Just A Metaphor (ON HOLD)

Chapter 10: Is It Just Me?

Arlyn's P.O.V:
"Hey Ed, I arrived safely but make sure to call me back. Love you." I leave a message and hang up the phone. I wait in the airport while staring out the big fancy windows.

I love how the planes take off. Just like how my heart took off with Ed (does that even make sense). "ARLYN!" My mom calls my name from behind me, with two cups of coffee in her hand.

I run on over to my mom to help her with the coffee. "Um mom you know I don't like coffee right?", "Oh hush darling, the coffee was so cheap! Might as well cherish it and not regret this chance!" She takes a sip and smiles.

I sigh and smile back to take a sip of the coffee. It's pretty good, but not as good as Ed's hot chocolate. I suddenly have a big smile while staring at the ceiling.

"Are you thinking about Ed again?"
"Um how did you know?" I say.
"Hunny. You always have a big smile while thinking of Ed. Speaking of that boy, call him right now,"
"He's not answering mom, the time over there is different then here."

I walk off into the distance to see a vending machine. I run to the machine with joy, to see my favorite snack, chocolate!

I go through my bag to find no change at all in my messy pockets, so I sigh in disappointment.

While in the moment of sadness, a random person pushes me out the way and puts a dollar into the machine. "Here." The person hands me a chocolate bar.

"Umm. Thanks, but you didn't have to do that." So I give back the chocolate bar. "No worries. Just take it."

Now this whole time, I've been staring at the floor with no eye contact to that person. So as I look up, I see a hot guy with a tuxedo on. "Th-thanks.." I can almost feel myself drool.

Snap out of it you dork! Ed is yours. I think to myself. I hurriedly walk away to my mom and begin enjoying myself with some chocolate.

Nina's P.O.V:
"God dammit!" I say out loud. "Type you asshole! I'm not paying you to do this shit!" The woman says from behind me.

"There's not a metaphor for that m'am. Just tell her! She's not gonna hurt you. I mean, you already hurt her but you're gonna have to eventually tell her."

The woman does not reply for a few minutes and then snatches my phone away. "I'll do this myself, thank you."

I walk outside in stress and anxiety that maybe one day she will find out. "I'm so sorry Lia. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I just begin apologizing until I started to sob a puddle of tears.

I can hear Lia's voice in my head, saying, You asshole. I have never been this terrified in my life. I'm more terrified then that time a kid told me unicorns were not real.

"Get back in here." The woman commands me to go back inside, but instead I run.

I keep running until I hear the woman's voice fades away, and I begin to slow down.

Suddenly someone slaps me and I am back into reality. I wake up into fear not knowing if it was real or not. "Hey dimwit, you're drooling on my couch." Lily says.

I manage to sit up to see my phone on my lap with the screen on the contact list. "It won't stop, Lily." I start to cry like a bitch.

"What the hell is going on with you, you always take naps and cry whenever you are at my house!" Lily begins to hug me in a awkward position.

"I keep getting the same dreams, over and over again. It won't stop!" I sob. "Do you want me to call you a psychiatrist?", "No, no, no. Just try to contact Lia for me please." I grab my phone and hand it to Lily.

"Holy cow. I can't see shit. Everything is blurred. Look for Lia on my contact list. Now! Hurry please,"

I can hear Lily dialing Lia's number slowly. "I'll put it on speaker, okay?", "Okay." I reply back.

After three rings, Lia finally picks up. "Hey Nina, what's up?"

"I need you to meet me at Lily's house ASAP." I yell to Lia. "Ouch my ears. What's going on?", "Don't ask. Just do."

Lily hangs up the phone and puts something into my hands, "You forgot to wear these you dumbass."

"Oh. Right, my glasses." I chuckle and get up to fix my clothes. I wipe off the drool on face and head over to the refrigerator.

"Don't eat too much you fatty. You need to look nice for senior prom." Lily yells to me. I don't really care if I am fat or not, food is life! I think to myself and smile.

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"We've waited for an hour, is she even coming over, Nina?"

I wait on the couch while staring out the window that happens to be barred. "Yea.. about that.. she doesn't really know where you live." I giggle and turn to Lily with my holy puppy eyes.

"Man.. I always gotta do everything around here," Lily grabs her house phone and dials a bunch of numbers.

"Hey Lia, I live on Karol St. 7381 so don't get lost okay!" She hangs up, turns to me, and rolls her pretty blue eyes.

I laugh under my breath and my stomach starts growl, "I think that's a good time to start fasting. You could really lose some weight!" Lily walks to the kitchen.

Ed's P.O.V:
"Have fun, granny!" I yell as I watch my grandma get into the taxi. I sneak on over to the kitchen, having a sense to look for something special.

"Where's that darn envelope!" I say out loud. I scramble through boxes and cabinets to find nothing but old people things.

Then I happened to remember the cabinet that granny never lets me into. So I walk over to the cabinet to find a purple lock on it. "Jeesh, grandma." I mumble under my breath.

I can't find a key that would perfectly fit into the lock. So I begin to fiddle around by sticking a bobby pin in it.

Nothing seems to work and time is coming by fast. "Granny will be here in 30 minutes, I have to hurry." I motivate myself even more and surprisingly, the lock opened.

I open the cabinet slowly to see so many white envelopes. I happen to see a particular one that is decorated with really cute stickers. I grab it and open it, but it is filled with baby pictures.

I assume it's me because I see a birthmark on the side of the baby's neck, which I also have. It's a special birthmark and I don't think anyone else has it.

Well. Next picture I see a lady. She is smiling and holding me in her arms. I squint hard and realize that it is my aunt. I go to the next picture and I see my granny holding me.

She looks really happy, so I smile really big. On the next picture is a sticky note attached to it saying, "Can we be happy again?" wrote in red ink.

It kind of startles me because my grandpa used to say that, and that saying is actually from my favorite movie.

I hear the doorknob move and make sounds, so I hurriedly put everything back into the cabinet and lock it.

I run to the door and say, "Donk doo donk.", "Dink dee dink," They reply.

Yep. It's grandma. It's the special code me and my granny use to know who is who at the door.

I open the door up and see my granny holding a big box. "Let me help you," I grab the box and set it down in the kitchen.

"That's a box full of goodies. Careful with that!" My granny yells as she closes the door behind her.

"Granny I'm gonna go upstairs alright," I say. "You're not gonna eat dinner, hun?" I look at my grandma, shake my head, walked upstairs to my room, and jumped on my bed fast asleep.

(A/N): Hey readers!

YAY ANOTHER CHAPTER FOR YOU GUYS! It's my gift for not posting a lot of chapters. Hope you enjoy, and please tell me if I have any errors in this chapter or the one before. I've been feeling a little out of the box lately. Until next time~ bye! :)
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