Before You Leave Me Today
Chapter 1
"Goodbye everyone! I'm gonna miss you!" I said with tears in my eyes as Sarah and I loaded up the car to head to the airport. We gave everyone a lost round of hugs, but I stopped to talk to my mother. She looked at me with her pale blue eyes, smiled, and wiped the tears running down my cheeks, not saying a word. Her fingers ran through my light brown hair and her eyes started watering as well.
I don't know what she will do while I go off to college. Ever since my father left us about three or four years ago, I've been trying to pick her up off her feet. She was a fragile woman, always seeming depressed over the smallest things. Its like she never knew how to let go. I let go of my father even before he left. As a child, he would beat me. That what alcohol can do to people, it makes them do stupid things like purposely hurting someone you love, including my mother. I haven't said a word to him for years and I was not planning an doing so anytime soon.
"Are you sure you'll be okay while I'm gone?" I said. wiping my eyes.
"I'll be fine I promise," she whispered, slightly smiling.
"I will call everyday while I'm there," I said assuringly just so she knew I wouldn't forget about her. She just looked at me with sad eyes and a forced smile. I gave her one last long hug and went to the car.
"Are you ready?" Sarah asked.
"Yepp!" I said, still sniffling from th emotional moment with my mother. She started the car and drove off. I gave my mother one last look and smiled. She waved goodbye to me and when she thought I wasn't looking, she started bawling on my aunts shoulder. My cousin and Sarah's mother joined in. Sarah saw her mother crying and looked at me with tears in her eyes. It was hard to leave, but we had to. It was time to say goodbye to England and hello to America.
It's time to get ready for the time of our lives.
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