Chapter 2

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Tessa 2014

The whole drive to the apartment I am praying he can stay at school. I haven't heard from him yet which is odd he should know by now.

I stop off at the grocery store because we have next to no food and I am staying positive that the outcome will be good so I thought it would be nice to cook us a nice "celebratory" meal if you will.

Seattle is still looming over me. I don't want to leave him. And I know he won't go with me. But I don't want to bring that up tonight.

Tonight will just be about us and nothing else.

I don't see his car when I pull in the parking lot. Why isn't he home yet... I quickly think to myself.

Oh well...I'll just start prepping dinner when I get in.

When I open the door I can tell things are moved. I almost feel like we were robbed. Then I walk into the bedroom and I start opening drawers and the closet.

And nothing. Everything is gone.

I mean everything. As in everything that is Hardin Scott is gone.

I immediately call him. Multiple times...no answer. Then I text him. Then I call him again and it doesn't even ring anymore.

I remember falling to the floor and realizing in that moment that he's gone. Where? ...I don't know. But he moved out.

Why?....

I found a spot on the floor and just laid there for hours....crying. Confused. What did I do? Why would he just leave?

Later that night Landon calls me still while I'm laying on the same spot on the floor and I didn't want to pick up but he might know where he is.

I pick up but I don't say anything.

"Hey Tess, can I come by?" He asks.

"Umm yea that's fine." I reply.

"Okay I'll be there in 10" he says back.

I guess I have to pick myself up off the floor and try to make it seem like I haven't shed every tear I could possibly cry in the past 2 hours.

When he gets there and I open the door. The first thing he does is pull me in for the biggest hug.

I can tell he already knows more than I do.

When I pull away I look him in the eye and ask "Where is he?"

He takes the deepest breath and looks away. I can tell he doesn't want to tell me.

"Where is he Landon?!!" I yell the first time I think ever raising my voice at him.

He takes another huge breath. "He went back" is all he says.

"Back where?" I question

"He...uhhh moved back. Back to...London." He replies.

"What do you mean he moved back to London?!" I yell again.

"He found out at the hearing he got kicked out and so he packed up and left." He tells me.

"That didn't mean he couldn't stay." I respond as my eyes swell up again.

"I think for him that's exactly what it meant." Landon replies.

Landon just holds me while I cry. And cry. I feel numb like I can't even move.

My heart feels like it was pulled from my body. I end up laying on his lap on the couch and cry myself to sleep.

When I wake up at 3am he is still there and looks extremely uncomfortable but he is asleep.

I grab his phone and try to call Hardin hoping he might answer for him.

Again it doesn't even ring.

It's as if he fell off the face of the earth and I am just supposed to be okay. Be okay knowing the person who I love more than anything in the world. Who I would do anything for, anything to be with is gone. Just packed up and left me.

I start moving away from sad and feel mad. There is an empty vase on the counter from a time he bought me flowers without thinking I grabbed it and just threw it to the ground.

Sending Landon into panic waking him up to a crash and glass everywhere.

I try to grab glasses out of the cabinet to break more and Landon grabs me from behind.

"Tessa, stop! It's okay, you're okay." He just keeps repeating that.

And I don't think I will be.

How can I be?...I think to myself.

"I have to go after him. Tell him I love him. Tell him to stay. Tell him I need him, that I don't want to do this without him." I say out loud to Landon.

"Just give it all time. Time heals. I know that isn't what you want to hear but it will." Landon says.

And I don't see myself ever getting over this. Ever just being okay with the fact that he left.

Left without a single goodbye. I'm glad I know that's what our relationship meant to him....

Nothing.

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