MINE

Chapter 5

Summer was waving good bye to it's numerous lovers.

Brianna and her best friends spent a lot of time together after their graduation.
They were soon going their separate ways, going far from each other,
for school.

Drey was going to New York
Emrys to Florida,
Bert to Canada.
Phil was going to England. Brianna was the only one remaining in California.

During one of their conversations, they girls were talking about how they met and got so close. They prayed distance would never set them apart.

Brianna talked about how life was and how it would be afterwards.
She talked of how they met, became friends, then best friends.
They'd soon be going for college.
They'll spent time together only during school breaks and summer holidays, then they'll invite each other for their weddings, children's birthday parties, maybe children's weddings.
And finally, they'd get invited
For
Their
Funerals.

They laughed a lot at the last part.
Thinking about who'd die first.

Brianna sat on a rock stearing at the ocean, admiring the sun set.
She was at the beach.
Almost everyone was leaving.
This was her favourite time though, when the beach was less populated and void of people.

She kept her eyes on the setting sun, thinking about her life, about her next step.

Her graduation was rather a sweet sour experience for her mum. She was very happy for her girl's immense success. But then,
She was worried because college was expensive and she did not want to make Brianna sad by telling her that she won't be able to further her studies as she always wished to.

Little did she know that Brianna knew how troubled she was.

She promised her dying father that she would make her mum happy and proud no matter what. So seeing her mum like that made her extremely sad.

"I'll talk to her" She voiced out her decision.

"Don't tell me apart from being a bitch who loves the beach, you're also errm... Not straight" Phil said climbing the rock Brianna was sitted on.

"I missed you too jackass" Brianna said linking her arm with Phil's.
"Haha confession time huh?" He rested his head on her shoulders
"Shut up" Brianna playfully hit his head with her's.
"Haha I love you too bestie. So tell me who is the she you're going talk to?"

"Mum. She's been worried sick about the fact that I won't go to college. I just hate having her pretend all is fine but deep down she's troubled. I'll have to talk to her. I'm going to tell her to stop bothering herself, that I understand and I don't mind. This way she might just stop troubling herself."

"Oh dear" Phil unlinked their arms and gave her a comforting hug.

He put his right hand on her shoulders
"So what are you gonna do? Look for a job I guess?"
"Yeah"
"What kind of job then?"
"Well haven't decided yet" she faced her best friend, giving him a sheepish smile.

"What?" He asked amused
" You know what I love rright? Just help me get something pleassssse" she tilted her head to the right, maintaining that smile.

Phil jump down the rock and said "Anything for you my lady" with a fake British accent and courtesied.
"Hahaha! You're silly dude"
"This is the part where you nod with a coy smile ask me to leave. Ugh" he face palmed himself.
"Shut up" she said laughing.

They stayed at the beach talking and laughing till places were dark.

Phil walked Brianna home.
They shared a hug on her porch before she went inside.

She walked straight to the kitchen to grab an apple.

Walking back to the living room what she saw almost made her choke.

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