I Understand Now (Ricky Dillon Fanfiction)

Chapter 29

Ricky's POV.

Today is the day. The day that I leave Australia and go back to America. I get to see all of my friends again, but it'll never really be all my friends.

Ellie's not coming with me.

She seemed to take the news pretty hard. I remember the day I told her I was leaving. {Not a 5SOS reference guys} She acted like it barely impacted her, like she was upset, but able to get through it. But just as I was walking away from her, I heard her call my name, and she ran back to me, crying. I hate seeing her cry, and she told me yesterday that it hurts her to see me cry, too. That was probably one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to me. My teacher had to escort me out of the classroom and ask me if I was okay, so I just told him that I was upset about having to go back to America. I didn't mention Ellie at all. And thankfully, neither did he.

So now, I'm getting ready for my last day in Australia, and I'm about to go to the airport. The three months I've been here feel like three days. I feel like I've barely been out of my home in LA for that long. But at the same time, it feels like forever-so many things have happened while my family's been here, with Ellie and Sarah and Jen and everything.

Especially Ellie.

"Ricky!" I hear Christina call from the bathroom.

"Yeah?" I yell back as I pull a shirt over my head.

"Do you know where my hairbrush is?" Christina asks. I sigh in annoyance.

"No, why would I know?" I reply. There is a pause before Christina announces that it's okay, she found it. I roll my eyes and laugh. At least I get to take her with me.

"You nearly ready to go, honey?" Mum asks from just outside my bedroom door.

"Nearly," I reply. "Anyway, aren't we waiting for Ellie to get here?"

"Oh, that's right," Mum says. "Okay, let me know when she arrives." I hear footsteps and presume Mum is going to help Christina with her hair.

I'm glad Ellie said she was going to see me off today. I want the last moments we spend together to be worth something. I want to see her one last time and tell her what she means to me before I get on the plane. She thanked me for everything I've done for her in our last class together. Now it's my turn to thank her.

I head into the bathroom after Christina's finished-which takes forever-and inspect my reflection in the mirror. Somehow, I am reminded of my first day at school here, when I did the same thing I'm doing now. That was before I knew who Ellie was. Before I fell in love for the first time, before all the fights and disagreements, before the complications between Ellie and Jen, between Ellie and Sarah. Before everything. I'd just expected to sit at the back of the classroom and never speak to anyone unless they spoke to me. I had no idea about the roller coaster ride in store for me.

I occupy myself with fixing my hair so that I don't have to think about the last three months or so. The last thing I need is to get all emotional thinking about my relationship with Ellie when I'm already emotional about leaving her. I'm practically leaving my whole life behind, because Ellie is everything to me right now.

I hear a noise coming from my bedroom, and I realise that it's my phone. I finish off my hair, head back into my room and click my phone's home button so that the screen turns on. I don't even need to look at the name displayed above the message to be able to guess who it's from.

Look outside, beautiful.

I glance out my window and smile.

Ellie's POV.