Why I Fell

Prologue

Prologue

4 years ago

"Close your eyes!" my Mom says excitedly before she places a blindfold over my eyes. "I have a surprise for you"

"Geez Mom, it's not like I know it already" I reply while giggling, it's obviously a goodbye party for me. All my friends canceled on me today, on my last day of living here, so something fishy was obviously going on.

Mom leads me inside our house, "okay, take your blindfold off" she says.

I take it off and everyone screams, "surprise!" I said I wasn't going to cry but it's almost impossible especially because every one of my friends was there, smiling happily while holding balloons. Then in the middle, Taylor, my best friend since forever, is there holding a goodbye cake for me. Everyone's laughter and smiles started to fade when tears fell from my eyes. "I'm going to miss all of you" I hug my Mom then I run to my friends for a group hug.

I didn't know goodbyes were going to be so hard. It's not like I was going to be gone forever, I was still going home every Christmas, and it's not like I was going to die. "Please don't forget us when you leave," Taylor says as tears run down both of our faces.

"I won't, I promise" I reply back, "we better make use of video calling"

"We can even schedule it" Rina, another friend of mine, says. Everyone else agrees and we all burst into laughter when we realized how funny we looked all crying. Ever since we were younger, it has always been the five of us: me, Rina, Taylor, Krista, and Geli. I guess it's hard to believe that I will no longer be with them, I won't be in any of their sleepovers and as hard as it is to accept, I won't be with them all throughout high school. All our crazy plans of going to prom together, finding boyfriends together...poof! All gone.

"What if it's you guys who forget me?" I ask, suddenly scared of that sudden thought.

"Impossible! Don't think that!" Krista says as she hugs me once again.

Getting a scholarship from a prestigious high school abroad isn't a dream of mine, but it's my Mom's dream and I'll do anything to make her happy. It's what she wanted when she was younger but couldn't have it, so now that I have the chance to do it, I'll do my best to make her proud. I couldn't help but cry once again now that we're all gathered in the table eating cake, who knows when I'll have a moment like this again?

One by one, my friends gave me goodbye gifts which made our eyes puffier than it was. My Mom starts tearing up as well as she sees their sentimental gifts when suddenly we hear the doorbell ring. "That must be Tessa!" my Mom exclaims.

My eyes widened, my friends and I stare at each other, "please tell me she didn't bring him" I murmured but I spoke too soon.

"Bet you thought I wasn't going to see you off" I turn around to see Nate with his teasing grin, "I bet you'll miss me the most" he walks towards me and gives me a hug... a one-sided hug.

"In your dreams" I reply, pushing him off "If anything, one advantage of going abroad is that I won't have to see your face anymore"

I walk past him and went straight to Tessa, my Mom's best friend, "I'm so glad you made it!" I tell her and give her a tight hug.

"Sorry, we're late," she says, hugging me back "Nate's football practice didn't end early"

"You should've left him," I tell her jokingly.

The night went on with everyone just laughing and me enjoying everyone's company one last time. I need to accept the fact that I might not have another moment like this for a while, maybe until I go back home. It was getting late and everyone started to leave one by one, my eyes were getting puffy so when my friends left I ran to the fridge to put some ice on my eyes.

I felt a light tap on my shoulder, I turned around and saw Nate standing in front of me with his arms behind his back. "I hate myself for doing this, but here" he hands me a paper bag, I open it and find a fluffy pink jacket inside, "I figured it was going to be cold where you're going so-" I cut him off and gave him a hug. "Thanks, but I still won't miss you" I reply with a smile on my face.

Don't cry. I repeat to myself, again and again, don't cry over your mortal enemy. "I won't miss you too" Nate replies. We practically grew up together, went on every trip together because of our Moms then that was it, that was the last time I was going to see him.