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Departure

My eyes open with a start. My alarm clock is going off.

It's 7:30, my flight's at 10:00, which means my flight leaves in 2 hours and thirty minutes. I lean over to the nightstand, and switch my alarm off.

I lay back down and stare at the ceiling.

With a suptle, shaky sigh, I sit up, and throw my legs off the edge of my bed.

I then go to freshen up, walking to the bathroom, and leaning over the sink, I look into the mirror all I see is a mess, red hair astray, and dark circles around my green eyes.

I decide its best to take a shower, getting undressed, out of my nightgown.

As I enter the shower, and feel the hot water hit my body, I sigh, a sigh of relief. I can feel the worries wash away, but for how long I wonder?

As I turn off the shower and throw a towel on I walk over to the closet. I start getting dressed in a simple, black tank top, and some ripped jeans.

Then I grab the suitcase from the top shelf of the closest.

I grab all of my things I want to take with me, and pack it inside.

As I'm zipping up my suitcase I get a text. I pick up my phone off of the nightstand, and its from an unknown number.

The text reads, "babe plz! I'm so sorry! plz dont leave me! Can't we just talk before u do sumthing too rash!"

I then, in that very moment, knew who it was. It was my cheating "boyfriend".

I turned off my phone, and put it in my back pocket.

His name was Niko, and he said he was hanging out with his "friends" every other weekend. But I got suspicious so... I followed him.

Turns out he was cheating on me with this woman named Nicole! I always had this feeling from the very begining that she had a thing for Niko.

But I mean its not all her fault. He took part in it!

I finally get everything ready to go, and in my truck, it's 8:45. I still have a hour and fifteen minutes before my flight leaves. But it takes about 40 minutes to get to the airport so I jump in the truck and start the engine.

When I reach the airport I grab my things out of the trunk and head towards the gate I need to get to.

I made it just in time. My flight is being boarded. Getting on the plane, I find my seat, sit, and thank the lord I got a window seat!

I have bad motion sickness so I asked the flight attendant for some water, and took my motion sickness pill my doctor prescribed.

Then the plane was off, and shortly after I fell asleep.

When I awake we are only 5 minutes away from New York.

When the plane finally lands we all clap our hands and thank the pilots. Then everyone gets their things and starts heading to the exit.

I do the same, grabbing my suitcase and boarding off the plane. When I enter the airport, it looks more like a mall!

It's then when a strange figure catches my attention. It has black shaggy hair and is leaning against the wall ouside of my gate. In the back of my mind, it looks alot like cole.

I then briskly walk past the strange but familiar man.

"Max!" I hear from behind me. I turn in shock. It was cole!

"Cole?"

He starts his way towards me. I drop everything and run to him. I jump right into his inviting arms and hold him in a tight embrace. He hugs back.

"I missed you," he said in his raspy but familiar voice.

"Me too."

We then let go of each other, I feel a tear stream down my face, I only have him now that everyone else I loved is dead.

"I'm so sorry Max..." he said as he wiped my tear.

"Why are you here Cole, to pick me up?"

"Yeah, I figured you'd have nowhere else to stay, and would like to go to the police together."

Thats really sweet of him, "But how'd you know I was coming back today?"

"your mom told me before... she..... eerrrmmmm..."

"oh.., ok.., we should get out of here, huh?" I said to avoid the awkwardness.

"Yeah, let's go, my car's outside." He took my suitcase and we headed for his car.

As he put my things in the trunk I got into the car.

I miss the old days when it was just me and him.

He opens the driver side door and hops in.

"where to first?" I ask.

"You're gonna have to stay with me because, you can't exactly stay at home, so... My place first," he said nervously.

I look at him and smile, "ok sounds good."

"Police last," he said grinning.

"Lets go home," I said with a slight bit of enthusiasm.

But little did I know I was making a deal with the devil.