Chapter Six
The New York field trip went by in a flash. Before I knew it I was packing my bags and by I, I mean Savannah. She lives for these things; which is good for me cause I hate these things. Savannah and I still haven't worked out the thing that happened the other day. I feel like it wasn't big enough to call it a fight, but big enough that there was some tension.
The plane ride felt like nothing since I was asleep most of the time. I woke up about an hour before landing. I nudged Savannah sitting beside me, in her movie paralysis. " Hey" Savannah says to me in a low hush since half the plane is asleep.
"Hey" I say groggily rubbing my eyes and stretching my arms as much as I could without hitting anyone. "Excited to go home?"
" Nope" Savannah says tapping her screen back to the map. " Excited to see Lucie?"
" I'd almost forgoten" I say leaning my head back against the seat rubbing my eyes again. Lucies been home for a few days now, but since I left the day she arrived, we haven't seen each other since that phone call.
" Look I've been really, busy! There's a world outside of highschool Adeline!" She says yelling through the phone.
'" Right, shutting me out must be really tiring!"
" I wouldn't expect you to understand"
The conversation replays in my head. What am I supposed to say to her when we see each other? Knowing Lucie she'll just brush it under the rug and pretend it never happened. That has been happening a lot lately.
Savannah and I end up talking for about an hour, till the plane is ready to land. Somehow we are hitting eachother with plastic forks to see how much it hurts... don't know how that happened. I pop a piece of bubble mint gum in my mouth as we begin to land. I look out the window and see my home town drawing closer, time to go back to reality.
I walk through the Christmas themed airport to find my family. I see my Dad and my brother Jesse standing there smiling. I walk over and give my dad a hug and then Jesse and I do our handshake. We probably look ridculous doing it in an airport since it's like 45 seconds long, but we feel cool, and that's all that matters.
I ask where Mum and Lucie are and they say Mum is having another one of her headaches. This always happens around the holidays for her, she wants everything to be perfect then stresses herself out way too much. They say Lucie is still jet lag. Jet lag with guilt.....
Okay that didn't sound as smooth as I was hoping.
We load my bag in the car and start to head home. I dread going home. My parents know we're really close and they don't know we've been drifting apart. I'm sure they're going to be able to tell when were in eachothers prescence. That tension will cut like a knife.
We park at the front of my house, and my brother helps carry my bag. It might have gotten a little heavier coming home then it was going there. It's not my fault they have such good shopping there!
I walk in to the front room and see my mom standing there in her PJs with a cup of tea in her hand. I walk over and give her a big hug. " The house was so peaceful without you" my mom says pulling away from the hug. My dog Zavy is scratching at my legs and I pet him on the head.
" Haha" I fake laugh, taking my jacket off and throwing on the staircase railing. My mom gives me a look and I quickly hang it up in the hall closet.
" I don't know where your sister has gone off too..-" My mom says looking around. " LUCE!"
" Woah mum I thought you were the one with the migrane not me" I say cutting her off, i'm not ready for this awkward encounter. " She's probably exhausted from all the traveling, and on that note I am too. I'm gonna go take a nap" I say running upstairs to my toom. I hear my dad shout that we're going out for dinner and not to sleep for too long. I change into my sweat pants, and soon enough i'm out.
*
I wake up to my mom shaking me. I have that what is life? feeling when I wake up, but soon enough I manage to come back to my senses. I get changed into leggings and a flannel and keep my hair in a messy pony. Hopefully we aren't going anywhere too fancy.
I walk downstairs and Lucie is standing there. We both akwardly nodd at eachother and stand there in silence. The rest of the fam joins us and we load into the car.
Dinner is a bunch of long boring conversations about Lucie and I's travels. I was suprised my mom didn't get a call from Mr. Gibson talking about Luke and I " ditiching". If she did she would've mentioned something.
When we get home Mom, Dad and Jesse get in the house first and go upstairs to get ready for bed I assume. " Lucie wait" I say grabbing her arm. She looks back at me with a blank look on her face, looking at me like i'm worthless. " I'm sorry for the phone call" Lucie stays silent. I expect her to pipe up and say something, but she doesn't. " I was wrong to jump to conclusions, I don't know how busy you are"
" Yeah" She says standing there. Nothing. I get absolutly nothing back.
" That's it?" I ask starting to get frustraited.
" Yeah you basically said it all" Lucie says shrugging her shoulders.
" Aren't you going to say sorry too? That's how the whole apology thing works ya know"
" I don't have to apologize Ad, I didn't do anything wrong. You were immature and I forgive you. It's done" She says starting to walk towards the stairs.
" Don't walk away from me! I'm not the only one at fault here! If you don't feel bad about what you did, then I don't feel bad about calling you out" I say my voice starting to rise.
" You said you were wrong-"
" I LIED!" I yell " It's called making an effort to fix things not that you would know anything about that"
" Oh my god stop yelling, you make such a big deal out of every little thing"
" Cause it is a big deal to me!" I feel my eyes start to well up. Don't cry Adeline don't cry.
" Whatever" Lucie says walking upstairs. She couldn't care less about how I feel. I need to bow of some steam so I grab Zavys leach and take him for a walk.
*
Zavy and I start to walk on our usual route. I like walking at night, it's really relaxing and usually no one is outside. I start to feel the warm tears run down my face. I hate how easily I cry. Such a short small fight and i'm already crying. The small tears start to run faster and my breath catches up to me. I try and take deep breaths and calm down, but it isn't really working. Moments like these I find I have to just let it all out. " Adeline?" I slowly turn around and see the last person I expect.
Luke
" Are you alright?" He asks walking up to me. I nodd and try and say something, but if I do i'll probably just cry harder. " What's wrong?" he's close enough know that he can probably see my red face and dried tears.
" It's nothing, I- uh sorry" I try and wipe the tears off my face, but there is no escaping this extremely embarassing momment.
" You don't need to apologize" Luke says smiling. " You didn't do anything wrong". I plaster a semi-smile on my face a nodd.
" I-I should probably uh get going" I say trying to get myself together.
" Right" Luke looks down at his feet and then hesistates before he says " If you want to talk about it, i'm-uh here"
" Thanks" I say genuinely smiling. I tug a little at Zavys leech and we start walking back home.
" You didn't do anything wrong" I hear Lukes voice repeat in my head. It might not be in the right context, but it was what I needed to hear.
