Chapter 9
Soon Elena manages to drive herself home. Once she gets there, she sees that her friends are still there.
“What are you girls still doing here?” Elena asks as she enters her apartment.
“We’re here because we wanted to find out what happened,” said Sara.
“Actually we were thinking that maybe you wouldn’t come home if things went a certain way,” Joy laughed.
“So how did it go?” asked Kelly.
“Not good at all,” said Elena while tears start running down her face again.
“Oh no. Sit down with us and tell us everything,” said Joy.
Elena tells her friends all that occurred at Jonathan’s place. After she was done, Sara said, “It’s his loss. You don’t need him.”
“I’m with Sara. You can find any guy.”
“But I don’t want just any guy Kelly. I want to be with Jonathan and only him and now it’ll never happen.”
“Oh Elena, I’m so sorry. Well at least you know his feelings and now you can try to move on with your life,” said Joy.
“But what if I can’t.”
“You will because you have your friends to help you get through it.”
“Thanks girls. What I would do without you?”
Elena hugs her friends. Because Joy, Kelly, and Sara knew that their friend was in pain, they decided to stay over and be there for her.
The next morning, Elena woke up early since she had school and then work afterwards. Surprisingly Elena wasn’t as upset as she was the night before. It would take some time for her to get over Jonathan but since he was moving away, it would be easier for her. Or at least she thought.
During her classes, all she thought of was Jonathan. She thought that things would be easy for her today but they weren’t. She was miserable. She missed Jonathan so much and she didn’t even give him a proper goodbye. While in the middle of one of her classes she looked at her watch to see the time. She noticed that Jonathan’s flight was going to leave in less than two hours. She decided that she needed to at least say goodbye to Jonathan despite what happened last night. So she leaves her class and gets the nearest taxi to go to the airport. She only hoped that she could get there on time.
About 45 minutes later, Elena arrives at the airport. She looks at the departure schedule to see from what gate Jonathan’s flight was leaving from. Once she got the information needed she rushed as fast as she can to the gate but there was one thing that got in her way, the security checkpoint.
“Ticket please,” said the security guard.
“I don’t have one,” Elena responded.
“Then I can’t let you through.”
“Please. I must get through. The man I love is leaving and I didn’t get to say goodbye to him. Please. It won’t take me too long.”
“Sorry. I’ll get in trouble for letting you in without a ticket.”
“Please sir. I have to go see this man. I need to say goodbye to him since I’m never going to see him again.”
“Why is that?”
“Because he’s taking a job in California.”
“But I’m sure he’ll visit. You’ll see him then.”
“He probably won’t visit anytime soon. Besides the last time we spoke, things didn’t end very well and I can’t have him leave without resolving things. Please let me through.”
“I’m sorry miss.”
“Sir, are you married?”
“No.”
“Okay. Have you ever been in love then?”
“Once.”
“So you know that when you love someone, that person is very important to you, right?”
“Yes that’s right but that doesn’t matter. I still can’t let you through.”
“Listen to me sir. Last night I told this man how much I loved him but unfortunately he didn’t tell me he felt the same and I was upset. But I’ve realized that this man is not only the man I love but also my best friend and we left things on bad terms and I need to say a proper goodbye.”
“Does this really mean this much to you?”
“Yes. Please. I’m already on the verge of missing him. His flight is leaving in less than 10 minutes. Please.”
The security guard saw the desperation in Elena’s eyes and he decided to let her go through.
“You know my job is on the line because of this but go ahead but be quick.”
“Thank you sir. You have no idea what this means to me.”
“Go now before I change my mind.”
Elena goes through security checkpoint with no problems and then runs to find the gate where Jonathan’s flight is leaving. She finally arrives at the gate but once she gets there she gets the surprise of her life, the plane has left the gate. Jonathan is now gone from Elena’s life and now she knows that she most likely will never see him again.
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