don't want to go. It sounds like to much."

"Erin you are going weather you like it or not. A free ride to college is rare, and I wasn't going to pay for you to go to college anyway. You should be grateful." My mom scolds.

I roll my eyes and stomp up the stairs. She can't just decide my future for me. I wanted to be an interior designer, not an exchange student. I don't even know what they are going to make me do in London. This was all just a big mess, and it's just beginning.

A/N : hey guys!!! This is my first chapter and it's just the beginning! I'm so excited for this book and I hope you are to! Don't worry, the action and such is coming soon, this is just to introduce the story!!!