Chapter one~ Is This What You Call A Birthday?
About a month ago everything went wrong.... It all started on my 17th birthday. I was at my house talking to my mother," Mom, guess what day it is!", I had almost screamed in excitement.
" Its your 17th birthday, Kimmy, how could I forget, You have been reminding me all week,",my mother rolled her eyes. She ran to the kitchen, to get the cake"Well lucky for you, I got birth day news for you," she almost looked like she was telling me something bad.
"What is it? Do I want it? is it my own room?!" I have always shared a room with my 13 year old sister Sarah, she is always such a bother.
"Well honey," she sounded a bit nervous ,"We're..."my mom paused.
" We're what?? Is it bad!?" I started to panic. The sound in my mums voice didn't sound good. It almost sounded like she didn't want to tell me what the news was.
My mother finally started to talk again,"Well dear, we're moving to England."
My eyes started to water up, and I ran out the door, "How could you mom!"
I went to the hide out tree, behind the school. Only me and my best friends, Nicole and Matt know about it. We tried to build a tree house in it but, it kinda broke. So all we did was put a swing on it. I always came to the hide out tree whenever I was sad or lonely, sometimes I went there if I was mad. No matter what I couldn't leave this tree, it had too much of my history to it.
I sat down at the top of the tree, tears escaping my eyes,"Why does this have to happen, its my birthday. I wanted it to be perfect, but my mum just had to ruin it!"
"So you're moving to England, thats a bummer," Matt said softly. Matt always cheers me up. his voice is so calm, and he always knows what to say. For years now Ive had a crush on him, but I never got the chance to ask him out.
" How'd you find out about me moving?" I said as he climbed up the tree, and sat down beside me.
He sighed and then said," your mom phoned me and said you ran off crying because she told you that you guys are moving"
" oh.. well how did you know I was here?" I said as he wiped my tears with his sleeve.
" Well, you always come here when you're sad" Matt looked at me smiling.
"oh, and by the way, I got you a present, hope you like it Kim" He put his hand over mine and put a little silver heart locket in my hand.
" Oh my god, its so pretty, seriously your giving it to me?" my heart started to thump Loud, that Matt could probably.
" Yup, its yours to keep. If you miss me just look inside.... it has a picture of me you and, Nicole” Matt took the necklace, and put it around my neck.
"oh thanks Matt, you're the best" I said as I started to blush.
“ no prob. One question, when are you moving?” Matt asked, “I hope its not going to be soon because I wont have time to spend with you...” his cheeks started going pink.
I looked down to hide my face “ My mum didn't tell me yet...”
“oh, well then you should go home and ask your mum, Ok?”Matt said.
“yea okay.” said Kim. I started to walk home. The tears running down my face. I'm never going to be able to tell him that I'm in love with him.
“ Hey!” Matt yelled behind me, “ Phone me when you get home!” he was waving goodbye to me... I was never going to see him again.
I just couldn't help myself. I ran up to Matt and gave him a HUGE hug. He just stood there. I pulled away so I could see his face, he was crying, and so was I. I buried my head in his chest, and he wrapped his arms around me.
“Please don't cry, I'll be back.” I dried his tears with the sleeve of my shirt.
“Well you don't have to visit if you don't go” his arms getting tighter, “ I'll stop crying, if you stay here with me and Nicole”
“If I could stay you would be the first to know” I gave him a smile, not sure if he saw it or not.
Matt put his lips to my ear “ if not, I'll just have to steal you away” he whispered.
My smile got bigger “ lets just hope you don't get caught”
“ Kimmy, Ive got something to say to you...”
“What is it? Its not bad news,is it? Cause I had enough of bad news today...”
kinda worried I pulled my face away too look at him again. Just when I did that his lips pressed against mine. It took me a few seconds to realize what he was doing. But my brain finally caught up. He was kissing me!!
He finally pulled away and looked at me “ I love you Kimmy. Thats why I don't want you to go” he held my face in between his hands and kissed my forehead.
This was always what I wanted I've always dreamed of this day... well except for the fact that I'm moving. I hugged him tightly “I've always loved you”
Tears were staining my shirt, but they weren't mine. I looked up and saw Matt crying again.
Matt pushed my face to his chest so I wouldn't be able to see him crying “ I just wish that you didn't have to move...”
I smiled “ what if I begged my mum to see if it is okay if I stay?”
He was even more happier then me “ will you?!”
“ yes” then I let go of him and kissed his cheek.
“ Good bye for now, I promise that we will see each other again one day” then he was walking home. I did the same.
I took the long way home. Just so I could hear myself think for a bit. For one I might be moving far away from the love of my life, the other thing was that, he loved me back. I smiled at this thought.
I got to the driveway of my house. It was empty, my mums car wasn't there. Obviously she went out looking for me.
it wouldn't be long till my mother got home. I went to my room to look for things to do.
I got to the door of my room. The carpet was a light blue, a beautiful pastel pink for the wall. My room was going to be another thing I would miss, if I went to
england.
I heard the rumble of the old worn out car, my mum owns. I ran down the stairs and opened the door for her.
She was almost crying when she saw me. She wrapped her arms tightly around me. I pulled away from her, I didn't want to be near her right now.
“ im sorry I ruined your birthday, sweety” my mother was crying now.
“ Awh, Mom!! Please don't cry” we were now in the kitchen, I grabbed a tissue out of a box and gave it to my mum.
“ fine, but you can never run away like that again!” she was shouting.
“ mom, how much longer do we have until we move?” I sat down at the table.
“ about two days...” she stood behind me and put her hand on my shoulder. I got up out of my seat, she removed her hand.
“Two days...” all that could come out of my mouth was whispers, “ why so soon?” I was heart broken.
“ I had a promotion. There is nothing I can do about it” she was shaking her head.
Anger built up in my stomach I was yelling now “ What do you mean, you cant do anything about it!? Just say no to the promotion!” my hands were clenched up in fists.
“ Matt came to see you when you weren't here, just thought I should let you know” she wanted to change the subject before I got to angry.
“ I know that. He found me and told me that” I was holding the silver locket he gave me.
My mother was smiling “ did he give that to you?”
“ yeah..” I held it out so my mum could see.
She was giggling “ hehe, your father gave me a locket like that one but it was gold” she went to her jewelry box and pulled out a old heart locket. She was right they did look similar. I put my locket back on.
“ so there is no chance of me staying here?” I sighed.
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